Most music is crap. In love, God sent his Son to die for all in order to forgive and accept all, in Christ. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. (Verses John 5:13-16), A graver issue, however, was to be tried; for Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. It was not so. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. 31-36). (ver. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. It is the necessary aspect of love and holiness toward those who reject love, and wilfully sin. Rather, he refers to the fame and influence of Christ. It can have meaning in the secular world, such as a "born again" politician who changes political parties, or in the religious world, where "born again Christian" is sometimes used to differentiate one from a "regular" Christian. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. he would not. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. (Ver. He could, therefore, tell them of heavenly things as readily as of earthly things; but the incredulity about the latter, shown in the wondering ignorance of the new birth as a requisite for God's kingdom, proved it was useless to tell of the former. 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. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." He is under the eternal sentence of death. Such shall live. He holds a seat on the Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. Did they charge Jesus with self-exaltation? To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. All translations of John 3:36 imply that this rejection of Christ is a deliberate action. Burge favors the third view. No man hath seen God at any time. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 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! His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. Here the Lord introduces the cross. 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. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. (Comp. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. They are a fitting and honorable . 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. He bore witness that: "The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." John was to bear witness that Jesus Christ came from heaven as the . The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. The first thing to look at is the verse itself. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. Of course they are just as truly inspired as John's; but for that very reason they were not inspired to give the same testimony. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. 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. 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. * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." What Does It Mean That There Is No One Holy Like God? Man, dead in sins, was the object of His grace; but then man's state was such, that it would have been derogatory to God had that life been communicated without the cross of Christ: the Son of man lifted up on it was the One in whom God dealt judicially with the evil estate of man, for the, full consequences of which He made Himself responsible. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? A person does not have to do anything to become lost. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. How striking the omission! Art thou Elias? What can be more evident, or more instructive? Piety here is the same that it will be there, except that it will be expanded, matured, purified, made more glorious. They had eyes, but they saw not; ears had they, but they heard not, nor did they understand His glory. Since God is the one who grants that we believe (Phil. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. 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. John the Baptist tells his disciples that Jesus has come from Heaven and will teach of the things of Heaven, because He has firsthand knowledge of Heaven and of God. Deeper questions demanded solution. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. , , . The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. John 3:16 teaches us that anyone who believes in Jesus Christ, God's Son, will be saved. The evangelist has used this encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus to bring forth some important points. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. He tells Philip to follow Him. God wants people to be saved (2 Peter 3:9 . 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. 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." His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next.Abideth on him - This implies that he is "now" under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. Shall not see life. Both and are used in the New Testament for wrath or anger, and without any commonly observed distinction. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! 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. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. 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! Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. He regularly attends Shreveport City Council and Caddo Parish Commission meetings. John's desire, and the reason he existed, was to see Christ exalted and glorified. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." 2) John 3:16 In The Bible. ): Christ was the true sanctuary, not that on which man had laboured so long in Jerusalem. Her life is laid before her by His voice, and she confesses to Him that God Himself spoke to her in His words: "Sir [said she], I perceive that thou art a prophet." Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. There is no more powerful way to deliver this message than to let John 3:16 speak for itself. I pray that I might live for Him. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. Hath everlasting life. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. Commentary on John 3:22-36. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. The Lord Jesus said: " He that believes on the Son has everlasting life." " [T]he water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." 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. 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). 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. 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. Art thou that prophet? This scripture tells us about the endless affection God demonstrated by sacrificing His only begotten son . "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." Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Greek Scripture. 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. Shall neither enjoy true life or happiness here nor in the world to come. Fortunately, the issue does not have to be decided. This phrase does not mean works performed byGod; rather, the intent is "works required and approved by God" (Thayer, p. 248). Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. This would make all manifest. All translations of John 3:36 imply that this rejection of Christ is a deliberate action. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. obedience to the faith, Romans 1:5.). "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God . But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. 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. 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. