He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. 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. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. for he that could do this, what was it he could not do? None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. 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. he departed again into a mountain, himself 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 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. And he answered, No. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. Nor was it yet complete. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. , to snatch suddenly and forcibly (derived from the swoop of the falcon, the ; hence, the Harpies). seize him in order that they might make him King. Fritzsche, p. 21). 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. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. When the crowd complains of hunger, the disciples who are mentioned each react in unique ways. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. 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. 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. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. (Ver. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. By MELANIE ZANONA. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. 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. 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. mountain alone". But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. John 6:15 in all English translations. Alas! They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." 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. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. 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. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. "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." "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . John 3:1-36 follows this up. 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. (Ver. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. Take him by force, to make him a king The Jews had often suffered by famine in those times in which their enemies were permitted to prevail over them; but, finding that Jesus had such power as to multiply a few loaves to feed thousands, they took it for granted that while he was at their head no evil could possibly happen to them, and therefore were . For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." "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." Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). 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). Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. 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. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? 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. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. 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. Jesus not only could go up, as He did later, but He had come down thence, and, even though man, He was the Son of man that is in heaven. 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. 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. How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went (Ver. 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. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. One must be born again. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. This is the only miracle recorded in all four of the gospel accounts. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 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. 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. The Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, (ver. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. 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. 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. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. The answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. John 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. "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." Man is morally judged. 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. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. But let them beware how they perverted it. 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. alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and 15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . A more recent production, advocating the same general theory, is the fictional Left Behindseries. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. Observe: not which was, but "which is." Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. Because John declares that the one who does not believe in God's testimony is calling God "a liar." This is crucial to see. 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. 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). 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. 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 word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? What can be more evident, or more instructive? 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. 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. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. 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. (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? 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. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a liar. The contrasts are as strong, at least, as the resemblance with the healing of the centurion's servant in Matthew 13:1-58 and Luke 7:1-50, which some ancients and moderns have confounded with this, as they did Mary's anointing of Jesus with the sinful woman's in Luke 7:1-50. (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. 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. The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. Proud member No man hath seen God at any time. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. So only is man born of God. 64). Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. All is in the character of the Son of man. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. As mentioned in verse 10, the unbeliever is calling God a liar, in that he or she refuses to believe in God's testimony, namely, that which "God has given about His Son" (vs.10). It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. And so, in fact, it was and is. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. 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 as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." 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. Salem Media Group. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 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. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. 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." When Jesus therefore perceived Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. Verse John 6:15. 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. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. There was purpose in it. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. (Ver. And they asked him, What then? Historically it was the second of three bells rung around death, the first being the passing bell to warn of impending death, and the last was the lych bell or corpse bell, which survives today as the funeral toll . 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. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. 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. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. For He who spoke was divine. These are a test of evangelical authenticity. Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. (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. 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. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. king; 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. Deeper questions demanded solution. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. 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. 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. Jesus, therefore, answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. 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