Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                 Chapter Twelve

                                                                                                                                              Verses 44-50

Jesus returned to the Jews and preached again. Jesus emphasized the necessity for faith in Him as being God in human form. Jesus consistently countered the belief of many of the Jews that He was just a prophet. Jesus plainly told them that when they saw Him, they saw their Father. Jesus' bold claim to be their God among them must have stunned them and enraged the Pharisees. But Jesus knew that faith in Him as being God in human form happened to be absolutely necessary for anyone to become saved by His grace. Jesus greatly desires that all who hear or read His Word would believe in Him as their God and spiritual Savior and become saved by grace. But He also knows that few that hear His gospel will ever repent and believe that He is God who laid down His life to save them by His grace. Matthew 7:13-14.

Jesus then preached about what faith in Him as their Savior and God would do for them. Faith in Him would be like turning on a light in a very dark place. His spiritual light would dispel all of the darkness of evil inside every believer. When any person repents of their sins, and no one can truly repent without faith, and believes in Christ as their God and Savior, then the Holy Spirit comes into the inner being of that believer and turns on the light of God's Love and forgiveness. The Holy Spirit washes away all of that believer's sins and evil within their soul and spirit with the blood of Christ, and He recreates that believer's soul and spirit by giving that believer the perfect righteousness of Christ Himself. This recreation by the Holy Spirit also annuls the believer's spiritual death. When this spiritual salvation happens to a believer, that person will know that God's Light has been turned on inside of them, and that believer will now see the world with the Light of God's Love. John3:3; John 5:24; I John 1:7; I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:17; II Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 5:22-24; I John 3:24.

Jesus then clearly proclaimed that He would not judge unbelievers while He was in the world in human form. This can only mean that He did not judge unbelievers while He hung on the cross. This revelation by Jesus reinforced His description of what kind of judgment He would make when He would be nailed to the cross. Jesus specifically said that in His crucifixion He would cast out the Devil and all of his evil works, not living humans whom He creates and loves. Just as Jesus refused to put a curse on Adam and Eve and all of their descendants in the garden, so He would not put a curse on any unbeliever when He hung on the cross by condemning their souls and spirits to an eternal lake of fire in a future judgment. Jesus will cast only dead humans, separated from every living human by His fiery wrath against evil, into the lake of fire in His final judgment. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

Jesus taught that two types of unbelief exist. There exists an unbelief which is a sin against Him committed by living humans under the influence of their dead, spiritual natures. Christ can and will cleanse and forgive this type of unbelief because He will eventually cause all living humans to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God. He will save some by His grace and all others confined to the regions of death in a great worship service in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. The other type of unbelief happens to be a complete rejection of the Holy Spirit which is totally evil and can never be forgiven. This type of unbelief adheres only to the spiritual death that the Devil has injected into all living humans. God will eventually cause all of His living humans to repent and believe so that he can cleanse and forgive them of the unbelief that stains their living natures, and He will cast their dead natures, along with their totally evil unbelief, into the lake of fire. Matthew 12:31-32.

Jesus then proclaimed that He did not come to judge the world, meaning every living human who will ever live. He clearly revealed that He came to save the world, meaning every living human who will ever live. Jesus suffered and bore the sins and evil of every living human who would ever live on His cross and died in their place so that He could purge them all of the influence of the Devil that he exerts through the spiritual death that he has injected into their inner natures. Christ will save some living humans by His grace when they repent and believe while still alive in the flesh, and He will save the rest of humanity confined to the regions of death with a lesser form of salvation when He appears to them in a great worship service near the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. If Jesus had not come to the world to take the sins and spiritual deaths of all living humans on Himself on a cruel cross and gain complete victory over all evil, spiritual death, and the Devil himself by His resurrection from the dead, then the Devil would win by causing all living humans to become confined to the regions of death, become totally evil, and lost from God's Love forever. But God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; I Corinthians 13:8; Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18; Revelation 21:5.