Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis, and this is Dialin.

The passage of scripture we're going to be looking at today

takes us into deep theological waters,

but those deep truths are at the very core of our Christian faith,

and so they're important to understand.

Today we're in John chapter 5, verses 18 through 30.

These are the words of God.

Let's view them as such and dial in.

John chapter 5 versus 18 through 30. This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him.

Because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own father, making himself equal with God. So Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, the son can do nothing

of his own accord, but only what he sees the father doing. For whatever the father does, that the

son does likewise. For the father loves the son and shows him all that he himself is doing,

and greater works than these will he show him all that he himself is doing, and greater works

than these will he show him so that you may marvel.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom

he will.

For the Father judges no one, but is given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor

the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor

the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my

word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed

from death to life. Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear

the voice of the Son of God and those who here will live. For as the Father has life in himself,

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