why is john 6:15 the death knell of premillennialism

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. The Jan. 6 commission's death knell. Second, it interprets present world political trends as signs of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. 42). 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. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." The result immediately follows. 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. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. And they asked him, What then? "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." "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. Nor was it yet complete. Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. (Verse John 3:10). and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, 64). Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. The Lord, it is true, could and did go farther than the prophets: even if He taught on the same theme, He could speak with conscious divine dignity and knowledge (not merely what was assigned to an instrument or messenger). Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was 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. for he knew He was the Christ. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. convinced of their mistaken notions of him as a temporal prince: 05/28/2021 07:55 AM EDT. 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. 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 6:15 in all English translations. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. 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. Why this is so hard for Traditionalists to comprehend is baffling; all they need to do is to follow TRADITION. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Verse 15. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. 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. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth . A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. with a big assist from Olivia Beavers, Sarah Ferris and Marianne LeVine. Read full chapter. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. All is in the character of the Son of man. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. 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. seize him in order that they might make him King. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29. 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. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. (Ver. 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"). How withering the words! If He judges, it is not without full warning. So rich and transparently divine was the grace: not some souls, more meritorious than the rest, rewarded according to a graduated scale of honour, but "of his fulness have all we received." 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. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. 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." The sound goes back and forth between a harder chime and a muffled chime. He saw him under the fig tree. 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. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Presented by. There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. In these two points of view, more particularly, John gives testimony to Christ; He is the lamb as the taker away of the world's sin; the same is He who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 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. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. 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. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. 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." Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. that his kingdom was not of this world; to teach his followers to (Ver. 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. 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 3:1-36 follows this up. and inasmuch as death is the last enemy, the destruction of the remaining powers ("when he shall have destroyed all rule and authority and power") will have to be understood not as a final struggle beginning after the parousia, but as the definite victory of christ that has already begun in his cross and resurrection and exaltation (cf., e.g., There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. (Ver. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." 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. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. This would make all manifest. Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. John 6:16. 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. Pharisaic jealousy had wrought; and Jesus, wearied, sat thus at the fountain of Jacob's well in Sychar. (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? "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! 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. Phil 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Predetermined performance - no will involved. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. And so, in fact, it was and is. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. But it is important we should know how He entered the world. (ver. Persic versions leave out the word "again"; and the latter, When Jesus therefore perceived. "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." Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. Accordingly there is a four-fold testimony to Jesus: the testimony of John the Baptist; the Lord's own works; the voice of the Father from heaven; and finally, the written word which the Jews had in their own hands. Proud member But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. There He supposes His full rejection and death. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. 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. 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. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. 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 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. 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. Do they receive Him not? His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. kingdom, in which they might hope for great secular advantages: [whose?] Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. Their purpose was to make Him king. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. He acts as such. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. 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 5. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. 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. The premillennial concept is the result of literalizing a few symbolic verses in the book of Revelation, coupled with a considerable disregard for scores of Bible passages of clearest import. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. 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 death knell is recognizable by its muffled sound. 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. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. (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. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. for he that could do this, what was it he could not do? 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. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Glory would be displayed in its day. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. John 6:15 in all English translations. 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. John 7. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. 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). (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. 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. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. By MELANIE ZANONA. 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. Why should He not show Himself to the world? * 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." The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone. "had it in their mind", as the Persic; to gather about him as one 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. 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