And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. (ver. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. Alas! In these two points of view, more particularly, John gives testimony to Christ; He is the lamb as the taker away of the world's sin; the same is He who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal 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. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus 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. (ver. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. . (Ver. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. John was not yet cast into prison. 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. 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. reasons of his departure, were to prevent the attempt; to show In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. (Verses John 1:44-51). He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. 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. alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and (Ver. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. This would make all manifest. 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. John 6:15King James Version. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). 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. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). Do they receive Him not? But it is important we should know how He entered the world. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. 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. 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? 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. No man hath seen God at any time. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 64). As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. , And this very circumstance is perhaps the cause, that nowhere do we read that Jesus, whilst He teas sojourning on the earth, entered, even though that town was very close to Jerusalem. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. John 5. (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. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. 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." It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. 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. Thus the Holy Ghost, given by the Son in humiliation (according to God, not acting on law, but according to the gift of grace in the gospel), was fully set forth; but the woman, though interested, and asking, only apprehended a boon for this life to save herself trouble here below. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Nor was it yet complete. 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. 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. 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. 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. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. king; But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. 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. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. 42). (Verse John 3:10). "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? THE WORLD'S GREATEST . The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. This is the only miracle recorded in all four of the gospel accounts. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. 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." 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. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, (Ver. "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." But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. 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! (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? 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. (Ver. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. 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. The Father and the Son were at work. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." (Ver. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. 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. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. Salem Media Group. (ver. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. And in this He is sovereign. Why should He not show Himself to the world? Art thou that prophet? and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. , to snatch suddenly and forcibly (derived from the swoop of the falcon, the ; hence, the Harpies). And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. A death knell is the ringing of a church bell immediately after a death to announce it. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. 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. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. 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. (Ver. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. Read full chapter. Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. * 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." The question really is, whether man would trust God. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. 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, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. It was not so. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 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. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. "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." Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, 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. 2. (Ver. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. Fritzsche, p. 21). The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. (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. 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. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? (1-4) A crowd gathers to Jesus near the Sea of Galilee. He was God. "Master, eat," said they. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. The answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. 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. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. 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. 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