12/28/2020 – Day 225 – John 5 – 6 // Not Just a King, but THE KING
The man healed in the pool of Bethesda – My footnote on 5:14 is really sublime:
“We once lay as feeble, fragile and frail folk, helpless and hopeless, pathetically paralyzed by the devil – ‘taken captive by him to do his will (2 Timothy 2:26) – until Jesus spoke a word to us. We were on a deathbed of sin with no one able to help us, but we heard the voice of the Word of God saying, ‘Arise from the dead and Christ will give you light” (Ephesians 5:14)
Now a thankful heart for the unspeakable gift makes us want to be always in the presense of God. Unlike the healed man, however, we need not go to the tmeple to thank the Father, for He now abides in the heart of the believer. The work of Calvary has made the believer the temple of the Living God. (see Corinthians 6:16)
Jesus was either God in human form, or he was a nut case at best. But you can’t call him a great prophet. Check out 5:22- 23 as just short excerpt which runs in this chapter from verses 17 through 29: “For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
Somewhat related : Jesus said a prophet was never accepted in his hometown, much less so for the Messiah, the Son of God obviously. Look at 6:42: “Ane they said, “Is not the Jesus , the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, I have come down from heaven?”
With the people observing miraculous miracles, check out an amazing sentence – John 6:15: “Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone.” So the Roman authorities and the Jewish elite, Herod and the Sanhedrin, had reason to be concerned…
Blessings!