Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry commended World Economic Forum attendees on Tuesday, saying their efforts to combat climate change were "almost extraterrestrial." And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. 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. He tells Philip to follow Him. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. Of this we learn nothing, here. 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. 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. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. 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. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). Very simple words! Art thou that prophet? "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. WebMatthew Henry's Commentary on 1 John 4:16-19 Commentary on 1 John 4:14-21 (Read 1 John 4:14-21) The Father sent the Son, he willed his coming into this world. 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. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. 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. 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. As this chapter sets forth the Lord Jesus with singular fulness of glory, on the side both of His Godhead and of His manhood, so it closes with the most varied and remarkable testimonies God has given to us, that there may be no excuse. 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. Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. 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. 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. 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." (Ver. Also called john mule . 6 There came a man who was sent from God. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than 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. 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. 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. But knowing what will happen, and realizing it's part of a plan, greatly reduces our fear. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. How truly it is man under law! John 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. 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. Web1 John 4:16 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. God is love. A person falling thousands of feet through the air would experience sheer terrorunless they knew a parachute would soon open. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. (Verse John 3:10). He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for 1 John 4:16-19 "WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE" I. 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? Although the authorship of the Johannine works has traditionally been attributed to John the Apostle, only a minority of What you have just said is quite true.. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. 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. 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. (16-19) Jesus speaks of her sinful life. One must be born again. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. To have righteousness we 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. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. 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. 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. 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. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. 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. Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? (Ver. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." (ver. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. At the end of fiscal 2032, it predicts, the total federal debt will be $44.797 trillion. The result immediately follows. He acts as such. The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. "Master, eat," said they. Glory would be displayed in its day. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. They crown Jesus with thorns and dress him in a purple robe. Simon was one of the commonest names at the time (along with Jesus, Joseph, John and Levi), and so he is distinguished from others by his nickname, which Matthew assumes he has already been given; we hear of an earlier 7 He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe. 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. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. This leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. And he answered, No. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." And whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. 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. 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." 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 This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. 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. WebThis summary of the Gospel of John provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Gospel of John. This would make all manifest. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. 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. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. Deeper questions demanded solution. (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. 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." To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. John 4:16. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. 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. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. 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. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? 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. 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. He was God. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. 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." Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. (Ed. 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. 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 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. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. 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. 18 There is no (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. (ver. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. 3. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. Realizing that the woman would have to see her personal sin before she could see her spiritual need, Jesus began to speak of her marital affairs. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. 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. WebLuke 4:16.As to the relation of the following incident to the similar one in Matthew 13:53 ff., Mark 6:1 ff., see on Matthew. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 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