And such was Jesus. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. In Mark 1:14-15, Jesus told those around Him that the kingdom was as hand. Here the Lord was really owned by the multitudes as the great Prophet that should come; and this in consequence of His works, especially that one which Scripture itself had connected with the Son of David. But "as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must ( ) the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. As this chapter sets forth the Lord Jesus with singular fulness of glory, on the side both of His Godhead and of His manhood, so it closes with the most varied and remarkable testimonies God has given to us, that there may be no excuse. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. Do any believe on His name? Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. Such shall live. to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." John was not yet cast into prison. Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." conjunction with the Lord's Second Coming) (Hebert 2006c:5-6). The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. through "sin." If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. This would make all manifest. The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. The Father seeks worshippers. So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone. Then (ver. What a witness all this to His person! The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. The answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." Flesh and world are judged morally. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. Of course they are just as truly inspired as John's; but for that very reason they were not inspired to give the same testimony. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. In Mark 9:1, Jesus promised that some of the very ones in His presence would not see death until they saw the kingdom come with power. John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. How was this? Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. Presented by. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. Jesus, therefore, answered, "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. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? for he that could do this, what was it he could not do? Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. "The law was given by Moses." In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. Man is morally judged. but. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. By MELANIE ZANONA. (ver. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." Verse John 6:15. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." 1. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. He saw him under the fig tree. John 7. The law works no deliverance; it puts a man in chains, prison, darkness, and under condemnation; it renders him a patient, or a criminal incompetent to avail himself of the displays of God's goodness. And in this He is sovereign. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. This is grace and truth. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? How can such have relationship with God? As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. (Ver. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." (Ver. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. Alas! Read full chapter. His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. The question really is, whether man would trust God. Verse 15. John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. As there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. John 5. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. [whose?] Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." of 42). We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. mountain alone". This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. Life resurrection will display how little they had to be ashamed of, who believed the record given of His Son; the resurrection of judgment will make but too plain, to those who despised the Lord, both His honour and their sin and shame. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. he would not. So only is man born of God. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. (Verse John 3:10). Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. Phil 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Predetermined performance - no will involved. John 6:15. 15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. Ringing of the death bells is done slowly and reverently. Here, in suited circumstances to render the thought and way of God unmistakable, pure and boundless grace takes its own sovereign course, suitable to the love and personal glory of Christ. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. Salem Media Group. Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. 4. When the crowd complains of hunger, the disciples who are mentioned each react in unique ways. Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the How striking the omission! In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. (Ed. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. For Jesus perceived that they were on the point of coming and carrying Him off to make Him king. P07901 Death Knell for John Knox 1972 Etching 18 5/8 19 3/4 (473 500) on paper watermarked 'Arches France' 37 3/8 29 1/2 (955 750) printed by Jack Shirreff, Westbury and published by the artist Inscribed 'John Bellany 72' b.r. This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. There was purpose in it. (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. redeemer, were unworthy of his presence: and also he went away Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. (Ver. support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; The Father and the Son were at work. Alas! What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." John 6:15 Context. The premillennial concept is the result of literalizing a few symbolic verses in the book of Revelation, coupled with a considerable disregard for scores of Bible passages of clearest import. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. What love! Death knell. For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. This, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. How withering the words! 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. John 3:1-36 follows this up. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. Nor would the rejected Christ, the Son of man; for if lifted up on the cross, instead of having the throne of David, the result would be not merely earthly blessing for His people according to prophecy, but eternal life for the believer, whoever. When Jesus therefore perceived. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. reasons of his departure, were to prevent the attempt; to show John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. THE WORLD'S GREATEST . For He who spoke was divine. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. John 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. 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