# 377 He Did Nothing Of Himself

The Book of Genesis

Day 377

Ge 41: 32 "And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

We  are taking a little break from the study in Genesis to pursue the importance of repetition in the Scriptures. In particular we are looking at the “verily, verilies” found in the Gospel of John. When God repeats things, He is merely underlining or highlighting them for us. He gives them an extra sense of urgency.

Today we will look at Joh 5:18,19, “Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.  19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

“Verily, verily,” this is important stuff, Jesus does not deny the allegations of the Jews, in fact He emphasizes the truth of their allegations with the words, “verily, verily!” God the Father and God the Son are one!  Grasp that by faith, it’s an underlined truth,  and let’s move on to still another lesson here.

If the Son can do nothing of Himself, what makes you think you can? If the Son is that reliant on the Father, then we, who have received Jesus, must be reliant as well. This is the essence of grace, trusting Jesus rather than our flesh. Ro 8:13-15, says, “For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.  15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."

Do you see how important it is to stop striving to keep the Law in your own power? You can’t do it! Attempting to live as a Christian in the strength of your flesh will put you into bondage. God’s children are not in bondage, freedom is one of their characteristics. (If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!)

As children of God, through faith in Jesus, we are free to trust the Spirit to put the deeds of our flesh to death! The Spirit of God will never lead you to break the Law of God, only the world, the devil, and your flesh will do that. But Christ has over come those three and “did nothing of Himself,” but only what the Father told Him to do! Let us seek to do the same!