Lesson 3528

 (Lesson 3528)(08-31-21) John 5:32-47

    “There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. I receive not honour from men. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?”

    In today’s quote, Jesus scolded the Jews because of their failure to believe that He is the Son of God. Jesus also made the point that the Jews failed to heed His words and had rejected Him even knowing that John the Bapist, Moses and all the prophets had recognized Jesus as the Messiah, the Son of our living God and had prophesied of His coming.~

Lesson 3527

 (Lesson 3527)(08-30-21) John 5:25-31

    “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 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. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.”

    In today’s quote, Jesus again declared himself to be the Son of God. The Son was granted power over all things by God the Father. Even the power to blot out all sin.

    At that time, Jesus was God in human form. Today, Jesus is God in the Spirit. ~ 

  

Lesson 3526

 (Lesson 3526)(08-29-21) John 5:16-24

    “And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. 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. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”

    The first part of today’s quote relates how the Jews set about to kill Jesus because they thought He had broken the Sabbath by healing a lame man and because Jesus also professed that He is the Son of God and that He alone on earth has the power of God over all things. 

    The last part of the quote contains a very special promise from the Son of God to usward. In the last verse of the quote, Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, HATH everlasting life, AND SHALL NOT come into condemnation; but IS PASSED from death unto life.”

    It is important to pay attention to the tenses that are applied in what Jesus said. The application of those tenses very effectively rebut the contention that a person can at one time be born again, then later be lost again.

    A person who has already attained “everlasting life”, cannot lose that life else it would not be “everlasting”.  A person who “shall not come into condemnation”, CANNOT, ever, be condemned. A person who “is passed from death unto life” CANNOT be dead again.~

Lesson 3525

 (Lesson 3525)(08-28-21) John 5:1-15

    “After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.”

    In today’s quote, Jesus healed the infirm man by the pool of Bethesda, telling him to “take up thy bed and walk”. Jesus also commanded that the man should sin no more.~ 

Lesson 3524

 (Lesson 3524)(08-27-21) John 4:43-54

    “Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast. So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.”

    In today’s quote, Jesus demonstrated how, by faith, miracles can happen. The nobleman’s son was healed simply because the man had faith in Jesus to heal him.

    That same power is with those of us who today believe in Jesus and His amazing saving power. ~

Lesson 3523

(Lesson 3523)(08-26-21) John 4:35-42

    “Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. And many more believed because of his own word; And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.”

    In today’s quote, Jesus, by applying a metaphor, told the Samaritans that the time is right for His gospel to be spread to the world. He also related that those who reap the harvests are not necessarily the same ones who sowed it. Saying, in essence, that if we plant the seed someone else may pick the fruit. 

    The last part of the quote relates that there were many Samaritans who believed on Jesus and chose to follow Him.

    The same message that Jesus passed to those Samaritans still applies to us today. We are to diligently plant the word so that others reap the reward, which is eternal life.~ 

Lesson 3522

 (Lesson 3522)(08-25-21) John 4:31-34

    “ In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.”

    In today’s quote, Jesus made it clear to His apostles that doing the will of the Father is much more important that eating.~