The Text, verse by verse …

18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”

As I studied for this lesson one commentator called Jesus’ Resurrection … “THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT REALITY THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED IN WORLD HISTORY!” Jesus in Verse 19 declared … “Because I live, ye shall live also.”

Paul in Colossians 3:4 said of our Lord … “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” Jesus, through His Resurrection, IS our life!

In verse 20 we notice faith. In verse 21 we notice love. Faith must precede love. Faith produces love. Because, according to Romans chapter 5, at the point of our justification we experience this little miracle: “The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” “Shed abroad” means “to gush out,” Romans 5:5. (In Galatians 5:6 Paul the Apostle actually mentions “faith which worketh by love.”

Wow!

In John’s Gospel, judgment is not just a future event. But an ongoing condition for the man or woman who will not believe in Jesus! Look …

“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” John 3:36, God’s Wrath!

“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.” John 5:24 with Jesus Himself speaking. The noun “condemnation” is “krisis,” the Greek word for “judgment!”

Now as usual, I invite you to watch the video …

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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