The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? 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. 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. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. 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. This He does in verses 16-19. How striking the omission! (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. 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. 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." There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. It was not so. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. 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. 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. 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 that feareth is not made perfect in love. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. (Ver. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. But knowing what will happen, and realizing it's part of a plan, greatly reduces our fear. (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. 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. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. What love! Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. 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. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 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. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. (Verse John 3:10). Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? (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. 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. 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. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." His name was John. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. 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." 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. As an experienced minister, Alistair shares his approach to preaching. Life resurrection will display how little they had to be ashamed of, who believed the record given of His Son; the resurrection of judgment will make but too plain, to those who despised the Lord, both His honour and their sin and shame. Web1 John 4:19 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] 1 John 4:19, NIV: We love because he first loved us. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. WebPulpit Commentary Verse 19. He was God. a toilet or bathroom. 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. 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. Web1. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. 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. In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr How can such have relationship with God? There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. Alistair Macrae, minister at Wesley Uniting Church, joins Robyn & Fran to discuss discipleship, call, and repentance in Matthew 4. It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. 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. (Verses John 7:40-53). 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. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. Then (ver. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. 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. He tells Philip to follow Him. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. 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. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. And such was Jesus. At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. And in this He is sovereign. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. It is found also in the omissions of all the material of the Synoptics down to the passion. You are right when you say you have no husband. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. Also called john mule . 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. 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! Web1 John 4:16-19 NIV 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. No argument can be drawn from Luke 4:23 against the view that the incidents are different, for therein a ministry at Capernaum would already be presupposed (Schleiermacher, Kern, de Wette, Weiss, Bleek, Holtzmann, and others), as And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. 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. 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. 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. 1. 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. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. 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." Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." 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. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. 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. 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. 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. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. And then the apostle returns to his former exhortation to brotherly love, which he enforces by the following reasons, because it is of God, a fruit of his Spirit and grace, and because it is an evidence of being born of God, and of having a true knowledge of him; whereas he that is destitute of it does not know him, seeing God is love, 1Jo 4:7,8, and having affirmed that God is love, he proves it, by the mission of his Son, to be a propitiation for the sins of such that did not love him, and that they might live through him; wherefore he argues, that if God had such a love to men, so undeserving of it, then the saints ought to love one another, 1Jo 4:9-11. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." A person falling thousands of feet through the air would experience sheer terrorunless they knew a parachute would soon open. 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. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. Expand. 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. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. 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." This is grace and truth. 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. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of the Bible you can use in your small group. 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. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. 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. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." How was this? This is the heart of the message of the Bible. 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. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. 17 This is how love is 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. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. 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. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. The question really is, whether man would trust God. ", 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. Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come We love him, because he first loved us. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. 1 John 4:16-19 New International Version 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. 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. 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. He was God. They crown Jesus with thorns and dress him in a purple robe. 18 The fact Here the Lord introduces the cross. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. Nor could any question be more momentous. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. Jesus, therefore, answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. No charge could be remoter from the truth. 1 John 4:19. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Web1 John 4:16 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. * 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." saith unto her, fie, call thy husband, and come hither. Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. No man hath seen God at any time. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. 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. 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. Jesus declared of God the Father, God is Spirit, (John 4:24) meaning that God the Father has no tangible body which may be seen. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. he would not. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 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. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. 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. 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. "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. 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. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. God is love. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And the chapter is closed with observing the contradiction there is between a profession of love to God, and hatred of the brethren, seeing God, who is invisible, cannot be loved, if brethren that are seen are hated; and also the commandment, that he that loves God should love his brother also, 1Jo 4:20,21. Wonderful things in the Bible I see, And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." 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