He was prominent in the early church but is not mentioned by name in this Gospel -- which would be natural if he wrote it, but hard to Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. John was not yet cast into prison. 1 John 4:19. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. (Ver. (Verses John 4:31-38). (Ver. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. And they asked him, What then? This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. He was God. through "sin." WebJohn repeats that people must believe in Jesus as the Son of God in order to be saved, and that love for God is inseparable from love for Gods people (5:1). Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. Do they receive Him not? What can be more evident, or more instructive? 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. All rights reserved. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. 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. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. If believers genuinely love God they will also obey his commandments. (Ver. 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. New Living Translation. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. For He who spoke was divine. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. 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. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. "He must, increase, but I decrease." John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Fritzsche, p. 21). (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. He was God. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. , 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 "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 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. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. 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. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for 1 John 4:16-19 "WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE" I. NIV. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 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. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. a toilet or bathroom. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. GOD LOVES YOU. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. "The law was given by Moses." Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. 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. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. 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. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. How truly it is man under law! The Father and the Son were at work. WebThe proof of the later date of John's Gospel is in such references as 1:32, and 3:24, which assume a previous knowledge of the facts on the part of his readers. saith unto her, fie, call thy husband, and come hither. 1. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. All is in the character of the Son of man. he would not. God is love. Pilate, disposed to gratify the 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. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. 17 This is how love is made complete God is love. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. How can such have relationship with God? 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. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. 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. The account of Jesus calling the first disciples matches almost word for word the parallel account in Mark 1.1620. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. He acts as such. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. (Ver. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. of 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. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Man is morally judged. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. How striking the omission! This we have had fully before. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. John 4:16-19 16 He told her, Go, call your husband and come back. 17 I have no husband, she replied. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. God is love. 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. Of course, the experience will still be intense. WebJesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. (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. 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. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. 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. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. 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. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." He that comes from above from heaven is above all. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 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. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Simon was one of the commonest names at the time (along with Jesus, Joseph, John and Levi), and so he is distinguished from others by his nickname, which Matthew assumes he has already been given; we hear of an earlier But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." ? In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. 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. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. 1 John 4:18. Web1 John 4:19 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] 1 John 4:19, NIV: We love because he first loved us. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. 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. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. He tells Philip to follow Him. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. John 4:19-20. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." As an experienced minister, Alistair shares his approach to preaching. Such shall live. 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