The Word Takes Effect INSTANTLY...John 5

What I'm about to share with you about the Word of God, applies to YOUR spoken word also:

• your words have power to create or destroy (Remember Solomon teaches us that 'death and life are in the power of the tongue...)
  
  
• the effects of your words are INSTANT, whether or not you see the effect instantly. It's all about the vibes you set in motion when you speak, see.

Several places in the Bible we're shown this fact graphically, to send the message home. This story in the first part of John 5 illustrates it well. I'll share the relevant 'punch line' verse with you below, but go read the entire chapter here: John 5.

The Immediate Impact of The Spoken Word

• Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked...

Know Who You Are...

• And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
  
  
• Jesus knew exactly who He was, and was not afraid or ashamed to say it. He also made no apologies about the fact He's God's Son. When you become a child of God, it means you become made of the same 'stuff' He's made of.
  
  
• If you could only grasp the enormity of the previous sentence, your very life could be transformed.
  
  
• The problem is that a lot of Christians suffer from 'spiritual psychosis' where they believe the wrong things about themselves, and act accordingly.
  
  
• When you know who you are, it doesn't matter what others think about you - you do what you're meant to do as God's child; religious folks may not like it, but that's their problem.

All Men Should Honour The Son as They Do The Father

• Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
  
  For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

  For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

  For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

  That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him
  
  
• People claim to honour God. However if you do not honour Jesus Christ you are not honouring God.
  
  
• If you (think you) honour God, yet you're not honouring Jesus Christ, you're not honouring God and are kidding yourself.
  

How To Pass From Death To Life

• Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

• It really is not rocket science, nor is it as complicated as some people would have you think: to pass from death to life, all you need to do is to hear the word of Christ and believe in God as revealed by Jesus Christ. So really, death or life are down to your personal CHOICE.
  
  
• What is dead in your life? Which area of your life do you wish to see pass from death to life? Find out what God says about it, and believe it.
  

• Know who You are.

The Dead Are Rising Now

• Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

  For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

  And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

  Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

  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.

• Jesus is talking about 2 types of resurrection - a spiritual one taking place NOW (people are hearing God's word and CHOOSING to believe it, so are being transformed from spiritually dead to spiritually alive). Also a physical one which is yet to happen (a literal resurrection which will happen when the dead in the graves will hear His voice and rise to judgement.

Third Party Credibility (and what a Third Party!)

• I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

  If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

  There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

• But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

  And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

How He Abides In You...

• And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
  
  
• This means that if you believe in Jesus Christ, then in effect you've got God's Word living in you...and as you'll learn later on, if you live in Him and His Word lives in you, you can ask for anything you desire, and you'll have it!

It's All About Jesus Christ

• Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

  And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

• For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
  
  
• At the time He said this, the people only had the 'Old Testament' as 'Scriptures', and Jesus here is telling them that those Scriptures were talking about Him! That oughta make you read the Word with a different perspective right there.
  
  
• Jesus is still extending His invitation to you - 'come to me...' Will you accept or reject it?

Honour From Man or From God?

• I receive not honour from men.

  But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

  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.

  How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

• "If another comes in his own name, him will ye receive" - Same today as back in the day: today the world has received Jesus's message - not as coming from Jesus, but as coming from 'the universe', 'the ether', 'the cosmos', everything but the true Source of all wisdom and knowledge.
  
  
• Men don't honour Jesus Christ as the rightful Source of 'The Secret'...they honour one another. So of course they can't believe in Him. Rather they choose to believe the faceless god of metaphysics.
  
  
• Never mind, the dead are rising, and the dead WILL rise.

Question is, will YOU rise to glory or to condemnation?


Whether or not you believe it, this stuff is true. So you'd be wise to secure your salvation while there's time to do so.


Have a fantastic day.


Blessings to ya.