All this clearly goes down to millennial days. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. But let them beware how they perverted it. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 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." (Ver. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. 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. 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. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. John 7:25-31) He is going where they cannot come, and never guessed (for unbelief thinks of the dispersed among the Greeks of anything rather than of God). "The law was given by Moses." Expand. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. 1 John 4:19. 7 He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe. Very simple words! The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 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. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. The Father and the Son were at work. Jesus is crowned, clothed, and proclaimed king by Roman soldiers. 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. This would make all manifest. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. 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. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. WebJohn repeats that people must believe in Jesus as the Son of God in order to be saved, and that love for God is inseparable from love for Gods people (5:1). (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. 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. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. 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. John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." We discuss being disciples not admirers of Christ. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." He exhorts the saints not to believe every man that came with a doctrine to them, but to try them, since there were many false teachers in the world; and gives a rule by which they may be tried and judged, as that whatever teacher owns Christ to be come in the flesh is of God, but he that does not is not of God, but is the spirit of antichrist that should come, and was in the world, 1Jo 4:1,2, but, for the comfort of those to whom he writes, he observes, that they were of God, and had overcome these false teachers, through the mighty power of the divine Spirit in them, who is greater than Satan, and all his emissaries, 1Jo 4:4. but they go down into the depths of God, lifting burdens off the heart of humanity, turning duty into delight, and changing the aspect of all things. WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. (Ver. How was this? 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. (sometimes initial capital letter) a prostitute's customer. 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. At first she tried to hide her sins, but Jesus 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. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. (Ver. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. 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." All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. 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. 2. : an apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. We love him, because he first loved us. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. What you have just said is quite true.. (Ver. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. 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. And in this He is sovereign. What can be more evident, or more instructive? His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. The result immediately follows. 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. 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." He distinguishes between seducing spirits, and faithful ministers of the word; the former are of the world, speak of worldly things, and worldly men hear them; but the latter are of God, and they that have any spiritual knowledge of God hear them; but such as are not of God do not heal them, by which may he known the spirit of truth from the spirit of error, 1Jo 4:5,6. Henrys plan (1173) to assign to John, his favourite son (whom he had nicknamed Lackland), extensive lands upon his marriage with the daughter of Humbert III, count of Maurienne (Savoy), was defeated by the rebellion the proposal provoked among Johns elder brothers. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. How striking the omission! In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of grace and truth. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. 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. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. (Ver. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. NIV. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. 1 John 4:19. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Web1 John 4:17. This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. And then the apostle returns to his former exhortation to brotherly love, which he enforces by the following reasons, because it is of God, a fruit of his Spirit and grace, and because it is an evidence of being born of God, and of having a true knowledge of him; whereas he that is destitute of it does not know him, seeing God is love, 1Jo 4:7,8, and having affirmed that God is love, he proves it, by the mission of his Son, to be a propitiation for the sins of such that did not love him, and that they might live through him; wherefore he argues, that if God had such a love to men, so undeserving of it, then the saints ought to love one another, 1Jo 4:9-11. (Ver. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. (Ver. of Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. 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. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! Such shall live. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. The apostle attests this. 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. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. Also called john mule . God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of the Bible you can use in your small group. (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. Jesus not only could go up, as He did later, but He had come down thence, and, even though man, He was the Son of man that is in heaven. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." 3 Reasons Proverbs 23:7 Says 'As a Man Thinks, So He Is'. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. He who How truly it is man under law! John 4:16. * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." At the end of fiscal 2032, it predicts, the total federal debt will be $44.797 trillion. 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. 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