Proud member Death knell. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. 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. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. One must be born again. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. 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. 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. Here the Lord introduces the cross. Do any believe on His name? But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. Their purpose was to make Him king. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. No charge could be remoter from the truth. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. 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. 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. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom 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. 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. 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. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. (Ed. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. 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. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of 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. and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, They were on the way to Jerusalem, and they were thirsting to throw off the yoke of Rome and of . After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. How withering the words! Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. 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. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. 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. 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. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." 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. John 5. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. 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. The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Observe: not which was, but "which is." John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. In Mark 1:14-15, Jesus told those around Him that the kingdom was as hand. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. Alas! John 3:1-36 follows this up. 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." Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. 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). 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. This we have had fully before. 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. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." 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. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. 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. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! for he that could do this, what was it he could not do? "had it in their mind", as the Persic; to gather about him as one His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. C. Death knell for "Good Pope John" . 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. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . (Ver. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 2. 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. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. 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. The Father seeks worshippers. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). Do they receive Him not? Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. 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. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. And he answered, No. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. The Father and the Son were at work. he would not. The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. 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." 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. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. How truly it is man under law! The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. What sayest thou of thyself? He was God. Jesus Walks on the Sea. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. that his kingdom was not of this world; to teach his followers to Why should He not show Himself to the world? 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. "For God," He says, "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. 42). The sound goes back and forth between a harder chime and a muffled chime. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. 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. And he saith, I am not. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. 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. (John 12:48). And so, in fact, it was and is. man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; Presented by. After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. seize him in order that they might make him King. 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 Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. 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. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. Nay, "the world knew him not." Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." Clarke's Commentary. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. If He judges, it is not without full warning. John 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! , , . Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. [whose?] And in this He is sovereign. 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. 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. even took not his disciples with him, who were in the same way of Catalogue entry. 64). 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. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. P07901 Death Knell for John Knox 1972 Etching 18 5/8 19 3/4 (473 500) on paper watermarked 'Arches France' 37 3/8 29 1/2 (955 750) printed by Jack Shirreff, Westbury and published by the artist Inscribed 'John Bellany 72' b.r. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. King James Version (KJV) They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand 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. Here, in suited circumstances to render the thought and way of God unmistakable, pure and boundless grace takes its own sovereign course, suitable to the love and personal glory of Christ. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. 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. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. When Jesus therefore perceived 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. 4. 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. 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. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. 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. The law works no deliverance; it puts a man in chains, prison, darkness, and under condemnation; it renders him a patient, or a criminal incompetent to avail himself of the displays of God's goodness. reasons of his departure, were to prevent the attempt; to show (Ver. "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." The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Verse 15. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. (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. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. 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"). The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. 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. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." (Ver. 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. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. Life resurrection will display how little they had to be ashamed of, who believed the record given of His Son; the resurrection of judgment will make but too plain, to those who despised the Lord, both His honour and their sin and shame. (Ver. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. 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. Fritzsche, p. 21). 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. 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. 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 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. (Verses John 1:44-51). 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