Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Three

                                                                                                                                      Verses 17-21

While Jesus was in the world, He did not judge the world. The word "condemn" that He used means "to judge." Jesus did not judge at that time because He came to save the world, not to make final judgments. If God's mission was to save the world, then how could He fail to save the entire world, including all living humans whom He creates and loves? Christ makes only one final judgment which happens in the end of the world. John 12:47-48; II Timothy 4:1. II Timothy 4:1 states that Christ will "judge the quick and the dead" in His final judgment. This verse can only mean that Christ will effect a complete separation of all living humans whom He will save from all dead humans whom He will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

In Christ's final judgment, He will judge by His written Word and by the Book of Life. His judgment will consist of a fiery wrath against evil that will dissolve every human system on the earth and under the earth to separate their repentant, living souls and spirits from their spiritual deaths. Christ will save every repentant, living human for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth because their names will be found in the Book of Life, and He will consign their separated, spiritual deaths to an eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.

Every living human that God has ever created will eventually repent and believe in Christ their Savior because His goodness and faith that God put into their inner beings will cause them all to choose to repent and believe. God, who possesses an Infinite Intellect, knew exactly how to design His creations to act this way. Humanity's feeble will cannot equal God's Almighty Will. II Peter 3:9. God will separate the spiritual deaths from every human for Him to cast into the lake of fire because they are totally evil and can never repent. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 20:15; I Timothy 1:10; Matthew 13:35-43; John 5:28-29. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:5; Romans 8:18-23. God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. Romans 8:21 can only mean that God's entire creation will be delivered from its bondage to sin and evil. Colossians 1:20 can 0nly mean that God will eventually reconcile everything He has ever created to Himself. Romans 11:36 can only mean that everything that God has ever created goes out from Him and will return to Him.

In the first part of verse 18, Jesus refers to living humans who become saved by His grace. God removes all eternal judgments from living humans whom He saves by His grace.  Romans 8:1. Christ will consign living humans who fail to obtain salvation by grace to the regions of death, but that will not be a final judgment. Hebrews 9:27. Christ's final judgment will only fall on the separated, spiritual deaths of humans because they refuse to believe. Matthew 12:31-32. Living humans are not God's enemies. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. God's enemies are the Devil and evil itself. Genesis 3:15; John 12:31-32; I John 3:8. God has devised a plan that will cause every living human eventually to repent and believe in Christ, the Lamb of God, of their own free will which will prove the great value of God's Love. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:21-25; Psalm 86:9. God will save some humans by His grace and give them an eternal home with Him in Heaven. I Peter 1:1-5. God will save all other living humans with a lesser form of salvation which will be His recreation of them to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.