Commentary on John 1:9 part two

God's Light equals His holiness and righteousness. This means that in all these cases God can never lose His Light that represents His goodness that He has put into every man. God will recover all of His goodness that He has ever created, and divide it from the darkness either by using the blood and water that flowed from Jesus' body on the cross or by using His consuming fire, and He will recreate it all. Colossians 1:12-20; I Corinthians 3:12-15; Revelation 21:1-5.

God has accomplished His recovery and salvation of all His goodness He has put into man through the sacrifice and resurrection of His Son, the Light. Blood and water flowed from Jesus' side to purchase the salvation of the Church and all those who are ever saved by grace. The burnt offerings of the Old Testament represented Christ's descent into hell in order to separate man from his sins by the use of God's consuming fire. In John 1:29, the Baptist said that Christ would "take away the sin of the world." John did not say that Jesus would take away some people because of their sins. John said that Jesus would separate sin from all the people. God only cursed sin and evil in Genesis 3:14-15, not humans.

A person can be saved by grace only when they put their faith in Christ's sacrifice and resurrection to take away their sins. That repentant sinner must believe that only the shed blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross can cleanse them; that is, separate them from their sins so that the Spirit of Christ can recreate their souls and spirits and save them forever. This is the gospel, and only the gospel can save a repentant sinner. Some teach that some sinners go to hell because the Church fails to get the gospel to them. This cannot be possible since Jesus taught in John chapter ten that He knows every one of His sheep and cannot lose a single one of them. Although the Church should certainly obey the command of Christ in Matthew 28:18-20 to preach the gospel to all the world, this preaching cannot be added to salvation by grace. God commanded the Church to preach the gospel simply because He has appointed a time and place for every sinner who will be saved by grace. Only the gospel itself can save, not the preaching of it. Good works cannot be added to grace. Ephesians 2:8-9.

God uses the Church to get His message to mankind that they can choose to be saved by His grace. It is the message of the gospel that saves, not the preaching of it. The Church was afraid to preach the gospel to Saul of Tarsus, but the Spirit of Christ was certainly able to directly preach the gospel to him and save him on the road to Damascus as recorded in Acts chapter nine. This is part of the message of John 1:9. God saves because He gives Light to every man that comes into the world, some by grace and all the others in the end of the world by His recovery and recreation of all of His goodness that he has put into every man. Genesis 1:26-27; John 1:9; Revelation 21:1-5.