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[translations by google translate] [sound of shofar] [jacob] welcome everybody to tsiyon tabernacle.we have a word for you today, and now here is eliyahu ben david [recorded live from: tsiyon tabernacle ofgreater austin texas] [a message by: eliyahu ben david] [honor the son] [voice of eliyahu ben david] we are goingto continue on our discussion of john chapter 5 this week.

we are going to consider whatit means to honor the son. in the first part of john chapter 5, it contains the ratheramazing story of a man who had been disabled for thirty-eight years and it tells us howon the sabbath, yeshua messiah healed him but not only healed him, but commanded him to carry his bed all over jerusalem, which of course caused many of the religious people, especially the religious leaders, to be very upset because you do not carry your bed allover jerusalem on the sabbath.' yeshua did that on purpose, that is what we found, because he was actually challenging the religious

ideas of what the sabbath was about. we are going to pick up the story about his confrontation with the jewish religious leaders over thisevent. here in the book of yochanan, john chapter 5 verse 16 and 17. let us read that. it says "for this cause the judeans persecuted yeshua, and sought to kill him, because hedid these things on the sabbath.

but yeshua answered them, "my father is still working,so i am working too." this is the first time in the narrative that the religious leaders began to plan the murder of yeshua messiah. this was all just too much for them to beable to handle. yeshua says, 'my father is still working, so i am working too.' this certainly seemed like a heretical comment to them. he says "for this cause thereforethe judeans sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath, butalso called god his own father, making himself equal with god." now this is a very interesting comment.

many people believe that what this comment is referring to is a jewish belief that only the father in the bible is god and for god to have a son, who is god, is thereforeimpossible. in fact there are some religious sects today, some christian sects, even somemessianic sects, that have this same idea. many of them believe that messiah is therefore not in any sense god. that he is perhaps an incarnated angel, such as michael the archangel.

butat any rate, a creature who has a beginning and, who like every other creature, is subjectto god for his life. it is an interesting question though, to think 'is this what the jews in the day of yeshua, actually believed about god?' you would get that impressionfrom a great deal that you might read. however, what many people do not know is that whenwe look at the historical documents of the jews, what we find is rather shocking in comparisonwith this idea because in this book, targum isaiah, we have an english translation of

one of the targums that was written by jonathan ben uzziel and the targums were written aboutthirty years before the birth of messiah and what the targums do, is they translate theparticular book of the bible that they are about, into aramaic. but rather than doinga word for word translation, they give a paraphrase of the texts. so this adds to the text whatthe translator thought that the text meant. this is very helpful for us because when youread the targums you find out

what the jews of that day actually believed about thoseparticular verses in scripture. for example in targum isaiah in chapter 9 verse 6, hereis the english translation of that targum. "unto us a child is born, unto us a son isgiven, and he has taken the law upon himself to keep it. his name is called from eternity, wonderful, the mighty god who liveth to eternity, the messiah." well when you read that, thereis no doubt

that it is calling the messiah god. interestingly in our version of the targum, we also include the text of the jewish publication society of 1917 so that you can look at a jewish bible of today and see how it translates the same verse from isaiah. if you look there,rather than saying that his name is the mighty god who liveth to eternity, it says his nameis called 'pele-joez-el-gibbor-abiad-sar-shalom' how many people reading an english translationwould know what that means?

apparently they do not want to tell you what it means. so the whole point that i am making here is, that when we read this particular text, weneed to read it from the point of view of knowing what the jews in that day believedabout this topic. you see, they were in perfect agreement with yeshua about this topic so far as this issue of a divine messiah was concerned. they also believed in a divine messiah. there is only one thing they disagreed, with yeshua, on regarding that and that isthat he is the divine messiah and the son of god.

here is an interesting passage and they certainly knew about this, this is proverbs 30 verse 4, it says "who has ascended up intoheaven, and descended? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in his garment? who has established all the ends of the earth? what is his name and what is his son's name, if you know?" so, clearly in the scriptures that the jews of yeshua's day already had, it points out to us

that god, or elohim, is more complex than thisidea of just the father being god. even their response here in these verses somewhat tellsus that because it says that they were angry at him because he called god his father, making himself equal with god. you see it was a teaching they had already, that the son of god was therefore equal with god the father. they already knew that and that is indeed what he was claiming. now this is how he answered that objection, john 5:19. "yeshua thereforeanswered them, most certainly, i tell you,

the son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the father doing. for whatever things he does, these the son also does likewise." when he says here 'most assuredly,' some bibles translate that in such a way that he is answering them, in other words they are saying that he called god his father, making himself equal to god and he says 'most assuredly'. he is claiming, that that is right. that is in fact what he is saying. he is the son of god and that makes him equal with god, that makes him god. now, that raises a lot of questions,

this issue about how this all works has confused people for hundreds of years and still does today, it divides people, doctrinally. it is a very big issue. but, however we explain it, the fact is yeshua messiah was sayingit was true, he was claiming to be the son of god and that made him equal to god.

