God loves us as a father loves his own son. 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. WebJohn was the most popular name given to male infants in the United States until 1924, and though its use has fallen off gradually since then, John was still the 20th most common name for boys on the Social Security Administration 's list of names given in 2006. 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. This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. If He judges, it is not without full warning. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. 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. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." Proud member So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. 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. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. WebFear of the unknown inspires intense fear. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! And such was Jesus. 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. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. 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. (Verses John 5:17-18). Such shall live. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 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. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. 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. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. God is 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. We love him, because he first loved us. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. He could, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. (Ver. "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." it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. But let them beware how they perverted it. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. This would make all manifest. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). 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 said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. (Ver. 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. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. John 4:19-20. 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. 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. 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. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. Web1. And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). WebThis small group Bible study of John 4:1-19 contains commentary, outlines, cross-references, Bible study discussion questions, and applications. You are right when you say you have no husband. Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. Nay, "the world knew him not." Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. Web1. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." WebThe Witness of John. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. 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. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. 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. 42). At the end of fiscal 2032, it predicts, the total federal debt will be $44.797 trillion. What love! As there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. 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. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. 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. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? (Ver. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for 1 John 4:16-19 "WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE" I. but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. "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." Very simple words! He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. WebJohn the Apostle is traditionally held to be the author of the Gospel of John, and many Christian denominations believe that he authored several other books of the New Testament, depending on whether he is distinguished from, or identified with, John the Evangelist, John the Elder, and John of Patmos. No charge could be remoter from the truth. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. 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. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. The law works no deliverance; it puts a man in chains, prison, darkness, and under condemnation; it renders him a patient, or a criminal incompetent to avail himself of the displays of God's goodness. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. 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! Alas! Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. (16-19) Jesus speaks of her sinful life. 1 John 4:19. Although the authorship of the Johannine works has traditionally been attributed to John the Apostle, only a minority of (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. (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? He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. What Makes Covenant Theology So Important? infinite truth! All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." (sometimes initial capital letter) a prostitute's customer. KJV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. YLT John 4:19 The woman saith to him, 'Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet; ASV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. 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. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. 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. Fritzsche, p. 21). The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. 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. 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. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. 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. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Verses John 4:31-38). In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. 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. Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the 17 This is how love is made complete Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 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. And he answered, No. 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. John was not yet cast into prison. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. Art thou that prophet? One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. 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. 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. 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. All is in the character of the Son of man. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. 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." "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Henrys plan (1173) to assign to John, his favourite son (whom he had nicknamed Lackland), extensive lands upon his marriage with the daughter of Humbert III, count of Maurienne (Savoy), was defeated by the rebellion the proposal provoked among Johns elder brothers. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. WebJohn 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. (Ver. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. One must be born again. Of this we learn nothing, here. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. 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. 2. : an apostle who according to various Christian traditions wrote the fourth Gospel, the three Johannine Epistles, and the Book of He was God. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. 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. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. How can such have relationship with God? (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. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. 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