Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. ", 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, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, Tout ainsi que la terre, pour apporter fruict, sera menuisee et amollie par le soc de la charrue. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. The Lord and the disciples are next seen in the country district, not far, it would seem, from John, who was baptizing as they were. Then (ver. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. 1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. All is in the character of the Son of man. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. 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. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. 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." The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. 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. 1 John 4:16-19. Because he would put a difference between his baptism and that of John, who baptized all himself; for he baptized as a servant, Christ as a master. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. And so, in fact, it was and is. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. (Verses John 1:44-51). 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. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. 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. (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? 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. Art thou Elias? "Master, eat," said they. Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the God is love. Nor was it yet complete. (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. , , . The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. Here the Lord introduces the cross. WebJohn the Apostle is traditionally held to be the author of the Gospel of John, and many Christian denominations believe that he authored several other books of the New Testament, depending on whether he is distinguished from, or identified with, John the Evangelist, John the Elder, and John of Patmos. 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. , He saith ) Now He makes an avenue for giving to the woman, who begs for water, a better kind of it, than that which she had begged for. , husband ) The woman They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. 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. 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. John was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. The Jews were not satisfied with that, but demanded still that he should be put to death, John 19:39-40. All rights reserved. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. He was God. What a witness all this to His person! (16-19) Jesus speaks of her sinful life. (Ver. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? 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 thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. 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. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry commended World Economic Forum attendees on Tuesday, saying their efforts to combat climate change were "almost extraterrestrial." 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. 17 This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day - our standing in the world is identical with Christ's. He exhorts the saints not to believe every man that came with a doctrine to them, but to try them, since there were many false teachers in the world; and gives a rule by which they may be tried and judged, as that whatever teacher owns Christ to be come in the flesh is of God, but he that does not is not of God, but is the spirit of antichrist that should come, and was in the world, 1Jo 4:1,2, but, for the comfort of those to whom he writes, he observes, that they were of God, and had overcome these false teachers, through the mighty power of the divine Spirit in them, who is greater than Satan, and all his emissaries, 1Jo 4:4. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. And he answered, No. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. 1 John 4:19, KJV: We love him, because he first loved us. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. WebJohn repeats that people must believe in Jesus as the Son of God in order to be saved, and that love for God is inseparable from love for Gods people (5:1). Then the soldiers mockingly but truthfully hail Jesus as the king of the Jews (19:3). John 3:1-36 follows this up. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. NIV. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. And in this He is sovereign. Henrys plan (1173) to assign to John, his favourite son (whom he had nicknamed Lackland), extensive lands upon his marriage with the daughter of Humbert III, count of Maurienne (Savoy), was defeated by the rebellion the proposal provoked among Johns elder brothers. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? 6 There came a man who was sent from God. How can such have relationship with God? In this chapter the apostle cautions against seducing spirits; advises to try them, and gives rules by which they may be known, and by which they are distinguished from others; and then returns to his favourite subject, brotherly love. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. 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. What you have just said is quite true. 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! Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. WebThis small group Bible study of John 4:1-19 contains commentary, outlines, cross-references, Bible study discussion questions, and applications. go, call thy husband, and come hither; go directly from hence to the city of Sychar, and call thy husband, and come back hither along with him again: this Christ said, not to have him come to teach and instruct him, and as if he would more readily and easily understand him, and that he might be with her, a partaker of the same grace; but to bring on some further conversation, by which she would understand that he knew her state and condition, and what a course of life she now lived, and so bring her under a conviction of her sin and danger, and need of him and his grace. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. And such was Jesus. 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. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. John was not yet cast into prison. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? 1 John 4:19. John 4:16. 17 This is how love is and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time 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. Of this we learn nothing, here. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. 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. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? : a Jewish prophet who according to Gospel accounts foretold Jesus' messianic ministry and baptized him. 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. To have righteousness we 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. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. 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. Nor could any question be more momentous. 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. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. 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. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. (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? "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." 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 simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. 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. 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." It was sabbath-day. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. 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). John 7:25-31) He is going where they cannot come, and never guessed (for unbelief thinks of the dispersed among the Greeks of anything rather than of God). WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. 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. Expand. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." 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." God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. If He judges, it is not without full warning. That means that under Biden's budget plan the federal debt would increase by $16.411 trillion or 57.8% in the 11 fiscal years from when he first took office in fiscal 2021 through fiscal 2032. Web1 John 4:19 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] 1 John 4:19, NIV: We love because he first loved us. (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. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. saith unto her, fie, call thy husband, and come hither. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. "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." For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. What you have just said is quite true.. infinite truth! 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. 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 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. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. How striking the omission! 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. 1 John 4:19. 1 John 4:19, NASB: We love, because He first loved us. 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. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." (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. This we have had fully before. 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. 1 John 4:16. 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. 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. Web1. Flesh and world are judged morally. 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. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more (ver. 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. He was God. What can be more evident, or more instructive? Salem Media Group. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. (Ver. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then).
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