John 5:24-47 - The Dead Will Hear
Main Idea: Choose to believe in Jesus & His salvation.
Everyone begins life spiritually dead.
God is the source of life, and we’re separated from Him
God is the Judge of all evil, and every person has done wrong
Jesus is calling you back to life.
He is the source of life, and can reconcile & transform you
He is the Judge who took your punishment & offers forgiveness
Why the spiritually dead won’t listen to Jesus.
They seek human approval, not God’s approval
They seek religious answers, not Jesus
Why you should listen to Jesus.
God the Father has given everything to Him
Witnesses of His life & ministry confirm His identity & work
His miracles prove His supernatural identity & message
The Bible records the truth of His life, death, & resurrection
Sermon Transcript (Auto-Transcribed by Apple Podcasts)
If you would, turn in your Bibles to John 5 and verses 24 through 47. John 5 and verses 24 through 47. Today, we are continuing our series Pick A Side that we began last week in John 5 through 10 with a sermon entitled, The Dead Will Hear.
As I say that, you might be going, OK, well, most often the dead don't hear.
And though I doubt many of you have often spoken perhaps at a, well, actually over the past couple of months, I've spoken at several graveside services, spoken at several funeral services, and I've never had the person like respond to anything that I
was saying, not even like an amen. I was going to crack a joke about sometimes it's like being in church, you hear nothing, but, but, but, not, not say that. Most of the time, the dead don't, they don't speak, they don't respond, they don't hear.
And while many of us don't have any interaction with actually trying to communicate with the dead, a lot of us have tried to talk to someone that just is not listening to us and is not hearing us.
I don't know if this is because I'm a male, I don't know if it's because I tend to get like hyperfixated on things, but my wife has a time of it sometimes when she's trying to get my attention and I'm working on something or I'm playing a game or I'm
watching a show or I'm listening to music and she just cannot get my attention. She has to, you know, kind of just actually like touch me or like grab my face and be like, hey, like, are you hearing me?
Whereas on the other hand, my wife, she can be playing with the kids or dealing with some of our kids' noises. She can be listening to a show going on through her earbuds. She can be cooking a meal.
And yet if I say something, she can still hear me. And it's just shocking to me that she's able to multitask in that way. How many of you would say, I'm the person that it's hard to get the attention of?
Like I can't hear anything. Okay, I see a couple of you. How many of you would say, I'm the person that like I can listen and my friend or my husband or my, you know, brother or sister, they're not listening?
Okay, I see a couple of you there. Here, we are talking about the dead hearing.
And it comes specifically from this passage of scripture of what we do at Tabernacle, is we go verse by verse through specific stories, through specific books of the Bible, because we want to see not just what does Bryon have to say, we want to hear
what does the word of God have to say. And so today we are picking up in a story that we began last Sunday. And so I just kind of want to bring you up to speed. So Jesus, if you didn't know, today is all about Jesus.
Jesus was on this earth over in the Middle East, in the land around Jerusalem, and what would now be Israel, Palestine, all of that. Jesus was there 2000 years ago.
And scripture tells us that he was the son of God, that he was God himself, become a human for reasons that we're going to go over today.
And at the beginning of John 5, we read that Jesus, he went by one of the north entrances to the temple that was there in Jerusalem at that time. And there, there was a pool called the Pool of Bethesda. There were five colonnades there.
And there were many sick people that were around that pool because they thought that if they were able to get into the pool at specific times, that they could maybe be healed of whatever their infirmity was.
And we read that there was a man that was there that he had been laying by that pool. He could not walk for 38 years. For 38 years.
Which, if you know history, if you know the story of Jesus a little bit, you would remember Jesus only lived to about 33 or 34 years of age. And so he was lame for longer than Jesus had even been alive.
Jesus, passing by this entrance, he heals this particular man. He tells him, pick up your bed and walk. And he did so through the miracle working power of God.
There was just one catch. Jesus did this on a Saturday, which for many of you, you're like, great. Saturday, you know, it's the weekend.
That's a great time to be able to walk. No, no, no, no, no. Because Jesus was a Jewish man, and the Jews then as today observe the Sabbath.
