It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. WebJesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. 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. It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. (1-4) The reason for Jesus warning: certain persecution. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." 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. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. 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. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. 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. 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. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." 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? But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! So bright was His glory, so concerned was the Father in maintaining it, so immense the blessing if received, so tremendous the stake involved in its loss, that God vouchsafed the amplest and clearest witnesses. (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. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. The account of Jesus calling the first disciples matches almost word for word the parallel account in Mark 1.1620. 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. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." 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. It was sabbath-day. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. There was purpose in it. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. WebThis summary of the Gospel of John provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Gospel of John. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. infinite truth! Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. 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. a toilet or bathroom. WebPulpit Commentary Verse 19. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." 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. That is an average increase of $1.49 trillion per year. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. And such was Jesus. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. 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. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. And they asked him, What then? In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. 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. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. 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. Web1 John 4:16-19 NIV 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. Alistair Macrae, minister at Wesley Uniting Church, joins Robyn & Fran to discuss discipleship, call, and repentance in Matthew 4. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. Do any believe on His name? 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. 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. He tells Philip to follow Him. 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. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. 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. The Father seeks worshippers. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. Web1 John 4:16 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. 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. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. "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." John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. 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. The result immediately follows. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. 7 He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). Johns answer goes down to the depths, for his notion of love is the response of the believing soul to the love of God which was manifested on the Cross of Calvary. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. 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." For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. 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. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. 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. Instead, Pilate has Jesus flogged (John 19:1). "The law was given by Moses." The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. And he answered, No. 18 There is no Salem Media Group. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Then (ver. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. 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. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. 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. No argument can be drawn from Luke 4:23 against the view that the incidents are different, for therein a ministry at Capernaum would already be presupposed (Schleiermacher, Kern, de Wette, Weiss, Bleek, Holtzmann, and others), as 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. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? The Father and the Son were at work. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! John 3:1-36 follows this up. , He saith ) Now He makes an avenue for giving to the woman, who begs for water, a better kind of it, than that which she had begged for. , husband ) The woman God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. 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