Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Charleston,

West Virginia. So he continues, most assuredly I say to you,

he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has everlasting life and shall not come into

judgment, but has passed from death into life. So he puts a finer point on it here. If you hear my word, if you hear what I'm saying to you,

and you believe in him who sent me, right, God the Father, he's just said,

you have everlasting life.

You will not come into judgment, right?

You will not be condemned when that judgment happens,

but you'll pass from death to life.

When you die, you'll still die on this earth, but when you die,

you will pass into life, not into condemnation.

I must have been looking at him like, what are you talking about?

You know?

Well, partially. I think they understood the thrust of it

because they keep wanting to kill him.

And as I said, if it wasn't true, right?

If Jesus wasn't who he said he was, which he is, obviously.

But if he wasn't, right,

then they would be right to think it was blasphemy.

So the fact that they understand,

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