Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Five

                                                                                                                                      Verses 37-38

Jesus preached that His Father had borne witness that He is God. Jesus preached to unbelievers when He said that they had never heard the Father or seen His shape. Some believers have heard the Father and have seen His shape. Moses heard the Father, and he saw His shape, but no believer has ever seen the face of God the Father. Exodus 33:18-23; John 1:18.

Jesus further preached to these unbelievers that they could not believe that He was God because they did not have the ability to hear God's Word within their inner natures. Jesus meant that they possessed more of a material nature than a spiritual nature. They all had a spiritual nature because God creates every human in His image, but all these unbelievers had allowed the spiritual deaths that the Devil had injected into them to take power over their spiritual natures. Very few humans with a predominantly material nature ever become saved by God's grace. But Thomas was one of these. John 20:24-29. Believers who become saved by grace possess a spiritual nature that God can cause to overcome their material natures when they put their faith in Christ. John 10:26-27.

The Bible (KJB) teaches that God creates every human to be His servants and to accomplish His Will. Psalm 119:89-91. God creates most humans in a manner that causes their material natures to predominate over their spiritual natures, but He also creates some humans whose spiritual natures will gain power over their spiritual deaths and allow them to trust in Christ as their Savior while they are still alive in the flesh. But their spiritual natures, being only a limited copy of God's image, cannot be good enough for God to accept them into Heaven, and He desires that they live with Him forever. So God recreates their spiritual natures by giving them the perfect, spiritual nature of Christ Himself by which He can accept them to live with Him in Heaven forever. II Corinthians 5:17; II Corinthians 5:21; II Corinthians 3:17-18; Romans 8:14-17.

God has created the entire human race to accomplish His Will and manifest His Glory. Romans 9:14-24. This fact can only mean that God has determined to have mercy on the entire human race because they all will accomplish His Will, and He will cause them all to return to faith in Him of their own free will. God's Love is Almighty. I Corinthians 13:8. God will prove that no matter what the Devil does to the human race, he will never be able to cause any living human that God has created to ever curse God to the extent that they become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. God will cause all humans not saved by grace to someday repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will which will prove that God's Love is real. Revelation 5:11-14. Even humans who have cursed God will someday repent because they do not possess the inner power necessary to ever abrogate their spiritual natures even though the Devil continuously attempts to force that power into them.

The entire book of Job relates about God's provision of a higher and a lesser form of salvation for the whole human race. In the end of the book of Job, God commands Job to offer burnt offerings for his uncaring friends. The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolize God's lesser form of salvation for all living humans who do not obtain salvation by His grace. In the end of the world, God will resurrect all repentant, living humans for Him to recreate to live forever on His new earth. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Job 42:7-9; Job 2:9; John 5:28-29; Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:10; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Isaiah 45:20-25; Revelation 21:1-5.