And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 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. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. 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. He hath this immediately, and not merely, he shall have. 11 What is significant about the first two signs is that they occurred in Cana of . Such shall live. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. When one of the first two is not in control, the soul is in a state of disarray. And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." The result immediately follows. (Page 61; 1989). As you listen, use the following three steps to help yourself learn the passage. PRESENT_____ FUTURE_____ . 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. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. 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. How was this? 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. Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. Psychologist Albert Bandura described these beliefs as determinants of how people think, behave, and feel. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. The implications of this are staggering. (Verses John 5:17-18). There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. Peter wrote in 4:6, "for this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead.". Salem Media Group. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. How withering the words! It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. , He hath eternal life, and doth not come into judgment. 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. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." The power of Jesus' sovereign words had the power to heal (and raise the dead, cf. However, this great gift of salvation is conditional. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." (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? Jno. The word Who implies that not all were included. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. Life resurrection will display how little they had to be ashamed of, who believed the record given of His Son; the resurrection of judgment will make but too plain, to those who despised the Lord, both His honour and their sin and shame. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? 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. One must be born again. 5:24 - Jesus speaks of the wonders of God's salvation. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 5 17. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. 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. They are embodied& revealedin Jesus - Jno. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. The contrasts are as strong, at least, as the resemblance with the healing of the centurion's servant in Matthew 13:1-58 and Luke 7:1-50, which some ancients and moderns have confounded with this, as they did Mary's anointing of Jesus with the sinful woman's in Luke 7:1-50. Even when it becomes 3:00, the belief doesn't fix itself. Of this we learn nothing, here. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 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., NLT I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. As John said (1:14), "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." In heaven, we will see Jesus' glory in all its fullness (17:24). NIV: New International Version Read full chapter Bible App Bible App for Kids John 5:24 Read full chapter Compare All Versions: John 5:24 It is a way of love, joy, truth, goodness, peace with God, fruitfulness, stewardship, and glory to God with everything that we undertake for his sake. Ironically, despite his great . For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. Overall, around 400 couples have volunteered to take part. Verse of the Day , God, My Patience (Study In God - All I Need-17). Summary: Act V, scene ii. Judgment has been given on Christ on the cross, so the believer will face no judgment for his or her sins. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? No man hath seen God at any time. 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"). "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." But what we learn is, that our Lord (viewed as having entered into heaven as man on the ground of redemption, i.e., ascended, after having passed through death, into glory) from that glory confers meanwhile the Holy Ghost on him that believes, instead of bringing in at once the final feast of gladness for the Jews and the world, as He will do by-and-by when the anti-typical harvest and vintage has been fulfilled. The differences between moving through life in an eternal process of death, and living through life in an eternal process of coming alive are deeper than can actually be comprehended this side of heaven. This we have had fully before. It was God's great gift of love, mercy and grace (John 3:16; Ephesians 2:4-9). As this chapter sets forth the Lord Jesus with singular fulness of glory, on the side both of His Godhead and of His manhood, so it closes with the most varied and remarkable testimonies God has given to us, that there may be no excuse. WONDERFUL PRIVILEGE: HEARING THE WORD OF GOD. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." For John abiding in Christ involves love for one another, as in John 15:9-17, and John 5:24. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 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. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. All rights reserved. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. ", 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. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above . But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. This doesnt mean that what he is about to say is more true, only that it is more important. There was purpose in it. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. MEMORIZE 1 JOHN 5:11-12 . 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. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. The Lord and the disciples are next seen in the country district, not far, it would seem, from John, who was baptizing as they were. 05:08. Here the Lord introduces the cross. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. The Benefits of Hearing and Believing Elder R.M. "He Who Has the Son Has Life" 7. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. Nor was it yet complete. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. John's is the only one of the four not considered among the Synoptic Gospels (i.e., those presenting a common view). None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. for he knew He was the Christ. According to Romans 5:8, how has God shown that he loves you? (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. "The law was given by Moses." In addition, the city saw more than 20,000 cases of theft in 2022, nearly double the amount of theft incidents in 2021, according to the Chicago Police Department's end-of-year report. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. From then, a Christian who preached the name of Jesus was being spoken through by Jesus himself, by his Spirit. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 6 "You alone are the Lord. "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." Astonishingly, it is not that they will pass from death to life, but that they have already. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Glory would be displayed in its day. "If my people, which are called by my name, shall . The survey of 1,552 U.S. adults, which was conducted from July 30 to Aug. 2, found that 66 percent of Republicans continue to insist that "the election was rigged and stolen from Trump," while just 18 percent believe "Joe Biden won fair and square."Twenty-eight percent of independent voters also said they think Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 election, as did a small 3 . All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. Cite This Essay. 5. Background: thThe 5 chapter of John opens with a feast of the Jews in Jerusalem. What Jesus said in essence is that some of you have been given ears that can continually hear. So, while all are dead in Adam (1 Cor 15:22) by virtue of our inherited sinfulness and the sins we have committed as a result, those who believe pass out of death, and into life, and life eternal. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. 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? They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. There He supposes His full rejection and death. 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. "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). 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. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. 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. 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. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. 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. Jesus is announcing His role as the One Who reverses the judgement passed on mankind [Adam & Eve] in the Garden of Eden. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. "He must, increase, but I decrease." Rather than eternal death in hell, they will have eternal life, first on earth and then in heaven, and finally in the new heavens and new earth (Rev 21). Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" #4 has eternal life and will not be judged The believer has begun eternal life upon salvation. Out-of-body experiences, meanwhile, are now accepted neurological phenomena, while certain visual illusions could confound the healthy brain and create mythical beings. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. 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. So only is man born of God. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. #2 whoever hears my word and believes We are saved by hearing the truth of the gospel of Christ (Rom 10:17). He was God. We see the world with our brain, and at best that organ is merely a very good guesser, says Sekuler. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. 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). Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. From CNN staff. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. 42). 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. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. Breaking Down the Key Parts of John 5:24 #1 "Very truly," Jesus underlines a point by beginning with "very truly." Everything he says is true. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. To stay connected to their parent stock, as a branch and be fruitful (John . (Ver. (ver. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. Verily verily, I say unto you Who am the Amen, the true and faithful witness: he that heareth my word; by which is meant the Gospel, and is so called, both because it is spoken by Christ, and first began to be spoken by him; and because he is spoken of in it; his person, office, and work, peace, pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation by him, being the sum and substance of it: and by "hearing" it is meant, not a bare external hearing it; for so it may be heard, and not understood; and it may be understood in a notional and speculative way, and yet the consequences hereafter mentioned may not follow: but an internal hearing it is here designed, so as to understand it spiritually, or to have an experimental knowledge of it; so as to approve of it, love, and like it; to distinguish it from that which is not his doctrine, and to feel the power of it on the heart, and yield the obedience of faith unto it: for faith in Christ himself, the sum and substance of the word of the Gospel, is hereby expressed; to which is joined faith in God his Father, they being equally the object of it; and which is introduced as a further proof of the equality in nature which is between them; see ( John 14:1 ) ; and believeth on him that sent me; he does not say that believes on me, which might have been expected from him; but that believes on him that sent me, that is, on the Father; for as he that rejects Christ, and receives not his words, rejects and receives not him that sent him; so he that hears Christ's words, and receives him, and believes in him, receives and believes in him that sent him; and the same effects and consequences follow upon the one as on the other, upon hearing the word of Christ, as upon believing on the Father of Christ; and which is no inconsiderable proof of their perfect equality: for such a person that hears the one, and believes on the other. 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