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. 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. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. through "sin." Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. 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. In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. "The law was given by Moses." He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. 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. 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). 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. 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. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 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. Johns answer goes down to the depths, for his notion of love is the response of the believing soul to the love of God which was manifested on the Cross of Calvary. (Verses John 4:31-38). 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. (John 12:48). Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. ii. 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." One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. (Ver. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. It was sabbath-day. 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. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. 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. 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." Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. As an experienced minister, Alistair shares his approach to preaching. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. (ver. 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. 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. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 1 John 4:16-19 New International Version 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. John was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. There was purpose in it. WebThe Witness of John. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. How truly it is man under law! His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. 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." Nay, "the world knew him not." 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. Such shall live. There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. At the end of fiscal 2032, it predicts, the total federal debt will be $44.797 trillion. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. 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. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. We love him, because he first loved us. 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. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." He that feareth is not made perfect in love. The result immediately follows. (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. 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. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. 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. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. 1 John 4:19, NLT: We love each other because he loved us first. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. Here the Lord introduces the cross. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! Man is morally judged. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. We discuss being disciples not admirers of Christ. 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. John 3:1-36 follows this up. 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. 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. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. 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. Fritzsche, p. 21). Salem Media Group. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. You are right when you say you have no husband. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry commended World Economic Forum attendees on Tuesday, saying their efforts to combat climate change were "almost extraterrestrial." 17 This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day - our standing in the world is identical with Christ's. 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. "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." One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. Of course, the experience will still be intense. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. 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. Of this we learn nothing, here. 18 The fact 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. 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 He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. 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. 42 And he brought him to Jesus. But knowing what will happen, and realizing it's part of a plan, greatly reduces our fear. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. 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 Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. Simon was one of the commonest names at the time (along with Jesus, Joseph, John and Levi), and so he is distinguished from others by his nickname, which Matthew assumes he has already been given; we hear of an earlier He was God. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. "Master, eat," said they. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. "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." He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. "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 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. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. 1 John 4:16-19. 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. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. But if the Spirit speaks of the Son of God, the law dwindles at once into the smallest possible proportions: everything yields to the honour the Father puts oil the Son. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? Expand. GOD LOVES YOU. 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." 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. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Christ here, it will be noticed, is not so much the quickening agent as Son of God (John 5:1-47), but the object of faith as Son of man first incarnate, to be eaten; then dying and giving His flesh to be eaten, and His blood to be drank. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. called also John the Baptist. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? 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). For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. 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. 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." It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. 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. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. 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. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. , 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 And so, in fact, it was and is. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. 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. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." He who Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. God is love. (Ver. 1 John 4:18. The Jews were not satisfied with that, but demanded still that he should be put to death, John 19:39-40. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. 1 John 4:19. WebJesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. 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. 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. Observe: not which was, but "which is." This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. 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. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. 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. 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. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. The contrasts are as strong, at least, as the resemblance with the healing of the centurion's servant in Matthew 13:1-58 and Luke 7:1-50, which some ancients and moderns have confounded with this, as they did Mary's anointing of Jesus with the sinful woman's in Luke 7:1-50. WebThis small group Bible study of John 4:1-19 contains commentary, outlines, cross-references, Bible study discussion questions, and applications. Flesh and world are judged morally. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. 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). Jesus declared of God the Father, God is Spirit, (John 4:24) meaning that God the Father has no tangible body which may be seen. (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. And he answered, No. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for 1 John 4:16-19 "WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE" I. (Ver. Nevertheless, the heavenly part is little dwelt on, as John's gospel displays our Lord more as the expression of God revealed on earth, than as Man ascended to heaven, which fell far more to the province of the apostle of the Gentiles. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. Web1 John 4:19 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] 1 John 4:19, NIV: We love because he first loved us. 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. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. "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." (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. 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. 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. 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