{"id":30747,"date":"2024-04-21T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/john-5_31-40-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T16:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T23:32:29","slug":"john-5_41-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/john-5_41-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses your accuser, Jesus your Saviour"},"content":{"rendered":"

John 5:41-47 \u00a0(CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is John 5:41-47.\u00a0 I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help, then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

John 5:41-44 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n41\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“I do not accept praise from men,
\n42\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.
\n43\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
\n44\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 41-44:\u00a0 Interesting.\u00a0 Jesus seems to be saying that if we\u2019re all about living for people\u2019s praise and approval and are not interested in pleasing God, the result is that we won\u2019t have the love of God in our hearts (v42), we will reject Jesus in favour of others (v43) and have a weak and ineffective faith (\u201chow can you believe\u201d – v44).\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>In other words,\u00a0whose praise you live for will greatly impact how much real faith, hope and love you have.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John 5:45-47 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n45\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set.
\n46\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
\n47\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verse 45:\u00a0 Why does Jesus call Moses \u201cyour accuser\u201d (v45)?\u00a0 It\u2019s because Moses wrote down God\u2019s law, the ultimate purpose of which was to show people how far they fall short of God\u2019s standards.\u00a0 So \u201cMoses\u201d here is a reference to the Jewish law, not so much Moses the person.\u00a0\u00a0While Moses (i.e. the Jewish law) accused the Jews and showed them that they were sinners who failed God\u2019s standards and who deserved death as punishment, Jesus came not to accuse and punish the Jews further for their sins but to save them from their sins.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus says that his Jewish audience had set their hopes on Moses (v45b).\u00a0 How had they done so?\u00a0 The Jews had set their hopes on Moses in that they thought that by obeying the Jewish law they could gain eternal life.\u00a0 The Jews thought that they could earn God\u2019s approval and entrance into heaven by their own merit and performance.\u00a0 But in thinking this way, they missed the point of the Jewish law, which ultimately was there to show their need for a Saviour.\u00a0 That is why Jesus came: to be the Saviour that the Jewish people and all people everywhere need.<\/p>\n

In what way did Moses write about Jesus (v46)?\u00a0 By writing down the law which revealed our need for a Saviour, by instituting a system for sacrificing animals as atonement for sins, Moses was effectively painting pictures that were ultimately pointing to Jesus, the lamb of God who takes away our sins.\u00a0 In this way Moses \u201cwrote about\u201d (v46) Jesus.\u00a0 Some scholars believe that Deuteronomy 18:15 is also Moses writing about Jesus and how he would come to earth one day.\u00a0 However, by not seeing their need for a Saviour when they thought about the law, by not recognizing Jesus as the lamb of God who would take away their sins, and by not recognizing Jesus as the one whom Moses said would come, Jesus\u2019 hearers were effectively not believing what Moses had written (v47), despite them saying that they were aligned with Moses.<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, may I be focused on pleasing You and not living for the praise of people, that real faith, real hope and real love from You would fill my life.\u00a0 Thank You for not coming not as our accuser but as the Saviour we need, the One whom Moses wrote about.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Copyright \u00a9 2021 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is John 5:41-47.\u00a0 I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help, then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

John 5:41-44 (NIV)
\n41\u00a0\u00a0“I do not accept praise from men,
\n42\u00a0\u00a0but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.
\n43\u00a0\u00a0I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
\n44\u00a0\u00a0How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?
\n\u00a0
\nOn verses 41-44:\u00a0 Interesting.\u00a0 Jesus seems to be saying that if we\u2019re all about living for people\u2019s praise and approval and are not interested in pleasing God, the result is that we won\u2019t have the love of God in our hearts (v42), we will reject Jesus in favour of others (v43) and have a weak and ineffective faith (\u201chow can you believe\u201d – v44).\u00a0\u00a0In other words,\u00a0whose praise you live for will greatly impact how much real faith, hope and love you have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30750,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30747\/revisions\/30750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}