All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. 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. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. No man hath seen God at any time. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. A person falling thousands of feet through the air would experience sheer terrorunless they knew a parachute would soon open. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. 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." "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. 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. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. a male mule, or more How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. Man is morally judged. 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. 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. (ver. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. * 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." 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. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. 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. 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. WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. 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." 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. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. Web1. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. 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. Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. All rights reserved. (ver. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Who Is Lillith and Why Don't We Find Her in Our Bible? Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for 1 John 4:16-19 "WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE" I. 1. This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. 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. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? How was this? But knowing what will happen, and realizing it's part of a plan, greatly reduces our fear. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! They crown Jesus with thorns and dress him in a purple robe. (ver. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. (16-19) Jesus speaks of her sinful life. a toilet or bathroom. (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. saith unto her, fie, call thy husband, and come hither. How truly it is man under law! Nay, "the world knew him not." 18 The fact Deeper questions demanded solution. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. Also called john mule . John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. Salem Media Group. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. 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. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Alas! It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. 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 has given us the spirit of adoption by which we call Him, Abba, father! My wifes dad was a chiropractor and when she got to be old enough, he gave her an opportunity to be a receptionist at his clinic. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. 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. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. 1 John 4:16. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. 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. "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. What you have just said is quite true.. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. "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." NET John 4:16 He said to her, "Go call your husband and come back here." NLT John 4:16 "Go and get your husband," Jesus told her. ESV John 4:16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." 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. It was sabbath-day. d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr 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." 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. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. (Verses John 5:17-18). (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. , 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 Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. 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. 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. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. 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. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. 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. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Then said they unto him, Who art thou? 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. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. 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. 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. 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. John 19 Jesus Is Crucified A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. 1. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." 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. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. The account of Jesus calling the first disciples matches almost word for word the parallel account in Mark 1.1620. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. 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. 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 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. 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. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." called also John the Baptist. ? 1 John 4:19, KJV: We love him, because he first loved us. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. 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." 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. He tells Philip to follow Him. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. So only is man born of God. Web1 John 4:17. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 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. (Ed. Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. No argument can be drawn from Luke 4:23 against the view that the incidents are different, for therein a ministry at Capernaum would already be presupposed (Schleiermacher, Kern, de Wette, Weiss, Bleek, Holtzmann, and others), as Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. 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. 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. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. John 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. (ver. 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. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." 18 There is no fear in love. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. john 8 32) 1 John 4:16 (King James Version) 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. 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. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 1 John 4:19, NASB: We love, because He first loved us. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. 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. There was purpose in it. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. 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. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. 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. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. 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. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. 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). 17 This is how love is John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. This is grace and truth. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. 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. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. 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