The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. For this is the work of God as well asthe command of God to all who are dead in their trespasses and sins: Believe in Him Whom He has sent, believe in Christ's finished work for the forgiveness sins and life everlasting. It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. Heavenly Father, thank you that You loved me so much that while I was still under Your wrath and dead in my trespasses and sins, Christ died for me. God wants people to be saved (2 Peter 3:9 . Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. 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). 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. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. 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. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. Nay, "the world knew him not." There is for him a present possession, which shall also remain. Shall not see life is contrasted with the present possession of the believer. What can be more evident, or more instructive? John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. The unbelieving and disobedient, instead of having eternal life, shall not have life: shall not even see it (compare see the kingdom of God, John 3:3). Alas! Why is John 3:16 the most famous verse in the Bible? The healing of the courtier's son, sick and ready to die, is witness of what the Lord was actually doing among the despised of Israel. 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. Of course, not all know that this has happened for them (and all humanity) and some who know, have rejected that truth. John is not saying that Christ in himself is not already as great intrinsically as he could possibly be. He was God. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. , , . 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. Christ's clear command to all sinners is to believe His heavenly testimony: "For whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life, and will not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life." Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. Further, if Jesus had made such a statement, He would have contradicted numerous other Bible passages that make it clear that salvation is by faith (John 3:16; John 3:36; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5). 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. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. The one who comes from heaven is above all. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. If He put forth His power, it was not only beyond man's measure, but unequivocally divine, however also the humblest and most dependent of men. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. The anger of God for sin. 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 he answered, No. It's our responsibility to live John 3:16 to those around us, to shine God's light everywhere we go. This wrath (comp. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. He also knew that Jesus would increase in honour and influence, for of his government and peace there would be no end, while he himself would be less followed. 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. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. The word here translated believeth not, is apeiywn, which often signifieth, one that is not obedient. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. 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. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. 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. Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. All others prove not only that they are bad, but that they hate perfect goodness, and more than that, life and light the true light in the Word. This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. It abideth, ever has and ever must; for the wrath of love must abide on hatred, the wrath of holiness must abide on sin. It implies, also, that it will continue to remain on him. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. 29) on which, as it were, Jesus speaks and acts in His grace as here shown on the earth. (ver. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." 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. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? 47 Add to cart SaltDogg Part # 3001523 - Hex Flange Nut 1/2-13 SST 0 SaltDogg Part # 3001523 - Hex Flange Nut 1/2-13 SST $ 1. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? The original Greek word, apeithn, means "rejecting belief," "refusing obedience," or "refusing to be convinced.". The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. (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. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. John 3:1-36 follows this up. Commentary on John 3:22-36. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." As Burge (pp. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. But let them beware how they perverted it. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. How truly it is man under law! 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. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. FOR HOME USE ONLY (for church or group use see links below)Buy this Video here:https://www.seedsfamilyworship.com/product/i-believe-john-336/Buy I Believe DV. Here is John 3:16 in 22 different English Bible . All translations of John 3:36 imply that this rejection of Christ is a deliberate action. 2.Geneva Study BibleHe that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not {c} see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. Here the Lord introduces the cross. The evangelist has used this encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus to bring forth some important points. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. New believers also get familiar with this special truth in their relationship with God. 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. Life eternal is to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. 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. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) 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. Rather, he refers to the fame and influence of Christ. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin.
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