john 4:16 19 commentary

"No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. How was this? Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. , He saith ) Now He makes an avenue for giving to the woman, who begs for water, a better kind of it, than that which she had begged for. , husband ) The woman Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. He was God. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. 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. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17 This is how love is Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. And in this He is sovereign. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. 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." (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. 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. He saw him under the fig tree. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time 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. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. , , . WebThe proof of the later date of John's Gospel is in such references as 1:32, and 3:24, which assume a previous knowledge of the facts on the part of his readers. Very simple words! 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. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. Christ's road from Judea to In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. Nor was it yet complete. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? This He does in verses 16-19. 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. Web1 John 4:17. 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. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? Who Is Lillith and Why Don't We Find Her in Our Bible? The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. "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." They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. 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." 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. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." (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? The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. There He supposes His full rejection and death. 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. He could, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. A. 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. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake: He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." All rights reserved. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. 2. So only is man born of God. 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. In this chapter the apostle cautions against seducing spirits; advises to try them, and gives rules by which they may be known, and by which they are distinguished from others; and then returns to his favourite subject, brotherly love. "The law was given by Moses." 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. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. "He must, increase, but I decrease." Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. It was not so. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. 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. WebThe Witness of John. Web1 John 4:16 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. And he answered, No. 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. 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. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. WebJohn the Apostle is traditionally held to be the author of the Gospel of John, and many Christian denominations believe that he authored several other books of the New Testament, depending on whether he is distinguished from, or identified with, John the Evangelist, John the Elder, and John of Patmos. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." 1 John 4:19, NLT: We love each other because he loved us first. (e.g. (Ver. 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. To this last the Lord Jesus alluding to this last the Lord Jesus to... 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