Dear Holy Father, I just thank you for this morning, and I just thank you for all the moisture that you're giving us right now, Lord. And I just pray that we'll be thankful for it and just honor you for giving us what we need so desperately right now. I thank you for this class, Lord, and for the opening of your word and the teaching from Brother Jim, Lord. I pray that you'll open our hearts and our minds, that we'll be able to soak it in and then use it for your glory. We ask this in your son Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Well, we're teaching John the fourth chapter, but like I said, you have to go backwards to go forwards. If you don't go backwards, you won't know where you are. As simple as that. You have to go back to Genesis, the 45th chapter, Genesis chapter 45 and just hold your place. Go to Genesis 45 and stay there. We're gonna start with about 38. But in the New Testament, We're in John 4, and we're talking about the Samaritans, the Samaritans. By the way, this afternoon I'm teaching the creation of the heavens and the earth from the Hebrew text. If you're interested in finding out what the Bible says about the creation, This is the time to do it. My students are doing the create doing the translations. I tell them how to do it. We read the Hebrew text and they tell me what it says. Now that's real good, but I've got some that are able to do that. But if you know a little bit of grammar, you can do it anyway. It's pretty simple. All right, so let's go to and look at the Samaritans. The Samaritans were walked. Who were these people? Brother Andy. Well, these are Ephraim and Manasseh's children. They were carried off into the Syrian captivity and they were half-breeds and brought back. Yeah, and that's how they are Jews. They are Ephraim and Manasseh. These are Joseph's children. They're not from Babylonia. These are from Assyria. These are the ones that were carried off into the Assyrian captivity and then brought back in. And this is Ephraim from Manasseh. Ephraim and Manasseh, which are Joseph's children. And Joseph is a type of Christ in so many ways. So Jesus is going to talk to these people concerning and from their own background. from their own background. Now this is very beautiful because you miss this so much if you don't know the background. He even uses the term of Joseph's title. Joseph's title in Egypt. He even uses that. Now if you don't know the Hebrew and you don't know the Egyptian, you're going to miss it. Okay? But we're going to go and look at that today. So let's go to John 4 and verse 39. And from the city many of the Samaritans believed. Now we know that when Jesus wanted the Jews, what did they do? They wanted to kill him when he announced who he was. Now these Samaritans are half-breed Assyrians and descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh, which is Joseph, okay? Let's look at this now. in him because of the word of the woman." Now, the woman went back, now this was a floozy, that went back that she was, you know, married five times and the very, you know, the American woman dream today. But she was married five times and she was a very, a woman of ill repute. Okay, but now Jesus speaks to her and according to the rabbinical law They could have stoned Jesus for talking to this woman According to the rabbinical law. We're not talking about the law of God. We're talking about their rules Their rules not God's rules the mission and the Talmud. We've got two Talmuds and one Mishnah, don't we? All right, all of them are traditions that what Jesus attacked we have a Jerusalem Talmud They had the Babylonian Talmud. They had the Mishnah and we also have the Jerusalem Talmud, which was made basically down in Tiberias of the time. Okay now They they believe because of the word of this woman and And he told me all things that I have done. And so when the Samaritans came to him, they were asking him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. Two days in Samaria. How long did he get to stay in Nazareth? When he announced his messianic credentials. They wanted to kill him right on the spot and shove him off a cliff. Okay? And many more believed because of his word, Jesus' word now. Now we go back to the book of Genesis in just a moment. And they were saying to the woman, it is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this one indeed is Zephanath-paneah, soter-kazmu. Zephanath-paneah, soter-kazmu. Zephaneth Penea, that's Egyptian. Okay. Soter Cosmo is the Greek Septuagint. Translation of the book of Genesis there. It's talking about the title of Joseph in Egypt. Okay. Now let's go back. Savior of the world. And after two days, he went forth from Galilee, and for Jesus testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. Now he was in half-breed country. These people were barely Jews at all, but they were descendants of Joseph and Manasseh. I mean, Manasseh and Ephraim. Now let's go back to Genesis 45. And let's catch up on the story that Jesus is telling to these people. Verse number 38. Now we know that Joseph was hauled off down into Egypt. He was sold into