(Ver. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. (Ver. Many people think that believing in the Son means believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that Jesus' way is the way of everlasting life. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. The first thing to look at is the verse itself. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. John gives us this point of contact with them, though in an incident peculiar to himself. 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. 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. But John was not merely an earthly witness pointing us to Christ. 1. Grace begins, glory descends; "Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." 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. John 3:36 - George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary. John the Baptist tells his disciples that Jesus has come from Heaven and will teach of the things of Heaven, because He has firsthand knowledge of Heaven and of God. Teach the Doctrine: Younger Children Jonah 1:4-17; 3:3-5 The Lord blesses me when I obey Him. through "sin." Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. There is no more powerful way to deliver this message than to let John 3:16 speak for itself. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. 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. (Ver. Compare wrath of the Lamb (Revelation 6:16). 24 "Faithis a work of God in the sense it is that which God has ordered man to do"Guy N. Woods (1989), A Commentary on The Gospel of John (Nashville: Gospel Advocate Company), p. 125. The dreadful truth comes out: the Lord did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men. This chapter contains the most recognizable verse in the entire Bible, John 3:16. 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. Here was One on earth who knew all secrets. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." But this is the command of God, That men should believe on his Son, 1Jo 3:23. Observe: not which was, but "which is." How withering the words! What Does It Mean That There Is No One Holy Like God? 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. Still the Lord refused the crown then: it was not the time or state for His reign. 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. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. 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. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. If He judges, it is not without full warning. He that believeth not Or, obeyeth not - : from , negative, and , to persuade, or , to obey-the want of the obedience of faith. He bows to, as he explains, the sovereign will of God. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. Spite of the most express signs, and the manifest finger of God that wrote the ten words on tables of stone, the law sinks into comparative insignificance. (John 3:36 YLT), One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son wont see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. 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. 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. {n} He that believeth Heb 2:4; Joh 3:15,16, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window). There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. What Does It Really Mean That Your Body Is a Temple? All rights reserved. Both and are used in the New Testament for wrath or anger, and without any commonly observed distinction. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. 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. John was not yet cast into prison. John is published weekly in The Inquisitor, bi-monthly in The Forum News, and frequently in the Shreveport Times. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. 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. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. The incarnate Word was here full of grace and truth. He bore witness that: "The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." John was to bear witness that Jesus Christ came from heaven as the . Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 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. Here the Lord introduces the cross. All this, however, was abstract, whether as to the nature of the Word or as to the place of the Christian. He that comes from above from heaven is above all. (Verse John 3:10). God wants people to be saved (2 Peter 3:9 . It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. Verse of the Day , God, My Praise (Study In God - All I Need-19). 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. 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. (Ver. 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. Do any believe on His name? Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. The question really is, whether man would trust God. He who believes in the Son has eternal life; buthe who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.". 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." The evangelist has used this encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus to bring forth some important points. It is a present possession. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. 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. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. 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. 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." "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Once we step into the light God gives us a new life. 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. Not only man under law has no health, but he has no strength to avail himself of the blessing that God holds out. He is under the eternal sentence of death. The Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "shall abide upon him"; so some copies. He acts as such. Man is morally judged. 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. 2. After this we have, suitably to this gospel, John's connection with the Lord Jesus. One must be born again. Obedience, however, includes faith. Afterwards, John the Baptist explains why he's content to see his own ministry fade into the background. (Ver. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
(John 3:36 KJV). (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.--Better, he that obeyeth not the Son. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! This, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. John 3:36 Translation & Meaning. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." John 1:19-37; John 1:19-37) It is here presented historically. Verse 3:36 comes after the Nicodemus story. With regard to John 3:31-36, the question arises as to who was the speaker. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. Second, the Lordship Salvation view misinterprets the significance of the present participles for "believe" and "obey" in John 3:36. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. By and by He will apply it to "that nation," the Jews, as to others also, and finally (always excepting the unbelieving and evil) to the entire system, the world. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. The wrath of God.