~~~This is John 3:16: “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!” I read these words and realize they are to Scripture what the Mississippi River is to America— an entryway into the heartland. Any serious consideration of Christ must include them!
God so loved the world. We’d expect an anger-fueled God. One who punishes the world, forsakes the world, but loves the world? This world? And He loves so much he gave his…declarations? Rules? Dicta? Edicts? No, the mind-bending claim of John 3:16 is this: God gave his Son…his only Son! Scripture equates Jesus with God. God then, gave himself so that whoever believes in him shall not perish!
----'3:16 / The Numbers of Hope' // Max Lucado -[ Friends, we will never understand this in our finite minds. We must take this by faith. Jesus is G-D. Jesus became a man, and at the same time was God. Thus, God-Man. No person can look on a holy and just Jehovah G-D and live. Moses asked to see the LORD's glory. Jehovah God said, "You cannot see my face, for no man can see Me and live!" (Please read Exodus 33: 17 thru 23). The Lord Jesus Christ came to die, so that we may live eternally with Him in heaven. If you accept this by faith, you will live eternally. 'There is salvation in no one else...' (See Acts 4:11-12) ]
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]
Friends, we will never understand this in our finite minds. We must take this by faith. Jesus is G-D. Jesus became a man, and at the same time was God. Thus, God-Man. No person can look on a holy and just Jehovah G-D and live. Moses asked to see the LORD's glory. Jehovah God said, "You cannot see my face, for no man can see Me and live!" (Please read Exodus 33: 17 thru 23). The Lord Jesus Christ came to die, so that we may live eternally with Him in heaven. If you accept this by faith, you will live eternally. 'There is salvation in no one else...' (See Acts 4:11-12) ] 
