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. 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. Death knell. 2. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: (ver. 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. 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. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. 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 while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. 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." Why should He not show Himself to the world? 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. 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. 1. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. for he that could do this, what was it he could not do? he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." No man hath seen God at any time. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, En une ardeur de zele inconsidere et temeraire. Art thou that prophet? Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. Clarke's Commentary. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 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). Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. "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." The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. (John 12:48). Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. John 7. 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." He was God. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. 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). This He does in verses 16-19. Jesus Walks on the Sea. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. Of this we learn nothing, here. 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. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. For He who spoke was divine. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. 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. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? - Jesus therefore knowing (having found, perceived (), by ominous movements in the crowd, or in any other way still more explicit) that they were about to come and by violence, or force, seize him in order that they might make him King. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. 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. 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. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. (Verses John 1:44-51). 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. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. This is grace and truth. 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. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." 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 bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake: He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or 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. 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. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. John 6:15. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. THE WORLD'S GREATEST . But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. 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. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! 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"). He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. One must be born again. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." (Ver. What love! As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. He saw him under the fig tree. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. All rights reserved. , , . Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. 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. 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. 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. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Nay, "the world knew him not." There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. But if the Spirit speaks of the Son of God, the law dwindles at once into the smallest possible proportions: everything yields to the honour the Father puts oil the Son. [whose?] 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. This would make all manifest. (Verses John 7:40-53). Scripture is, or may be, before man always. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. Deeper questions demanded solution. "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." Rev 20:7, 14 states death is thrown into into the lake of fire after the thousand year period. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. 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. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. 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! The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. 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. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. Christ here, it will be noticed, is not so much the quickening agent as Son of God (John 5:1-47), but the object of faith as Son of man first incarnate, to be eaten; then dying and giving His flesh to be eaten, and His blood to be drank. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. Historically it was the second of three bells rung around death, the first being the passing bell to warn of impending death, and the last was the lych bell or corpse bell, which survives today as the funeral toll . Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. It was not so. This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. John 6:16. 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. The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. 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. 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." (Ver. The Father and the Son were at work. (ver. 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. 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. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. What sayest thou of thyself? The contrasts are as strong, at least, as the resemblance with the healing of the centurion's servant in Matthew 13:1-58 and Luke 7:1-50, which some ancients and moderns have confounded with this, as they did Mary's anointing of Jesus with the sinful woman's in Luke 7:1-50. of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be 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. 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. . (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? 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. This leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. They cite the rise of an unbiblical and dangerous allegorical hermeneutic (by such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen) which took a sad toll on sound biblical exegesis. 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. (Verses John 5:17-18). For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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