"He was in the world, and the world was made by him." Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . Deeper questions demanded solution. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. (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. 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 is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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. This Blog is really a continuation of my Previous Blog "Why Israel Has a Future in God's Plans - Romans 9-11 and the People of God" By Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. Alas! Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Salem Media Group. John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. In Mark 9:1, Jesus promised that some of the very ones in His presence would not see death until they saw the kingdom come with power. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." 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. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. So bright was His glory, so concerned was the Father in maintaining it, so immense the blessing if received, so tremendous the stake involved in its loss, that God vouchsafed the amplest and clearest witnesses. 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. What sayest thou of thyself? with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. "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." And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. 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. Man is morally judged. encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. 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). 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. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. (Ver. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? (Verses John 4:31-38). John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. 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. 1. What a witness all this to His person! For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. contrary to all others, renders it, "Christ departed from the by this miracle, they could not doubt of his being able to It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. And such was Jesus. 4. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." The law works no deliverance; it puts a man in chains, prison, darkness, and under condemnation; it renders him a patient, or a criminal incompetent to avail himself of the displays of God's goodness. 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. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." A death knell is the ringing of a church bell immediately after a death to announce it. 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. 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. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." 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. 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. 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. for he knew He was the Christ. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. "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 His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? John 6:15King James Version. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. John 7. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. 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 . 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. 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. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. 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. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. - Jesus therefore knowing (having found, perceived (), by ominous movements in the crowd, or in any other way still more explicit) that they were about to come and by violence, or force, seize him in order that they might make him King. "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." 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. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 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. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, En une ardeur de zele inconsidere et temeraire. 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. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. What can be more evident, or more instructive? of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be (Ed. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. (ver. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 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. 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. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." No charge could be remoter from the truth. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. 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. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. (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. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. This we have had fully before. 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. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. [whose?] This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. 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. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. Alas! Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. Presented by. 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. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. 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. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. He was God. Thus the Holy Ghost, given by the Son in humiliation (according to God, not acting on law, but according to the gift of grace in the gospel), was fully set forth; but the woman, though interested, and asking, only apprehended a boon for this life to save herself trouble here below. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? Verse John 6:15. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. 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. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. By MELANIE ZANONA. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. (ver. As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, They were on the way to Jerusalem, and they were thirsting to throw off the yoke of Rome and of . It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. (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. I will answer this question on why I am a Historic Premillennialist in 5 Parts: 1. 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 was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Proud member
And in this He is sovereign. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. infinite truth! All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. 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. 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. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (Ver. All is in the character of the Son of man. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. Art thou that prophet? It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. The Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." 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. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 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. (Ver. 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. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 2. 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. 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 . Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. (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. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. 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. In John 6:15 we read that "when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to a mountain by Himself alone." I have often considered this verse to be the death-knell of premillennialism. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. (Ver. (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? 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." Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. 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. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. 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