John is published weekly in The Inquisitor, bi-monthly in The Forum News, and frequently in the Shreveport Times. for he knew He was the Christ. 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. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. The Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "shall abide upon him"; so some copies. (Ver. Such is the miserable condition of the sinner! As the believer hath life, so the unbeliever hath wrath abiding on him. Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. 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. And so, in fact, it was and is. John Gorney Love this app and will recommend it to others as well. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. "He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. 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. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." 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. 1John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. Yet thousands choose to remain in this state, and to encounter alone all that is terrible in the wrath of Almighty God, rather than come to Jesus, who has borne their sins in his own body on the tree, and who is willing to bless them with the peace, and purity, and joy of immortal life. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 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." hath everlasting lifealready has it. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. Romans 2:8; Ephesians 4:31; Colossians 3:8; Revelation 19:15) is not the fierceness of passion, nor is it the expression of fixed hatred. Art thou that prophet? This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. But then again, as science fiction wri ter Theodore Sturgeon once said, when asked why so much science fiction was garbage, 90% of everything is crap. (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. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? (John 12:48). For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. He lives continually in an economy which is alienated from God, and which, in itself, must be habitually the subject of God's displeasure and indignation. This chapter contains the most recognizable verse in the entire Bible, John 3:16. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning, He that believeth on the Son Who is a proper object of faith and trust; which, if he was not truly and properly God, he would not be: and this is to be understood not of any sort of faith, a temporary, or an historical one; but of that which is the faith of God's elect, the gift of God, and the operation of his Spirit; by which a man sees the Son, goes unto him, ventures and relies upon him, and commits himself to him, and expects life and salvation from him; and who shall not be ashamed and confounded; for such an one. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God . The evangelist has used this encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus to bring forth some important points. "There are three who give testimony in heaven; the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one." behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. This scripture tells us about the endless affection God demonstrated by sacrificing His only begotten son . Indeed, Jesus is God the Son, son of God the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. (c) Shall not enjoy. At least, so say many Christians. ", John the Baptist was the earthly witness that God usedto present His dearly beloved Son to the world. The word, which occurs only here in the Gospels, is not the same as that at the beginning of the verse, and shows that the faith there intended is the subjection of the will . Bridgeway Bible Commentary. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." 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 3:16 16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! But this is the command of God, That men should believe on his Son, 1Jo 3:23. He has life; the man who disobeys has not, and while he disobeys shall not see life, for he cannot be a subject of a kingdom to whose laws he refuses allegiance. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. (Ver. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. Eternal lifeis only received by believing that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners and that salvation is a gracious gift of God. He acts as such. No man hath seen God at any time. John 3:2 Greek him; John 3:3 Or from above; the Greek is purposely ambiguous and can mean both again and from above; also verse 7; John 3:6 The same Greek word means both wind and spirit; John 3:7 The Greek for you is plural here; John 3:8 The same Greek word means both wind and spirit; John 3:11 The Greek for you is plural here; also four times in verse 12 . It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. As Burge (pp. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. (Ver. But this is not the question of grace: not what she was, but what He is who was there to win and bless her, manifesting God and the Father withal, practically and in detail. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. Without sign, prodigy, or miracle, in this village of Samaria Jesus was heard, known, confessed as truly the Saviour of the world ("the Christ" being absent in the best authorities, ver. 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. He that believeth not Or, obeyeth not - : from , negative, and , to persuade, or , to obey-the want of the obedience of faith. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. As there is no way of escaping the wrath of God but by the Lord Jesus Christ, so those who will not believe must go to eternity "as they are," and bear alone and unpitied all that God may choose to inflict as the expression of "his" sense of sin. And such was Jesus. 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. God wants people to be saved (2 Peter 3:9 . John 3:16 teaches us that anyone who believes in Jesus Christ, God's Son, will be saved. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 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. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. He regularly attends Shreveport City Council and Caddo Parish Commission meetings. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. Verse 36. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. And in this He is sovereign. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. Do they receive Him not? There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. (ver. Many people think that believing in the Son means believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that Jesus' way is the way of everlasting life. 2:25), and works belief in us (John 6:28-29), then we realize that the "whosoever" are those that God has granted the act of believing. ): "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. 22-24); (2) John's disciples are jealous (vss. Eternal lifeis onlyreceivedby faith in His cruel death and His glorious Resurrection. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. Second, the Lordship Salvation view misinterprets the significance of the present participles for "believe" and "obey" in John 3:36. Believing in the existence of Jesus does not result in eternal life, for the historical evidence of His existence (in both sacred and secular writings) is irrefutable. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. 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. It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. (ver. The Christian here has a foretaste of the world of glory, and enjoys the same kind of felicity, though not the same degree, that he will there.Shall not see life - Shall neither enjoy true life or happiness here nor in the world to come. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. Does anyone else find it odd that John Fetterman is hospitalized with Clinical Depression and is Co-Sponsoring Bills in the Senate? The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. 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. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. John pointed people to the Lord Jesus, for Christ Himself was sent to bear heavenly witness of the invisible God Who "loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whosoever believes in Him would not perish but have everlasting life.". Note.How flatly does this contradict the teaching of many in our day, that there neither was, nor is, anything in God against sinners which needed to be removed by Christ, but only in men against God! it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. He shall have no perception of life simply considered, much less of eternal life, the full and complex development of life. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL
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. Surely He was there, a weary man outside Judaism; but God, the God of all grace, who humbled Himself to ask a drink of water of her, that He might give the richest and most enduring gift, even water which, once drank, leaves no thirst for ever and ever yea, is in him who drinks a fountain of water springing up unto everlasting life. Abideth on him - This implies that he is "now" under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. (John 3:36 ASV), He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that is not subject to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him. 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. (Ver. His life "is hid with Christ in God." It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. 1:29), grants us repentance (2 Tim. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. The first . 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. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" He redeemed us from the curse of the Law, and secured redemption and the forgiveness of sin, for all who would trust in His finished work at Calvary for the salvation of their soul. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. These two positions are mutually exclusive. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. (Ver. This we have had fully before. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. This leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. It will abide or dwell there as its appropriate habitation. John 3:16 Meaning. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. Life is in the Son, and He who has the Son has life and there is no condemnation to those that have placed their faith in Him. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. 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. But let them beware how they perverted it. Verse of the Day , God, My Praise (Study In God - All I Need-19). 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. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) how to get incineroar hidden ability; Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." Shall not see life is contrasted with the present possession of the believer. 24 "Faithis a work of God in the sense it is that which God has ordered man to do"Guy N. Woods (1989), A Commentary on The Gospel of John (Nashville: Gospel Advocate Company), p. 125. Meanwhile there was a manifestation of goodness, active in love in the midst of evil, and toward such; active in the making known God and man, and every moral relation, and what He is toward man, through and in the Word made flesh. 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. Once we step into the light God gives us a new life. 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. These are the final words of John the Baptist 170 in the Gospel of John. Answer: John 3:16 does not say that unbelievers have the ability of their own sinful free will, to receive Christ. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). Piety here is the same that it will be there, except that it will be expanded, matured, purified, made more glorious. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children.
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