John 5:1-5 Series

John 5:1-5

Are you born of God? Do you understand what it mean to be born of God?

1a Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: 1b and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

Now birth to me as a man isn't necessarily my strong point in understanding everything that goes into when it come to being birthed, so I'm going to need some help with a couple of things. I am also not a father myself so again birth is not my strong point.

God chose this word “born” to indicate to us how our belief in Christ came about. God uses certain specific words that we can relate to in order to help us understand what is being said better.

Before being born we are conceived and I do understand what that means for the most part. But I have a question, when we were conceived what part did we play in that? None... Did we have a choice in being conceived? No...

What about being born? What part did we have in being born? None... Did we have a choice in being born? No...

So this word born and as well being conceived is the process God chose for our faith. He conceived us and He birthed us into faith and salvation. This gives us great clarity on the process.

Now we have a part in this. What do we want to hear after a baby is born? Crying right? That is our part after our being born again, we want to cry out with joy in our salvation by professing Christ as Lord and Savior. And what a true joy it is.

1b and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

What is the meaning of begat as it is used here in this verse?

Begat: to father or sire. So again God begat us or fathered us. This is just affirming what we just discussed.

Does this picture God gave us help you understand the process of your salvation better?

It goes on in saying that if we were conceived and born into our faith we also shall love others who have been conceived and birthed into that same faith.

We as brothers and sisters in Christ share in the birth process having the same father and we need to love one another because of it. Not only do we need to but we will if we are true Christians.

2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Who are the children of God here? Believers are.

How do we know when we love other believers? When we love God and keep God's commandments. When we are living a Godly life, the life He has called us to live in scripture, we will love other believers because scripture tells us to.

Keep in mind anything scripture tells us to do is a commandment. It's not just those ten we hear all they time about but rather everything scripture tells us we should be doing.

3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Grievous: something severe, painful, burdensome, or deeply distressing.

For the Christian keeping the commandments shouldn't be any of these things to any great extent. We may struggle a little here and there, but not in any extensive way. We want to do what God says now as believers, we desire it.

4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

We are born of God for salvation and our salvation overcomes the fallen world and it is a victory. Who's victory is it though? It is Gods victory being He conceived us and birthed us for this very purpose.

5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

There is only one way to overcome the world and the death it brings, only one way and that way is through faith in Christ.