kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? 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. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. 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." But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. However, we know that Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Father shortly after His resurrection and ascension (Hebrews 8:1; Revelation 4:2). * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. 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. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. (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. 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. He was God. 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. Art thou that prophet? (Ed. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 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. convinced of their mistaken notions of him as a temporal prince: (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. (Ver. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. 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. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. 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. But the erosion of Tradition began long ago, without their knowledge, as will be shown below. A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. 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." And they asked him, What then? (ver. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . 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. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. There He supposes His full rejection and death. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. It was sabbath-day. Flesh and world are judged morally. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. 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. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." John 6:15King James Version. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. (ver. 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. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? thinking about a temporal kingdom, as the people, and might seize him in order that they might make him King. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." 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. king; Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. 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. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." 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. John 7:25-31) He is going where they cannot come, and never guessed (for unbelief thinks of the dispersed among the Greeks of anything rather than of God). 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. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? 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. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. 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. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. And he saith, I am not. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. 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. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. So only is man born of God. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. 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. John 3:1-36 follows this up. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. (Ver. 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. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? 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. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. 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. 42). How truly it is man under law! His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire." (Rev 20:11-15) In other words: 1. Nay, "the world knew him not." Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. 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. 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. he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. The Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." "The law was given by Moses." But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. (Ver. secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? 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. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. This He does in verses 16-19. And he answered, No. These are a test of evangelical authenticity. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. mountain alone". (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be THE WORLD'S GREATEST . 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