Who Will Judge Us...the Father or the Son?

Tom:

Dave this program is about encouraging people to get into God’s Word and as I think back to the first segment that we did, we want people to know the true and living God.We want them to know Jesus Christ, his Son, who as we have just said, paid the full penalty for our sins.The best way they can do that—we appreciate them listening to us, but we want them to search the scriptures, read God’s Word and in this segment we are going through the Gospel of John and as you said earlier in our program, that’s the place to begin if they have never read the Bible before.Right now we are in John:5:22For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
See All..., “For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son….”Now Dave, we get lots of letters.Even before we started radio, we got lots of letters in this ministry saying that we are too critical, too judgmental.The Bible says don’t be looking to somebody else before your own splinter out of your own eye.

Dave:

Judge not that ye be not judged.Don’t try to cast a moat out of someone else’s eye when you have a beam in your own.But in that very chapter, Matthew 7, he talks about false prophets.So apparently we have to judge, so the judging there is judging motives, not judging deeds and false doctrine.

Tom:

And we are not judging them based on our own criteria; we’re trying to hold up God’s Word.But what does this mean: the Father judgeth no man?

Dave:

He has committed all judgment unto the Son.You know there was a little tract out there years ago.I think it was a Jack Chick tract, and I don’t agree with everything that Jack Chick puts out, and I can’t even remember all of this tract, so but I remember that finally the man was standing before God and what do you know, God was a man, Jesus.Well God became a man in the person of Jesus Christ.“I and my Father are one.”The Babe born in Bethlehem—it says—the Hebrew prophet Isaiah said, it’s the mighty God, the everlasting Father, so God became a man and I think the tract as I recall showed somebody maybe standing there saying I’m an illegitimate child, I don’t even know who my father was and you know the pain that I endured and somebody else had some other thing.I was a minority race and I was hated and I was misunderstood and everybody, no matter what they said, the one sitting on the throne judging them said yes, I endured that, that happened to me.So the Father, God himself and God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit are one, three persons in one God.But they find themselves face to face with a man.God became a man, he suffered; he endured.The scripture says he was tested at every point like we are tempted.Now he was not drawn to sin, but he faced the possibility of it.Every temptation, every test that a human being could face, he faced.Now you can’t stand there at the great white throne judgment—this is Revelation 20, and say to God, yeah, but you don’t know what it’s like to be a man.You didn’t endure this, because he did.He became a man and he lived a perfect sinless life.And he condemned sin, [the] scripture says, by his life—he condemned sin in the flesh.There is no excuse for any of us.Oh yeah, but he’s God.Yes, but he did it as a man.He is God, but as the man Christ Jesus, trusting in his Father, saying I can’t of my own self do nothing, what the Father does, that’s what I do, and he proved that sin is not necessary.You don’t have to sin.Whoa, wait a minute, now you are teaching sinless perfection.No I am not.John says if we say we haven’t sinned we deceive ourselves, if we say we are without sin.But can you be kept from sin for one second, five seconds, and ten seconds?Well I don’t know, our hearts are pretty deceitful.We don’t even know the sinful pride and whatever that goes on in our hearts.But Jesus condemned sin in the flesh by his perfect sinless life as a man in obedience to and reliance upon his Father.And he will be the judge.I’ve taken a long time on that, but I think it is worth it.

Tom:

Sure.

Dave:

The Father doesn’t judge.It’s not God the Father who judges.It is the Son who judges all men and he is the one who became a man.

Tom:

Right.Dave, one of the things we’ve been talking about, about the gospel of John, a particular issue that keeps being reinforced is that Jesus is God.Now here we have “for the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son.”You don’t do that to a finite being, to just some guy who was born in Bethlehem and lived in Nazareth.

Dave:

And again, Tom we are talking about concepts of God.This is an absolutely unique concept of God.You will not find it in any of the religious writings.This is in the Bible only.The Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three persons, one God.And the Son of God came to this earth as a man, became a man through the Virgin birth, and because of who he is, he could represent the human race and yet he’s God as we mentioned earlier.Infinite, therefore he could pay the infinite penalty that his own infinite justice required for our sins.You will find that no where, no where, in any religious writings any where in the history or any culture any where in this world.

Tom:

Dave, even more than that, based on our first segment, we talked about the Qur’an; about Allah.The view that Muslims take is contradictory to this.So you have to make a choice.You can’t kind of smooth these things over and say oh okay, you kind of believe this and we sort of believe that.No, they are contradictory!

Dave:

Not only contradictory regarding God (the difference between Allah and Yahweh), but contradictory regarding Jesus.The Muslims teach that Jesus, instead of dying in our place, someone died in his place.A look alike disciple took Jesus’ place and Jesus didn’t even die.He was taken to heaven alive and he must come back again as a man and die.I mean this is so contrary to the Word of God.This is anti—Islam is anti-Christian, is what it is.

Tom:

Okay, and for those who drawing back to what we said, look at the next verse, “That all [men] should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father….” Now in Islam in their view of Allah, they wouldn’t put Muhammad on the same plane with….

Dave:

Exactly.

Tom:

But here we have it.

Dave:

Again, it is a claim for the deity of Jesus Christ.You couldn’t possibly—how could any man take the honor that belongs to God and yet is said—Jesus is making the statement.He is claiming that he is one with the Father, that he is God.Why the Bible says, the God of the Bible says I will not share my honor with anyone, okay?So this one—Jesus Christ, must be God himself.

Tom:

Continuing, “That all [men] should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.”

Dave:

2 John he says anyone who does not bring the doctrine of Christ, you don’t even let him in your house.You don’t say “God bless you,” because if you do not have Christ the Son, you do not have the Father.And we only come to the Father through the Son and therefore this is very, very serious.“He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.”Now we’re back to a concept (if somebody wants to say that) of God.God is the Father.Wait a minute.Allah—in the Qur’an it says Allah is not a Father and he has no son.Now how are we going to put these two together?The God of the Bible is the loving, heavenly Father.Jesus taught his disciples to pray, “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name…” and so forth.You do not do that as a Muslim.You cannot come to Allah in this way.You can’t even know Allah, and Allah is certainly not a father and Allah is not the loving God of the Bible.So, “He that honors not the Son honors not the Father,” and he does not have the Father.That’s why Jesus said, “I am THE way, THE truth and THE life, no man comes to the Father but by me.”John in his first epistle, chapter five said, this is the witness that God has given us eternal life and this life is in his Son.He that has the Son has eternal life; he that has not the Son has not life” and Jesus himself said in John:3:36He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
See All... said, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”Now we have Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.You can’t separate them.

Tom:

And Dave they are saying something very specific here.You can not just kind of waffle through them or accommodate them to every other view.It’s the true and living God as he has revealed himself, or it’s everyone’s opinion.

Dave:

And this revelation in the Bible is absolutely unique.You will not find it anywhere else.It doesn’t come from culture; it doesn’t come from someone’s ideas, it comes from God himself who has revealed himself and Jesus said this is life eternal to know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent and we just couldn’t make it more emphatic.Come to Jesus Christ, believe who he is, that he is God who paid the penalty for your sins and receive the pardon and eternal life that he offers as a free gift.