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. 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. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. 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. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. 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. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. 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 . Because John declares that the one who does not believe in God's testimony is calling God "a liar." This is crucial to see. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) 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! And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. 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. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. 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. It was sabbath-day. 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. 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). "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. In these two points of view, more particularly, John gives testimony to Christ; He is the lamb as the taker away of the world's sin; the same is He who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. John 6:15 in all English translations. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! 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. In John 6:15 we read that "when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to a mountain by Himself alone." I have often considered this verse to be the death-knell of premillennialism. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. 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. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. 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. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. 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. C. Death knell for "Good Pope John" . He acts as such. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. For Jesus perceived that they were on the point of coming and carrying Him off to make Him king. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. These are a test of evangelical authenticity. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." A more recent production, advocating the same general theory, is the fictional Left Behindseries. 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. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. 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. that his kingdom was not of this world; to teach his followers to If He judges, it is not without full warning. 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. Catalogue entry. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. 2. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! 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. 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. 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. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. 2. And they asked him, What then? 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. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Clarke's Commentary. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. 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. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. "Master, eat," said they. 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. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a king; that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or "had it in . He tells Philip to follow Him. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by 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. John 6:15. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. Glory would be displayed in its day. Christ here, it will be noticed, is not so much the quickening agent as Son of God (John 5:1-47), but the object of faith as Son of man first incarnate, to be eaten; then dying and giving His flesh to be eaten, and His blood to be drank. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." 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. redeemer, were unworthy of his presence: and also he went away The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. 42). What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. A death knell is the ringing of a church bell immediately after a death to announce it. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? 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. This would make all manifest. As this chapter sets forth the Lord Jesus with singular fulness of glory, on the side both of His Godhead and of His manhood, so it closes with the most varied and remarkable testimonies God has given to us, that there may be no excuse. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. Verse 15. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. (Ver. 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." through "sin." Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. How can such have relationship with God? But the erosion of Tradition began long ago, without their knowledge, as will be shown below. 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. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 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. 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. 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. 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. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. 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. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal (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? After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. 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. Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? For He who spoke was divine. Do they receive Him not? His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. (Ver. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. 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. 1 Cor 15:26 states that Christ will reign until the destruction of death. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. 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. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. 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." Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? 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. for he that could do this, what was it he could not do? 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. 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. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 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. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. (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. 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. This is why premillennial-ism is based on a kind of hermeneutical fundamental of the Christian Faith. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. 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. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. 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. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. 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. Such shall live. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. John was not yet cast into prison. of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be 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. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. , 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. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? Of course they are just as truly inspired as John's; but for that very reason they were not inspired to give the same testimony. 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." "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. It was not so. How was this? (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. 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 was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. Premillenialism is that system of religious belief that holds that Christ didn't set up a kingdom when he was on earth because the Jews rejected it but will one day return to set up an earthly kingdom in which Christ will reign on the earth for a thousand years. 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. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. 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. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Presented by. 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. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. What can be more evident, or more instructive? 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