He could have loved fallen angels had such been His pleasure. The fervour and mightiness of this love arrest our attention — "so."II. But no man has ever manifested such a love as God's. But the sinful world, which He loves with the love of compassion.IV. It tarrieth not for thee: it cometh to thee as thou art. (1) Without Christ there is no recovery of what we lost, viz.,(a)The image of God. All its floating timbers are very rottenness. Our Commissioners went to the Governor of the State and got him to give his consent to grant pardons to five men on account of their good behaviour. He makes for the Saviour — he clasps Him — he cleaves to Him. The gods of heathenism received but never gave sacrifices.3. Beecher. If you enter into that, you will know that all this love is to you — that while Jehovah loves the world, yet He loves you as much as if there were nobody else in all the world to love.(C. HOW SHALL THE EXPENSE BE MET? "Well, that certainly is very easy and simple. Faith in Christ as the condition of salvation is the very heart of the Gospel. FOR WHOM WAS THE GREAT DONATION MADE? — God is love, and there is a something about love which always wins love. Do you answer, "But I am an oddity"? Young men and maidens, whosoever offers its embrace to you! God loves you now in spite of all your sins and follies. The sad condition of those whom it proposes to affects" should not perish." Whatever authority He asserts, it submits to. He that believeth not is dead already.(J. LOVE IN ITS GRANDEST SOURCE.1. Light is not more conspicuous in the sun.3. The necessity of this gift.III. But do you not need help to raise yourself?" But love on the lips of Christ has a thousandfold more meaning.2. The heathen gods demand a sacrifice, but never provide it; the gospel God both demands it and provides it. It had a great end in view which could only be secured by an unparalleled sacrifice. Compassionate: "the world."3. "Upon this, he made a second present of equal value.Faith in Christ is certain salvationC. "Whosoever believeth."1. Does blood flow towards it No: blood flows from it. Spurgeon. H. Spurgeon.When the great mutiny in India had been brought to a close, and peace was being made between the government and the rebels, the Queen caused a proclamation to be made throughout the rebel provinces that all who should lay down their arms, and come to certain appointed places by a fixed day, should receive forgiveness, with some exceptions. Be not ashamed of it.3. He pities the souls that sin has ruined.4. Barnes, D. D.These words express the substance of the gospel. It is personal.3. Little love forgets to bring water for the feet, but great love breaks its box of alabaster. The world, not hell, consequently His love was sovereign-free as opposed to necessary. But God is not man that He should be deficient.(E. No. It wants no money and no price from thee, no fitness of frames and feelings, no preparation of good works or penitence. But "God commendeth His love," etc.3. THE DOCTRINE. It is the condition of all else that is prized. No marvel that "Paul's spirit was stirred within him as he saw the city wholly given to idolatry." G. Finney, D. D.I. B. Nichol.When a shipwrecked sailor, left to the mercy of the waves, has no help within reach or view but a spar or mast, how will he cling to it, how firmly he will clasp it — he will hold it as life itself. BY THE WORTHINESS OF THE EXIT — His only begotten Son. Man redeemed and renewed is to live to the utmost of his capacity of life. I see you do. (3)In His death.3. To bestow unspeakable good.(A. If it be withheld until wrung out, or if it be offered in a surly spirit, it sinks at once in importance below the lesser boon offered in frank and spontaneous sympathy.4. Who is God? Man's true happiness must ever be found in God, and in other beings only as they are Godlike. Yet infidelity is the want of trust in God and Christ. Having eternal life. )We must believe or perishR. There is a love of friendship, brotherly love, parental love, conjugal love, a love of country or patriotism, and a love of God, or religion. Men had no claim upon Him, but there were infinite reasons why He should not destroy them. Come hither, ye astronomers, that with your optic glasses spy out spaces before which imagination staggers, come hither and encounter calculations worthy of all your powers! In God's own nature there is a necessity for His efforts for man's redemption.