45 Days To Read The Gospel Challenge – The Gospel of John Chapter 3: Jesus Did Not Come to Condemn the World but to Save the World. John 3:16KJV

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Time: 35 minutes to complete lesson: 20 minutes to read the entire post and take the interactive quiz, additional 15 minutes to view video resource and comment on social media.

 

How to Get the Most Out of The Challenge

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Transcript:  HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS CHALLENGE

Step One.  Start in the order of: the Gospel of John, Luke, Mark and Matthew for understanding.

The instructions are designed for accessibility and ensures the learner is not overwhelmed and confused. Post your questions in the comment section and the author will answer you. Please share your experiences and opinions.

Step Two.  Each lesson takes about 35 minutes to complete: 20 min to study the lesson and take the quiz. 15 minutes to read the Bible resource

It is recommended to read the entire post and then take the quiz before reading or listening to the bible resources. Each lesson is self-contained and includes all resources needed.

Step 3:  You should complete two lessons a day.  5 Days a week in order to complete the “45 Days to Read The Gospel Challenge in 45 days”.

There is no law that says you have to complete these lessons in 45 days. You are free to work at your own pace. Study the lesson and take the quiz in the morning, and later listen to or read the bible resources.

Step 4: Get organize with pen and paper.  Take notes.  Each lesson contains: Header Sections (Table of Contents): (1) chapter summary, (2) objectives, (3) outline, (4) reflection question,  (5) chapter highlights, (6) resources, (7) interactive quiz, and (8) a call to salvation.

Step 5: Enjoy.  The Gospel Changes Lives.  Get active and communicate with others. Share the lessons with friends. No stress. Work at your own pace. Upon satisfactory completion you will receive a personal Certificate

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Isaiah 9:6 KJV“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son, is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

 

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Before Starting this Course: 

 

 

Overview of The Gospel of John:

The Gospel of John is written by one of Jesus Christ’s disciples, John, the son of Zebedee. This Gospel is 21 Chapters long.  John is described as the “Disciple of Whom Jesus loved”.  It has been determined by biblical scholars that John wrote The Gospel of John (also known as “According to John”).

  It was written around A.D. 80-90, about 50 years after he witnesses Jesus’ earthly ministry under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and as an eyewitness in composing the gospel. He is not John the Baptist. However, in this book, John the Baptist is discussed.   

The Gospel of John explains who Jesus Christ is before creation. It establishes his deity as Creator of the World, The Father (I AM), and is the long-awaited Messiah, the Son of God in the flesh.

Its purpose is to explain that even though Jesus is the Creator and God (I AM), believers are to understand that Jesus is the Son of God that came in the flesh and yet while we were sinners, died for our sins and rose again to become Savior of the World-reconnecting us to God. That is why we pray to the father in Jesus Christ’s name. 

Defeating death and sin by the shedding of his blood and life, Jesus gives the gift of everlasting life with repentance. That by believing you may have life in his name (20:31)  John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” 

God is omnipresent meaning he can be in more than one place at the same time. He can be on earth (flesh) and in heaven (spirit) at the same time. 

 Revelation 19:6  “And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.”  

Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son, is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

45 Days To Read The Gospel Challenge – The Gospel of John Chapter Three: Jesus Did Not Come to Condemn the World but to Save the World. John 3:16KJV

 

 

 

45 Days To Read The Gospel Challenge – The Gospel of John Chapter Three: Jesus Did Not Come to Condemn the World but to Save the World. John 3:16KJV

 

Time: 35 minutes to complete lesson: 20 minutes to read the entire post and take the interactive quiz, additional 15 minutes to review video resources and comment on social media.

 

Overview of  The Gospel of John Chapter Three:

In this chapter, Jesus gives an explanation of how a person can be saved. 

1. Jesus emphasizes that a person must believe that He (Jesus Christ) is the Son of God that died for our sins and rose again. 

John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” 

** Editor’s Note: Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord Romans 10:9-10.   

2. Be baptized (born again) in order to get into the kingdom of heaven. 

3. Jesus also emphasizes He is the only way to salvation and heaven and if rejected the person faces condemnation already.   Jeremiah 15:19  ¹⁹Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee, but return not thou unto them.

Note Romans 10:9-10  9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. 

John 3:18  “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” 

 

Chapter Three: Learning Objectives

A. Understand God’s Love for Humanity: John 3:16 and its significance for believers.

B. Define the Concept of Being ‘Born Again and its importance in the Christian faith.

C. Explain the Purpose of Jesus’ Mission:  God sent Jesus into the world and the role He plays in God’s plan for salvation.

 

Outline for Chapter Three:

A. Nicodemus visits Jesus: Jesus explains the importance of being spiritually reborn.

B. The mission of Jesus: Understanding the Father’s love and Jesus’ purpose.

C. John the Baptist’s testimony: John baptizes and declares Jesus as the Messiah.

 

Reflection: Something to think about.

Do you remember when you gave your life to Jesus Christ?  How old were you?  Where were you?  If you have not done so, please do so today. Ask your friends and family members do they remember the experience.  If you are not saved and want to be, see the offer to salvation below.  Post all comments below in the comment section or on ePrayer Circle’s new social media YouTube, and eprayercircle.com 
   

Resources For This Lesson

Click here for the King James Bible version in the text (pdf), mobile viewing on the web (KJV), YouTube audio and video (total time 7 min.)  Chapter 3: Part One,   Part Two

 

 

 

 

Chapter Highlights of Gospel of John – Chapter  Three  (KJV)  

 

 

Learn the definition of the term “you must be born again.”  John 3: 3-7 

¹There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

²The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 

3: Jesus answered and said unto him, verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

4. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?

5. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 

6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

(**Editor’s note: this saying refers to baptism- merge under water in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.)

⁸The wind blow where it listen, and thou hear the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 

⁹Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 

¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and know not these things? 

¹¹Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 

¹²If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 

¹³And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. 

¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

 

Learn how much God loves us. John 3:16  

^{John 3:13-19,} And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. 

¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so, must the Son of man be lifted up: 

¹⁵That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

 ¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

 

Learn the reason God sent Jesus Christ into the world? John: 3:17

 ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 

¹⁸He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 

¹⁹And this is the condemnation, that light comes into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

²⁰For every one that doeth evil hates the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 

²¹But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

 ²²After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.

 ²³And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. 

²⁴For John was not yet cast into prison. 

²⁵Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.

²⁶And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptize, and all men come to him.

²⁷John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

 ²⁸Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 

²⁹He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which stand and heareth him, rejoice greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. 

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease. 

³¹He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. 

³²And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man received his testimony.

³³He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.

 ³⁴For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. 

³⁵The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. 

³⁶He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abide on him.

 

Interactive Quiz.

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Call to salvation:

John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Romans 10:9-10  9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. 

John 3:5-6  5Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is  the Spirit. (Get Baptized)

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