And let him that is athirst come. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. 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. To stand though the days are evil (Ephesians 5:16) and full of sin, error, subtle heretical seducers and sharp persecutions (2Timothy 3:13-14; Matthew 24:12-13). According to John 5:24, what three things are the result of hearing and believing? It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. Observe: not which was, but "which is." 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. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. . 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. 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. To see Jesus is to see His Father (John 14:9). 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. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." C. Encouraging someone else to assume the leadership role in the group. 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. And they asked him, What then? But it is important we should know how He entered the world. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. Why should He not show Himself to the world? There He supposes His full rejection and death. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." John was not yet cast into prison. 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. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. Mental illness is one of the more common causes of auditory hallucinations, but there are a lot of other reasons, including: Alcohol. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. 1 John 5:11-12 The enemy will often to cast doubt on the work God has done in your heart. May it be exalted above all blessing and praise! Jno. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. All-or-nothing thinking usually leads to extremely unrealistic standards for yourself and others that could affect your relationships and motivation. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. (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. 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. 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. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. (Ver. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. 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. 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. 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. 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. A comparable passage to John 5:24 is probably John 10:27-29. 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. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. 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. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. 11 What is significant about the first two signs is that they occurred in Cana of . He cannot make himself new, or create new life in himself. 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. What a witness all this to His person! He saw him under the fig tree. 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. "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. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. 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. We see the world with our brain, and at best that organ is merely a very good guesser, says Sekuler. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life. 1. 3. 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 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. Present Future Past 8. "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." And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. (Verse John 3:10). "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." 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. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. PME advocates argue that the "dead" mentioned here are identical . Paul wrote that " all Scripture is given by inspiration of God" (2 Timothy 3:16). The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. 5:24 - Jesus speaks of the wonders of God's salvation. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. 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. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me." John 5:37 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. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. John 3:1-36 follows this up. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. (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. 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. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. 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. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. Eph. Melissa and . In such a condition, individuals make poor choices and live unhappy lives. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. How did John say a person receives the gift of salvation in John 1:12? Alas! Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. 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. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. God heard his Son in his time of crisis, but he didn't let the cup pass. It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of grace and truth. This passage is used regularly to emphasize the doctrine known as "eternal security". Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. 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