Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Three

                                                                                                                                      Verses 31-36

In these verses, John the Baptist expressed an even deeper revelation from God as to who Jesus really was. God inspired John to say that Jesus came from Heaven and that He "is above all." Since only God can be above all, this means that John witnessed that Jesus had to be God in human form.  

John testified that Jesus preached a message from God, but no one believed His message. But in the very next verse John said that some humans will believe Jesus' testimony. John did not contradict himself. All humans possess a conflicted inner nature: a living soul and spirit created by God and an evil, spiritual death injected into humans by the Devil. This spiritual death, which causes all sin and evil in humans, happens to be a real part of man's inner being although it is foreign to humans. This spiritual death is totally evil and can never believe the gospel. Total evil always rejects Christ. John was correct to say that no one believes in Jesus because the spiritual deaths in all humans rejects faith in Christ. Matthew 12:31-32. The Holy Spirit annuls spiritual death when He recreates the souls and spirits of all living humans marred by sin and evil when they believe and become saved by God's grace. John 5:24; II Corinthians 5:17. God also uses His fiery wrath against evil to purge the spiritual deaths of all other living humans just before He raises all repentant, living humans from the regions of the dead in the end of the world. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; II Timothy 4:1.

John further testified that some humans will believe Jesus' gospel, and that God will "seal" those humans with the knowledge that everything that Christ preaches to them is true, and that everything that Christ has done to save them is true. God will activate the latent faith that He put into them when He created them, and they will be saved by His grace. The Holy Spirit will seal these believers with a salvation by grace that they can never lose. Ephesians 1:12-14; Romans 11:29.

John again testified that Jesus is God when He said that Jesus preached the Word of God and that God had given Jesus His entire Holy Spirit. This fact gave Jesus the right to give His Holy Spirit to anyone who ever believes in Him, and eventually all living humans will believe in Him because He gives them His faith when He creates them. God knows exactly how to activate that faith and cause all living humans to come to repentance and faith in Him of their own free will which will prove that His Love is Almighty and that it can never fail. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Romans 12:3; Luke 17:20-21; II Peter 3:9; I Corinthians 13:8.