(H. Himself the embodiment of love, He lifts our eyes to heaven and says, God loves, not made, rules, judges, but loves; and not the Church, but the world, and every individual in it. "So God loved the world." Spurgeon. What does John 3:16 say? Beecher. The vessel is an utter wreck. There is no change in God, or in His love. Man by nature is in a state of degradation and spiritual death by reason of sin.2. J. Parry)The love of GodH. The act.. Whatever relations He assumes to God and to man, it concedes. The love of God knows no exceptions; whosoever will ,nay come.(C. Salvation is life, not in figure, but in fact. 'What!' Love is a redeeming quality among the many miseries of our fallen state. — Somebody said he would rather read "Whosoever" than see his own name, because he should be afraid it might refer to some other man who might have the same name. HOW GOD MANIFESTED THIS AFFECTION.1. They wrapped him up in their flags, they covered him with the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack, and defied the executioners. Do you think she had not natural sensitiveness? Love is a redeeming quality among the many miseries of our fallen state. It must not be the first: how could they spare their firstborn? Dyke. "Whosoever" includes all the oddities. ITS MANIFESTATION.1. It is always a sore strain on mercy when solicited for the wilful. God loved without limit of nation or condition. (3)Not fondness for particular persons. I see you do. When a man bids his son go into the tented field with every prospect of his dying for the welfare of his country, it is the highest expression of his attachment for that country.2. We must beware of making God only an infinite man; yet love in Him must be the same in kind as love in us.2. Nichol. Meeting the foreman on his way back to the shaft he asked him what he thought of God's manner of saving men. or if He be the Son of God what richer love could be exhibited?2. It extends to all mankind.II. There is nothing in the love or sacrifice of the Father and the Son to prevent the whole world being saved. Faith is different from knowledge. One of the most important and wonderful ocean currents is the Gulf Stream. Do you answer, "But I am an oddity"? It had nothing to attract it and everything to repel it.1. He had been there for nineteen years, having been placed there for life; and when he came up and took his pardon he could hardly believe his eyes, and he went back to his seat and wept like a child: and then, when the convicts were marched back to their cells, Reuben had been so long in the habit of falling into line and taking the lock step with the rest that he fell into his place, and the chaplain had to say, "Reuben, come out; you are a free man."(D. The return of Christmas should revive our hope and rekindle our zeal to spend and be spent in the Master's service.(L. Love is ever giving. God loved the world.1. S. MacArthur, D. D.)The love of God self-originatedJ. Conclusion: That is our creed.1. He gave His Son to make the atonement due to law. H. Young men and maidens, whosoever offers its embrace to you! )The Divine loveJ. J. LOVE IN ITS WIDEST SPHERE. Come ye, who map the sea and land, and make a chart of this word "so." Newton, D. D.)God's love and its giftJ. It is a necessity in the nature of things. Dyke. The thought of this awful perdition made Jesus weep over Jerusalem and say, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem: thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not."(Rev. But in the Incarnation and Propitiation was it revealed, only then did it force itself upon the obtuse vision of the world. )The word "soC. The pinch of hunger became unbearable, and their children pleading for bread tugged so painfully at their heart-strings, that they must entertain the idea of selling one to save the lives of the rest. Did the wind and the moon let it alone, the Atlantic would for ever be a pacific ocean, quiet, restful, pellucid as an inland lake; it has no power to heave itself. He takes our nature, conditions, duties, temptations, sorrows, curse, death. There must be faith.