For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 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. 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. Friday, April 15, 2022. (ver. John 5:39-40 . He saw him under the fig tree. 5. Verse 41. , , . Verses 39 and 40 summarize a crucial point about the difference between faith and belief. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. And this in consequence of divine influx, so that whoever receives the knowledges of good and truth with his supreme affection, or love, experiences purification from evil, and restoration of spiritual life. Practical Bible study on John 5:19-47. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. Verse . 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. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. (39) You study the Scriptures diligently, because you think that eternal life is found in them. 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The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. He acts as such. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. John 5:28-30 Resurrection. 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. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." 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. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. Alas! John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. The charge (Luke 5:33) The explanation (Luke 5:34-39) Hannah's Bible Outlines. And they are they which testify concerning me. 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. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." But the Scriptures point to me! behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. "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." ( John 5:1-4) The pool of Bethesda. 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. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. But the Scriptures point to me! 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." Do I lose my ticket to heaven if I sin too much? 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. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. Salem Media Group. Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 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. 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. 17.30: Slat.' Oporn Orchestra 7.48: "Paul Clifford. 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. (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? 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. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. 39. His Unity with the Father. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Verse 5:4. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. Karoline Lewis, Joy J. Moore, and Matt Skinner for a conversation on the Revised Common Lectionary texts for Second Sunday in Lent (Year A), March 5, 2023. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. See John 5:38-40 (printed below), note, especially, verse 38. Jesus raised the corpse of Lazarus from death to life. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. Search the Scriptures . One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. 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. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and 115718567810 Jesus heals an invalid on the SabbathHe explains why men must honor the SonJesus promises to take the gospel to the deadMan is resurrected, judged, and assigned his glory by the SonJesus obeys the divine law of witnesses. (1-3) Jesus teaches from a boat. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. 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. 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. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. John 6:1-14 Philip Fails the Exam . No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. (412) Though Christ does not permit his people to repel violence by violence, yet he does not forbid them to endeavor to avoid an unjust attack. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. What Does It Mean That There Is No One Holy Like God? Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. 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." None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. 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." Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! FOR SALE! In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. (Ver. 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. The Father and the Son were at work. 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. They had the mine, and they dug in that mine in quest of the eternal riches. So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets.Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out . 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. We look at how God defines salvation and work through the . Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. But this is not the question of grace: not what she was, but what He is who was there to win and bless her, manifesting God and the Father withal, practically and in detail. 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. (Ver. Grab your favorite trucker hat/baseball cap, and settle in for this episode where Jeff picks Meb Faber's @MebFaber brain on everything from skiing to picking an investment advisor because they can get you on at Riviera Country Club. Flesh and world are judged morally. He has not placed his salvation in sacraments, or books, or priests, but he has kept it in himself; and if you want to have it you must come to him." (Spurgeon) ii. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. John 4:46-54 Jesus Heals the Nobleman's Son. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. 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. (e.g. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. Yet some, by reason of the unsettled state of their wills, make slower progress in purification than . "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." (Ver. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalidsblind, lame, and paralyzed. John 5. Do not resist evil. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. John 5:39-40New King James Version. Verse 40. * 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." Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. By . 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. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. How can such have relationship with God? Deeper questions demanded solution. A person who refuses to believe cannot be convinced, no matter what evidence they are given (John 5:40). 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." 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 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. The contrasts are as strong, at least, as the resemblance with the healing of the centurion's servant in Matthew 13:1-58 and Luke 7:1-50, which some ancients and moderns have confounded with this, as they did Mary's anointing of Jesus with the sinful woman's in Luke 7:1-50. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." 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. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. pokkari, 2010. 5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." It is this which our Lord so emphatically marks in the case of the Jews. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. John Chapter 5 Bible Study Questions (Handout) JOHN 5:1-2 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 39-44 The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of God in their hands. )7.30: Studio recital by Maurice Turley (boy singer). You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me. 41 "I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. The following section summarises the teaching by which Jesus tried to bring the more favourably disposed of the " Jewish" party to a fuller faith. Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. 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. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." John chapter 5. Nay, "the world knew him not." The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. "He must, increase, but I decrease." Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. 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. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." From the series: Commentary on the Gospel of John PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE 8. 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. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. The Father seeks worshippers. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. ON THE AIR. John 3:1-36 follows this up. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. That these words are commonly read in the imperative mood is sufficiently known; but this reading can never accord well with . Here we can see a glimpse of the promise by Jesus of eternal life. International Bible Study Forum. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." 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. (John 12:48). 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. 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). "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." (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. There were many witnesses to Christ's claim to deity and His role as Redeemer. Art thou Elias? (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. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. Furthermore, you do not have his word living in you; for you do not believe the one whom he sent. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. Verse 42. And in this He is sovereign. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. John 5:39-40. Ye do search the Scriptures, and ye do well to do so. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. Choose a verse from 'John 5' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org . Search the Scriptures The writings of Moses, and the prophets, which were of divine inspiration and authority, and are often appealed unto by Christ, and his apostles, for the truth of what they delivered; and were the standard of faith, and the test of doctrines; and therefore to be searched diligently into, for finding divine knowledge and improvement in it, and for the trial of doctrines. Verse 1. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. 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). Verse 43. Check out LPL Financial Research's Weekly Commentary on the market: "Debt Ceiling Primer". 'You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. This we have had fully before. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! (ver. 4. Man is morally judged. Bible sermons, Evidence that Jesus Christ is God, John 5:36-40. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. This He does in verses 16-19. For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. The words may be rendered in the indicative, as an assertion, "ye do search the Scriptures": the Jews had the sacred oracles committed to them, and these they read, not only their kings, princes, and judges, but the common people, who brought up their children to the reading of them, and instructed them in them: and besides this, these writings were read, and expounded publicly in their synagogues every sabbath day; and at this time especially these records were examined, and particularly those of them which respected the Messiah, since there was now a general expectation of him: and certain it is, that the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, or the sanhedrim, were very much versed in the Scriptures, and could readily refer to those which concerned the Messiah; see an instance of this in ( Matthew 2:4-6 ) ; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; not the doctrine of eternal life, nor the promises of it, nor the way to it; though all these are contained in them, and pointed out by them: for though life and immortality are brought to light by the Gospel, and the promise of eternal life belongs to the covenant of grace, and the way of life and righteousness by Christ is manifested without the law, and not by it; yet there is much of the Gospel, and an exhibition of the covenant of grace, and its promises, and Christ, the way of life, is directed to typically by the tree of life, and the brazen serpent, and other things in those writings.

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