Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Eight

                                                                                                                                              Verses 41-47 continued

Jesus knew that His preaching would be written in John's gospel. For this reason, Jesus not only preached the truth to those unbelievers, He preached to the entire human race. Jesus preached that every individual has a good, living nature given to them by God with the capability to hear and believe God's Word. But Jesus also preached that every human has a dark and evil nature injected into them by the Devil which prevents them from hearing the truth of God's Word. The types of lives that individual humans live depends upon which inner nature they choose for their lifestyle. But whether they choose to live good or evil lives, every human has, at one time or another, sought to be rid of God's authority and to go their own ways in life. For this reason, all humans have sinned, and many humans have invented their own destructive, moral codes, and they have rejected God's moral laws. The scribes and Pharisees ignored the true God of their scriptures, and they sought to invent their own god who would approve of their evil morals and lifestyles. They hated Jesus because He reminded them of who their true God really was.

Deep in their evil natures, all humans know that no way exists to get rid of God except to try to kill Him. For this reason, the evil natures of all humans, allied with the Devil, nailed Jesus to the cross. Acts 4:25-28. But Jesus prayed from the cross that His Father would forgive all humans for their evil because they had become so deceived by the Devil that they did not know what they were doing. They knew what they were trying to do, but they did not understand that they were actually trying to turn all of God's creations over to evil. Luke 23:34. Jesus's prayer from the cross reveals the fact that Jesus came to rescue all living humans that He creates and loves from the evil powers of the Devil who seeks to utterly destroy a part of God's creations and weaken God which would give the Devil the means to murder Him. Job 2:4-6; Job 2:9. The Devil would have succeeded in his attempt to utterly destroy the living natures of humans, and thereby, eventually murder God Himself had not Jesus, in His great Love for humanity, taken the eternal suffering that sin causes and the eternal deaths of all living humans on Himself on a cruel cross and rise triumphant over it all so that He will eventually liberate all living humans that He loves from the power of the Devil. John 12:31-32; I Timothy 6:13; Hebrews 2:9; Revelation 1:17-18; John 5:28-29; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 21:5; I Corinthians 15:22. Everything God creates can only be eternal, Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8. Therefore, since Christ "quickeneth all things" that He created, then He knows exactly how to cause all humans confined to the regions of the dead to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb so that He can raise them back to a recreated life on His new earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

Jesus further pointed out to these unbelievers something that they could not, and did not, deny. Jesus did nothing but show them His Love and compassion. For this reason, Jesus boldly charged them to name at least one sin that they had heard Him say or some sinful act that He had done. The conviction of the Holy Spirit caused them to be unable to answer Him. Jesus preached that the fact that they could not name a single sin that He had done should be proof to them that He spoke the truth to them. Jesus told them that they could not hear the truth that He preached because they adhered to their evil natures within them.