1 John 4:16-19 New International Version 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. (Ver. john 8 32) 1 John 4:16 (King James Version) 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? Although the authorship of the Johannine works has traditionally been attributed to John the Apostle, only a minority of Expand. (sometimes initial capital letter) a fellow; guy. Nor could any question be more momentous. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[ a] it. 1 John 4:16-19. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. 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. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. Webnoun Slang. The Lord and the disciples are next seen in the country district, not far, it would seem, from John, who was baptizing as they were. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. through "sin." For The Baltimore Sun. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. Do any believe on His name? And great are the advantages arising from hence, for hereby the saints' love to God is made perfect; they have boldness in the day of judgment, since as he is, so are they in this world, and fear is cast out by it, 1Jo 4:17,18, but lest too much should be thought to be ascribed to love, that is said to be owing to the love of God to them, which is prior to theirs to him, and the reason of it, 1Jo 4:19. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. How striking the omission! Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. But how precious the grace, in presence of their hatred and proud self-complacency! WebJohn repeats that people must believe in Jesus as the Son of God in order to be saved, and that love for God is inseparable from love for Gods people (5:1). 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. 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. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. 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. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. John was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. It was sabbath-day. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. (Ver. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. Flesh and world are judged morally. He exhorts the saints not to believe every man that came with a doctrine to them, but to try them, since there were many false teachers in the world; and gives a rule by which they may be tried and judged, as that whatever teacher owns Christ to be come in the flesh is of God, but he that does not is not of God, but is the spirit of antichrist that should come, and was in the world, 1Jo 4:1,2, but, for the comfort of those to whom he writes, he observes, that they were of God, and had overcome these false teachers, through the mighty power of the divine Spirit in them, who is greater than Satan, and all his emissaries, 1Jo 4:4. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. And he saith, I am not. In this chapter the apostle cautions against seducing spirits; advises to try them, and gives rules by which they may be known, and by which they are distinguished from others; and then returns to his favourite subject, brotherly love. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. In the process of torturing Jesus, the soldiers ironically coronate him king. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. KJV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. YLT John 4:19 The woman saith to him, 'Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet; ASV John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 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. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. 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. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. 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. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. This is grace and truth. Herein is our loveb made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." 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. 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." The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. Do they receive Him not? (Ver. He was God. 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. 18 There is no fear in love. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. John 4:19-20. 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. 2. Alistair Macrae, minister at Wesley Uniting Church, joins Robyn & Fran to discuss discipleship, call, and repentance in Matthew 4. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. A person falling thousands of feet through the air would experience sheer terrorunless they knew a parachute would soon open. (Verse John 3:10). He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. 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. Jesus is crowned, clothed, and proclaimed king by Roman soldiers. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. 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. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. 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. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. 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. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Fritzsche, p. 21). (ver. How can such have relationship with God? Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. (Verses John 7:40-53). Of course, the experience will still be intense. Pilate, disposed to gratify the Nevertheless, the heavenly part is little dwelt on, as John's gospel displays our Lord more as the expression of God revealed on earth, than as Man ascended to heaven, which fell far more to the province of the apostle of the Gentiles. Web1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 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. 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. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. 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