Egypt by his brothers. And they wanted to kill him. But you remember, Judah said, no, don't kill him. We'll sell him. Of course, Judah was going to give him back to his father. But when they found out that, you know, He'd been taken off. They all weeped. Then they made up the story that he was killed. And now God has taken care of him, no matter what happens. Joseph, in so many ways, is a type of Christ. And what books do the Samaritans study? What books do they study? What part of the Bible? The first five books of Pentateuch are the books of Moses only. That's what they, that's what they study. So now this was written, this book here is written by Moses. How do you say Moses in Hebrew? Moshe. What does it mean? To draw out or to rescue. Okay. Then Pharaoh said to his servants, can we find a man like this in whom we have divine spirit? Now he's going to tell them how to save Egypt. Okay. So Pharaoh said to Joseph, since God has informed you of all of this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are, and you shall be over my house, over my house, over Pharaoh's house. He's going to be the boss of Pharaoh's house, not Pharaoh, but he is. Okay. That means family too, doesn't it? You Hebrew students, family. Remember? All right? His family. And according to the command of all my people shall do homage only to in the throne I will be greater than you. That's all. Now, in all reality, right at this point, Joseph was made ruler of all of Egypt. made ruler of all of Egypt, and he brings in, into Egypt, he brings Egypt under the control of the whole world, the whole known world at that time. Remember, Egypt, there was a great drought in all the lands. How does Egypt water her crops? By the Nile. So actually, there wasn't so much drought in Nile as there was the rest, because the Nile didn't dry up. Okay, so they were still farming down there, but all the rest of the land they're completely devastated and Joseph is going to give them a 20% tax of all and basically he hands into Pharaoh's hands the deed to all of the lands in the whole world To all the lands and the whole world in that area like Jesus is going to bring in the millennial reign of Jesus. All right, and And Pharaoh said to Joseph, see, I have set you over all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh took off his signet ring. That's how you sign every legal document. You pressed that signet ring into wax or clay, and it was a legal document. He, by Joseph's signature, everything shall be done. And he put on Joseph's hand and clothed him with garments of fine linen, and put the gold necklace about his neck. And he had him ride in his second chariot, and they proclaimed before him, bow the knee. And he set him over all the land of Egypt. More favorable said to Joseph, though I am favorable, yet without your permission, no one shall raise his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt, including him. I won't do anything. unless you say so, you are the supreme ruler of Egypt. Verse number 45, now here is the, this is the key, okay, this is the key. Then Pharaoh named Joseph savior of the world, Zaphonath Paneah, and he gave him Asanath, the daughter of Potipharah, priest of On, as his wife, and Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt. Now, so these boys, Ephraim and Manasseh are half Egyptian. All right. Now when Abraham went down there, Abraham was given a daughter of Pharaoh. Remember what her name was? Hagar. Hagar was Pharaoh's daughter. She was his daughter by a concubine. That was a political marriage. Finally, Sarah forced him to cohabit with her, and she brought forth Ishmael. And what does Ishmael mean? Ishmael. God hears. God hears. God hears. He heard her prayers, all right? Of course, now, we know that Abraham had three children, or three wives, that is. He had a lot of children. But Abraham had three wives. The first child that he ever bore from a woman was a Hamite child to Hagar, which was Ishmael, which would become basically the father of the Arab races. Then the next son he had was what? Yitchik. Yitchik, which means pleasure or to laugh or whatever. And then he had more children, didn't he? By whom? Of course, Sarah was what? She was a Shemite. Now his last wife, Keturah, is who? Huh? She's a Japhethite. She's white. The Japheth, the Caucasian, that's what she is. She's white. And then he has several sons by him. And most genealogists now believe that Alexander the Great was a descendant of Abraham through Keturah. We know that the Midianites were. And Moses' wife is of what? Midianite, all right, which are Abraham as their father, with Keturah, all right, which is Japhethite. So we got all this mixed blood coming down to us today, through all of those races, all right. And Joseph went forth over all the land of Egypt. All right, now he gave him a A woman of royal lineage. By the way, only the priests of Egypt did not lose their property. Everybody else in Egypt lost their property except the priests. The priests retained their property. And Joseph was over all the priests. Now he was a priest because he was married into the