he explains it by saying, 'whatever he sees the father doing, that is what he does too'. well he is telling us about things that no one else could tell us about, until he came, nobody knew how that worked. nobody could see inside that relationship between the father and the son and know how that works. but he is telling us how it works, whatever his father is doing he is doing. he sees his father doing it, and he does it. he explains it this way "for the father has affection for the son,

and shows him all things that he himselfdoes. he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel." well, what greater works could it possibly be, that he is talking about? when he says 'greater works than these' what works is he talking about? well he is talking about the miracles that have been going on in the book of john. he is saying that, the father is going to do greater works than those miracles. he tells us what they are. he says "for as the father raises thedead and gives them life, even so the son

also gives life to whom he desires." no one but god could do that, nobody can give life to any whom they choose. you know modern science can resuscitate someone who is considered medically dead, in that they have stopped breathing, however they have a narrow time window because if the cells of that persons body have died, then it becomes impossible for them to be able to resuscitate the person.

so this technically is not resurrection. yeshua messiah raised lazarus after he had been dead for four days. after four days, the cells of your body are in fact breaking down and there is no doctor, no hospital, there is no technology in the world that can restore a person to life, thathas been dead four days. yeshua messiah did that 2,000 years ago. nothing can explain that, except that he has the power of god

and he is saying that he also has the choice of god. that just as his father can choose to give life to someone, he can choose that. who can choose life and death for someone except god? well he makes some more rather amazing comments. let us go to verse 22 and 23. he says "for the father judges no one,but he has given all judgment to the son, that all may honor the son, even as they honor the father. he who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him."

well this is an amazing comment and it is an absolute claim to divinity. those jewish religious leaders to whom yeshua was talking, as part of the nation of israel, were in covenantwith yhwh they knew what the commandments were. 'you must worship no other god besides me.' yeshua is saying 'you must honor the son just as you honor the father.' that would be a contradiction of the commandment,

if yeshua was not god. it also says "he who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him." when the father sent his only son to the earth, to speak in his name, he expected that we would listen. to turn our ear away from his son

is to turn our ear away from him. could any of us possibly afford to do that? so we must honor the son just as we honor the father. this is a very hard verse for people who have not had the revelation that it takes to truly see that yeshua messiah, while being a distinct person from his father, is still god, sharing the same divinity withhis father. it is a key turning point for a person like that.

if that is you, if youhave not sorted out this issue yet, i would like to, in a friendly way, challenge youto consider this particular verse "that all may honor the son, even as they honor the father" and to take that verse before the father in prayer and ask him to help you get a grasp on what that verse really means. because real faith does not come just from knowing what the scriptures say. real faith comes from knowing the one that gave us those scriptures

and he can answer those questions. well, what about this thing about 'the father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the son' is this not evidence that the son isdivine? the scriptures tell us, throughout the scriptures that it will be elohim, god,who judges the world. then here we are told it is not the father that does the judging but the son. is this not then saying that the son is also elohim? verse 24, "most certainly i tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out

of death into life." he is talking now about his father as a witness, when he says 'who believe he who sent me'. we need that witness from the father to know that yeshua is sent of him. when we know that and therefore we know that he, in fact, is elohim, sent of the father then, in believing that, now that goesbeyond just a mental assent to that doctrine, that means we actually align our life together with that truth of who he is. when we actually do that, we believe him in that way, it says that such a person has eternal life.

not that they are going to have it in the future, they have it now. to have that eternal life changes you, it changes you into a new creature that did not exist before that happened. yeshua is telling them something that they certainly had no way to comprehend. that is a certain category of person, the person that has putfaith in him and passed over into life. however his authority to judge is not limited just to those people that believe in him.

