15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. All rights reserved. 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? he departed again into a mountain, himself No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. Alas! 2. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. (ver. to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. 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. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? 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. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. John 6:15 in all English translations. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. This would make all manifest. 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. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Historically it was the second of three bells rung around death, the first being the passing bell to warn of impending death, and the last was the lych bell or corpse bell, which survives today as the funeral toll . 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. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds (Ver. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." The Father seeks worshippers. When Jesus therefore perceived. (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. 1. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. But let them beware how they perverted it. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. John 3:1-36 follows this up. Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. What sayest thou of thyself? 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. (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"). P07901 Death Knell for John Knox 1972 Etching 18 5/8 19 3/4 (473 500) on paper watermarked 'Arches France' 37 3/8 29 1/2 (955 750) printed by Jack Shirreff, Westbury and published by the artist Inscribed 'John Bellany 72' b.r. support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. 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. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. This is why premillennial-ism is based on a kind of hermeneutical fundamental of the Christian Faith. 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. The premillennial concept is the result of literalizing a few symbolic verses in the book of Revelation, coupled with a considerable disregard for scores of Bible passages of clearest import. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. 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. (ver. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and 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. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. (Ver. John 6:15 in all English translations. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. 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. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. 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). John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. I will answer this question on why I am a Historic Premillennialist in 5 Parts: 1. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. John 5. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. And in this He is sovereign. John 6:15King James Version. 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. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. 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. 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. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. Proud member The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." This Blog is really a continuation of my Previous Blog "Why Israel Has a Future in God's Plans - Romans 9-11 and the People of God" By Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. . Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Read full chapter John 6:15 in all English translations John 5 John 7 New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. No man hath seen God at any 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. 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. The result immediately follows. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. 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. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. This He does in verses 16-19. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. In Mark 1:14-15, Jesus told those around Him that the kingdom was as hand. The thrust of Lindsey's book is two-fold: First, it espouses the premillennial theory of Christ's second coming. However, we know that Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Father shortly after His resurrection and ascension (Hebrews 8:1; Revelation 4:2). God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. (Ver. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. 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. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." Then said they unto him, Who art thou? Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. The question really is, whether man would trust God. Jesus Walks on the Sea. (Ver. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. 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. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. Verse 15. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. THE WORLD'S GREATEST . Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. It was not so. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. 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. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! 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