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After a very long sermon, church members filed out silently.
Thoughtful Betty came at the end of the line.
She always had a comment on the sermon.
"Pastor, today your sermon reminded me of God's peace & love."
Pastor was thrilled.
"Nobody ever said that about my preaching before.
What reminded you?" "Like God's peace & love, it lasted forever."
Was that loving!
What is God's love like?
Jn 3:16-19 tells us.
16aGod so loved the world that he gave his one & only Son.
Every word has meaning.
<Jn 3:16> God is the greatest Lover.
He so loved to the greatest degree.
Loving the world is the widest scope & greatest company.
He gave in the greatest act by anyone, ever.
His one & only Son is the greatest gift ever given.
Why did the greatest Lover give the greatest gift?
16bthat whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Again, each word matters.
<Jn 3:16> Whoever is the greatest opportunity to receive.
Believes is the only requirement to receive the gift.
Unlike English believe, the Greek is faith, a verb.
We faith, or trust.
God's only requirement, to believe, is the greatest simplicity.
Even a 4yo can do it.
In Him points to the one with the greatest attraction in history.
Shall not perish is the greatest promise.
Ever.
It's a get-out-of-hell-free card.
But points to the greatest difference, then & now.
Have points to the greatest certainty, starting now.
And eternal life is the greatest possession anyone can ever have.
This is the good news of salvation in Christ.
The Good News is even better than we realize.
How so?
By sending His Son, we see God's heart.
He isn't a cranky judge, waiting to zot us for the slightest misstep.
God loves us.
How do we know?
By rights, God's Son should've come to judge us.
But 17aGod didn't send His Son into the world to condemn the world.
It's the best news in all history.
Human atrocities & vile behaviors have been rampant in every age.
This one, too.
The Good News means that God doesn't want to condemn us.
Far from it!
God loves His Creatures.
His Creation.
Especially mankind, women & men made in His image.
Why did God send His Son? 17bTo save the world through him.
Jesus came on a rescue mission.
Save the world.
He came to rescue any & everyone who will allow Him to save them.
That was His mission.
So, just as God promised (in Jn 3:16), 18aWhoever believes in him isn't condemned.
Whoever believes-whoever faiths in Him.
Whoever trusts Him for salvation.
Whoever stops trying to be saved by their own effort.
But the wording, whoever believes ISN'T condemned-that's a little odd.
Why say it negatively?
We'll see in a minute.
Look how Jesus continues.
18bBut whoever doesn't believe stands condemned already.
Already!
Why? Sin's penalty.
Adam & Eve sinned once.
Just once & they died, though it took nearly 1,000 years.
Death wasn't God's plan.
But ever since, the death rate hovers right at 100%.
Only 2 people in recorded history have escaped (Enoch & Elijah).
Why? Sin has a penalty: death.
And who hasn't sinned?
That's the ugly truth.
Apart from Christ, all humanity is already under a death sentence.
Everyone born into this world is under a death sentence.
God doesn't save some & condemn others.
Every person on the planet is already condemned.
Why?
At birth, we each inherit the sin nature from humanity's 1st parents.
Apart from Christ, we're lost.
God's standard is even stricter than most people think.
There are 2 reasons.
We see the 1st in Jas 2:10.
10Whoever keeps the whole law & yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
We think what matters is how often we keep God's laws & how many of them we keep.
We think if we keep nearly all of them, most of the time, we did well.
If we kept them flawlessly for years, we think we did well.
Not true.
We're guilty if we break even one of God's laws in the tiniest place.
Just once.
Ever.
If we did, we're guilty of breaking all His law.
It's like a mirror, all one piece.
Break it anywhere, & it's all broken.
That's the 1st reason God's standard is so strict.
The 2nd is God's provision for forgiveness is equally strict.
Under His 1st covenant, people think a sacrifice will cover a sin.
Lv 4-7 is God's provision for forgiveness.
Is it really true that some sacrifice will cover our every sin?
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