Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                  Chapter Twenty

                                                                                                                                               Verses 30-31

John attested to the fact that Jesus had performed many other miracles which he did not write about in his gospel. The gospels record that Jesus healed thousands and performed many other miracles. Jesus came to earth when great darkness covered the Western world and when demons were extremely active. He came as the Light of the world. John 8:12. In humanity's darkest hour, Jesus came to save humanity from eternal death. Romans 5:20-21; Hebrews 2:9. The Old Testament and God's righteous Law was there, but humans were too weakened by an inner death to obey it. Romans 3:19-20. Evil and the Devil had power over all humans, and Satan meant to reduce all living humans that God creates and loves to eternal death. Genesis 2:17. Humans needed God's grace and mercy which can only be activated by faith. Romans 5:1-2. Humans were in a hopeless situation, but then Jesus came. Matthew 1:18-25.

John wrote his gospel so that the Holy Spirit could cause all who read it or hear it preached to repent of their sins and come to faith in Jesus Christ as their true Savior, the Messiah, and that He is the Son of God. In writing his gospel, John no doubt directed it to all humans who would believe while still alive in the flesh, and who would receive salvation by grace. Repentance and faith causes the Almighty Power of God to take over in a person's life. Humans cannot save themselves, but God can. In their weakness caused by inner eternal death, humans cannot avoid sin, but God took that sin, and eternal death itself, on Himself on a cross to take it all away from all humans. Hebrews 2:9. When a person becomes saved by grace, the Holy Spirit thoroughly cleanses the inner being of that believer with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and the Holy Spirit gives to that believer the perfect life of Christ Himself by which that believer can become just as acceptable to a Holy God as Jesus Himself happens to be. John 17:23; Colossians 3:1-4.

But since God can never lose anything He has ever created, and since His Love cannot fail, then the Almighty Intellect of God had to have devised a plan to bring the rest of humanity not saved by grace to faith that Christ can save them too with a lesser form of salvation. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. God clearly promised in Revelation 21:5 that He "will make all things new." Every human happens to be a part of the "all things" that God has created. This verse alone can only mean that God must recover all living humans from the regions of death and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12. Jesus suffered the eternal death of every human which can only mean that He took eternal death away from every living human that He creates and loves. Hebrews 2:9. These verses go on to describe the two ways in which Christ will save all living humans that He creates and loves. Hebrews 2:9-15. Hebrews 2:10-13 describes how God saves His children through His grace. But Hebrews 2:14-15 describes God's lesser form of salvation of the rest of humanity. All living humans that God creates are His children, and He saves some of them by His grace. Hebrews 2:13; Acts 17:29. Jesus took the eternal deaths of all living humans on Himself on the cross so that He could utterly destroy all eternal deaths that the Devil has inflicted on the entire human race. John 12:31-32; John 16:11. Jesus came to utterly destroy all of the evil works of the Devil, not living humans. I John 3:8. All humans are subject to a fear of death which has held them in bondage, but Christ has delivered them all from that bondage. Hebrews 2:15; I Timothy 4:10. But no human can be saved without faith in the power of God to save them. But in God's Almighty Intellect and in the fact that His Love cannot fail, He has devised a plan to cause all living humans to return to faith in His power to save them either by His grace or with a lesser form of salvation. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; John 11:25-26.