john 4:16 19 commentary

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. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. 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. Man, dead in sins, was the object of His grace; but then man's state was such, that it would have been derogatory to God had that life been communicated without the cross of Christ: the Son of man lifted up on it was the One in whom God dealt judicially with the evil estate of man, for the, full consequences of which He made Himself responsible. Nor would the rejected Christ, the Son of man; for if lifted up on the cross, instead of having the throne of David, the result would be not merely earthly blessing for His people according to prophecy, but eternal life for the believer, whoever. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. Nevertheless, the heavenly part is little dwelt on, as John's gospel displays our Lord more as the expression of God revealed on earth, than as Man ascended to heaven, which fell far more to the province of the apostle of the Gentiles. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. 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. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. 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. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. 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. Nor could any question be more momentous. John was not yet cast into prison. Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 4:16-19 Commentary on John 4:4-26 (Read John 4:4-26) There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! John 4:16. Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of the Bible you can use in your small group. 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. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. 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. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. 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. (Ver. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? 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. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. 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. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. 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. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the 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 gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. 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. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. 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. We love him, because he first loved us. He distinguishes between seducing spirits, and faithful ministers of the word; the former are of the world, speak of worldly things, and worldly men hear them; but the latter are of God, and they that have any spiritual knowledge of God hear them; but such as are not of God do not heal them, by which may he known the spirit of truth from the spirit of error, 1Jo 4:5,6. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. For The Baltimore Sun. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! 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. 17 This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day - our standing in the world is identical with Christ's. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. 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. 1 John 4:18. 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. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. (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. 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. 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. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. 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. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. 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. a male mule, or more John 19 Jesus Is Crucified A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. 1. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. (Ver. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." And the chapter is closed with observing the contradiction there is between a profession of love to God, and hatred of the brethren, seeing God, who is invisible, cannot be loved, if brethren that are seen are hated; and also the commandment, that he that loves God should love his brother also, 1Jo 4:20,21. WebLuke 4:16.As to the relation of the following incident to the similar one in Matthew 13:53 ff., Mark 6:1 ff., see on Matthew. Christ's road from Judea to 1 John 4:16. 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 "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." Author. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." 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. of (Ed. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. 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. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. 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. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. Deeper questions demanded solution. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. Art thou that prophet? 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." , He saith ) Now He makes an avenue for giving to the woman, who begs for water, a better kind of it, than that which she had begged for. , husband ) The woman These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. (Ver. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! The Father and the Son were at work. 1 John 4:19, NASB: We love, because He first loved us. 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. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. 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. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. We discuss being disciples not admirers of Christ. And great are the advantages arising from hence, for hereby the saints' love to God is made perfect; they have boldness in the day of judgment, since as he is, so are they in this world, and fear is cast out by it, 1Jo 4:17,18, but lest too much should be thought to be ascribed to love, that is said to be owing to the love of God to them, which is prior to theirs to him, and the reason of it, 1Jo 4:19. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. * 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." Wonderful things in the Bible I see, What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. 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. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Also called john mule . 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. but they go down into the depths of God, lifting burdens off the heart of humanity, turning duty into delight, and changing the aspect of all things. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for 1 John 4:16-19 "WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE" I. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. That means that under Biden's budget plan the federal debt would increase by $16.411 trillion or 57.8% in the 11 fiscal years from when he first took office in fiscal 2021 through fiscal 2032. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. 18 There is no And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Knowing God the Father is invisible should make us more The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. 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. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. He who 3 Reasons Proverbs 23:7 Says 'As a Man Thinks, So He Is'. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. The Father seeks worshippers. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. A. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. Although the authorship of the Johannine works has traditionally been attributed to John the Apostle, only a minority of Expand. 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. "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 looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! God loves us as a father loves his own son. (Ver. Alistair Macrae, minister at Wesley Uniting Church, joins Robyn & Fran to discuss discipleship, call, and repentance in Matthew 4. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. 1 John 4:19, KJV: We love him, because he first loved us. (Ver. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." 17 This is how love is made complete The heart-searching issuing in perception of the prophetic rank of Jesus. He tells Philip to follow Him. Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come 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. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. 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. Nay, "the world knew him not." All this clearly goes down to millennial days. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. Instead, Pilate has Jesus flogged (John 19:1). If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. Web1 John 4:16-19 NIV 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. 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