And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." 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. The Father and the Son were at work. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. Web1 John 4:16-19 NIV 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. of John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. The Father seeks worshippers. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. 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. "He must, increase, but I decrease."
8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. 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. Web1. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. 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. What can be more evident, or more instructive? Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. (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." 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Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. What Makes Covenant Theology So Important?
None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. Author. Instead, Pilate has Jesus flogged (John 19:1). 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. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us.
Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. We love him, because he first loved us. 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. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. 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. And in this He is sovereign.
It was sabbath-day. Wonderful things in the Bible I see, : a Jewish prophet who according to Gospel accounts foretold Jesus' messianic ministry and baptized him. d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? 1 John 4:18. The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." 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.
"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." How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. (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. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. (ver. Do they receive Him not? Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. 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. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. a toilet or bathroom. Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry.
If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. 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. 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. Herein is our loveb made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. (ver. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." (Ver. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 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. Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. They crown Jesus with thorns and dress him in a purple robe. For He who spoke was divine. (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. (Verses John 4:31-38). 2. 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. (Verse John 3:10). How little they conceived of what was then said and done! He exhorts the saints not to believe every man that came with a doctrine to them, but to try them, since there were many false teachers in the world; and gives a rule by which they may be tried and judged, as that whatever teacher owns Christ to be come in the flesh is of God, but he that does not is not of God, but is the spirit of antichrist that should come, and was in the world, 1Jo 4:1,2, but, for the comfort of those to whom he writes, he observes, that they were of God, and had overcome these false teachers, through the mighty power of the divine Spirit in them, who is greater than Satan, and all his emissaries, 1Jo 4:4. (Verses John 5:17-18). ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 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. (Ver. 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. 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. He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. 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. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. 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 4:16.
He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now.
9 The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world. but they go down into the depths of God, lifting burdens off the heart of humanity, turning duty into delight, and changing the aspect of all things.
Very simple words! On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. 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. he would not. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. "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." Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. 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. This is grace and truth. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. for he knew He was the Christ. John 19 Jesus Is Crucified A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. 1. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. (Ver. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. (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? "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." A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. 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. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? 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. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. 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? To have righteousness we (Ver. At the end of fiscal 2032, it predicts, the total federal debt will be $44.797 trillion. ? Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink."
Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. The Jews were not satisfied with that, but demanded still that he should be put to death, John 19:39-40. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. through "sin." WebMatthew Henry's Commentary on 1 John 4:16-19 Commentary on 1 John 4:14-21 (Read 1 John 4:14-21) The Father sent the Son, he willed his coming into this world. 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. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. 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. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time.
He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world.
Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of the Bible you can use in your small group. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. His name was John. 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. 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. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 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. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. Here the Lord introduces the cross. 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. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. New Living Translation. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. How can such have relationship with God? 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. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. That means that under Biden's budget plan the federal debt would increase by $16.411 trillion or 57.8% in the 11 fiscal years from when he first took office in fiscal 2021 through fiscal 2032. 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. 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. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. 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. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. 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. Why should He not show Himself to the world? No man hath seen God at any time. 42). Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body.
They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. (Ver. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. 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. One must be born again. 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. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. (John 12:48). "Master, eat," said they. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. A. (1-4) The reason for Jesus warning: certain persecution. 6 There came a man who was sent from God. 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. WebJohn was the most popular name given to male infants in the United States until 1924, and though its use has fallen off gradually since then, John was still the 20th most common name for boys on the Social Security Administration 's list of names given in 2006. 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. WebPulpit Commentary Verse 19. 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." and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. 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.
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. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. 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. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." 18 There is no Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? 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. Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the 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 many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." All this clearly goes down to millennial days. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The heart-searching issuing in perception of the prophetic rank of Jesus. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. John was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. 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." What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. 1 John 4:19. In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally.
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. Because he would put a difference between his baptism and that of John, who baptized all himself; for he baptized as a servant, Christ as a master. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
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