It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. and proclaim him the King Messiah; place him at the head of them, The answer given by modern premillennial apologists usually suggests that premillennialism was overcome for illegitimate reasons. And he saith, I am not. And he answered, No. 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. As being the omniscient God, who knew their hearts, and the secret thoughts and purposes of them; or, as man, understood by their words and gestures: that they would come and take him by force, and make him a king; that they had "determined", as the Arabic version renders it; or "had it in . The word "premillennial" itself is derived of two components-"pre" signifies before, and "millennium" denotes a period of one thousand years. The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. 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. How was this? His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. John 7. 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. 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. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. (Ver. alone; In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. (Verses John 4:31-38). (ver. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? Here the Lord introduces the cross. Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire." (Rev 20:11-15) In other words: 1. It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of grace and truth. 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. 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. 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! The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. and 'Death Knell for John Knox' bottom centre and '3/23' Purchased from Monika Kinley (Grant-in-Aid) 1983 The following . , to snatch suddenly and forcibly (derived from the swoop of the falcon, the ; hence, the Harpies). 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." This is why premillennial-ism is based on a kind of hermeneutical fundamental of the Christian Faith. 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. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. 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. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. Flesh and world are judged morally. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. Canon Law tells us to obey the old law, (Can. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. into, very probably was the same he went up to before; the "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" 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. And such was Jesus. 4. When Jesus therefore perceived (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. In Mark 1:14-15, Jesus told those around Him that the kingdom was as hand. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. 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. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." But if the Spirit speaks of the Son of God, the law dwindles at once into the smallest possible proportions: everything yields to the honour the Father puts oil the Son. (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. 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. [whose?] - Jesus therefore knowing (having found, perceived (), by ominous movements in the crowd, or in any other way still more explicit) that they were about to come and by violence, or force, seize him in order that they might make him King. 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. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. it may be chiefly, that he prayed that God would open the minds The result immediately follows. 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. "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." As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. 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. 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. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. 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. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. 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. On the third day is the marriage in Cana of Galilee, where was His mother, Jesus also, and His disciples. He was God. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. 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. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? 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. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. There He supposes His full rejection and death. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. "had it in their mind", as the Persic; to gather about him as one Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. And in this He is sovereign. 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