priestly line. All right. Now let's go back. Well, anyway, let's go on for one more verse now Joseph was how old? 30 years old. How was G? How old was Jesus when he began his ministry 30 years old now? Do you see how Jesus is tying himself to the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh and telling them and they realized and they click in their minds that said this is Joseph and This is our type of the Messiah. Joseph, savior of the world. So Tad or Cosmo, savior of the world. Now Joseph was 30 years old when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went to all the land of Egypt. And during the seven years, the plenty of the land brought forth abundantly. And he gathered all the food these seven years. and occurred in the land of Egypt, and placed the food in cities. And he placed in every city the food from its own surrounding fields. And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure." Go back into John, the fourth chapter now. There it brings you up to what's going on there in Samaria. These boys and girls there are remembering the book of Genesis. And of course, what was the first question that the Samaritan woman, when she realized that Jesus was a great prophet, what was the first question that she asked him? Yeah, have I got the right religion? Am I okay? Am I going to church at the right place? And he told her what? No. No, you worship that which you don't understand. Salvation is of the Jews. All right. Now, these people were part Jew. Matter of fact, they're the most inbred people in the world. They have never married outside of the people to this day. Randy, have you been over there? You've been to this area there at Shechem, at Jacob's Well. I drank from Jacob's Well. I remember it was a very deep well. Yeah. I was in that area. Yeah up on Mount Gerizim they still offer sacrifices. They still worship God according to the five books of Moses and Jesus told them back then they were wrong. A lot of those follow Jesus. They were great faithful followers of Jesus. Now let's go on a little bit further. In verse number 42 let's reread it and they were saying to the woman is no longer because of what you said that we believe for we have heard for Ourselves and know that this one is indeed Zafirnath Paneer or Soterra Cosmo savior of the world and after two days he went forth there to Galilee for himself testified a prophet has no honor in his own country and So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast. For they themselves also went to the feast. Now we come to a nobleman. In verse number 46, let's look at this nobleman. What is a nobleman? Huh? What is a nobleman? Brother Mike, you got any idea what a nobleman is? He's in the ruling. He's what? Well, he's in the ruling class. a government official, high government official, usually by birth or whatever. And he came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, to Cana of Galilee. What does Cana mean? Do you have any idea? Canon? Cana? Plenty or a gift or gotten. You know, cane, it comes from the same root as cane. Okay, gotten. Cana of Galilee, where he made water wine. Now this is the first place where he performed a miracle. The first place, why did Jesus do the miracles? You have any idea why Jesus did the miracles? Why did he do the miracles? His mama told him. His mama told him. My mama told me a few things. Why did Jesus do the miracles? You remember Joanne? Why did he do it? He did it for a purpose. What was the purpose Jason Well fulfilled prophecy, but what was it doing? What was the purpose that Jesus did the miracle show? His messianic credentials. These are proving that he is the Messiah Now he's going back to Canaan and Galilee where they tried to kill him All right. This is right in that area. Okay? Well, they tried to kill him where he did turn the water into wine and there was a certain royal official and Royal fit a prince a prince whose son was sick ostinia sick weak Weak at Capernaum. What does Capernaum mean for Capernaum? Capernaum comes from kathar and the home kathar and the home Beloved covering They were proud of this place. They loved this town. This was their beloved home, okay? And when he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and was requesting, literally, he kept on begging him to come down and to heal his son, for he was at the very point of death. He was on his deathbed, this boy was. And Jesus therefore said unto him, unless you people see the signs and wonders, you simply will not believe. unless you see signs and wonders. Now, Jesus had completely proved that he was a Messiah so far. He was a prophet. He had done miracles. What kind of miracles had Jesus performed? Well, over the physical universe, he turned water into wine. Real good wine, oinos, not ganamatos tezamplou. What's ganamatos tezamplou, Roger, you remember that? Fruit of the vine, that wasn't grape juice. This was oinos, this was wine, this is aged, beautiful, wonderful wine that he turned it into. Okay, good wine. Okay. Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe. And the royal official said to him, Sir, Master, Lord, Come down before my child dies. How many of you have a child that you love? Yeah? You love your children. You don't want to see them hurt. You don't want to see them die. You don't want this to happen, but sometimes you do that. One old adage is a father and mother should never attend the funeral of their children. The children should attend the funeral of the father and the mother. It's terrible for you to see your children die. Well, this man was beside himself. This was basically, this was the heir, too. This was his firstborn son. We get that in Greek. This is the heir. All right? The wheels, the heir. It is his heir. All right? Come down, my son. My heir dies. And Jesus said to him, go your way. Your son lives. This Really good medicine people I'm gonna tell you now the Jews kept saying that he was he was a Magician that you know, where did Jesus go and was raised in the very first part of his life? Where did he where did he have to escape to? Egypt when he was down there he went down there and those Egyptians taught him all these magic potions and all these cures because if you study history now If you study history, who were the greatest doctors in the world? From what race? The Hamites. The American Indians. When Europe came to America, they had the greatest medicines in the world right here. Another place where there are great medicines, or where? China. Another place where there's great medicines, or where? Egypt. Where did they do operations? Egypt China and America they had dentists in America before Christ They were doing they were doing dentistry and brain surgeon in America and they knew what the circle was too and they had the zero here before Christ The Arabs finally invented the zero. That's where we have the Arabic symbols During the what we call the the The Muslim Renaissance yeah the Muslim Renaissance when the algebra and all that stuff was invented but they already had it over here they already had it down in Egypt how do you think they built those pyramids exactly they didn't do it by looking and guessing brother yes It could be, yeah. There was a lot of information and a lot of medicine. But the whole story here is they, the Jews, are accusing Jesus of going down there and becoming an advanced pharmacist and an advanced doctor. And that's how he's doing it. He's doing these miracles. The only reason why he ever healed anybody was to prove he was a Messiah. And he does that without doubt. And Jesus said to him, go your way for your son lives. Now this is going beyond laying hands on anybody. Beyond giving them any medicine. He's doing this from afar. He wasn't there. Okay. And Jesus spoke to him and he started off. And as he was going down, his slaves, now this man was a slave owner. This man is what we call a patron. He is a slave owner. He owns great property and everything because he is a prince. Now his bought and paid for servants, his slaves, met him saying that his heir, your first born son, your heir, he lives. So he inquired of them the hour. that he began to get better, and they said to him yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him. Most of the time, these pterosis fever, this fire that gets in people, that's when you get killed. Maryland had 103 fever here a while back from the flu and pneumonia, and I had it for 102 for six days, and then it turned into pneumonia. And that's fire. And you know what? One of my friend's dear mother died of that very flu. She was in good health and everything. She got the flu and it killed her. Killed a lot of people. That fever, the fever, this destroys your body. It makes you so weak. This boy had some kind of fever. Whatever kind of disease it could have been, a measles, it could have been rheumatic fever, it could have been whatever. But he had it. And so the father knew that it was at that hour that which Jesus said to him, your son, he lives. And he himself believed, and his whole household. He did what? Believe. I'm going to tell you something, the man was a believer before he went. He believed that Jesus could sure that boy when he went there. But now, his whole family believes, including the boy that got healed. This is his firstborn son. Right and this again is the second sign that Jesus performed when he had come out of Judah Judea into Galilee the second great miracle All right number chapter number five the healing at Bethesda Okay Metta taught a that's what it says in Greek after these things. I There kept on being a feast of the Jews, literally, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Jerusalem is up from just about everywhere, by the way. Am I right about that, Randy? It's up. There's only one place higher than Jerusalem, and that's what? The Mount of Olives. Right across the ravine there. Now, there was in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate. The Sheep Gate. What's the Sheep Gate? That's what we call Stephen's Gate, the Sheep Gate. What was brought through the Sheep Gate? The sheep, for what? The sacrifice. These were the certified sheep that were brought in there for sacrifice, okay? And there was a pool there. Now, what do you think there was a pool for? Did the Jews know anything about baptizing before Jesus came along or John the Baptist? They had ritual, yeah. They had baptismal pools all over the place. Now this was a baptismal pool where they washed sheep. They had to be clean before they were offered, because those sheep represented what? What did the sheep represent? Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world. That's what John the Baptist said, wasn't he? He's the sheep, the one sheep that takes away the sin of the world. All these sheep were a type of him. They would take them and wash them in that pool, and they'd take them in there. to be sacrificed. They had to be perfect without spotter blemish and they didn't want any dirt on them or anything else. They had to be perfect like Jesus. Now there was in Jerusalem a sheep gate, a pool, which is called in the Hebrew Bethesda, having four porches. In these lay a multitude of those who kept on being sick, kept on being ill, blind, lame, withered. What's withered? What's withered mean? You know what withered means? Anybody? Withered? What does withered mean? Atrophy. Atrophy. Paralyzation brings atrophy. And when you are paralyzed, the limb that's paralyzed atrophies. It has no muscle or anything anymore, and you can't use it. With strokes, that happens. Spinal injuries and all that, all this is all together. So these people could have had any kind of illness that would have called paralyzation. Withered. Waiting for the moving of the waters. All right, now, if you look there, What does it say about waiting for the moving of the waters? What's it got there, Brother Roger? It's not in the original text. This was something that was put in later. Okay. Waiting for the moving of the waters. Now there was a legend. There was a legend and it's in the rabbinical writings in the Mishnah and in the Talmud. There was a legend that an angel would come down and his wings would flop like that. The water would ripple. from the wings of this cherubim that was coming down. And when he would touch the waters, anybody that got in the water first would be healed. So every time any wind came along and ruffled up the waters, everybody would jump in. Wanting to be healed this was the legend now the legend is put in the text later This is not in the original But it is put in the text and right here from the end of verse 3 down to verse number 4 is part of this legend Okay, that's the legend For an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons Into the pool and stirred up the water by his wings when he was landing, you know All right And then first, after stirring up the water, the first one that stepped in was made well from whatever diseases in which he was afflicted. Now, that's the story, whether it's the truth or not. Okay, that's the story. Verse number five now. And a certain man was there. We're talking about a certain man. This is a real story. Remember, there was a certain rich man. Luke, the 16th chapter, that's a real historical event. There was a certain, there was a certain, there was a certain, a certain individual there who had been 38 years in his sickness, 38 years sick, disabled, whatever. Most of these people had to be carried there. This was a place of spiritual cleansing. This is where they washed the sheep, okay? And when Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, he said to him, do you wish to become in good shape again? Do you wish to be healed? Do you wish to be whole? And the sick man answered him. Now he brings back up this legend again. Brings up the legend, which we don't know whether it was true or not, but it's a legend, okay? I have no man to put me into the pool." Now, he must have been totally a quadriplegic. He couldn't drag himself in there at all, okay? When the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me. And Jesus said to him, what? Now, what day of the week is this? Huh? The Sabbath. Now, the Jews forbid anybody to do any doctrine on the Sabbath. Did you know that? Unless a person was absolutely dying, a doctor could not administer anything to them. And Jesus told them, you know, about that later on. He said, if a sheep falls in a ditch or a cow falls in a ditch, you take him out. You don't let him water there in this mud hole and die and drown. You pull him out on the Sabbath. He said, all I'm trying to do is, on the Sabbath, I'm trying to make these people whole to prove that I am the Messiah and the King of Israel. Not only the Messiah, but the Messiah King of Israel. Remember, he came into Jerusalem and pronounced that he was King of Israel. And Caiuthas is what it says here, and immediately, instantly. Arise, take up your pallet and walk, and instantly, He didn't have to go to physical therapy. No. He didn't have to take five drops of this medicine and another medicine tomorrow and do this and pretty soon you'll be better. Immediately a miracle. This is a great sign. Immediately the man became well, became well and took up his palate. What's a palate? stretcher that they brought him in on he took the stretcher that he had and Kept on walking or began to walk out of there Now what's going on here now? He's working on the Sabbath he's carrying a pallet so now he's subject to stoning Jesus is subject to Tony because all he is is the doctor and he's applying his trade on the Sabbath and Now this guy he tells this guy to break the Sabbath. He's a habitual Sabbath breaker in me. I Okay, the habitual Sabbath breaker. But what did Jesus say about the Sabbath? The Sabbath was made for man. Man wasn't made for the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for your health and your well-being. That was the Sabbath on that day. Verse number 10. Now let's look at the religious leaders, the religious hounds, the religious dogs. false religious system, by the way, the leaders of the false religious system, the rulers of the false religious system that was now in place, that Jesus was beginning to denounce. Therefore, the Jews kept on saying to him, I do change these words a little bit, I'm reading from the New American Standard, but I'm telling you what the Greek says, okay? Therefore, the Jews kept on saying to him who was cured, they're interrogating him. They're interrogating this man. It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet. We're going to get ready to stone you. Get out there. Get your clothes off, guys. Get your rocks. We're going to kill him. We're going to kill him now. We'll show him that these people will kill him. And he said to them, he who made me well was the one who told me he wanted to break the Sabbath. He's the one. Not me. All I'm doing is following orders, you know. Take up your pallet and walk. And they kept on interrogating him. Who is this man who said to you, take up your pallet and walk? Who gave you the command to break the Sabbath? Verse number 13, but he said but he was healed did not know he didn't know who Jesus was he had been out in the in the Walk in the streets and and hear about the Messiah and see him do anything before He met him for the first time when he came in here and seen him before he knew he was All he knew is that he had powers great powers and he had those great powers and so he wasn't going to object to anything that Jesus said he healed him and and he was well and Just like new. For he did not know who it was, for Jesus slipped away while there was a crowd in that place. Jesus did that one thing to prove that he was the Messiah and the healer of mankind. Jehovah-Rafikah. He fulfilled the title Jehovah-Rafikah, the Lord, our healer. Now, everything that Jesus did and has done takes the what we call the Jehovah titles and fulfills them. Jehovah shamanah, what does that mean? Jehovah shamanah, the Lord who hears and is there. All right, did he hear the man's request? Did he hear the nobleman's request? Verse number 14, and after Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, behold, you have become well. Don't keep on sinning anymore so that nothing worse may befall you. He already... What did he do? He blame shifted, didn't he? He blame shifted. He blame shifted. Go on and don't sin anymore. Then the man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. He's still trying to get out of that stoning business. He's all still under the penalty of death. And for this reason, the Jews were persecuting Jesus, chasing after him. Now, the Jews should have said, Hail, the Messiah King of Israel. But instead, they didn't want to lose their religious power, and they didn't want to lose their political power. They wanted to hold on to their religion, even though now the Messiah King is here. Without doubt, this is who he is. Because he was doing these things on the Sabbath, And he answered them, my father is working until now, and I myself am working. Okay? Remember the six days of creation? Remember that? And Jesus' equality with God. Now Jesus is going to make them mad another time. Now he's going to tell them that he is God. And he's equal to God the Father. And he is the creator. And he is the one that has the creative power to heal sickness, and to produce food, and to turn water into wine. He has power over the physical universe. He has power over physical science, and power over any disease, and power over death. For this calls, therefore, the Jews were seeking all the more to what? To murder him. As we're studying in the book of Exodus, we've been studying the commandments of God. Now, what did you find out in that commandments of God, Brother Roger? What does it say in there? Thou shalt not what? Kill. But what does it say in Hebrew? You shall not keep on killing because they're murders. Thou shalt not steal is what it says in the English translation. But what does it say in the Hebrew? You shall not keep on stealing. It says, thou shall not what? Covet. But it's what it says in Hebrew, thou shall not keep on coveting. They were coveting their positions and they were willing to commit murder. the commandment says thou shall not murder but they had a whole lot more commandments than what was in the Bible and they were keeping all those commandments but they would not keeping God's commandments they were more