There He supposes His full rejection and death. (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. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. All is in the character of the Son of man. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! 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. (Ver. 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. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. to let them know, that those who sought only for a temporal 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. This we have had fully before. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. Do they receive Him not? Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." 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. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. (Ver. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. Read full chapter. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. The Father seeks worshippers. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. , , . But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. 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." Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. mountain alone". 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. 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). So only is man born of God. (Ver. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. 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. The thrust of Lindsey's book is two-fold: First, it espouses the premillennial theory of Christ's second coming. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. When the crowd complains of hunger, the disciples who are mentioned each react in unique ways. 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. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. king; What sayest thou of thyself? The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. But the erosion of Tradition began long ago, without their knowledge, as will be shown below. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. It was not so. "In the consistory of Dec. 15, 1958 . Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. 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 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 best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. he departed again into a mountain, himself (Ver. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. How truly it is man under law! 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. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. 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. The premillennial concept is the result of literalizing a few symbolic verses in the book of Revelation, coupled with a considerable disregard for scores of Bible passages of clearest import. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! (Ver. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. 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. Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) 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. Nevertheless, the heavenly part is little dwelt on, as John's gospel displays our Lord more as the expression of God revealed on earth, than as Man ascended to heaven, which fell far more to the province of the apostle of the Gentiles. , 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. Such shall live. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. This movement was not an unnatural one. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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." (Ver. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. John 5. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. "He must, increase, but I decrease." even took not his disciples with him, who were in the same way of (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. When Jesus therefore perceived. In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. 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. 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. They could not deny Him to be man 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. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. 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." 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. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. 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. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. This is grace and truth. 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. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. 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. 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." (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. The sound goes back and forth between a harder chime and a muffled chime. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." Art thou that prophet? and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, (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. This Blog is really a continuation of my Previous Blog "Why Israel Has a Future in God's Plans - Romans 9-11 and the People of God" By Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D. forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and Do any believe on His name? How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. 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. 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. And such was Jesus. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. 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. 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. 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. 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