Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and How was this? 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. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. some copies add, "and he prayed there"; the Syriac, Ethiopic, and Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. (Ver. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. 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. If He judges, it is not without full warning. Then (ver. Nor was it yet complete. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. So bright was His glory, so concerned was the Father in maintaining it, so immense the blessing if received, so tremendous the stake involved in its loss, that God vouchsafed the amplest and clearest witnesses. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. 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. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. seize him in order that they might make him King. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. 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. "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. When Jesus therefore perceived Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . He tells Philip to follow Him. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. (ver. 2. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. (Ver. 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." 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. convinced of their mistaken notions of him as a temporal prince: (ver. Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." 2. 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. 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. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. 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. He acts as such. (Verses John 7:40-53). After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. The premillennial concept is the result of literalizing a few symbolic verses in the book of Revelation, coupled with a considerable disregard for scores of Bible passages of clearest import. Alas! His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." Catalogue entry. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. 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. 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. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." 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. To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? 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. 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. John 6:15 Context. 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. 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? (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. through "sin." 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. 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. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. 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. 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. [whose?] It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of grace and truth. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. In Mark 1:14-15, Jesus told those around Him that the kingdom was as hand. 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. 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. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. And they asked him, What then? Read full chapter John 6:15 in all English translations John 5 John 7 New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 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. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. 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. This would make all manifest. (Verses John 4:31-38). He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. This Blog is really a continuation of my Previous Blog "Why Israel Has a Future in God's Plans - Romans 9-11 and the People of God" By Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. to let them know, that those who sought only for a temporal Nor could any question be more momentous. 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. Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: 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. conjunction with the Lord's Second Coming) (Hebert 2006c:5-6). Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. Nay, "the world knew him not." redeemer, were unworthy of his presence: and also he went away In Mark 9:1, Jesus promised that some of the very ones in His presence would not see death until they saw the kingdom come with power. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? , , . "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." Then said they unto him, Who art thou? Read full chapter. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." 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. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. John 6:15King James Version. (Ver. Art thou that prophet? 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. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. The Father and the Son were at work. 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 result immediately follows. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. 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. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. 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. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 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. 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." Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. 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. 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. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. 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. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. Jesus Walks on the Sea. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. 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