“The Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form” (John 5:37).
In the opening verse, Jesus is saying the people have neither heard the voice of the Word of God at any time nor seen His shape. Though they have the Bible, they cannot hear the voice of God speaking to them from the very Scriptures.
They did not believe that the Bible is the Word of God and that He talks. The voice and the shape of God are in the Scriptures, for the Scriptures are the very Word of God in print.
There is a reason the people did not hear the voice and see the form of God in Scriptures. Jesus said, “But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe” (John 5:38).
He is saying the Word did not abide in them, and that is the reason they could not hear His voice nor see His shape. God the Father wants the Word of God in the Bible to abide in us as His Son Jesus Christ, and that we should listen to Him.
When Jesus said “you do not have His word abiding in you” that does not mean the people could not quote or recite the Scriptures. It means the Bible is not abiding in them as the Son of God indeed.
The scribes and Pharisees could quote the Scriptures, but Jesus says they don’t believe the Scriptures are Christ the Son of God whom He sent. As it is written, “He sent His word” (Psalm 107:20).
The Word of God is Jesus Christ, and He is whom the Father sent. The apostle John explained that the Word was made flesh, which was the Word of God in human form (see John 1:14).
Jesus says, “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you” (John 15:7). That is the system. You abide in the Bible, and the Bible abides in you as the Christ, the Son of the living God.
God is still speaking to us clearly today. His heavenly voice is sounding mightily throughout the whole world. And that voice is speaking through the Bible.
PRAYER
Dear Lord, the Mediator of the new covenant that speaks better things, come into my heart, come in today, come in to stay. Amen.
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