Good Monday morning to all. I pray we continue to get comfort from His words instead of looking to others.
Jhn 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Jhn 5:41 I receive not honour from men.
Jhn 5:42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
Jhn 5:43 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.
Jhn 5:44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
Jhn 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
Jhn 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
Jhn 5:47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
- What does it mean to come to Him?
- Who is Jesus referring to in the last half of verse 43?
- How does some seek honour from others?
How these words must have bit into the very soul of the Jews. They had what they thought as true zeal for Moses and the law. They would have been ready to die for what they believed and what they thought Moses taught. But here we have the Son of God declaring these Jews did not believe Moses and provided proof of their ignorance and hypocrisy. For if they believed the writings of Moses they would have believed Christ whom He testified of. How this can show how deceitful the human heart is. "There is a way that seemeth right hereto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Prov 14:12). I say to you who ignore the scriptures and listen only to the words of others that you may not know Him. O dear reader do you believe and know all the scriptures have to say. Do you truly savenily believe on the Son of God? Do you humbly honestly know that you cannot come to him? Outside of the words you may have professed or the comfort someone else may have tried to provide where and why is your surety. How would you know you have eternal life? "Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of me" (John 5:39).
