Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. A more recent production, advocating the same general theory, is the fictional Left Behindseries. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. 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. 15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. 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. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. Nor could any question be more momentous. (Ver. What love! 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. Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. some copies add, "and he prayed there"; the Syriac, Ethiopic, and Man, dead in sins, was the object of His grace; but then man's state was such, that it would have been derogatory to God had that life been communicated without the cross of Christ: the Son of man lifted up on it was the One in whom God dealt judicially with the evil estate of man, for the, full consequences of which He made Himself responsible. 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. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. (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? Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. 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. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. (Verse John 3:10). Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. 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., "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." 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. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. 4. 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. * 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." * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. 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. through "sin." 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. 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. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. 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. he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. Do any believe on His name? (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. 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). There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. This we have had fully before. 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). And so, in fact, it was and is. 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. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. 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. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. 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. 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. for he knew He was the Christ. 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! This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. If He judges, it is not without full warning. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. (Ver. 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. Catalogue entry. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." 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." There are three kinds of fundamentals: 1) Doctrinal fundamentals (e.g., the Trinity, Deity of Christ, Sacrificial Atonement, and Resurrection). The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. 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. 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. 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. The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. The question really is, whether man would trust God. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. 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. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. 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. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. (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. forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and When Jesus therefore perceived. This would make all manifest. 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