I'm in okay John chapter 5 so if you haven't been with us we're going
through the Gospel of John that's our Sunday evening Bible study and being a
Sunday evening and being a Bible study which isn't always quite as exciting as
the morning service guys try and keep your eyes open if you could and I will
be watching you as I preach hopefully you've had the coffees and everything
else but yeah well let's get going anyway so John chapter 5 and verse 1
hmm right after this there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to to
Jerusalem now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market of Paul 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 so halt here is basically lame on the feet withered I think it's faded
you'd call that so for many probably reasons there verse 4 says for an angel
went down a certain season into the pool and troubled the water whosoever then
first sorry whosoever then first off the trouble the water stepped in was made
whole of whatsoever disease he had now that's a pretty amazing miracle isn't it
that's a pretty amazing miracle right there that was going on there now
troubling is disturbing so the water I think would move ripple or something
like that and then and then basically someone to get healed and that's pretty
amazing isn't it verse 5 and a certain man was there which had an infirmity 30
and 8 years so this is some sort of chronic disease or disability this guy's
got verse 6 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 now Jesus knows everything
doesn't he and he just asked him straight here doesn't he just asked him
straight wilt thou me wilt thou be made whole verse 7 the impotent man answered
him sir I have no man when the water is troubled to put me in the pool into the
pool but while I am coming another steppeth down before me so he's maybe I
don't know you could say he's indirectly asking Jesus here to help him but it's
the only way you can see it happening isn't he saying well I've got no man to
put me in the pool maybe suggesting he does that but the only way he could see
it isn't he Jesus said wilt thou be made whole and he's saying well I've got no
man this is the only way this is going to happen is what he's saying isn't it
and we could do this too can't we where we limit God's help to the only way we
can see something being achieved don't we so often our prayers are kind of in
our own view of how this can happen how this can work and we do limit God I
think we all could probably do that we probably all do that a lot don't we
where we can only see well it's impossible this would be the only way
and in the same way this guy go well how can I be made whole cuz I've got no one
to put me down or maybe could you put me down there that's his way he thinks
it's going to happen but Jesus does does things his way doesn't he and we've
probably all all of us anyone who's got a proper prayer life or at least half a
proper prayer life I think we could probably all I think most people say
they they would desire to have a better prayer life than they do we always seem
to fall short in that a lot of Christians do but but we could all
probably vouch for times when you've just prayed for something you can only
see it happening one way and then the Lord just does things another way round
doesn't he and things just work out in a way that you couldn't have even foreseen
happening Jesus does does things his way doesn't in verse 8 says 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 a Sabbath so he's had this
problem 38 years and just the command of Jesus cures him that's amazing isn't it
just the command of Jesus of course well it's not amazing he's God isn't he but
but Jesus just cures him the command of Jesus and he takes up his bed and that
now when you know don't don't picture him having this headboard and frame and
springs and everything else trying not to get his fingers caught in it and
everything else so here obviously his his bed here will be some sort of
mattress and some sort of sheet or something like that maybe a pillow there
as well okay so I'd imagine it's quite easy to take up it's not that he's kind
of got a two-man lift going on or something else so he's just lifted up
the things that he's been sleeping on verse 10 the Jews therefore said unto
him that was cured it is a 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 then I'll say him what man is that which said unto thee take up
thy bed and walk and he that was healed was not who it was for Jesus had
conveyed himself away a multitude being in that place that so verse 10 there the
Jews therefore sent unto him that was cured it is the Sabbath day it is not
lawful for thee to carry thy bed so so first the Jews are rebuking this guy
for carrying his bed okay like how ridiculous is this so they're they're
having a going for carrying his bed turn to Exodus chapter 20 let's just see
quickly what the Bible says about this at Exodus chapter 20 the law of the
Sabbath day here and verse 10 says Exodus 20 10 but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son
nor thy daughter thy manservant nor thy maidservant nor thy cattle nor thy
stranger that it was that is within thy gates for in six days the Lord made
heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it is carrying a bed
doing work it's carrying a bed doing work away is it is carrying anything
what is carrying anything doing work then you carry and you can't carry
anything on the Sabbath day now can't can't have anything you hank you have
something in your pocket oh it's just ridiculous isn't it but verse 11 or 12
fish shows their true colors verse 11 he answered them he that made me whole the
same said unto me take up thy bed and walk verse 12 then I'll say him what man
is that which said unto thee take up thy bed and walk so he that made me whole
this guy this he's basically saying this man's just healed me 38 years 38 years
of whatever sickness disease it you know disability this guy's had and their
response who told you to take out your bed and walk I mean it's absolutely
ridiculous but it just shows how wicked these people really are doesn't it shows
how wicked they are and verse 13 and he that was healed with not who it was for
Jesus had conveyed himself where multitude being in that place so Jesus
has quietly gone okay it's not always profitable is it to deal with the rabble
it's not always profitable to be in front of hundreds of people or however
many there are there and Jesus knows best doesn't he at this point he's
conveyed himself away and Jesus Jesus makes wise decisions doesn't he
obviously being God now verse 14 afterward Jesus fineth him in the
temple and said unto him behold thou art made whole sin no more lest the worst
thing come unto thee now Jesus's physical healings are a picture of
spiritual healing and salvation I think that's pretty clear most people
understand that from the Gospels the man is made whole by Jesus and Jesus is
saying to him to live right to avoid chastisement here isn't he okay now the
work salvationists will point to this and especially the woman taking an
adultery that we're going to see in chapter a where Jesus says go and sin
no more and say see you've got to stop sinning to stay saved which is
completely ridiculous isn't it because firstly that's impossible is it that's
absolutely impossible problems 24 9 says the thought of foolishness is sin okay
it's impossible not to sin for first John 1 8 says if we say that we have no
sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us so anyone who thinks that
they've stopped sinning to stay saved is a liar they're not saved are they
they're not saved anyone who thinks that you have to stop sinning to stay saved
is not saved they're clearly lies these people that say that and like we say
that they're the least unsaved if not worse aren't they if not they're just
reprobate false prophets preaching lies and you know we say this and we think
well who says that the truth is how many people believe that how many people you
knock on the door and and you're trying to preach the gospel and they believe
they've got to continue and and it's big in the Pentecostals isn't it big it
like you knock on a Pentecostals door and they'll say all the right stuff at
the beginning won't they until you say what if you killed something well you
know firstly well I've got the Spirit of God I wouldn't do that or well if I did
as long as I asked for forgiveness or or then it's you know what you can't do
these certain sins or whatever just just crazy isn't it but Jesus wants him and
us to live right doesn't he okay just cuz we're yeah we're saved by grace
through faith aren't we we know that okay but we still want to live right
don't we okay we should live right and he wants us to choose not to sin but
of course that's got nothing to do with salvation it's gonna do salvation
Ephesians 2 and 9 makes that clear doesn't it for by grace are you saved
through faith and that not of yourselves it is a gift of God not of works as any
man should boast it no matter if you can grab a verse somewhere and take it out
of context and try and prop up your work salvation the the Bible's clear isn't it
and so many other verses back that up as well so here he's talking about to avoid
the chastisement that comes from sinning okay that's what Jesus is saying here
now there is a suggestion with that isn't there that this guy's infirmity
was maybe a result of sin would you not say that this guy's problems are
possibly a result of sin and that could be some sort of direct punishment from
God God does directly punish people but also like we talked about earlier this
morning so much sin has automatic repercussions doesn't it so much sin
does have automatic repercussions joined to that sin you know what we're talking
about this morning for example fornication and diseases fornication and
diseases and and and there are so many diseases so many nasty vile diseases
that come from that sin what about but I was thinking as well because this guy
obviously is I would say probably some sort of cripple isn't he what about
adultery and maybe revenge you know people I bet there are people in the
world over millions of people that have been seriously probably crippled because
of committing adultery and and had all sorts of issues and problems that have
come from that alcohol and ill health and again repercussions from drunken
nights how many people are probably you know being ended up with all sorts of
chronic issues from alcohol and that might be from fighting and all the other
stuff that goes with it and again it's just the inbuilt punishment for sin
isn't it stuff that just happens drug abuse and sickness or injury as well
there are people I know of that have got basically that are long-term cripples
after drug abuse because of stuff that's happened when they've been off their
heads on drugs and and again injury from also I just thinking something else
maybe covetousness and theft and the things that can happen when people take
do crazy things and take massive risks to steal and just so much isn't there so
again this guy who knows who knows what what has happened in this guy's life to
make this happen maybe it was as a result of sin but it's it's not always
is it and we see that we see that in other parts of the gospel it's not
always not not not everyone that's got problems and issues in life it's not
always a punishment because of sin okay really God knows that doesn't he and we
can't just assume verse 15 the man departed and told the Jews that it was
Jesus which had made him whole and therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus
and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day so
Jesus has healed this poor man and the Jews want to kill him for doing it on
the Sabbath day I mean how just backwards is that so they've taken the
Sabbath day and use it as an excuse to persecute Jesus haven't they that's how
I see that they've used it as an excuse but like I said last week how many
Christians do similar I spoke about last week to know about the apparently saved
Baptist that want to attack so winning Christians for not worshipping the Jews
for not believing the recently popularized pre-trib fraud and is
recently popularized that isn't it really in throughout Christian history
for believing Romans 1 and what many other passages tell us about reprobates
is it any difference is it really any difference these Jews are putting it
down to the Sabbath day the people now are putting it down to some other base
basically some other doctrine in the Bible that then they used to attack so
many Christians to persecute them to hate them to want their destruction
because that's what they want don't they that's what they want for us that's what
they want for churches like us they just wish they want up what they want us to
be destroyed don't they now in the Jews defense at least you could say there's
some although they've taken it just too far some scriptural support for their
position however massively wrong their hearts are with it unlike these people
that attack us for things that they're completely out to lunch on aren't they
they're completely wrong they've got it wrong they're there they've been conned
with this pre-trib rapture haven't they they've been conned with their worship
of the Jews they've been conned with their with their everyone can get saved
to their dying breath doctrines yet they still persecute us because of it but I'm
not going to go off on that again verse 17 but Jesus answered them my
father worketh hitherto and I work right here the two is any time so my father
worketh any time in our in our common vernacular now God's so basically God's
working all the time and Jesus Jesus is God isn't he okay Jesus is God so he's
working any time now you know and some people you can look at this to go well
maybe they didn't know that and well they don't well they should know that
shouldn't they they should know because he's God and he's and he's gone in the
flesh and he's there and he's and he's preaching the word and he's and he's
been spoken about really a prophesied throughout the Old Testament they should
know that shouldn't they they got no excuse verse 18 therefore the Jews
sought them 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 sent you the son can do nothing of
himself but what he seeth the father do for what things so ever he doeth these
also doeth the son likewise okay because Jesus is God and throughout this gospel
we're up to chapter 5 and we're just seeing it time and time again aren't we
Jesus is God in the flesh okay clear as day isn't it and being the son makes him
equal with God and that's something again some people it gets lost on people
I don't really know why that is now but you can talk to many people can't you
talk to them you're trying to preach him gospel yeah he's the son of God okay
well he's gone in the flesh I don't really get that do they but he being the
son he's equal with God isn't he verse 20 for the father loveth the son and
showeth him all things that himself doeth and he will show him greater works
than these that you may marvel for as the father raiseth up the dead and
quickeneth them even so the son quickeneth whom he will quickeneth is to
make a life from death okay verse 22 for the father judgeth no man but have
committed all judgment unto the son now you don't have to turn Acts 10 42 says
and he command us to preach unto the people and to testify that it is he this
is Christ which was ordained of God to be the judge of quick and dead so Jesus
Christ is not only the Savior of the world but a righteous judge too isn't he
Jesus Christ is is the judge as well he's a savior and a righteous judge
verse 23 that all men should honor the son even as they honor the father he
the honoureth not the son honoureth not the father which has sent him now that's
a great verse isn't it which goes well with John 14 6 Jesus saith unto him I
am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father but by me and
that goes hand in hand with that doesn't it he the honoureth not the son honoureth
not the father which has sent him there are no other paths to God you
ecumenical liars okay there's no other path to God is there every single
Muslim and inverti commas Jew Hindu Buddhist Roman Catholic and every other
person that's chosen to follow false religion instead of faith in Jesus
Christ is going to hell every single one is going to hell because he that
honoureth not the son honoureth not the father which has sent him you're not
honoring him if you're denying how he said to get saved are you how you
honoring the son if you're just if you're just rejecting how he clearly
tells us throughout the Gospels how to get saved you're not honoring the father
or the son if you're calling them liars are you because that's what they're
doing it's not oh well they just believe something else no they're calling them
liars because you could show these people from the Word of God can't you
the preserved Word of God and they'll still go no no I'll just go my religion
I'll go with whatever I've been told I'll just go whatever I've chosen to
believe but that's not what the Bible says first John 5 10 says he that
believeth on the Son of God had the witness in himself he that believeth not
God has made him a liar because he believeth not the record that God gave
of his son and that's the truth when you're preaching the gospel as someone
rejects that they're basically saying God's a liar they're saying this is a
lie they're saying the Word of God the preserved Word of God is a lie I'm not
believing it and that's the truth isn't it and yeah we do feel sorry people yeah
we don't want them to go to hell but the truth is they're rejecting God
they're saying he's a liar they know the Bible's here they know the
Word of God is here they know that they can access it they know that they can
especially when you're knocking on their door and you're showing them verse after
verse and they still choose to reject it they choose to reject it they're making
God a liar verse 24 verily verily I sound to 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 what a verse what an amazing
verse what a great verse for soul winning I use this first I think pretty
much every single gospel presentation I give I think this verse is is amazing
it's just got it all in there hasn't it he very verily I say unto you he that
heareth my word okay so again we know don't you have to hear the Word of God
to get saved you have to hear the word he that heareth my word you ain't
getting saved from a false Bible unless it's a verse that hasn't been changed
okay and let's be honest how many salvation verses haven't been changed in
these false wicked perversions of the Bible and the people that still try its
people who claim to be saved it still stick to these false versions I mean
just do a comparison don't just go through the Romans Road and just look at
those verses how do you still support that how do you still claim that that's
okay to use those vile perversions because they are vile aren't they he
that heareth my word they have to hear the Word of God it's no good just
putting it all in your own language you have to preach the Word of God he that
heareth my word and believe on or trust that God the Father sent God the Son to
die for your sins okay he that believeth on him that sent me because
that's what you're believing you're believing that God sent him aren't you
you're believing on God okay and and obviously that's a big part of it we
have to make sure guys when you're giving the gospel presentation that
you're that you're preaching what Jesus did as well don't forget that don't
forget what Jesus did that that that he came and he died on that cross and he
and he was buried and he spent three days in hell and he rose again the third
day and that they have to believe that to be saved okay hath everlasting life
and that's it that's eternal security isn't it hath everlasting life again you
can't have everlasting life if you're then gonna lose it if you can lose it
you don't have everlasting life do you everlasting life is forever have
everlasting life and and I love to just highlight that to people and believe on
him that sent me hath present tense everlasting life what a truth there
shall not and shall not come into condemnation there that's they're never
going to hell shall not it's not all maybe depends what you do shall not come
into condemnation but is passed from death unto life it's a momentary thing
isn't it it's a one-time deal like again we've seen throughout each chapter of
the Gospel of John it's a one-time deal you believe on Jesus Christ you are saved
and again you know with the Gospel of John you could just go through the
gospel every single week and I'm not going to do that because I don't want to
become one of them churches where we just preach the gospel every week but
but again these are just great reminders aren't they great one is a great verse
we can use when we're out soul winning a great great verses to use great verses
to go through sometimes some verses isn't someone's not getting it John 5 24
what a great verse he said in verse 25 verily verily I sound to you the hour is
coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and
neither here shall live okay and we were dead weren't we and we heard the voice
