Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." thinking about a temporal kingdom, as the people, and might (Ver. 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. John 6:15. The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. 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 truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. 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. Flesh and world are judged morally. 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. For Jesus perceived that they were on the point of coming and carrying Him off to make Him king. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. 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. 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. Catalogue entry. 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. Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. 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. Nevertheless, the heavenly part is little dwelt on, as John's gospel displays our Lord more as the expression of God revealed on earth, than as Man ascended to heaven, which fell far more to the province of the apostle of the Gentiles. 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. John 6:16. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) Here the Lord introduces the cross. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. He was God. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. The thrust of Lindsey's book is two-fold: First, it espouses the premillennial theory of Christ's second coming. 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. infinite truth! Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. 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. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? 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. 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. 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. 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. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. 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. 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. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! Read full chapter John 6:15 in all English translations John 5 John 7 New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. 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. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. (ver. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. This is grace and truth. 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. Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). They were on the way to Jerusalem, and they were thirsting to throw off the yoke of Rome and of . It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 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." and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. Ringing of the death bells is done slowly and reverently. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. John 3:1-36 follows this up. Glory would be displayed in its day. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. The question really is, whether man would trust God. (1-4) A crowd gathers to Jesus near the Sea of Galilee. 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. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. "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." by this miracle, they could not doubt of his being able to Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? 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. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. (Verses John 7:40-53). The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. Why should He not show Himself to the world? Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." 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. 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. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. 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. (Verse John 3:10). 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. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. 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? Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. 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. He tells Philip to follow Him. 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