Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. 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. #5 but has crossed over from death to life. This is a powerful way to express that they have been reborn. Astonishingly, it is not that they will pass from death to life, but that they have already. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. It sends those. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. First Peter 3:18-4:6. How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! Praying "according to the will of God" in 1 John 5:14-15, I believe, is praying according to God's intended action, which could be either his moral will (category #2) or his permissive will (category #3). His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. 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 One must be born again. In his most famous and controversial experiment, known today as the "Little Albert" experiment, John Watson and a graduate assistant named Rosalie Rayner conditioned a small child to fear a white rat. It means that the Christian does not wait for eternal life to begin at death or when Christ returns, as he promises to in this passage. The power of Jesus' sovereign words had the power to heal (and raise the dead, cf. 24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and . and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. If He judges, it is not without full warning. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack carried out on February 26, 1993, when a van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Nehemiah 9:5-8 (NLT) 5 Then the leaders of the Levitescalled out to the people: "Stand up and praise the Lord your God, for he lives from everlasting to everlasting!" Then they prayed: "May your glorious name be praised! Why should He not show Himself to the world? THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL 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. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life. Jesus had just healed a man at the pool of Bethsaida, but He did this healing on the Sabbath. (Ver. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. And so, in fact, it was and is. FIVE WONDERFUL THINGS John 5:24 Intro. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. John 5:24 NIV "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. No man hath seen God at any time. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. Proud member 2. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. Here, in suited circumstances to render the thought and way of God unmistakable, pure and boundless grace takes its own sovereign course, suitable to the love and personal glory of Christ. Verse of the Day , God, My Patience (Study In God - All I Need-17). It was not so. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. 1 The psalmist proclaimed: "The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever" (119:160). (Verses John 4:31-38). The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. This leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. Heavy drinking can cause you to see things that aren't. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. What can be more evident, or more instructive? But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. His first approach is often to cast doubt on the work God has done in your heart. In the duration, of the Salem witch trials occurred, hundreds of innocent people had been hounded and nineteen of them were hanged at the end starting in 1962. Number two means to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ as done and said in Acts 2:38 ( full body emmersion) the cleansing of. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. Flesh and world are judged morally. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. 11:33-36. 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. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." The word Who implies that not all were included. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. 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. They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. And he answered, No. Art thou Elias? For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. Black-or-white thoughts may also set you up for. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. 1:11). (ver. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. The Father and the Son were at work. In such a condition, individuals make poor choices and live unhappy lives. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." But hath passed out of death into life Christ's Discourse with the Jews; All Judgment Committed to Christ; The Christian Charter. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." The Jews had so misinterpreted the Law of Moses about the Sabbath day that they considered the miracles that Jesus carried out on the Sabbath, violated their strict rules. 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. 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. Do any believe on His name? They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. through "sin." Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." The Puritans in New England endured the chilliest winters of the time in the period of 1680 to 1730 according to the weather records from Mckaila (2014). It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. John 5:24 New International Version 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. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. Stigma, discrimination, and violation of human rights of people with schizophrenia are common. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. Rate this: Share this: (Ver. "Jesus had simply explained the gospel that we read in John chapter 3: "That whosoever believes on the Him will not perish but have everlasting life." The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. From CNN staff. "If my people, which are called by my name, shall . Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. And let him that heareth say, Come. Schizophrenia causes psychosis and is associated with considerable disability and may affect all areas of life including personal, family, social, educational, and occupational functioning. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. He explained the mutual love they have for each other. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And he saith, I am not. for he knew He was the Christ. (Verses John 1:44-51). But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me :" ~ Ps 66:18. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. Pia Sr. (John 5:24 KJV) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. 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