The Gospel of John 5:19-20 When God Says...I Say, AMEN!

When God Says …

“Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.” (John 5:19-20 KJV)

The Lord responded to the demands of the religious Jews to tell them who he was and where He's from. He showed them some signs about His identity. He revealed His equality with God and that He is God! He said it with emphasis repeating the word AMEN or Verily or Truly! In that day, using these words is to say that what is said is the truth beyond any trace of lie! The Lord made it clear that what He said is first-hand information from the Father in heaven. It is a direct witness account from His mouth, the Son whom God the Father sent.

He literally says that what He does is what the Father does as He sees it. For the Father loves the Son, He and the Father are in complete unison. What they (the religious Jews), you and I see He is doing is exactly what the Father does! His statement is evidenced by the mighty works He has already started doing, which of course they failed or refused to see and appreciate. They're blinded by the warped doctrines of their religion.

The Lord Jesus declared to them that the relationship between Him, the Son and God, the Father, is one of perfect oneness. He gave them a heads up that greater works of miracles are coming for them who believes. That's an alert for us too, specially those who are blindfolded by all types of deviant doctrines of religion and precepts of the world, like these religious people that the Lord was confronted by. Let's all beware of the established enterprises, the so-religious groups and institutions that even bear the name of Christ but are not by Christ Jesus and His Words. They perpetuate, the religion of those Jews, in our present age. The Lord Jesus said these of them for us to be warned today: ““But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.” (Matthew 23:13, 15 ESV)

And I say, AMEN!

Daily reflections by:
F. A. Frias
PFC Ministries

(When God says... I say, AMEN! is a provocative reflection of the Lord's holy Word. It intends to challenge every seeker of truth to dig deep into the core of the Word of Life to point every being to Christ Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith, and to draw revelations for change, for nourishment and for strength of every soul.)

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