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. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. Alas! 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. Why should He not show Himself to the world? through "sin." (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. 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. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. (Verse John 3:10). 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. However, we know that Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Father shortly after His resurrection and ascension (Hebrews 8:1; Revelation 4:2). In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. of 15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. "The law was given by Moses." The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. (Ed. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. John 3:1-36 follows this up. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. Read full chapter John 6:15 in all English translations John 5 John 7 New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. 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. "In the consistory of Dec. 15, 1958 . Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. This would make all manifest. What can be more evident, or more instructive? After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. The death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. And they asked him, What then? Premillenialism is that system of religious belief that holds that Christ didn't set up a kingdom when he was on earth because the Jews rejected it but will one day return to set up an earthly kingdom in which Christ will reign on the earth for a thousand years. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . The question really is, whether man would trust God. (Ver. Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. This Blog is really a continuation of my Previous Blog "Why Israel Has a Future in God's Plans - Romans 9-11 and the People of God" By Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." he departed again into a mountain, himself He that comes from above from heaven is above all. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) (Verses John 4:31-38). 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. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. 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. He acts as such. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. John 5. 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. Death knell. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the 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. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. 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). Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. , And this very circumstance is perhaps the cause, that nowhere do we read that Jesus, whilst He teas sojourning on the earth, entered, even though that town was very close to Jerusalem. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). When Jesus therefore perceived How little they conceived of what was then said and done! Man is morally judged. (Verses John 7:40-53). John 6:15 in all English translations. But the erosion of Tradition began long ago, without their knowledge, as will be shown below. 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." (Ver. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. (Ver. Then (ver. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. (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? Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. 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. When Jesus therefore perceived. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. 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. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. 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. * 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." They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. Alas! 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. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. 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. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. 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." 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. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." John 6:15. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. But what we learn is, that our Lord (viewed as having entered into heaven as man on the ground of redemption, i.e., ascended, after having passed through death, into glory) from that glory confers meanwhile the Holy Ghost on him that believes, instead of bringing in at once the final feast of gladness for the Jews and the world, as He will do by-and-by when the anti-typical harvest and vintage has been fulfilled. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. It was not so. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds 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. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. It was sabbath-day. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . (1-4) A crowd gathers to Jesus near the Sea of Galilee. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. There was purpose in it. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. (John 12:48). Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. 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. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. 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. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. Starting with only a tiny lunch of bread and . Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. 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. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." 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. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. for he knew He was the Christ. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Verse John 6:15. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. 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 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. (Ver. 4. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." But it is important we should know how He entered the world. How can such have relationship with God? 1. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. 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. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. 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. The sound goes back and forth between a harder chime and a muffled chime. This movement was not an unnatural one. What love! But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. 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. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: 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. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. 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. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. 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. 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. 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. John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. Life resurrection will display how little they had to be ashamed of, who believed the record given of His Son; the resurrection of judgment will make but too plain, to those who despised the Lord, both His honour and their sin and shame. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. 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. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. All is in the character of the Son of man. 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. No charge could be remoter from the truth. God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. 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