John 1:10-14
Only One Way to Experience Salvation
John 1:15-18
The Incarnation of Christ
John 1:24-28
“Why are you baptizing?”
John 1:29-34
Jesus The Lamb of God
John 1:35-42
The First Disciples
John 1:43-51
Jesus Calls Philip and Nathaniel
John 2:1-12
Changing Water into Wine
John 2:13-25
Jesus Turns Over the Tables
John 3:1-12
What Does it Mean to be Born Again?
John 3:13-24
What does it mean to believe?
John 3:22-30
Confusion About The New Birth
John 3:25-36
“He must increase, but I must decrease”
John 4:1-15
Jesus Meets the Samaritan Women
John 4:16-26
It is not Where You Worship But How
John 4:27-38
The Harvest is Ready
John 4:39-45
Jesus’ time with the Samaritans
John 4:46-54
Jesus Heals the Nobleman’s Son
John 5:1-13
Man Healed at the Pool of Bethesda
John 5:14-18
Jesus Claims to be God
John 5:19-29
Four Types of Resurrections
John 5:30-47
Blindness to the Truth of the Scriptures
John 6:1-14
Philip Fails the Exam
John 6:15-27
Jesus Calms Their Fears
John 6:28-40
What’s Your Motive for Following Jesus
John 6:36-44
The Reaction of The Jews
What does it mean to believe?
John 3:13–24
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Hell, it would seem, has fallen on rather lean times. It used to be that the vast majority of Christians, regardless of denominational affiliation, believed that Hell was a real place where the wicked go when they die. The very thought of the pains and torments of Hell was … More
No one has gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from there (v. 13). Sin caused God to punish the Israelites with fiery serpents that bit the people so that many died (Num. 21:4-9). God provided a remedy by commanding Moses to make a brass serpent, so that when any stricken person looked to this serpent, he would be healed. Likewise, our salvation happens when we look up to Jesus, believing He will save us. God has provided this way for us to be healed of sin’s deadly bite. (vv. 14-15). If we don’t know Christ, we make choices as though this life is all that we have, when in reality, this life is just the introduction to eternity. To believe in Christ is more that intellectual agreement that Jesus is God (v. 16). It means to put our trust and confidence in Him that He alone can save us. It is to put Christ in charge of our present plans and eternal destiny. Believing is both trusting in His words as reliable, and relying on Him for the power to change.
God did not send His Son into the world to condemn its people. He sent Him to save them (v. 17)! No one who has faith in God’s Son will be condemned. But everyone who doesn’t have faith in Him has already been condemned for not having faith in God’s only Son (v. 18). Sinful men love darkness rather than light because the closer they get to the light the more their sins are exposed (vv. 19-21). Just as natural light shows up what is otherwise unseen, so Christ, the Light, exposes people’s evil deeds. It is not the intellectual problems but spiritual blindness that keeps people from Christ.
Application
I am so thankful that God has revealed himself to me so that I might believe and be saved.
John 3:13-24 (English Standard Version)
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