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Our Miraculous Master
The Gospel of John
John 5:24-30
Sermon by Rick Crandall
Grayson Baptist Church - September 7, 2016
(Revised July 30, 2019)
BACKGROUND:
*Before we read our Scripture for tonight, remember that this chapter began with an amazing miracle.
Verses 1-9 tell about this healing miracle that took place in Jerusalem by the pool called Bethesda.
There Jesus instantly and completely healed a man who had been bedridden for 38 years.
Praise the Lord!
*But Jesus performed this healing miracle on the Sabbath Day, and that was a crime punishable by death under the man-made Jewish laws of that day.
As soon as Jesus began to respond to their charge, He committed another crime in their eyes that was punishable by death.
This new crime is completely unheard of in our society, because the charge against Jesus was blasphemy, making Himself equal with God by saying that God was His Father.
*We can see these charges unfold in vs. 15-18, where God's Word says:
15.
The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16.
For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath.
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But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.''
18. Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.
*Last week in vs. 19-23, we saw that Jesus pled guilty to the charge of making Himself equal to God.
Rightly so, because Jesus is and always has been the one and only eternal Son of God.
*And we should honor Jesus as God, because:
-No man can see like Jesus sees.
-No man can do what Jesus does.
-And no man can judge like Jesus judges.
*In tonight's Scripture, Jesus continued His defense against the Jewish leaders, so let's read vs. 24-30.
And as we read, think about our miraculous Master, Jesus Christ.
MESSAGE:
*Well, this all started with an amazing miracle.
Have you seen any miracles today?
You might not think so, but if you are a born-again believer in Jesus Christ, all you have to do to see a miracle is look in the mirror!
*Jesus Christ is our Miracle Worker!
And as we look into His Word tonight, we see 3 miracles the Lord works in the life of every believer.
1. FIRST: JESUS GIVES US THE MIRACLE OF REGENERATION.
*Regeneration is the miracle of being born again by the Holy Spirit of God.
Titus 3:4-6 says this to Christians:
4. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
5. not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
6. whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
*Christians: We were born again into God's family through the Holy Spirit's work of regeneration.
Jesus talked about this new spiritual birth in John 3:5-7.
There the Lord told Nicodemus:
5. "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
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That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'"
*When we believe in Jesus Christ, when we receive Him as our Lord and Savior, we are literally born again spiritually, and we have two birthdays!
*A few years ago, I bumped into Trish Barmore and her little boy at Walmart.
They are some of our friends from McClendon.
The first thing out of that little boy's mouth was this: "I got saved on my birthday!"
*I said, "That's great!
Now you have two birthdays on the same day."
And he can always remember when he was born again, because when we trust in Jesus Christ, we receive God's eternal life through a new, spiritual birth.
*This miraculous gift of new life is absolutely essential for salvation.
It gives us the everlasting life Jesus talked about in vs. 24-26.
Here Jesus told His accusers:
24.
"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 (or condemnation), but has passed from death into life.
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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.
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For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself."
[1] NOTICE THE MANNER OF THE MIRACLE.
*How does the miracle of regeneration happen?
Jesus gives us two keys, and the first in vs. 24 is that we must HEAR HIS WORD.
That is why it’s extremely important for us to do everything we can to spread His Word around our town, and around our world.
*Hundreds of millions of people have never heard the good news about Jesus Christ.
And hundreds of people within a short drive of our church may have heard it with their ears, but they haven’t heard it with their hearts!
We need to get God's Word out, because they need to hear!
*How does the miracle of the new birth happen?
The first key is that we must hear His Word.
And the second key is that we must believe.
As Jesus said in vs. 24, "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."
*We must believe in God the Father who loves us so much that He sent His only begotten Son to die on the cross for us.
We must put our trust in the true and living God by receiving His Son as our Lord and Savior.
[2] THAT’S THE MANNER OF THE MIRACLE.
BUT ALSO NOTICE THE MOMENT.
*Some Christians "hope" they'll live forever in Heaven, but they aren't sure.
Well, God wants us to be sure!
And His Word shows us that we can be sure we have eternal life.
*Tonight's Scripture shows us that we can be sure, because our eternal life begins the moment we believe!
Eternal life is not something we receive off in the future.
In vs. 24, Jesus said, "He who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me HAS everlasting life."
*So, if we have put our trust in the True and Living God, if we have believed in Him, then we already have everlasting life!
We have already passed from death to life, because Jesus gave us the miracle of regeneration.
2. BELIEVERS: JESUS HAS GIVEN US THE MIRACLE OF REGENERATION.
HE HAS ALSO GIVEN US THE MIRACLE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
*True righteousness before God is a miracle from God!
*In vs. 26-30, Jesus again stressed His role as the Judge of all the earth.
And the Lord tells us that God the Father:
27. . .
has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.
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Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice
29. and come forth those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
30.
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."
*Now, if we take verse 29 out of context, it seems as if good works can get you to Heaven, but that is absolutely not the case.
William MacDonald explained that "verse 29 does not teach that people who have done good will be saved because of their good deeds, and those who have done evil will be condemned because of their wicked lives.
*A person is not saved by doing good, but he does good because he has been saved.
Good works are not the root of salvation but rather the fruit.
They are not the cause, but the effect.
The expression those who have done evil describes those who have never put their faith and trust in the Lord Jesus, and consequently whose lives have been evil in the sight of God.
These will be raised to stand before God and to be sentenced to eternal doom.
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*No one has ever been saved because of their good works.
And we are sure of this fact because of Scriptures like Romans 3:9-10.
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