(J. Glover.I. Faith in the Son of God the condition of salvation.4. If there were any other it would shut some one out. Had God's love been such we had never been redeemed. The Father made the first donation.1. Then(1)He has so loved mankind as He has not loved other orders of creatures. It is set forth BY THE EASINESS OF THE MEANS whereby we are possessed of the profit of this gift, "That whosoever believeth." (3) The plan of salvation was not merely to save man, but to save the name, character, and government of God. Love is ever giving. The Father made the first donation.1. It is most interesting to study the character of God according to the teaching of Jesus. IN THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THIS PLAN IS AVAILABLE. His law, the order of creation, the arrangement of His providence are expressions of His love.4. It had a great end in view which could only be secured by an unparalleled sacrifice. H. Spurgeon.It is said that some years ago a vessel sailing on the northern coast of the South American continent, was observed to make signals of distress. Its first article is — GOD LOVES THE WORLD. The only title to love is to be "perishing"; the only condition of its blessings is to "believe."3. )The morality of the Evangelical faithR. (1)Not an exalted creature. Amid the hush of that gathered company the officer sternly commanded to do his duty dashed out one of the prince's eyes. This includes(1)the birth of Christ;(2)His matchless life and example; and(3)His sacrifice.III. Has God so loved the world as to give, etc.? The Cross was the self-denial of God.2. What a company would be gathered, and what an anxious inquiry there would be! 3. It had nothing to attract it and everything to repel it.1. He represented the Divine Being as a Father who yearned for the return of his prodigal child, welcomed him home, receiving him with open arms and open heart, bidding all his household help him to tell the world his joy, "Rejoice with me, for this my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found." I need not tell you who looked after him. "Read it again," asked the arrested pagan. THE PROMISE. God can love and does love. Coley. The Divine love is not the effect, but the cause. All our training in this world is a training for faith. A man had been condemned in a Spanish court to be shot, but being an American citizen and also of English birth, the consuls of the two countries interposed, and declared that the Spanish authorities had no power to put him to death. The part which the Son took in this stupendous work.4. "Yes," was the reply. Guiness Rogers, B. A.I. He that believeth not is dead already.(J. Guiness Rogers, B. A.I. Without an immediate reply to his remark the preacher asked, "How do you get out of this place?" For the object of His love is not the world in its first condition when He pronounced it "very good," but the world ruined by sin and condemned for apostasy. these exceptions. How sad that they should perish for lack of knowledge! (2) The Redeemer was "given," not to be a mere teacher or example, but to be the propitiation for sin.3. Zealous.5. "But what about the people who sunk the shaft, and perfected all this arrangement? )The love of GodA. This life in all its perfection is the end of God. This will be evidenced if you consider —1. But there may be little knowledge and strong faith, and much knowledge and no faith. Then(1)He has so loved mankind as He has not loved other orders of creatures. Repent of treating it so negligently.2. He had been there for nineteen years, having been placed there for life; and when he came up and took his pardon he could hardly believe his eyes, and he went back to his seat and wept like a child: and then, when the convicts were marched back to their cells, Reuben had been so long in the habit of falling into line and taking the lock step with the rest that he fell into his place, and the chaplain had to say, "Reuben, come out; you are a free man."(D. )The love of GodJ. When He promises, faith relies on Him to fulfil. (4)But His only begotten, well beloved, and everlasting Son.III. (3) But familiarity has deadened the force and beauty of this great Bible truth in those who have heard it so often. In the Person of the only begotten Son of God.III. Free as the sun that shineth, and gilds the mountain's brow, and makes glad the valleys without fee or reward, so free is the mercy of God to every needy sinner. Young men and maidens, whosoever offers its embrace to you! An endless conscious existence in the outer darkness, perishing and no end to this perishing, II. The return of Christmas should revive our hope and rekindle our zeal to spend and be spent in the Master's service.(L. Salvation is life, not in figure, but in fact. The act.. But "God commendeth," etc.