THE WORLD'S GREATEST . Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . 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. and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, "had it in their mind", as the Persic; to gather about him as one (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. But let them beware how they perverted it. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. 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. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. 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 man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." This movement was not an unnatural one. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. If He judges, it is not without full warning. 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." 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. 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. (Ver. 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., "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. 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. There He supposes His full rejection and death. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. 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." Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. 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." Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? 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. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! 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. redeemer, were unworthy of his presence: and also he went away 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. he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. 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. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. This is the only miracle recorded in all four of the gospel accounts. (Ver. 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. 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 6:15 in all English translations. 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. Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. - Jesus therefore knowing (having found, perceived (), by ominous movements in the crowd, or in any other way still more explicit) that they were about to come and by violence, or force, seize him in order that they might make him King. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. Why should He not show Himself to the world? 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. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. 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. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. even took not his disciples with him, who were in the same way of The Father seeks worshippers. He tells Philip to follow Him. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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 changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. The Father and the Son were at work. Proud member The sound goes back and forth between a harder chime and a muffled chime. man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; 1. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. When the crowd complains of hunger, the disciples who are mentioned each react in unique ways. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, Then said they unto him, Who art thou? It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. 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. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. 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. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. (Verses John 1:44-51). 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. he departed again into a mountain, himself Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. Premillenialism is that system of religious belief that holds that Christ didn't set up a kingdom when he was on earth because the Jews rejected it but will one day return to set up an earthly kingdom in which Christ will reign on the earth for a thousand years. contrary to all others, renders it, "Christ departed from the 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. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) Fritzsche, p. 21). Man is morally judged. Verse John 6:15. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. 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. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. John 5. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. 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. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. 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. with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. 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. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. Verse 15. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. 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. No man hath seen God at any time. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Salem Media Group. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. "Master, eat," said they. 2. 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. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. 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. for he that could do this, what was it he could not do? 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! What a witness all this to His person! John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. conjunction with the Lord's Second Coming) (Hebert 2006c:5-6). John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. 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. to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. Alas! 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. When Jesus therefore perceived For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." What love! One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 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. 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. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. 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. 1 Cor 15:26 states that Christ will reign until the destruction of death. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. 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). (ver. encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went Read full chapter. 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. Clarke's Commentary. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. (ver. Glory would be displayed in its day. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. 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. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. 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. There was purpose in it. 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. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. 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). And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. 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. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." (Ver. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? How can such have relationship with God? 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. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. This would make all manifest. 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. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. (Ver. Without sign, prodigy, or miracle, in this village of Samaria Jesus was heard, known, confessed as truly the Saviour of the world ("the Christ" being absent in the best authorities, ver. 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 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. And he saith, I am not. As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, 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. 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. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. Here the Lord introduces the cross. "In the consistory of Dec. 15, 1958 . Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? "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." "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." 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. 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. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! 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. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. 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. 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. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. 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. 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