The Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. 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). But it is important we should know how He entered the world. 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. (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? 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." We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Alas! (Ver. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? [whose?] (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. There was purpose in it. Man is morally judged. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. he would not. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Nor could any question be more momentous. with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. 64). THE WORLD'S GREATEST . It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. 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. 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. 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. (John 12:48). 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. 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." He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. How withering the words! This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. Of this we learn nothing, here. 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. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. by this miracle, they could not doubt of his being able to How little they conceived of what was then said and done! And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! John 6:15King James Version. Historically it was the second of three bells rung around death, the first being the passing bell to warn of impending death, and the last was the lych bell or corpse bell, which survives today as the funeral toll . He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. 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. kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 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. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? (Ver. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. "The law was given by Moses." Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. 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. 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 ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. 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. 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. 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. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. (ver. A death knell is the ringing of a church bell immediately after a death to announce it. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. 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. man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. 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. 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 there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. thinking about a temporal kingdom, as the people, and might It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. but. and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. "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." So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone. 2. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? 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. And they asked him, What then? "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. Proud member But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." John 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. 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. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. to let them know, that those who sought only for a temporal of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. 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