So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? They were on the way to Jerusalem, and they were thirsting to throw off the yoke of Rome and of . Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. 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. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 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. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. (Ver. Deeper questions demanded solution. 15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. of 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. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. , And this very circumstance is perhaps the cause, that nowhere do we read that Jesus, whilst He teas sojourning on the earth, entered, even though that town was very close to Jerusalem. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. (Ver. There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. 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. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. John 7. Verse John 6:15. 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? This is grace and truth. "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." 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. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. John 6:15. And they asked him, What then? Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? 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. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. 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. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. As mentioned in verse 10, the unbeliever is calling God a liar, in that he or she refuses to believe in God's testimony, namely, that which "God has given about His Son" (vs.10). 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. Nor could any question be more momentous. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. 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. 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. (Ver. , to snatch suddenly and forcibly (derived from the swoop of the falcon, the ; hence, the Harpies). 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." Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. How striking the omission! Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Observe: not which was, but "which is." 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. So only is man born of God. (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. (ver. 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. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. What can be more evident, or more instructive? 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. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. 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. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. "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." He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. 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. What a witness all this to His person! (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. 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 saw him under the fig tree. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. 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. (Ver. 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. 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. 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. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 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. I will answer this question on why I am a Historic Premillennialist in 5 Parts: 1. How was this? On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. 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. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. 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." Such shall live. As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, Presented by. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. . How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. 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. (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. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a king; that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or "had it in . So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake: He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. (Ver. 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. 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. There are three kinds of fundamentals: 1) Doctrinal fundamentals (e.g., the Trinity, Deity of Christ, Sacrificial Atonement, and Resurrection). Proud member All this clearly goes down to millennial days. 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! But the erosion of Tradition began long ago, without their knowledge, as will be shown below. Salem Media Group. 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. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . This we have had fully before. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. How truly it is man under law! The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. He was God. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with 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 we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. seize him in order that they might make him King. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. Glory would be displayed in its day. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. 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. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. John 6:15 in all English translations. Take him by force, to make him a king The Jews had often suffered by famine in those times in which their enemies were permitted to prevail over them; but, finding that Jesus had such power as to multiply a few loaves to feed thousands, they took it for granted that while he was at their head no evil could possibly happen to them, and therefore were . He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? John 6:15King James Version. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. John 6:15 Context. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. One must be born again. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. * 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." 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. The Father and the Son were at work. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." 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. Here, in suited circumstances to render the thought and way of God unmistakable, pure and boundless grace takes its own sovereign course, suitable to the love and personal glory of Christ. 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. king; Fritzsche, p. 21). Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. This is why premillennial-ism is based on a kind of hermeneutical fundamental of the Christian Faith. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. It was not so. some copies add, "and he prayed there"; the Syriac, Ethiopic, and John 3:1-36 follows this up. 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. Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. "had it in their mind", as the Persic; to gather about him as one Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. 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 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. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. Catalogue entry. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). 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. 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. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. 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. "Master, eat," said they. Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. Man is morally judged. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. John 6:15. (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. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. What sayest thou of thyself? Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. Jesus Walks on the Sea. 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." The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. John was not yet cast into prison. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. Jesus not only could go up, as He did later, but He had come down thence, and, even though man, He was the Son of man that is in heaven. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. Because John declares that the one who does not believe in God's testimony is calling God "a liar." This is crucial to see. alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and 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. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the He tells Philip to follow Him. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." 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. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." 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. How withering the words! Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. 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. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. 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. that his kingdom was not of this world; to teach his followers to This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. 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