It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? 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. 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"). But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. Clarke's Commentary. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, 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 answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. This would make all manifest. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. 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." One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? (Verses John 1:44-51). All is in the character of the Son of man. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. "The law was given by Moses." What love! He was God. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. (Verse John 3:10). This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. Of course they are just as truly inspired as John's; but for that very reason they were not inspired to give the same testimony. 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. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. What a witness all this to His person! 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. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? All this clearly goes down to millennial days. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. Then (ver. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." C. Death knell for "Good Pope John" . Of this we learn nothing, here. Alas! He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. (Verses John 5:17-18). This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. What can be more evident, or more instructive? John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. For He who spoke was divine. And such was Jesus. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! 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. 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. If He judges, it is not without full warning. 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. and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. 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. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. 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. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. 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. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. They were on the way to Jerusalem, and they were thirsting to throw off the yoke of Rome and of . When the crowd complains of hunger, the disciples who are mentioned each react in unique ways. The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. How withering the words! All rights reserved. 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? . Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. "In the consistory of Dec. 15, 1958 . John 6:15King James Version. Here the Lord was really owned by the multitudes as the great Prophet that should come; and this in consequence of His works, especially that one which Scripture itself had connected with the Son of David. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went (Ver. 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. king; 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 Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. (ver. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. 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. * 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." 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. for he knew He was the Christ. His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. But let them beware how they perverted it. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. 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. Salem Media Group. Fritzsche, p. 21). Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: 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. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. Catalogue entry. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. 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. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. 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 . The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? 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. 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. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Proud member
As there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. 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). (Ver. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. and inasmuch as death is the last enemy, the destruction of the remaining powers ("when he shall have destroyed all rule and authority and power") will have to be understood not as a final struggle beginning after the parousia, but as the definite victory of christ that has already begun in his cross and resurrection and exaltation (cf., e.g., This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. seize him in order that they might make him King. In these two points of view, more particularly, John gives testimony to Christ; He is the lamb as the taker away of the world's sin; the same is He who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 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. John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Flesh and world are judged morally. secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. that his kingdom was not of this world; to teach his followers to "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." 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. Second, it interprets present world political trends as signs of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. These are a test of evangelical authenticity. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. 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. 42). (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. After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. Nor would the rejected Christ, the Son of man; for if lifted up on the cross, instead of having the throne of David, the result would be not merely earthly blessing for His people according to prophecy, but eternal life for the believer, whoever. THE WORLD'S GREATEST . And they asked him, What then? One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. (Ver. Man is morally judged. What sayest thou of thyself? Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. 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 doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. The law works no deliverance; it puts a man in chains, prison, darkness, and under condemnation; it renders him a patient, or a criminal incompetent to avail himself of the displays of God's goodness. 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. (Ed. Thus the Holy Ghost, given by the Son in humiliation (according to God, not acting on law, but according to the gift of grace in the gospel), was fully set forth; but the woman, though interested, and asking, only apprehended a boon for this life to save herself trouble here below. 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." Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. 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. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. 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. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. 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. (John 12:48). support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; 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. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. 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. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. How truly it is man under law! 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. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. of
John 6:15 Context. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. One must be born again. It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a king; that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or "had it in . thinking about a temporal kingdom, as the people, and might Scripture is, or may be, before man always. Art thou Elias? (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" This, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. 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. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. 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. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. he would not. There are three kinds of fundamentals: 1) Doctrinal fundamentals (e.g., the Trinity, Deity of Christ, Sacrificial Atonement, and Resurrection). All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. 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