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. Death knell. Presented by. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. Even now faith knows, that instead of sin being the great object before God, ever since the cross He has had before His eyes that sacrifice which put away sin. Flesh and world are judged morally. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, Do any believe on His name? This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. for he knew He was the Christ. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. 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. 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. 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. 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. It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. The premillennial concept is the result of literalizing a few symbolic verses in the book of Revelation, coupled with a considerable disregard for scores of Bible passages of clearest import. Of course they are just as truly inspired as John's; but for that very reason they were not inspired to give the same testimony. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. 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." John was not yet cast into prison. 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. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. John 6:15 Context. 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. 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). 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. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. The thrust of Lindsey's book is two-fold: First, it espouses the premillennial theory of Christ's second coming. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. Verse John 6:15. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! 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. He tells Philip to follow Him. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." John 6:15 in all English translations. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? It was not so. 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. "had it in their mind", as the Persic; to gather about him as one 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. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 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. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. When Jesus therefore perceived But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." 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. 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. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. 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. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. They were on the way to Jerusalem, and they were thirsting to throw off the yoke of Rome and of . 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. 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. 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. (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. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . 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. Fritzsche, p. 21). The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. 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. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. 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. 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." Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." Premillenialism is that system of religious belief that holds that Christ didn't set up a kingdom when he was on earth because the Jews rejected it but will one day return to set up an earthly kingdom in which Christ will reign on the earth for a thousand years. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." No man hath seen God at any time. (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 Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. The question really is, whether man would trust God. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." By MELANIE ZANONA. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. "He must, increase, but I decrease." He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. 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." How striking the omission! After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, "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." The result immediately follows. 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. But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. 1. 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? 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. 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." So only is man born of God. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. 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. 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. 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. 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. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? 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. (Ed. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. Man is morally judged. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 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. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. Then (ver. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. (Ver. redeemer, were unworthy of his presence: and also he went away Read full chapter. (Ver. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." contrary to all others, renders it, "Christ departed from the 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. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). What sayest thou of thyself? All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. Jesus not only could go up, as He did later, but He had come down thence, and, even though man, He was the Son of man that is in heaven. 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. 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. But "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." he departed again into a mountain, himself And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone. 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