“WHOEVER BELIEVES!”

 John 3:16                                                  (ESV)

“"For GOD so loved the world, that he gave his only SON, that “WHOEVER BELIEVES” IN HIM should not perish but have eternal life.”

John 3:36.                                                 (ESV)

“"WHOEVER BELIEVES” IN THE SON has eternal life; WHOEVER DOES NOT OBEY THE SON shall not see life, but THE WRATH OF GOD REMAINS ON HIM.”

These focal passages are both from the Gospel of John.  If fact, both are from the third chapter of John, a mere twenty verses apart.  There are growing numbers, even so-called “evangelicals” who proclaim that there are some Books of Scripture aren’t intended by GOD to be taken as TRUTH, such as Exodus and the parting of the Red Sea?!?  The EVIDENCE of the chariots and similar artifacts at the bottom of the land bridge must just be a hoax to them?  

Most people are familiar with John 3:16.  A few athletes even use to display John 3:16 on their person until they were chastised for doing so.  Who would object to GOD LOVING HIS CREATION?  HE made us and everything that IS, and we humans are declaring that we cannot give HIM Honor and Glory?  The idea that one can be “brainwashed” into BELIEVING in GOD is simply not possible.  John 6:44 states “NO ONE can come to ME unless the FATHER WHO sent ME draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.”  We cannot “wish our way” into Heaven.  We MUST be CHOSEN!

It is just like “the enemy” to under emphasize Scripture (or ignore) that illustrates his, and everyone who refuses to future OBEY THE SON, future.  Satan wants to fill our minds with “things of this world” (1 John 2:15-16), knowing that they will all burn up (2 Peter 3:10).  We can amass wealth beyond measure, but when our time is completed here, THEN THE JUDGMENT “WILL” COME!  It won’t “passed over” because we chose to NOT OBEY!  The only way that JUDGMENT will be “passed over” is by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB in our lives (Exodus 12)!

The Welsh Protestant minister and medical doctor David Martyn Lloyd-Jones was quoted as saying “There are even evangelical people who no longer believe the first three chapters of the book of Genesis. They are not believing all the Scriptures. But until we come back to a belief in all the Scriptures we shall be in trouble because we are setting ourselves up as authorities, and we are not competent to deal with the problems that face us. If we pick and choose, and believe this and reject that, we will ultimately have no authority whatsoever. We are so anxious to please the modern scientists, the modern educated people, that we have lost our gospel.”  

You can “choose” to ignore the difficult parts of Scripture, but you WILL REMEMBER them on THAT DAY!  The numbers of “WHOEVER BELIEVES” on THAT DAY will grow exponentially!  The thing is, we are CALLED to BELIEVE NOW, not when others have NO HOPE!  For us to have HOPE, we MUST BELIEVE that GOD exists, and that HE rewards those who seek HIM (Hebrews 11:6)!  I am humbled to be one of the few “WHOEVER BELIEVES” because of HIS GRACE!!!