Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL 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 . And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. How striking the omission! It was not that they were better than their neighbours. Do I lose my ticket to heaven if I sin too much? It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. 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. What a witness all this to His person! Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. 1. 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. 3. 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! Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. John 5:39(NASB) Verse Thoughts. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. (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. 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. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. A person who refuses to believe cannot be convinced, no matter what evidence they are given (John 5:40). 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. It occurs within the context of a family Jesus loved Mary, Martha and Lazarus. Ye do search the Scriptures, and ye do well to do so. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. (ver. * 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." Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. 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. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." You must be doing the will of the Father. 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. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. 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. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. )7.30: Studio recital by Maurice Turley (boy singer). It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? 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. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And they are they which testify concerning me. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. 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. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in th. One must be born again. (ver. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. 17.30: Slat.' Oporn Orchestra 7.48: "Paul Clifford. Accordingly, we have in this chapter a miracle and a sermon. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. 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 'bad people' and 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. 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." But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. 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 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. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. 4.16.5 Fixed unsafe RegExp . Amen. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. All this clearly goes down to millennial days. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Luke 5:33-39. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Such shall live. If you're looking for an internship and want to learn from a great leader who is fun, passionate, and enthusiastic - this is it! 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. They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Controversy with the " Jews" who Believed. Many are convinced by this appeal. 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. Matthew 5:39 "But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. 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. (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. 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. John 5:28-30 Resurrection. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. John 5:39-42New International Version. Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. 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. TO-NIGHT (MONDAY) l\A AUCKLAND (050 k.c. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. 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). And they asked him, What then? He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. "Master, eat," said they. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, You examine the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is those. But let them beware how they perverted it. (Verses John 1:44-51). Life resurrection will display how little they had to be ashamed of, who believed the record given of His Son; the resurrection of judgment will make but too plain, to those who despised the Lord, both His honour and their sin and shame. Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. (Ver. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. If He judges, it is not without full warning. And such was Jesus. And so, in fact, it was and is. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. Nor was it yet complete. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. 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. (Verse John 3:10). 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. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. That the Jews in the time of Jesus were expecting a future state. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. The following section summarises the teaching by which Jesus tried to bring the more favourably disposed of the " Jewish" party to a fuller faith. John 5:14-18 Go And Sin No More.