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Unveiled Glories of Christ the Eternal Son of God: in the Gospel According to John Biola University Digital Commons @ Biola Talbot Publications The Louis T. Talbot Archive Unveiled Glories of Christ The Eternal Son of God: In the Gospel According to John Louis T. Talbot Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/talbot-pub Part of the Christianity Commons, and the Missions and World Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Talbot, Louis T., "Unveiled Glories of Christ The Eternal Son of God: In the Gospel According to John" (2017). Talbot Publications. 32. https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/talbot-pub/32 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Louis T. Talbot Archive at Digital Commons @ Biola. It has been accepted for inclusion in Talbot Publications by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Biola. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ~ ·• the Eternal Son of God In the Gospel Aeeording to John "" I LOUIS T. TALBOT ( THE UNVEILED GLORIES OF CHRIST THE ETERNAL SON OF GOD In the Gospel according to John By By LOUIS T. TALBOT, D.D., LL.D. THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES 558 South Hope Street Los Angeles 1 7, California THE UNVEILED GLORIES OF CHRIST THE ETERNAL SON OF GOD In the Gospel according to John By LOUIS T. TALBOT ow will you please open your Bibles to the Gospel ac­ cording to John? We are going to begin our study in this My beloved Radio Listeners: wonderful book. I do not know any book in the Bible Nthat has been used as extensively to lead souls to Christ This little booklet goes to you with as this book of John. There are about twenty verses in this love and appreciation for your faithful Gospel, such as John 3: 16, John 5: 24, and others, which have attendance in my radio class. Some day I been employed in winning souls to the Saviour more than trust to have mor~ time to develop these any other portions of the Word of God. So if God will show lessons into verse-by-verse studies but this us this book, as we go through it, and give us an insight into will have to suffice for now. I trust these its teaching; if God will give us a greater knowledge of this few thoughts on the Gospel of John will Gospel, perhaps we shall have the great joy of leading more stimulate you to personal study until you people to Christ than ever before, through the study of this possess the book, and the book possesses you. book. So let us ask the Lord as we go into it to make the And more than that, may the Author, the book more precious to us, and at the same time, to teach us eternal Son of God Himself, capture your heart how to make use of it in bringing others to a knowledge of and life for eternity. Him. Now the purpose of the book of John, as we shall see in Ever yours in Him, a verse at the end of the book, is to prove that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, and that God sent His own Son into the world to die so that men might be saved just simply by believing on Him. That is the greatest truth of the Gospel ~~I::~:~ of John. It differs from the other three Gospels, which are called the Synoptic Gospels, because of the general view Los Angeles, Calif. they give of the birth, childhood, and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew states part of it; Mark another part; and Luke still another, and yet they agree, as they were led by the -Holy Ghost. John, however, makes no attempt to just give us the life of Christ on earth. He starts way beyond any other book in the Bible, back in eternity, and goes on to show us simply the eternal Sonship of the eternal Son of God, the Christ who had no beginning and shall have no end. John always seems to keep us in the heavens. When you follow Matthew, 236569 Mark and Luke, you are down among men - always among Let us examine these Scriptures a little more in detail. men - and you see the Son of God toiling as a man, labor­ Note, first of all, that the American Standard Ver?ion (gen­ ing with Israel. But when you read the book of John, you do erally called "the Revised") explains in the margin that the not feel th~t you are among men at all. Somehow you feel word branch means a shoot, a bud, or a sprout. A similar use that you are away off in the heavens, observing Christ, of the term is found in Isaiah 11: 1 (A.S.V.): God's Son. You feel that you are like an eagle, soaring in the heavens, and that God has given you an eye so strong that "And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit." you can go into the very fulness and brightness of the sun at noonday because you have to do that to see Christ in the "Behold . a King!" book of John. "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will Notice how the Gospel of John begins. Read with me raise unto David a righteous Branch (shoot or bud} verses 1 and 2: and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall exe­ cute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; God, and the Word was God. and this is the name whereby He shall be called "The same was in the beginning with God." THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS" (Jer. 23:5, 6). This begins farther back than Genesis, and differs in this In these words Jeremiah was speaking directly to his respect from the other three Gospls. I want you to note th~ own people, Israel. The Lord was speaking to the people of contrast between this beginning and that of Matthew, Mark that day about His Son, the King. Then God chose Matthew and Luke. to present Him from the standpoint of the King of Israel in Why Four Gospels? the Gospel age. That is why Matthew records things the My friends, have you ever wondered why there were other Gospels do not mention. four Gospels, and only four? Have you asked yourself, "Why In this connection, I want you to note the beginning of were there not five, or three, or even just one?" Well, first the Gospel of Matthew which reads on this wise, chapter one, of all, you need to go back into the Old Testament to find verse 1: the portrait of the Messiah presented in a four-fold way. "The book of the generatio·n of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham." There are more than three hundred definite prophecies of Christ's first coming into the world in the Old Testament Now, my friends, as a Gentile that does not mean any­ and these may be well grouped under four official titles for thing to you. If you put the Gospel of Matthew into the the Son of God who came to redeem lost humanity. Let us hands of a Gentile, one who is not a son of Israel, he will see never forget that all these minute prophecies were written absolutely no meaning or force in that verse. But if you put in God's Word hundreds of years before Christ was born in the book of Matthew into the hand of a genuine Jew, that is, Bethlehem, in order that the world might recognize in Jesus an old-time Jew, who believes the writings of Moses, and one of Nazareth the eternal Son of the eternal God. Here are who is looking for the coming of the Messiah, he will see these titles, found in the Old Testament, and later made use sense in this first verse of the Gospel of Matthew. He knows of in the four Gospels as we shall soon see: that his Messiah must be the son of Abraham and the son of David. "A righteous Branch - a King" <Jer. 23:5) "My Servant the Branch" (Zech. 3:8) Consequently, Matthew is showing Jesus as the son of "The Man whose name is the Branch" (Zech. 6:12) Abraham and heir of Abraham's land and Son of God, the "The Branch of the Lord ... beautiful and glorious" (Isa. 4:2) heir to David's throne. This might not mean much to you as 4 5 a Gentile, or even as a Christian, unless you have studied would you ask who his grandfather was. All you would be God's Word, and clearly understand God's covenant with interested in was whether he was honest and whether he Abraham 1 nd David. You would struggle through about could do a good job. The genealogy of a servant has no sixteen verses of names in the genealogy of Christ which significance whatsoever. follows and it would all be an enigma to you. But not so to a However, if a man came asking for your daughter's hand Jew. The genealogy of a King is important. It qualifies Him in marriage, you would want to know his background. for His throne. So Matthew presents the Lord Jesus Christ Matthew went fully into the genealogy of Christ but Mark as the true Messiah, the One who inherits Abraham's land does not, because Mark is presenting the Lord Jesus Christ and David's throne.
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