let us read the next verse. this is verse 25 and 26. "most certainly, i tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the son of god; and those who hear will live. for as the father has life in himself, even so he gave to the son also to have life in himself." let us take the latter part of the verse first.

the father has life in himself, he does not look to anyone else for life, he does not depend on eating food or some energy source for life, he is his own source of life. unending, indestructible, immortal, everlasting, life. because he hasgot that, he can give it. yeshua messiah is saying he has the same thing.

life in himself. he does not depend on anyone else for that life. his life, therefore, does not dependon the food that he eats, or some energy source, he himself is filled with that life, thateternal life and therefore he himself, like the father, can give it. and he will give it, he says. he says what will happen is that the dead will hear his voice. not only the dead that have been dead four days,

the dead that have been dead for four-thousand years, five-thousand years, all of the dead. they are going to hear his voice all the graves are going to be empty. verse 27 through 29. "he also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is the son of man. do not marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are

in the tombs will hear his voice, and willcome out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment." all of this is in the hands of the son of god,messiah. the eternal future of every person that has ever lived. they will all come out of the graves. now, realize, this is a different picture than you are going to hear in most christian churches, even among many messianic congregations or jewish synagogues. today the majority of people in the whole judeo-christian world

believe that when you die, your hopeis that 'that invisible part of you,' your soul, is going to make its way off to heaven where you are going to live in bliss in that heavenly place. that is not what yeshua believed would happen to you. what the early believers put their hope in, was resurrection. the earth was made for man, the scripture tells us. they were not looking forward to going offto heaven, they were looking forward to being resurrected on the last day. the model the scripture gives us for that is yeshua messiah himself,

when he was raised his body was actually raised from the dead and he was given a new glorified condition. he could do things that were astounding, but he could do things that were ordinary like eat fish with his disciplesand talk with them. he could totally interact as a person. what they saw happen to him, is they saw him, bodily, ascending in to heaven with the promise that he was coming back in the same way. when we see him come back, we are going to see him in his actual body

in which he was raised. he is coming here, back, to be with us, to live here in the earth, to rule the kingdom. that is what the scriptures tell us. where those who have put their faithin him, those who belong to him, will rule with him here on earth. the resurrection is our hope. well there are two resurrections.

the first resurrection is that resurrectionwhen he returns, where those who belong to him will meet him in the air and then return with him to rule in the earth. but then there is a resurrection, you can read about this in revelation chapter 20, and this is called sometimes the great white throne judgment. this is all the rest of mankind, that have ever lived.

all of them. the righteous andthe unrighteous, the good and the bad. the ones that have done good deeds, the ones that have done bad deeds, he is telling us the day is going to come where they are going to all be brought out of the tombs and he is going to sort it all out. he is going to judge them all and see to it that they get whatever judgment is appropriate to them.

just imagine yeshua messiah standing there before those religious leaders claiming thathe was going to judge the world. can you imagine? what would you think of someone who said to you, 'some day all the dead people are coming back and i am going to judge them'. that person would have to be the most deluded person in the world if not the most evil person inthe world, unless they truly were god. but, if you had seen that person

do great miracles, that no one else could do, if you had heard them tell you things from the scriptures that nobody else could tell you, would you not have to stop and test what they were saying to see if it was true? was it not the responsibility of those religious leaders to look at what he was doing, to search the scriptures, to seek out the truth, to find out whether or not what he was saying was really true?

there were a few that did that, but most of them did not. it is interesting because they expected that the messiah would return and that he would be god, and yet when he was standing right in front of them, they could not believe that this person could be the one spoken of in scripture. interesting is it not? what about you? what if in your church or your congregation, or in the sphere you move in,

someone came in the door and they started telling you things you did not know about the scriptures and they said "god sent me with this message". could you believe that? you know it is easy to believe that certain things are supposed to happen, but when they actually do happen, that is a whole different story. verse 30 "i can of myself do nothing.

as i hear, i judge, and my judgment is righteous; because i do not seek my own will, but the will of my father who sent me." in some of the commentaries about these verses, we are told that this verse is describing yeshua in his human nature. that surely god does not need to do the will of someone else. he can just do his own will. when they say this, they are essentially negatingwhat he is saying,

so i believe him instead of them. when he says that his judgment is righteous because he does not do his own will, but he does his father's will, i think he is telling us exactly how that relationship works. let me share with you how i understandthat. the father and the son share the same divine nature. that nature is personified

in what we often call the holy spirit, the ruach hakodesh. that ruach is actually the very character of god, the divine character which is something real not just a conceptor concepts. righteousness is something real. peace is something real. joy is somethingreal. all of these things that make up the divine character are something real, and that is why these things are the fruit of the holy spirit, because the holy spirit is actuallythe personified character of god.