trying to kill him because he was not he was breaking the Sabbath but also he was calling God his own father make himself equal with God now When you say that God is your father, literally that means that you're the offspring of God and so therefore you are God. As simple as that. Okay? That's the fulfillment of Genesis 3.15. At least one fulfillment of it. Genesis 3.15, the Lord Jehovah God of heaven speaking to Satan himself. He said what? I will put active hatred between you, your seed and her seed. Your seed and her seed. What is that? Who's his seed? Who's Satan's seed? The Antichrist will be literally a son, literal physical son of Satan through the womb of a woman, which could be in the world today. Okay. And her seed, who is her seed? Jesus Christ, because God would impregnate her with his blood and his seed, and she would bring forth a God-man. And this man would be mankind. He would be Goel. The Hebrew word Goel means what? Kinsman-redeemer. Think of that one. The whole book of Ruth is about that right there. Goel. Goel. Kinsman-redeemer. making himself equal with God. Verse number 19 now. And Jesus therefore answered and was saying or kept on saying to them, Amen, Amen. That's what he says in Greek. It's Amen. Where does Amen come from? Where does that word come from? Persian. Then where did it go? Hebrew. Then where did it go? Greek. Then where did it go? Latin. And then where did it go? Greek. I mean English. It's come all the way down. What does it mean? Truly, truly, or absolutely, I will stand behind it. I will prop it up. It literally means to prop up. That's what a man means. Truly, truly, I will stand behind this. I say to you, the sun, the air, the firstborn air, can do nothing of himself unless it is something that he sees the father doing. For whatever the father does, these things the son also does in like matter." You know, the Jewish men never trust the women at all. Did you know that? They never trusted women. They didn't. They didn't. Because they thought they were fooling around all the time. And so a woman, when she had a child, it better look like the daddy. It better look like the daddy. You always know who the mother is, they said, but you don't know who the daddy is. For sure. I've seen a few dads, you'd be a blessing if they didn't look like them. Anyway, they always wanted to do this, and the son had to act like the father. if he's really the father. If he's really the father, then he's going to look like him, he's going to talk like him, walk like him, do something like him, okay? And he sees the father doing whatsoever the father does, and these things the son also does, and like matter in the same way. For the father loves the son, and shows him all things that he himself is doing, and greater works than these will he show him that you may marvel Now what he's saying here is God the Father is empowering me to do great wonders and miracles, and I'm gonna do more. And I'm gonna continue to prove to you that I am the Messiah King of Israel, whether you like it or not. Verse number 21, for just as the Father raises the dead, now did Jesus already raise the dead, basically? That boy that was sick was at the point of death. He might have been in a coma, do you know that? He might have been in a coma, what we call a feverish coma, totally not conscious. Just as the father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the son also gives life to whom he wishes. For not even the father judges anyone, but he has given all judgment to the son. He has given all judgment to the son. All judgment. Why did the father give all judgment to the son? Tell me why. Anybody over here know? You know what that's why he did? Why did he give all judgment to the son? Brother Mike? No, I don't know. Kathy, you know why? How about it, Marilyn? Spit it out. Why did he give the judgment to the son? We probably wanted him to follow in his footsteps. Why did he give the judgment to the son? Because Jesus was man and he understood man in every way he was his equal judge Because he was man God the Father only experienced Mankind through the Son now, we don't have three gods now just remember that we got to try you and God but God the Father experienced what is mankind only through the Son same thing with the Spirit of God and Not even the father judges anyone, but he has given all judgment to the son. Jesus is going to be their judge. Now here, these people are on the Sanhedrin court. By the way, who developed the Sanhedrin court? Who was the man that instituted the Sanhedrin court? Randy, you remember that? Jethro the Medianite, which was a grandson of Abraham. He was a son of Keturah. He was the one that instituted the Sanhedrin court. Remember when Moses was doing all this judging out there in the wilderness and everything? He said, boy, you're doing the wrong thing. Listen to your daddy. Listen to your father-in-law. You go out and get 70 men that are beyond reproach, that will not take a bribe. And this is the origin of the Sanhedrin court. This is where it originated. In order to that, Verse number 23, in order that all may honor the