That is a day of rest. Now, this was something that God had commanded in the Old Testament. He said, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
He said, don't do any work.
Work six days of the week, but then on the seventh day, rest and trust that I am able to work on your behalf on that seventh day in ways that if you were working for seven days straight, you couldn't accomplish on your own.
However, the religious leaders of the time had twisted the meaning of Sabbath from you need to rest and trust that God is going to work to you can't even like carry your bed.
You can't, you know, pluck things off of an ear of corn without breaking the Sabbath. And Jesus healed a whole person on the Sabbath. Well, this very much upset the religious leaders.
They came to him and they said, hey, why are you working on the Sabbath? And Jesus made the claim, God is working and so I am working because I am the son of God.
And scripture tells us from that point forward, the religious leaders tried to find ways to kill Jesus because he claimed to be equal with God by being the son of God.
And Jesus kind of threw down the gauntlet and he let the religious leaders of that time know exactly who he was and what his expectations were for their life. And for you today, 2,000 years later, this passage calls out the exact same thing to us.
What God expects of you, who he is, and what his desire is for your life. In the room today, there's 3 kinds of people. First, there are those of you that know Jesus as your Savior and your Lord.
You have recognized that you are a sinner, hopelessly alienated from God because of your sin. But through the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, you have been reconciled. And you have accepted Jesus' payment for your sin.
Those of you in the room that fit in that category, you are believers in the Bible sense. Then there's some of you that are here today that intentionally choose not to believe in Jesus and accept his payment for your sin.
Whether because you believe that there is no God, that there are many gods, or that there's some way to gain God's favor or to gain eternal life outside of Jesus' work.
Maybe you're here today because a friend or a family member, your mom or your grandkid dragged you here today.
And I want you to know, I love that you're here, but I recognize that what I'm going to be saying today from the Word of God goes contrary to what you currently believe about reality.
I still ask you, pay attention and see what the Bible says to you today. There is a third type of person here today. You that don't know quite where you stand with it.
Maybe you identify some with some of the doubts or the skepticism of those that have chosen not to believe in Jesus, but you're still open to following the truth wherever it leads you.
And it's for you that Jesus spoke these words 2,000 years ago, and it's the point of the message today that I want to call you and those that are already believers in Jesus to choose to believe in Jesus and his salvation based on what Jesus said
2,000 years ago when he preached in the temple. I'm going to read through this morning's passage, and then we're going to look at four things that Jesus wants us to know from this particular passage of scripture. You can look here on the screens.
I know we've got some Pew Bibles that are in some of the chair racks in front of you. If you want to turn over to the Book of John and Chapter 5, or if you've got an app on your phone, we're going to read this together.
Jesus says, to these religious leaders who now have murderous intent towards him, he says, truly I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Truly I tell you, an hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. This is not strictly talking about those that are physically dead.
It's also talking about those that haven't yet accepted the Lord, those that the Bible describes as spiritually dead. Verse 26, for just as the father has life in himself, so also he is granted to the son to have life in himself.
God is the life-giving source, and Jesus is no different than the father. And he has granted him the right to pass judgment because he is the son of man. Here are the phrase, the son of man.
We're actually gonna be going through this in our sermon series in July, affectionately called Apocalypse in July, when we look at Daniel 7 through 12.
This is an Old Testament prophecy about the one, the Messiah, the Christ as we would know him, who is going to be the ruler of everything that God has made. This is what Jesus is claiming. He's not just saying, I am a human being.
He's saying, I am the human being, the one promised from the Old Testament. He is the son of God and the son of man. And he is the one that has the right to judge you and I today.
He says, do not be amazed at this because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come out.
Those who have done good things to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things to the resurrection of condemnation. And I want to jump in here real quick.
The good thing that God wants you to do is very clearly defined in scripture. It is to believe in the name of the only son of God and to accept what he has done on your behalf.
No thing that you could possibly do in this life would be more of a good thing, being a good choice than that.
And to reject that, to reject the sacrifice of Christ Jesus is why there is condemnation for those that have done wicked things, the wickedest thing of all, to spit in the face of God and say, your sacrifice is not good enough for me.
