John 3:16 Part 4 The Finale... by Brian Valentine
=== The Most Quoted and Least Understood Verse in the Bible ===
PART 4 John 3:16 - First see # 1570 and # 1573 and #1577
*******Every Serious Christian Should take time to read this.*******
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Many people approach this verse already believing that
==== God is All Benevolent.====
Meaning that He loves everyone the same !
Where do they get this idea??
From there concept of How they would be IF they were God.
===== NOT FROM THE BIBLE =====
There are so many cases of God's hatred and Favour being shown in scripture
Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
- I pain to start. Also getting a little tired :-}
Joseph was cast out and practically crucified for revealing God's revelation through a dream of the Favour GOD would to show Him.
His brothers sold him into Slavery A symbol of Satan !
They would rather he went to Hell then to see God Favour anyone !
Even Jesus had more beloved Disciples:
John 19:26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
Jesus has A Favourite and then the three...
Math 17:1 ¶ And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
To see the TRANSFIGURATION ( who shall not taste death until )
Math 26:37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
To share with Him in his Prayer at the Garden of Gethsemane
There are those whom Jesus Hates before they are born:
Romans 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Men do not seem to care what the Bible or God has to say about this matter..
==== God MUST love all MEN or ELSE !!! ====
John 3:16 has been written in modern times like this:
Living Bible : John 3:16 For God loved the world so much...
It teaches that GOD actually loves the world and the love of the world is so strong that he just HAD to send HIS SON ???
Here it is again in the Weymouth Bible:
John 3:16 For so greatly did God love the world...
Many more modern and UNFAITHFUL PARAPHRASES exist that impose the Idea that GOD loves the World and everyone in it.
What did Jesus say about loving the world...
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
If Jesus loves the whole world so much why does He not pray for it:
John 17:9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
I would think that if Jesus loved everyone then He would have at least prayed for them but He does not in Fact He tells the Father that He PRAYS NOT for the world He prays only for those who the Father hath chosen out of the world:
John 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
All this confusion because of ONE LITTLE ENGLISH WORD
==================== "SO"=========================
There are no Greek manuscripts that say "SO MUCH " anywhere....
It is not that KIND of SO...
It is "SO" as in LIKE SO voila or "in this way "
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The word translated "so" is houto
According to Vines it means:
1) in this manner, thus, so
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John 3:16 does not teach that God loves the whole world. So Much !
It teaches rather this:
For God in this manner loved the ones would should believe out of the world...
===It was a determined decision and not a compelling Emotion !===
Does it teach that He showed this love to Everyone ... NO.
God does not love a fallen and wicked world !
Psalms 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
So that God gave His only begotten son SO THAT the ones believing who are born again by the "wind of the Holy Spirit" would not perish but have eternal life.
THE ONES BELIEVING is already the topic from verse 15
John 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Then verse 16 starts with the word === FOR === as in therefore.... explaining about the ones believing NOT THE WHOLE WORLD !
John 3:16 actually teaches this:
That Jesus WILL be lifted up as was the Brass Serpent so that those who are BORN AGAIN not by the will of man but by the WILL of GOD by the WIND of the HOLY SPIRIT will not perish but have everlasting life. This and this only is the Love That God the Father can in righteousness show to a fallen and wicked world !
God in this way loved the world that He gave His Own Son for the elect that they would not perish with the world but have eternal LIFE !
I apologize if this last message was not my best as I wrote all 4 today in one sitting and did not take enough time to do a better job but I do think that I have given ample evidence of the true meaning of John 3:16.. One can not see a meaning for this verse apart from it's original setting nor the rest of the entire Bible:
Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Revelation 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
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