of the Son of God the hour is coming and now is so that's that's present tense at
that time as well verse 26 for as the father had life in himself so had he
given to the son to have life in himself John 1 4 says in him was life and the
life was the light of men verse 27 and it's given him authority to execute
judgment also because he is the Son of Man Marvel not of this for the hour is
coming in the which all that are in the grave 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 now as opposed to verse 25
where the hour is coming and now is this is for the hour is coming in verse 28
here Marvel not of this for the hour is coming in the which the order in the
grave shall hear his voice now this is speaking about in the future okay they
that have done good is referring to Christ's righteousness being imputed
unto us okay it's not it's not talking about a work salvation here Philippians
3 9 says and be found in him not having mine own righteousness which is of the
law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of
God by faith without Christ there is none that have done good is there Romans
3 10 to 12 we know says as it is written there is none righteous no not one there
is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh after God they are all gone
out of the way there together become unprofitable there is none that doeth
good no not one okay so it's not talking about here what again the work
salvation is try and take these verses out of context but I believe that this
particular hour this particular hour coming is referring to the great white
throne of judgment okay after the millennial reign of Christ if you turn
to Revelation 20 so we know that our bodies will be raised alive or dead
during the rapture along with every other saved believers body it's not
referring to that point it said the hour is coming this is a time 1st Corinthians
15 52 says in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last Trump for the
trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be
changed so we get our glorified bodies then don't we that's when we get our
glorified bodies amen for that we won't have this sinful flesh anymore after
this God's wrath is poured out on the world okay so God's wrath is poured out
but there are still people that can get saved aren't there there are still
people that can get saved remember there are 144,000 witnesses at this point okay
what are they there for what they witnessing they're witnessing the truth
there are still babies dying aren't there they're still babies so where are
that what's what's going to happen to their bodies then there's a people like
like we you know then there's a millennial reign then okay before this
point that we're about to read so again where their body's going to go those
people again children babies that die and especially people that get saved
there's still going to be salvation you know there's no other gospel is there so
there are still people getting saved where their bodies gone because remember
we've been raptured and and every at that point dead on so believers body
will as well be raptured at that point and but will be changed in that moment
in that twinkling of an eye so what happens their bodies turn a revelation
chapter 20 verse 5 you're in Revelation 20 so verse 5 but the rest of the dead
live not again until the thousand years were finished this is the first
resurrection okay the unsaved won't ever live again will they they're never
going to live again so this is talked about the bodies of those that are saved
okay so the rest of the dead live not again till the thousand years were
finished so who's going to live again these are saved people okay jump forward
to verse 11 so this is after the millennial reign and I saw a great white
throne in him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away
there was found no place for them and I saw the dead small and great stand
before God and the books were open another book was open which is a book of
life and the dead were judged out of those things which are written in the
books according to their work so it's a dead that are judged according to their
works okay verse 13 the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and
ill delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man
according to their works and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire
this is the second death and whosoever was not found written in the book of
life was cast into the lake of fire so there are people there that are written
in the book of life aren't there okay so it's not about the dead here this is
talking about the the saved people at this point which are now in this second
resurrection and that's by faith in Jesus Christ isn't it okay faith in
Jesus Christ they're in the book of life and that's what I believe that's how I
see that it's talking about that's the hour it's talking about okay so he said
there he said in in sorry he said there in John 5 28 sorry marvel not this for
the hour is coming in the which all that are in the grave 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 that's what I
see that that's how I believe that that's what he's talking about there
verse 30 he says 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 has sent me that's a great example for us to follow isn't it so isn't that
a great example if our judgment was was according to the Word of God if only we
sought the will of the Father in everything we should we know we should
but we often don't do we we would make the right decisions then wouldn't we
if we were just seeking the will of God we were doing our best to not seek our
own will but the but the will of the Father because we often seek our own
will and then just try and verse find a verse to support it don't we if we even
bother trying to find a verse to support it but our whole life I mean for me not
just a routine but the end of every prayer should just be not not my will
but line be done and just just just pray for the will of God in everything you
doing every decision sure we should still be praying for specific things
Jesus teaches us to do that doesn't he and the Word of God teaches us to do
that doesn't just have to be right prayer God your will be done and that's
it okay we should be praying for things but ultimately we're praying for God's
will aren't we in everything and that's what we want to happen in our lives God's
will to be done verse 31 if I bear witness of myself my witness is not true
there is another that beareth witness of me and I know that the witness which he
witnesses of me is true so John the Baptist said in John 1 34 and I saw and
bear record that this is the Son of God he bear witness didn't he of Jesus
Christ verse 33 he sent unto John and he bear witness unto the truth but I
received not testimony from man but these things I say that you might be
saved so remembering in John 1 as well it said in John 1 19 and this is a
record of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to
ask him who art thou okay so so again he's bearing record to them isn't he and
