TO-NIGHT (MONDAY) l\A AUCKLAND (050 k.c. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. 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. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. John 5:14-18 Go And Sin No More. This should be translated, not in the imperative, but in the indicative mood - thus, Ye search the Scriptures diligently. He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. (Ver. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. )7.30: Studio recital by Maurice Turley (boy singer). You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. The Present Hour. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. This should be translated, not in the imperative, but in the indicative mood-thus, Ye search the Scriptures diligently.That these words are commonly read in the imperative mood is sufficiently known; but this reading can never accord well with the following verse, nor can the force and energy of the . "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. (John 5:19 .) Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. Knowing the scriptures does not save you. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. Observe: not which was, but "which is." 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. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. 00:00:00 / 00:29:15. He has not placed his salvation in sacraments, or books, or priests, but he has kept it in himself; and if you want to have it you must come to him." (Spurgeon) ii. * 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." website along with the . John 5. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. 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. (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. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. (Ver. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. John 6. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. John 5:39-40. John 5:39(NASB) Verse Thoughts. "They search the Scriptures, but they will not come to Jesus. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. So bright was His glory, so concerned was the Father in maintaining it, so immense the blessing if received, so tremendous the stake involved in its loss, that God vouchsafed the amplest and clearest witnesses. 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. 5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." 8.0: State Opera Orchestra Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. Robert Clayton (ISBN 9781170941003) osoitteesta Adlibris.fi. Believers Delivered from. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. 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. 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. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? 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. (John 12:48). They did indeed search the Scriptures . Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. 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. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. But the key phrase is "seek out the wisdom of God" because some have come to excel at misusing the Scriptures. No charge could be remoter from the truth. Of course they are just as truly inspired as John's; but for that very reason they were not inspired to give the same testimony. John 4. 1 After this there was a a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in 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. 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. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. This is grace and truth. THE FINAL THREE PROOFS OF DEITY - John 5:36-40. This is a perfect illustration of John 15:5 where Jesus declared "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit (IN THIS CASE ABIDING WAS SIMPLY OBEYING), for apart from Me you can do nothing (EVEN FISHING - BUT . So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? 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. John 4. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. 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. 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. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? John 3:1-36 follows this up. (Verse John 3:10). Verse 5:4. "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake: He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. So only is man born of God. 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. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. ( NASB: Lockman) Greek: ego de lego ( 1SPAI) umin me antistenai ( AAN) to ponero; all' ostis se rapizei ( 3SPAI) eis ten dexian siagona [sou], strepson ( 2SAAM) auto kai ten allen. 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. The result immediately follows. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." of 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. 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. There is a crying need today for people to seek out the wisdom of God as revealed in His Scriptures and make application of it in their lives. What love! 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. 5:39 The indicative of eJrauna'te fits the context better (indicative and imperative forms are the same here). He was God. John was not yet cast into prison. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. 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. . So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets.Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out . 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. Nor could any question be more momentous. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. 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. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." Was my salvation real in the first place? Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. He could, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. John 4:39-45 Jesus' time with the Samaritans. Clarke's John 5:39 Bible Commentary Search the Scriptures - . John 5:39-44. It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. There He supposes His full rejection and death. The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. He was God. John 5:39-42New International Version. (Ver. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. John 5:26-27 Son of Man. John noted, "Jesus loved Martha, her sister and Lazarus" (John 11:5). All this clearly goes down to millennial days. 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. 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. And they asked him, What then? 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). 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." Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. 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.