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. 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. 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. He acts as such. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. He would apply himself more to preaching work, which was the more excellent, 1 Cor 1 17. (Ver. a toilet or bathroom. John was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. (1-4) The reason for Jesus warning: certain persecution. But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. 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. 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). God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. God is love. "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." The heart-searching issuing in perception of the prophetic rank of Jesus. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. Do they receive Him not? 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. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. (Ver. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. 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. d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His for he knew He was the Christ. 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. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. 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. 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. 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. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. He was God. How can such have relationship with God? The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 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. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in And so, in fact, it was and is. Expand. 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. And whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. This we have had fully before. WebThis summary of the Gospel of John provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Gospel of John. 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. "Master, eat," said they. 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. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. His name was John. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. God is love. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. In these two points of view, more particularly, John gives testimony to Christ; He is the lamb as the taker away of the world's sin; the same is He who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. 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. 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. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. Without sign, prodigy, or miracle, in this village of Samaria Jesus was heard, known, confessed as truly the Saviour of the world ("the Christ" being absent in the best authorities, ver. Web1. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. 3 Reasons Proverbs 23:7 Says 'As a Man Thinks, So He Is'. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. 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. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." The apostle attests this. Do any believe on His name? Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? And he saith, I am not. Glory would be displayed in its day. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. 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. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. There was purpose in it. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). A. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. Jesus, therefore, answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. 42 And he brought him to Jesus. "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." 1 John 4:19. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. (16-19) Jesus speaks of her sinful life. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. Bible> Commentaries> John 4:16 John 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. Web40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! 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. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for 1 John 4:16-19 "WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE" I. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. 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. 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. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. Even now faith knows, that instead of sin being the great object before God, ever since the cross He has had before His eyes that sacrifice which put away sin. At the end of fiscal 2032, it predicts, the total federal debt will be $44.797 trillion. The Father and the Son were at work. Author. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." 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. Such shall live. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. What love! 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