And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? It was sabbath-day. This movement was not an unnatural one. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. And in this He is sovereign. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . (Verses John 1:44-51). But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. 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. This is grace and truth. infinite truth! 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? 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. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 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. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. 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. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. 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. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. 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. 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. for he knew He was the Christ. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. They were on the way to Jerusalem, and they were thirsting to throw off the yoke of Rome and of . man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. 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. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 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. 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. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. John 6:15 Context. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! THE WORLD'S GREATEST . (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. 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. 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. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the Art thou Elias? 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. (Ver. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? What a witness all this to His person! with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, 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. 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. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the 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. By MELANIE ZANONA. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. A more recent production, advocating the same general theory, is the fictional Left Behindseries. 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. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. for he that could do this, what was it he could not do? For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 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. 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. 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." (Verses John 5:17-18). It was not so. 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 question really is, whether man would trust God. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. 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. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. 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. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). One must be born again. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. by this miracle, they could not doubt of his being able to Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. 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. Alas! 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. John 6:15 in all English translations. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. John 6:15. 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. When the crowd complains of hunger, the disciples who are mentioned each react in unique ways. When Jesus therefore perceived. 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. 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. 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. 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." For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. 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. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. Glory would be displayed in its day. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. he would not. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a 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. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . Such shall live. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! 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. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. Read full chapter. (Ver. 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. The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. , , . (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. Verse 15. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). 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. 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. 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. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." 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. 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. Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. 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. 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 Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. 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. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. conjunction with the Lord's Second Coming) (Hebert 2006c:5-6). 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. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire." (Rev 20:11-15) In other words: 1. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. (Ed. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. (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. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. If He judges, it is not without full warning. (Ver. 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. So only is man born of God. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. Do they receive Him not? 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