How can it be? John 3:16
1. How can God so love, when we are so guilty?
• God demonstrated his own love for us in this: While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
• God revealed His Love. God exposed His Love at Calvary. John wrote, “10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us,
• Maybe God loves us because God is love his nature is love story of scorpion and monk
• Love over powers his very being
• Love empowers his wrath and anger and the result is we receive mercy instead of justice. Story Nineveh
• Love infuses or is filled in every action of God
2. How can it Be that God would give his son? God so loved that He Gave His own Son
• Paul writes,: “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—“Romans 8:32
• God gave because God loved the creation that he created In the beginning God created “God declares it to be very good. Not just good, very good. Nothing further needed to be made; His creation was exactly what God had planned.
• God loved His creation so much He breathed into his creation Life “Man became a living soul”
• God loved the creation so much He wanted us set free from death and take hold of eternal life
• Isaiah claims “This is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses…(Is. 42:22).
• Jesus said, The Lord has anointed me . . . to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners (Is. 61:1).
• Jesus Proclaimed I have been called from Heaven …to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, and those who dwell in darkness from the prison (Is. 42:6-7).
• How can it Be, That God gave His only begotten SON?
3. How can it be that whosoever will believe? 16"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,F that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life
• If I believe then I can be healed, If we believe we will not be condemned, If I believe I can be saved, If we believe we will encounter blessings on top of blessings.
4. How can it be that we can have eternal life? John says we can have eternal life.
I believe he is the Resurrection ,
• "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" 27"Yes, Lord," Yes Lord ,Yes Lord
• You gave your life to give me mine how can it be?
5. How can it be that you would plead my cause? For God so loved the world
• How can it be that you right the wrongs I have done
• How can it be that you will break the chains for me
• "through I fall you pick me up how can it be
• I will die yet I will rise how can it be
• How can it be All this grace given to me although I am guilty, my hands are dirty and oh how can I lift them up
• This is how it can be because of John 3:16 16"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,F that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life
How can it be listen to this story of John 3:16 A John 3:16 Love Story ~
In the city of Chicago, one cold, dark night,
a blizzard was setting in. A young boy was
selling newspapers on the corner; watching
as people went in and out of the cold. He was
so cold that he wasn't trying very hard to sell
his papers. Hesitantly, he walked up to a
policeman and said, "Mister, you wouldn't
happen to know where a poor boy could find
a warm place to sleep tonight would you?
You see, I sleep in a box up around the corner
there and down the alley and it's awful cold
in there for tonight. Sure would be nice to
have a warm place to stay." The policeman
sympathetically looked down at the young
lad and said, "You go down the street to that
big white house and you knock on the door.
When they come to the door you just say,
"John 3:16," and they will let you in."
So He did. He walked up the steps and
knocked on the door, and a lady answered.
He looked up at her and said, "John 3:16."
The lady said, "Come on in, son." She took
him in and she sat him down in a split
bottom rocker in front of a great big old
fireplace, and she went off. The boy sat
there for a while and thought to himself:
John 3:16 ... I don't understand it, but it
sure makes a cold boy warm!
Later she came back and asked him, "Are
you hungry?" He shyly said, "Well, just
a little. I haven't eaten in a couple of days,
and I guess I could stand a little bit of food."
The lady took him in the kitchen and sat
him down to a table full of wonderful food.
He ate and ate until he couldn't eat any
more. Then he thought to himself:
John 3:16 ... I don't understand it, but it
sure makes a hungry boy full!
Soon the kind lady led him upstairs to a
bath tub filled with warm water, and he
sat there and soaked for a while. As he
soaked, he thought to himself: John 3:16 ...
I don't understand it, but it sure makes a
dirty boy clean! Why, I've not had a bath,
a real bath, in my whole life. The only bath
I have ever had was when I stood in front of
the big old fire hydrant as they flushed it out.
After his bath, the lady took him to a cozy
little room, tucked him into a big old feather
bed, pulled warm covers up around his neck,
kissed him goodnight and turned out the light.
As he lay there all snug in the warm bed, he
looked out the window at the cold and snowy
night and thought to himself: John 3:16 ... I
sure don't understand it, but it gave a tired
boy a warm place to sleep.
The next morning the lady invited the young
boy to sit down once again to a table that was
filled with lots of good food. After he ate, she
took him back to the rocker in front of the
fireplace and picked up a big old Bible. As
she sat down in a chair beside of him, she
looked into his young face and asked gently,
"Do you understand about John 3:16?" He
replied, "No, Ma'am, I don't. The first time
I ever heard it was last night when the nice
policeman told me to use it." She opened the
Bible she was holding to John 3:16 and
began to read what it said and then
explained to the young boy that John 3:16
was the greatest love story ever told. And
she told him that God wanted him to know
that He loved and cared about him very much.
Right there, in front of that big old fireplace,
the young boy embraced God's love for him
and surrendered his young life to Him. He
said to the lady, "I'm not sure I understand
all about God's love, but it sure makes a
lonely orphan boy feel like he will always
belong to someone."
- author unknown -
