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One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. What does the 3 in 36 mean? First, Jesus is visited at night by a Pharisee, Nicodemus, who is curious about His teachings. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. The Father seeks worshippers. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. The Bible says, " He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God stays on him " (John 3:36). He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. (Verses John 4:31-38). What love! (Comp. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. (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. (Ver. It implies, also, that it will continue to remain on him. Then (ver. Verse 3:36 comes after the Nicodemus story. This implies that he is now under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." 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. Jesus (c. 4 BC - AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Roman born Jewish preacher and religious leader; he is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion.Most Christians believe he is the incarnation of God the Son and the awaited Messiah (the Christ) prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. "The law was given by Moses." Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. The Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "shall abide upon him"; so some copies. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Greek Scripture. The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him. Indeed, Jesus is God the Son, son of God the Father. John 1:19-34; 3:22-36 In our study of the story of Melchizedek, we have deliberately skipped over the fact that some theologians believe this ancient king was the pre-incarnate Jesus. Piety here is the same that it will be there, except that it will be expanded, matured, purified, made more glorious. The Christian here has a foretaste of the world of glory, and enjoys the same kind of felicity, though not the same degree, that he will there.Shall not see life - Shall neither enjoy true life or happiness here nor in the world to come. This scripture tells us about the endless affection God demonstrated by sacrificing His only begotten son . not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. 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). 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. By the grace of God, John had come to know and appreciate the true identity of Jesus Christ. Wouldn't being hospitalized for Depression mean you shouldn't be doing legislative work? Of this we learn nothing, here. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. Second, the Lordship Salvation view misinterprets the significance of the present participles for "believe" and "obey" in John 3:36. "He must, increase, but I decrease." (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? This implies that he is now under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. 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. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. But none need hate, and none need live in wilful sin. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. How withering the words! Man might pull Him down destroy Him, as far as man could, and surely to be the basis in God's hand of better blessing; but He was God, and in three days He would raise up this temple. (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. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. John's desire, and the reason he existed, was to see Christ exalted and glorified. 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. God wants people to be saved (2 Peter 3:9 . And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." But the wrath of God abideth on him; as the sentence of wrath, of condemnation, and death, and the curse of the law were pronounced upon him in Adam, as on all mankind, it continues, and will continue, and will never be reversed, but will be executed on him, he not being redeemed from it, as his final unbelief shows; and as he was by nature a child of wrath, as others, he remains such; and as the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men, it comes upon the children of disobedience, and remains there; it hangs over their heads, and lights upon them, and they will be filled with a dreadful sense of it to all eternity. As there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. Compare the future tense with the present "hath eternal life," and the simple life with the fully developed idea eternal life. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. So bright was His glory, so concerned was the Father in maintaining it, so immense the blessing if received, so tremendous the stake involved in its loss, that God vouchsafed the amplest and clearest witnesses. Once we step into the light God gives us a new life. John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? He hath it. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. 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. 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. In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. John 3:31-36 meaning. Answer: John 3:16 does not say that unbelievers have the ability of their own sinful free will, to receive Christ. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them. (Verses John 5:17-18). But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. 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. Hell will "abide" on the person who does not believe in the Son. infinite truth! (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? John 3:36. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. It was meet that so it should be; for, as a question of right, none could claim; and grace surpasses all expectation or thought of man, most of all of men accustomed to a round of religious ceremonial. But let them beware how they perverted it. 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. (See on [1777]Joh 3:18 and [1778]Joh 5:24).shall not see lifeThe contrast here is striking: The one has already a life that will endure for everthe other not only has it not now, but shall never have itnever see it.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! A. John 3:16 King James Version. 'Already' indicates that when you arrived on this planet, you were already an unbeliever, your sentence was then passed by God the Judge. New believers also get familiar with this special truth in their relationship with God. obedience to the faith, Romans 1:5.). 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. Jesus Christ really is the One who "came from above . It is a golden verse that is often first introduced to young children when growing up. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. 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." 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. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. Shall not see life is contrasted with the present possession of the believer. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. But "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." He is lost at the point of his birth. Rather, it is the settled displeasure of God against sin. The divinity of the Son is in this chapter proved as clearly as in 1 John v. 7. 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. 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. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. shall not see lifeThe contrast here is striking: The one has already a life that will endure for everthe other not only has it not now, but shall never have itnever see it. 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. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. And that means most of the people in the world are going straight to hell. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. Abideth on him - This implies that he is "now" under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. (Ver. ", John the Baptist was the earthly witness that God usedto present His dearly beloved Son to the world. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." Verse of the Day , God, My Praise (Study In God - All I Need-19). Has or is in possession of that which is a recovery from spiritual death, and which will result in eternal life in heaven. If you've never seen it before, or if you haven't realized what the specific location of it is, this is the verse under that we talk about when we mention John 3:16. John 3:16 Meaning. There is no changing or bettering the old man; and, thanks be to God, the new does not degenerate or pass away. 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. Unless a man or woman is born of the Spirit, born from above, they cannot be saved, because they are attempting to reach God the wrong way. 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. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. (Ver. It was sabbath-day. 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. So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. He holds a seat on the None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. 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. Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. Understand the meaning of John 3:36 using all available Bible versions and commentary. So only is man born of God. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? Published by at February 16, 2022. 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. "He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. (Verses John 1:44-51). 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. The Bible is an anthology - a compilation of texts of a variety of forms - originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. 22. With regard to John 3:31-36, the question arises as to who was the speaker. 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. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. 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. Nor could any question be more momentous. Of course, not all know that this has happened for them (and all humanity) and some who know, have rejected that truth. "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 tells Philip to follow Him. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. No charge could be remoter from the truth. It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. Believing in the existence of Jesus does not result in eternal life, for the historical evidence of His existence (in both sacred and secular writings) is irrefutable. The wrath of God: "The word does not mean a sudden gust of passion or a burst of temper. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. 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. The Lord Jesus Didn't Bestow the Way of Eternal Life Upon Man. Abideth on him. John 4:1-54 presents the Lord Jesus outside Jerusalem outside the people of promise among Samaritans, with whom Jews had no intercourse. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." 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. 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. 27-30); and (4) the superiority of the Savior (vss. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. There was purpose in it. For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. He is under the eternal sentence of death. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. The season finale saw two major developments on the "who are the parents of John II" mystery. The person who rejects the Son will spend eternity in hell. 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). His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. And they haven't even carefully read what John 3:18 itself says. Abideth on him. 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. This chapter contains the most recognizable verse in the entire Bible, John 3:16. 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. 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. (Ver. At least, so say many Christians. As this chapter sets forth the Lord Jesus with singular fulness of glory, on the side both of His Godhead and of His manhood, so it closes with the most varied and remarkable testimonies God has given to us, that there may be no excuse. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. But John was not merely an earthly witness pointing us to Christ. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. Better, he that obeyeth not the Son. "There are three who give testimony in heaven; the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one." . What sayest thou of thyself? "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake: He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." But the wrath of God abideth on him; as the sentence of wrath, of condemnation, and death, and the curse of the law were pronounced upon him in Adam, as on all mankind, it continues, and will continue, and will never be reversed, but will be executed on him, he not being redeemed from it, as his final unbelief shows; and as he was by nature a child of wrath, as others, he remains such; and as the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men, it comes upon the children of disobedience, and remains there; it hangs over their heads, and lights upon them, and they will be filled with a dreadful sense of it to all eternity. He that believeth he that obeyeth not Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! The wrath of God. Obedience, however, includes faith. * 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." Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. They should have understood more about Him those that were specially favoured. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" 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." 0. what does john 3:36 mean. Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. The result immediately follows. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. It will abide or dwell there as its appropriate habitation. See on Acts 5:29. As Burge (pp. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. 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. John 3:16 teaches us that anyone who believes in Jesus Christ, God's Son, will be saved. JOHN DEERE #M47886 LOT OF 2 WALK BEHIND MOWER WHEEL CAPS J215. The Christian here has a foretaste of the world of glory, and enjoys the same kind of felicity, though not the same degree, that he will there. 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. A person does not have to do anything to become lost. 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. Disbelief is regarded in its active manifestation, disobedience. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. But he that receiveth not the gospel published by him who is the Son of God, and doth not embrace him as his Saviour, and yield obedience to him, shall not be saved. Yet, this obe- dience salvation formula is identically repeated in John 3:16. John was the one who recognised the glory of the Lord about whom he was testifying, and cried out, "Hemust increase and I must decrease." This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. 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. John knew that Jesus came from heaven as the Son of God, while he was a sinful, mortal man, who could only speak about the more plain subjects of religion. Shall never enter heaven. 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. . Flesh and world are judged morally. John is clear about why he wrote his Gospel (20:31): "so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing, you may have life in His name.". (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous?