Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more (ver. Deeper questions demanded solution. 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. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for 1 John 4:16-19 "WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE" I. 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. 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. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. He saw him under the fig tree. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? 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." WebThe proof of the later date of John's Gospel is in such references as 1:32, and 3:24, which assume a previous knowledge of the facts on the part of his readers. First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." 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. We discuss being disciples not admirers of Christ. Web1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 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! God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. New Living Translation. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. (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. (Ver. 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. John was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. 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. 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. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. 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. 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. A person falling thousands of feet through the air would experience sheer terrorunless they knew a parachute would soon open. Author. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. 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. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? 3 Reasons Proverbs 23:7 Says 'As a Man Thinks, So He Is'. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. If He judges, it is not without full warning. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" It was not that they were better than their neighbours. (Ver. , , . (ver. 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. Expand. There He supposes His full rejection and death. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. He distinguishes between seducing spirits, and faithful ministers of the word; the former are of the world, speak of worldly things, and worldly men hear them; but the latter are of God, and they that have any spiritual knowledge of God hear them; but such as are not of God do not heal them, by which may he known the spirit of truth from the spirit of error, 1Jo 4:5,6. (Verses John 4:31-38). It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). ? 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. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 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. It was not so. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. Art thou Elias? 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. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. Observe: not which was, but "which is." 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. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. (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? What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. 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. Christ's road from Judea to In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. 1 John 4:16-19. 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. 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! 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. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. saith unto her, fie, call thy husband, and come hither. 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." 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. John 3:1-36 follows this up. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. This He does in verses 16-19. God is love. 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. Web1 John 4:16 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. 17 This is how love is made complete This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. God loves us as a father loves his own son. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. It is found also in the omissions of all the material of the Synoptics down to the passion. Alas! What sayest thou of thyself? Jesus is crowned, clothed, and proclaimed king by Roman soldiers. In this chapter the apostle cautions against seducing spirits; advises to try them, and gives rules by which they may be known, and by which they are distinguished from others; and then returns to his favourite subject, brotherly love. Web1. 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). How can such have relationship with God? 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. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. 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. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. (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. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. 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). He exhorts the saints not to believe every man that came with a doctrine to them, but to try them, since there were many false teachers in the world; and gives a rule by which they may be tried and judged, as that whatever teacher owns Christ to be come in the flesh is of God, but he that does not is not of God, but is the spirit of antichrist that should come, and was in the world, 1Jo 4:1,2, but, for the comfort of those to whom he writes, he observes, that they were of God, and had overcome these false teachers, through the mighty power of the divine Spirit in them, who is greater than Satan, and all his emissaries, 1Jo 4:4. NIV. 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. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time 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. As an experienced minister, Alistair shares his approach to preaching. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. 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. "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." WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. (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. 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. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? Salem Media Group. 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. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. (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. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." KJV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. YLT John 4:19 The woman saith to him, 'Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet; ASV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. And they asked him, What then? If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. 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. 1 John 4:19. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. He was God. For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. Web1 John 4:17. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. What you have just said is quite true.. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. Instead, Pilate has Jesus flogged (John 19:1). 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. 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 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. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk."
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