Telling you truth. The truth; the one who hears my message and believes the one sending me possesses eternal life and will not come into judgement, but has passed from death into life.*
The words of Jesus exist eternal Life, as John writes Life was revealed through the Word, Jesus. Jesus said, “it stands written, man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”* Paul writes there is no better way for God to establish a will than by his Word and it takes a death to make a will effective thus a new covenant we have in His word, and in his blood. As Jeremiah said His word is like a fire, and a hammer that breaks rocks. As prophesied his Word has been established above His name. John writes this Word of Life, who has been proclaimed to us as Eternal Life, has been revealed to man and if we have fellowship in the Word of Life, we have eternal Life, and fellowship with the Father and the Son, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.* In Christ we possess eternal life.
for the due wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.*
Jesus did not come to condemn man, but to save, the Mosaic Law judged and condemned man but God's mercy triumph his judgement. And the blood of Jesus Christ took away sin, therefore unlike those under the Law who were vessels of his wrath we are vessels of his mercy. Since Jesus was an atonement for all sin, and he came not to condemn man in regards to judgment of sin, but to take away sin, one will not be condemned for sin but for not believing in Jesus Christ.
For God did not send the one his Son into the world to condemn the world however so that the world might be saved through him. The one believing in him is not condemned but the one not believing is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.*
If we believe in Christ we are not condemned. "As a result there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus, for the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus frees you from the law of sin and death."* Because Adam sinned all men would die physically, thus they existed under a law of sin and death until the covenant of circumcision and the Law which held the Jews under a guardian until Christ. Today we are not under the Law in Christ we are free from the law of sin and death. In the new covenant we are born of Spirit into the kingdom of God, thus the Spirit we receive is eternal as the sacrifice for sin was on our behalf, conditional only on belief. And so we see what is important, "And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us."*
I say truth, the truth; if anyone keeps that my words, never comes to know death.*
In Christ we will not know eternal death, which is the wage of sin, but we will know eternal life. This word for keep means to guard, to mark attentively, to heed, to observe practically, to store up, reserve. The true disciple is marked by the Spirit and by abiding in truth, and the true anointing teaches us to abide in Him, thus keeping his words. If Jesus is the Word of God, and the Vine we are to abide in then we are to abide in the words of Jesus. “Therefore all who hear these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock."* Keeping his word is to hear and do his word. We can only keep and do his words in his strength, and the part we are to do is abide. Abiding in the Vine is the only way to bear fruit.* But what fruit do we bear? If Jesus is Eternal Life and we abide in his words to bear fruit then the fruit we bear is Life. The fruit of thirty, sixty, hundred fold is in context of this kind of fruit, the growth of God's word, which is Life, through abiding. "This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples."* The Father is gloried in that we become like Jesus and in context "if you abide in my words and my words abide in you, ask whatever willing and becomes you."*. Abiding in the words of Jesus is a sign of a true disciple.*
nor does His word abide in you, because you do not believe the One He sent. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,*
The scriptures witness about Jesus and the prophets foresaw and wrote about him but many he came among did not believe.* Having knowledge of the scriptures doesn't give life as scriptures are not life, Jesus is Life. We possess eternal life or we have passed from death to life because we believe in Christ. The blood of Jesus is an atonement for sin, and the offering of his life without sin was an acceptable sacrifice for sin, "once and for all." There is no longer a sacrifice needed for sin, and when we believe we receive the forgiveness of sin. Since there is no longer a sacrifice needed, Jesus doesn't need to die over and over for sin, it was once and for all. You are forgiven sin when you believe in Jesus once and for all, surely, repent and confess any wrong doing but no longer is forgiveness needed, and no longer do you need to ask. Jesus was born under the Law to enter into the Most Holy place on earth which was a shadow of things in heaven, purified was his body, the blood he offered was his own, and by the eternal Spirit he entered and remains our great High priest forever. From the riches of his grace and glory we receive the spiritual blessings of adoption, redemption, and the forgiveness of sin. These are eternal gifts from His glory to his own.
For God himself has said, I will never leave nor forsake you.*
Oh you say salvation is like riding in a car with Jesus, you can jump out, but the scriptures say we are adopted, chosen by grace, predestined as He saw us believe, and if he knew you would jump out of the car he would never have chose you. God himself has said, I will never leave nor forsake you. Now, you might leave a child, after adopting a child and finding out the child is really a hard case, you might kick the child out of your family, but God is not like you. The whole idea of being a new creation in Christ, defeats the idea that one can loose his salvation. To be a child of God you must be born of Spirit, a partaker of His divine nature, and now you would say he would take his spirit away. Some believe that God removed his Spirit from Jesus on the cross, but he could not, he existed one with Christ. And so we are a new creation in Christ.
he entered once for all into the Most Holy Place, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but through that his own blood, obtaining eternal redemption.*
Redemption means liberation, deliverance. The blood of Christ provides eternal deliverance unlike the blood of goats and lambs. Mankind was sold into slavery because of one mans' sin, and because of one many died, but also because of One righteous man many will be redeemed. Only a relative could redeem thus it took a man to redeem mankind, and it took one to be consecrated, one who lived an destructible life, so Jesus came not as a sacrifice and offering, but as a body prepared, in that he lived a life consecrated, holy, without sin, in a body of sin, to purchase back that which was lost. And if we are united with him in death, the truth is we will be also raised in newness of life, and if we have been crucified with him the body of sin is rendered powerless and death has no more victory. Thank God for this victory we have over the old man in Christ!
Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!*
The words of Jesus exist eternal Life, as John writes Life was revealed through the Word, Jesus. Jesus said, “it stands written, man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”* Paul writes there is no better way for God to establish a will than by his Word and it takes a death to make a will effective thus a new covenant we have in His word, and in his blood. As Jeremiah said His word is like a fire, and a hammer that breaks rocks. As prophesied his Word has been established above His name. John writes this Word of Life, who has been proclaimed to us as Eternal Life, has been revealed to man and if we have fellowship in the Word of Life, we have eternal Life, and fellowship with the Father and the Son, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.* In Christ we possess eternal life.
for the due wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.*
Jesus did not come to condemn man, but to save, the Mosaic Law judged and condemned man but God's mercy triumph his judgement. And the blood of Jesus Christ took away sin, therefore unlike those under the Law who were vessels of his wrath we are vessels of his mercy. Since Jesus was an atonement for all sin, and he came not to condemn man in regards to judgment of sin, but to take away sin, one will not be condemned for sin but for not believing in Jesus Christ.
For God did not send the one his Son into the world to condemn the world however so that the world might be saved through him. The one believing in him is not condemned but the one not believing is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.*
If we believe in Christ we are not condemned. "As a result there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus, for the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus frees you from the law of sin and death."* Because Adam sinned all men would die physically, thus they existed under a law of sin and death until the covenant of circumcision and the Law which held the Jews under a guardian until Christ. Today we are not under the Law in Christ we are free from the law of sin and death. In the new covenant we are born of Spirit into the kingdom of God, thus the Spirit we receive is eternal as the sacrifice for sin was on our behalf, conditional only on belief. And so we see what is important, "And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us."*
I say truth, the truth; if anyone keeps that my words, never comes to know death.*
In Christ we will not know eternal death, which is the wage of sin, but we will know eternal life. This word for keep means to guard, to mark attentively, to heed, to observe practically, to store up, reserve. The true disciple is marked by the Spirit and by abiding in truth, and the true anointing teaches us to abide in Him, thus keeping his words. If Jesus is the Word of God, and the Vine we are to abide in then we are to abide in the words of Jesus. “Therefore all who hear these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock."* Keeping his word is to hear and do his word. We can only keep and do his words in his strength, and the part we are to do is abide. Abiding in the Vine is the only way to bear fruit.* But what fruit do we bear? If Jesus is Eternal Life and we abide in his words to bear fruit then the fruit we bear is Life. The fruit of thirty, sixty, hundred fold is in context of this kind of fruit, the growth of God's word, which is Life, through abiding. "This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples."* The Father is gloried in that we become like Jesus and in context "if you abide in my words and my words abide in you, ask whatever willing and becomes you."*. Abiding in the words of Jesus is a sign of a true disciple.*
nor does His word abide in you, because you do not believe the One He sent. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,*
The scriptures witness about Jesus and the prophets foresaw and wrote about him but many he came among did not believe.* Having knowledge of the scriptures doesn't give life as scriptures are not life, Jesus is Life. We possess eternal life or we have passed from death to life because we believe in Christ. The blood of Jesus is an atonement for sin, and the offering of his life without sin was an acceptable sacrifice for sin, "once and for all." There is no longer a sacrifice needed for sin, and when we believe we receive the forgiveness of sin. Since there is no longer a sacrifice needed, Jesus doesn't need to die over and over for sin, it was once and for all. You are forgiven sin when you believe in Jesus once and for all, surely, repent and confess any wrong doing but no longer is forgiveness needed, and no longer do you need to ask. Jesus was born under the Law to enter into the Most Holy place on earth which was a shadow of things in heaven, purified was his body, the blood he offered was his own, and by the eternal Spirit he entered and remains our great High priest forever. From the riches of his grace and glory we receive the spiritual blessings of adoption, redemption, and the forgiveness of sin. These are eternal gifts from His glory to his own.
For God himself has said, I will never leave nor forsake you.*
Oh you say salvation is like riding in a car with Jesus, you can jump out, but the scriptures say we are adopted, chosen by grace, predestined as He saw us believe, and if he knew you would jump out of the car he would never have chose you. God himself has said, I will never leave nor forsake you. Now, you might leave a child, after adopting a child and finding out the child is really a hard case, you might kick the child out of your family, but God is not like you. The whole idea of being a new creation in Christ, defeats the idea that one can loose his salvation. To be a child of God you must be born of Spirit, a partaker of His divine nature, and now you would say he would take his spirit away. Some believe that God removed his Spirit from Jesus on the cross, but he could not, he existed one with Christ. And so we are a new creation in Christ.
he entered once for all into the Most Holy Place, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but through that his own blood, obtaining eternal redemption.*
Redemption means liberation, deliverance. The blood of Christ provides eternal deliverance unlike the blood of goats and lambs. Mankind was sold into slavery because of one mans' sin, and because of one many died, but also because of One righteous man many will be redeemed. Only a relative could redeem thus it took a man to redeem mankind, and it took one to be consecrated, one who lived an destructible life, so Jesus came not as a sacrifice and offering, but as a body prepared, in that he lived a life consecrated, holy, without sin, in a body of sin, to purchase back that which was lost. And if we are united with him in death, the truth is we will be also raised in newness of life, and if we have been crucified with him the body of sin is rendered powerless and death has no more victory. Thank God for this victory we have over the old man in Christ!
Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!*
Through the law came the knowledge of sin and because of the weakness of the sinful nature of man under sin, sin abounded under the Law, thus "apart from the Law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets and this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe."* "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ."* This redemption is eternal. Justified by his blood, redeemed by his blood, sanctified, consecrated, holy by his blood. In believing in Christ there is no due wage for sin, or said another way sin is not counted against. We have received the gift of eternal life. Faithful and just, is our Father to give us the victory through Jesus Christ, not forsaking his own, so no matter what you are still a daughter, your still a son...