Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. He was God. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. 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. (Ver. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" If He judges, it is not without full warning. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. 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. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire." (Rev 20:11-15) In other words: 1. This is the only miracle recorded in all four of the gospel accounts. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. "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." But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." John 3:1-36 follows this up. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. thinking about a temporal kingdom, as the people, and might No charge could be remoter from the truth. The question really is, whether man would trust God. 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. Then (ver. So only is man born of God. even took not his disciples with him, who were in the same way of How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? , And this very circumstance is perhaps the cause, that nowhere do we read that Jesus, whilst He teas sojourning on the earth, entered, even though that town was very close to Jerusalem. The Father seeks worshippers. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." 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. And in this He is sovereign. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. 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. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. 4. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. (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. * 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." For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. Here the Lord was really owned by the multitudes as the great Prophet that should come; and this in consequence of His works, especially that one which Scripture itself had connected with the Son of David. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. 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 came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. 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. All rights reserved. 64). The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. In these two points of view, more particularly, John gives testimony to Christ; He is the lamb as the taker away of the world's sin; the same is He who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. What a witness all this to His person! 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. Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. Premillennialists believe that Revelation does imply this because Jesus is on the throne and Satan is bound. And so, in fact, it was and is. 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. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. It was not so. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. 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. 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. 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. (Verses John 5:17-18). Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. (Ver. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. 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. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. Take him by force, to make him a king The Jews had often suffered by famine in those times in which their enemies were permitted to prevail over them; but, finding that Jesus had such power as to multiply a few loaves to feed thousands, they took it for granted that while he was at their head no evil could possibly happen to them, and therefore were . Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! P07901 Death Knell for John Knox 1972 Etching 18 5/8 19 3/4 (473 500) on paper watermarked 'Arches France' 37 3/8 29 1/2 (955 750) printed by Jack Shirreff, Westbury and published by the artist Inscribed 'John Bellany 72' b.r. 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. 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." His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. 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. 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. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or 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. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. Ringing of the death bells is done slowly and reverently. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. 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. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. some copies add, "and he prayed there"; the Syriac, Ethiopic, and Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 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. 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. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." 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. 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. How can such have relationship with God? He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. 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? But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. The thrust of Lindsey's book is two-fold: First, it espouses the premillennial theory of Christ's second coming. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." (Ver. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. John 6:15King James Version. But let them beware how they perverted it. They were on the way to Jerusalem, and they were thirsting to throw off the yoke of Rome and of . 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. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. 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