John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. (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? 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. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. "For God," He says, "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. alone; Presented by. What can be more evident, or more instructive? to let them know, that those who sought only for a temporal "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 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. of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be 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. John was not yet cast into prison. thinking about a temporal kingdom, as the people, and might Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. 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. When Jesus therefore perceived John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. 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. some copies add, "and he prayed there"; the Syriac, Ethiopic, and king; "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Man is morally judged. 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. No charge could be remoter from the truth. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. (Verses John 1:44-51). Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. I will answer this question on why I am a Historic Premillennialist in 5 Parts: 1. Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. It was sabbath-day. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. Such shall live. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. 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. Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. This is why premillennial-ism is based on a kind of hermeneutical fundamental of the Christian Faith. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? 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. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. When Jesus therefore perceived. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 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. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 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. 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. In John 6:15 we read that "when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to a mountain by Himself alone." I have often considered this verse to be the death-knell of premillennialism. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. 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. He was God. One must be born again. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. C. Death knell for "Good Pope John" . Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. [whose?] (Ver. "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." 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. (Ver. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . 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. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. 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. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. (John 12:48). 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. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. 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. (Verses John 4:31-38). After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Verse 15. Without sign, prodigy, or miracle, in this village of Samaria Jesus was heard, known, confessed as truly the Saviour of the world ("the Christ" being absent in the best authorities, ver. 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 aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? There was purpose in it. their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a "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." 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. He saw him under the fig tree. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. John 6:15 in all English translations. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? (ver. They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. (Ver. 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. 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. (Ver. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. infinite truth! Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. 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 ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. 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. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. (Ver. alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." As mentioned in verse 10, the unbeliever is calling God a liar, in that he or she refuses to believe in God's testimony, namely, that which "God has given about His Son" (vs.10). 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. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. However, we know that Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Father shortly after His resurrection and ascension (Hebrews 8:1; Revelation 4:2). On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? Rev 20:7, 14 states death is thrown into into the lake of fire after the thousand year period. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. What a witness all this to His person! And he answered, No. Second, it interprets present world political trends as signs of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. 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. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! 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. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. 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. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? 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. If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. It was not so. This He does in verses 16-19. Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. (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. 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. 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. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. Premillenialism is that system of religious belief that holds that Christ didn't set up a kingdom when he was on earth because the Jews rejected it but will one day return to set up an earthly kingdom in which Christ will reign on the earth for a thousand years. 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. John 6:15. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. But this is not the question of grace: not what she was, but what He is who was there to win and bless her, manifesting God and the Father withal, practically and in detail. Do any believe on His name? Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. 15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. (Ver. 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! 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. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. 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. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 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. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? This would make all manifest. 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. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. (Ver. How can such have relationship with God? They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." And they asked him, What then? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. "Master, eat," said they. and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, 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." California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." How little they conceived of what was then said and done! John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." Alas! But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! 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? 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 could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. For He who spoke was divine. Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). 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