2. Jesus the Son of God John 5:18-47

3. This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. John 5:18

4. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13

5. “Nowhere else in the gospels do we find our Lord making such a formal, systematic, orderly, regular statement of His own unity with the Father, His Divine commission and authority, and the proofs of His Messiahship, as we find in this discourse. To me it seems one of the deepest things in the Bible.” J.C. Ryle

6. “If the Son does all that the Father does, then, like Him, He must be almighty, omniscient, all-present, and infinite in every perfection; or, in other words, He must be God.” Alfred Barnes

7. “The Son, though coeternal and codivine, is functionally subordinate to the Father. There is unity between the Father and Son because of the Son’s perfect obedience to the Father.” Richard Phillips

9. “But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John
“But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.” John 5:36

10. “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” John 3:2

11. “And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me
“And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.” John 5:37-38

12. “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.” John 5:39-40

13. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8

14. “Arctic explorers kindle fire from the sun by ice lenses, but he who would kindle hearts from above must be himself on fire.” A.B. Simpson

15. “God, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for Thee
“God, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine.”
“Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things.’ Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.” Jim Elliot

16. the Son gives life to who
m he will. Holy Spirit, ignite us!