This series is not for Christians necessarily. However, I do hope you are one of those saints who still loves to hear the “Old, old story of Jesus and His love” — As another hymn says, “For those who know it best Seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest.” This series is primarily for unbelievers, so they can hear and understand the Gospel and be saved from sin and the punishment of sin which is hell. This is message number 57.
After all that the Jewish religious leaders had heard from Jesus, you can imagine the shocked looks on their faces. Here was a man who, in no uncertain terms, told them that He was God, that He had authority over the Law, and that He had authority over their lives and their eternal destiny. There was something about the way He said these things that made them realize He was serious. Under other circumstances, they would have dismissed Him as a lunatic at best or immediately dragged Him off to be whipped or stoned for blasphemy at worst. But, they didn’t. They stood there listening to Jesus talking — and, notice, they didn’t interrupt Him here.
The important question today is: Which resurrection will you be a part of?
Now, it might sound like the resurrection that you are a part of is determined by your works — “they that have done good” and “they that have done evil.” But if we square this with all of the Gospel of John (and all of the Bible), we see that this is not the case. The “good” works and “evil” works spoken of here stem from a person’s decision to accept or reject Jesus Christ. Accepting Christ is a good work, and all that is done under Christ’s influence is good. Rejecting Christ is an evil work, and all that is done under the influence of the flesh and the devil is evil.