why is john 6:15 the death knell of premillennialism

It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 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. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. 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. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. When Jesus therefore perceived After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. (Verses John 5:17-18). The contrasts are as strong, at least, as the resemblance with the healing of the centurion's servant in Matthew 13:1-58 and Luke 7:1-50, which some ancients and moderns have confounded with this, as they did Mary's anointing of Jesus with the sinful woman's in Luke 7:1-50. that his kingdom was not of this world; to teach his followers to What sayest thou of thyself? 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. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. 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. "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." 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. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. (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? (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. forsake the honours and riches of this world, for his sake; and No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. 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. Premillenialism is that system of religious belief that holds that Christ didn't set up a kingdom when he was on earth because the Jews rejected it but will one day return to set up an earthly kingdom in which Christ will reign on the earth for a thousand years. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. 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). (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. 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. 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. support such an army of men, and to succeed in the enterprise; THE WORLD'S GREATEST . 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. (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. 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. There He supposes His full rejection and death. Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. (Ver. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. 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. 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. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. 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. (Verses John 7:40-53). into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the 1 Cor 15:26 states that Christ will reign until the destruction of death. 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. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? (Ver. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. 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. The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. 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 best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. (Ver. This would make all manifest. Alas! John 1:17; John 1:17) The law, thus given, was in itself no giver, but an exacter; Jesus, full of grace and truth, gave, instead of requiring or receiving; and He Himself has said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. and they might the rather be induced to take such a step, since, The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. John 6:15 in all English translations. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. By MELANIE ZANONA. Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 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. (ver. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? 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. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. conjunction with the Lord's Second Coming) (Hebert 2006c:5-6). Their purpose was to make Him king. 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. Nor was it yet complete. What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. A person (the bell ringer) would place a leather muffle over half of the bell's clapper. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! 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 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. 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 answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." Catalogue entry. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . John 6:15. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. (ver. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." John 6:15 in all English translations. convinced of their mistaken notions of him as a temporal prince: (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. 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