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. At first she tried to hide her sins, but Jesus We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 1 John 4:18. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. 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. 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. WebThe proof of the later date of John's Gospel is in such references as 1:32, and 3:24, which assume a previous knowledge of the facts on the part of his readers. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the 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." 2. : an apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." 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. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. All is in the character of the Son of man. (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. Without sign, prodigy, or miracle, in this village of Samaria Jesus was heard, known, confessed as truly the Saviour of the world ("the Christ" being absent in the best authorities, ver. 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. Do they receive Him not? "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." (Ver. John 3:1-36 follows this up. Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." Wonderful things in the Bible I see, Jan 16, 2023 at 9:27 am. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. 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. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. 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. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. 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. Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than 2 He was with God in the beginning. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. (Ver. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. 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. God is love. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. Webnoun Slang. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. This would make all manifest. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." 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. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. (Verses John 7:40-53). The Jews were not satisfied with that, but demanded still that he should be put to death, John 19:39-40. The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. (Ed. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 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." 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. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? (Ver. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. 17 This is how love is made complete It was not so. (ver. 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. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? 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. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" 1 John 4:19, NLT: We love each other because he loved us first. 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." It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. 42 And he brought him to Jesus. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. He was God. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. Then the soldiers mockingly but truthfully hail Jesus as the king of the Jews (19:3). But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." 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. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. Glory would be displayed in its day. What can be more evident, or more instructive? This is the heart of the message of the Bible. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. Man is morally judged. We love him, because he first loved us. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. 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. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. The apostle attests this. Herein is our loveb made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 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. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. Of course, the experience will still be intense. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more 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. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. 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. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. 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. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. Web1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Who Is Lillith and Why Don't We Find Her in Our Bible? 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. Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. 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). Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. Alistair Macrae, minister at Wesley Uniting Church, joins Robyn & Fran to discuss discipleship, call, and repentance in Matthew 4. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. (sometimes initial capital letter) a prostitute's customer. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. As there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. . ? Alas! No charge could be remoter from the truth. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." Proud member Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. 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. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. a male mule, or more KJV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. YLT John 4:19 The woman saith to him, 'Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet; ASV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 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. 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