New Believer's Bible Sample - Flipbook - Page 50
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F I R S T
S T E P S
How to see change
in your life
read JOHN 5:5-9
Where are you in life? Do you need a
change spiritually? Jesus asked the lame
man, “Would you like to get well?” In other
words, “Are you willing to place yourself,
just as you are, in my hands? Are you ready
for me to do for you what you cannot do
for yourself?”
The man’s first response was to offer all
the reasons that he couldn’t be healed. But
Jesus stepped right past his excuses and
told him to stand up and walk!
So long as you focus on working things
out on your own, you’ll never get anywhere.
But if you are willing to make a break with
the past and follow Jesus, then you will see
things happen in your life that you never
thought possible.
For the next note on “Obey God” turn to page 1018.
19 So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth,
the Son can do nothing by himself. He does
only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever
the Father does, the Son also does. 20 For the
Father loves the Son and shows him every
thing he is doing. In fact, the Father will
show him how to do even greater works than
healing this man. Then you will truly be astonished. 21 For just as the Father gives life
to those he raises from the dead, so the Son
gives life to anyone he wants. 22 In addition,
the Father judges no one. Instead, he has
given the Son absolute authority to judge,
23 so that everyone will honor the Son, just as
they honor the Father. Anyone who does not
honor the Son is certainly not honoring the
Father who sent him.
24 “I tell you the truth, those who listen
to my message and believe in God who sent
me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already
passed from death into life.
25 “And I assure you that the time is coming, indeed it’s here now, when the dead will
hear my voice—the voice of the Son of God.
And those who listen will live. 26 The Father
has life in himself, and he has granted that
same life-giving power to his Son. 27And he
has given him authority to judge everyone
because he is the Son of Man.* 28 Don’t be so
surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when
all the dead in their graves will hear the voice
of God’s Son, 29 and they will rise again. Those
who have done good will rise to experience
eternal life, and those who have continued in
evil will rise to experience judgment. 30 I can
do nothing on my own. I judge as God tells
me. Therefore, my judgment is just, because I
carry out the will of the one who sent me, not
my own will.
Witnesses to Jesus
I were to testify on my own behalf, my
testimony would not be valid. 32 But someone
else is also testifying about me, and I assure
you that everything he says about me is true.
33 In fact, you sent investigators to listen to
John the Baptist, and his testimony about
me was true. 34 Of course, I have no need of
human witnesses, but I say these things so
you might be saved. 35 John was like a burning and shining lamp, and you were excited
for a while about his message. 36 But I have a
greater witness than John—my teachings and
my miracles. The Father gave me these works
to accomplish, and they prove that he sent
me. 37And the Father who sent me has testified about me himself. You have never heard
his voice or seen him face to face, 38 and you
do not have his message in your hearts, because you do not believe me—the one he sent
to you.
39 “You search the Scriptures because you
think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! 40 Yet you refuse to come to
me to receive this life.
41 “Your approval means nothing to me,
42 because I know you don’t have God’s love
within you. 43 For I have come to you in my
Father’s name, and you have rejected me.
Yet if others come in their own name, you
gladly welcome them. 44 No wonder you can’t
believe! For you gladly honor each other, but
you don’t care about the honor that comes
from the one who alone is God.*
45 “Yet it isn’t I who will accuse you before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes,
Moses, in whom you put your hopes. 46 If you
really believed Moses, you would believe me,
because he wrote about me. 47 But since you
don’t believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”
31 “If
Jesus Feeds Five Thousand
After this, Jesus crossed over to the far
side of the Sea of Galilee, also known
as the Sea of Tiberias. 2 A huge crowd kept
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5:27 “Son of Man” is a title Jesus used for himself. 5:44 Some manuscripts read from the only One.
