Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                  Chapter Fifteen

                                                                                                                                              Verses 6-8 continued

 Jesus taught in the King James Bible, which is the inerrant and infallible Word of God, that He can raise back to life those who believe in Him after their physical deaths. John 11:25. The doctrine that God cannot, or will not, save unbelievers after their physical deaths seems to be a doctrine that physical death limits the Almighty Power and the Almighty Love of God. God's Almighty Power and Love cannot be limited by anything. Nothing is impossible with God. Luke 1:37. If physical death limits God's Power, how could Jesus have ever raised anyone from the dead? John 11:43-44. God never limits His Almighty Power. In fact, God can use even the absolute nothingness of an eternal lake of fire to trap evil forever within its bounds so that evil can never infect His recreation of Heaven and earth again. II Peter 9:9-13.

No verse in the entire Bible (KJB) teaches that God cannot, or will not, save unbelievers after their physical deaths. But many passages in the Bible teach that God will eventually save from eternal death every living human that He has ever created and loves either by His shed blood and water on the cross or with His fiery wrath against evil. The Old Testament sin offering symbolized God's salvation by His grace, and the burnt offering symbolized God's salvation of the rest of all living humans by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Genesis 3:8-21; Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:7-10; Psalm 75:3; Isaiah 66:18-24; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:6; Luke 20:38; John 5:28-29; John 11:25; Romans 8:18-23; I Corinthians 15:20-28; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Colossians 1:15-23; I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 4:1; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5. These name only some of these scriptures. The logic of Revelation 21:5 seems to be inescapable. God will make all things new. God created all things. Revelation 4:11. Since God created all things, then He created all living humans. Genesis 1:27. Therefore, God must recreate all living humans. Revelation 21:1-5.

Only Jesus' disciples abide in Him. Only His believers saved by grace who read His Word and adhere to its teachings, attend a true church, repent every day of their sins and pray for the Holy Spirit to keep them out of sin, and live as a witness to others of their faith, are His disciples. Backsliders temporarily move away from abiding in Christ. Peter became a temporary backslider when he denied that he knew the Lord, but he repented. Luke 22:61-62. Christ has promised that He will present His Church to God as being absolutely pure and glorious. Ephesians 5:25-27. This promise can only mean that in the Rapture of the Church, Christ will recover all backsliders and cause them all to repent and return to abiding in Him. II Timothy 2:12-13. Christ may have to consign some backsliders to a temporary torment to correct them until they repent, but all of His backslidden saints will repent and return to full faith in Him because Christ will thoroughly cleanse and recover His entire Church when He Raptures it. Matthew 18:32-35. Christ taught that He cannot lose a single one of His believers. John 10:26-30.

God possesses Almighty Power and Intellect. He knows exactly how to cause all living humans, sooner or later, to repent and return of their own free will to the faith that He put into them when He created them in His image. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. God will forever save by His grace those who believe in His Son while still alive in the flesh, and He will provide a lesser form of salvation for all living humans temporarily consigned to the regions of death when He appears to them in a great worship service near the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14.