The Gospel According To John
by Richard St.James
The Son Shall Make You Free
Bible 1611.Com / Old Paths Bible Ministries © 2008John 8:28 “Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of
man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself;
but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone;
for I do always those things that please him.
30 As he spake these words, many believed on him.
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue
in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to
any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever
committeth sin is the servant of sin.
35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son
abideth ever.
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my
word hath no place in you.
38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which
ye have seen with your father.
39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith
unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of
Abraham.
40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which
I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born
of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he
sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my
word.”
1. The Lifting Up
2. The Truth Shall Make You Free
3. The Servant of Sin
4. The Deeds of Your Father
1. The Lifting Up
The whole earth, and all that lived and breathed right up until 33 AD, were waiting for the deliverance “from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.” [Romans 8:21-22] Which brings us to our text, here, in John chapter eight: verse twenty-eight: “Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.”Jesus Christ was to be lifted up in similitude to what is recorded in the book of Numbers in chapter twenty-one. Remember, it was in the wilderness when the people of God [Israel] sinned, and were bitten of poisonous serpents in the judgment of God. There was remedy provided in the mercy of God. It was a brazen fiery serpent which was set upon a pole, and all one had to do, was look upon it, and they would live. “When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he,” points to the Cross of Calvary where the LORD would be lifted up on a pole to die for the sins of all men, for the whole world, for you and me. Amen!
2. The Truth Shall Make You Free
Verse thirty-two: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” There is something so very hard to come by these days. It is THE TRUTH. There is a drought in the land TODAY for the lack of truth. What abound are the lies. Where is TRUTH? What is TRUTH? This was the question of Pilate had as he judged Jesus Christ two thousand years ago. In [John 18:38a]: “Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?” Good question, there is so much outright deception and lies taking place that one can be said … to be in total darkness with no hope of escape. It is a SEA of LIES out there! Now this old world will tell it to you otherwise. They will sell you lie. They will tell you that are you are free when in reality you are in bondage. They are the ones who are captives themselves, and are the very PRISONERS in a prison. [2 Peter 2:19] “While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.”3. The Servant of Sin
Verse thirty-four: “Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.” [You know what my friend that is our sad state and story?] Our flesh is so tied to trespasses and sin that we can not help but sin. It is in our very nature to sin ... from day one.From the very day that Adam and Eve SINNED [which thing occurred almost six thousand years ago] by their disobedience to the commandment God, they turned over the deed of the world, [so to speak] to the DEVIL, and became the SERVANTS of SIN. Therefore, we all suffer. We all come into [born] this world ... in our natural state as SINNERS. This shouldn’t shock you. It is just plain common sense that all is not well in this world. Come on now! Look at the blackness of our own heart. It is BLACK! Here is God’s commentary on the thing. We are all REBELS from HIM! GOD says our HEARTS are desperately wicked. You say, God wouldn’t say that about me. Oh yes HE would. I am telling you ... based on the OLD BLACK BOOK that it [THE HEART] is blacker than the Ace of Spades. Amen! [Jeremiah 17:9] “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Well … I say, the PROOF is in the pudding!
Now, turn to the book of [Ephesians 2:1-3] and see how the Apostle Paul by the Holy Spirit describes our STATE before we get “quickened.”
“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”
4. The Deeds Of Your Father
Verse forty-one: “Ye do the deeds of your father.” By nature we are children of wrath! Now just whose child does that make us to be? Who is our father? You say to me, God is our father. Now, do you know why you say that? It is your Adamic sinful SELF not wanting to take a HIT where it hurts. [It is a pride problem] Do not get defensive. Didn’t the BOOK say we have DESPERATELY wicked hearts? Do you BELIEVE the Bible?Now, that is exactly the answer the Jews gave Jesus in HIS day. “Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.” They were blind men! They could not see the TRUTH about themselves. The Truth is … that The Devil was their father. Further, the Truth is ... that all men come into the world having the Devil as their father.
I’ll never forget HOW the Holy Ghost reproved me [thirty-four years ago] of sin and of righteousness, in order to prepare my heart so that I could see myself as HE saw me … as the wicked sinner I was before Jesus Christ saved me from the wrath of God by the new birth that is described in John chapter three.
“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” [John 3:5-7]
This is the FORMULA whereby we must be saved if are to go to heaven. Amen!
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The Gospel According To John
John 8:1 Jesus went unto
the mount of Olives.
John 8:2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and
all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
John 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman
taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
John 8:4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in
adultery, in the very act.
John 8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be
stoned: but what sayest thou?
John 8:6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to
accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the
ground, as though he heard them not.
John 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself,
and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first
cast a stone at her.
John 8:8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
John 8:9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own
conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto
the last: and Jesus
was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
John 8:10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the
woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath
no man condemned
thee?
John 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither
do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them,
saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 8:13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record
of thyself; thy record is not true.
John 8:14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of
myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither
I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
John 8:15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
John 8:16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not
alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
John 8:17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two
men is true.
John 8:18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that
sent me beareth witness of me.
John 8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus
answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye
should have known my
Father also.
John 8:20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in
the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet
come.
John 8:21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall
seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
John 8:22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith,
Whither I go, ye cannot come.
John 8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from
above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins:
for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
John 8:25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith
unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
John 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that
sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have
heard of him.
John 8:27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,
When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am
he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my
Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left
me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
John 8:30 As he spake these words, many believed on him.
John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye
continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free.
John 8:33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in
bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
John 8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the
Son abideth ever.
John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free
indeed.
John 8:37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me,
because my word hath no place in you.
John 8:38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do
that which ye have seen with your father.
John 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father.
Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do
the works of Abraham.
John 8:40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the
truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
John 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We
be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
John 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would
love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of
myself, but he sent
me.
John 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot
hear my word.
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your
father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode
not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh
a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of
it.
John 8:45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
John 8:46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth,
why do ye not believe me?
John 8:47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear
them not, because ye are not of God.
John 8:48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well
that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
John 8:49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my
Father, and ye do dishonour me.
John 8:50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh
and judgeth.
John 8:51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying,
he shall never see death.
John 8:52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a
devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man
keep my saying,
he shall never taste of death.
John 8:53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead?
and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
John 8:54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing:
it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your
God:
John 8:55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should
say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know
him, and keep his saying.
John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it,
and was glad.
John 8:57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years
old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Before Abraham was, I am.
John 8:59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid
himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of
them, and so passed by.