(VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. He was God. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. 2. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." 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. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. And so, in fact, it was and is. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. he would not. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. he departed again into a mountain, himself Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. And such was Jesus. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. (Ver. When Jesus therefore perceived All rights reserved. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." 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." Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? seize him in order that they might make him King. convinced of their mistaken notions of him as a temporal prince: It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 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. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. What can be more evident, or more instructive? 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. 42). To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. 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. Fritzsche, p. 21). This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." 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 Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. Salem Media Group. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." (Ver. 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. 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. It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. 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 was in the world, and the world was made by him." If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. 1 Cor 15:26 states that Christ will reign until the destruction of death. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. 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., As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the 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). So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." All this clearly goes down to millennial days. conjunction with the Lord's Second Coming) (Hebert 2006c:5-6). encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went 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. 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. support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 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. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. * 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." King James Version (KJV) Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? 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? Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 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. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. 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. 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. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." When the crowd complains of hunger, the disciples who are mentioned each react in unique ways. 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. All is in the character of the Son of man. 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. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. 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. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. Observe: not which was, but "which is." The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. This He does in verses 16-19. In these two points of view, more particularly, John gives testimony to Christ; He is the lamb as the taker away of the world's sin; the same is He who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. (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. What love! After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. The question really is, whether man would trust God. 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. (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. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? 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. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds Nor was it yet complete. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! "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." (1-4) A crowd gathers to Jesus near the Sea of Galilee. But if the Spirit speaks of the Son of God, the law dwindles at once into the smallest possible proportions: everything yields to the honour the Father puts oil the Son. Because John declares that the one who does not believe in God's testimony is calling God "a liar." This is crucial to see. When Jesus therefore perceived. 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. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. John 3:1-36 follows this up. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." 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. 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! The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. And he answered, No. Catalogue entry. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? Presented by. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. (Ver. 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. redeemer, were unworthy of his presence: and also he went away 4. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. By MELANIE ZANONA. As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, (Ver. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. (Ver. 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. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. 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. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. In Mark 1:14-15, Jesus told those around Him that the kingdom was as hand. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. Flesh and world are judged morally. 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. 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. 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. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. And they asked him, What then? 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. How can such have relationship with God? 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. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. mountain alone". But what we learn is, that our Lord (viewed as having entered into heaven as man on the ground of redemption, i.e., ascended, after having passed through death, into glory) from that glory confers meanwhile the Holy Ghost on him that believes, instead of bringing in at once the final feast of gladness for the Jews and the world, as He will do by-and-by when the anti-typical harvest and vintage has been fulfilled. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. John 6:15King James Version. 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. He was God. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. 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. The thrust of Lindsey's book is two-fold: First, it espouses the premillennial theory of Christ's second coming. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. , , . and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Art thou Elias? Verse John 6:15. 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. Read full chapter. 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. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. (Ed. There was purpose in it. 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. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. The Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. John 6:15 in all English translations. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." (Ver. 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. 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 entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. 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