(VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). What a witness all this to His person! 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"). * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. A more recent production, advocating the same general theory, is the fictional Left Behindseries. "Master, eat," said they. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. 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. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. And in this He is sovereign. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. 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. (John 12:48). This is the only miracle recorded in all four of the gospel accounts. 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. Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. "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." John 3:1-36 follows this up. 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. The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, 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. , to snatch suddenly and forcibly (derived from the swoop of the falcon, the ; hence, the Harpies). This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. (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. Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. John 6:16. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. 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. Their purpose was to make Him king. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. I will answer this question on why I am a Historic Premillennialist in 5 Parts: 1. 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. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. 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. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds By MELANIE ZANONA. 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. 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. He was God. he would not. Observe: not which was, but "which is." There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. How can such have relationship with God? What can be more evident, or more instructive? 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. (Ver. 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. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. 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. 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). For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. (Ver. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. Nor could any question be more momentous. Alas! King James Version (KJV) 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. One must be born again. 42). For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. (Verses John 4:31-38). For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." 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. The question really is, whether man would trust God. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. 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. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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. John 6:15. Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. 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. Clarke's Commentary. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Nay, "the world knew him not." It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. - Jesus therefore knowing (having found, perceived (), by ominous movements in the crowd, or in any other way still more explicit) that they were about to come and by violence, or force, seize him in order that they might make him King. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. Nor was it yet complete. Second, it interprets present world political trends as signs of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and 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. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. He saw him under the fig tree. 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. 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. 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. 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. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. 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. Death knell. 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. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. he departed again into a mountain, himself Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 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? Premillennialism turns Jesus into a liar. How striking the omission! (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. It was sabbath-day. 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