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 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. The Father and the Son were at work. 31-36). In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. * 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." "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." Shall never enter heaven. 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. 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. His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. . While almost all entity But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. (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. (Ed. (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. 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. He acts as such. Understand the meaning of John 3:36 using all available Bible versions and commentary. The one who comes from heaven is above all. He is lost at the point of his birth. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. of 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 the Baptist was the earthly witness that God used to present His dearly beloved Son to the world. The wrath of God. John was to bear witness that Jesus Christ came from heaven as the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. 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. Home COMMENTARY What is the meaning of John 3:36? Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 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. Of course, not all know that this has happened for them (and all humanity) and some who know, have rejected that truth. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. FOR HOME USE ONLY (for church or group use see links below)Buy this Video here:https://www.seedsfamilyworship.com/product/i-believe-john-336/Buy I Believe DV. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. Such is the miserable condition of the sinner! 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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). The Bible is an anthology - a compilation of texts of a variety of forms - originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. John 3:36 Translation & Meaning. (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. If He judges, it is not without full warning. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. So does his confession: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God: thou art the King of Israel. The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 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. 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. Very remarkable are the following words of the Jews F2 concerning the Messiah, whom they call the latter Redeemer: Proud member Of this we learn nothing, here. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." (Verses John 1:44-51). (John 3:31) Referring to Jesus, John declares, "The one who comes from above is above allThe one who comes from heaven is above all" (verse 31). (Read John 3:22-36) John was fully satisfied with the place and work assigned him; but Jesus came on a more important work. There is for him a present possession, which shall also remain. 22-24); (2) John's disciples are jealous (vss. With regard to John 3:31-36, the question arises as to who was the speaker. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. 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. The anger of God for sin. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. 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." 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. "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." This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. In the five porches, then, of this pool lay a great multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 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. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. So it's only really news when a great musician or band puts out a turgid stinker. 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." (Ver. 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. 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. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. (John 3:34-36) The price for rejecting the true testimony regarding Jesus. Nicodemus was told: "Unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God." Unless one has a new birth, a spiritual birth, one cannot see God's kingdom. Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. (Verses John 4:31-38). He could be declared only by One who was a divine person in the intimacy of the Godhead, yea, was the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. God wants people to be saved (2 Peter 3:9 . John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. Lastly, closing this part, we have another most remarkable contrast. While that new life is a free gift, one that we can do nothing to earn, it does come with expectations. 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. 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. If it was addressed first to Jewish-Christians (or, just as easily, to Christian-Jews - that is the earl. This we have had fully before. Shall not see life - Shall neither enjoy true life or happiness here nor in the world to come. 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. Note on John 6:56.). God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. Accordingly, if the law raised the question of righteousness in man, the cross of the Lord Jesus, typifying Him made sin, is the answer; and there has all been settled to the glory of God, the Lord Jesus having suffered all the inevitable consequences. 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. (Verse John 3:10). I titled an earlier message from John 1:15-18, "Why You Should Believe in Jesus.". Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) . Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. 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. Bridgeway Bible Commentary. Art thou Elias? 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. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." It is the divine allergy to moral evil, the reaction of righteousness to unrighteousness." (Tenney) . 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. Cf. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." Natural birth had nothing to do with this new thing; it was a new nature altogether in those who received Him: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." Shine The Light. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. What Does It Really Mean That Your Body Is a Temple? (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). (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. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." 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). This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. 22. He was God. Obey certainly was the meaning of pisteuo in John 3:36 (see page 448). The temptation is to hide your light. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. 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. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." The evangelist has used this encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus to bring forth some important points. "He must, increase, but I decrease." Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. 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. 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. It's our responsibility to live John 3:16 to those around us, to shine God's light everywhere we go. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. Clarke's Commentary. 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. 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. Piety here is the same that it will be there, except that it will be expanded, matured, purified, made more glorious. 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. 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. 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). It was not intended for other beings it was God's free gift to man, to the believer, of course. 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. This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." This scripture tells us about the endless affection God demonstrated by sacrificing His only begotten son . Hence, to such an one, eternal life is not merely something future. 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. 81-82) indicates, there are three possibilities: (1) Jesus, (2) John the Baptist, (3) John the Evangelist. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. 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. The wrath of God - The anger of God for sin. Gospel of John of the New Testament, Chapter 3, Verse 16 Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. All is fitly closed by the declaration, that "the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand." How little they conceived of what was then said and done! In John 6:1-71 our Lord sets aside Israel in another point of view. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. 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. The original Greek word, apeithn, means "rejecting belief," "refusing obedience," or "refusing to be convinced." This is the same idea explained in Scriptures such as John 3:18-19, Romans 1:20, and Romans 3:11. 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. The anger of God for sin. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. 03 Mar 2023 15:00:59 They are a fitting and honorable . And he saith, I am not. One of the peculiarities of our gospel is, that we see the Lord from time to time (and, indeed, chiefly) in or near Jerusalem. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. 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. 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.
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