Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.
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… and yes I heard those great words of John 3 16 but also what's followed John 3 36 whoever believes in the son has eternal life whoever does not obey the son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him folks those two verses clenched my heart yes I saw the love of God and that believing on him I have eternal life. But the wrath of God abides on me if I reject him. Oh, my friends, the gates of the kingdom are opened when the preaching of the word is proclaimed and the gospel is set forth. Preaching closes the kingdom, though, to those who reject the gospel call and remain in their unbelief. You know, it's possible that you can hear the gospel time and time again and reject the call and your heart grows hardened. You know, there's two kinds of people here tonight. They're the saints and the apes. And each one of us belong to one of those two groups. …
Let us pray. Again, our Father and our God, as we come before this text that You have been pleased to give to Your people as part of the treasury of the church, we pray that the same Holy who inspired it in the first place may now illumine it for us, for our edification, for we ask it in the name of Jesus. Amen. We have been watching through the early chapters of John's gospel a series of incidents by by which the new order that is being inaugurated by Jesus is set in contrast to the old things, and the superiority of that which breaks through now with the appearance of Christ is set forth. We see the superiority of the wine that He makes at Canaan over against the waters of purification. when Christ will be lifted up, He will exceed in greatness that episode which Jesus recalled from the Old Testament when Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. And now we have this passage at the end of chapter 3 where we see a comparison between the ministry of John the Baptist and the ministry of Jesus. …
How can a creature be more miserable, than to be separated from the Creator, and to have no God, whom he can call his own God? He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be his guide and protector, and to bless him in his affairs. The very light of nature teaches that a man’s God is his all. Judg. xviii. 24. “Ye have taken away my gods, and what have I more?” There is but one God, and in him they have no right. They are without that God, whose will must determine their whole well being, both here and forever. That unconverted men are without God shows that they are liable to all manner of evil. They are liable to the power of the devil, to the power of all manner of temptation, for they are without God to protect them. They are liable to be deceived and seduced into erroneous opinions, and to embrace damnable doctrine. It is not possible to deceive the saints in this way. But the unconverted may be deceived. They may become papists, or heathens, or atheists. They have nothing to secure them from it. They are liable to be given up of God to judicial hardness of heart. They deserve it; and since God is not their God, they have no certainty that God will not inflict this awful judgment upon them. As they are without God in the world, they are liable to commit all manner of sin, and even the unpardonable sin itself. They cannot be sure they shall not commit that sin. They are liable to build up a false hope of heaven, and so to go hoping to hell. They are liable to die senseless and stupid, as many have died. They are liable to die in such a case as Saul and Judas did, fearless of hell. They have no security from it. They are liable to all manner of mischief, since they are without God. They cannot tell what shall befall them, nor when they are secure from anything. They are not safe one moment. Ten thousand fatal mischiefs may befall them, that may make them miserable forever. They, who have God for their God, are safe from all such evils. It is not possible that they should befall them. God is their covenant God, and they have his faithful promise to be their refuge. But what mischief is there which may not befall natural men? Whatever hopes they may have may be disappointed. Whatever fair prospect there may seem to be of their conversion and salvation, it may vanish away. They may make great progress towards the kingdom of God, and yet come short at last. They may seem to be in a very hopeful way to be converted, and yet never be converted. A natural man is sure of nothing. He is sure of no good, nor is he sure of escaping any evil. It is therefore a dreadful condition that a natural man is in. They, who are in a natural state, are lost. They have wandered from God, and they are like lost sheep, that have wandered from their shepherd. They are poor helpless creatures in a howling wilderness, and have no shepherd to protect or to guide them. They are desolate, and exposed to innumerable fatal mischiefs. …