02/03/2025 – Day 218 – John – Chapters 3 & 4 / In Progress / Re: Blog tools and info + John 3:17 commentary
We will have six more consecutive Mondays for our reading, reflection, prayer and fellowship through the Gospel of John. Behind that, for Monday, we will have the book of Acts to complete our 365 read through the Bible.
If you are logged in, I highly recommend that you check out our Bible Study category: “Gospel of John – 21 Chapters in 21 Days”. We have used this before during a compact intensive Lenten study. So, just go to search, click on the category named above and hit enter. You will see a list of posts on all 21 chapters. Again, the beauty of a blog, if you enter a comment or question on any of these posts, the person that wrote the post will immediately get an email message notifying him or her that someone has posted.
Of course, we also have our Day 218 posts in the Semikkah7 reading plan category . In this case, you will see posts on 10/03/22 & 12/21/20. We have more historical posts on the Gospel of John than any other book of the Bible.
For today, a short post is better than no post:
“For God did not send His Son into the World that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.” (John 3: 17)
And here is an edifying commentary from “The Apologetics Study Bible”:
“3:17 John said that Jesus didn’t come to judge or condemn the world (12:47), but elsewhere we clearly read that Jesus will function as Judge on the last day, condemning some to hell. (e.g. Matthew 25: 31-46). This is scarcely a contradiction, since John himself recorded that Jesus had all judgment entrusted to Him (John 5:22). The purpose of the incarnation was to offer a plan of salvation for all who would receive it. Those who refuse it simply remain in the condemned state they were already in. Or in C.S. Lewis’s words, ‘There are only two kinds of people in the end; those who say to God. ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘Thy will be done.’ ”
Soli Deo Gloria