Jesus came to earth to give those who believe in him a new spirit and free them from their sin. He went to the cross and took the wrath of God which was due all mankind as a result of our sins.
In the following passages, the disciple John tells us some key points about Jesus.
- Jesus broke the Sabbath and Jesus who is God became man. He is fully man and fully God. The Apostle Paul would later make it clear we are not bound by Sabbaths. Colossians 2:16
- While Jesus walked the earth as a human man, he did not use his divine powers. Philipians 2:6. Jesus went through everything as a man, even though he was God.
- He was tempted in every way as we are, but he did not sin.
- Jesus and the Father are one. If you love one of them you love the Father. If you do not love one of them, you do not love the other. Jesus boldly said "if you have seen me, you have seen the Father". John 14:9
John 5 ISV
17But Jesusi answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working.” 18So the Jewish leadersj were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.
19Jesus told them, “Truly, I tell all of youk emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.
- 20The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him even greater actions than these, so that you may be amazed.
- 21Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he chooses.
- 22The Father judges no one, but has given all authority to judge to the Son, 23so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
24“Truly, I tell all of youl emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.
- 25Truly, I tell all of youm emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.
- 26Just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself, 27and he has given him authority to judge, because he is the Son of Man.
- 28Don’t be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man’sn voice 29and will come out—those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads too life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends inp condemnation.q
- 30I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.”
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