For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. —John 3:16 NKJV

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, —John 3:16 NKJV

A. Who Loves You

• Loved- of the benevolence which God, in providing salvation for men, has exhibited by sending his Son to them and giving him up to death
  

• World - the inhabitants of the earth, men, the human race
  

B. The Demonstration

• Gave- to give one to some one to care for his interests
  

• Only begotten – single; only of it’s kind
  

that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. —John 3:16 NKJV

A. The Access

• Whoever- anyone
  

• Believes- believing or in faith to give oneself up to, Jesus; a conviction, full of joyful trust, that Jesus is the Messiah — the divinely appointed author of eternal salvation in the kingdom of God, conjoined with obedience to Christ
  

B. What It Produces

• Perish - to be delivered up to eternal misery
  

• Life - a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but after the resurrection to be consummated by new accessions (among them a more perfect body), and to last forever