But it is important we should know how He entered the world. It's our responsibility to live John 3:16 to those around us, to shine God's light everywhere we go. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. (John 3:34-36) The price for rejecting the true testimony regarding Jesus. The words of Jesus were the words of God; he had the Spirit, not by measure, as the prophets, but in all fulness. I pray that I might live for Him. They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. He that believeth he that obeyeth not Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. 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. John 3:36 Translation & Meaning. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. Hath everlasting life. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. Apparently these Christians haven't bothered to read what comes before and after John 3:16-18. To Him be all praise and glory forever and ever, AMEN. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" 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. He tells Philip to follow Him. 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. Deeper questions demanded solution. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. One must be born again. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. Anyone who doesn't obey the Son will never experience eternal life but remains under God's angry judgment.'. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. God orders matters so that a favoured teacher of men, favoured as none others were in Israel, should come to Jesus by night. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. It implies, also, that it will continue to remain on him. We should also not lose sight of the fact that when Jesus was speaking to Nicodemus, the ordinance of Christian baptism was not yet in effect. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. It will "abide" or "dwell" there as its appropriate habitation. Wouldn't being hospitalized for Depression mean you shouldn't be doing legislative work? (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? 1. 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. 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. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. 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. "For God," He says, "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. How can such have relationship with God? They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. 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. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. 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 to the Son, to whom the Father hath given all things (John 3:35). There was purpose in it. (36) Here too we have, in the words of John, thoughts which we have found already (John 3:15-16), and shall find again (), in the words of Christ Himself.He that believeth not the Son. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. (VersesJohn 5:8-12; John 5:8-12), But were the Jews mistaken after all in thinking that the seal of the first covenant was virtually broken in that deliberate word and warranty of Jesus? His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." And anyone who believes in God's Son has eternal life. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 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. (36) Here too we have, in the words of John, thoughts which we have found already (John 3:15-16), and shall find again (), in the words of Christ Himself.He that believeth not the Son.--Better, he that obeyeth not the Son. "The law was given by Moses." He holds a seat on the Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. He shall have no perception of life simply considered, much less of eternal life, the full and complex development of life. 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. 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. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." The Father and the Son were at work. God wants people to be saved . Subtitle: Theology Speaker: Dr. Toby B. Holt Broadcaster: First Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 5/20/2021 Bible: John 3; John 3:1 Length: 36 min. They are a fitting and honorable . Verse 3:36 comes after the Nicodemus story. But this is the command of God, That men should believe on his Son, 1Jo 3:23. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. 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. John 3:16 gives us the glorious hope of eternal life in heaven through the love of God and death of Jesus Christ. It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleHe 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 hath everlasting life; he has it in Christ his head, in whom he believes; he has a right unto it through the justifying righteousness of Christ, and a meetness for it by his grace; he has it in faith and hope; he has the beginning of it in the knowledge of Christ, and communion with him; he has some foretastes of it in his present experience; and he has the earnest and pledge of it in his heart, even the blessed Spirit, who works him up for this selfsame thing: and he that believeth not the Son; that does not believe Christ to be the Son of God, or Jesus to be the Messiah; or rejects him as the Saviour; who lives and dies in a state of impenitence and unbelief: shall not see life; eternal life; he shall not enter into it, and enjoy it; he shall die the second death. The Lord Jesus Didn't Bestow the Way of Eternal Life Upon Man. (Ver. For if the Son (cast out, we may say, in principle from Judaism) visited Samaria, and deigned to talk with one of the most worthless of that worthless race, it could not be a mere rehearsal of what others did. (VersesJohn 6:1-21; John 6:1-21). abideth on himIt was on Him before, and not being removed in the only possible way, by "believing on the Son," it necessarily remaineth on him! Very remarkable are the following words of the Jews (b) concerning the Messiah, whom they call the latter Redeemer: "whosoever believes in him "shall" live; but he that believes not in him shall go to the nations of the world, and they shall kill him.'' Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. (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. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. (not ) also appears in the phrase the wrath to come (Matthew 3:7; Luke 3:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:16, etc.). Whoever lives a life of faith in the Son will experience the fullness . It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. (John 3:36 KJV). It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. He was God. Jesus in John 8:51 says "whoever . Abideth on him. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. And he saith, I am not. hath everlasting life; he has it in Christ his head, in whom he believes; he has a right unto it through the justifying righteousness of Christ, and a meetness for it by his grace; he has it in faith and hope; he has the beginning of it in the knowledge of Christ, and communion with him; he has some foretastes of it in his present experience; and he has the earnest and pledge of it in his heart, even the blessed Spirit, who works him up for this selfsame thing: and he that believeth not the Son; that does not believe Christ to be the Son of God, or Jesus to be the Messiah; or rejects him as the Saviour; who lives and dies in a state of impenitence and unbelief: shall not see life; eternal life; he shall not enter into it, and enjoy it; he shall die the second death. