Hear the Son of God: Resurrection, Life, and Judgment

``In other words, you are now experiencing the reality of resurrection living as God has made you spiritually new. You're raised. You're no longer dead. So don't live as dead people do. We live today by the Holy Spirit. We've been renewed. We've been sealed by the spirit to live in such a way that we can praise God and honor him with our lives. [01:02:51] (34 seconds)  #ResurrectedLife

That the father gave life to the son means that the father delegated life giving to him. The son gives life to others because the father has given the son authority to give life to others. Humanity then must receive their life from Jesus because he is the source of life. And I'm talking about all of humanity, not just spiritual humanity, not just those who find true life in Jesus, but every breath that every person draws is a gift from Jesus. [01:05:25] (37 seconds)  #LifeFromJesus

And I made the comment in observing the text, a few weeks ago that one of the things that Jesus declared that we learn is that the father loves the son. And I shared with you that the father and son are equal in knowing each other based on that love. It was at that point I made this statement that at the heart of redemption is God's love. The father's love for the son and the son's love for the father. And the point that I made in saying that is that at the heart of redemption is not God's love only for us, but primarily the love that the father has for the son. [00:40:31] (44 seconds)  #FatherLovesSon

But I do grieve that the object of his faith at face value seems to be a calculation to cover his basis. These truths are confirmed for us in John five. We continue in our look in this gospel with assurance that the one who is speaking is God himself. And as such, Jesus declares for us that what he says about those who hear his voice will live. And so what Jesus says here in John five forms the basis of our hope as people who are given eternal life. [00:52:52] (45 seconds)  #HearHisVoiceLive

And what he argued is if that God exists and you believe in God, you receive eternal happiness. But if you believe in God and God does not exist, nothing happens. But if you don't believe in God and God exists, you face eternal damnation. And if you don't believe in God and God does not exist, nothing happens. So he argued that to hedge your bets and to be in the safest place, put yourself in the first quadrant in the upper left side. [00:48:31] (43 seconds)  #PascalsWager

And so we, in the faith, go be with Jesus, and we may receive a temporary heavenly body during that time. But there is a coming time when our bodies will come out of the grave, and you might say, well, there's some people that have been in the grave for two thousand years. What is left? Well, it doesn't matter because what is left and comes up to meet what comes down in their spirit, Paul says in first Thessalonians four, they are gloriously transformed, and they receive a new body. [00:58:21] (38 seconds)  #RaisedAndTransformed

Now the first phrase is, when Jesus says, an hour is coming. An hour is coming. This looks down the corridor of time to a coming hour. This is an appointed time when believers will receive the fullness of their abundant life as they are resurrected. And what do I mean by resurrection? We will be raised from the grave. There is a coming appointed God ordained time that the scriptures tell us in first chapter four where the dead in Christ will be raised from the ground. [00:56:50] (45 seconds)  #HourIsComing

This verse explains how Christ is able to give life, resurrected life. Jesus is self existent. He is from everlasting to everlasting. He is, as Revelation one eight says, the alpha and the omega. Now the alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. And it's really a literary device. It's a term that Jesus used to describe himself to explain that Jesus is at the beginning and at the end, and he's all of it. Jesus is saying he is the beginning. [01:04:39] (46 seconds)  #AlphaOmega