son, even as they honor the father, he who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him. You say you're serving God, you go over there and you kiss those scrolls in every synagogue and you sacrifice your lambs and you stand on the corners and you act like you're very religious. But your people are lost. If you don't honor me, you can't serve God. You don't know God. If you don't honor me, you don't know God. You don't know the Father, you don't know God. Truly, truly, he says in verse number 24, and what does that truly, truly mean? What does it say in Greek? Amen, amen. Most affirmatively, most affirmatively, I will stand by it, is what he says. I say to you, he who hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life. He has. Now, what is eternal life? Sharon, do you know what eternal life is? Eternal life. What does eternal mean? Forever. So what kind of life does that mean? Forever life. Now, if you have eternal life, Brother Bill, your preacher never told you this for 30 years. If you have eternal life right now, is there any way you can lose it? Isn't that wonderful? These guys had to go every year to the temple on the day of Yom Kippur and offer sacrifices for the whole year, the day of atonement. They went through all of these, through the Hasidore, through the Passover, through all of this, and every year they were going through these feasts and asking forgiveness of sins, and every year they had to come back. But Jesus said, I'm better than the Yom Kippur. I'm better than all the feasts, because all the feasts pointed to me. When the man that believes in me has everlasting life, you don't have to attain it. They could go on the day of Yom Kippur and all of their sins were forgiven, but before they got out of there, they started racking them up again. But he said, I'm going to tell you something, I'm greater than the priest on the day of Yom Kippur. I will give you eternal life always. You have it now. You don't have any more sacrifice for sins. It does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death unto life. And this is the third time that this verse is repeated in the Gospel of John. This is the third time. Remember what he said in John the third, in the third chapter? All right, at the end of the third chapter. 336, what does it say over there? Somebody read John 336 for me. John 336. Brother Mike, you got John 336? Run up, no, come right up here and read it real quick. I can't hear you over there. John 3, 36. He who believes in his Son has eternal life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. Abide. The wrath of God abides on him. How long can you keep eternal life? Forever. That's eternal life. If you have eternal life, you have eternal life. Simple as that. Now, if you're not saved, you have eternal death sentence on you right now. because the wrath of God already abides on you now. Until you're born again, you are under the wrath of God. All right. Then he starts talking about the two resurrections. That's where we'll start next week, in the two resurrections. Now, do you have a question? Any of you have a question? I want to give you time. Bill, you got a question? I do, but it ain't about this lesson. Can I ask it? Well, has anybody got a question about this lesson? Randy Sharon. Okay. That was at that period of time right there. And I'm not sure how the people today are the Orthodox Jews that are Pharisees today. They're the I'm not real familiar with that, but probably in the Jerusalem Talmud, it would say that I imagine. Yes. Yes. Jesus never baptized anyone himself. He gave power to his church to baptize them because it was his church that he was handing the reins to. He was the king of Israel, but he gave authority to the baptized to that church. The church was already in existence. Okay, now I want to give you time. See, I quit five minutes early. See, so you could have these questions. Roger. Okay, Bill. What is it? Well, the Bible says that the prophets were until John the Baptist. The law and the prophets were until John. After that, the kingdom of God is preached. Okay, now the kingdom of God is preached right here. This is it. Because the king is here. The king is here. Okay. Jesus said, I am the king. I am the creator of the universe. All of this. That's it. Anything else? Or I'll turn you loose on the world. Give it over here to Bill. Young man, do you have anything, any question today? Don't want to leave you out. Well, I learned something that I wasn't aware of, is that I was thinking that John the Baptist was the first to baptize, but Jews were baptizing long before that. Abraham baptized. It goes all the way back, probably all the way back to the garden where they washed the sacrifice before they sacrificed it, because it had to be clean. Probably all the way back to the Garden of Eden, or well, right after the Garden of Eden. OK. Anything else? David? No question? No? All right. Go out and do something, Colonel. Let's shut these machines off. Guys, if you haven't been to church this morning, it's a great service. If you're going to Sunday school, you should go to church.