KP – Key Point

John 5:24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

Christ had just healed a man that had been paralyzed for almost 40 years, then disappeared into the crowd. The man did not know who had healed him, but he was able to pick up his bed and walk. The Jews recognized him, and the only thing they could say to him was to scold him for breaking the Sabbath law of carrying his bed. Almost comically he replied to them “well they guy who healed me told me to carry my bed so I listened to him.” John 5:14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.” Christ warned him to not continue to live in sin.

The scriptures that follow in John 5 are where Christ is claiming His Deity as the Son of God to the Jews. The Jews not only don’t believe Him, but begin to plot to kill Him for these claims. Do you believe? Do you believe that God sent His only Son to earth; to walk the earth in human form, and die as a perfect sacrifice for your sin? There is not a separation between belief in God and the denial of Christ that will allow the gates of heaven to open for you. John 5:26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, 27 and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. You cannot have one without the other. That is a false teaching that you will suffer for an eternity for.

Christ was speaking to His disciples at the Last Supper and He told them. John 14:1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.” 5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” You must believe that God sent His Son to die for you. Acceptance and repentance are the keys to eternity you hold in your humble heart. Without the acceptance of His sacrifice and the repentance of your sins, the doors will be locked. You cannot worship God all your life and deny what He provided for you. But once you realize and accept it, you are eternally guaranteed it.