Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                  Chapter Twenty One

                                                                                                                                               Verses 24-25

John affirmed that he wrote the gospel of John. John wrote it to tell the truth about Jesus' life and His mission to the earth. John wrote that Jesus did many more miracles and preached many more sermons than John could write about. John wrote that Jesus did so much that the world could not contain all of the books that could be written about Jesus. But it could be possible that if a very meticulous chronicler had followed Jesus and wrote about every miracle that He did and everything that He said, then that chronicler could have written many books about the entire ministry of Jesus on the earth. But what the Holy Spirit caused John to mean was that in all that Jesus said and did, especially in His death, burial, and resurrection, He proved that He is the Living Word of God with an infinite and eternal meaning that even enough books to fill the world could not explain.

If one believes in the Almighty Power of God over all sin, evil, and the Devil, and if one believes that the Almighty Love of God cannot fail, then one can believe that Jesus came to earth to purge His entire creation, including all living humans, of all sin, evil, and the Devil in order to recover and recreate His entire creation that He loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; I Corinthians 13:8; Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21; Luke 20:38; Luke 3:6; John 1:29; John 12:31-32; John 12:47; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-23; Hebrews 2:9-15; Matthew 28:18; Revelation 1:17-18; John 11:25-26; John 5:28-29; I John 3:8; I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 4:1; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:1-5. These scriptures, and many others, attest to the fact that God is eternal and that everything He creates is also eternal. Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; Ecclesiastes 3:14. God will annul the spiritual deaths of all living humans whom He saves by His grace. John 5:24. God will also use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve the systems of every living human confined to the regions of death in order to melt their systems to separate His living image in every one of them from their spiritual deaths so that He can recreate His living image in them and consign their spiritual deaths to the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5. God will make this separation possible because He will cause all living humans confined to the regions of death to repent and return to faith in Christ that He put into them when He created them. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11. The entire Word of God and the history of the human race attests to the fact that God always brings good out of evil, but no verse in the Word of God relates that if any human fails to repent and believe in Christ until that person's physical death, then that living human will be lost from God's Almighty love forever. In fact, John 11:25-26 refutes that very doctrine.

In John 11:25, Jesus taught that He is the One who will raise the dead back to life. He clearly taught that those living humans who happen to be physically dead who believe in Him, He will raise back to life. In John 11:26, Jesus taught that all who believe in Him while still alive in the flesh, He will save by His grace, and He will give them His eternal life. Jesus had to have meant physical death in verse 25 and physical life in verse 26 because He made a direct contrast between these two concepts