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. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. Then (ver. Jesus Walks on the Sea. for he that could do this, what was it he could not do? There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. 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. The question really is, whether man would trust God. 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. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. John 6:16. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. 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. 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. 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. (Ver. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. In John 6:15 we read that "when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to a mountain by Himself alone." I have often considered this verse to be the death-knell of premillennialism. 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. Observe: not which was, but "which is." It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. 1 Cor 15:26 states that Christ will reign until the destruction of death. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." Do they receive Him not? 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." Second, it interprets present world political trends as signs of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a liar. Clarke's Commentary. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. "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." and inasmuch as death is the last enemy, the destruction of the remaining powers ("when he shall have destroyed all rule and authority and power") will have to be understood not as a final struggle beginning after the parousia, but as the definite victory of christ that has already begun in his cross and resurrection and exaltation (cf., e.g., Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. 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? No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. 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. (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. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. 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. 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. to let them know, that those who sought only for a temporal He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. 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. 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. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." 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! The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? Salem Media Group. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. Christ here, it will be noticed, is not so much the quickening agent as Son of God (John 5:1-47), but the object of faith as Son of man first incarnate, to be eaten; then dying and giving His flesh to be eaten, and His blood to be drank. that his kingdom was not of this world; to teach his followers to Rev 20:7, 14 states death is thrown into into the lake of fire after the thousand year period. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." How little they conceived of what was then said and done! John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. 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. The Father and the Son were at work. Ringing of the death bells is done slowly and reverently. 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. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. (Verses John 4:31-38). Why should He not show Himself to the world? Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." 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. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." 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. John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Art thou that prophet? So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. The answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. This He does in verses 16-19. even took not his disciples with him, who were in the same way of , 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. 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. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. 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. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. 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. 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? 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. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. 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. Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. 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. 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. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. 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. (ver. 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. Do any believe on His name? he left the company directly, upon this resolution of theirs, and He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. 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. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. 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." The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. 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. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. 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. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. (Ver. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. Death knell. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. 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. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. (John 12:48). Verse 15. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a king; that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or "had it in . Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. , to snatch suddenly and forcibly (derived from the swoop of the falcon, the ; hence, the Harpies). (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. For Jesus perceived that they were on the point of coming and carrying Him off to make Him king. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. 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. 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. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. (Ver. 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. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. 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." "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." Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. 2. "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." 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. and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. Proud member Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. This is why premillennial-ism is based on a kind of hermeneutical fundamental of the Christian Faith. John 6:15 Context. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. There are three kinds of fundamentals: 1) Doctrinal fundamentals (e.g., the Trinity, Deity of Christ, Sacrificial Atonement, and Resurrection). Such shall live. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. He acts as such. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. 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. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. The result immediately follows. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." For He who spoke was divine. But if the Spirit speaks of the Son of God, the law dwindles at once into the smallest possible proportions: everything yields to the honour the Father puts oil the Son. 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. 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. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. So only is man born of God. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. Of this we learn nothing, here. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. John 6:15 in all English translations. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." He that comes from above from heaven is above all. 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. man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; 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. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. There He supposes His full rejection and death. 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. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. 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. (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. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds Their purpose was to make Him king. "Master, eat," said they. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. [whose?] There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. Read full chapter John 6:15 in all English translations John 5 John 7 New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. The sound goes back and forth between a harder chime and a muffled chime. (Ver. 1. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. for he knew He was the Christ. It was not so. 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. 4. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. 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. 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