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. (ver. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). 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. This is grace and truth. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. These are a test of evangelical authenticity. But "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." I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. 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. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Flesh and world are judged morally. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. convinced of their mistaken notions of him as a temporal prince: But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. (Ver. Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. But if the Spirit speaks of the Son of God, the law dwindles at once into the smallest possible proportions: everything yields to the honour the Father puts oil the Son. But let them beware how they perverted it. kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: conjunction with the Lord's Second Coming) (Hebert 2006c:5-6). The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. to let them know, that those who sought only for a temporal (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Read full chapter John 6:15 in all English translations John 5 John 7 New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. 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." As mentioned in verse 10, the unbeliever is calling God a liar, in that he or she refuses to believe in God's testimony, namely, that which "God has given about His Son" (vs.10). 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. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. Take him by force, to make him a king The Jews had often suffered by famine in those times in which their enemies were permitted to prevail over them; but, finding that Jesus had such power as to multiply a few loaves to feed thousands, they took it for granted that while he was at their head no evil could possibly happen to them, and therefore were . that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or 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. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. All rights reserved. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." 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. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. And they asked him, What then? Man, dead in sins, was the object of His grace; but then man's state was such, that it would have been derogatory to God had that life been communicated without the cross of Christ: the Son of man lifted up on it was the One in whom God dealt judicially with the evil estate of man, for the, full consequences of which He made Himself responsible. of But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire." (Rev 20:11-15) In other words: 1. He could, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. 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! There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. 15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. alone; The result immediately follows. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. 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. 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. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. There was purpose in it. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 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. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." John 3:1-36 follows this up. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." 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. 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., 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. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." (Verses John 4:31-38). Such shall live. Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." He acts as such. 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. (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. 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. 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 the consistory of Dec. 15, 1958 . Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. For Jesus perceived that they were on the point of coming and carrying Him off to make Him king. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. - Jesus therefore knowing (having found, perceived (), by ominous movements in the crowd, or in any other way still more explicit) that they were about to come and by violence, or force, seize him in order that they might make him King. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 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. John 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. 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. (Ver. 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. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. 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. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. redeemer, were unworthy of his presence: and also he went away What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. When Jesus therefore perceived. Read full chapter. (Ed. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. They cite the rise of an unbiblical and dangerous allegorical hermeneutic (by such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen) which took a sad toll on sound biblical exegesis. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? (Ver. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. "The law was given by Moses." Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. 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. some copies add, "and he prayed there"; the Syriac, Ethiopic, and John 6:15 Context. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." Second, it interprets present world political trends as signs of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. Nor was it yet complete. 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. It was not so. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. 42). behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 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. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. 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. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. What a witness all this to His person! It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. This we have had fully before. Fritzsche, p. 21). John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. Presented by. For He who spoke was divine. . "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." Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. 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. (1-4) A crowd gathers to Jesus near the Sea of Galilee. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. by this miracle, they could not doubt of his being able to All this clearly goes down to millennial days. When the crowd complains of hunger, the disciples who are mentioned each react in unique ways. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Of this we learn nothing, here. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. Then (ver. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. "Master, eat," said they. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Read full chapter. 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. Even now faith knows, that instead of sin being the great object before God, ever since the cross He has had before His eyes that sacrifice which put away sin. He was God. 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. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds 2. 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." He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Deeper questions demanded solution. However, we know that Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Father shortly after His resurrection and ascension (Hebrews 8:1; Revelation 4:2). (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. "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." This is the only miracle recorded in all four of the gospel accounts. What love! (Verse John 3:10). and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, Alas! (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. Proud member Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. 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. (Ver. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . 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. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? King James Version (KJV) Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. Nay, "the world knew him not." It was not that they were better than their neighbours. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. 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. 15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. The answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. 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