To Save The World Through Him

John 3:17 – For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

John 6:29 – Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

John 10:35-36 – If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside—what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?

John 17:8,20-21 – For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me…“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

Isaiah 53:11 – After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.

Luke 2:11 – Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.

Luke 19:10 – For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

John 1:29 – The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

John 12:47 – “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

1 Timothy 1:15 – Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst.

1 John 2:2 – He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

Application:

• ·         Believing in Jesus Christ is the indispensable “work” God calls for—the one that leads to eternal life.
• ·         Jesus made an argument from the lesser to the greater: If there is any sense in which humans can be spoken of as “gods”, how much more may the term be used of Him whom the Father set apart and sent!
• ·         Three things about the disciples are mentioned: (1) They accepted the teaching. (2) They knew with certainty Jesus’ divine origin. Acceptance of that revelation led them further into truth. (3) They believed.
• ·         The unity of believers should have an effect on outsiders, to convince them of the mission of Christ.
• ·         The Spirit of knowledge rested on the Messiah.
• ·         Many Jews were looking for a political leader to deliver them from Roman rule, while others were hoping for a savior to deliver them from sickness and physical hardship.
• ·         “To seek and to save” was an important summary of Jesus’ purpose—to bring salvation, meaning eternal life, and the kingdom of God.
• ·         It may be that John chose “Lamb of God” as a unique way of referring to Jesus’ mission to point both to the sacrificial offering that Jesus would become and to His subsequent conquest of all evil powers—the two ways by which He “takes away the sin of the world”.
• ·         It is not the purpose of the sun’s shining to cast shadows, but when the sun shines, shadows are inevitable.
• ·         The closer one gets to a holy God, the more the magnitude of one’s sin becomes evident.
• ·         God, out of love, sent His Son to make substitutionary atonement for the believer’s sin.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV