why is john 6:15 the death knell of premillennialism

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. The Father and the Son were at work. The question really is, whether man would trust God. P07901 Death Knell for John Knox 1972 Etching 18 5/8 19 3/4 (473 500) on paper watermarked 'Arches France' 37 3/8 29 1/2 (955 750) printed by Jack Shirreff, Westbury and published by the artist Inscribed 'John Bellany 72' b.r. Glory would be displayed in its day. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. (Ver. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. How withering the words! It was sabbath-day. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. 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. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. 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 character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. This we have had fully before. As mentioned in verse 10, the unbeliever is calling God a liar, in that he or she refuses to believe in God's testimony, namely, that which "God has given about His Son" (vs.10). 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. John 6:1-15 describes Jesus' feeding thousands of peoplethe fourth of the gospel of John's seven ''signs'' of Christ's divinity. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. Read full chapter John 6:15 in all English translations John 5 John 7 New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. 4. Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. John 6:15 Context. If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. Why should He not show Himself to the world? alone, for the sake of secret retirement, and private prayer; and King James Version (KJV) This He does in verses 16-19. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? (Verses John 1:44-51). At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. to deliver the nation from the Roman yoke, and set up a temporal "had it in their mind", as the Persic; to gather about him as one Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. This Blog is really a continuation of my Previous Blog "Why Israel Has a Future in God's Plans - Romans 9-11 and the People of God" By Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D. 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. Proud member "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. There was purpose in it. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. The Jews wanted to force Christ to be a king like Saul, David or Solomon. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." 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. 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. No man hath seen God at any time. Do any believe on His name? 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. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Presented by. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. through "sin." Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. 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. of these men, and particularly the disciples; that they might be Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. As this chapter sets forth the Lord Jesus with singular fulness of glory, on the side both of His Godhead and of His manhood, so it closes with the most varied and remarkable testimonies God has given to us, that there may be no excuse. They were on the way to Jerusalem, and they were thirsting to throw off the yoke of Rome and of . Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. What can be more evident, or more instructive? into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the Then said they unto him, Who art thou? 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. even took not his disciples with him, who were in the same way of Nay, "the world knew him not." It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. John 6:15 in all English translations. And in this He is sovereign. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. 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. 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. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. And so, in fact, it was and is. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. (Ver. In Mark 9:1, Jesus promised that some of the very ones in His presence would not see death until they saw the kingdom come with power. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. 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. (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. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. "What is premillennialism?" Premillennialism is the view that Christ's second coming will occur prior to His millennial kingdom, and that . "Master, eat," said they. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. John 7. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. but. Clarke's Commentary. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. 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. 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. Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. he departed again into a mountain, himself (Ver. (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 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. 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. that we may give an answer to them that sent us. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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." 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. king; It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. mountain alone". To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. Jesus, therefore, answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. 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). Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. Here the Lord was really owned by the multitudes as the great Prophet that should come; and this in consequence of His works, especially that one which Scripture itself had connected with the Son of David. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. 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. For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or 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. This scene throws light on the use of in Matthew 11:12. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. John 6:15King James Version. , to snatch suddenly and forcibly (derived from the swoop of the falcon, the ; hence, the Harpies). , And this very circumstance is perhaps the cause, that nowhere do we read that Jesus, whilst He teas sojourning on the earth, entered, even though that town was very close to Jerusalem. This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. 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. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). All rights reserved. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. (Ver. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." A more recent production, advocating the same general theory, is the fictional Left Behindseries. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. One must be born again. of However, we know that Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Father shortly after His resurrection and ascension (Hebrews 8:1; Revelation 4:2). They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. (Ver. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 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. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Observe: not which was, but "which is." Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. 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. It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? But the erosion of Tradition began long ago, without their knowledge, as will be shown below. Death knell. 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, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. 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." reasons of his departure, were to prevent the attempt; to show One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. , , . 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. for he knew He was the Christ. 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. This leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. 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. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. 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. 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. 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. contrary to all others, renders it, "Christ departed from the God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. 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. 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. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. 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. Augustine believed God's purposes were always being fulfilled, the gospel was always advancing into "the nations at the four corners of the earth." The saints who had been spiritually raised to. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! 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. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. 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. 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