John 5:14-18 Go And Sin No More. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. John 5:25. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. he would not. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. How striking the omission! But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. 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. Verse 41. Amen. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. 8.0: State Opera Orchestra For He who spoke was divine. 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. He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. TO-NIGHT (MONDAY) l\A AUCKLAND (050 k.c. 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. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. So bright was His glory, so concerned was the Father in maintaining it, so immense the blessing if received, so tremendous the stake involved in its loss, that God vouchsafed the amplest and clearest witnesses. John 5:39-40. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. Karoline Lewis, Joy J. Moore, and Matt Skinner for a conversation on the Revised Common Lectionary texts for Second Sunday in Lent (Year A), March 5, 2023. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. Matthew 5:39 "But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. He was God. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. 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. COMMENTARY ON THE Gospel of St. John by Anonymous - $70.39. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. Sermon Brainwave 891: Second Sunday In Lent - March 5, 2023. 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. Verse 39. Shakespeare's explanation was good John Kennedy, but my favourite is still the 5 year old's explanation of the dangers of email, e.g. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." Believers Delivered from. Accordingly, we have in this chapter a miracle and a sermon. 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. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. John 5. All rights reserved. John 4:39-45 Jesus' time with the Samaritans. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. 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. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. John 5:39-44. 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. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. Leftists Backtrack on Being Wrong About Wuhan Lab Leak Former Communist from East Germany Warns Americans About the Nightmare of Living Under Authoritarian Rule Russia Warms to China as Zelensky Insists Sending America's "Sons & Daughters" to DIE For NATO - FULL SHOW 03/01/23 EcoHealth Alliance Whistleblower: I Believe Ukraine Conflict . 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. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. 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. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. 36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. 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. Read full chapter. There was purpose in it. Proud member 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. John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. 42). (Ver. But the key phrase is "seek out the wisdom of God" because some have come to excel at misusing the Scriptures. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. 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. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. 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. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." Then said they unto him, Who art thou? 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. (Verses John 7:40-53). No charge could be remoter from the truth. (Ver. 39 You study[ a] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. (Ver. 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. 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." "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. 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. (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. First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. 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." They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? (Verses John 5:17-18). Verse 40. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. This would make all manifest. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. the 'bad people' and 41 "I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. 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. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. Nor was it yet complete. 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. . (Ver. 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"). This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. JOHN 5 COMMENTARY. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. What a witness all this to His person! Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." 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. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. Ron DeSantis. (John 12:48). They had the mine, and they dug in that mine in quest of the eternal riches. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. (ver. Sermon Bible Commentary. 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. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. 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. "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." Choose a verse from 'John 5' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org . These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life. Flesh and world are judged morally. 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. 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. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. And in this He is sovereign. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. (39) Search the scriptures.--Better, Ye search the Scriptures. But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. 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. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? 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. 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. I know that you do not have the love of God . His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. John. 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. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. John 3:1-36 follows this up. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. 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. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. Was my salvation real in the first place? But this is not the question of grace: not what she was, but what He is who was there to win and bless her, manifesting God and the Father withal, practically and in detail. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. 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. 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. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? Such shall live. (Ed. 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. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. And he saith, I am not. John 5:19-25 Father and Son. This should be translated, not in the imperative, but in the indicative mood-thus, Ye search the Scriptures diligently.That these words are commonly read in the imperative mood is sufficiently known; but this reading can never accord well with the following verse, nor can the force and energy of the . The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL We look at how God defines salvation and work through the . John 5:26. Amen. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. Resume Prayer. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. 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. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. (ver. (Ver. Verse 2. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. Bible sermons, Evidence that Jesus Christ is God, John 5:36-40. 1. 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. Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This we have had fully before. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. I fear that many of you who hear my voice week after week, and have learned the scriptures, are relying on faithful attendance on Sunday morning, and your knowledge of the scriptures that you have gained for your salvation. 39. "Master, eat," said they. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." 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. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. Check out LPL Financial Research's Weekly Commentary on the market: "Debt Ceiling Primer". Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. 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 . If you're looking for an internship and want to learn from a great leader who is fun, passionate, and enthusiastic - this is it! How tiresome it is to hear people quote the Savior completely out of context . The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. John 5:39New International Version. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. Lhetetn 5-7 arkipivss. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times. "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." , , . Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. (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. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. Following on from yesterday's share here is the wastewater treatment explanation, nice and simple as before. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. Verse (39:53) - English Translation. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! WITNESS. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. And so, in fact, it was and is. There are two ways of resisting: the one, by warding off injuries through inoffensive conduct; the other, by retaliation. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. John 5:39-47 Search the Scriptures. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. From the series: Commentary on the Gospel of John PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE 8. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 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. John 5:39(NASB) Verse Thoughts.
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