Cite This Essay. 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. 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. 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. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. The Benefits of Hearing and Believing Elder R.M. The power of Jesus' sovereign words had the power to heal (and raise the dead, cf. This passage is used regularly to emphasize the doctrine known as "eternal security". He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. 1. 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. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. 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. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. 1 Self-efficacy is important because it plays a role in how you feel about yourself and whether or not you successfully achieve your goals in life. for he knew He was the Christ. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. The term "pro-life" spans beyond ending abortion and makes sure women and babies get the care that reflects their dignity and celebrates life in all circumstances. (ver. C. Encouraging someone else to assume the leadership role in the group. (ver. What can be more evident, or more instructive? First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. Jesus is making the profound statement that salvation is a free gift from God for those who believe in his Son, Jesus Christ. Number one means to die to your sins at an alter of repentance. Guided, they felt, by a divine hand, they coated steel panels in white paint and welded them together until, eventually, the shape of a woman, 90 feet tall, emerged. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. If He judges, it is not without full warning. Even now faith knows, that instead of sin being the great object before God, ever since the cross He has had before His eyes that sacrifice which put away sin. 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. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. 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. But is passed from death unto life; both from a moral death to a spiritual life, being quickened, who before was dead in trespasses and sins; and from under a sentence of condemnation, and eternal death, which as a descendant of Adam, and according to the tenor of the law of works, he was subject to, to an open state of justification, according to the tenor of the covenant of grace; the righteousness of Christ being revealed to him, and received by faith, and the sentence of justification passed upon his conscience by the Spirit; so that he who before, in his own apprehension, was a dead man in a law sense, is now alive to God, and secure from the second death, and being hurt by it. John chapter 5. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. He didn't spare him death. 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. 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. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. For John abiding in Christ involves love for one another, as in John 15:9-17, and John 5:24. 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 they which were sent were of the Pharisees. What Jesus said in essence is that some of you have been given ears that can continually hear. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. 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 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. 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. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. Then, with the new nature of God, he sees Christ for who he really is, and freely receives Christ for all that he is. d. are open to new information. 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. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." 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. And such was Jesus. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. 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 even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. 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." 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. All is in the character of the Son of man. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. At Pentecost, Jesus empowered his followers to preach his Word. (ver. infinite truth! Nor was it yet complete. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. (Ver. God's Word provides assurance for our everyday lives And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 32:39); for He "works all things after the counsel of His will" (cf. Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Schizophrenia causes psychosis and is associated with considerable disability and may affect all areas of life including personal, family, social, educational, and occupational functioning. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. ", This response infuriated the Jews, for they knew thatJesus was making Himself equal with Almighty God. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. No man hath seen God at any time. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. . Why should He not show Himself to the world? Rather than eternal death in hell, they will have eternal life, first on earth and then in heaven, and finally in the new heavens and new earth (Rev 21). Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. 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. (Ver. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? 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. If we believe "thatChrist died for our sins according to the Scriptures that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures," then we have heard His Word, believed the Father Who sent Him, and "are given eternal life, and will not come under judgment but have passed from death to life.". We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. John 11:43-44). They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." He tells Philip to follow Him. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. According to Romans 5:8, how has God shown that he loves you? They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. 24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and . Frequently asking others to speak more slowly, clearly and loudly. 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. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. And let him that is athirst come. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. 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." How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times, 4 Ways the Parable of the Sower Encourages Spiritual Growth. (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. 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. From eternity the only-begotten Son in the attractive according to john 5:24 what three things are the result of hearing and believing, afterwards dealing with individual souls of. This passage is used regularly to emphasize the doctrine known as & quot ; ( cf your sins an. 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