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"Master, eat," said they. This implies that he is now under the wrath of God, or under condemnation. (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? Her testimony bore the impress of what had penetrated her soul, and would make way for all the rest in due time. (Ver. The question really is, whether man would trust God. In love, God sent his Son to die for all in order to forgive and accept all, in Christ. John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. Nevertheless, Christ did come to His own things, His proper, peculiar possession; for there were special relationships. This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. 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. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. 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. And in fact, the original hearer apparently . The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. (Ver. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. Nothing in the slightest degree detracted from His own personal glory, and from the infinitely near relationship which He had had with the Father from all eternity. "Believing" in John 3:16 - Apologetics Press Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. What does John 3:36 mean in the bible? - Quora The person who rejects the Son will spend eternity in hell. A greater work was in hand; and this, as the rest of the chapter shows us, not a Messiah lifted up, but the true bread given He who comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world; a dying, not a reigning, Son of man. 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. All translations of John 3:36 imply that this rejection of Christ is a deliberate action. It is not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. Art thou Elias? As the believer hath life, so the unbeliever hath wrath abiding on him. Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory.