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Ses s i on 3: Our Sav i or , Our Judge , and Our Bread 63

4. The Father judges no one, but gives all judgment to the Son , 5.22.

5. All may honor the Son just as they honor the Father . A failure to honor the Son results in dishonor to the Father who sent him, 5.23.

6. Those who hear the Son’s words and believe in the one who sent him have eternal life, will not come into judgment, but pass from death to life, 5.24.

7. At the right time, the dead will hear the Son’s voice and live , 5.25.

8. As the Father has life in himself , he has given the Son to also have life in himself , 5.26.

9. The Father has given the authority of judgment to the Son of man , 5.27 (cf. Dan. 7.13-14).

10. One day soon all in the tombs shall hear the voice of the Son , and those who have done good shall rise to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment, 5.28-29.

B. The witnesses which speak of Jesus’ identity, 5.30-47

Jesus is God’s faithful shaliach , or agent, the one who acts as representative of another as himself, backed by his full authority. Moses and the OT prophets acted as God’s shaliach , standing, speaking, and acting in God’s stead. After Jesus’ death, the apostles and the people of God are viewed as God’s agents and ambassadors as well (2 Cor. 5.20).