Jesus says this, I can do nothing on my own. I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me. Jesus says, I'm not going rogue.
I am doing exactly what God the Father has sent me to do, and I am accomplishing his will. I'm not at odds with God. I'm not going outside of the Father's will.
We are in perfect agreement and unison. He says, if I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. No one in a trial calls themself to the witness stand to testify on their own behalf.
He says, I'm not just tooting my own horn. He says, there are some other people that can verify who I am. He says, there is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.
You sent messengers to John. This would be John the Baptist, who was a preacher during the early ministry of Jesus. Says he testified to the truth.
He says, John the Baptist told you exactly who I was. We read that in John 1. Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
Jesus says, I don't receive, I don't need human testimony about me. He says, but I say these things so that you may be saved. John was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
But I have a greater testimony than John's because of the works that the Father has given me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about me that the Father has sent me.
Jesus says this, if you don't believe John the Baptist, then believe the fact that I am working miracles. Verse 37, the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You have not heard his voice at any time, and you haven't seen his form.
You don't have his word residing in you because you don't believe the one he sent. He says this, the Father testifies and he says that this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. He says, but you're not listening to God's testimony.
You're not listening to John the Baptist's testimony. Verse 39, you pour over the scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me.
These religious leaders at this time from early childhood, they had memorized the first five books of the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. As they look out across the room, you all look like very intelligent people.
I don't think any of you have memorized those first five books of the Bible. I know that because I haven't memorized those first five books of the Bible either. It's not something that we often apply ourselves to today.
But Jesus says this, you guys know the Old Testament. These men knew the 613 commands listed in the first five books of the Bible. They knew them all by heart.
And they knew what centuries of rabbis had taught about what those commandments meant, about all of the inferences, about the 43 different ways that you needed to apply, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. They knew all about the Old Testament.
He says, you pour over the scriptures because you think you have life, because you know, if you will, the Bible. He says, but the Bible is talking about me, about Jesus. He says, but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.
He says, I don't accept glory from people. I'm not looking for the accolades that come from humans. He says, but I know you, that you have no love for God, within you.
I have come in my father's name, and yet you don't accept me. Jesus was not coming to glorify himself, but to glorify the father, that people would be reconciled to God, and that they would know him personally.
He says, but I've come in my father's name, and you don't receive me. He says, but if another person, a false messiah comes through, and he tells you, hey, I am the Christ, I am the messiah, you all need to follow and listen to me.
He says, you are going to believe people like that. He says, how can you believe in God and Jesus, since you accept glory from one another, but don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
He says, do not think that I will accuse you to the father. Your accuser is Moses, the writer of those first five books of the Old Testament, on whom you have set your hope.
He says, when it comes time for your judgment day, I'm not even going to be the one that, if you will, delivers that final argument.
It's going to be Moses, the person that you trusted in because you knew all of his 613 commands, and you thought that gave you a relationship with God. He says, no, if you believed Moses, you would believe me because he wrote about me.
And that's where we read Moses, even in the Old Testament, says, there is going to come a person like me, a prophet like me, who everyone has to listen to, or he will be cut off from the people.
Jesus tells them, the last verse, but if you don't believe what he wrote, how will you believe my words? Today, we're going to look at very, very quickly, these four truths that Jesus wants us to learn from these verses.
And for those of you here today, that you've never personally put your faith and your trust in Jesus, you've never called on him for salvation, today, the call to you is to choose to believe in Jesus and his salvation. Would you pray with me?
And we'll dive into these four truths. Dear Jesus, thank you for today. God, thank you for every person that is here.
I pray that you would bless them for the time that they have come to spend, Lord, hearing from your word, Lord, to gather with your people, Lord, to hear and to sing your praises being sung.
And God, I ask that if there is someone here today that does not know you as their Savior, that today would be the day that they choose you. We love you, God, and we pray all of this in the name of our resurrected Savior, Jesus. Amen.
We're going to learn four things from this passage today. Number one, everyone begins life spiritually dead. The reason Jesus had to come to call the dead back to life is because all of us begin life spiritually dead.
