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"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 truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. What a witness all this to His person! Knowing the scriptures does not save you. He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. TO-NIGHT (MONDAY) l\A AUCKLAND (050 k.c. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Was my salvation real in the first place? The charge (Luke 5:33) The explanation (Luke 5:34-39) Hannah's Bible Outlines. John was not yet cast into prison. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. How striking the omission! It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. 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. (Verses John 3:11-13) He (and He was not alone here) knew God, and the things of God, consciously in Himself, as surely as He knew all men, and what was in man objectively. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. (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? It is evident that the failure of many men to find Christ is not from any deficiency in th. John 6:1-14 Philip Fails the Exam . John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. (Verses John 1:44-51). John 5:39-40: "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.". 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. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. The claims made, if less than the author represents them, were such as to raise the question of authority. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. 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. John 5:39-40 . This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. 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! John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 41 "I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. (Verse John 3:10). Amen. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. 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. They did indeed search the Scriptures . 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. The law works no deliverance; it puts a man in chains, prison, darkness, and under condemnation; it renders him a patient, or a criminal incompetent to avail himself of the displays of God's goodness. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." Luke 5:33-39. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. There were many witnesses to Christ's claim to deity and His role as Redeemer. (ver. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. John 5:1-13 Man Healed at the Pool of Bethesda. The Father and the Son were at work. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. Search the Scriptures . Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. "For God," He says, "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." 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. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. John 5:39-40. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. Robert, Lord Bishop of Clogher. Nor could any question be more momentous. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 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. All rights reserved. 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. Furthermore, you do not have his word living in you; for you do not believe the one whom he sent. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Proud member 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. Amen. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. (Ver. The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. Then (ver. Changelog Sourced from browserslist's changelog. 38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he . This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." 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. Bumps browserslist from 4.8.3 to 4.16.6. (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. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. 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. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. But "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." Verse 42. The Father seeks worshippers. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." John 5:25. Verse 2. 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. But the meaning here is, that they imagined, by having these writings in their hands, and by their reading them, and hearing them expounded every sabbath day, they should obtain and inherit everlasting life: hence they call F18 the law eternal life, and say F19 concerning the reading of it, that. Read full chapter.