So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. And they asked him, What then? 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. Nor was it yet complete. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. 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. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." (Ver. redeemer, were unworthy of his presence: and also he went away And so, in fact, it was and is. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. 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." This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. How striking the omission! (Ed. but. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: 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. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. 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. (Ver. 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. Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. 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. 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." Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. 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. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. 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 is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . 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. 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 the two disciples leave John for Jesus. John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. * 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." What love! 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. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. 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. by this miracle, they could not doubt of his being able to 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. Augustine believed God's purposes were always being fulfilled, the gospel was always advancing into "the nations at the four corners of the earth." The saints who had been spiritually raised to. encourage them in this undertaking: the mountain Christ went contrary to all others, renders it, "Christ departed from the These are a test of evangelical authenticity. 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. Flesh and world are judged morally. 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. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. 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. 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. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. Catalogue entry. reasons of his departure, were to prevent the attempt; to show He could, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. "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." None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. 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. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. 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. 15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. Deeper questions demanded solution. John 6:15 Context. Here the Lord introduces the cross. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. 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. THE WORLD'S GREATEST . 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). He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. (ver. The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. All is in the character of the Son of man. 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, (ver. I will answer this question on why I am a Historic Premillennialist in 5 Parts: 1. 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. As mentioned in verse 10, the unbeliever is calling God a liar, in that he or she refuses to believe in God's testimony, namely, that which "God has given about His Son" (vs.10). 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 left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and 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. (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. 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. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. 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. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. 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. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. Nor could any question be more momentous. Verse John 6:15. (Verses John 4:31-38). Clarke's Commentary. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. 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 effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. 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