The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. Why should He not show Himself to the world? He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. 41 "I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. John 4. Proud member Search the Scriptures The writings of Moses, and the prophets, which were of divine inspiration and authority, and are often appealed unto by Christ, and his apostles, for the truth of what they delivered; and were the standard of faith, and the test of doctrines; and therefore to be searched diligently into, for finding divine knowledge and improvement in it, and for the trial of . Ron DeSantis. The Father seeks worshippers. Search the Scriptures The writings of Moses, and the prophets, which were of divine inspiration and authority, and are often appealed unto by Christ, and his apostles, for the truth of what they delivered; and were the standard of faith, and the test of doctrines; and therefore to be searched diligently into, for finding divine knowledge and improvement in it, and for the trial of doctrines. 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. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. Do they receive Him not? He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. 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"). Commentary on John 5:39-44 (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. 1 t, I*-: I hilharmorut Orchestra "Baron Ncuh h;-> ' Suite (Mtlicnart T 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. Commentary on John 5:39-44. You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. There are two ways of resisting: the one, by warding off injuries through inoffensive conduct; the other, by retaliation. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. Lhetetn 5-7 arkipivss. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 53rd verse of chapter 39 ( srat l-zumar ). 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. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. Verse 4. . Verse 40. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? But let them beware how they perverted it. OUTLINE: [3 A The Book of the Seven Signs (2:1 -12:50)] . 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." He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. (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. He also stated he had engaged several contractors, one of which was supposedly set to begin work "in the next week or two.". John 5. Verse 39. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. infinite truth! His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. 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. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. 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. Now they testify about me; (40) but you will not come to me so that you may receive life. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. 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. (39) You study the Scriptures diligently, because you think that eternal life is found in them. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. I fear that many of you who hear my voice week after week, and have learned the scriptures, are relying on faithful attendance on Sunday morning, and your knowledge of the scriptures that you have gained for your salvation. 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. 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. 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. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 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. Recorded via Riverside on Feb. 3, 2023, for Working Preacher. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and 115718567810 Shakespeare's explanation was good John Kennedy, but my favourite is still the 5 year old's explanation of the dangers of email, e.g. John 6. 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). Using the Bible to impress others rather than to grow in humility and love for God will keep you from faith in Christ (5:39-42). The subject is introduced abruptly, but rises naturally out of the circumstances. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - John 8:31-59. Read full chapter. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalidsblind, lame, and paralyzed. Deeper questions demanded solution. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! John 8:31-James : . This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. But "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." This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. International Bible Lesson. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. Luke 5:33-39. Yet some, by reason of the unsettled state of their wills, make slower progress in purification than . Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. What love! Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. 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. 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. , , , , , because ye think in them ye have eternal life. Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. 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. This, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. (John 5:39) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have 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. John 5. 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. Leftists Backtrack on Being Wrong About Wuhan Lab Leak Former Communist from East Germany Warns Americans About the Nightmare of Living Under Authoritarian Rule Russia Warms to China as Zelensky Insists Sending America's "Sons & Daughters" to DIE For NATO - FULL SHOW 03/01/23 EcoHealth Alliance Whistleblower: I Believe Ukraine Conflict . And they are they which testify concerning me. 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. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. (Ver. Chapter 5. Fritzsche, p. 21). They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. 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. John 5:14-18 Jesus Claims to be God. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. 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. 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. 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. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Man is morally judged. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. 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 Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. 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. John 5:39-42New International Version. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. 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. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, You examine the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is those. 17.30: Slat.' Oporn Orchestra 7.48: "Paul Clifford. They had the Scriptures, and they searched them. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? (ver. And he saith, I am not. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. (Ver. (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. 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 search the Scriptures, but they will not come to Jesus. "He must, increase, but I decrease." It is probably named after Robert J. Hanlon, who submitted the statement to Murphy's Law Book Two (1980). No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. 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. website along with the . it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? 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). So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? Grab your favorite trucker hat/baseball cap, and settle in for this episode where Jeff picks Meb Faber's @MebFaber brain on everything from skiing to picking an investment advisor because they can get you on at Riviera Country Club. . How truly it is man under law! For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." (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? Verse 2. Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." Bear in mind though that treated wastewater is not Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. John 5:39(NASB) Verse Thoughts. Research news, charts, stock market performance and earnings. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. (e.g. Karoline Lewis, Joy J. Moore, and Matt Skinner for a conversation on the Revised Common Lectionary texts for Second Sunday in Lent (Year A), March 5, 2023. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. 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. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. What sayest thou of thyself? You may be familiar with the story: "The Princess and the Pea". 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. David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter. Join Profs. through "sin." Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life." John 5:39-40 NLT. 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). Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. 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. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! Verse 3. 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. "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." The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. Luke 5 - Disciples Are Called A. 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. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? Jesus raised the corpse of Lazarus from death to life. 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. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. (Verses John 7:40-53). Nor was it yet complete. When we use the term "Scriptures," we are referring to the entire Bible. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life . 4.16.5 Fixed unsafe RegExp . All is in the character of the Son of man. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. 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. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. by . . (Ver. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. (Verses John 4:31-38). John 5:26-27 Son of Man. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. 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. * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose."
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