(A. Moody. headed sinner to the boy or maiden.2. (2) The Redeemer was "given," not to be a mere teacher or example, but to be the propitiation for sin.3. When He commands, faith accepts His precepts as the perfect law of life. All through the ages it governed the world with a view to its final redemption. It is to assure us that while the love of God may be traced in every object in nature, and read on every page of Providence, as the colours of the rainbow may be found in every ray of silvery sun-light, yet the brightest and the fullest manifestation of it is in the mission of Jesus into the world to save sinners. Spurgeon. 3. The resources of the Giver are infinite; but in the donation of Christ you see the limits of possibility. To part is to perish; and so he clings — and how anxiously! Most self-denying.6. WE LIVE IN THE GLORIOUS DAY OF SALVATION! What will the king do? LOVE IN ITS WIDEST SPHERE. O. Yea, but though never so excellent a gift be given, yet if it be not of use and profit to whom it is given, it doth not so testify love. A. (1)No other mercy can be so dear to God as Jesus is. As sin is this it cannot be treated lightly. The God of the Bible.2. Eternal life the gift of Divine love to all who believe in Christ.II. There we see the reign of law: sin and suffer. Why? Most self-denying.6. It takes its rise in the Gulf of Mexico and sweeps across through the heart of the mighty Atlantic to the Arctic Seas; and by its strong currents, more rapid than that of the Mississippi, it engulfs every other ocean stream that comes athwart its course, making it tributary to its own grand mission of washing the shores and ameliorating the climate of the sea-bound countries of Europe. O. )The love of GodJ. It is compassionate. If it be withheld until wrung out, or if it be offered in a surly spirit, it sinks at once in importance below the lesser boon offered in frank and spontaneous sympathy.4. There must be faith.(J. THE WAY GOD TOOK TO EXPRESS HIS LOVE. )The word "soC. Beecher. From the moralist to the utterly vile; from the grey. There is a love of friendship, brotherly love, parental love, conjugal love, a love of country or patriotism, and a love of God, or religion. It has been the custom of some, a custom too much prevailing, to represent God as being under no manner of obligation to do anything for His creatures after they had broken His law. (9)It was forbearing. "Simply by getting into the cage," was the reply. Lewis, B. A.I. — "Whosoever" has a finger for babes, and an arm for old men; it has an eye for the quick, and a smile for the dull. J. Parry)The love of GodH. The affection and the yearning of heart towards His erring creatures was just the same in God before Christ came, that Christ showed it to be while He was on earth. But do you not need help to raise yourself?" R. )God's love for the worldA. THE MEANS BY WHICH WE BECOME PERSONALLY INTERESTED IN THIS GIFT.1. J. Morris.I. Spurgeon.)WhosoeverD. The same reasons upon which His love of individuals is justified will justify His love to all.II. (4)We ought to love one another.(R. "Upon this, he made a second present of equal value.Faith in Christ is certain salvationC. Love IN ITS LOFTIEST PURPOSE. (1)Negative: "should not perish. The shaft is a thousand feet deep, and it was sunk at great cost to the proprietors; but it is our way out, and without it we should never be able to get to the surface." (2)In His birth in time. All its floating timbers are very rottenness. LOVE IN ITS SUBLIMEST MANIFESTATION. The text before us was read. H. Spurgeon.We lately read in the papers an illustration of the way of salvation. H. Why? MEN NEED DELIVERANCE FROM DEATH.II. The first cause of redemption — the love of God to man. He makes for the Saviour — he clasps Him — he cleaves to Him. (2) By those who suppose that the Bible represents God as originally a stern and inexorable Being placated by Christ, and that now He is only mild and benignant to a few.2. Man's true happiness must ever be found in God, and in other beings only as they are Godlike. D. Barrows.I. What He gave — His Son. But no man has ever manifested such a love as God's. God sacrificed the highest of all persons.IV. THE SPECIAL FRUIT OF THE DIVINE LOVE. Behold the image of the invisible God lifted up on Calvary. H. God sacrificed the highest of all persons.IV. "(1) The designation of the Redeemer is peculiar and significant. THE MEANS BY WHICH WE BECOME PERSONALLY INTERESTED IN THIS GIFT.1. Zealous.5. )The morality of the Evangelical faithR. ITS NATURE.1. (3)It was good-will or benevolence. )LinksJohn 3:16 NIVJohn 3:16 NLTJohn 3:16 ESVJohn 3:16 NASBJohn 3:16 KJVJohn 3:16 Bible AppsJohn 3:16 ParallelJohn 3:16 Biblia ParalelaJohn 3:16 Chinese BibleJohn 3:16 French BibleJohn 3:16 German BibleJohn 3:16 