Learning to Live by Another Life
I. Entering Into the Experience of Life - John 5:1-16
- A. Dealing with superstition and tradition - John 5:1-7
- B. Desiring to be changed - John 5:6
- C. Receiving the impartation of life through the Word - John 5:8,
11; Acts 5:20-21a;
Rom. 10:17
- D. Remaining one with our true condition - John 5:14; Rom. 6:11-12
II. The Principles of Living By Another Life - John 5:17-47
- A. Defining "Another Life" - John 5:32 ("Another")
- 1. The Triune God - John 5:26; 6:63
- 2. The Father in the Son (John 14:10-11) as the Spirit (John 14:16-18;
7:37-39)
- B. Cooperating with the divine operation - John 5:17; Phil. 2:12-13
- 1. Based upon inner union - John 5:18; 10:30; 17:20-21
- C. Living our life on the basis of divine revelation - John 5:19-20,
30; Rom. 12:1-2
- 1. Cultivating intimacy with Jesus brings in revelation - John 5:20;
16:27
- 2. Revelation changes the source of our living - John 5:19, 30
- 3. The capacity for greater revelation - John 5:20; 1 Cor. 2:9-16
- 4. The revelation of the uniqueness and value of Christ - John 5:21-23
- D. Knowing the principle of receiving and giving life - John 5:24-26;
6:53, 57
- 1. The relationship between His voice and His Word - John 5:24-25;
Heb. 4:2, 6-7, 12
- 2. Present resurrected life and future resurrected life - John 5:24-29
- E. Having the confirming witness of others - John 5:30-37
- F. Enjoying a life and love relationship with the Lord in the Scriptures
- John 5:38-47