Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                    Chapter Fourteen

                                                                                                                                              Verses 28-31 continued

When Jesus told His disciples that the Devil had nothing in Him, He meant that He was absolutely perfect. The Devil injects spiritual death which is evil into every human, but not Jesus. The weakness in free will that caused Adam to sin has caused all human to have that same weakness, but the Devil has made it spiritual death. Sin causes spiritual death and spiritual death, in turn, causes sin. Romans 5:12. Because of spiritual death, the Devil has a claim on all human souls and spirits to hold them in the regions of death forever, but Jesus broke that claim. Jesus came into the world as God in human form, and as absolutely perfect, because He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. Matthew 1:18-25. Jesus inherited no weakness and spiritual death from Adam. When Jesus hung on the cross, the Devil thought that Jesus' terrible suffering would weaken Him to the point that the Devil would be able to make Him sin so that he could inject spiritual death into Him and be able to murder Him and hold Him in Hell forever. Jesus did become sin because he bore the sins and spiritual deaths of every human who ever lived on His cross, but Jesus never became evil. Jesus became sin, but He did not personally sin. II Corinthians 5:21. Jesus suffered the spiritual deaths of every human for them so that they would not have to suffer it themselves, and He took away all their sins that cause spiritual death. Hebrews 2:9; Revelation 1:5. In fact, Jesus' self-sacrifice in the place of all of humanity became the greatest act of love and compassion that has ever been. John 3:16; John 15:13. As Jesus bore the sins and evil of all humans on the cross, the Holy Spirit carried His shed blood and water to cleanse and forgive all humans who would become saved by His grace. I Corinthians 6:11. When Jesus' Spirit descended into Hell, He left behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity so that Jesus could appear to them near the end of the world, and upon their repentance and faith of them all, He would provide a lesser form of salvation for them all by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. Acts 2:25-31; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14. The Old Testament sin offering symbolized Christ's salvation by grace. Genesis 3:21; Exodus 12:5-8; Leviticus 5:5-9. The Old Testament burnt offering symbolized Christ's salvation of the rest of humanity by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Genesis 8:20-21; Exodus 12:8- 11; Leviticus 5:10. When the Holy Spirit rose from Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus, He came forth from the grave victorious over all of the sins and evil of all humanity. Revelation 1:17-18.

In the last verse of this chapter, Jesus prophesied that the whole world, meaning all of humanity, would eventually learn that He loves His Father and that He has obeyed His Father. Most of humanity knows nothing about that. The only way Jesus' prophecy can come true will be if He saves the entire human race. Jesus obeyed His Father's command to save the entire human race, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service near the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; John 12:44-50; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I Corinthians 15:20-28; John 5:28-29; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Timothy 1:10; Matthew 13:36-43; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 8:18-23; II Peter 3:9-13. The Almighty Love of God cannot fail to save all of humanity. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8.