The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. Jesus saw the man, and knowing that he was long thus, prompts the desire of healing, but brings out the despondency of unbelief. He holds a seat on the Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. 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. (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. Verse of the Day , God, My Praise (Study In God - All I Need-19). Obedience, however, includes faith. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. "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? 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. (ver. John 3:16 Meaning. How was this? Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. 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. How could either light or love rest in a scene of sin, darkness, and misery? (Ver. Clarke's Commentary. The present tense. 2.Geneva Study BibleHe that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not {c} see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. These are the final words of John the Baptist 170 in the Gospel of John. Categories . 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. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. Rather, he refers to the fame and influence of 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. 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." His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." He regularly attends Shreveport City Council and Caddo Parish Commission meetings. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. 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! Burge favors the third view. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. The judgment, all of it, whether for quick or dead, is consigned to Him, because He is Son of man. 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. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? Our text divides into four sections: (1) Jesus baptizes, too (vss. Shall not see life is contrasted with the present possession of the believer. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. This is grace and truth. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. For 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. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. 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. The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. It is a golden verse that is often first introduced to young children when growing up. The wrath of God. Art thou Elias? 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.". Though He could not, would not deny Himself (and He was the Son, and Word, and God), yet had He taken the place of a man, of a servant. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. New believers also get familiar with this special truth in their relationship with God. #1 "He must become greater;". Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. 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. 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. 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. Wouldn't being hospitalized for Depression mean you shouldn't be doing legislative work? Nay, the Father has given all judgment to the Son. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." How can such have relationship with God? So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? 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. Hence, then, we have the Lord Jesus alluding to this fresh necessity, if man was to be blessed according to God. It implies, also, that it will continue to remain on him. It is now eternal reality, and the name of Jesus Christ is that which puts all things to a final test. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. 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). Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. 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. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 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. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. 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. It implies, also, that it will continue to remain on him. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. He enjoys addressing civic groups on local government issues and elections. Romans 2:8; Ephesians 4:31; Colossians 3:8; Revelation 19:15) is not the fierceness of passion, nor is it the expression of fixed hatred. Granted He was the Son of man; but as such, He had all judgment given Him, and would judge. (Comp. And he answered, No. (Read John 3:22-36) John was fully satisfied with the place and work assigned him; but Jesus came on a more important work. Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. Better, he that obeyeth not the Son. This is the same idea explained in Scriptures such as John 3:18-19, Romans 1:20, and Romans 3:11. Indeed, Jesus is God the Son, son of God the Father. The season finale saw two major developments on the "who are the parents of John II" mystery. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded.