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. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. (Ver. Resume Prayer. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. He also stated he had engaged several contractors, one of which was supposedly set to begin work "in the next week or two.". It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. 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 that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." 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. If you're looking for an internship and want to learn from a great leader who is fun, passionate, and enthusiastic - this is it! He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. The question really is, whether man would trust God. 17.30: Slat.' Oporn Orchestra 7.48: "Paul Clifford. This we have had fully before. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! b. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. 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. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. 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. John 5:19-25 Father and Son. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." 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. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. John noted, "Jesus loved Martha, her sister and Lazarus" (John 11:5). He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. In verses 37 and 38, Jesus criticized the local religious leaders for never hearing the voice of God. TO-NIGHT (SATURDAY) IYA AUCKLAND (650 k.c. We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts 1 1. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. What Does It Really Mean That Your Body Is a Temple? (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? Verse 5:4. (Ed. 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. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, Read full chapter. 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. And he saith, I am not. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. 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. 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. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. 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 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. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. (2) Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, and that is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 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. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalidsblind, lame, and paralyzed. 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. Nay, "the world knew him not." Do not resist evil. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. 1. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. Proud member Verses 39 and 40 summarize a crucial point about the difference between faith and belief. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. No charge could be remoter from the truth. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." But the key phrase is "seek out the wisdom of God" because some have come to excel at misusing the Scriptures. John 5:39 Context. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Si nous voulons avoir cognoissance de Christ. pokkari, 2010. This is grace and truth. This He does in verses 16-19. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL 8.0: State Opera Orchestra He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! 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. John 5:19-29 Four Types of Resurrections. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. "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 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. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. (Ver. Yet some, by reason of the unsettled state of their wills, make slower progress in purification than . His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. Sermon Bible Commentary. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." John 5:39-40: "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.". The family later hosted a dinner for the honored . 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. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. John 5:39-40New King James Version. 38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he . (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). To achieve eternal life in the . 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. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. 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. 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. (Verses John 4:31-38). THE FINAL THREE PROOFS OF DEITY - John 5:36-40. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. 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. 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). John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. And they are they which testify concerning me. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. You must be doing the will of the Father. For He who spoke was divine. For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 53rd verse of chapter 39 ( srat l-zumar ). Commentary on John 5:39-44. The charge (Luke 5:33) The explanation (Luke 5:34-39) Hannah's Bible Outlines. It is this which our Lord so emphatically marks in the case of the Jews. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Verse 43. There are two ways of resisting: the one, by warding off injuries through inoffensive conduct; the other, by retaliation. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. (3) Here a great number of disabled people used to liethe blind, the lame, the paralyzed. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. 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.