It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. Bear in mind though that treated wastewater is not Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life." John 5:39-40 NLT. (Ver. You must be doing the will of the Father. 5. It is probably named after Robert J. Hanlon, who submitted the statement to Murphy's Law Book Two (1980). Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. It was not so. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. 1 After this there was a a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. This would make all manifest. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. But the Scriptures point to me! But the Scriptures point to me! For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. (Read John 5:39-44) The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of God in their hands. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. (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? Alas! It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of grace and truth. No man hath seen God at any time. Do I need to pray the prayer again?On this episode, we address the question, "Can You Lose Your Salvation?" We start by looking at some tough Scriptures and using the rest of the Bible as a commentary to understand some passages in Hebrews. that you may want to read to your class as part of your Bible study. (Ver. You can discuss each week 's commentary and lesson at the . 1 t, I*-: I hilharmorut Orchestra "Baron Ncuh h;-> ' Suite (Mtlicnart T 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. 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. Verse 39. 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. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. The Present Hour. The claims made, if less than the author represents them, were such as to raise the question of authority. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. Art thou Elias? Verse 43. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. (Ver. A person who refuses to believe cannot be convinced, no matter what evidence they are given (John 5:40). They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. 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. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? Their refusal to come to Jesus was despite their searching of the Scriptures ( John 5:39 ). For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. And in this He is sovereign. Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in the means of discovering Him. 7.45: What the American Commentators Say. Bible sermons, Evidence that Jesus Christ is God, John 5:36-40. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. 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. John was not yet cast into prison. Proud member The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 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. 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. 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. Here we can see a glimpse of the promise by Jesus of eternal life. (ver. For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. No charge could be remoter from the truth. "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." Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. Amen. Resume Prayer. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. (Ver. His Unity with the Father. 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. 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"). Alas! (Verses John 1:44-51). (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). 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! Here the Lord introduces the cross. You may be familiar with the story: "The Princess and the Pea". This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. How striking the omission! "They search the Scriptures, but they will not come to Jesus. (39) You study the Scriptures diligently, because you think that eternal life is found in them. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. (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. 4 5 One man was there who had been an . (Verses John 4:31-38). Following on from yesterday's share here is the wastewater treatment explanation, nice and simple as before. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 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. 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.
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