I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. What Jesus said in essence is that some of you have been given ears that can continually hear. Art thou Elias? Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? What sayest thou of thyself? (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. And such was Jesus. They accomplished this by repeatedly pairing the white rat with a loud, frightening clanging noise. 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. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. Overall, around 400 couples have volunteered to take part. 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. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. How striking the omission! The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. Praying "according to the will of God" in 1 John 5:14-15, I believe, is praying according to God's intended action, which could be either his moral will (category #2) or his permissive will (category #3). To LEARN a passage of Scripture, like 1 John 5:11-13, use these four time-tested steps: 1. All rights reserved. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. He didn't spare him death. 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. 2. (ver. Read full chapter John 5:24 in all English translations John 4 John 6 New International Version (NIV) How little they conceived of what was then said and done! He that comes from above from heaven is above all. John 5:24, NASB: 'Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." Here the Lord was really owned by the multitudes as the great Prophet that should come; and this in consequence of His works, especially that one which Scripture itself had connected with the Son of David. His first approach is often to cast doubt on the work God has done in your heart. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. ." 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. 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. It sends those. 42). This is grace and truth. 1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 3. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. This He does in verses 16-19. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Of this we learn nothing, here. Judgment has been given on Christ on the cross, so the believer will face no judgment for his or her sins. How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. This plan centered on the sacrificial death of His only Son, Jesus Christ. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. Jno. In the duration, of the Salem witch trials occurred, hundreds of innocent people had been hounded and nineteen of them were hanged at the end starting in 1962. This doesnt mean that what he is about to say is more true, only that it is more important. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." (Verses John 1:44-51). 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. 6. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. Black-or-white thoughts may also set you up for. "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." Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. Melissa and . At Pentecost, Jesus empowered his followers to preach his Word. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. #4 has eternal life and will not be judged The believer has begun eternal life upon salvation. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. Those who believe will repent and put their faith in Christ and begin living. what God has done & will do for all who believe & obey Jesus! It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. The hearing has ended. 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. However, this great gift of salvation is conditional. 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. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. According to Romans 5:8, how has God shown that he loves you? For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. for he knew He was the Christ. Cite This Essay. 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. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. For the Christian eternal life begins upon belief in him who sent Jesus. (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? But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. Heavy drinking can cause you to see things that aren't. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. A. PRESENT_____ FUTURE_____ . The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. If we believe "thatChrist died for our sins according to the Scriptures that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures," then we have heard His Word, believed the Father Who sent Him, and "are given eternal life, and will not come under judgment but have passed from death to life.". 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. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. 24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and . (Ver. 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. (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. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. 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