Sermon Tone Analysis

Have You Passed From Death into Life?

, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

25 Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.

26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, 27 and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.

28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29 and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

30 I can of Myself do nothing.

As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

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The beauty of Jesus and the Father is the simplicity in which they deal with man.

Let's not cloud things up with choices, let's not muddy the water with difficulty.

Back in the 1960's, Kelly Johnson who was the lead engineer for Lockheed Martin Skunk Works came up with acronym for the way that Lockheed would create and design aircraft for the Navy.

He coined the term KISS Principle.

Keep it simple, stupid.

The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.

The stupid portion referred to the simplicity of the repair.

It needn't take a rocket scientist to do field repairs but instead basic knowledge.

The beauty of Jesus and the Father is the simplicity in which they deal with man.

Let's not cloud things up with choices, let's not muddy the water with difficulty.

Back in the 1960's, Kelly Johnson who was the lead engineer for Lockheed Martin Skunk Works came up with acronym for the way that Lockheed would create and design aircraft for the Navy.

He coined the term KISS Principle.

Keep it simple, stupid.

The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.

The stupid portion referred to the simplicity of the repair.

It needn't take a rocket scientist to do field repairs but instead basic knowledge.

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

25 Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.

26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, 27 and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.

28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29 and come forth — those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

30 I can of Myself do nothing.

As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

NKJV

The beauty of Jesus and the Father is the simplicity in which they deal with man.

Let's not cloud things up with choices, let's not muddy the water with difficulty.

Back in the 1960's, Kelly Johnson who was the lead engineer for Lockheed Martin Skunk Works came up with acronym for the way that Lockheed would create and design aircraft for the Navy.

He coined the term KISS Principle.

Keep it simple, stupid.

The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.

The stupid portion referred to the simplicity of the repair.

It needn't take a rocket scientist to do field repairs but instead basic knowledge.

These are minimalist concepts.

Leonardo Da Vinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

German-American architect Mees Van Der Rohe's famous phrase was “Less is more.”

On the opposite, maybe some of you have heard of a Rube Goldberg machine.

Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist/engineer/inventor used to deliberately depict overly complicated, complex and impractical machines doing the simplest of tasks in his cartoons.

This has led to contests today to create Rube Goldberg Machines.

The challenge being to make as complicated a process to do the simplest thing.

The more steps involved, the better.

God deals with man on the KISS Principle.

He keeps it simple, stupid.

He doesn't overly complicate anything for us so it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.

God's design will not allow a person to stand before Him and say, "I didn't understand."

Look at verse 24, "he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life."

A very matter of fact statement from Jesus Himself.

Two qualifiers bring about a result.

1.

If you hear my word, my logos.

Remember a while back we talked about two Greek words that are translated in English as word.

One is logos and the other is rhema.

While there is much debate about these two words, I believe that it comes clear for us in that rhema has to do with what is said, what a person speaks.

Logos on the other hand has more to do with written word, God's prophesied word, God's truth, God's doctrine and God's teaching.

It is also used as a name for Jesus because He encompasses all these things.

So He is saying, if you hear the truth of Me, of who I am, my doctrine, my teaching about Myself.

The other word in this is hear; If you hear.

This is not just have it come into your ears, but receive it, believe it, know it to be true.

2. And believe in Him who sent Me.

Believe in the Father and His plan for redemption for us.

That He sent His one and only Son to save us.

3. Result: You have everlasting life.

Perpetual, eternal life.

Compare , And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

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These verses are talking about having it now, not in the future.

This is present tense.

It starts now and extends into the future.

We don't wait for eternal, we have from the time we believe in Him and the One who sent Him!

Take a gander at the second result of the two qualifiers.

You HAVE everlasting life AND, shall not come into judgment, but you have passed from death into life.

There is no "judgment day" for you!

Judgment is done, it's over.

The sinner was found guilty, died, was buried and rose again on the cross with Jesus.

It's not going to happen, it already DID happen.

This is stated as a voluntary action.

You choose to do it, you choose to pass from death to life!

Again, present tense, the one who believes, HAS passed from death into life!

Don't let the day you die be a bother to you about where you'll be! You'll be with the Lord!

The only judgment you will have to worry about will be for your position in heaven!

(EXPLAIN)

, Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.

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Most assuredly: This is actually Amen, amen.

Sometimes we read it as verily, verily.

Translated as "so be it."

It means that this is trustworthy and firm.

Jesus makes the statement here that the Gospel has come to man.

He is here.

He is the Good News.

He is salvation.

The spiritually dead will hear His voice and they shall believe and they shall live and never die.

, For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, 27 and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.

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This is a very interesting distinction between the Father and the Son.