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. 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." (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? The question really is, whether man would trust God. (Ver. 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. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? 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 . (Comp. As the believer hath life, so the unbeliever hath wrath abiding on him. hath everlasting lifealready has it. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. Why should He not show Himself to the world? Fortunately, the issue does not have to be decided. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. The resurrection of the Lord is not more truly a demonstration of His power and glory, than the only deliverance for disciples from the thraldom of Jewish influence. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. Today, the phrase "born again" can have any one of a host of meanings. What can be conceived more notably standing out in contrast with the governmental system God had set up, and man had known in times past? John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. He is under the eternal sentence of death. Nor would the rejected Christ, the Son of man; for if lifted up on the cross, instead of having the throne of David, the result would be not merely earthly blessing for His people according to prophecy, but eternal life for the believer, whoever. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! It implies, also, that it will continue to remain on him. It is here life begunthe first breathings and pantings of the soul for immortality; yet it is life, though at first feeble and faint, which is eternal in its nature, and which shall be matured in the full and perfect bliss of heaven. Here the unlimited scene is in view; not Israel, but the world. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. John was to bear witness that Jesus Christ came from heaven as the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. While that new life is a free gift, one that we can do nothing to earn, it does come with expectations. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. 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. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. 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. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Hath everlasting life He has already the seed of this life in his soul, having been made a partaker of the grace and spirit of him in whom he has believed. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. . denotes a deeper and more permanent sentiment; a settled habit of mind; while is a more turbulent, but temporary agitation. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. The original Greek word, apeithn, means "rejecting belief," "refusing obedience," or "refusing to be convinced.". 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. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. Since God is the one who grants that we believe (Phil. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. No man hath seen God at any time. Glory would be displayed in its day. So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? The Meaning of John 3:16 KJV & NIV This is the essence of Christianity and the most quoted scriptures in the bible. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. This chapter contains the most recognizable verse in the entire Bible, John 3:16. Disbelief is regarded in its active manifestation, disobedience. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. Note on John 6:56.). Art thou Elias? It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. 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. Nay, "the world knew him not." 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. But let them beware how they perverted it. 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. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 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. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. If He judges, it is not without full warning. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. (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. Does anyone else find it odd that John Fetterman is hospitalized with Clinical Depression and is Co-Sponsoring Bills in the Senate? (ver. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them. It is a present possession. 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 there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. Shall never enter heaven. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." 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. 03 Mar 2023 15:00:59 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? The commandment doth not only respect love, but faith in the first place; for faith worketh by love; so as there is an apeiyeia, a disobedience in the understanding, as well as in the conversation; and he that so believeth not, as to obey, shall never come into heaven, which felicity is here expressed by seeing life; as not seeing death is not dying, so not seeing life is dying. And so, in fact, it was and is. But none need hate, and none need live in wilful sin. Nor could any question be more momentous. And that means most of the people in the world are going straight to hell. 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. This is confirmed further by John the Baptist's statement in John 3:36, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not (apeitheo) the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." The word "apeitheo" is understood by all good translators and commentators to mean obedience. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. Breaking Down the Key Parts of John 3:30. #1 "He must become greater;". Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. The law works no deliverance; it puts a man in chains, prison, darkness, and under condemnation; it renders him a patient, or a criminal incompetent to avail himself of the displays of God's goodness. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." Do they receive Him not? 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). Flesh and world are judged morally. Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. (ver. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. Bridgeway Bible Commentary. The Bible is an anthology - a compilation of texts of a variety of forms - originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. Quite the contrary! 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. He that believethhow vast the love and bright the hope of the all-including wordshath eternal life! Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. The fact is, John 3:18 does not say all non-Christians go to hell. Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. Cf. Such is the miserable condition of the sinner! The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. for he knew He was the Christ. It will abide or dwell there as its appropriate habitation. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. It will abide or dwell there as its appropriate habitation. You don't know if they know, or know and don't care, or if they are just U2 and know, don't care and deep down don't . Compare wrath of the Lamb (Revelation 6:16). John's desire, and the reason he existed, was to see Christ exalted and glorified. In love, God sent his Son to die for all in order to forgive and accept all, in Christ. 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.
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