Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Thursday, January 08, 2015

John 5

After the Savior had healed on the Sabbath and testified concerning His divinity or His Father, many of the Jews wanted to kill Him.  But He provided and testified of His work as the Savior responded -

"...Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth..."  (New Testament | John 5:19 - 20)

In my mind,  the word "do" suggests desire and will.  Thus the Savior can only do the Father's will. Because the Savior will only do the will of Father, we learn that the Father has delegated all matters concerning judgment to His Son  -

"For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son..."  (New Testament | John 5:21 - 22)

"Quickeneth" suggests to me more than living again, but sufficient power to qualify one for eternal life or exaltation.  This is evidenced by the fact that all -

"...shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."  (New Testament | John 5:29)

Therefore -

"...all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
24 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..."  (New Testament | John 5:23 - 24)

One more point.  We know that the Savior said that concerning His own life -

"...I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again."  (New Testament | John 10:18)

Thus as He taught the Jews -

"For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself..."  (New Testament | John 5:26)