"Master, eat," said they. 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. 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. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. This plan centered on the sacrificial death of His only Son, Jesus Christ. 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. 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. 2. I don't realize until the next morning that it's completely insane to think any of this. The Father seeks worshippers. 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. The hearing has ended. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. What a witness all this to His person! What can be more evident, or more instructive? It is life in the kingdom of God, under the Lordship of the King. Do any believe on His name? None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. 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. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. The panel focused on how former President Donald Trump and his allies . He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. "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." 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." The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). This we have had fully before. 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. The same picture, intensified to be sure, is sketched in John 20:24-29. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. 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. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. 6. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. Self-efficacy is a person's belief in their ability to succeed in a particular situation. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. 5. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. (Verses John 7:40-53). This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. 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. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. It is not surprising that Fackre appeals to 1Peter 3:18-4:6 to support the doctrine of salvation after death. 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. 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! Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. 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. About 2 to 3 out of every 1,000 children in the United States are born with a detectable level of hearing loss in one or both ears. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. Approximately 15% of American adults (37.5 million) aged 18 and over report some trouble hearing. God hearing and answering Jesus didn't mean salvation from the cross, but salvation through the cross. What Jesus said in essence is that some of you have been given ears that can continually hear. Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. How can such have relationship with God? For example, one young. And so, in fact, it was and is. "He must, increase, but I decrease." 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. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. 'I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. 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. 1 The psalmist proclaimed: "The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever" (119:160). 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. Then, with the new nature of God, he sees Christ for who he really is, and freely receives Christ for all that he is. 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." "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. He was God. We see the world with our brain, and at best that organ is merely a very good guesser, says Sekuler. He was just stating what the Philippian jailer would hear: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you willbe saved." Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. Jesus finally summed up this important teaching that spelt out the clear message of His eternal deity before saying: "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. Of this we learn nothing, here. 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. A. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 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. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. What love! For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. (Verse John 3:10). 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. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. for he knew He was the Christ. (ver. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. 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. "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. 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. Verse 9 "Immediately the man became well. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. 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. There He supposes His full rejection and death. 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. 21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. 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! Bible > Commentaries > John 5:24 eBibles Free Downloads John 5:24 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above . Jesus had just healed a man at the pool of Bethsaida, but He did this healing on the Sabbath. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. "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 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. There was purpose in it. Rate this: Share this: (Ver. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. 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. Dost thou see? Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. For believers in Christ to enjoy the fullness of joy promised them by God all the time (John 16:23-24) 5. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. 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. PRESENT_____ FUTURE_____ . "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. 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. All is in the character of the Son of man. (Ed. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. 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). His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. 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. The two acts (new birth and faith) are so closely connected that in experience we cannot distinguish them. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. 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