Romans 3 23 tells us, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. If you're a parent in this room or a grandparent in this room, can you just raise your hand real quick and put it back down? Okay.
For you parents and grandparents, did you have to teach your kids to lie? Did you have to teach your kids how to throw a raucous fit?
I've got two toddlers and I've become increasingly convinced of this truth that the Bible said that thousands of years ago, everyone begins life alienated from God. As we talk about sin, sin is anything that we think, say or do that breaks God's law.
It's those things that are against God's character and his nature. The scripture says all of us have missed the mark when it comes to the perfection that God made us for. You see, God didn't create us with our sins and our flaws and our failures.
But right at the beginning of humanity, with Adam and Eve in the garden, God created everything very good. But he gave humanity a choice. They could choose to walk in the way of God.
They could choose life. They could choose joy. Or they could walk down the path of death, choose to reject what God had told them and try and make their own way.
And they, like we do almost every day, they chose their own way instead of God's way. And every one of us since then have continued to make that choice. And as a result, scripture tells us that we are in life spiritually dead.
We're alienated from God. Both right now in this world that we don't have the connection with God that we were made for, but then also when we die, scripture says that we are forever separated from God in a place called hell.
It's not something that God even has to intentionally be like, okay, well, I really hate you and you're good, doesn't outweigh your bad. And so I'm going to send you to hell.
No, it's the natural end result of the path that we have chosen for our own lives. If you run away from life, the only way to run is to death. And God can't operate outside of his nature.
He is good. He is just. And so he cannot justly give us life when we are walking in our own way.
First, God is the source of life, and we are separated from him. We read through this in John 1, where it says, in him, in Jesus was life, and the life was the light of men.
Because God is the source of all life, both of our life, of our universe as a whole, because God is the creator and the source of life, for us to be separated from him, to be wandering away from his path, means that not only are we dead, but we're
headed for the destruction of our own souls. And not only that, God is the judge of all evil, and every person has done wrong.
All of us would think that a judge was corrupt and evil if he did not levy out the just punishment for the wrongs that people had done. If someone murders another person, we want the judge to throw the book at that individual.
Yet, for so many of us, we want God to interact with us with simply mercy, and that he would not deal with us as our sins against an eternal, holy God. We don't want him to treat us like we deserve.
But the truth is that every person begins life spiritually dead. It's not that when you're two years old, you tell your mom, no, for the final time, and then God goes, okay, well, I guess I'm separating from you now. You know, all of us begin life.
It's how we operate our entire existence. However, God did not want to leave us in that state because of his love for us. And secondly, today, Jesus is calling you back to life.
Jesus, even as he said in the verses, he is the source of life. That just as the father has life in himself, so he is given to the son that he would have life in himself. And because Jesus is the source of life, he can reconcile and transform you.
2 Corinthians 5 says this, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away, and see the new has come.
Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.
John 3.16 says that God loved the world in this way, that he gave his one and only son, so that whoever believes in him would not perish, but would have everlasting life.
For any person that's here today, God does not want you to suffer punishment, the just punishment for your wrongdoing. He wants to save you.
He came and died on your behalf on the cross 2,000 years ago, so that if you accept what he did on your behalf, you can be forever reconciled to him, that you will never know a moment without his presence, that you would have a home forever with him
when you die, and that you would have his purpose and his mission in your life even today. Jesus is the source of life and he can reconcile and transform you.
As 1 John 1 9 says, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
For those of you in the room that are believers today, are you committed to continuing to go back to Jesus to find that reconciliation and transformation? Or are you just good with where you're at right now? Can I encourage you?
Never stop going back to the well of God's grace, to continue to go back to Jesus, to repent of your sins, to say, Jesus, today, I want to look like you. I want to talk like you. I want to act like you.
Would you please cleanse me from the ways in which I am cruel, in which I'm dishonest, in which I am not walking as you would have me to walk? This isn't just for the very beginning of our faith walk. It's all throughout the way.
Jesus wants to transform us, even as we would read in Romans 8, 28, and 29. We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose.
For those he did for know, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his dear son. God's goal for your life is that you would look and talk and act and think like Jesus.
