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He acts as such. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. Proud member The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. 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. 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. Alistair Macrae, minister at Wesley Uniting Church, joins Robyn & Fran to discuss discipleship, call, and repentance in Matthew 4. Alas! And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. He tells Philip to follow Him. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." 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. The apostle attests this. The way you see God has everything to do with how you approach Him, how you relate to Him. At first she tried to hide her sins, but Jesus Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. 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. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. "He must, increase, but I decrease." Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. go, call thy husband, and come hither; go directly from hence to the city of Sychar, and call thy husband, and come back hither along with him again: this Christ said, not to have him come to teach and instruct him, and as if he would more readily and easily understand him, and that he might be with her, a partaker of the same grace; but to bring on some further conversation, by which she would understand that he knew her state and condition, and what a course of life she now lived, and so bring her under a conviction of her sin and danger, and need of him and his grace. (Ver. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. This is grace and truth. 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. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. He would apply himself more to preaching work, which was the more excellent, 1 Cor 1 17. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And the chapter is closed with observing the contradiction there is between a profession of love to God, and hatred of the brethren, seeing God, who is invisible, cannot be loved, if brethren that are seen are hated; and also the commandment, that he that loves God should love his brother also, 1Jo 4:20,21. 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. It is found also in the omissions of all the material of the Synoptics down to the passion. 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. And he answered, No. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." (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. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. (Verses John 7:40-53). John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! Then said they unto him, Who art thou? (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? 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. 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. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. One must be born again. Christ's road from Judea to John 4:19-20. That means that under Biden's budget plan the federal debt would increase by $16.411 trillion or 57.8% in the 11 fiscal years from when he first took office in fiscal 2021 through fiscal 2032. (e.g. 1. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. (Ed. The question really is, whether man would trust God. The result immediately follows. Nor was it yet complete. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. 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. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. 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. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! A person falling thousands of feet through the air would experience sheer terrorunless they knew a parachute would soon open. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." 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. The account of Jesus calling the first disciples matches almost word for word the parallel account in Mark 1.1620. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. saith unto her, fie, call thy husband, and come hither. - Now Jesus knew (perceived by his Divine penetration of human thought here quickened by their anxious look and hurried whisperings) that they were wishing to question him, and he said to them, Are you inquiring among yourselves concerning this that I said, A little while, etc. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. 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. 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. He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. WebMatthew Henry's Commentary on 1 John 4:16-19 Commentary on 1 John 4:14-21 (Read 1 John 4:14-21) The Father sent the Son, he willed his coming into this world. It was sabbath-day. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. Web1 John 4:16 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than Art thou that prophet? 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. 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. 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. What you have just said is quite true. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. 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. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. 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. 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. 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. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. 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. Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of the Bible you can use in your small group. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. Web1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. Web1 John 4:19 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] 1 John 4:19, NIV: We love because he first loved us. There He supposes His full rejection and death. For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. 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. 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. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. 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). 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. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" He was God. 1 John 4:19, NLT: We love each other because he loved us first. Who Is Lillith and Why Don't We Find Her in Our Bible? God is love. This would make all manifest. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. 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. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry commended World Economic Forum attendees on Tuesday, saying their efforts to combat climate change were "almost extraterrestrial." he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. In this chapter the apostle cautions against seducing spirits; advises to try them, and gives rules by which they may be known, and by which they are distinguished from others; and then returns to his favourite subject, brotherly love. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. Herein is our loveb made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 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. 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. Nay, "the world knew him not." 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 was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! WebThis summary of the Gospel of John provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Gospel of John. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. And in this He is sovereign. Although the authorship of the Johannine works has traditionally been attributed to John the Apostle, only a minority of 18 There is no fear in love. 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. (Verses John 4:31-38). John 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. How withering the words! This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. How striking the omission! Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, Tout ainsi que la terre, pour apporter fruict, sera menuisee et amollie par le soc de la charrue. 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 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. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. And they asked him, What then? It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. (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? Instead, Pilate has Jesus flogged (John 19:1). I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. 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. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. 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. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in 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. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. (Verses John 5:17-18). The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. John 3:1-36 follows this up. 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. GOD LOVES YOU. 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 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! 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. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." 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. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! 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. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. 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. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. Pilate, disposed to gratify the The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. (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? But this is not the question of grace: not what she was, but what He is who was there to win and bless her, manifesting God and the Father withal, practically and in detail. To have righteousness we 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. What can be more evident, or more instructive? Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. 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. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. 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. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. (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. 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." Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. 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"). He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. 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