verse 34 we just saw verse 34 says but I received not testimony from man but
these things I say that ye might be saved he's just telling them this that
they might be saved that John's bearing record of him it's not because he needs
that does he he's just trying he's trying he wants him to get saved verse
35 he says he was a burning in a shining light and you were willing for a season
to rejoice in his light now he's still going to work to unsaved here isn't he
saying you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light so maybe some of
these Jews enjoyed John's preaching for a time maybe they did found it refreshing
to hear some truth but that doesn't mean that they were saved does it just because
someone listens to good preaching sometimes it doesn't mean that they're
saved I know people that I preached the gospel to and rejected it I've sent them
preaching in fact I had someone Reese's ring me out you have been listening he
liked I listened to so he watched sodomite deception then was listening to
quite a lot of pastor John at the show he really liked that guy on a red tie
he's telling me I like that guy on a red tie like the way he says things you know
I've been listening some of his stuff still won't get saved though so he likes
him preachy likes he likes you know for this guy you know that was a big
stumbling block for him was just eyes and isn't Christian just a lot of quiz
just a lot of sodomites and you know and I'm trying to explain to him no that's
false religion that's yeah you're right like you've grown up it he was around
some sort of C of E youth clubs and stuff and yeah no there's some wicked
vile perverts involved in that but no you know you know so I was trying to
show him through that way I've given him the gospel now a few times this guy
won't get so big lots of preaching I'm like other people like that as well
they listen to that oh yeah I like that fella that Anderson fella yeah yeah he
says some good stuff still not saved still not saved and people you know
the truth can be refreshing can't it sometimes even for the unsaved but
doesn't mean that they're gonna put their faith in Jesus Christ okay and
that's the truth here isn't it so they were willing for a season to rejoice in
his life it doesn't mean that all they got saved then they didn't know they
were listening to John you know this guy you know he preached hard didn't he you
know and I'm sure that they probably enjoyed some of that preaching probably
different to some of the other stuff they were hearing but it doesn't mean
that they're saved verse 36 but I have greater witness in that of John for the
works which the Father had given me to finish the same works that I do bear
witness of me that the Father have sent me so turn to John 14 said by a greater
witness than that of John for the works which the Father has given me to finish
the same works that I do bear witness of me that the Father have sent me John 14
verse 11 Jesus says believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me or
else believe me for the very works sake Jesus is doing miracles isn't he he's
healing people and many are getting saved as well okay so it's not just that
he's doing all these great miracles healing they're just people are
believing on him and putting their faith in him you know these guys it's not that
oh they're just a bit unsure they can see what's going on can't they they're
rejecting him they're rejecting him and and he's doing all this stuff he's doing
these amazing works yet they still won't believe him what do they think who like
there's no there's no precedent in the Bible that you know where where some you
know bail worshipers just healing all these people and doing all these amazing
things that's all well I mean by Beelzebub he casteth out you know by the
prince of the devil so well you know we've seen this happen before it's just
pure rejection it's pure rejection and pure blasphemy really as well isn't it
and really they're just rejecting God he's doing these amazing things they're
still rejecting him but I was thinking about unbelieving family and friends and
you could tell them about the salvation because I've done that before I'm
trying to I'm telling you yeah we went out here we got this many people saved
and just trying another angle like how are you gonna explain this thing how
you gonna explain this that we're knocking on doors people who sometimes
claim to be an atheist at the beginning of the conversation at the end they're
praying with you to you know they're asking they're asking the Lord Jesus
Christ you know to save them from their sins and and and you try and show him
that and telling them about the soul winning telling them about people they
know sometimes old like old friends or family members other people that have
got saved you've got them saved and you're saying look like you know they
got saved they put their faith in Christ and they're reading the Bible every day
they're doing this yet they still reject they still reject don't they and there's
some miracles that they'll see in people's lives they see in your own
lives don't they because how different is everyone here I'd imagine I'd hope to
how they were before they were saved you know and yeah of course that's not
automatic and yes we we've you know praise God that we've had the Word of
God we've had good preaching other things to help us to change our lives a
lot of us after salvation but how many of us have done that yet still they
reject yet still they want to find some other excuse for it they want to find
some other reason because they just don't want it they don't they just want
to reject the gospel don't they how frustrating is that it really is
frustrating isn't it the same works that I do he said bear witness of me that the
Father has sent me now verse 37 and the Father himself which has sent me have
borne witness of me you have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his
shape now turn to Matthew 3 here Matthew chapter 3 so the Father has which has
sent me have borne witness of me he says you have neither heard his voice at any
time nor seen his shape now in Matthew chapter 3 and verse 13 says then cometh
Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him but John forbade
him saying I have need to be baptized of thee and cometh now to me and Jesus
answering said unto him suffer it to be so now for thus it becometh us to
fulfill all righteousness then he suffered him and Jesus when he was
baptized went up straight way out of the water alone the heavens were open unto
him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon
him and lo a voice from heaven saying this is my beloved Son in whom I am
well pleased so this is the Father I think bearing witness of him and I'm
sure that this was relayed to the Jews so I don't think they were there at that
point obviously because he's just said here in the in in verse 37 of John 5 and
and he says had borne witness of me you have neither heard his voice at any time
nor seen his shape but here here you know he has done it I'm sure that was
relayed to them it's in three Gospels isn't it I believe that they're probably
