God’s Simple Plan of Salvation
Jesus is just enlarging, explaining, and describing more of the simple way God saves. It is always divine, always miraculous, and always so simple.
Welcome to the eighth scene where Jesus presents the Gospel. Here in John 5 the Gospel according to Jesus declares: A believer is someone who hears, believes, crosses over, and does good.
That is simple, clear, and right from Christ’s mouth. This scene brings us one-third of the way through the message of Christ in this book of John.
Remember, we got here because John captures Jesus describing in 24 different settings, those believers who will surround the Throne, We saw last time that truly saved, born-again Christians are described in the Gospel According to Jesus, as:
1. A believer who possesses Christ, and becomes God’s Child by a Supernatural event. John 1:12-13
2. A believer who understands that salvation is only by trusting in One who took my place.John 1:29
3. A believer who is overwhelmed by the Spirit of God. John 1:33
4. In John 2: A believer is saved only by hanging onto Christ alone. John 2:11Salvation is a person, and He is our substitute, and we cling to him!
5. In John 3: A believer gets to start life over again, seeing Christ as their only hope to live the truth and love the light, and have God’s wrath removed forever. John 3:3,7,15-16,18,20-21,36.
6. In John 4: A believer drinks Christ as the water of life, and finds Him the spring that never runs dry; and begins a life of worshipping Christ as our only hope. John 4:10,14,23-24,39,41-42.
7. A believer takes Christ at His Word. John 4:50,53
Jesus Christ our Savior Is also
The Final Judge (John 5:21-29)
Here at the message after the miraculous healing at the Pools of Bethesda, Jesus, who gently presents His wide-open arms of salvation, is also the Judge who speaks with a voice that can be heard even by those in the Grave. That is an amazing voice!