d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). 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. (Ver. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. The way you see God has everything to do with how you approach Him, how you relate to Him. 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). Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. WebPulpit Commentary Verse 19. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. 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. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. 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. 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. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. Expand. If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. A. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. (sometimes initial capital letter) a prostitute's customer. Web1. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 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. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." 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. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. A person falling thousands of feet through the air would experience sheer terrorunless they knew a parachute would soon open. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. 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. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. Christ's road from Judea to 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. 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). (Ver. 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. The question really is, whether man would trust God. 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." It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. He tells Philip to follow Him. To have righteousness we Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. 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. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. At the end of fiscal 2032, it predicts, the total federal debt will be $44.797 trillion. He distinguishes between seducing spirits, and faithful ministers of the word; the former are of the world, speak of worldly things, and worldly men hear them; but the latter are of God, and they that have any spiritual knowledge of God hear them; but such as are not of God do not heal them, by which may he known the spirit of truth from the spirit of error, 1Jo 4:5,6. 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. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of 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. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 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. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. (e.g. At first she tried to hide her sins, but Jesus But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. 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. 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. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. As an experienced minister, Alistair shares his approach to preaching. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. God is love. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. 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. Web1. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. 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. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. Why should He not show Himself to the world? 3. 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 Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. "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." First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." 1 John 4:16. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. (Ed. : a Jewish prophet who according to Gospel accounts foretold Jesus' messianic ministry and baptized him. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. 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. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. Web1 John 4:16-19 NIV 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. (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. And they asked him, What then? Who Is Lillith and Why Don't We Find Her in Our Bible? Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? Pilate, disposed to gratify the 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. 18 There is no fear in love. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. 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. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. 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. 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. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. 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. but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. Of course, the experience will still be intense. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. This we have had fully before. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. How can such have relationship with God? (Ver. 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! 7 He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. John 4:19-20. What a witness all this to His person! (Ver. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? 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. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. He has given us the spirit of adoption by which we call Him, Abba, father! My wifes dad was a chiropractor and when she got to be old enough, he gave her an opportunity to be a receptionist at his clinic. Do any believe on His name? 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. WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. ? Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. 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. 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 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. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. NIV. Webnoun Slang. No man hath seen God at any time. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. 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. Art thou that prophet? All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. Johns answer goes down to the depths, for his notion of love is the response of the believing soul to the love of God which was manifested on the Cross of Calvary. 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. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. 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. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God."