January
27, 2003
HE
WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WHO SENT ME HAS EVERLASTING LIFE!
"Most
assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes
in Him who sent Me has everlasting life" (John 5:24,
NKJV).
"Then
Jesus answered and said to them, 'Most assuredly, I say to
you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the
Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like
manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things
that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than
these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead
and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom
He will. For the Father judges no one, but has committed all
judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as
they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does
not honor the Father who sent Him.
"Most
assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes
in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come
into judgment, but has passed from death into life. Most assuredly,
I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead
will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear
will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has
granted the Son to have life in Himself, and has given Him
authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son
of Man.
"Do
not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who
are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth--those
who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those
who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. I
can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment
is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will
of the Father who sent Me.
"If
I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. There is
another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness
which He witnesses of Me is true. You have sent to John, and
he has borne witness to the truth... He was the burning and
shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in
his light. But I have a greater witness than John's; for the
works which the Father has given Me to finish--the very works
that I do--bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.
And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me...
"But
you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent,
Him you do not believe. You search the Scriptures, for in
them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which
testify of Me."-- John 5:19-39.
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