Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                  Chapter Eight

                                                                                                                                               Verse 34-38

Jesus then clearly preached to these unbelievers that His message was about spiritual liberation from the bondage of sin, not physical liberation. These Jews looked for Jesus to liberate them from bondage to the Romans, and they ignored the fact that their main problem was their bondage to sin and the Devil which their own scriptures taught them.

Jesus used the word "house" as having a symbolic meaning. It seems to have meant all of God's creations, which also could mean the Kingdom of God. God's servants, who happen to be every human who ever lived, cannot stay within the Kingdom of God unless they become saved by grace. They cannot remain within the Kingdom of God because the sin and evil within them causes God to have to consign their living souls and spirits along with their dead and evil natures to the regions of death after their physical deaths. Their living souls and spirits have become stained by sin, and God cannot allow sin and evil to remain within His creations. The regions of death lie outside the Kingdom of God. Psalm 119:89-91; Hebrews 9:27. Physical death, in itself, cannot be a punishment for sin and evil. Physical death merely translates a believer saved by grace to Heaven, or it causes God to have to consign the living souls and spirits of those who have become marred by sin and evil to the regions of spiritual death. But God has a plan to save all living humans confined to the regions of death by bringing them all back to faith in the Lamb of their own free will but with a lesser form of salvation. Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:20-25; John 11:25; John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:5; Hebrews 9:27.

Every human created in God's image resides within the Kingdom of God and is therefore a servant of God. Luke 17:20-21. Every individual happens to be born with a good and living nature given by God, and with a dead and evil nature injected into them by the Devil. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:30; Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12. But if the living souls and spirits that God has created can become so corrupted by sin and evil that they become lost forever from God's creations in a lake of fire, then God will have lost a part of His creations, and that He cannot do. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Besides that, God has promised that He will "make all things new," which can only mean His entire creations. Revelation 21:5.

When an unbeliever dies, God must cast their living souls and spirits into one of the regions of death because they have become marred and corrupted by sin and evil, which is also spiritual death. But Jesus gives them hope because He abides within His creations forever, which means His Love abides forever. His Love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8.

Jesus preached to them that those who commit sin are the servants of sin which would cause them to die in their sins, but He also preached that He had the power to liberate them from bondage to sin and the Devil if they would only believe in His power to do so while they were still alive in the flesh.

Jesus further preached to them that He knew that they were Abraham's seed by which He meant that He knew that they knew that they were God's chosen people and special servants of God, and yet even so, their evil natures within them sought to murder Jesus. The evil natures of all humans have, at one time or another, sought to be rid of God's Love and authority. Acts 4:25-28. That evil desire to murder God nailed Jesus to a cruel cross, but in His great Love for all His living humans, Jesus voluntarily took their sins and evil natures on Himself on a cruel cross so that He could forever rescue and separate their living natures from their dead and evil nature for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

Jesus further informed them that He preached in the Will of His Father, but they sought to murder Him because of the evil influence of their father who is the Devil.