which is shared by the father and the son. they are united in that holy spirit and they have a relationship together as father and son. within their relationship, the father is the source. it is his will. he is the one with the plan, and the son is the one who brings it into reality.

the scriptures tell us that no manhas seen god at any time and yet we have verses in the bible where people claimed to have seen elohim. they claimed to have seen yhwh. who did they see, if they did not see thefather? they saw the son, because he is the one that takes the father's plan and brings it into reality. this is why

he is called 'the word' of elohim.' he is the one that speaks it all into existence and keeps it all going, he is the active party. i have a number of sons and many times i have the plan and i tell my son what my plan is and then my son does his very best to fulfill the plan. that is how it works on the very best days.

for yhwh and his son yeshua that is how it works each and every time because there is a perfect unity, a perfect harmony. and this relationship demonstrates two principles for us that are divine principles, that are eternal principles that were never created or invented

because they existed in elohim from before time began. these two principles are the principle ofheadship authority and submission. because these are both divine principles, they must both exist in the divine god. how can that happen unless you have more than one person in that god, right? how can you have authority and submission working at the same time? that does not work, so you have the father and you have the son, now the fact that the son

does the father's will, does not make him somehow inferior to his father. not in terms of nature, since they share exactly the same god nature, it would not be possible for one to be inferior to the other. so it is not about one being inferior to the other, but it is about two different principles. both of which are important and yhwh wants this for all of his sons and daughters, that we learn this. that we learn how to exercisehis authority in love as he does

and how we also learn how to submit to his authority directly from him, or from others where he delegates authority. these two things areabsolutely necessary within his creation. well this is all existent within that relationship of the father and the son and it always has been and it is always in love, you know we read a little earlier here, yeshua said "the father has affection for the son." all of this springs forth out of perfect love, one for the other. they had that, they were perfectlycontent with that forever.

if we were not here, they would still have that, they wouldjust be going on like they had forever. but at some point it was purposed to bring many sons and daughters to glory so that we can enter into that relationship, we can actually taste of that divine life. we can have that holy spirit living within us, to change us so that we can have that relationship.

that is why yeshua is talking here, in john chapter 5, telling us all about this relationship. that we can be introduced to this relationship and perhaps be drawn to it, that we would want that kind of love that we would want to be a part of. yeshua said "if i testify about myself, my witness is not valid." when people brag, they are bragging is not valid. even if they are telling the truth because if you are bragging about yourself,

no one is obligated to believe you. so yeshua was saying that he had other witnesses, he mentions the father as a witness. in verse 32 he mentions another witness, he says "it is another who testifies about me. i know that the testimonywhich he testifies about me is true." he, of course, is talking about his father that testified about him.

he goes on to say, verse 33 and 34, "you have sent to yochanan," that is johnthe baptist, "and he has testified to the truth. but the testimony which i receive isnot from man. however, i say these things that you may be saved." well this is interesting because yeshua is saying that they had sent someone to john the baptist. the scriptures do tell us that they did that.

they sent someone to get a testimony from john the baptist and john the baptist said that yeshua is indeed the lamb of god, messiah. so yochanan , did testify, mightily to yeshua. they had heard that testimony but yeshua is saying 'i donot need testimony from men'.

really, does god need testimony from us? maybe he needs us to vote on him, whether he should be god or not. does he need that? why should he care what you think of him? well, here is why he cares, because he says that you may be saved. he cares because he cares about you. . that is why he provides a testimony because he cares about you. he does not need it.

but you need it, so he has provided it. verse35 and 36, continuing about yochanan, "he was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. but the testimony which i have is greaterthan that of yochanan, for the works which the father gave me to accomplish, the very works that i do,

testify about me, that the father has sent me." so it was not empty bragging was it? it was based on works that they themselves witnessed. demons cast out of people, blind people given their sight, people who had been disabled and lame all their life, being restored to their health, control over

the natural forces, taking a few fish andturning them into 5,000 fish, control over the storms in the world. who could do those things? some people today do not believe those things ever happened because they cannot believe in anything supernatural. they think it has to just be a story. but if it was just a story, why is it that the men and women that walked with him, that saw these things happen, lived their whole lives after that, in that faith

and were even willing to die to stand by thetruth of their witness? who would not believe such witnesses? i believe them, but i do not need them anymore. because i see yeshua, so i do not need those witnesses anymore. but it is a place to start. it can bring you to a place where you can cry out to him as i did one day. where i asked him to speak for me

before the father and i found out how real he really is. if you do that, you will need no other witness. you will see him, you will see him in a way that i cannot even describe to you. you will see him at work in your life, in ways that will astound you. because he is still doing miracles every day. he does not need human witnesses,

but the unsaved people do. they need human witnesses, they need you and me, they need the family of god to tell them the truth, to point them towards yeshua messiah, who is the only one that can help them. the works which he does, theseare what testify to who he is and that the father truly did send him. verse 37, "the father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. you have neither heard his voiceat any time, nor seen his form." yeshua there,

is referring them to truths they know from the targums. in the targums, it relates an aspect of the divine called 'the word of elohim'. in memra, in aramaic, the memra and whenever there is an appearance of god in scriptures, in the targums, it says 'the word of god appeared'. what they understood was,

when the word of god appeared, it was god who appeared. but not the invisible god, it was the word of god who appeared to them. it was the son of god that appeared, the memra. you know we have been making our way through the torah and we have had a number of occasions where holy men saw god

we have the occasion where jacob wrestled with the angel of yhwh. we have moses on mount sinai who sees the back of god. we have in the book of exodus, elohim comes right down onto the top of the mountain in fire and in a thick cloud to make the covenant with israel. we have other such occasions. who did these holy men see if no man has seen god at any time?

that is what yeshua is saying. they are saying the one they saw was him. now he gets very personal in verse 38. he says "you do not have his word living in you, because you do not believe him whom he sent." basically he is saying 'there is somethingwrong with you'! he is not saying 'i am okay, you are okay'. he is saying 'there is somethingwrong with you'!

if you do not believe the truth, why is that? there is something wrong with you. the thing that is wrong with you is, his word is not living in you. that can be corrected, that can be changed. his word can live in you, by the spirit. he can put his torah in your heart, by the spirit. that can be changed.

but until it does, we can have no real faith. we can have no real knowledge of who he is. we must have that happen, that his word actually lives within us and changes us so that we can believe the truth. verse 39 and 40, "you search the scriptures," they are very religious. "you search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have life;

and these are they which testify aboutme. yet you will not come to me, that you may have life." i do not think that you will ever find anybody that loves the scriptures more than i do and i am telling you the scriptures cannot give you life. reading these words is not going to give you life. it is going to point you to the one that can give you life. if you do not see those road signs,if you do not follow where they lead to, and meet the son of god and honor the son,

then, everything you learn from these scriptures, it is all going to be in vain. it is words on the page. i know what i am talking about. by the time i was thirty years old, i basicallyhad the entire thing memorized and i got so frustrated that i could not get closer togod from all that study that one day i picked up my bible and i threw it across the room and i said to god, 'i have had enough of trying to find you because no matter what i do, itis not good enough.'

only then was i ready to meet him. you got to get beyond this thingthat is in your skull. you cannot measure god, you cannot figure god out, you cannot make some kind of a sketch in your head as to who god is and expect him to meet up to that. you cannot make a list that if you follow that list, god is going to be happy with you.

all the things that you can invent in your head about god, those things are absolutely worthless to you, whether they originate from the scriptures or the quran. it does not matter. you have got to get past that thing in your head because this is all a heart transaction. i am not saying that a good mind is worthless. but in terms of this meeting with god, you know what? in terms of your mind, you have got nothing to bring

because listen, he knows everything. what do you know? what do you know, compared to him? do you really think you can come to grips with the creator of the universe by the power of your brain? get a clue! i tried that,

that is not going to work. it is a heart transaction. how do you relate to other people you love? do you have somebody in your life that you love? your child? your husband? your wife? how much of that involves your brain and how much of that involves your heart? what does it mean to know somebody? is that mostly your brain or is that mostly your heart?

