Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? 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. Read full chapter. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. . God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. 2. he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and John 6:15King James Version. kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: 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. 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. Art thou that prophet? Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. 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. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. P07901 Death Knell for John Knox 1972 Etching 18 5/8 19 3/4 (473 500) on paper watermarked 'Arches France' 37 3/8 29 1/2 (955 750) printed by Jack Shirreff, Westbury and published by the artist Inscribed 'John Bellany 72' b.r. 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." "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. 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. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." 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. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. 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. 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. No charge could be remoter from the truth. (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. Then (ver. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. It was sabbath-day. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. 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. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. 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. This movement was not an unnatural one. Augustine believed God's purposes were always being fulfilled, the gospel was always advancing into "the nations at the four corners of the earth." The saints who had been spiritually raised to. They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. One must be born again. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. 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. Observe: not which was, but "which is." They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. The premillennial concept is the result of literalizing a few symbolic verses in the book of Revelation, coupled with a considerable disregard for scores of Bible passages of clearest import. "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." ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! Why should He not show Himself to the world? "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went 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 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. 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. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" But "as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must ( ) the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." * 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." As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. 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. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Presented by. 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. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? 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). 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. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. 1. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." 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. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. 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. 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. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. 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. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. 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. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. 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. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. 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. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. 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. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. And so, in fact, it was and is. 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. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. 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. 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. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. Salem Media Group. (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. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. 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. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. (ver. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. mountain alone". There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. 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. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! It was not so. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. [whose?] John 7. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. Death knell. 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." and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. 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., But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. What love! that his kingdom was not of this world; to teach his followers to Art thou Elias? thinking about a temporal kingdom, as the people, and might The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! What a witness all this to His person! But the erosion of Tradition began long ago, without their knowledge, as will be shown below. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. There was purpose in it. 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. In Mark 9:1, Jesus promised that some of the very ones in His presence would not see death until they saw the kingdom come with power. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. redeemer, were unworthy of his presence: and also he went away Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. (Verse John 3:10). (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and They were on the way to Jerusalem, and they were thirsting to throw off the yoke of Rome and of . What sayest thou of thyself? support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; 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. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. 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." 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. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. John 6:15 in all English translations. How truly it is man under law! John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! 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. 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"). Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. And he answered, No. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 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. 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. 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. I will answer this question on why I am a Historic Premillennialist in 5 Parts: 1. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. 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). And they asked him, What then? Jesus Walks on the Sea. "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . These are a test of evangelical authenticity. Such shall live. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. (Ver. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. And such was Jesus. The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. King James Version (KJV) Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. to let them know, that those who sought only for a temporal Premillennialism turns Jesus into a liar. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). 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. 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. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal even took not his disciples with him, who were in the same way of But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). And he saith, I am not. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. 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. 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. 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. Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." He saw him under the fig tree. 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