{"id":34,"date":"2006-07-30T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/2006\/07\/30\/john-1421\/"},"modified":"2006-07-30T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T00:46:00","slug":"john-1421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/2006\/07\/30\/john-1421\/","title":{"rendered":"John 14:21"},"content":{"rendered":"

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What Christian does not know this verse? I think I am even relatively secure in saying a good many non-Christians know this verse. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m afraid I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also secure in saying many people who believe they are Christians know this verse and claim it as proof of their salvation, even though they reject the remainder of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Word.<\/p>\n

The Bible is not a buffet. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to go through and pick the verses we like and reject the rest. If you hold to the argument that believing Jesus is the Son of God is all that it takes to claim salvation, then by your own argument, Satan is saved. He recognized and admitted openly that Jesus is the Son of God.<\/p>\n

Salvation comes not from believing that Jesus is the Son of God and that he died for your sins; but from living that belief. Jesus tells us:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
John 14:21<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a> No, God will not conduct interviews at the Pearly Gates before admitting us to Heaven, but if he did, could you stand secure in John 14:21?<\/p>\n

When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes, Lord,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you know that I love you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jesus said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Feed my lambs.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Again Jesus said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Simon son of John, do you truly love me?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He answered, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jesus said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Take care of my sheep.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The third time he said to him, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Simon son of John, do you love me?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you love me?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jesus said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Feed my sheep.
John 21:15-17<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 What Christian does not know this verse? I think I am even relatively secure in saying a good many non-Christians know this verse. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m afraid I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/meditations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}