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. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. 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. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." 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. 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. A person (the bell ringer) would place a leather muffle over half of the bell's clapper. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. How striking the omission! How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. (Ver. The Father seeks worshippers. And in this He is sovereign. 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. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. Here the Lord introduces the cross. So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and , 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. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. (Ver. The law works no deliverance; it puts a man in chains, prison, darkness, and under condemnation; it renders him a patient, or a criminal incompetent to avail himself of the displays of God's goodness. 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. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. John 6:15. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. These are a test of evangelical authenticity. . God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. Augustine believed God's purposes were always being fulfilled, the gospel was always advancing into "the nations at the four corners of the earth." The saints who had been spiritually raised to. encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went But here it was not God's purpose to record it. 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. 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. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? Presented by. It was sabbath-day. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. 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. 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. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. John 6:15 in all English translations. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. 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). How can such have relationship with God? Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. It was not so. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. (ver. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. What can be more evident, or more instructive? 2. (Ver. So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. So only is man born of God. The result immediately follows. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. 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. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. Observe: not which was, but "which is." The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. 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. he would not. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. John was not yet cast into prison. This movement was not an unnatural one. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. The answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! "had it in their mind", as the Persic; to gather about him as one 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. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. Such shall live. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, 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. What love! Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. 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. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. 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. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. 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., "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." 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. Why should He not show Himself to the world? (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. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal What a witness all this to His person! Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." 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