CommentariesBible Hub, (3)Now, through Christ, in harmony once more: without Christ, still at enmity.4. "Whosoever believeth."1. "Ye have believed that I came out from God. But oh! MEN NEED DELIVERANCE FROM DEATH.II. To exhort us —(1)To improve this love. How sad that they should perish for lack of knowledge! There we see the reign of law: sin and suffer. ", 4. S. MacArthur, D. D.)The love of God self-originatedJ. The world's misery and peril were caused by itself. Not the mere acceptance, however cordial, of the Christian creed. But do you not need help to raise yourself?" On one occasion a missionary was dictating to a native amanuensis the translation of the First Epistle, and when he reached the passage, "Now are we the sons of God," the poor child of heathenism burst into tears, and exclaimed, " It is too much, it is too much; let me put it, Now are we permitted to kiss His feet."(A. BY THE MEASURE OF IT. Beecher. The condition upon which He will do it. Therefore —V. The text teaches that God was originally disposed to show mercy. — God is love, and there is a something about love which always wins love. Consider —1. When a man bids his son go into the tented field with every prospect of his dying for the welfare of his country, it is the highest expression of his attachment for that country.2. Love is a redeeming quality among the many miseries of our fallen state. )Believe onlyC. It existed from the first; only a century or two ago was it made manifest. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son," etc. Hell yawns beneath to engulf him. The same reasons upon which His love of individuals is justified will justify His love to all.II. THE DUTY. It has been the custom of some, a custom too much prevailing, to represent God as being under no manner of obligation to do anything for His creatures after they had broken His law. The world was guilty. Most self-denying.6. Guiness Rogers, B. A.I. One of the most important and wonderful ocean currents is the Gulf Stream. Christ finds us where Adam left us (John 3:18). Salvation is life, not in figure, but in fact. "Read it again," asked the arrested pagan. He permitted His Son to perish from among men "that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life."(C. You must add to it the story of the saintliness, heroism, righteousness, and charity of sixty generations; even then it remains a fragment still.IV. Man's true happiness must ever be found in God, and in other beings only as they are Godlike. He had but one Son — His only begotten. On one occasion a missionary was dictating to a native amanuensis the translation of the First Epistle, and when he reached the passage, "Now are we the sons of God," the poor child of heathenism burst into tears, and exclaimed, " It is too much, it is too much; let me put it, Now are we permitted to kiss His feet."(A. Let the world know that when the king gives he gives generously, like a king.' (1)Negative: "should not perish. As sin is this it cannot be treated lightly. This will show that the love of the king was seen all the more from the justice of his administration.(S. For the fact is, whenever the "world" is applied to a portion of mankind it always means the wicked. Faith in Christ as the condition of salvation is the very heart of the Gospel. "(2)Positive: "have everlasting life."(R. H. Faith is the root of morality as well as the condition of pardon. Kings and queens may find room in it; and so may thieves and beggars. This life in all its perfection is the end of God. (1) This is a doctrine distinctive of the Bible. H. Spurgeon. THE PROMISE. (1) Without Christ there is no recovery of what we lost, viz.,(a)The image of God. Dyke. )The cost and cheapness of salvationW. A second time he beckoned to Reuben, and called to him, and the second time the man looked around to see where Reuben was, until at last the chaplain said to him, "You are the man, Reuben;" and he rose up out of his seat and sank back again, thinking it could not be true. It is most interesting to study the character of God according to the teaching of Jesus. Hell yawns beneath to engulf him. Nothing can be simpler or more common than trust, the child's first lesson and act. Good and bad, honourable or disreputable, this "whosoever" speaks to you all with equal truth! Evangelical Christians have claimed one of these truths as pre-eminently their own. The gift.2. Who shall head the subscription? Thomas, D. D.It is not like a banquet, accommodated to the tastes and wants of so many and no more. A