Everybody's Favorite Verse

John 3:16

Our text this morning is perhaps the best known verse in the whole Bible. As a child it is one of the first verses ever memorized. A Sunday School teacher wrote this verse on a piece of paper and then placed it inside a walnut shell and asked his class if they knew what it meant. One bright young lad said, "Why yes, it is the Gospel in a nutshell!" And that it is! If the only shred of the Bible you had was this portion of the third chapter of John, it would be enough to evangelize every person in the known world. How can that be?

I. It Tells Us What God Has Done To Save Us.

II. It Tells Us What We Must Do To Be Saved.

III. It Tells Us What We Get and What We Don't Get When We Get Saved.

No wonder this is the most popular verse in the Bible. It tells us all we need to know to spend eternity in Heaven with the Lord. It tells us what God has done to save us, what we must do to be saved, and what being saved means to us. Some might say that it is just too simple, that there has to be more. It becomes a question of trust. Do you trust God's Word? Remember, he that believeth not is already condemned. Why not accept what God's Word has to say and be saved?