It becomes a question of man's own condition, and how he stands in relation to the kingdom of God. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next. 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." 1 John 3:15 Commentary | Precept Austin " Undeniably, these words of the Lord are truths. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. His opposition to sin, and its terrible effects in this world and the next. Therefore, it seems to me, He adds verse 24. His was an errand incomparably deeper, more worthy of God, and suitable to One "full of grace and truth." 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. It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. Nor could any question be more momentous. Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. God wants people to be saved (2 Peter 3:9 . (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. 1. Once we step into the light God gives us a new life. (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. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. What does the 3 in 36 mean? Here, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." 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. Compare the future tense with the present "hath eternal life," and the simple life with the fully developed idea eternal life. 1John 2:25 And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. And as he was by nature a child of wrath, Ephesians 2:3, subject and exposed to the wrath of God, so that wrath abideth on him: being justified by faith, he hath peace with God, Romans 5:1. It must be so. 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. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. 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. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. This chapter contains the most recognizable verse in the entire Bible, John 3:16. 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. For the astonishing thought is, not merely that Jesus receives the Holy Ghost without measure, but that God gives the Spirit also, and not by measure, through Him to others. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. Very remarkable are the following words of the Jews (b) concerning the Messiah, whom they call the latter Redeemer: "whosoever believes in him "shall" live; but he that believes not in him shall go to the nations of the world, and they shall kill him.''. (Verses John 4:31-38). "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." 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. He acts as such. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. 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. 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. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. 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). 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. Verse of the Day , God, My Praise (Study In God - All I Need-19). 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 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. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. Lesson 20: Once More: Why Believe in Jesus? (John 3:31-36) It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. At once their malice drops the beneficent power of God in the case, provoked at the fancied wrong done to the seventh day. In our text, John hits it once more (and it won't be the last time! 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. (Verses John 5:1-7), On the other hand, the Lord speaks but the word: "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. Truth and grace were not sought nor found in man, but began to subsist here below by Jesus Christ. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. Besides John 3:36 helping, one can more easily accept pisteou means obeys in John 3:16 when one looks at Apostle John's many quotes of Jesus about obedience. The divinity of the Son is in this chapter proved as clearly as in 1 John v. 7. (Ver. obedience to the faith, Romans 1:5.). 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. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. John 3:31-36 - Ministry.journeyonline.org 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." And that means most of the people in the world are going straight to hell. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. Was this false and blasphemous in their eyes? And in this He is sovereign. ", 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. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Does anyone else find it odd that John Fetterman is hospitalized with Clinical Depression and is Co-Sponsoring Bills in the Senate? In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. (Ed. he would not. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. 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. This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. 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. Alas! 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. Such shall live. Of this we learn nothing, here. John was to bear witness that Jesus Christ came from heaven as the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. for he knew He was the Christ. 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! He shall have no perception of life simply considered, much less of eternal life, the full and complex development of life. (Comp. The wrath of God: "The word does not mean a sudden gust of passion or a burst of temper. He was God. 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). Glory would be displayed in its day. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. of It was not so. 42). God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. Jesus not only could go up, as He did later, but He had come down thence, and, even though man, He was the Son of man that is in heaven. 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 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. Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. 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. A person does not have to do anything to become lost. (SeePsalms 2:1-12; Psalms 2:1-12) But the Lord tells him of greater things he, should see, and says to him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth (not "hereafter," but henceforth) ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. The Bible is an anthology - a compilation of texts of a variety of forms - originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. denotes a deeper and more permanent sentiment; a settled habit of mind; while is a more turbulent, but temporary agitation. 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. The Spirit of God uses that word; it is thus invariably in conversion. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. 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. Bible Study Courses John 3:22-36 Exploring the Passage Nevertheless the Son had taken the place of being the sent One, the place of subordination in the earth, in which He would say, "My Father is greater than I." At least, so say many Christians. God has given Christ the power and authority to bestow everlasting life on all who trust in Him for their salvation and it is granted simply by believing on Him: "For He who believes in the Son has eternal life." Here (John 5:1-47) the first view given of Christ is His person in contrast with the law. 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. It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? John 3:30 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org Nor was it yet complete. (Ver. (Ver. 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. (Ver. But let them beware how they perverted it. (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. John 3:36 - I Believe - YouTube 1923: What Does the Season 1 Finale Mean for Yellowstone Family Tree Thus we all not only receive of His fulness, (and what fulness illimitable was there not in Him!) 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. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. 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 disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. (Read John 3:22-36) John was fully satisfied with the place and work assigned him; but Jesus came on a more important work. 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. The verb means to persuade, to cause belief, to induce one to do something by persuading, and so runs into the meaning of to obey, properly as the result of persuasion. (ver. 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. 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. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. (Ver. 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. Saltdogg Walk Behind Spreader Parts93 3009135 Buy Now Handle WB400 Here, then, we have a remarkable display of that which preceded His Galilean ministry, or public manifestation. The Father and the Son were at work. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. 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. (Verses John 7:40-53). What does this verse really mean? But this is not the question of grace: not what she was, but what He is who was there to win and bless her, manifesting God and the Father withal, practically and in detail. (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. John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 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. He hath it. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." Why should He not show Himself to the world? Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. 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. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. The Word, God (and only begotten Son in the Father's bosom), He was eternally Son of God, too, as born into the world. He borewitness that:"The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. 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. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. The Meaning of John 3:16 KJV & NIV This is the essence of Christianity and the most quoted scriptures in the bible. 81-82) indicates, there are three possibilities: (1) Jesus, (2) John the Baptist, (3) John the Evangelist. 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. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. 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. 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 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." What Does John 3:36 Mean? - rainbowtoken.com 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. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. 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. All disciplinary action, every probationary process, disappears. And Jesus answers, "I that speak unto thee am he." 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. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. But the chilling words that follow warn usthat whoever chooses to reject the clear teaching of the gospel of grace, will experience shocking and eternal consequences: "For he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.". You don't know if they know, or know and don't care, or if they are just U2 and know, don't care and deep down don't . And He did accept that place thoroughly, and in all its consequences. 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 . As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. Verse John 3:36. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. John 3 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (concise) - Christianity Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. John 3:17-21 (A) Condemn the World. Obey certainly was the meaning of pisteuo in John 3:36 (see page 448). Here again, apart from this divine insight, the change or gift of the name marks His glory. (VersesJohn 7:33-36; John 7:33-36) Jesus was returning to Him that sent Him, and the Holy Ghost would be given. Yet, this obe- dience salvation formula is identically repeated in John 3:16. (Verses John 5:17-18). (Ver. Flesh and world are judged morally. 22-24); (2) John's disciples are jealous (vss. While both . 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. 27-30); and (4) the superiority of the Savior (vss. In vain did any come to the Baptist to report the widening circle around Christ. What can be more evident, or more instructive? Nay, therefore it was they, reasoning, denied Him to be God. And John told us thatwe receive this gift by grace through faith so that all who believe in Jesus would not perish but have everlasting life. Nicodemus remonstrates but is spurned; all retire to their home Jesus, who had none, to the mount of Olives. What does the 3 mean in math | Math Index Indeed, Jesus is God the Son, son of God the Father. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. Since God is the one who grants that we believe (Phil. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Both words are used in the phrase wrath of God, which commonly denotes a distinct manifestation of God's judgment (Romans 1:18; Romans 3:5; Romans 9:22; Romans 12:19). Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. 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. 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. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. Jesus in John 8:51 says "whoever . "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came ( ) by Jesus Christ." Deeper questions demanded solution. This last is the figure of a truth deeper than incarnation, and clearly means communion with His death. Quite the contrary! Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming.