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. They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. 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. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? And he saith, I am not. 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. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. 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 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." (Ver. (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. How truly it is man under law! "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. 2. Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. and inasmuch as death is the last enemy, the destruction of the remaining powers ("when he shall have destroyed all rule and authority and power") will have to be understood not as a final struggle beginning after the parousia, but as the definite victory of christ that has already begun in his cross and resurrection and exaltation (cf., e.g., of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. John 6:15 Context. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. 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. "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." Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. 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. Phil 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Predetermined performance - no will involved. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. (Ver. 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. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. (Ver. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. What sayest thou of thyself? John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. 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. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. 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. 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. (Verses John 5:17-18). (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. . The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. Then (ver. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. 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. It was sabbath-day. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . 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. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. John 3:1-36 follows this up. 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. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." Rev 20:7, 14 states death is thrown into into the lake of fire after the thousand year period. (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. No man hath seen God at any time. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. But what we learn is, that our Lord (viewed as having entered into heaven as man on the ground of redemption, i.e., ascended, after having passed through death, into glory) from that glory confers meanwhile the Holy Ghost on him that believes, instead of bringing in at once the final feast of gladness for the Jews and the world, as He will do by-and-by when the anti-typical harvest and vintage has been fulfilled. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." 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. All rights reserved. (Verses John 4:31-38). 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 thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. 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. And he answered, No. 1. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. (Ver. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. "He must, increase, but I decrease." "In the consistory of Dec. 15, 1958 . This we have had fully before. For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. Catalogue entry. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. Nor was it yet complete. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. 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. [whose?] But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. 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. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. 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. 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. 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. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! John 6:15 in all English translations. man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. 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. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. 1 Cor 15:26 states that Christ will reign until the destruction of death. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. (John 12:48). 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. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. 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. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. No charge could be remoter from the truth. (Verses John 7:40-53). "The law was given by Moses." There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. They were on the way to Jerusalem, and they were thirsting to throw off the yoke of Rome and of . but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. Nay, "the world knew him not." Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. 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. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. How striking the omission! John was not yet cast into prison. What can be more evident, or more instructive? And such was Jesus. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." alone; Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. 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. 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. "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." They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. 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. What love! This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. seize him in order that they might make him King. thinking about a temporal kingdom, as the people, and might There He supposes His full rejection and death. (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a king; that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or "had it in . The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a 64). This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. 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. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. 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. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. John 6:15. and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, These are a test of evangelical authenticity. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. through "sin." The question really is, whether man would trust God. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Salem Media Group. "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 rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. When Jesus therefore perceived A death knell is the ringing of a church bell immediately after a death to announce it. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? 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). There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. even took not his disciples with him, who were in the same way of Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. 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. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. mountain alone". 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. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. 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." Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. for he knew He was the Christ. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Art thou that prophet? How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! * 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 Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. Flesh and world are judged morally. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. John 6:15 in all English translations. (Ver. 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. John 6:15. Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Read full chapter. 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. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught.
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