Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. Of this we learn nothing, here. John 4:1-6; John 4:1-6) What a picture of rejection and humiliation! The temptation is to hide your light. Thus, manifestly, the whole question is terminated at the very starting-point of our gospel; and this is characteristic of John all through: manifestly all is decided. The Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "shall abide upon him"; so some copies. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. (Ver. 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. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. 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. 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. John 1:35-40) Our Lord acts as One fully conscious of His glory, as indeed He ever was. Christ did not wait till the time was fully come for the old things to pass away, and all to be made new. The Bible is an anthology - a compilation of texts of a variety of forms - originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. 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.". For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. Compare the future tense with the present "hath eternal life," and the simple life with the fully developed idea eternal life. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. 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). One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. But even this sufficed not: the Son of man must be lifted up. Piety here is the same that it will be there, except that it will be expanded, matured, purified, made more glorious. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. These are the final words of John the Baptist 170 in the Gospel of John. The Father and the Son were at work. It finds, of course, a present application, and links itself with that activity of grace in which God is now sending out the gospel to any sinner and every sinner. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. 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. Here the Lord was really owned by the multitudes as the great Prophet that should come; and this in consequence of His works, especially that one which Scripture itself had connected with the Son of David. Published by at February 16, 2022. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. 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. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. This would make all manifest. Salem Media Group. How striking the omission! John 3:36 Translation & Meaning. 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. (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 DEERE #M47886 LOT OF 2 WALK BEHIND MOWER WHEEL CAPS J215. He could have healed the man without the smallest outward act to shock their zeal for the law. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." Here we see Him accepting, not as fellow-servant, but as Lord, those souls who had been under the training of the predicted messenger of Jehovah that was to prepare His way before, His face. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. He enjoys addressing civic groups on local government issues and elections. (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. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. What sayest thou of thyself? 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. 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. ): More correctly, as Rev., obeyeth not. (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. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. 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. 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 . The result immediately follows. We have seen already that thus light was shed on men. 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. And they do. It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. And herein is that true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth. This is confirmed further by John the Baptist's statement in John 3:36, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not (apeitheo) the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." The word "apeitheo" is understood by all good translators and commentators to mean obedience. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. 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. One must be born again. The word here translated believeth not, is apeiywn, which often signifieth, one that is not obedient. The Lord Jesus said: " He that believes on the Son has everlasting life." " [T]he water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 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. He that believethhow vast the love and bright the hope of the all-including wordshath eternal life! He that believeth not the Son.Better, he that obeyeth not the Son. 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." Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." Cf. The Lord Jesus Didn't Bestow the Way of Eternal Life Upon Man. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? (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. The first thing to look at is the verse itself. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. This language is said of both, but most strongly of the latter. Man is morally judged. 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. 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. 42). Anyone who doesn't obey the Son will never experience eternal life but remains under God's angry judgment.'. The present tense. 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. Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. 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. Abideth on him - This implies that he is "now" under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. This scripture tells us about the endless affection God demonstrated by sacrificing His only begotten son . In love, God sent his Son to die for all in order to forgive and accept all, in Christ. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." Still the eternal day alone will show out the full virtue of that which belongs to Jesus as the Lamb of God, who takes away the world's sin. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. He was God. The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. (Verses John 4:31-38). . And that means most of the people in the world are going straight to hell. John 3:8; John 3:8.. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Greek Scripture. Answer: John 3:16 does not say that unbelievers have the ability of their own sinful free will, to receive Christ. 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. To this last the Lord attaches the deepest importance. "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." 1John 2:25 And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. 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. 2:25), and works belief in us (John 6:28-29), then we realize that the "whosoever" are those that God has granted the act of believing. He was God. 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. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleHe 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 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. And in this He is sovereign. It was not so. 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.'' They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. 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. The evangelist has used this encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus to bring forth some important points. 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. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). 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. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. The one who comes from heaven is above all. What does the 3 in 36 mean? And anyone who believes in God's Son has eternal life. 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. As the Lamb of God (of the Father it is not said), He has to do with the world. 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. 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. But see the blessed fruit of receiving it. 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. (Verses John 1:44-51). The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. 25-26); (3) John's joy (vss. This verse is the only place where God's wrath is mentioned in the gospel of John. Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. We have now the Word made flesh, called Jesus Christ this person, this complex person, that was manifest in the world; and it is He that brought it all in. He is lost at the point of his birth. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! 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. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 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. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. (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! For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. Beholding Him as He walked, he says, Behold the Lamb of God! Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. Indeed, He was the great Prophet, as He was the great King, and as He is now the great Priest on high. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. (Ver. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. 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." This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. (ver. Of course, not all know that this has happened for them (and all humanity) and some who know, have rejected that truth. The fact is, John 3:18 does not say all non-Christians go to hell. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. 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. This implies that he is now under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. 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. 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. 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. All translations of John 3:36 imply that this rejection of Christ is a deliberate action.
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