No man hath seen God at any time. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. 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. (16-19) Jesus speaks of her sinful life. 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. 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." This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. but they go down into the depths of God, lifting burdens off the heart of humanity, turning duty into delight, and changing the aspect of all things. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." At first she tried to hide her sins, but Jesus 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." 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. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. 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. (Ver. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. (Ver. Christ's road from Judea to No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. 18 There is no fear in love. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. (Verses John 1:44-51). The apostle attests this. The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. 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. 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. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. And great are the advantages arising from hence, for hereby the saints' love to God is made perfect; they have boldness in the day of judgment, since as he is, so are they in this world, and fear is cast out by it, 1Jo 4:17,18, but lest too much should be thought to be ascribed to love, that is said to be owing to the love of God to them, which is prior to theirs to him, and the reason of it, 1Jo 4:19. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. Nor would the rejected Christ, the Son of man; for if lifted up on the cross, instead of having the throne of David, the result would be not merely earthly blessing for His people according to prophecy, but eternal life for the believer, whoever. At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. John was not yet cast into prison. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. 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. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. 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. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. 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. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. Alas! (Ver. 18 There is no a toilet or bathroom. 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. * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." 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. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. And he saith, I am not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. This He does in verses 16-19. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. This is the heart of the message of the Bible. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! 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. 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. He was God. Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. Web1 John 4:16 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. The contrasts are as strong, at least, as the resemblance with the healing of the centurion's servant in Matthew 13:1-58 and Luke 7:1-50, which some ancients and moderns have confounded with this, as they did Mary's anointing of Jesus with the sinful woman's in Luke 7:1-50. 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. 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). One must be born again. 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. 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. 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. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. 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. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. He was prominent in the early church but is not mentioned by name in this Gospel -- which would be natural if he wrote it, but hard to 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. For He who spoke was divine. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Johns answer goes down to the depths, for his notion of love is the response of the believing soul to the love of God which was manifested on the Cross of Calvary. 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. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. 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. 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. What sayest thou of thyself? 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. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. 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. You are right when you say you have no husband. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." If He judges, it is not without full warning. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. 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. 1. The way you see God has everything to do with how you approach Him, how you relate to Him. Web1. Art thou Elias? He who (ver. He tells Philip to follow Him. This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. 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. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. "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."
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