And secondly, in Jesus calling us back to life, if he is the judge who took your punishment and offers forgiveness. You see, through our sin, Romans 6.23 says the wages, the earnings of sin is death, separation from God now and forever.
It says, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. We had to earn the wages. We earned some things through our sin, but we don't have to earn God's forgiveness.
We don't have to earn eternal life. That is a gift given by the work of Jesus Christ alone that he gives to every person that calls on him.
We earned damnation and eternal separation, yet God himself did not want us to experience justice for our crimes and gave his own life in our place. At the end of our sermons here at Tabernacle, we have a time we encourage people to respond.
However, God spoke to them during the message. That time is called an invitation.
And during that time, I want to encourage you, if you today want to choose to accept Jesus as your Lord and your Savior, you want to experience his forgiveness and his transformation and reconciliation, I want to encourage you.
I'm going to be standing right up here, next to this row of chairs with some of our other church leaders, while my wife is singing a song. And we would love to pray with you and to affirm your decision to choose Jesus and his forgiveness.
But next in the passage, we see this. Why the spiritually dead won't listen to Jesus. So at the very beginning where I mentioned the three types of people in the room today, this was how Jesus described the religious leaders at that point.
And for some of you, this will describe you right now. Why the spiritually dead won't listen to Jesus. The first of these is that they seek human approval, not God's approval.
This is what Jesus was saying. You want glory, you want identity, you want acceptance from each other, but you don't care about your relationship with God. You don't care if God accepts you or if you have recognition before the father.
You just want other people to think you're great instead of knowing that God thinks you're great because of Jesus.
Are you making your religious or your irreligious choices as a result of what would make your parents or grandparents or friends happiest rather than on what God says in his word?
Proverbs 29 says, The fear of man brings a trap, but whoever puts their trust in the Lord will be safe. The Pharisees at this time, these religious leaders, they worried about their traditions and whether Jesus was following what they said.
Many today worry about their friendships or what their family will think if they become a follower of Jesus. But can I ask you today, whose disapproval is worth your soul in eternity?
The spiritually dead won't choose to listen to Jesus because they want human approval, not God's, and they seek religious answers, not Jesus. This is what Jesus is saying. He says, you guys pour over the scriptures.
You're looking all through the Bible, looking for all of the ways in which you can tell other people to do stuff. He says, but you don't recognize that all of the Bible is talking about me. And the same is true for many people today.
They want religious answers. They don't want Jesus. Religion says, do this or give up this in order to be right with God or to earn eternal life.
Religion says, this particular action, ritual, habit, or person can give you access to spiritual fulfillment and favor. On the other hand, Jesus says that all of our good works are like filthy rags, that he doesn't desire sacrifices.
He wants your heart. He wants your love. He wants a relationship with you.
The Bible says that we are saved by faith alone in Christ alone, that we have two choices when it comes to our eternal destiny.
We can either submit to, accept the righteousness of Jesus, choosing his righteous payment for our sin debt, and acknowledging his rule over our life, or we can choose to try and establish our own goodness before God. Those are the only two options.
Accept what Jesus did, or try your best. But know this, the Bible says if you try your own path, it only leads to death. God is the source of life.
He's not a source of life, he is the source of life. And any attempt to find life outside of him literally cannot be successful. If you try religion, your best efforts, trying to do more good than bad, there is no eternal life found in you.
Eternal life is only found in Jesus. Then lastly today, why you should listen to Jesus. First, God the Father has given everything to him.
That you cannot have a relationship with God outside of a relationship with Jesus and accepting what he has done on your behalf. And if God the Father has given everything to Jesus, then shouldn't you and I also give everything to Jesus?
Now, here what I'm not saying in that. I'm not saying like, hey, just like, you know, throw your wallet into the giving box in the back on your way out today. That's not what I'm asking.
God's after a lot more than your wallet. He's after your heart. For some people, they've got no wallet.
They've got no money that they can give God. And those people are not further from God than those that give millions to charities or to churches. Our relationship with God is not based on what we can do or what we can give or how perfect we are.
