Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. 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. 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. What more glorious proof than that the Holy Ghost is given not a certain defined power or gift, but the Holy Ghost Himself; for God gives not the Spirit by measure! How was this? But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." The anger of God for sin. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. To the Pharisees, indeed, his words as to the Lord are curt: nor does he tell them of the divine ground of His glory, as he had before and does after. 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. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. 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. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. Whoever lives a life of faith in the Son will experience the fullness . They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not, was reckoned among the readings less to be relied on; in which the, He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? 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. He had no need that any should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. (Ver. "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." (b) Midrash Ruth, fol. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. 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 . Clarke's Commentary. It implies, also, that it will continue to remain on him. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. Here is John 3:16 in 22 different English Bible . Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. JOHN DEERE #M47886 LOT OF 2 WALK BEHIND MOWER WHEEL CAPS J215. This, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. Shall not see life is contrasted with the present possession of the believer. 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. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. 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. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. Of course, not all know that this has happened for them (and all humanity) and some who know, have rejected that truth. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. 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. 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. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them. He shall have no perception of life simply considered, much less of eternal life, the full and complex development of life. 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. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. 1John 2:25 And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. This implies that he is now under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. The temptation is to hide your light. Verse 3:36 comes after the Nicodemus story. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. #1 "He must become greater;". (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. Nicodemus, not understanding in the least such a want for himself, expresses his wonder, and hears our Lord increasing in the strength of the requirement. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. 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. (Verses John 4:31-38). He that believeth not the Son.Better, he that obeyeth not the Son. * 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." Fritzsche, p. 21). None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. The Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "shall abide upon him"; so some copies. Afterwards, John the Baptist explains why he's content to see his own ministry fade into the background. 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. 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. He was God. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. They would fall a prey to Antichrist, and meanwhile are accused of Moses, in whom they trusted, without believing him; else they would have believed Christ, of whom he wrote. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! 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. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. It is not only the nature, but the model and fulness of the blessing in the Son, who declared the Father. He is lost at the point of his birth. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. What does this verse really mean? He speaks the words of God Himself. Jesus Christ really is the One who "came from above . "Master, eat," said they. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. John 3:36 New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95) 36 "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." it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. Thus it is not only the person of our Lord viewed as divine, and coming down into the world. It is a present possession. 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. John 3:16 gives us the glorious hope of eternal life in heaven through the love of God and death of Jesus Christ. The wrath of God. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. The wrath of God - The anger of God for sin. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. (c) Shall not enjoy. (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 incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. ): Shall neither enjoy true life or happiness here nor in the world to come. for he knew He was the Christ. His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. The character is wholly different from the position and glory of Messiah in Israel, according to promise and prophecy. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. 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. Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. Then (ver. Cf. 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. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. So only is man born of God. 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.". 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. 1. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." 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. (Ver. 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." (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. 2) John 3:16 In The Bible. It abideth, ever has and ever must; for the wrath of love must abide on hatred, the wrath of holiness must abide on sin. 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. 'Already' indicates that when you arrived on this planet, you were already an unbeliever, your sentence was then passed by God the Judge. As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. 22-24); (2) John's disciples are jealous (vss. What does the 3 in 36 mean? This is the marked effect on the third day (ver. God wants people to be saved . Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. John was to bear witness that Jesus Christ came from heaven as the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. Has or is in possession of that which is a recovery from spiritual death, and which will result in eternal life in heaven. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. There is difference of manner for the world and His own ignorance and rejection. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? 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. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Second, the Lordship Salvation view misinterprets the significance of the present participles for "believe" and "obey" in John 3:36. Man is morally judged. 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." 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. It's our responsibility to live John 3:16 to those around us, to shine God's light everywhere we go. (John 3:36 DBY), he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. 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. This implies that he is now under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. (John 3:36 YLT), One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son wont see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. 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. (Ver. Art thou that prophet? This would make all manifest. One must be born again. It is the necessary aspect of love and holiness toward those who reject love, and wilfully sin. Christ here, it will be noticed, is not so much the quickening agent as Son of God (John 5:1-47), but the object of faith as Son of man first incarnate, to be eaten; then dying and giving His flesh to be eaten, and His blood to be drank. (ver. 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. Compare the future tense with the present "hath eternal life," and the simple life with the fully developed idea eternal life. 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. It was not so. All rights reserved. Anyone who doesn't obey the Son will never experience eternal life but remains under God's angry judgment.'. Such is the miserable condition of the sinner! 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). It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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. Once we step into the light God gives us a new life. The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. 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." But there is also a fearful positive contrast. I titled an earlier message from John 1:15-18, "Why You Should Believe in Jesus.". Note on John 6:56.). Let them learn, then, that as Son of man (for which nature they despised Him, and denied His essential personal glory) He will judge; and this judgment will be no passing visitation, such as God has accomplished by angels or men in times past. Verse of the Day , God, My Praise (Study In God - All I Need-19). 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. In love, God sent his Son to die for all in order to forgive and accept all, in Christ. Shall never enter heaven. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! Apparently these Christians haven't bothered to read what comes before and after John 3:16-18. denotes a deeper and more permanent sentiment; a settled habit of mind; while is a more turbulent, but temporary agitation. I can't begin to explain how this app is Optimised Exceptionally Outstanding Because with this app I am able to get better grades in mathematics and others Because this . John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. (Ver. Shall not see life. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. 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. As Burge (pp. 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. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. 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." So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. 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. 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. He who inspired them to communicate His thoughts of Jesus in the particular line assigned to each, raised up John to impart the highest revelation, and thus complete the circle by the deepest views of the Son of God. John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. There was sentence of death pronounced on their system, and they felt accordingly. What Does It Mean That There Is No One Holy Like God? How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. And he saith, I am not. And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. God cannot require for justification (whether initial or "final") both a faith that works and a faith that does not work or is apart from works. 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. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. John 3:16 teaches us that anyone who believes in Jesus Christ, God's Son, will be saved. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. The third chapter of John contains two related stories. For He who spoke was divine. John 3:17-21 (A) Condemn the World. It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. (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. (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. Understand the meaning of John 3:36 using all available Bible versions and commentary. He is under the eternal sentence of death. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven.
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