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The Most Excellent Gospel of John
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The 21 chapters of John are some of the most profound of all Scripture, like a fathomless sea or as the wisdom of God is described in Romans 11:33-36!
The Holy Spirit has already in the three prior Gospels presented the Lord Jesus Jehovah Christ as The King in Matthew, The Prophet in Mark, and The Priest in Luke. Now in John we have Jesus presented as the Creator God like Isaiah 40:9 said “Behold your God!” Jesus Christ is God the Son and Son of God. The purpose of John is the emphasis on the person of Jesus Christ as the eternal God Jehovah. Yes, oh yes, Jehovah is a triune God, being one God revealed in three distinct persons but as one in essence and attributes.
“Before Abraham was, I am”. John 8:58. Compare this with Exodus 3:14; Revelation 22:12-13; 21:6; 1:8, 11, 17-18, with Isaiah 41:4; 44:6; 48:12, 16-17! GLORY !!! If you follow honestly the chain of evidence in comparing the previous verses you realize that Jesus is Jehovah (LORD) as well as the Father and the Holy Spirit. This same God, the eternal WORD, came to earth and robed Himself in human flesh and walked among men: “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” John 1:14
Awesome wonderful God – all because He loved us: “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” John 10:17-18 He came to die for our sins because there was absolutely no other rescue that could be made by anyone else, anywhere, ever! The rescue entailed PAYMENT! “The wages of sin is death”. All sin must be paid for. Either we pay for it forever in the Lake of Fire (Hell) or we let Jesus Christ pay for it – for us. He has already made the perfect sacrifice of His own blood on Calvary’s Cross. This totally satisfied the justice and wrath of God on sin once and for all and forever. Believing all these things about God and ourselves ……
We then repent, i.e. change our thinking about our condition, that because of our sin we deserve Hell and we have no other hope except through Jesus Christ, we will then turn from our sinfulness and everything else we were trusting to help us (in our own minds) earn Heaven and then turn to Jesus Christ and Him alone once and for all to forgive us and save us forever! As the great John the Baptist said in John 1:29b, “Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.”