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. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? They crown Jesus with thorns and dress him in a purple robe. 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." go, call thy husband, and come hither; go directly from hence to the city of Sychar, and call thy husband, and come back hither along with him again: this Christ said, not to have him come to teach and instruct him, and as if he would more readily and easily understand him, and that he might be with her, a partaker of the same grace; but to bring on some further conversation, by which she would understand that he knew her state and condition, and what a course of life she now lived, and so bring her under a conviction of her sin and danger, and need of him and his grace. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. At first she tried to hide her sins, but Jesus 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. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. 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. 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. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. God is love. a male mule, or more Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." But it is important we should know how He entered the world. New Living Translation. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. 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. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. 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. And such was Jesus. 1. 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. 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. This He does in verses 16-19. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. 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. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 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. Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. Then (ver. And in this He is sovereign. but they go down into the depths of God, lifting burdens off the heart of humanity, turning duty into delight, and changing the aspect of all things. 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. What Makes Covenant Theology So Important? And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." 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. The Jews were not satisfied with that, but demanded still that he should be put to death, John 19:39-40. 1 John 4:19, KJV: We love him, because he first loved us. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. 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. (Verses John 4:31-38). The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. It was not so. 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. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. 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. What love! 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. 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." Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. "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." 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. (ver. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. 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. 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. God loves us as a father loves his own son. 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. (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. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. Web1. "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." This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. He exhorts the saints not to believe every man that came with a doctrine to them, but to try them, since there were many false teachers in the world; and gives a rule by which they may be tried and judged, as that whatever teacher owns Christ to be come in the flesh is of God, but he that does not is not of God, but is the spirit of antichrist that should come, and was in the world, 1Jo 4:1,2, but, for the comfort of those to whom he writes, he observes, that they were of God, and had overcome these false teachers, through the mighty power of the divine Spirit in them, who is greater than Satan, and all his emissaries, 1Jo 4:4. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." And he saith, I am not. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. And they asked him, What then? John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. How truly it is man under law! 6 There came a man who was sent from God. He was God. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. 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. John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 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. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. (Verses John 7:40-53). They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. 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. (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. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. Jesus, therefore, answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. (Ver. Web1 John 4:16-19 NIV 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." It was sabbath-day. KJV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. YLT John 4:19 The woman saith to him, 'Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet; ASV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Who Is Lillith and Why Don't We Find Her in Our Bible? Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. 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. Although the authorship of the Johannine works has traditionally been attributed to John the Apostle, only a minority of John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. We discuss being disciples not admirers of Christ. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" One must be born again. He was prominent in the early church but is not mentioned by name in this Gospel -- which would be natural if he wrote it, but hard to 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. The Father seeks worshippers. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. 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. (Ver. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. (ver. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. 2. : an apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of (Verses John 1:44-51). 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. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 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