"Master, eat," said they. 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." Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 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 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. Art thou that prophet? The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. 18 There is no 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. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. WebThe Witness of John. 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. 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. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. Of course, the experience will still be intense. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. "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." And he answered, No. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. ii. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? If He judges, it is not without full warning. 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. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. (Ver. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. . The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. 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. It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. Although the authorship of the Johannine works has traditionally been attributed to John the Apostle, only a minority of But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. He acts as such. Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. (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? Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. 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. John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. 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. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. (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. 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. 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 can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? 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 is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. How striking the omission! "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. infinite truth! All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." 1 John 4:19, NASB: We love, because He first loved us. For The Baltimore Sun. This is the heart of the message of the Bible. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. Who Is Lillith and Why Don't We Find Her in Our Bible? a toilet or bathroom. 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. 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. WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. The way you see God has everything to do with how you approach Him, how you relate to Him. NET John 4:16 He said to her, "Go call your husband and come back here." NLT John 4:16 "Go and get your husband," Jesus told her. ESV John 4:16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." 1 John 4:19. 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. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. Expand. Web1. What love! Author. And then the apostle returns to his former exhortation to brotherly love, which he enforces by the following reasons, because it is of God, a fruit of his Spirit and grace, and because it is an evidence of being born of God, and of having a true knowledge of him; whereas he that is destitute of it does not know him, seeing God is love, 1Jo 4:7,8, and having affirmed that God is love, he proves it, by the mission of his Son, to be a propitiation for the sins of such that did not love him, and that they might live through him; wherefore he argues, that if God had such a love to men, so undeserving of it, then the saints ought to love one another, 1Jo 4:9-11. * 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." There He supposes His full rejection and death. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. 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. Such shall live. (16-19) Jesus speaks of her sinful life. 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. God is love. 42 And he brought him to Jesus. What a witness all this to His person! 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." 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. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. 17 This is how love is 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. 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 the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." (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. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. but they go down into the depths of God, lifting burdens off the heart of humanity, turning duty into delight, and changing the aspect of all things. This He does in verses 16-19. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. 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." Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. As an experienced minister, Alistair shares his approach to preaching. 17 This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day - our standing in the world is identical with Christ's. Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. 1 John 4:19, KJV: We love him, because he first loved us. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. Observe: not which was, but "which is." 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. What sayest thou of thyself? (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! 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. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. The question really is, whether man would trust God. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. How can such have relationship with God? 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 is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? 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. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. 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. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) 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. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. WebPulpit Commentary Verse 19. No argument can be drawn from Luke 4:23 against the view that the incidents are different, for therein a ministry at Capernaum would already be presupposed (Schleiermacher, Kern, de Wette, Weiss, Bleek, Holtzmann, and others), as But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. John 4:16. To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. Man is morally judged. 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. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). "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." 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. At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. Web1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. ? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. 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? The Father seeks worshippers. At first she tried to hide her sins, but Jesus And he saith, I am not. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. (Ver. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. Flesh and world are judged morally. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of 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 is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. 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. 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. 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. 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. Instead, Pilate has Jesus flogged (John 19:1). 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