Daily Devotionals

Grace for Today

Devotional: October 3rd

John 3:16

‘He gave his only begotten Son’

Read Romans 3:9-31

‘God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.’ In the eternal purpose of his love God gave his Son to be the sinner’s Substitute and appointed him to make a sacrificial atonement for sin. Then, ‘In the fulness of time God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law. ‘At the appointed time Christ came to do that work which he and his Father had agreed upon in eternity. He is Immanuel, God in our nature, God come to save. Having lived in perfect righteousness as a man, perfectly fulfilling the law of God for his people, as our Representative, ‘In due time Christ died for the ungodly.’ He was made to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. God gave his Son into the hands of his own law and justice, to make satisfaction for sin. God gave his Son up to die the cursed death of the cross, so that those sinners whom he loves with an everlasting love might never die. Here is the infinite magnitude of God’s love for us: ‘He gave his only begotten Son’!

‘That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’ What doesJohn 3:16; John 3:16 tell us? It tells us that God loves sinners. It tells us that Christ died to redeem sinners. It tells us that God saves sinners. And it tells us that any sinner in all the world who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved by him. Christ did not die to give life to any who refuse to believe on him. But he did die and he does give life, eternal life, to every sinner who believes on him. Are you a sinner? Do you trust the Lord Jesus Christ? If you do, this day you have eternal life in him. And you will never perish. ‘For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.’ ‘He that believeth on him is not condemned’ (John 3:17-18).