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Jesus Christ: Our ultimate example (John 5:16-30)
Dave Sunman, 19 November 2017
Part of the The DNA of HBC series, Sunday Morning service
Our aim at Hertford Baptist Church is to lead people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. Over this term we have looked at how that is and should be worked out in our lives together. These principles and values will apply whether we are meeting together or living out the rest of our lives at work or in our homes. In the final part of this series we will focus on what a life lived in a growing relationship with Jesus Christ will look like. We will see how Jesus’ life was characterised by living in constant communication with his Father and walking in obedience to what he heard.
For us, we too must live in constant communication with God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) and must also walk in obedience. As we do this we will reflect Christ more and more in every part of our lives.
| Earlier: | Same day: | Later: |
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| « Listen to the Law | None | The Spirit Breaks Boundaries » |
John 5:16–30 (Listen)
16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. 22 For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
(ESV)