It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. As mentioned in the Introduction Section, premillennialism was the prevailing view of the Early Church for about the first three centuries, And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 15 Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. (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? Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. 4. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. John 6:15 in all English translations. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. (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. Thus a despised Christ is not merely a crucified Son of man, and given Son of God, as in John 3:1-36, but Himself a divine giver in communion with the Father, and in the power of the Holy Ghost who is given to the believer, the source of worship, as their God and Father is its object for the worshippers in spirit and truth (though surely not to the exclusion of the Son, Hebrews 1:1-14). 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. convinced of their mistaken notions of him as a temporal prince: Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the How truly it is man under law! It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. There are three kinds of fundamentals: 1) Doctrinal fundamentals (e.g., the Trinity, Deity of Christ, Sacrificial Atonement, and Resurrection). 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. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. 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. 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. 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. And so, in fact, it was and is. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. Because John declares that the one who does not believe in God's testimony is calling God "a liar." This is crucial to see. John 6:15. The thrust of Lindsey's book is two-fold: First, it espouses the premillennial theory of Christ's second coming. 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. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. "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." Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? This is grace and truth. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. "In the consistory of Dec. 15, 1958 . The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. 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. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. Observe: not which was, but "which is." It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. (Ver. he departed again into a mountain, himself Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. , , . Other names for premillennialists are millenarians and chiliaststaken from the Greek word for thousand (Torrey 1913:145). Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? * 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." "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. 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. In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. 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. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. - Jesus therefore knowing (having found, perceived (), by ominous movements in the crowd, or in any other way still more explicit) that they were about to come and by violence, or force, seize him in order that they might make him King. 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. Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. Then (ver. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. 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. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. Ringing of the death bells is done slowly and reverently. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" alone; Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. Read full chapter. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. 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. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a man, and seize him in a violent manner, whether he would or not; 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. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. They cite the rise of an unbiblical and dangerous allegorical hermeneutic (by such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen) which took a sad toll on sound biblical exegesis. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. mountain alone". 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