you know so much of what we read in the scriptures, it is written in the way it is, sometimes it seems so mysterious, it is because our father in heaven is tryingto reach out through these words on the page to grab a hold of our heart and, like these jewish religious leaders, instead of really getting what he is doing, we just take it too literally. you know sometimes we just want to make a religion out of it

instead of really seeing what is going on, that our father really loves us, and he is trying to reach us. here in this chapter we see that about the sabbath. we see that yeshua is deliberately messing up their sabbath. well why is he doing that? is he trying just to be difficult with them? or is he trying to shake their religion, so that maybe they will look past their religion and their concept of the sabbath, so that they can enter into the real sabbath and maybe even meet him?

there is something going on in these pages that is a lot more than justthe type on the page. you know, if you open your heart to him, and you seek him and hiswisdom and then you look into these scriptures, well, you will find that there is a lot therethat will move your heart, that will help you to see who he really is. who will draw you

which will draw you into his family. then it all changes, this is not the same bible i threw across the room. not literally, and not any other way. because after i met him, i developed a new hunger for the scriptures and it was literally a brand new book to me. it is still the most exciting book that i can lay my hands on after many decades of giving my life,

not only to its study, but to the search, a quest, for the messiah, to know him, to serve him. that is why i read the book. i am not doing mental exercises trying to keep sharp in my old age. that is not it. i read this book,

i see him here and it moves me it has changed me, it is still changing me. it is going to change me tomorrow. he is here, if you just see it. if you approach the scriptures as a religious book, you will never get beyond that.

it is not a book of proof text for all your favorite doctrines either. it is also not a club to hit other people over the head with. it is definitely not a fairy tale. these are the words that testify about him, so that you can come to him and have life. have it. life. to find life.

you can have it! have it living inside of you. his life. he says to these religious leaders, verse 41, "i do not receive glory from men." what a concept. verse 42, "but i know you, that you do not have god's love in yourselves." boy is he judgmental. oh wait a minute, he is the judge!

so he has a right to be judgmental. he knows when people have love in their heart and when they do not. do you not? verse 43, "i have come in my father's name, and you do not receive me. if another comes in his own name, you willreceive him." you know who he is talking about? the anti-messiah. the agent of satan, the man of sin! they will receive him as their messiah. very clear in scripture.

they will receive him. he is going to put on a good show. how about you, will you receive him? do you know the true messiah well enough that you will not fall for that deception? do not think that it is going to be easy. verse 44, "how can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you do not seek the glory that comes from the only god?" well now we finally get to the problem.

seeking glory from one another. religion, it is a mutual admiration society. i will pretend i am doing all the right things and you can pretend you are doing all the right things, and then we can all admire one another. hypocrisy! a big lie! you know, when that is what you are into, how other people are going to perceive you, the last person you ever want to see walking through the door is the messiah!

because he is going to blow your life all to pieces and you do not want that. you want to keep your life all together just the way you want it! people who love the truth cannot stay in religion. they are looking for god. they will visit. they will go through the doors, they will go in one door and they will get thrown out the other door. a lot of us, we have beenthrough it. i always liked to say 'well i have been thrown out of better churches thanthis.' if you are a lover of truth,

you are going to have a hard time finding a place that is going to want you around for very long. do not worry though because messiah wants you. he is looking for all the people that have been looking for him, that have been thrown out everywhere. he will not throw you out. not if you are looking for the truth,because he is the truth. if you are just looking for glory

from one another though, you arejust not going to have that experience of meeting him. finally he says in verse 45 through47, "do not think that i will accuse you to the father. there is one who accuses you, even moses, on whom you have set your hope. but if you believed moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. but if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?" we study the torah every single week and we study it carefully and what we find in the torah is, it is all talking about

yeshua messiah. it is constantly pointing us forward to him, to his kingdom, and really everything related to him. the whole sacrificial system in the torah, that these religious leaders were very familiar with, that they were involved with, at the temple, it all relates to yeshua messiah. but they did not connect the dots, they were too busy keeping up their religion.

what do we find when we look at all this in john chapter 5? we see a choice. our choice is to go on in the same old way, to follow after religion, to follow after our own lives, to live in our own self-righteousness, to live by the power of our own brain, to look like we know something because we know the scriptures or really not knowing him.

or we can do what he said, we can honor the son just as we honor the father. we can draw close to the son whois revealed to us and we can have eternal life. [this has been a teaching recorded at: tsiyontabernacle] [become a member online at: tsiyon-tabernacle.org] [listen to tsiyon radio at: tsiyon.org] [join us for another message soon!] [targum isaiah reveals the divine messiahtaught by the school of hillel in the first century.

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