Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. (sometimes initial capital letter) a prostitute's customer. Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. John was not yet cast into prison. 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. 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 law was given by Moses." Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." But here it was not God's purpose to record it. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. 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. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. 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. 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. 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. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. 1 John 4:19, NLT: We love each other because he loved us first. 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. (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? It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. He who Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 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. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. john 8 32) 1 John 4:16 (King James Version) 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. for he knew He was the Christ. John 4:19-20. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 7 He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. 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. , , . "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. And he answered, No. It is found also in the omissions of all the material of the Synoptics down to the passion. At first she tried to hide her sins, but Jesus 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. And great are the advantages arising from hence, for hereby the saints' love to God is made perfect; they have boldness in the day of judgment, since as he is, so are they in this world, and fear is cast out by it, 1Jo 4:17,18, but lest too much should be thought to be ascribed to love, that is said to be owing to the love of God to them, which is prior to theirs to him, and the reason of it, 1Jo 4:19. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. His name was John. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. How striking the omission! He that comes from above from heaven is above all. Salem Media Group. Nor was it yet complete. 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. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. The Father seeks worshippers. Fritzsche, p. 21). (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). 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. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? * 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." Very simple words! This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. 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. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. Observe: not which was, but "which is." 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. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. Alistair Macrae, minister at Wesley Uniting Church, joins Robyn & Fran to discuss discipleship, call, and repentance in Matthew 4. 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. He was prominent in the early church but is not mentioned by name in this Gospel -- which would be natural if he wrote it, but hard to 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 12:48). (1-4) The reason for Jesus warning: certain persecution. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. 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. (Ed. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry commended World Economic Forum attendees on Tuesday, saying their efforts to combat climate change were "almost extraterrestrial." through "sin." If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. 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. 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. All is in the character of the Son of man. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. Web1. A person falling thousands of feet through the air would experience sheer terrorunless they knew a parachute would soon open. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. WebThe Witness of John. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. This we have had fully before. (Ver. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. How was this? But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. He tells Philip to follow Him. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? (Verses John 5:17-18). Web1 John 4:16 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. Of this we learn nothing, here. 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. So bright was His glory, so concerned was the Father in maintaining it, so immense the blessing if received, so tremendous the stake involved in its loss, that God vouchsafed the amplest and clearest witnesses. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. 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. 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. There was purpose in it. 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. 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. What sayest thou of thyself? 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. 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. He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. 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. 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. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? (ver. 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 Henrys plan (1173) to assign to John, his favourite son (whom he had nicknamed Lackland), extensive lands upon his marriage with the daughter of Humbert III, count of Maurienne (Savoy), was defeated by the rebellion the proposal provoked among Johns elder brothers. He was God. (ver. (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? The account of Jesus calling the first disciples matches almost word for word the parallel account in Mark 1.1620. 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. 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