Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                   Chapter Two

                                                                                                                                      Verses 24-25 continued

God proved that His Love is Almighty and real by giving His living humans free will that they will eventually use to choose to return to the faith that He puts into them when He creates them in His image. Romans 12:3. Having an Infinite Intellect and an Almighty Love, God was able to devise a plan, before He ever created the world, to cause every living human to return to their faith in Christ of their own free will. Christ has taken away all of their sins and spiritual deaths. John 1:29; Hebrews 2:9. Some humans will believe while still in the flesh and become saved by God's grace, and all others will believe when Christ reveals Himself to them on the earth and within the regions of death in a future, great worship service. Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:24.

Love that is freely chosen can only be real. Love that has been assumed to be determined by God's creations can be made to be in doubt. God gave free will to all His angels, but because they never had an actual choice to love God or not until Lucifer's rebellion, many of them assumed that God had determined His Love in them. For this reason, many of them followed Lucifer in his rebellion because they wrongly assumed that that was the way to freedom. Those who deliberately practice sin, and even the rebellious against God, assume that they are making themselves free when in actuality they are only making themselves slaves to the Devil. Lucifer's rebellion caused that doubt to enter into God's creations. Genesis 4:1-7; John 20:24-25. But God has determined to overcome all that doubt and all the evil that it causes by causing all living humans to choose to return to faith in His Almighty Love who chose to sacrifice Himself to save them which proves that His Love is real. John 3:16. The Bible (KJB) even prophesies that God will save the rebellious but not the rebellion itself. Psalm 107:10-15; Psalm 68:18. Rebellion which adheres to spiritual death never repents, and therefore, can never be forgiven by God. Matthew 12:31-32. But upon the repentance and faith of even the rebellious, God will be able to dissolve their systems, recover their cleansed living souls and spirits for Him to recreate, and He will cast their separated rebellion into the lake of fire. Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

The ultimate test of God's Love happened when Jesus, who is God, allowed Himself to be nailed to a cruel cross to suffer the sins, evil, and eternal spiritual deaths in the place of all living humans. Hebrews 2:9-15. Jesus utterly destroyed the Devil and all of his evil works, not living humans. I John 3:8. But because Jesus suffered the eternal spiritual deaths of all living humans and the sins and evil that caused those spiritual deaths, He liberated all living humans from the power of the Devil. Revelation 1:17-18. Jesus won a complete victory over the Devil, not a partial one. The Devil had a claim to hold all living humans in eternal spiritual death, but Jesus broke that claim for all living humans whom He creates and loves. The Devil thought that he would be able to completely ruin forever a part of God's creation when God gave humans free will. But God proved that His Love is real when He chose to sacrifice Himself on a cross to save all living humans, and because of His sacrifice, He will cause all living humans to return of their own free will to faith in, and love for, the "Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world." John 1:29; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Luke 20:38; Isaiah 45:21-25; Psalm 111:7-8.