John 6:16. (ver. he would not. John 6:15King James Version. 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. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. A more recent production, advocating the same general theory, is the fictional Left Behindseries. (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. 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. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." convinced of their mistaken notions of him as a temporal prince: But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. Read full chapter. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. (Verses John 7:40-53). They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. 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. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Proud member Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." "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." John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. 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." Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! John 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. 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. 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." What sayest thou of thyself? "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. 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. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). he departed again into a mountain, himself 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. 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. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. 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). All rights reserved. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. How withering the words! 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 is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. 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. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." 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. "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." So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? 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. 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. 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. Man is morally judged. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. And they asked him, What then? 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. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . 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. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Glory would be displayed in its day. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. Art thou that prophet? THE WORLD'S GREATEST . Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. 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. 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." For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. 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. 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. Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. 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. 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." Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. 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. They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. 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. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 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. 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. Alas! It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. 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. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. 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. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 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. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? 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 seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. 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. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. When Jesus therefore perceived. C. Death knell for "Good Pope John" . 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. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. 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. This is the only miracle recorded in all four of the gospel accounts. 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. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. 64). (Ver. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? 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. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. And he saith, I am not. Nay, "the world knew him not." This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, So only is man born of God. 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. And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. (Verse John 3:10). Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! 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. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. 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