Morning Devotional July 10, 2024

 

John 3:10-21

“10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”

Many false doctrines have come from people misunderstanding and/or misquoting John 3:16. Yet, if read in the context in which it is written, we can easily disprove those false doctrines. Nowhere in Scripture does God ever say He loves every person in this world. To the contrary, He tells us there are going to be those whom He loves and there will be those whom He hates. Like Jacob and Esau. In verse 18 Jesus says there are those who are not condemned and there are those who are condemned. Believers and nonbelievers. Why would God condemn those He loves? Praise God, He never condemns those whom He loves, only those whom He does not love.

It is only by the saving power of God's grace that we are not condemned and sent to an eternity in the Lake of Fire. And it is only by the sacrificial death and shedding of blood of the only begotten Son of God that this grace is so freely given to those whom God loves.

Jesus did not come to die for the world as a whole but rather to save His people out of every nation from their sins.

Praise ye the Lord!!!