INTRODUCTION:
1. John 3:16 is the best-known verse in the Bible!
2. John 3:16 is the best-known sentence in the English language!
3. John 3:16 in and of itself contains enough Biblical theology to bring an unsaved person to saving faith!
5. John 3:16 in English contains the very word “Gospel” itself!
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
6. In John 3:16, we see THE GREATEST PERSON “GOD”
THE GREATEST PASSION “SO LOVED THE WORLD”
THE GREATEST PRICE “HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON”
THE GREATEST PROMISE “THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM”
AND THE GREATEST POSSESSION! “HAVE ETERNAL LIFE!”
EXPOSITION:
“Christianity is the only accurate explanation of reality.”
The reality is that we do have to die.
Genesis 5:5 “Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.”
Genesis 5:8 “Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died.”
Genesis 5:11 “Thus all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.”
Genesis 5:14 “Thus all the days of Kenan were 910 years, and he died.”
Genesis 5:17 “Thus all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.”
Genesis 5:20 “Thus all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.”
Genesis 5:27 “Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.”
Genesis 5:31 “Thus all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died.”
Ezekiel 18:4 “Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.”
Romans 5:12 “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned…”
1st Corinthians 15:21-22 “For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”
Hebrews 9:27 “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment…”
But the other absolute truth about reality is that while we do have to die, we do not have to perish!
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
The word translated “perish” in this verse is “apollumi” which means to be destroyed! BIBLE 160x (OT “abad” = 118x NT = “apollumi” 42x)
We can have the gift of eternal life!
Matthew 19:29 “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.”
Matthew 25:46 “And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
John 3:14-15 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.”
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 remains on him.”
John 5:24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment but has passed from death to life.”
John 10:27-29 “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
1st John 5:13 “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.”
THE GREATEST PERSON! “GOD”
THE GREATEST PASSION! “SO LOVED THE WORLD”
THE GREATEST PRICE! “HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON”
THE GREATEST PROMISE! “THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM”
AND THE GREATEST POSSESSION! “HAVE ETERNAL LIFE!”
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