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. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. (Ver. 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. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. 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. (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Of this we learn nothing, here. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. (Ver. GOD LOVES YOU. One must be born again. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. WebJohn was the most popular name given to male infants in the United States until 1924, and though its use has fallen off gradually since then, John was still the 20th most common name for boys on the Social Security Administration 's list of names given in 2006. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. The Jews were not satisfied with that, but demanded still that he should be put to death, John 19:39-40. 1 John 4:16-19 New International Version 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. 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." No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. It was sabbath-day. Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. 2. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. Observe: not which was, but "which is." We discuss being disciples not admirers of Christ. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. Realizing that the woman would have to see her personal sin before she could see her spiritual need, Jesus began to speak of her marital affairs. "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." God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." 1 John 4:19. Alas! "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) 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. 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. 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. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. You are right when you say you have no husband. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. 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. And he answered, No. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. 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. WebThis summary of the Gospel of John provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Gospel of John. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. No charge could be remoter from the truth. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. * 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." On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. 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. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! Do they receive Him not? How truly it is man under law! Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. And in this He is sovereign. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. 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. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. Nay, "the world knew him not." The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. 2. : an apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of 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. They crown Jesus with thorns and dress him in a purple robe. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. Nor was it yet complete. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. 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. 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). Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. 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. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! (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. Then (ver. 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. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. John 3:1-36 follows this up. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. How striking the omission! What you have just said is quite true.. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. 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. 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. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. 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 can such have relationship with God? Johns answer goes down to the depths, for his notion of love is the response of the believing soul to the love of God which was manifested on the Cross of Calvary. (ver. 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? 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. 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. 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