John 3:10-17

As Believers we will never fully comprehend what God has prepared for us who love Him and are called by Him for His glory. God loves His creation. He will go to great lengths to save us from ourselves. Look closely into the face of your Creator and live!

No one will ever love you like He does…no one!

With this title—the Greek equivalent of “rabbi”—Jesus places Nicodemus among the educated elite of Judaism. Jesus can attest to both worldly and heavenly truths, but Nicodemus needs to be willing to accept His witness. Jesus is alluding to His heavenly origin. Since He comes from heaven, He is qualified to speak authoritatively about heavenly things. The Son of man be lifted up alludes to both the crucifixion and the exaltation of Jesus in His death and resurrection. The verses present a concise summary of the gospel message, tying the events of Jesus’ death to God’s love for the world He created. The statement is remarkable in its depiction of divine care for the entire world—not just His chosen people, Israel. As one sent by God, Jesus fully represented Him on earth. Faithlife Bible.

Jesus answered Nicodemus’s question, but first He rebuked Nicodemus for being a teacher of the Hebrew Scriptures and not knowing about spiritual birth. Jesus had others in mind beyond Nicodemus. Jesus rebuked not only Nicodemus, but the other Pharisees as well.  Nicodemus may have believed in Jesus’ miracles the majority of the Jewish council did not. Nicodemus, referring to the new birth, asks, “How can these things be?” Jesus answers the question. New birth is by the Son, by the Cross, and by faith.  When Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, those who looked at it lived. So it is with the Son of Man. When a person trusts Christ, he or she is born again and receives eternal and spiritual life, God’s kind of life. God’s love is not restricted to any one nation or to any spiritual elite. World here may also include all of creation. At His first coming, Jesus came so that the world through Him might be saved. When Jesus comes again, He will come in judgment upon those who refused His offer of salvation. NKJ Bible.

John 3:10-17

10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Numbers 21:9 | So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

Proverbs 30:4 | Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son’s name,If you know?

Isaiah 9:6 | For unto us a Child is born,Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Matthew 11:27 | All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.