WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.870 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.988 --> 00:00:03.928 Day 67. 00:00:04.282 --> 00:00:08.422 it was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went 00:00:08.422 --> 00:00:10.912 to Jerusalem in the temple area. 00:00:10.917 --> 00:00:15.442 He saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices. 00:00:15.952 --> 00:00:19.472 He also saw dealers at tables exchanging foreign money. 00:00:20.752 --> 00:00:25.342 Jesus made a whip from some ropes and chased them all out of the temple. 00:00:25.762 --> 00:00:29.872 He drove out the sheep and cattle, scattered the money changers, coins over 00:00:29.872 --> 00:00:32.452 the floor, and turned over their tables. 00:00:32.872 --> 00:00:35.602 Then going over to the people who sold doves. 00:00:35.602 --> 00:00:38.662 He told them, get these things out of here. 00:00:38.962 --> 00:00:42.562 Stop turning my father's house into a marketplace. 00:00:43.522 --> 00:00:46.942 Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the scriptures. 00:00:47.437 --> 00:00:52.267 Passion for God's house will consume me, but the Jewish leaders 00:00:52.267 --> 00:00:54.217 demanded, what are you doing? 00:00:54.577 --> 00:00:59.527 If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it. 00:01:00.487 --> 00:01:01.027 All right. 00:01:01.387 --> 00:01:06.757 Jesus replied, destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 00:01:07.717 --> 00:01:09.547 What they exclaimed. 00:01:10.087 --> 00:01:15.547 It has taken 46 years to build this temple and you can rebuild it in three days. 00:01:16.717 --> 00:01:20.797 But when Jesus said this temple, he meant his own body. 00:01:21.487 --> 00:01:25.267 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said 00:01:25.267 --> 00:01:29.917 this, and they believed both the scriptures and what Jesus had said. 00:01:31.147 --> 00:01:35.107 Because of the miraculous signs Jesus did in Jerusalem at the Passover 00:01:35.107 --> 00:01:40.297 celebration, many began to trust in him, but Jesus didn't trust them 00:01:40.687 --> 00:01:42.427 because he knew all about people. 00:01:42.967 --> 00:01:46.777 No one needed to tell him about human nature for he knew what 00:01:46.777 --> 00:01:48.217 was in each person's heart. 00:01:49.717 --> 00:01:54.367 There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. 00:01:54.967 --> 00:01:59.317 After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus Rabbi. 00:01:59.467 --> 00:02:03.307 He said, we all know that God has sent you to teach us. 00:02:03.757 --> 00:02:06.907 Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you. 00:02:07.972 --> 00:02:12.472 Jesus replied, I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, 00:02:12.682 --> 00:02:14.842 you cannot see the kingdom of God. 00:02:15.862 --> 00:02:18.352 What do you mean exclaimed, Nicodemus? 00:02:18.892 --> 00:02:23.062 How can an old man go back into his mother's womb and be born again? 00:02:23.902 --> 00:02:25.942 Jesus replied, I assure you. 00:02:26.542 --> 00:02:29.512 No one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born 00:02:29.512 --> 00:02:31.042 of water and the spirit. 00:02:31.732 --> 00:02:35.842 Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit 00:02:35.847 --> 00:02:37.882 gives birth to spiritual life. 00:02:38.422 --> 00:02:41.842 So don't be surprised when I say you must be born again. 00:02:42.352 --> 00:02:47.932 The wind blows wherever it wants, just as you can hear the wind, but can't tell 00:02:47.932 --> 00:02:50.032 where it comes from or where it is going. 00:02:50.302 --> 00:02:53.722 So you can't explain how people are born of the spirit. 00:02:54.637 --> 00:02:56.257 How are these things possible? 00:02:56.557 --> 00:02:57.697 Nicodemus asked. 00:02:58.417 --> 00:03:04.117 Jesus replied, you are a respected Jewish teacher and yet you 00:03:04.117 --> 00:03:05.677 don't understand these things. 00:03:06.337 --> 00:03:10.807 I assure you, we tell you what we know and have seen, and yet 00:03:10.807 --> 00:03:12.637 you won't believe our testimony. 00:03:13.387 --> 00:03:17.497 But if you don't believe me when I tell you about earthly things, 00:03:17.887 --> 00:03:21.637 how can you possibly believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 00:03:22.297 --> 00:03:26.797 No one has ever gone to heaven and returned, but the son of man has come 00:03:26.797 --> 00:03:32.257 down from heaven and as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the 00:03:32.257 --> 00:03:37.057 wilderness, so the son of man must be lifted up so that everyone who 00:03:37.062 --> 00:03:42.907 believes in him will have eternal life for this is how God loved the world. 00:03:43.252 --> 00:03:48.172 He gave his one and only son so that everyone who believes in him will 00:03:48.172 --> 00:03:50.752 not perish, but have eternal life. 00:03:51.352 --> 00:03:55.192 God sent his son into the world not to judge the world, but 00:03:55.192 --> 00:03:56.992 to save the world through him. 00:03:57.922 --> 00:04:03.052 There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him, but anyone who does not 00:04:03.052 --> 00:04:08.422 believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God's one and only son. 00:04:09.577 --> 00:04:11.887 And the judgment is based on this fact. 00:04:12.307 --> 00:04:16.927 God's light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than 00:04:16.927 --> 00:04:19.477 the light for their actions were evil. 00:04:20.347 --> 00:04:24.817 All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear. 00:04:24.822 --> 00:04:29.257 Their sins will be exposed, but those who do what is right, come 00:04:29.257 --> 00:04:33.277 to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants. 00:04:34.792 --> 00:04:38.242 Then Jesus and his disciples left Jerusalem and went 00:04:38.242 --> 00:04:39.862 into the Judean countryside. 00:04:40.402 --> 00:04:43.372 Jesus spent some time with them there baptizing people. 00:04:44.152 --> 00:04:49.462 At this time, John the Baptist was baptizing at Enon near Salem because 00:04:49.467 --> 00:04:53.182 there was plenty of water there, and people kept coming to him for baptism. 00:04:53.512 --> 00:04:56.122 This was before John was thrown into prison. 00:04:56.992 --> 00:05:00.532 A debate broke out between John's disciples and a certain 00:05:00.532 --> 00:05:02.632 Jew over ceremonial cleansing. 00:05:03.337 --> 00:05:08.107 So John's disciples came to him and said, rabbi, the man you met on the 00:05:08.107 --> 00:05:12.187 other side of the Jordan River, the one you identified as the Messiah, is 00:05:12.187 --> 00:05:17.917 also baptizing people and everybody is going to him instead of coming to us. 00:05:18.667 --> 00:05:24.037 John replied, no one can receive anything unless God gives it from heaven. 00:05:24.757 --> 00:05:29.287 You yourselves know how plainly I told you, I am not the Messiah. 00:05:29.737 --> 00:05:32.197 I am only here to prepare the way for him. 00:05:32.872 --> 00:05:36.592 It is the bridegroom who marries the bride, and the bridegroom's 00:05:36.592 --> 00:05:40.942 friend is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows. 00:05:41.482 --> 00:05:45.022 Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success. 00:05:45.502 --> 00:05:47.932 He must become greater and greater. 00:05:48.277 --> 00:05:50.947 And I must become less and less. 00:05:51.757 --> 00:05:55.537 He has come from above and is greater than anyone else. 00:05:56.077 --> 00:06:01.477 We are of the earth and we speak of earthly things, but he has come from 00:06:01.477 --> 00:06:04.207 heaven and is greater than anyone else. 00:06:04.837 --> 00:06:08.977 He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but how few 00:06:08.977 --> 00:06:10.567 believe what he tells them. 00:06:11.272 --> 00:06:14.902 Anyone who accepts his testimony can affirm that God 00:06:14.902 --> 00:06:17.842 is true, for he is sent by God. 00:06:18.082 --> 00:06:22.942 He speaks God's words for God, gives him the spirit without limit. 00:06:23.692 --> 00:06:29.242 The Father loves his son and has put everything into his hands, and anyone who 00:06:29.242 --> 00:06:32.362 believes in God's son has eternal life. 00:06:33.052 --> 00:06:37.912 Anyone who doesn't obey the son will never experience eternal life, but 00:06:37.912 --> 00:06:40.552 remains under God's angry judgment. 