False and True Believers

At the end of our Lord's public ministry as recorded in John's Gospel, we read of a kind of summary of His teaching and of the responsibility that people have to hear, believe, and live according to what He had taught them. In these final public words our Lord affirms both the eternal blessedness of the one who believes Him and His words, but also the everlasting ruin of those who fail or refuse to believe on Him. He also asserted that all honor and faith rendered unto Him is honor and faith rendered onto His Father, for He came on His behalf; He came in His stead.