How withering the words! Nay, "the world knew him not." And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? (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? 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. (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. 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. (ver. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. 17 This is how love is made complete That is an average increase of $1.49 trillion per year. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. Jesus is crowned, clothed, and proclaimed king by Roman soldiers. 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. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. 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. At the end of fiscal 2032, it predicts, the total federal debt will be $44.797 trillion. 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. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. (Verse John 3:10). 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. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. All rights reserved. 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. 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. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. 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. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 2. Web1. The author is the apostle John, "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (13:23 [see note there]; 19:26; 20:2; 21:7,20,24). Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. "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." 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. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 18 The fact The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. 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. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. 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. He was God. Although the authorship of the Johannine works has traditionally been attributed to John the Apostle, only a minority of They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. Christ's road from Judea to 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. , , . Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? For He who spoke was divine. 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. So only is man born of God. The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. ? , He saith ) Now He makes an avenue for giving to the woman, who begs for water, a better kind of it, than that which she had begged for. , husband ) The woman It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 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. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 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. This would make all manifest. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. 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. John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for 1 John 4:16-19 "WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE" I. Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. Why should He not show Himself to the world? But it is important we should know how He entered the world. 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." 17 And as we live 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. God is love. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. 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. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. Man is morally judged. 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. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. (Verses John 7:40-53). He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. (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? he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. 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. This is grace and truth. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. 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. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. 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. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. (Ver. (Ver. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. 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. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? He was prominent in the early church but is not mentioned by name in this Gospel -- which would be natural if he wrote it, but hard to This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. He acts as such. 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. Is no other way in which the new nature is made complete that is an increase. 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