00:06:42.112 --> 00:06:45.652 Jesus knew the Pharisees had heard that he was baptizing and 00:06:45.652 --> 00:06:47.572 making more disciples than John. 00:06:48.082 --> 00:06:51.592 Though Jesus himself didn't baptize them, his disciples did. 00:06:52.222 --> 00:06:55.222 So he left Judea and returned to Galilee. 00:06:55.912 --> 00:06:58.312 He had to go through Samaria on the way. 00:06:58.882 --> 00:07:03.352 Eventually he came to the Samaritan Village of Sychar near the field 00:07:03.352 --> 00:07:05.482 that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. 00:07:06.082 --> 00:07:11.722 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus tired from the long walk, sat weary 00:07:11.722 --> 00:07:13.972 beside the well about noontime. 00:07:14.662 --> 00:07:18.442 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water and Jesus said to 00:07:18.442 --> 00:07:20.422 her, please give me a drink. 00:07:20.992 --> 00:07:24.352 He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into 00:07:24.412 --> 00:07:25.882 the village to buy some food. 00:07:26.902 --> 00:07:32.362 The woman was surprised for Jews refused to have anything to do with Samaritans. 00:07:32.872 --> 00:07:34.162 She said to Jesus. 00:07:34.612 --> 00:07:38.602 You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. 00:07:39.262 --> 00:07:41.212 Why are you asking me for a drink? 00:07:42.262 --> 00:07:47.752 Jesus replied, if you only knew the gift God has for you and who you 00:07:47.757 --> 00:07:52.522 are speaking to, you would ask me and I would give you living water. 00:07:53.722 --> 00:07:58.012 But sir, you don't have a rope or a bucket, she said, 00:07:58.582 --> 00:08:00.262 and this well is very deep. 00:08:00.892 --> 00:08:02.872 Where would you get this living water? 00:08:03.532 --> 00:08:08.092 And besides, do you think you're greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this? 00:08:08.092 --> 00:08:13.822 Well, how can you offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed? 00:08:14.782 --> 00:08:19.882 Jesus replied, anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. 00:08:20.452 --> 00:08:24.502 But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. 00:08:25.132 --> 00:08:30.142 It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life. 00:08:31.192 --> 00:08:32.152 Please, sir. 00:08:32.452 --> 00:08:37.192 The woman said, give me this water then I'll never be thirsty again and I 00:08:37.192 --> 00:08:39.262 won't have to come here to get water. 00:08:40.462 --> 00:08:41.572 Go and get your husband. 00:08:41.962 --> 00:08:44.902 Jesus told her, I don't have a husband. 00:08:45.412 --> 00:08:48.922 The woman replied, Jesus said, you're right. 00:08:49.312 --> 00:08:54.262 You don't have a husband for, you have had five husbands and you aren't even 00:08:54.262 --> 00:08:56.242 married to the man you're living with now. 00:08:56.602 --> 00:08:58.342 You certainly spoke the truth. 00:08:59.392 --> 00:09:03.322 Sir, the woman said, you must be a prophet. 00:09:03.952 --> 00:09:09.082 So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only 00:09:09.082 --> 00:09:13.492 place of worship while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Garrison 00:09:13.552 --> 00:09:15.292 where our ancestors worshiped? 00:09:16.492 --> 00:09:21.022 Jesus replied, believe me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no 00:09:21.022 --> 00:09:25.342 longer matter whether you worship the father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 00:09:26.077 --> 00:09:29.167 You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship. 00:09:29.617 --> 00:09:35.227 While we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews, but 00:09:35.227 --> 00:09:38.287 the time is coming indeed, it's here now. 00:09:38.647 --> 00:09:43.717 When true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, the 00:09:43.717 --> 00:09:48.817 Father is looking for those who will worship him That way, for God is Spirit. 00:09:49.177 --> 00:09:53.497 So those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. 00:09:54.442 --> 00:09:57.652 The woman said, I know the Messiah is coming. 00:09:57.862 --> 00:09:59.482 The one who is called Christ. 00:09:59.842 --> 00:10:02.572 When he comes, he will explain everything to us. 00:10:03.442 --> 00:10:07.252 Then Jesus told her, I am the Messiah. 00:10:08.692 --> 00:10:10.912 Just then his disciples came back. 00:10:11.422 --> 00:10:15.082 They were shocked to find him talking to a woman, but none of them had the 00:10:15.082 --> 00:10:17.782 nerve to ask, what do you want with her? 00:10:18.022 --> 00:10:20.092 Or Why are you talking to her? 00:10:20.872 --> 00:10:24.922 The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village 00:10:24.922 --> 00:10:29.872 telling everyone, come and see a man who told me everything I ever did. 00:10:30.232 --> 00:10:32.392 Could he possibly be the Messiah? 00:10:33.082 --> 00:10:36.052 So the people came streaming from the village to see him. 00:10:36.952 --> 00:10:41.532 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, rabbi, eat something. 00:10:42.262 --> 00:10:46.882 But Jesus replied, I have a kind of food, you know nothing about. 00:10:47.932 --> 00:10:50.392 Did someone bring him food while we were gone? 00:10:50.812 --> 00:10:52.282 The disciples asked each other. 00:10:53.122 --> 00:10:58.582 Then Jesus explained My nourishment comes from doing the will of God who 00:10:58.582 --> 00:11:01.282 sent me and from finishing his work. 00:11:02.002 --> 00:11:06.652 You know the saying, four months between planting and harvest, but 00:11:06.657 --> 00:11:09.742 I say, wake up and look around. 00:11:10.222 --> 00:11:13.162 The fields are already ripe for harvest. 00:11:13.777 --> 00:11:17.827 The harvesters are paid good wages and the fruit they harvest is 00:11:17.827 --> 00:11:20.137 people brought to eternal life. 00:11:20.707 --> 00:11:25.777 What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike, you 00:11:25.777 --> 00:11:30.367 know the saying one plants and another harvests, and it's true. 00:11:30.937 --> 00:11:35.587 I sent you to harvest where you didn't plant others had already 00:11:35.587 --> 00:11:39.247 done the work, and now you will get to gather the harvest. 00:11:40.567 --> 00:11:44.497 Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had 00:11:44.497 --> 00:11:47.587 said, he told me everything I ever did. 00:11:48.247 --> 00:11:52.027 When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay in their village. 00:11:52.597 --> 00:11:57.847 So he stayed for two days long enough for many more to hear his message and believe. 00:11:58.507 --> 00:12:03.157 Then they said to the woman, now we believe not just because of what you 00:12:03.157 --> 00:12:08.467 told us, but because we have heard him ourselves, now we know that he 00:12:08.467 --> 00:12:11.077 is indeed the savior of the world. 00:12:12.727 --> 00:12:15.757 At the end of the two days, Jesus went on to Galilee. 00:12:16.267 --> 00:12:20.347 He himself had said that a prophet is not honored in his own hometown. 00:12:20.947 --> 00:12:24.697 Yet the Galileans welcomed him for, they had been in Jerusalem 00:12:24.697 --> 00:12:28.387 at the Passover celebration and had seen everything he did there. 00:12:29.287 --> 00:12:32.947 As he traveled through Galilee, he came to Cana where he had 00:12:32.947 --> 00:12:34.477 turned the water into wine. 00:12:35.137 --> 00:12:38.707 There was a government official in nearby Capernaum whose son was 00:12:38.857 --> 00:12:43.207 very sick when he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee. 00:12:43.297 --> 00:12:46.957 He went and begged Jesus to come to Capernaum to heal his 00:12:46.957 --> 00:12:49.087 son, who was about to die. 00:12:49.852 --> 00:12:55.402 Jesus asked, will you never believe in me unless you see miraculous signs and 00:12:55.402 --> 00:13:02.392 wonders, the official pleaded, Lord, please come now before my little boy dies. 00:13:03.232 --> 00:13:05.872 Then Jesus told him, go back home. 00:13:06.352 --> 00:13:07.612 Your son will live. 00:13:08.392 --> 00:13:14.572 And the man believed what Jesus said and started home while the man was on his way. 00:13:14.752 --> 00:13:18.832 Some of his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and well. 00:13:19.462 --> 00:13:22.912 He asked them when the boy had begun to get better, and they replied 00:13:23.152 --> 00:13:27.292 yesterday afternoon at one o'clock, his fever suddenly disappeared. 00:13:28.192 --> 00:13:32.542 Then the father realized that that was the very time Jesus had told him, 00:13:32.812 --> 00:13:38.452 your son will live, and he and his entire household believed in Jesus. 00:13:39.092 --> 00:13:44.812 This was the second miraculous sign Jesus did in Galilee after coming from Judea. 00:13:46.957 --> 00:13:47.587 Afterward. 00:13:47.587 --> 00:13:52.597 Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days inside the city. 00:13:52.687 --> 00:13:57.697 Near the sheep gate was the pool of Bethesda with five covered porches, 00:13:58.297 --> 00:14:03.697 crowds of sick people, blind, lame, or paralyzed, lay on the porches. 00:14:04.267 --> 00:14:07.807 One of the men lying there had been sick for 38 years. 00:14:08.317 --> 00:14:12.457 When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked 00:14:12.462 --> 00:14:14.317 him, would you like to get well? 00:14:15.862 --> 00:14:16.972 I can't, sir. 00:14:17.242 --> 00:14:20.962 The sick man said for, I have no one to put me into the pool. 00:14:20.962 --> 00:14:25.192 When the water bubbles up, someone else always gets there ahead of me. 00:14:25.942 --> 00:14:28.072 Jesus told him, stand up. 00:14:28.492 --> 00:14:30.412 Pick up your mat and walk. 00:14:31.792 --> 00:14:33.712 Instantly, the man was healed. 00:14:33.982 --> 00:14:36.532 He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking. 00:14:37.492 --> 00:14:42.232 But this miracle happened on the Sabbath, so the Jewish leaders objected. 00:14:42.712 --> 00:14:44.482 They said to the man who was cured. 00:14:44.902 --> 00:14:46.702 You can't work on the Sabbath. 00:14:47.002 --> 00:14:51.262 The law doesn't allow you to carry that sleeping mat, but he 00:14:51.262 --> 00:14:56.482 replied, the man who healed me told me, pick up your mat and walk. 00:14:57.172 --> 00:14:58.972 Who said such a thing as that? 00:14:59.302 --> 00:15:04.642 They demanded, the man didn't know for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd. 00:15:05.422 --> 00:15:10.672 But afterward Jesus found him in the temple and told him, now you are well. 00:15:11.017 --> 00:15:15.187 So stop sinning or something, even worse, may happen to you. 00:15:15.967 --> 00:15:19.297 Then the man went and told the Jewish leaders that it 00:15:19.297 --> 00:15:21.007 was Jesus who had healed him. 00:15:22.567 --> 00:15:27.127 So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules. 00:15:27.607 --> 00:15:32.377 But Jesus replied, my father is always working and so am I. 00:15:33.127 --> 00:15:36.997 So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill him. 00:15:37.477 --> 00:15:42.547 For, he not only broke the Sabbath, he called God his father, thereby 00:15:42.637 --> 00:15:44.917 making himself equal with God. 00:15:45.787 --> 00:15:51.667 So Jesus explained, I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. 00:15:52.057 --> 00:15:54.637 He does only what he sees the Father doing. 00:15:55.147 --> 00:16:00.427 Whatever the Father does, the son also does for the Father, loves the son 00:16:00.667 --> 00:16:02.587 and shows him everything he is doing. 00:16:03.427 --> 00:16:07.147 In fact, the father will show him how to do even greater 00:16:07.147 --> 00:16:09.037 works than healing this man. 00:16:09.727 --> 00:16:14.887 Then he will truly be astonished for just as the father gives life 00:16:14.917 --> 00:16:16.627 to those he raises from the dead. 00:16:17.107 --> 00:16:19.987 So the son gives life to anyone he wants. 00:16:20.467 --> 00:16:23.317 In addition, the father judges no one. 00:16:23.707 --> 00:16:28.507 Instead, he has given the son absolute authority to judge so 00:16:28.507 --> 00:16:32.257 that everyone will honor the son just as they honor the father. 