john 4:16 19 commentary

And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? It was sabbath-day. You are right when you say you have no husband. He would apply himself more to preaching work, which was the more excellent, 1 Cor 1 17. Of this we learn nothing, here. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. 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. 1 John 4:16-19. This is the heart of the message of the Bible. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. 2 He was with God in the beginning. Webnoun Slang. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. 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? 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. And he saith, I am not. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. 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. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 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 hour was one for faith, or unbelief. 18 There is no fear in love. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." 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. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. 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." (Ver. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? In these two points of view, more particularly, John gives testimony to Christ; He is the lamb as the taker away of the world's sin; the same is He who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. As this chapter sets forth the Lord Jesus with singular fulness of glory, on the side both of His Godhead and of His manhood, so it closes with the most varied and remarkable testimonies God has given to us, that there may be no excuse. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." 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. God is love. 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. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. 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. Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. 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. God does not here condescend to call it His, though, of course, it was His and holy, just, and good, both in itself and in its use, if used lawfully. 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. A. 1 John 4:19, ESV: We love because he first loved us. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. Other arguments follow, engaging to it, as that God is invisible; and if he is to be loved, then certainly his people, who are visible; and that such who love one another, God dwells in them, and his love is perfected in them; and that he dwells in them is known by the gift of his Spirit to them, 1Jo 4:12,13, and that God the Father so loved the world, as to send his Son to be the Saviour of it, before asserted, is confirmed by the apostles, who were eyewitnesses of it; who also declare, that whoever confesses the sonship of Christ, God dwells in him, and he in God; and who had an assurance of the love of God to them, who is love itself; so that he that dwells in God, and God in him, dwells in love, 1Jo 4:14-16. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." In this podcast we refer to Being Disciples by Rowan Williams, a terrific sermon by Rev Dr The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. As an experienced minister, Alistair shares his approach to preaching. Although the authorship of the Johannine works has traditionally been attributed to John the Apostle, only a minority of Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. The result immediately follows. Web1 John 4:16-19 NIV 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. 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. Knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. He acts as such. 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. . Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. 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. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? (ver. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. Do any believe on His name? This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. 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. 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: (Ver. 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 * 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." And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. John told us that he was at Jesus crucifixion and saw these things with his own eyes (John 19:35). The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. 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