well aware that he's been and regardless he he's he's bared witness of him
throughout throughout the Bible anyway throughout the Old Testament he's been
bearing witness of Jesus Christ coming but they still reject don't they they
still reject even though even though it the father which has sent me a born
witness of me yet they still reject verse 38 and you have not his word
abiding in you for whom he have sent him you believe not they just don't believe
do they they just don't believe verse 39 search the scriptures for in them you
think he have eternal life and they are they which testify of me and you will
not come to me that you might have life it sounds crazy doesn't it doesn't it
sound crazy when you see that you won't come to me to have life it's eternal
life it's being given to it's a gift it's on a plate just take it but how
many people just will not come they will not come will they and they claim they
have their excuses I just don't believe or I'm just this I'm just so they just
won't come they just won't come it's it's maddening sometimes isn't it in
fact not just some people the vast vast majority because broad is the path that
leads to destruction and many there be which go in there and and it's it's it's
sad isn't it it's terrible it's terrible that it's there that that they will not
come to me that you might have life to Jesus Christ verse 41 I received an
honor for men but I know you that you have not the love of God in you I come
in my father's name and you receive me not if another shall come in his own
name him you will receive how can you believe which receive on a one of
another and seek not the honor that cometh from God only do not think that I
will accuse you to the father there is one that accuses you even Moses in whom
you trust for had you believed Moses you would have believed me free road to me
but if you believe not his writings how shall you believe my words these Jews
didn't believe the Torah and these people that are known as Jews today
don't believe it either and again I'm not gonna just flog a dead horse but but
come on we are we are the minority that understand this aren't we amongst Bible
believing Christians the vast vast is it can you say vast minority anyway
anyone that yes or no I know we are the vast I like that with a vast minority
that that believe that don't we that just believe the Word of God that
believed the Bible that haven't just gone with some some heretical teachings
from however many hundred years ago by your derbies in your scofields and and
this rubbish had just gone with it and just being brainwashed but to the point
where it doesn't matter you can literally read them verse after verse
after verse they just won't have it will they they won't have it they'll go back
to some Old Testament promise and go see I don't care what Galatians says and I
don't care what Romans says I don't care what Ephesians says look Jeremiah 31
said that there was a promise said well yes but we are Israel you I just just so
frustrated but verse 43 they said I am coming my father's name and you received
me not if another shall come in his own name him you will receive now he could
be talking about the Antichrist or equally any of their Antichrist rabbis
that talk a load of old nonsense don't they could be any of them they receive
their lying Jewish scholars don't they their commandments of men in the Talmud
oh they've got no problem receiving them verse 44 he said how can you believe
which receive honor one of another and seek not the honor that cometh from God
only and they love don't they they love the honor of one another these people
don't they just so I was having you look at this there's a Jewish Theological
Seminary of America it gives the degrees of rabbi has an master and doctor of
Hebrew literature and doctor of divinity and there probably wasn't much difference
2,000 years ago was there it's probably the same old rubbish wasn't there just
receiving honor one of another you know how scholarly they are and how much
understand but the sad truth is how many so-called Christians this day go to
these people to be told what the Bible says these people that reject God that
don't believe it yeah oh but they're so scholarly aren't they because they've
got these great names they've received on a one of another but it's kind of one
of the other in life isn't it really if you want the honor of God you're not
going to receive the honor of man ain't that the truth if you want the honor of
God the truth is you're not going to receive the honor of man and that goes
for everyone it's not just the Jews or what we call you know the false Jews of
today is it because it starts with salvation doesn't it starts with
salvation and let's be honest you don't receive much honor for men for getting
saved do you know if any of you have gone you know I've gone to unsaved
family friends when you got saved told them you got saved they're not all
jumping for joy are they let's be honest usually you know the face drops a little
bit and and and so many of them that they're pretty gutted they're pretty
gutted you got saved you're telling him I'm saved I believe you know and it's
like oh you know it's a straightaway the odd is God isn't it straight away you're
being looked at you know because they want to try and you know they try and
justify it don't know you must have been brainwashed you must have lost the
plot you must be some sort of nut job now because you believe the Word of God
okay you might and they'll try their best to have this way of you know just
just just explaining it away because they just want to reject don't they they
want to reject and the mind does many things when it doesn't want to accept
something doesn't it I mean other than us so so you get saved and you're around
people like ourselves oh you will receive some water won't you
you will receive some water from us but I don't think he's talking about those
sort of men there they receive honor one of another don't they but you will
receive honor from other from saved Christians won't you and you know and we
you know and that's the thing is that's something to remember when you get
someone saved is you know what a great thing really and that's a brother or
sister in Christ now we should be giving them honor and regardless of really
their beliefs after that you know sure you know as they grow in Christ if they
start just becoming you know obviously some sort of heretical Christian I'm
not talking about damnable heresies here but they're obviously they're saved
Christians are sadly like we talked about anti us and everything else
don't do about giving that much honor to those are still brothers and sisters in
Christ so truthfully aren't they but I'm talking about people that get saved
their babes in Christ has given that honor we should be given that honor
shouldn't we and whether or not we can get them along to be disciple but after
salvation if you want to then go on to serve God you definitely won't be
getting much honor for that will you you don't receive that that much honor
