Jesus is making the profound statement that salvation is a free gift from God for those who believe in his Son, Jesus Christ. 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. Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. John 11:43-44). No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. "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. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." 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. 14:9-10. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. God's glory is His essential and intrinsic splendor. (Verse John 3:10). "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. Black-or-white thoughts may also set you up for. But "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." c. are quick to make and stick to initial impressions. 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. As there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. John 5:24 Context. 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." It is not the only soul-saving truth that Jesus ever uttered or that John ever wrote. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." He mentioned him in John 11:16 in conjunction with the resurrection of Lazaros, and again in John 14:5-6. "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake: He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." d. are open to new information. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." 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. 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. Glory would be displayed in its day. 'I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. His Father "saving him from death" could have meant protection from death. Nay, "the world knew him not." 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. Since opening, JPII has provided 1,050+ sonograms at no cost to women in . 1. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. . (Ver. According to John 5:24, what three things are the result of hearing and believing? For example, I'll believe that there are only a few hours in a day instead of 24; or that 2:00 is the only hour, and that once the clock hits 2:59 it will just go straight back to 2:00 again. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. 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. Fritzsche, p. 21). Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. Once she finally stood in . 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. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." 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? "For God," He says, "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." Alas! If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. All of the above. 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. B. Inviting other members of the emergency management team to discuss common goals. (Verses John 4:31-38). Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." Listen with your eyes closed; try to PICTURE what is Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. 1 The psalmist proclaimed: "The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever" (119:160). MEMORIZE 1 JOHN 5:11-12 . And let him that heareth say, Come. The scripture text that brother Michael is preaching from is John 5:24-25 and the audio is 53 minutes long. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. Approximately 15% of American adults (37.5 million) aged 18 and over report some trouble hearing. God is in infallible control over life, death, sickness, and health (cf. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. (Ver. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. 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. But if the Spirit speaks of the Son of God, the law dwindles at once into the smallest possible proportions: everything yields to the honour the Father puts oil the Son. The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. The result immediately follows. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. (Ed. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. 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. John 5:24: "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." Clearly, when it comes to being alive or dead, there are two and only two categories of people. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. 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. For John abiding in Christ involves love for one another, as in John 15:9-17, and John 5:24. C. Encouraging someone else to assume the leadership role in the group. The Father and the Son were at work. 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 "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me :" ~ Ps 66:18. 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. (Verses John 7:40-53). Eph. More than 90 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. Schizophrenia causes psychosis and is associated with considerable disability and may affect all areas of life including personal, family, social, educational, and occupational functioning. (ver. First Peter 3:18-4:6. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. 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. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. But let them beware how they perverted it. John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. Salem Media Group. But this is not the question of grace: not what she was, but what He is who was there to win and bless her, manifesting God and the Father withal, practically and in detail. (Ver. Present Future Past 8. 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. 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. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. 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. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. God's Word provides assurance for our everyday lives And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He explained that His whole life was to do the will of the Father and to carry it out in the power of the Spirit so asto please the Father, by only saying and doing the things that He heard from the Father. 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. 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. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." These study guides will equip you for your first encounters with the enemy. What a witness all this to His person! ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." , He hath eternal life, and doth not come into judgment. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. CNN . The House Jan. 6 select committee's fourth hearing of the month just wrapped up. Melissa and . 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. Those who believe will repent and put their faith in Christ and begin living. ." hath everlasting life; not only in the purpose of God, and in the covenant of his grace, and in the hands of Christ, and in faith and hope; but he has a right unto it, and a claim of it, according to the declaration of the Gospel; and besides, has the principle of it in himself, the grace of God, which springs up into, is the beginning of, and issues in eternal life; he has also a meetness for it, and has the pledge and earnest of it, the Spirit of God, and shall certainly enjoy it: and shall not come into condemnation; neither for original sin, though judgment has passed upon all men unto condemnation for it; nor for actual sins and transgressions: for though everyone deserves condemnation, yet were there as many sentences of condemnation issued out as sins committed, not one of them could be executed on such who are in Christ Jesus, as he that believes in him is openly and manifestatively in him: the reason is, because the death of Christ is a security against all condemnation; and whoever believes in him shall not be condemned, but saved; and though he may come into judgment, yet not into condemnation: he shall stand in judgment, and be acquitted by the righteousness of Christ, which he, by faith, receives as his justifying righteousness. 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