00:16:33.052 --> 00:16:36.742 Anyone who does not honor the son is certainly not honoring 00:16:36.742 --> 00:16:37.972 the father who sent him. 00:16:38.842 --> 00:16:40.012 I tell you the truth. 00:16:40.402 --> 00:16:45.802 Those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. 00:16:46.372 --> 00:16:50.332 They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed 00:16:50.332 --> 00:16:55.972 from death into life, and I assure you that the time is coming indeed. 00:16:55.972 --> 00:17:01.612 It's here now when the dead will hear my voice, the voice of the Son of God. 00:17:02.167 --> 00:17:04.177 And those who listen will live. 00:17:04.747 --> 00:17:10.087 The father has life in himself and he has granted that same life-giving 00:17:10.087 --> 00:17:14.707 power to his son, and he has given him authority to judge everyone 00:17:14.707 --> 00:17:16.927 because he is the son of man. 00:17:17.767 --> 00:17:22.837 Don't be so surprised indeed the time is coming when all the dead in 00:17:22.837 --> 00:17:27.307 their graves will hear the voice of God's son and they will rise again. 00:17:28.267 --> 00:17:33.187 Those who have done good will rise to experience eternal life, and 00:17:33.187 --> 00:17:37.507 those who have continued in evil will rise to experience judgment. 00:17:38.332 --> 00:17:39.862 I can do nothing on my own. 00:17:40.342 --> 00:17:42.202 I judge as God tells me. 00:17:42.712 --> 00:17:47.332 Therefore, my judgment is just because I carry out the will of the 00:17:47.332 --> 00:17:49.942 one who sent me not my own will. 00:17:50.962 --> 00:17:55.432 If I were to testify on my own behalf, my testimony would not be valid. 00:17:55.972 --> 00:18:00.232 But someone else is also testifying about me, and I assure you that 00:18:00.232 --> 00:18:02.572 everything he says about me is true. 00:18:03.292 --> 00:18:07.882 In fact, you sent investigators to listen to John the Baptist, and 00:18:07.882 --> 00:18:09.832 his testimony about me was true. 00:18:10.492 --> 00:18:14.782 Of course, I have no need of human witnesses, but I say these 00:18:14.782 --> 00:18:17.152 things so you might be saved. 00:18:17.752 --> 00:18:22.012 John was like a burning and shining lamp, and you were excited 00:18:22.012 --> 00:18:23.722 for a while about his message. 00:18:24.517 --> 00:18:27.217 But I have a greater witness than John. 00:18:27.577 --> 00:18:29.827 My teachings and my miracles. 00:18:30.247 --> 00:18:34.747 The father gave me these works to accomplish and they prove that he 00:18:34.752 --> 00:18:40.057 sent me, and the father who sent me has testified about me, him himself. 00:18:40.747 --> 00:18:45.487 You have never heard his voice or seen him face to face, and you do not have 00:18:45.487 --> 00:18:50.737 his message in your hearts because you do not believe me, the one he sent to you. 00:18:51.982 --> 00:18:56.842 You search the scriptures because you think they give you eternal life, but the 00:18:56.842 --> 00:19:03.022 scriptures point to me, yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life. 00:19:03.802 --> 00:19:07.702 Your approval means nothing to me because I know you don't 00:19:07.702 --> 00:19:09.322 have God's love within you. 00:19:09.922 --> 00:19:14.542 For I have come to you in my father's name and you have rejected me. 00:19:15.172 --> 00:19:18.832 Yet, if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them. 00:19:19.792 --> 00:19:24.532 No wonder you can't believe for you gladly honor each other, but 00:19:24.532 --> 00:19:29.062 you don't care about the honor that comes from the one who alone is God. 00:19:29.932 --> 00:19:35.122 Yet it isn't I who will accuse you before the Father Moses will accuse you. 00:19:35.632 --> 00:19:38.932 Yes, Moses in whom you put your hopes. 00:19:39.562 --> 00:19:44.602 If you really believed Moses, you would believe me because he wrote about me. 00:19:45.232 --> 00:19:49.897 But since you don't believe what he wrote, How will you believe what I say? 00:19:51.787 --> 00:19:54.637 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:19:54.787 --> 00:19:55.807 Thank you for joining us.