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." John 7:25-31) He is going where they cannot come, and never guessed (for unbelief thinks of the dispersed among the Greeks of anything rather than of God). "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. The wrath of God abideth on him.Once only in the four Gospels does this term, so full of tremendous meaning, meet us, and that in the Gospel of fullest love, and in a context which speaks of the Fathers love to the Son, and of eternal life, which is the portion of all who believe on the Son. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. John 3:17-21 (A) Condemn the World. 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. 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. The anger of God for sin. It was no longer a moot-point whether God could trust man; for, indeed, He could not. The truth is, the design of manifesting His glory governs all; place or people was a matter of no consequence. Hell will "abide" on the person who does not believe in the Son. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. This implies that he is now under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. (Read John 3:22-36) John was fully satisfied with the place and work assigned him; but Jesus came on a more important work. Compare wrath of the Lamb (Revelation 6:16). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary3:22-36 John was fully satisfied with the place and work assigned him; but Jesus came on a more important work. "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. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Hence it is that here the Son, according to the grace of God the Father, gives the Holy Ghost eternal life in the power of the Spirit. #1 "He must become greater;". (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. 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. 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. (John 3:36 WEB), 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. New believers also get familiar with this special truth in their relationship with God. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. 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. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them" What Does John 3:36 Mean? 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. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. 42). (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. (Verse John 1:9) The world therefore surely ought to have known its Maker. Eternal lifeis onlyreceivedby faith in His cruel death and His glorious Resurrection. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. hath everlasting lifealready has it. Indeed, Jesus is God the Son, son of God the Father. How was this? John the Baptist was the earthly witness that God used to present His dearly beloved Son to the world. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? Very remarkable are the following words of the Jews F2 concerning the Messiah, whom they call the latter Redeemer: Proud member He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. This is grace and truth. Salem Media Group. (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? And they do. Alas! Whoever lives a life of faith in the Son will experience the fullness . 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. Gospel of John of the New Testament, Chapter 3, Verse 16 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. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. (John 2:1-25) The change of water into wine manifested His glory as the beginning of signs; and He gave another in this early purging of the temple of Jerusalem. The Lord and the disciples are next seen in the country district, not far, it would seem, from John, who was baptizing as they were. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. 22. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? So, when someone testifies to . And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. Why is John 3:16 the most famous verse in the Bible? 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. Breaking Down the Key Parts of John 3:30. (Ver. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. 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. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. Safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity assessments included adverse events, laboratory evaluations, and positivity for anti-John Cunningham virus antibodies and antinatalizumab antibodies.Results A total of 264 participants (mean [SD] age, 36.7 [9.38] years; 162 [61.4%] female) received treatment with biosim-NTZ (n = 131) or ref-NTZ (n = 133). How withering the words! Our text divides into four sections: (1) Jesus baptizes, too (vss. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. He was God. By the grace of God, John had come to know and appreciate the true identity of Jesus Christ. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." 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. But what we learn is, that our Lord (viewed as having entered into heaven as man on the ground of redemption, i.e., ascended, after having passed through death, into glory) from that glory confers meanwhile the Holy Ghost on him that believes, instead of bringing in at once the final feast of gladness for the Jews and the world, as He will do by-and-by when the anti-typical harvest and vintage has been fulfilled. (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. John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. Nor could any question be more momentous. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." 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. For He who spoke was divine. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. (John 3:36 KJV), He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. 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. of Even now faith knows, that instead of sin being the great object before God, ever since the cross He has had before His eyes that sacrifice which put away sin. Abideth on him - This implies that he is "now" under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. It was not that they were better than their neighbours. A. John 3:16 King James Version. As Burge (pp. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. 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. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. Observe: not which was, but "which is." He that believeth not Or, obeyeth not - : from , negative, and , to persuade, or , to obey-the want of the obedience of faith. It abideth, ever has and ever must; for the wrath of love must abide on hatred, the wrath of holiness must abide on sin. "There are three who give testimony in heaven; the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one." Published by at February 16, 2022. John 3:1-36 follows this up. (John 3: 36) "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" The sentence has both expressed and implied meaning. The wrath of God. One must be born again. (Verses John 1:44-51). The Father and the Son were at work. Do they receive Him not? He speaks the words of God Himself. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. (c) Shall not enjoy. John 3:16 gives us the glorious hope of eternal life in heaven through the love of God and death of Jesus Christ. 0. what does john 3:36 mean. Remark, too, the extent of the work involved in verse 29.
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