“THEIR WORKS WERE EVIL!”

John 3:18-21                                         (ESV)

“18 Whoever believes in HIM (JESUS) is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only SON OF GOD.

19 AND THIS IS THE JUDGMENT: the LIGHT has come into the world, and PEOPLE LOVED DARKNESS people loved the darkness rather than the LIGHT BECAUSE “THEIR WORKS WERE EVIL”.

20 For EVERYONE WHO DOES WICKED THINGS HATES THE LIGHT AND DOES NOT COME TO THE LIGHT, LEST HIS WORKS SHOULD BE EXPOSED.

21 But WHOEVER DOES WHAT IS TRUE COMES TO THE LIGHT, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in GOD."”

The HOLY BIBLE is an amazing, intricate, PRECISE compilation of “precepts” used by ALMIGHTY GOD to reveal TRUTH to we who are CHOSEN by HIM for HIS GLORY.  The verses above in the Gospel of John have so many WORDS that could be highlighted, as TRUTH is being revealed to “this world”, but today I am led to focus on “THEIR WORKS WERE EVIL”!  One glaring problem is, that unless the HEARTS of people are changed (Acts 28:27), they will never SEE that their way is leading them into JUDGMENT!  

AND THIS IS THE JUDGMENT should be the most fearful statement ever spoken, as THE LIGHT was sent into the world, yet HIS CREATION LOVED THE DARKNESS they were in so much that they chose to remain, because “THEIR WORKS WERE EVIL”!  “This world” actually experienced GOD IN THE FLESH in their presence, yet decided to eradicate HIM rather than to SUBMIT to HIM?  The god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4) has BLINDED THEIR EYES!  Describing “the lost” might better be stated as “the blind”?  

But WHOEVER DOES WHAT IS TRUE COMES TO THE LIGHT, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in GOD doesn’t indicate that these people are “goody-two-shoes” in a world of “sinners”.  WE ARE ALL SINNERS according to Romans 3:10-11.  The thing is that when HIS CHOSEN break the law, JESUS responds with PAID IN FULL, applying HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS to our imperfections!  I hate that I am so unholy, but I LOVE that JESUS is so merciful!!!

My heart hurts for those who cannot see that “THEIR WORKS WERE EVIL”!  They cannot SEE that they are headed to JUDGMENT, and that JUDGMENT is real!  One sure identifying trait of these people is “THEIR WORKS WERE EVIL”, even hurtful to them and their loved ones!  Only the SPIRIT OF GOD can draw them unto HIMSELF (John 8:44), but HE can use us as instruments for HIS GLORY!  “THEIR WORKS WERE EVIL”, but we need to come to THE LIGHT (John 1:5)!!!