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. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. John was not yet cast into prison. 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. Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). (Ed. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. A person (the bell ringer) would place a leather muffle over half of the bell's clapper. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. 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. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or The sound goes back and forth between a harder chime and a muffled chime. This is grace and truth. Of this we learn nothing, here. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. contrary to all others, renders it, "Christ departed from the Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. John 5. conjunction with the Lord's Second Coming) (Hebert 2006c:5-6). 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., 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 1:44-51). They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. 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. 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. 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. 15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. 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. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. John 6:15 Context. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. 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. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. 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." How withering the words! Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. 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. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. 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. 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. He was God. their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. "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." John 6:15King James Version. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. 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. Alas! 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. Phil 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Predetermined performance - no will involved. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. How was this? 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. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." 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. 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." Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, 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. 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. Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. 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. For He who spoke was divine. "He must, increase, but I decrease." Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. The Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? "The law was given by Moses." But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. John 7. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. 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. In Mark 1:14-15, Jesus told those around Him that the kingdom was as hand. redeemer, were unworthy of his presence: and also he went away He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. This He does in verses 16-19. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. And in this He is sovereign. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. And he answered, No. John 7:25-31) He is going where they cannot come, and never guessed (for unbelief thinks of the dispersed among the Greeks of anything rather than of God). The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. 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." For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. 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. 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. Glory would be displayed in its day. 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. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. "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." 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. 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. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! (Ver. Premillennialism turns Jesus into a liar. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. , 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. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. "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." Here the Lord introduces the cross. 4. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. 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. (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. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." As mentioned in verse 10, the unbeliever is calling God a liar, in that he or she refuses to believe in God's testimony, namely, that which "God has given about His Son" (vs.10). His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. 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! 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. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 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. (Verses John 4:31-38). The man could not tell the Jews the name of his benefactor. 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 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. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. All is in the character of the Son of man. 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