Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. John 7. Presented by. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. "Master, eat," said they. 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. 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. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. 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. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. For He who spoke was divine. Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. he would not. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 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. 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. (John 12:48). It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. 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. (Ver. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. 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." forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and (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. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. Ringing of the death bells is done slowly and reverently. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. 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. 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. 2. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? But the erosion of Tradition began long ago, without their knowledge, as will be shown below. 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. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. thinking about a temporal kingdom, as the people, and might 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. 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. 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. One must be born again. (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? 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 was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. Do any believe on His name? 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. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." 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. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. 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. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. Fritzsche, p. 21). King James Version (KJV) He tells Philip to follow Him. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. By MELANIE ZANONA. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. 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. 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). that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or 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. Death knell. 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, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, En une ardeur de zele inconsidere et temeraire. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. 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. mountain alone". It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." 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. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." Salem Media Group. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! 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. he departed again into a mountain, himself 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." And he answered, No. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. THE WORLD'S GREATEST . None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Alas! The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. (ver. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. 64). In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! 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. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. 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 impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. 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. 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. 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. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. 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. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . And they asked him, What then? 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. reasons of his departure, were to prevent the attempt; to show But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? 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. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 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. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. 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. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . Read full chapter. 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. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. This movement was not an unnatural one. 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. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; 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." encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. 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. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). And in this He is sovereign. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. 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. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. When Jesus therefore perceived. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. (Ver. The result immediately follows. 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). For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Flesh and world are judged morally. 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. Observe: not which was, but "which is." Then said they unto him, Who art thou? 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. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. 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. 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. 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. (Ver. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. 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. But let them beware how they perverted it. 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