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. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. 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. 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. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. Web40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 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. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. And great are the advantages arising from hence, for hereby the saints' love to God is made perfect; they have boldness in the day of judgment, since as he is, so are they in this world, and fear is cast out by it, 1Jo 4:17,18, but lest too much should be thought to be ascribed to love, that is said to be owing to the love of God to them, which is prior to theirs to him, and the reason of it, 1Jo 4:19. 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. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. 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. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. Henrys plan (1173) to assign to John, his favourite son (whom he had nicknamed Lackland), extensive lands upon his marriage with the daughter of Humbert III, count of Maurienne (Savoy), was defeated by the rebellion the proposal provoked among Johns elder brothers. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. 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. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." Alas! Glory would be displayed in its day. (Ver. NIV. 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. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. 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. It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. Of course, the experience will still be intense. (16-19) Jesus speaks of her sinful life. But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. He was God. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. 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. ? 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. All rights reserved. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. a male mule, or more "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." Nor could any question be more momentous. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. Web1 John 4:16 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. 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. 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. Simon was one of the commonest names at the time (along with Jesus, Joseph, John and Levi), and so he is distinguished from others by his nickname, which Matthew assumes he has already been given; we hear of an earlier Why should He not show Himself to the world? His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." 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. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. 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. 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! (Ver. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. go, call thy husband, and come hither; go directly from hence to the city of Sychar, and call thy husband, and come back hither along with him again: this Christ said, not to have him come to teach and instruct him, and as if he would more readily and easily understand him, and that he might be with her, a partaker of the same grace; but to bring on some further conversation, by which she would understand that he knew her state and condition, and what a course of life she now lived, and so bring her under a conviction of her sin and danger, and need of him and his grace. 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 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. This is the heart of the message of the Bible. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. (ver. 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. 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. They crown Jesus with thorns and dress him in a purple robe. 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. (Ver. 1 John 4:16-19. 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. (ver. GOD LOVES YOU. 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." john 8 32) 1 John 4:16 (King James Version) 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. As an experienced minister, Alistair shares his approach to preaching. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. 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. John 4:16. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. 17 This is how love is WebPulpit Commentary Verse 19. 1 John 4:16. Art thou that prophet? Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. WebJohn the Apostle is traditionally held to be the author of the Gospel of John, and many Christian denominations believe that he authored several other books of the New Testament, depending on whether he is distinguished from, or identified with, John the Evangelist, John the Elder, and John of Patmos. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. 6 There came a man who was sent from God. "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." 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. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. Fritzsche, p. 21). 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. Other arguments follow, engaging to it, as that God is invisible; and if he is to be loved, then certainly his people, who are visible; and that such who love one another, God dwells in them, and his love is perfected in them; and that he dwells in them is known by the gift of his Spirit to them, 1Jo 4:12,13, and that God the Father so loved the world, as to send his Son to be the Saviour of it, before asserted, is confirmed by the apostles, who were eyewitnesses of it; who also declare, that whoever confesses the sonship of Christ, God dwells in him, and he in God; and who had an assurance of the love of God to them, who is love itself; so that he that dwells in God, and God in him, dwells in love, 1Jo 4:14-16. 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. (Verses John 7:40-53). 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. God is love. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. (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? The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. (Verses John 5:17-18). 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. So only is man born of God. No man hath seen God at any time. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. John was not yet cast into prison. 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. Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than (e.g. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. through "sin." Man is morally judged. d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. If He judges, it is not without full warning. He acts as such. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. (Ver. WebThis small group Bible study of John 4:1-19 contains commentary, outlines, cross-references, Bible study discussion questions, and applications. Very simple words! a toilet or bathroom. Such shall live. The Father seeks worshippers. 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. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. He was God. What sayest thou of thyself? (Ver. 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. 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. He has given us the spirit of adoption by which we call Him, Abba, father! My wifes dad was a chiropractor and when she got to be old enough, he gave her an opportunity to be a receptionist at his clinic. It was sabbath-day. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. And whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 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. We love him, because he first loved us. Nor would the rejected Christ, the Son of man; for if lifted up on the cross, instead of having the throne of David, the result would be not merely earthly blessing for His people according to prophecy, but eternal life for the believer, whoever. 2. : an apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of 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." John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. "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." ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." What Makes Covenant Theology So Important? (ver. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. 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. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. Then the soldiers mockingly but truthfully hail Jesus as the king of the Jews (19:3). Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. ii. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? 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. (Ver. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. Observe: not which was, but "which is." John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. The apostle attests this. 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. 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. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. How can such have relationship with God? 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. And he saith, I am not. He could, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. 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. Web1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. 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. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 17 This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day - our standing in the world is identical with Christ's. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. Wonderful things in the Bible I see, 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. 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. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. It was not so. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. , 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 he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. The account of Jesus calling the first disciples matches almost word for word the parallel account in Mark 1.1620. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." 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. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. 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. Do any believe on His name? 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