man had been condemned in a Spanish court to be shot, but being an American citizen and also of English birth, the consuls of the two countries interposed, and declared that the Spanish authorities had no power to put him to death. Negatively: that man might not loose himself utterly from God, duty, happiness. Beith, D. D.)God's love to the worldBible Notes and Queries.This verse is one of the gems of the Bible, a star of the first magnitude. Such a gift as that of His only begotten Son is the highest conceivable gift, and this Christ intends to convey. To perish is to lose all hope in Christ, all trust in God, all light in life, all peace in death, all joy.V. He could not take delight in it, but He did wish it well.2. The Governor said the record was to be kept secret; the men were to know nothing about it; and at the end of six months the criminals were brought out, the roll was called, and the President of the Commission came up and spoke to them; then putting his hand in his pocket he drew out the papers and said to those 1,100 convicts, 'I hold in my hand pardons for five men.' Good and bad, honourable or disreputable, this "whosoever" speaks to you all with equal truth! "Now fire a shot if you dare, for if you do so, you defy the nations represented by those flags, and you will bring the powers of those two great empires upon you." Negatively: that man might not loose himself utterly from God, duty, happiness. H. This life in all its perfection is the end of God. He must stand by it to retrieve its honour.4. HOW GOD IS AFFECTED TOWARDS THE COSMOS: He loved it.1. ness, she goeth on conquering and to conquer. "(1) The designation of the Redeemer is peculiar and significant. The text teaches that God was originally disposed to show mercy. It is doubtless better to have a firm than a weak faith. BY THE FRUIT OF HIS LOVE. (2) God was originally so full of mercy that He was willing to stoop to any sacrifice except that of truth and justice in order to save man. This is illustrated in the miracles of Christ. — When William Knibb had been preaching from this text in Jamaica, returning home he came up with an old black woman, and he said to her, "What do you think of the great love of God?" This responsibility can only be discharged and the sinner saved by accepting the donation of Christ.4. But do you not need help to raise yourself?" J. ParryWe often hear of counter currents, but was there ever such a counter current as is implied here! Blood to the image: that is' the essence of paganism. THE REASON FOR THIS WONDERFUL MEASURE OF THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT. God did not so love the world that any man that does not believe in Jesus shall be saved. They wrapped him up in their flags, they covered him with the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack, and defied the executioners. J. The ocean of wrath surrounds him; its billows and its waves go over him. He represented God as the Good Shepherd, who goes after the lost one until it is found, and bears it to His home upon His shoulders with rejoicing. Faith is the root of morality as well as the condition of pardon. "Now fire a shot if you dare, for if you do so, you defy the nations represented by those flags, and you will bring the powers of those two great empires upon you." Whitefield the Calvinist and Wesley the Arminian differed on many points, but when a man asked, "What must I do to be saved?" Unspeakable: "so"II. Love is a redeeming quality among the many miseries of our fallen state. The life and death of Christ was but the working out of the love of God. (3) The plan of salvation was not merely to save man, but to save the name, character, and government of God. But in the Incarnation and Propitiation was it revealed, only then did it force itself upon the obtuse vision of the world. This is restored by Christ, who is the pattern (2 Corinthians 3:18) and author (Titus 3:5, 6). "But what about the people who sunk the shaft, and perfected all this arrangement? C. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. Newton, D. D.)God's love and its giftJ. The world — not a part of it. ITS MANNER. "And does it take long to get to the top?" In God's own nature there is a necessity for His efforts for man's redemption.(H. (c)Fellowship with God (Genesis 3:24; el. This involves them in the greatest responsibility.3. (8)It was not for a single Christian as such, but for a world of sinners. MEN NEED DELIVERANCE FROM DEATH.II. 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