The Magnifying Glass of God's Love. John 3:16 Our looking devices are always defective and in need of repairs. The lord looks on all mankind and humanity with the same respect, Love and compassion. He doesn't look with eyes but with Love. We have all seen people destroy their bodies with drink and drugs, with promiscuous sex and its dread harvest of disease. But God threatens to allow sin to complete its work beyond the grave by destroying the soul. The soul does not perish like the body; the soul is immortal. Sinners take with them into eternity unquenchable thirsts, terrible passions and appetites, mad cravings and inflamed desires, fierce longings and furious hates, lusts and loathing's, white-hot temper and spine-chilling fear. Those destructive character traits will continue to ravage the soul and will never be either satisfied or stilled. The word perish denotes the final condition of the soul, the awful state of those who are "filthy still" Revelation 22:11 under the eye of God. But that is not what God wills for us. God would have all come to repentance. That is why the invitation of John 3:16 is universal, hinging on believing in him. Those who do, become heirs of "everlasting eternal life." The word aionios is found seventeen times in John's gospel, six times in his first epistle, and eight times in the synoptic gospels. We are engineered out of the stuff of eternity. Eternal life. The life of God himself. Thus this great sentence, which summarizes the whole gospel story, begins with God and ends with everlasting life. It begins with one who had no beginning. It ends with that which has no ending. For God So Loved the World.
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Coming from Arab, Alabama, and growing up in Tampa, Fla. I moved with my family to Georgia in 1969. I was saved by God’s marvelous Grace in September 1972 at Blue Springs Baptist Church located down the road from North Cobb High School in Acworth, Ga. Called to preach at 16...
