Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Eight

                                                                                                                                              Verses 13-18 continued

Jesus told His enemies that they judged life only according to their material philosophy. All that mattered to them was their self-glorification, pleasure, wealth, and power over others. They altered or misinterpreted the Word of God to justify their material philosophy. Matthew 23:1-36.

Jesus informed them that He would not judge any man. Jesus meant that He would make no final judgments about any individual human while He was on the earth. John 12:47; John 5:45. Christ has reserved His final judgments about the fate of all humans not saved by grace to the end of the world. John 12:48. Christ will not judge humans saved by grace because He took their judgment upon Himself on the cross. Hebrews 10:12-14; I Peter 1:18-19.

Jesus then admitted that He does make true judgments while on the earth because His Father gave Him the authority to make such judgments. Jesus made judgments about the sin and evil that humans practice, but He made no judgments about the fate of the individual souls and spirits of any humans while He was on the earth. Jesus preached against the sin and evil within humans, and He informed humans that they needed to repent and believe in Him as their Savior from sin, evil, and eternal death. John 3:17-21; John 5:24. In the end of the world, Jesus will appear to all living humans confined to the regions of death and cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14. Christ then will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all their systems in order to separate their cleansed and forgiven living natures for Him to recreate from their dead and evil natures that He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 13:47-50; Luke 3:16-17; Numbers 31:23; John 5:28-29; John 11:25; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Timothy 4:1.

Jesus then informed His enemies that according to their own law they had to accept the same witness of two men to be true. Jesus knew that they knew deep in their hearts that He bore a true witness about Himself by the compassion He demonstrated and the miracles that He did. Every human knows deep within their living natures that God created to be good the difference between that which is true and that which is false, but the evil natures of humans tries to make the false to be true. Deep within their hearts, Jesus' enemies knew fully well who He was, but they rejected Him because of their evil, stubborn pride in their hearts. The Devil can cause the evil natures of humans to desire to murder God just as the Devil so desires. John 8:44-45