The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. One must be born again. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 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. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for 1 John 4:16-19 "WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE" I. 18 There is no He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. Christ's road from Judea to This is the heart of the message of the Bible. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. If He judges, it is not without full warning. 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. And so, in fact, it was and is. WebJohn the Apostle is traditionally held to be the author of the Gospel of John, and many Christian denominations believe that he authored several other books of the New Testament, depending on whether he is distinguished from, or identified with, John the Evangelist, John the Elder, and John of Patmos. No man hath seen God at any time. 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. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. 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. 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. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. go, call thy husband, and come hither; go directly from hence to the city of Sychar, and call thy husband, and come back hither along with him again: this Christ said, not to have him come to teach and instruct him, and as if he would more readily and easily understand him, and that he might be with her, a partaker of the same grace; but to bring on some further conversation, by which she would understand that he knew her state and condition, and what a course of life she now lived, and so bring her under a conviction of her sin and danger, and need of him and his grace. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. 6 There came a man who was sent from God. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. Web16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. 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. What sayest thou of thyself? Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. (Ver. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. John was not yet cast into prison. 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. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? d. He said to His mother, Woman, behold your son : Jesus consciously cared for His (Ver. 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. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. Webnoun Slang. The heart-searching issuing in perception of the prophetic rank of Jesus. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. Web1. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Do they receive Him not? 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! 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. 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. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. So only is man born of God. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. And such was Jesus. (Ver. 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. 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. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." 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. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." ? So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. 1 John 4:16. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. There was purpose in it. 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. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. It is found also in the omissions of all the material of the Synoptics down to the passion. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. 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. This is grace and truth. Alas! What love! 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. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." 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. Salem Media Group. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. Web1 John 4:17. 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. (Ver. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. 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. 1 John 4:19. 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? Expand. That is an average increase of $1.49 trillion per year. Flesh and world are judged morally. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. 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. Various provisions were made for him in England (117476), including the succession to the He would apply himself more to preaching work, which was the more excellent, 1 Cor 1 17. Proud member 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. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. John 4:16. 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. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. Of this we learn nothing, here. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. 2. ii. 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. Very simple words! God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. 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. 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. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: How was this? 41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. And then the apostle returns to his former exhortation to brotherly love, which he enforces by the following reasons, because it is of God, a fruit of his Spirit and grace, and because it is an evidence of being born of God, and of having a true knowledge of him; whereas he that is destitute of it does not know him, seeing God is love, 1Jo 4:7,8, and having affirmed that God is love, he proves it, by the mission of his Son, to be a propitiation for the sins of such that did not love him, and that they might live through him; wherefore he argues, that if God had such a love to men, so undeserving of it, then the saints ought to love one another, 1Jo 4:9-11. 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." Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Wonderful things in the Bible I see, He acts as such. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. 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. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. 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 question really is, whether man would trust God. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 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. 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. Alas! The result immediately follows. Henrys plan (1173) to assign to John, his favourite son (whom he had nicknamed Lackland), extensive lands upon his marriage with the daughter of Humbert III, count of Maurienne (Savoy), was defeated by the rebellion the proposal provoked among Johns elder brothers. As an experienced minister, Alistair shares his approach to preaching. (Ver. 1 John 4:19, NLT: We love each other because he loved us first. WebThis summary of the Gospel of John provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Gospel of John. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. 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. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 1. (John 12:48). Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. We love him, because he first loved us. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. 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. 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. Observe: not which was, but "which is." 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! 1 John 4:16-19 New International Version 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. 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. His name was John. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. 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. 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. 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. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. God is love. 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). It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 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. 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." 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. (Ed. This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." 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. Web1 John 4:19 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] 1 John 4:19, NIV: We love because he first loved us. 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. At that time Jesus remained in the judgment hall. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. Thus the Holy Ghost, given by the Son in humiliation (according to God, not acting on law, but according to the gift of grace in the gospel), was fully set forth; but the woman, though interested, and asking, only apprehended a boon for this life to save herself trouble here below. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. 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. His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. 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. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. 1 John 4:16-19. Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. Alistair Macrae, minister at Wesley Uniting Church, joins Robyn & Fran to discuss discipleship, call, and repentance in Matthew 4. He who Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? 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. 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. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. 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. Glory would be displayed in its day. A. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. 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. 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. God is love. 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. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. (Verses John 1:44-51). 1 John 4:19, NASB: We love, because He first loved us. This closes the various aspects of the Lord Jesus, completely blotting out Judaism, viewed as resting in a system of law and ordinances, as looking to a Messiah with present ease, and as hoping for the display of Messianic glory then in the world. "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 Lord and the disciples are next seen in the country district, not far, it would seem, from John, who was baptizing as they were. The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. 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