God's Amazing Love
John 3:16-21
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
(John 3:16)
John 3:16 is probably one of the most quoted and memorized verses in the whole of Scripture. The living God is a God of action, and He acts according to His mercy, grace and compassion. That's why He sent His one and only Son to give us eternal life.
But in light of the two conversations of Jesus with Nicodemus (John 3) and the Samaritan woman (John 4), we can appreciate the meaning of this verse even more. John has given us a "sandwich," with John 3:16 right between the two episodes. The amazing thing we see here is that God loved the world of people like Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman who were in deep darkness. God loved them so much that He was willing to send His most precious possession to give them life.
This amazing love is universal - to the Jew and Samaritan, man and woman, honorable and outcast and everything in between. Our sins are not far at all from the sins of the two characters in these chapters. So God's great love is for us, too, no matter who we are or what we have done!
INSIGHT
"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."
(John 3:17)
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Ecclesiastes 9-10
Psalm 67
John 7
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
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