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. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. Such shall live. Christ's road from Judea to 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. (Ver. All is in the character of the Son of man. 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. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. 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." (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. 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." This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. Other arguments follow, engaging to it, as that God is invisible; and if he is to be loved, then certainly his people, who are visible; and that such who love one another, God dwells in them, and his love is perfected in them; and that he dwells in them is known by the gift of his Spirit to them, 1Jo 4:12,13, and that God the Father so loved the world, as to send his Son to be the Saviour of it, before asserted, is confirmed by the apostles, who were eyewitnesses of it; who also declare, that whoever confesses the sonship of Christ, God dwells in him, and he in God; and who had an assurance of the love of God to them, who is love itself; so that he that dwells in God, and God in him, dwells in love, 1Jo 4:14-16. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. 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. The apostle attests this. 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. So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. The Father and the Son were at work. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. (Ver. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. 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." 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. His name was John. He who 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. Web40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. "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." Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 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. (John 12:48). It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. What sayest thou of thyself? ii. (Ver. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. He was God. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. (Verses John 4:31-38). How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" All rights reserved. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. Because he would put a difference between his baptism and that of John, who baptized all himself; for he baptized as a servant, Christ as a master. Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 4:16-19 Commentary on John 4:4-26 (Read John 4:4-26) There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. Alas! 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. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. He was prominent in the early church but is not mentioned by name in this Gospel -- which would be natural if he wrote it, but hard to 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. 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: Art thou Elias? One must be born again. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. (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. He has given us the spirit of adoption by which we call Him, Abba, father! My wifes dad was a chiropractor and when she got to be old enough, he gave her an opportunity to be a receptionist at his clinic. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. John 4:16. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." 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. 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. 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. The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. 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. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Realizing that the woman would have to see her personal sin before she could see her spiritual need, Jesus began to speak of her marital affairs. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. 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 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. Jesus is crowned, clothed, and proclaimed king by Roman soldiers. 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. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. - 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. d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His He would apply himself more to preaching work, which was the more excellent, 1 Cor 1 17. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. 1 John 4:19, NASB: We love, because He first loved us. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. 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. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. New Living Translation. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for 1 John 4:16-19 "WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE" I. 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. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). No charge could be remoter from the truth. At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. (sometimes initial capital letter) a prostitute's customer. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. God is love. Wonderful things in the Bible I see, And so, in fact, it was and is. What you have just said is quite true. (Verses John 5:17-18). 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. And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 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. Web1 John 4:19 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] 1 John 4:19, NIV: We love because he first loved us. 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. (Ver. As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. 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. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? 1 John 4:19. of Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. For He who spoke was divine. Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. 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. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. 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