The Son of God is to be Believed – 5:24
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
These build upon one another…
- Hearing the Words of Jesus are of the Utmost Priority – 5:24a Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word
We need a hearing ear and a believing heart.
Matthew 7:24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
- Hearing the Words of Jesus Affirms the Father who Sent Jesus – 5:24b and believes him who sent me
He gets the glory in that He sent Jesus to us.
During Christ’s ministry, so many heard Him teach and proclaim everywhere He went, saw first-hand His miracles, but in the end few believed & responded to His offer of life now and in eternity. Obviously it was such a privilege to hear the long awaited Messiah proclaim the truth, but just hearing words was not enough, the people needed to respond to Christ in belief.
It is not that much different today as the Gospel is proclaimed more than ever before through churches and the many forms of media.
The message of the Gospel is that Christ died for the sins of the world, but people must respond to the hopeful offer of salvation by faith in Christ.
Knowing of Christ will not bring salvation,
but believing in His finished work by faith will.
- Hearing the Words of Jesus Leads to Belief that Brings Eternal Life – 5:24c has eternal life.
Romans 10:14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
All who receive Him, believing He is the Christ, inherit eternal life. We no longer stand condemned before God because of sin. Our guilt is removed as our debt is paid in full. In Christ we have passed from death unto life!
- Hearing the Words of Jesus and Believing Moves Us from Judgment to Life – 5:24d He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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