Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                  Chapter Ten

                                                                                                                                              Verses 32-39

The scripture to which Jesus referred that states that God created humans to be "gods" means He has put His image into all humans. Would God ever allow His image to be destroyed? Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Psalm 82:6. This same verse states that all humans are God's children. God loves all of His children, and since God's Love is Almighty, then the good natures that He has put into all humans can never be utterly destroyed. Jesus "shall save His people from their sins." Every living human that God ever created must be His people because He put His indestructible image within them. Matthew 1:21. Living humans can commit sins and even practice evil, but God will utterly destroy the dead, evil natures of all humans, and upon a restored repentance and faith, He will forgive and cleanse all sins. The Devil will cause excruciating pain and suffering to humans in his attempt to get even one living human to become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever, but God will not lose a single living human. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Proverbs 10:12.

These same scriptures state that God will "judge the earth," and He "shalt inherit all nations." Psalm 82:8. The only judgment that God makes of the whole earth occurs with Jesus' final judgment in the end of the world. II Timothy 4:1; Revelation 20:11. Every human has the "quick and the dead" and the "tares and the wheat" inside of them. Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 15:13. Jesus will appear to all His good, living humans confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14. Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all their systems in order to melt them so that he can separate their repentant, good natures from their evil natures. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13. Christ will resurrect all of His good, living humans from the regions of the dead and recreate them all to live forever on His new earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. Christ will cast all of their separated, evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. Psalm 82:8 further prophesies that God "shalt inherit all nations" which can only mean that God will provide a lesser form of salvation than that of grace to every living human that He ever created confined to the regions of death. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 5:28-29.

                                                                                                                                            Verses 40-42

After Jesus had caused the good natures of those who hated Him to win out over their evil natures, He returned to the Jordan river where He had been baptized by John the Baptist. There He found people who believed the preaching of John the Baptist that Jesus was the "Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." John 1:29. Jesus found some temporary rest from His spiritual battles with evil among His followers who were saved by His grace.