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Welcome to Day 2144 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom The Gospel of John \u2013 12 \u2013 The Claims of Christ \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 04/24/2022 The Gospel of John \u2013 Part 3 Authentication Of The Word \u2013 The Claims of the Christ Today we continue our Good News series according to John the Apostle. \xa0Three weeks ago, we looked at a Picture Of Legalism and how the Pharisees and religious leaders started to look for a way to kill Jesus. Their reasons were that he healed on the Sabbath, performed many miracles, claimed to be equal with God, and people were beginning to follow him instead of them. Since they brought up the subject, Jesus was compelled to support his claims of being equal to God.\xa0 Today\u2019s passage is John 5:19-30, on pages 1655-1656 in the Pew Bible. \xa0I am starting with verse 16 to give the passage context. Follow along as I read it. So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.\xa0 In his defense, Jesus said to them,\xa0\u201cMy Father\xa0is always at his work\xa0to this very day, and I too am working.\u201d\xa0For this reason, they tried all the more to kill him;\xa0not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. Jesus gave them this answer:\xa0\u201cVery truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself;\xa0he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does, the Son also does.\xa0For the Father loves the Son\xa0and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these,\xa0so that you will be amazed.\xa0For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life,\xa0even so, the Son gives life\xa0to whom he is pleased to give it.\xa0Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,\xa0that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him. \u201cVery truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me\xa0has eternal life\xa0and will not be judged\xa0but has crossed over from death to life.\xa0Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come\xa0when the dead will hear\xa0the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.\xa0For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life\xa0in himself.\xa0And he has given him authority to judge\xa0because he is the Son of Man.\xa0\u201cDo not be amazed at this, for a time is coming\xa0when all who are in their graves will hear his voice\xa0and come out\u2014those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.\xa0By myself, I can do nothing;\xa0I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just,\xa0for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me. \xa0 Let me start with a story today. As a distinguished-looking gentleman stood behind a microphone to rally his people in the name of Allah, he praised Jesus as a genuine prophet, a wise teacher, and a worthy example of human goodness. However, he then declared with remarkable confidence that this same Jesus never claimed to be anything more than a man\u2014that He never claimed to be God. While it is true that no one ever recorded the exact phrase \u201cI am God,\u201d Jesus boldly asserted His deity in such precise, unambiguous terms that His enemies were outraged. They called Him a blasphemer for \u201cmaking Himself equal with God\u201d (John 5:18). The...