and again it isn't it crazy really isn't it crazy because because so many of us
like I said earlier have cleaned up so many aspects of our life thanks to the
Word of God haven't we thanks to good preaching thanks to being in church
thanks to listening to good hard preaching on sin and and so many things
which the world knows the problems in life don't they they know what happens
with the drinking they know what happens with the fornication they know
what happens with so many other parts of life with the way most people raise
their children all these things that we've tried to stick to the Word of God
about yet they don't give us any other do they in fact they start to hate you
more they hate you more for wanting to live for God I hate you more for wanting
to try and dress right for behavior right for trying not to you know curse
in everything you say for not take the name of the Lord in vain for all these
many many things that we've tried to change in our lives yet we receive not
only less on in fact we receive the opposite don't we we receive problems
but don't let that stop you though hey who cares about the honor of man but the
truth is you ain't gonna get it you ain't gonna get the honor of man and
something I think sometimes you know Christians would do well to remember
that and and just keep remind yourself you're not looking for the honor of man
are you you're not looking for the honor of the world we don't need that and we
don't need the honor of each other really in terms of you're not here to
impress each other are we you're not here to be the best we're not here to
try and show each other you know how great we are we're here to worship God
aren't we we're here to honor God to honor Jesus Christ and that's what we
need to keep on our minds don't we and especially when it comes to world it
cares about a world it cares what the world thinks you know because let's be
honest a vast majority of them are going to be burning in hell wishing praying
asking father Abraham you know send someone send someone to my brethren to
my father's house and and they're going to be asked it well while we're in
heaven and okay it's not a nice thought but that's the truth isn't it that's the
truth who cares what these people think because sadly they're on a bobsledge to
hell aren't they but yeah these Jews don't really believe the Word of God
they claim to but they don't verse 46 for had she believed Moses you would
have believed me for he wrote of me but if you believe not his writings how
shall ye believe my words now again like there are many places but just a
few a few that I was thinking of many places where Moses wrote of Jesus turn
to Genesis 22 remember yeah you know I believe Joe Moses wrote the first five
books of the Bible and Genesis 22 22 8 so obviously Abraham you know he's he's
basically taking Isaac up for that famous you know where he's about to well
basically about sacrifice him and Abraham said my son God will provide
himself a lamb for a burnt offering so they went both of them together again
that's that's for me is is Moses writing of Jesus Christ Turner Turner verse 18
there to verse 18 this is the Lord speaking he said and in thy seed shall
all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou has obeyed my voice again
that's Moses talking about Jesus Christ isn't it his seed singular go to
Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 18 Deuteronomy 18 and verse 15 the Lord thy God will
raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee of thy brethren like unto
me unto him ye shall hearken verses 18 to 19 I will raise him up a prophet from
among their brethren like unto thee and will put my words in his mouth and he
shall speak unto them all that I shall command him and it shall come to pass at
whosoever will not hearken unto my words we shall speak in my name I will require
it of him these are just a few just a handful of places but Moses wrote of
Jesus Christ they didn't believe it did they they clearly don't believe it
because he's here fulfilling prophecy and they won't believe it they didn't
believe Moses and they didn't believe Jesus which is why this irresistible
grace style because that's what it is automatic salvation of all followers of
this blasphemous religion of Judaism is even more ridiculous isn't it it is
absolutely ridiculous what somehow the vast majority of we think saved Baptists
in this in this world it seems unless I've got this wrong it seems the vast
majority believe in basically an irresistible grace don't they don't know
I'm not talking about the Calvinists here either because of vast vast
majority of them are unsaved but this irresistible grace style automatic
salvation that's what they believe that Jews are just going to be automatically
saved like they just can't resist it like what is that that's not the gospel
what's that what's that talking about because they follow a religion because
they follow a blasphemous false religion because that's what it is isn't it
they're not some sort of genetic line that that's so debunkable it's so
ridiculous the Bible makes it clear doesn't it about the amount of converts
to Judaism and we've seen that throughout history anyway it doesn't take
so oh it depends what you believe no it's in the Word of God is that people
convert to Judaism but because they've converted to that and then from that we
have now just it's false religion anyway so at the time obviously they weren't
converting to a false religion I don't believe at that time they were converted
to faith him and being one part of that nation now you just got this false
religion which apparently is some sort of genetic line of people yet you can
convert to it yet people have converted to it throughout history it's so so
ridiculous and it winds me up so much and and it should shouldn't it because
it's so false because it's such a lie it's a lie of the devil it's a lie of
the devil where to the point where people are just snatching and grabbing
land and saying that they somehow have a right to it because they converted to a
false religion and to be honest you I don't think you can preach this stuff
enough because the opposite is being preached every single week in churches
around the country and around the world because I haven't I don't know about you
guys anyone been into it into a church where they seem to be saved and I say
seem to because it can be a bit sketchy anyone been into a church's cultural
they seem to be saved where they don't believe this lie oh you mean the one
where they don't believe this lie okay my sermon to be honest I'll be
pleased really I'll be pleased if anyone anyone know that don't worry I'm only
joking about ruining some ruin the sermon please someone tell me there's a
church in this country where they don't believe the lie the Zionist lies no there
is it is it in this whole nation what we got 70 million let's say let's count the
whole UK I think it's the UK about 70 million 70 million people and okay I
didn't prepare for this as you can see with a count of actual churches
especially I mean how do we even count Baptist churches with the right
