For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. 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. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. 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. of
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. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. Glory would be displayed in its day. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. (ver. 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. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." This is why premillennial-ism is based on a kind of hermeneutical fundamental of the Christian Faith. For Jesus perceived that they were on the point of coming and carrying Him off to make Him king. Such shall live. The Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." "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." 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. They cite the rise of an unbiblical and dangerous allegorical hermeneutic (by such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen) which took a sad toll on sound biblical exegesis. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. 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. (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. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Phil 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Predetermined performance - no will involved. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. (Verse John 3:10). king; None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. (ver. 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. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? It was not so. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. 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. 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." Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. 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 answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. 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. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. (Verses John 5:17-18). and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . 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. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a Nay, "the world knew him not." The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. John 6:16. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. 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. 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. 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. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. There are three kinds of fundamentals: 1) Doctrinal fundamentals (e.g., the Trinity, Deity of Christ, Sacrificial Atonement, and Resurrection). John was not yet cast into prison. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. 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. Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. How can such have relationship with God? California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. Art thou Elias? In Mark 1:14-15, Jesus told those around Him that the kingdom was as hand. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Augustine believed God's purposes were always being fulfilled, the gospel was always advancing into "the nations at the four corners of the earth." The saints who had been spiritually raised to. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. 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. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. John 3:1-36 follows this up. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." , , . 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. And in this He is sovereign. THE WORLD'S GREATEST . * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." All rights reserved. How striking the omission! 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. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." that we may give an answer to them that sent us. 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. for he knew He was the Christ. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. 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. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; (Ver. 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. 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. 1 Cor 15:26 states that Christ will reign until the destruction of death. 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. Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, 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. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. 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. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. . (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. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. 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. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. 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." 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. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. 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. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. Do they receive Him not? 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) 42). Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. John 6:15 in all English translations. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in 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. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 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. The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. 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. The question really is, whether man would trust God. "The law was given by Moses." (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. For He who spoke was divine. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. Deeper questions demanded solution. Their purpose was to make Him king. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the This movement was not an unnatural one. 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. 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. 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 they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. And he saith, I am not. 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. 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. Death knell. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. There was purpose in it. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. The deepest importance the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a testimony the... 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