"Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? This He does in verses 16-19. Here, in suited circumstances to render the thought and way of God unmistakable, pure and boundless grace takes its own sovereign course, suitable to the love and personal glory of Christ. All rights reserved. (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. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. The Father seeks worshippers. The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. This would make all manifest. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. 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. THE WORLD'S GREATEST . 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. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. 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. to let them know, that those who sought only for a temporal 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. King James Version (KJV) 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! And so, in fact, it was and is. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 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. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. (Ver. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. 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. This leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." 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. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. This is why premillennial-ism is based on a kind of hermeneutical fundamental of the Christian Faith. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. If He judges, it is not without full warning. mountain alone". They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. (ver. As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, The sound goes back and forth between a harder chime and a muffled chime. 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. There are three kinds of fundamentals: 1) Doctrinal fundamentals (e.g., the Trinity, Deity of Christ, Sacrificial Atonement, and Resurrection). 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. Man is morally judged. This is grace and 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. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. Jesus Walks on the Sea. , to snatch suddenly and forcibly (derived from the swoop of the falcon, the ; hence, the Harpies). (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. And he saith, I am not. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." Premillennialism turns Jesus into a failure. In these two points of view, more particularly, John gives testimony to Christ; He is the lamb as the taker away of the world's sin; the same is He who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. The answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. How striking the omission! Such shall live. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) But the erosion of Tradition began long ago, without their knowledge, as will be shown below. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." A death knell is the ringing of a church bell immediately after a death to announce it. Proud member he would not. (1-4) A crowd gathers to Jesus near the Sea of Galilee. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. 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. 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. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. but. Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). He was God. "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." 1. This is the only miracle recorded in all four of the gospel accounts. There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. 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. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." 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. Phil 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Predetermined performance - no will involved. 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. It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. 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. Flesh and world are judged morally. (Ver. he departed again into a mountain, himself 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. In fact, it is thus invariably in conversion 1-4 ) a crowd gathers to near. 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