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Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. 1. 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. 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. Web1 John 4:17. 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. 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. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. 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. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. - Now Jesus knew (perceived by his Divine penetration of human thought here quickened by their anxious look and hurried whisperings) that they were wishing to question him, and he said to them, Are you inquiring among yourselves concerning this that I said, A little while, etc. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. 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). His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. (Ver. Nor was it yet complete. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. What can be more evident, or more instructive? John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 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. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. Pilate, disposed to gratify the Alas! 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. (Ver. Web40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." 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." No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. 6 There came a man who was sent from God. He would apply himself more to preaching work, which was the more excellent, 1 Cor 1 17. 3. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. But what we learn is, that our Lord (viewed as having entered into heaven as man on the ground of redemption, i.e., ascended, after having passed through death, into glory) from that glory confers meanwhile the Holy Ghost on him that believes, instead of bringing in at once the final feast of gladness for the Jews and the world, as He will do by-and-by when the anti-typical harvest and vintage has been fulfilled. John was not yet cast into prison. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. Then the soldiers mockingly but truthfully hail Jesus as the king of the Jews (19:3). For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. "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." Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. (John 12:48). Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. 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. (Verses John 7:40-53). Deeper questions demanded solution. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." He that comes from above from heaven is above all. Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of the Bible you can use in your small group. Such shall live. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. 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. Very simple words! 7 He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe. 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. For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." 1 John 4:16-19 New International Version 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. 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