Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! (Ver. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. 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. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. And he answered, No. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." 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. for he knew He was the Christ. 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. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. 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. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." But the erosion of Tradition began long ago, without their knowledge, as will be shown below. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. 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. 2. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. John 6:16. Proud member even took not his disciples with him, who were in the same way of 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." 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. The question really is, whether man would trust God. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. This is why premillennial-ism is based on a kind of hermeneutical fundamental of the Christian Faith. (Ver. 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. , 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. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." 15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. (Verse John 3:10). No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. Nor would the rejected Christ, the Son of man; for if lifted up on the cross, instead of having the throne of David, the result would be not merely earthly blessing for His people according to prophecy, but eternal life for the believer, whoever. 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., It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. John 5. And in this He is sovereign. John 3:1-36 follows this up. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or 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. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. The Lord and the disciples are next seen in the country district, not far, it would seem, from John, who was baptizing as they were. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Verse John 6:15. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. Nay, "the world knew him not." But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." What can be more evident, or more instructive? 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. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. Art thou Elias? For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own 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. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." 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. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. 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. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. reasons of his departure, were to prevent the attempt; to show Because John declares that the one who does not believe in God's testimony is calling God "a liar." This is crucial to see. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. 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. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Without sign, prodigy, or miracle, in this village of Samaria Jesus was heard, known, confessed as truly the Saviour of the world ("the Christ" being absent in the best authorities, ver. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Do any believe on His name? Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. 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. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. (Ver. 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. 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