Our final one of these examples. Working on this and sending this out today (Sunday) reminds me of the our first example this week. This began in the cry to persecute Jesus for healing on the Sabbath. Though we are to keep the Sabbath holy does that excuse us from acts of love, does it preclude us from being instruments of Him and spreading the message of grace. I pray God touches these last words and we take this and the others that proceeded it and exalt Him as our single Lord with all authority.
Jhn 5:27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
Jhn 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Jhn 5:29 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.
- What hour is coming or came?
- Scriptural reference ( Mat 28:18, John 17:1-2, Acts 2:36, Phil 2:5-11).
One of, if not the prominent underlying purpose of this gospel is to declare that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that in believing ye might know you have eternal life through His name and deed (John 20:31). There is a strong reoccurring theme throughout the Book of John of the Devine deity of Christ. This and previous are some of the more prominent examples. We have examined a seven-fold proof of the deity of Christ as we study verse 17 through 29. We will look as the Lord sets before the Jews and for all that read here an absolute equality and oneness with His Father and I have a personal hope that we may believe and have eternal life.
Finally, or seventh, in power. In judicial power and all authority He is absolutely one with the Father. The Father has appointed Jesus to have all judicial power and authority ‘because He is the Son of man’. It was because the Son of God became flesh and walked as man and ultimately was despised, rejected, and crucified. And with that single holy act He showed His mercy and judgment, for all that were given to Him were saved unto everlasting life and all others condemned unto eternal damnation. It is with this that He had the authority to execute judgment; it is with this that ‘it is finished’. And the hour still comes when all dead and living will bow their knee to Him and confess that He is Lord.
