Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                Chapter Ten

                                                                                                                                              Verses 15-18

Jesus proclaimed that His Father knew Him because He demonstrated His Father's Love and power through the miracles that He did. Jesus further proclaimed that He knew the infinite power of His Father. Psalm 147:5. In other words, Jesus again asserted that He was God. Jesus then proclaimed that He, as God, would lay down His life for His sheep. The Old Testament teaches that all humans are God's sheep and that God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ezekiel 34:31; Psalm 100:1-3; Psalm 36:6; Psalm 119:89-91; Ecclesiastes 3:14. If all humans are God's servants then they all must be God's sheep. Jesus could only have meant that He, as God, would lay down His life to save the entire human race, some by His grace and all others with a lesser from of salvation.

Since these Jews believed that they alone were God's sheep, Jesus informed them that He would bring many other sheep into His sheepfold. Jesus actually informed them that the entire human race was God's one sheepfold. Jesus had to have meant this because He had told these Jews that they were God's sheep even though only His disciples among them believed to the extent of being saved by grace. In other words, Jesus told them that while it was true that they were God's sheep even though they were not saved by grace, the whole human race were also God's sheep.

Jesus then prophesied that His Father had given Him the power to lay down His life and to resurrect Himself from the dead. Because of the influence of evil in the hearts of every human, the entire human race attempted to murder their God, but they failed. Acts 4:25-28. Even so, Christ forgave them all as He hung upon the cross. Luke 23:34. Jesus does everything His Father does. God forgives in order to reconcile. Colossians 1:20. God has forgiven, and God will reconcile the entire human race to Himself. Colossians 1:15-23. Jesus voluntarily laid down His life, and He gave His Spirit back to His Father when He died on the cross. Luke 23:46. Jesus' Father sent His Spirit to the regions of death to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of that part of the human race who do not become saved by grace. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-28; I John 2:2. Having thus become immaculate, the Holy Spirit rose from the dead to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead victorious over all sins and evil and spiritual death itself. I Peter 3:18; Revelation 1:17-18. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized the descent of the Spirit into Hell to save all living humans confined there. Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:10. God will bring all living humans confined to the regions of death back to faith in Him as the Lamb of God, and He will resurrect them all from the dead to a new life on His new earth. Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; I Corinthians 15:22.

God has abolished death itself. I Timothy 1:10. This can only mean that all living humans that God has created and loves can never become permanently dead. God has prophesied that He will "quicken all things," which can only mean that He can never lose to permanent death any living human that He ever created. Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38. Everything that God creates can only be eternal. Psalm 111:7-8. God has promised to bring all living humans who become temporarily dead back to life. I Corinthians 15:22. God has plainly taught that He "is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe," which can only mean that He will save by His grace, and He will also save all other living humans confined to the regions of death. I Timothy 4:10. Christ "shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom." The quick and the dead reside within every human, and they are the exact opposites. II Timothy 4:1. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every human system confined to the regions of death in order to recover and recreate His repentant, living humans and cast their separated, spiritual deaths into the lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; I Corinthians 3:11-5; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

God has promised "to reconcile all things unto Himself..." in earth and Heaven, and God created all things. Colossians 1:15-23. Christ has promised that He will raise all good humans back to life from their graves, and He will condemn their dead and evil natures to the eternal lake of fire. John 5:28-29. This resurrection cannot be at the Rapture of the Church because the Christians thus raised will not be all that are in their graves, and Christ will have already annulled their dead natures when they became saved by His grace. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. No verse in the entire Bible (KJB) states that the physical deaths of humans prevents God from saving His living humans. John 11:25; II Peter 3:9. If God wills that all living humans should come to repentance, then He will certainly accomplish His Will. No one can thwart God's Will.