salvation because it's so dodgy isn't it anyway but out of all of them there is
not one church which hasn't been brainwashed barring Shaw Foundation
Baptist Church UK that's the only one in the country that doesn't preach this lie
and the truth is with this it's not just that they preach this lie but how can
you then take seriously what these guys say when they are clearly not being led
by the spirit are they you're not being this is what are you saying because my
I was at a church where the the preaching was so dire I mean so look
listen yeah there are people that believe some things wrong yeah and
there's some bad preaching okay there is and and look I'm not saying I'm the
greatest pretty you know my preaching leaves a lot to be desired I'm sure but
this was bad okay this was terrible and and this regard have been preaching is
you know why it was so bad because every single week without fail he was
preaching about the Jews and the pre-trib rapture and or majority the
Jews so he wasn't in the spirit how could he be full of the spirit how was
it spirit Phil preaching if he was preaching about the Jews week in week
out he can't be Kenny so there's our Holy Spirit there because the spirit
doesn't lead you into lies the spirit leads you into all truth so had he been
preaching other stuff you could probably have put up with it but it was
just every week you're just thinking what and that's why the preacher was
just you just had no idea what was going here's just jumping the verses because
it was all just so wrong and so false but that's going on in in churches
around the country isn't it and the more they try and fight against the more they
get angry about the healing on the Sabbath day or the more they get angry
about their chosen problem the more they're just out of the spirit and just
preaching rubbish and a more they're just ruining or at least they're just
not at all profiting their congregation are they and that's the truth because
they're just preaching lies lies week in week out how just just study the but
study the Bible without Schofield without your bike without your Bible
College notes without your you know your old IFB little handouts telling you how
to how to conquer this this rising tide of anti-semitism and everything else get
out all of that just read your Bible and preach it and if you preach your Bible
you're not going to preach lies week in week out are you and that's that that's
what's going on here and what did Jesus say here Jesus said Jesus said here he
said sorry where am I for had you believed Moses you would have believed
me for he wrote of me but if you believe not his writings how shall ye believe my
words that's the same because they don't believe Jesus do they because instead
they believe see I Schofield because instead they believe Nelson Darby
Clarence Larkin is it Clarence I think it's Clarence Larkin and the rest of
these idiots right now who all over YouTube all these guys who are just
constantly trying to push this stuff and with whiteboards behind them showing
different dispensations and trying to sound really clever and trying to mock
and James White and all these app just weirdos or weirdos most of them are
you look at you just think you weirdo and of course they are because they're
just it's true though isn't it it's true I had a joke once when someone said that
they think he probably wears a thumb ring James why I think he does and look
I don't care someone say I'm stuttering him either I'm just guessing I assume
that he probably has a thumb ring okay I think he probably has toe rings as well
okay that's just me okay but these guys they sound so clever they're so
intellectual aren't they he's so intellectual but you can't believe the
Bible you can't believe the way in fact you can't even recognize the Word of God
because you're too busy trying to prop up false versions false perversions oh
but he's so wise he's so clever because he speaks such good Greek I don't care
what you say speak a hundred languages you can't understand the Word of God
what sort of man are you I'll tell you what you are you're probably unsaved
aren't you let's be honest let's be honest because how can your whole your
your your whole ministry be based on attacking the King James Bible Wow like
what a testimony can you imagine if he is in heaven if he was somehow saved
Wow can you imagine the shame when he's up there you know just kind of sweeping
the outer court somewhere you know he's literally just just down at the bottom
there and I mean if but again I'd be amazed be amazed if you say and and all
these guys whose ministry is attacking the Word of God whose ministry like
again I'm not saying all unsaved these guys that just poppy up the Jews but how
far wrong are they gone how far like they just so so out like I'm not to
write your John Hagees who are clearly unsaved reprobates aren't they but but
yeah just winds me and again the Word of God is just clearing that we're gonna
see that throughout the Gospel of John as well aren't we but but again just
just mind-blowing isn't it mind-blowing that there is people around this world
claim to believe the Bible and just cannot cannot just read it for what it
says and cannot believe it for what it says on that let's pray
heavenly father I thank you for your word I thank you thank you that you just
just make things so clear and I thank you that we have such a great group of
people here a group of just Bible believing Christians that just want to
want to listen to the Word of God I want to believe the Word of God for what it
says and I'm fussed about what what all these you know sort of mainstream
believers want to try and tell us and and just believe the Word of God and
just just to listen to what the Word of God says about about many things and I
thank you that we have a group here that that we just know that we all just just
have our hearts in the right place we just want to listen to you we you know
thy will be done not not ours and not some just some people throughout
history that are trying to trying to change the Word of God and thank you
that we just want to listen to you I pray that you just help us now help us
to apply the Word of God to our lives and to not only just just get that
strength in our faith from from such a clear salvation as we go through the
Gospel of John wow is it so clear and what a great book you know written some
men might believe and we thank you that you made it so clear and it's
strengthening us with that and just all those other the other topics that come
up in each chapter just help us to to think about them to get stronger from
them to apply them to our lives and and starting with this week going forward
help us help us to have a good week and and for your to seek your will in
everything we do we pray that the people that that aren't here will be well
enough to come back next week we hope they recover this week we pray that
everyone else will be well and healthy and have a good week we pray that we get
many people saved at the soul winning times and that we all gather back here
next week to worship you and honor you and in Jesus name we pray Amen