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!! Study for Marie on John 1:16
!! Fulness and Grace
!! By: John W. Worley, Ph.D.
!! 10~/20~/2001
!! John 1:16
| *The New International Version* | *The King James Version* | *New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update* |
| 16 From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.
|  16 And of his *fulness* have           all we received, and *grace* for *grace.*
| 16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.
|
* *
*FULNESS:*
*4138 pleroma { play’-ro-mah} *
from 4137; TDNT - 6:298,867; n n
AV - fulness 13, full 1, fulfilling 1, which is put in to fill up 1, pierce that filled up 1; 17
GK - 4445 { πλήρωμα }
1) that which is (has been) filled
1a) a ship inasmuch as it is filled (i.e.
manned) with sailors, rowers, and soldiers
1b) in the NT, the body of believers, as that which is filled with the presence, power, agency, riches of God and of Christ
2) that which fills or with which a thing is filled
2a) of those things which a ship is filled, freight and merchandise, sailors, oarsmen, soldiers
2b)  completeness or fullness of time
3) fulness, abundance
4) a fulfilling, keeping
* *
*GRACE:*
*5485 charis { khar’-ece} *
from 5463; TDNT - 9:372,1298; n f
AV - grace 130, favour 6, thanks 4, thank 4, thank + 2192 3, pleasure 2, misc 7; 156
GK - 5921 { χάρις }
1) grace
1a) that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness: grace of speech
2) good will, loving-kindness, favour
2a) of the merciful kindness by which God, exerting his holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, keeps, strengthens, increases them in Christian faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles them to the exercise of the Christian virtues
3) what is due to grace
3a) the spiritual condition of one governed by the power of divine grace
3b) the token or proof of grace, benefit
3b1) a gift of grace
3b2) benefit, bounty
4) thanks, (for benefits, services, favours), recompense, reward
* *
*1:16.*
The Word made flesh is the source of grace (/charin/), which is the sum total of all the spiritual favors God gives to people.
The words *we . . .
all *refer to Christians and include John the author.
Because of *the fullness of His grace . . .
one blessing after another *(/charin anti charitos, /lit., “grace in place of grace”) comes to Christians as waves continue to come to the shore.
The Christian life is the constant reception of one evidence of God’s grace replacing another.
*Verses 15-18*
In these verses,
I.
The evangelist begins again to give us John Baptist’s testimony concerning Christ, v. 15.
He had said (v. 8) that he /came for a witness;/ now here he tells us that he did accordingly /bear witness./
Here, Observe,
1. /How he expressed/ his testimony: He /cried,/ according to the prediction that he should be /the voice of one crying./
The Old-Testament prophets cried aloud, to show people their /sins;/ this New-Testament prophet cried aloud, to show people their /Saviour./
This intimates, (1.)
That it was an open /public/ testimony, proclaimed, that all manner of persons might take notice of it, for all are concerned in it.
False teachers /entice secretly,/ but wisdom publishes her dictates in the chief places of concourse.
(2.)
That he was free and hearty in bearing this testimony.
He /cried/ as one that was both /well assured/ of the truth to which he witnessed and /well affected/ to it.
He that had leaped in his /mother’s womb for joy/ of Christ’s approach, when newly conceived, does now with a like exultation of spirit /welcome/ his public appearance.
2. What his /testimony/ was.
He appeals to what he had said at the beginning of his ministry, when he had directed them to expect one that should /come after him,/ whose forerunner he was, and never intended any other than to lead them to him, and to prepare his way.
This he had given them notice of from the first.
Note, It is very comfortable to a minister to have the testimony of his conscience for him that he set out in his ministry with honest principles and sincere intentions, with a single eye to the glory and honour of Christ.
Now what he had then said he applies to this Jesus whom he had lately baptized, and who was so remarkably owned from heaven: /This was he of whom I spoke./
John did not tell them that there would shortly appear such a one among them, and then leave them to find him out; but in /this/ he went beyond all the Old-Testament prophets that he particularly specified the person: /"This was he,/ the very man I told you of, and to him all I said is to be accommodated.’’
Now what was it he said?
(1.)
He had given the preference to this Jesus: /He that comes after me,/ in the time of his birth and public appearance, is preferred before me; he that /succeeds/ me in preaching and making disciples is a more excellent person, upon all accounts; as the prince or peer that /comes after/ is preferred before the harbinger or gentleman-usher that makes way for him.
Note, Jesus Christ, who was to be called the /Son of the Highest/ (Lu.
1:32), was preferred before John Baptist, who was to be called only the /prophet of the Highest,/ Lu. 1:76.
John was a minister of the New Testament, but Christ was the Mediator of the New Testament.
And observe, though John was a great man, and had a great name and interest, yet he was forward to give the preference to him to whom it belonged.
Note, All the ministers of Christ must prefer him and his interest before themselves and their own interests; they will make an ill account /that seek their own things, not the things of Christ,/ Phil.
2:21.
He comes /after me,/ and yet is /preferred before me./
Note, God dispenses his gifts according to his good pleasure, and many times crosses hands, as Jacob did, preferring the /younger/ before the /elder./
Paul far outstripped those that were in Christ before him.
(2.)
He here gives a good reason for it: /For he was before me,/ /proµtos mou eµn/—/He was my first,/ or /first to me;/ he was my first Cause, my original.
The /First/ is one of /God’s names,/ Isa.
44:6.
He is /before me,/ is /my first,/ [1.]
In respect of /seniority:/ he was /before me,/ for he was before Abraham, ch.
8:58.
Nay, he was /before all things,/ Col. 1:17.
I am but of yesterday, he from eternity.
It was but in /those days/ that John Baptist came (Mt.
3:1), but the goings forth of our Lord Jesus /were of old, from everlasting,/ Mic.
5:2.
This proves two natures in Christ.
Christ, as man, /came after/ John as to his public appearance; Christ, as God, was /before him;/ and how could he otherwise be before him but by an eternal existence?
[2.]
In respect of supremacy; for he was /my prince;/ so some princes are called the /first;/ /proµton/, "It is he for whose sake and service I am sent: he is my Master, I am his minister and messenger.’’
II.
He presently returns again to speak of Jesus Christ, and cannot go on with John Baptist’s testimony till v. 19.
The 16th verse has a manifest connection with v. 14, where the incarnate Word was said to be /full of grace and truth./
Now here he makes this the matter, not only of our adoration, but of our thankfulness, because /from that fulness/ of his /we all have received.
He received gifts for men/ (Ps.
68:18), that he might /give gifts to men,/ Eph.
4:8.
He was filled, that he might /fill all in all/ (Eph.
1:23), might /fill our treasures,/ Prov.
8:21.
He has a fountain of fulness overflowing: /We all have received.
All we/ apostles; so some.
We have received the favour of this apostleship, that is /grace;/ and a fitness for it, that is /truth./
Or, rather, /All we/ believers; as many as received him (v.
16), received from him.
Note, All true believers receive from Christ’s fulness; the best and greatest saints cannot live without him, the meanest and weakest may live by him.
This excludes proud boasting, that we have nothing but /we have received it;/ and silences perplexing fears, that we want nothing but /we may receive it./
Let us see what it is that we have received.
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