Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                   Chapter Three

                                                                                                                                       Verses 17-21 continued

In verse 19, Jesus described the kind of judgment He would make while He was in the world. He came as the Light to the world to draw all living humans out of the darkness of evil into His salvation by His grace. But He prophesied that most living humans would remain in the darkness of evil and refuse to come to His Light to be saved by His grace.

In verse 20, Jesus prophesied that most living humans will hate Him because they will desire to cling to their sins and evil. They will refuse to repent and believe in His Light that will completely vanquish their darkness.

In verse 21, Jesus taught that there will be certain types of living humans who will love the Truth, and who will have a desire to come to the Light to be saved by His grace. Jesus taught that their additional good deeds which He would give them to do will become manifested to the whole world as a witness that they have become saved by His grace. But God also gives goodness to every living human whom He ever creates. That goodness can never be lost. Genesis 1:31; Romans 11:29. No living human will ever become totally evil, not even the maniac of Gadara or even Judas Iscariot. Luke 8:27-28; Matthew 26:48-50. The Devil desires to turn at least one good, living human entirely to evil and thereby prove that God's Love for His creations can fail. Job 1:9-11. But God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. All human systems consist of a combination of the good image of God and the total evil of spiritual death. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:17. Spiritual death will cause tremendous, but temporary, suffering and horror to all living humans, but evil can never overcome the goodness of God given in His grace and mercy. The Holy Spirit abolishes the spiritual death in the souls and spirits of all living humans who choose to become saved by His grace, but He allows evil to remain in their fleshly natures which will cause them to sin. II Corinthians 5:17; Romans 7:18. But God will cleanse their bodies of all sins and recreate them to be like Jesus when He Raptures the Church. I John 3:2; Ephesians 5:25-27. But God will also provide a lesser form of salvation for all living humans not saved by grace when He will cause them to repent and believe in the Lamb of God of their own free will close to the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:21-25; John 11:25; John 5:28-29.

At no time in Jesus' discussion with Nicodemus, and the rest of us who read His Word, did Jesus ever relate that He would ever cast living humans into an eternal lake of fire. Beside His message that one must be "born again" to enter the Kingdom of God, that message would have been the second most important part of His teachings, but Jesus did not mention it. Jesus did not mention it because God will never cast His living humans into an eternal lake of fire, only the spiritual dead humans. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.