(Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? 14:9-10. Hearing, Swing, and Believing in the Gosl of John 329 John 1,19-51 The narrative portion of the gospel tegins with an interchange between John and a delegation from Jerusalem (1,19-28), an account of John's testimony to Jesus and its effect on two of his own disci- pies (1,29-39), and a description,of the effect of their words and . So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. Of course they are just as truly inspired as John's; but for that very reason they were not inspired to give the same testimony. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? Proud member The word hear is a present active imperative verb. Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. John 5:24 In-Context. (Ver. The Father seeks worshippers. So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." (Ver. 1. #2 "whoever hears my word and believes" We are saved by hearing the truth of the gospel of Christ (Rom 10:17). But let them beware how they perverted it. John 5:24 Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.. Nevertheless, the heavenly part is little dwelt on, as John's gospel displays our Lord more as the expression of God revealed on earth, than as Man ascended to heaven, which fell far more to the province of the apostle of the Gentiles. "Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life." - John 5:24 Hearing His Word Jesus said, "Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life," so we must hear what Jesus says to us, but more importantly, we must do what He says (Matt 25:40). He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. To stay connected to their parent stock, as a branch and be fruitful (John . Verse of the Day , God, My Patience (Study In God - All I Need-17). He could, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. According to John 5:24, what three things are the result of hearing and believing? No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. So only is man born of God. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. And he answered, No. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. Art thou Elias? "The law was given by Moses." The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. From CNN staff. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. John 5:24 Commentaries: "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. ", Jesus laid out this truth veryemphatically by starting what He said with the words verily, verily: "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. d. are open to new information. Then (ver. Nor would the rejected Christ, the Son of man; for if lifted up on the cross, instead of having the throne of David, the result would be not merely earthly blessing for His people according to prophecy, but eternal life for the believer, whoever. This doesnt mean that what he is about to say is more true, only that it is more important. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. John chapter 5. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. He mentioned him in John 11:16 in conjunction with the resurrection of Lazaros, and again in John 14:5-6. Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. All is in the character of the Son of man. 5 17. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. Background: thThe 5 chapter of John opens with a feast of the Jews in Jerusalem. Deeper questions demanded solution. It is only on the basis of a present hearing and believing that one shares the eternal life of God and enjoys deliverance from present condemnation and spiritual death. In both John and Paul the possibility of attaining eternal life and avoiding the wrath of God is dependent on believing in Jesus, the Son of God. Melissa and . To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. And in this He is sovereign. This passage is used regularly to emphasize the doctrine known as "eternal security". His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. John 5:24 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. I don't realize until the next morning that it's completely insane to think any of this. It should be noted that throughout Scripture until the very end of His revelation, this " as many as " attitude reflects the Father's heart toward His rebellious creatures, John recording And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. 11 What is significant about the first two signs is that they occurred in Cana of . Jesus not only could go up, as He did later, but He had come down thence, and, even though man, He was the Son of man that is in heaven. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? (Verses John 7:40-53). The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. #4 has eternal life and will not be judged The believer has begun eternal life upon salvation. All of the above. Number one means to die to your sins at an alter of repentance. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. The panel focused on how former President Donald Trump and his allies . It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. Since you have been given these ears I command you to faithfully hear the word of the kingdom. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. . The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." "He must, increase, but I decrease." What love! through "sin." 1 John 5:11-12 The enemy will often to cast doubt on the work God has done in your heart. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. This is an audio sermon by Michael Pickett titled "Hearing and Believing" The scripture text that brother Michael is preaching from is John 5:24-25 and the audio is 53 minutes long. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. It sends those. Download. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. Difficulty understanding words, especially against background noise or in a crowd. 42). "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. This, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. , , . Using a meeting as an opportunity to really listen to others in the meeting. More than 90 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents. The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life., ESV Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. He was simply saying what Paul would teach in Romans 8: "There is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. Even when it becomes 3:00, the belief doesn't fix itself. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. Even now faith knows, that instead of sin being the great object before God, ever since the cross He has had before His eyes that sacrifice which put away sin. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. To LEARN a passage of Scripture, like 1 John 5:11-13, use these four time-tested steps: 1. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. They accomplished this by repeatedly pairing the white rat with a loud, frightening clanging noise. He cannot make himself new, or create new life in himself. 2. Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? Of this we learn nothing, here. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. Those who believe will repent and put their faith in Christ and begin living. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. 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