Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. 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). And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 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. 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. 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. 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. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. (Verses John 5:17-18). Also called john mule . WebJesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. 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. 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 who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 1 John 4:19. Nor could any question be more momentous. WebThis small group Bible study of John 4:1-19 contains commentary, outlines, cross-references, Bible study discussion questions, and applications. The way you see God has everything to do with how you approach Him, how you relate to 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. John was not yet cast into prison. (Ver. One must be born again. Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. What a witness all this to His person! The Father and the Son were at work. 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. WebThe proof of the later date of John's Gospel is in such references as 1:32, and 3:24, which assume a previous knowledge of the facts on the part of his readers. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. This He does in verses 16-19. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. 1 John 4:18. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. It was not so. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. 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. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. What Makes Covenant Theology So Important? Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." His name was John. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of the Bible you can use in your small group. , , . 3. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. 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. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. 18 There is no fear in love. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. New Living Translation. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Salem Media Group. And in this He is sovereign. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. Webnoun Slang. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. Then the soldiers mockingly but truthfully hail Jesus as the king of the Jews (19:3). 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. WebJohn the Apostle is traditionally held to be the author of the Gospel of John, and many Christian denominations believe that he authored several other books of the New Testament, depending on whether he is distinguished from, or identified with, John the Evangelist, John the Elder, and John of Patmos. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in called also John the Baptist. 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. 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 Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. 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? This is grace and truth. At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. 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. 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. 1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. If He judges, it is not without full warning. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. 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. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. 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. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. (Verses John 4:31-38). For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! 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. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. 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. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. 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. (Ver. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." but they go down into the depths of God, lifting burdens off the heart of humanity, turning duty into delight, and changing the aspect of all things. Web40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 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. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. How truly it is man under law! Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. Johns answer goes down to the depths, for his notion of love is the response of the believing soul to the love of God which was manifested on the Cross of Calvary. (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? And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." 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. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. 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. 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." 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. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. 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. 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Fritzsche, p. 21). It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. (Ver. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. 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. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). ii. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). (ver. 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. 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