Our relationship with God is strictly based on the righteousness of Jesus Christ, on His love and His character and His goodness for you and for me. Secondly, witnesses of Jesus' life and ministry confirm His identity and His work.
Here is Jesus is talking about John the Baptist. He's talking about the people that have seen Him speak and what He had done. He says, listen to these people when they are telling you who I am.
And today, we, the eyewitnesses have long since passed. We have their written record. And I'm so thankful that we have the Word of God today, that we can listen to the people that were actually there during the life of Jesus.
The Gospels were written within the lifetimes of the actual eyewitnesses of the events. And so it could have been easily debunked.
As you look over the course of the last about 150, 200 years, even in archaeology, the Bible has been proven again and again and again to be factual in everything that we can verify.
And if it's true in all of those verifiable ways, then certainly we can believe it when it tells us about eternal life or about the sacrifice of Jesus on our behalf.
Mentioned a few weeks ago, even in the late 1800s, there were individuals that they were traveling around Europe and they wanted to disprove, in particular, the Book of Acts in the Bible that talks about the various journeys that the Apostle Paul
went around Europe, planting some churches. And so, he went to go and say like, hey, look, it's obviously untrue because look at all of these little details that it got wrong.
And actually, the man that embarked on that journey ended up becoming a believer in Jesus because as he looked at what scripture said, every single city, every single place, every single distance along the way, he found to be accurate.
And can I tell you this? If it's true in everything that we can check, it's true in what we cannot check. There are 2,000 years of history to prove it on our behalf.
And third, his miracles prove his supernatural identity and message. There were dozens of false messiahs in the century before and during and after Jesus. Yet we don't know a single one of their names.
There were dozens of people that were saying, hey, I'm the promised one from the Old Testament, from the prophets, I'm the one that they were talking about. And we don't know a single one of them.
What was unique about Jesus was not his claim to be the Son of God or his claim to be the Messiah. What was different about Jesus was that he actually followed through.
That though he was killed, as all of these other false messiahs were, he rose from the dead. It's why 2,000 years later, we know the name of Jesus.
It's why there are billions of believers in Christ Jesus all across our world today, because there's something different about him, because he spoke the truth, and his miracles prove his supernatural identity and his message.
Obviously, his greatest miracle, rising from the dead. And lastly, the Bible records the truth of his life, his death, and his resurrection. Want to know if you can believe in Jesus?
The Bible is true. It's the most well-attested 2 body of writings in world history. It's the best seller of all time for a reason.
We have about 6,000 Greek manuscripts from the New Testament written in what was called Koine Greek. It was just the common Greek language of the time.
We have 6,000 extant manuscripts from the centuries following the writings, the closest of which happened within about 40 to 50 years. We have copies of the New Testament from about 40 to 50 years after they were written.
That means we have access to things so early that it's more recent to the time than even like one of my favorite books is the Lord of the Rings. We have copies of scripture more recent than even the Lord of the Rings is to us today.
And if you were to pick up the Lord of the Rings, you wouldn't be like, okay, well, you know, I don't know that this is really what JRR Tolkien wrote. We have recordings. We have writings.
We have correspondence that we can verify this really did. This really was written within this last period of time. And so it is with scripture that we have within the lifetime of the men that wrote by the time that their disciples went on.
We have extant copies of that. We can believe the word of God. It was not corrupted over time.
We have a consistent, faithful witness. Outside of Greek, we've got about 25,000 extant copies in Greek, Latin, Coptic, Aramaic, and a smattering of other languages that all attest to the validity and the truth of the word of God.
Today, everyone begins life spiritually dead.
Whoever you are, whether you have grown up in a Christian home, whether you have never stepped foot into a church before, whether you haven't stepped foot into a church in 70 years, everyone begins life spiritually dead.
But Jesus is calling you back to life. If you will hear his voice and obey and accept his payment for your sin and call on him as your Lord, he will save you.
There will be those that are spiritually dead that will choose not to listen to Jesus because they care about what people have to say versus what God has to say. But there are those that should listen to Jesus. Today, are you one of those?
Jesus has spoken through his word. He's called you to believe in him, to receive eternal life. Will you answer?
