(1-3) Jesus teaches from a boat. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. The result immediately follows. THE FINAL THREE PROOFS OF DEITY - John 5:36-40. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. So only is man born of God. (Ver. This should be translated, not in the imperative, but in the indicative mood - thus, Ye search the Scriptures diligently. Osta kirja A Dissertation on Prophecy, Wherein the Coh]rence and Connexion of the Prophecies in Both the Old and New Testament Are Fully Considered; Together with an Explanation of the Revelation of St. John. Here the Lord introduces the cross. John. Do any believe on His name? Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. "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." It was not so. It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. It occurs within the context of a family Jesus loved Mary, Martha and Lazarus. 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. But the key phrase is "seek out the wisdom of God" because some have come to excel at misusing the Scriptures. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." 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. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. OUTLINE: [3 A The Book of the Seven Signs (2:1 -12:50)] . Using the Bible to impress others rather than to grow in humility and love for God will keep you from faith in Christ (5:39-42). "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. 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. 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! * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." We've got Meb Faber back on the show to nominally talk about trend following - but as often happens with Meb - we get into a bunch from global equity . John 3:1-36 follows this up. It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. 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." Friday, April 15, 2022. Verse 40. The Father seeks worshippers. International Bible Study Commentary. Verses 5:5, 6, 7, 8. To achieve eternal life in the . (Ver. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. "He must, increase, but I decrease." The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. 4.16.6 Fixed npm-shrinkwrap.json support in --update-db (by Geoff Newman). What can be more evident, or more instructive? The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. 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. We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts 1 1. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. This we have had fully before. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. Controversy with the " Jews" who Believed. Many are convinced by this appeal. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. John 5:14-18 Jesus Claims to be God. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. (Verse John 3:10). Chapter 5. Alas! 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. 5:39 The indicative of eJrauna'te fits the context better (indicative and imperative forms are the same here). This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. Commentary on John 5:39-44 (Read John 5:39-44) The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of God in their hands. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalidsblind, lame, and paralyzed. John noted, "Jesus loved Martha, her sister and Lazarus" (John 11:5). 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. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. 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. That the Jews in the time of Jesus were expecting a future state. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. What Does It Mean That There Is No One Holy Like God? 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. 4.16.5 Fixed unsafe RegExp . 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. 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. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? 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. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Hinta: 23,80 . Commentary on John 5:39-44. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. Of this we learn nothing, here. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. (Ver. 4 5 One man was there who had been an . Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. But let them beware how they perverted it. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. 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. )7.30: Studio recital by Maurice Turley (boy singer). 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. Glory would be displayed in its day. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! This would make all manifest. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. Following on from yesterday's share here is the wastewater treatment explanation, nice and simple as before. John 5:39-40: "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.". If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. The call of four fishermen. This is a perfect illustration of John 15:5 where Jesus declared "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit (IN THIS CASE ABIDING WAS SIMPLY OBEYING), for apart from Me you can do nothing (EVEN FISHING - BUT . There was purpose in it. So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets.Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out . No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. Research news, charts, stock market performance and earnings. The charge (Luke 5:33) The explanation (Luke 5:34-39) Hannah's Bible Outlines. 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." Now they testify about me; (40) but you will not come to me so that you may receive life. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. (Ver. 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. "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." It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. See John 5:38-40 (printed below), note, especially, verse 38. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. 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. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. 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. 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. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. John 5. Verse . But the meaning here is, that they imagined, by having these writings in their hands, and by their reading them, and hearing them expounded every sabbath day, they should obtain and inherit everlasting life: hence they call F18 the law eternal life, and say F19 concerning the reading of it, that. Here, in suited circumstances to render the thought and way of God unmistakable, pure and boundless grace takes its own sovereign course, suitable to the love and personal glory of Christ. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. 17.30: Slat.' Oporn Orchestra 7.48: "Paul Clifford. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. (39) You study the Scriptures diligently, because you think that eternal life is found in them. 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). It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. International Bible Study Forum. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. 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. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. Then (ver. and they are they which testify of me; as they do of his proper deity and divine sonship, calling him Jehovah, God, the mighty God, and the Son of God; and of his offices as prophet, priest, and King; and of his incarnation of a virgin; and of the tribe, family, and place of his birth; of the miracles which he should work; of the treatment he should meet with from men; of his sufferings and death; of the circumstances leading on to them, and attending them; as his riding on an ass into Jerusalem, the betraying him by one of his familiar acquaintance, the selling him for thirty pieces of silver, the spitting upon, and scourging him, giving him gall for his meat, and vinegar for his drink, and parting his garments, and casting lots for his vesture, and the crucifixion of him, and that between two thieves; and of his burial, resurrection from the dead, ascension to heaven, and session at the right hand of God, and of his future coming to judgment. TO-NIGHT (MONDAY) l\A AUCKLAND (050 k.c. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. And he saith, I am not. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. Nor could any question be more momentous. ON THE AIR. FOR SALE! Lhetetn 5-7 arkipivss. 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. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. 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. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. They are rejecting Jesus and His message (John 5: . There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. And in this He is sovereign. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. 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. John 5:31-38 Bear Witness. 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. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. I know that you do not have the love of God . All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." John 4:46-54 Jesus Heals the Nobleman's Son. 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. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. But "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." By . But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. 4. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." Search the Scriptures The writings of Moses, and the prophets, which were of divine inspiration and authority, and are often appealed unto by Christ, and his apostles, for the truth of what they delivered; and were the standard of faith, and the test of doctrines; and therefore to be searched diligently into, for finding divine knowledge and improvement in it, and for the trial of doctrines. Art thou Elias? "The law was given by Moses." Read full chapter. . Recorded via Riverside on Feb. 3, 2023, for Working Preacher. 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. Of course they are just as truly inspired as John's; but for that very reason they were not inspired to give the same testimony. Jesus heals an invalid on the SabbathHe explains why men must honor the SonJesus promises to take the gospel to the deadMan is resurrected, judged, and assigned his glory by the SonJesus obeys the divine law of witnesses. 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. 1 After this there was a a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. INTRODUCTION: Hans Christian Andersen wrote a fairy tale about a young woman who was tested to determine whether or not she was truly a princess. (Ver. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. They had the mine, and they dug in that mine in quest of the eternal riches. John 4:27-38 The Harvest is Ready. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. 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 claims made, if less than the author represents them, were such as to raise the question of authority. , , , , , because ye think in them ye have eternal life. (Ver. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Si nous voulons avoir cognoissance de Christ. Includes commnetary, questions, outline, and applications on John chapter 5:19-47 encouraging life change. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. You can discuss each week 's commentary and lesson at the . 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament, Old Testament (I. Christ as Fulfilment of). 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. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL He saw him under the fig tree. (2) Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, and that is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. What Does It Really Mean That Your Body Is a Temple? The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. 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. John 5:26. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. John 5:39. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Furthermore, you do not have his word living in you; for you do not believe the one whom he sent. 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.

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