The Greatest Story Ever Told
Mike Stone
John 3:16
I’ve heard some great stories in my life.
But John 3:16 is by far the greatest story ever told.
The great commentator William Hendrickson called this verse, “The golden text.”
RC Sproul called it, “The best-known verse in the New Testament.”
John MacArthur said it is undoubtedly the most familiar and most beloved verse in the Bible.
James Montgomery Boyce called it “Everyone’s text” and noted that there’s hardly a place in the world to which the gospel of Jesus Christ has gone that this verse has not been taught and embraced.
It is arguably the most memorized, quoted, and preached in all the Bible.
It’s often the first one that translators put into other languages.
Steven Lawson said of this verse, “It’s a forest of truth in an acorn.”
It was told by history’s greatest Person.
This isn’t a story from Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, or Flannery O’Conner. This story flows from the lips of the Lord Jesus.
It solves humanity’s greatest problem.
I think we’d all agree that a story about how to cure cancer would be better news than a story about how to get gum out of the carpet. But John 3:16 deals with a problem that’s actually worse than cancer ever thought about being…because THIS problem is one that we all have.
This story tells us how to deal with the issues of sin, death, judgment, and eternity.
The first time this story was specifically told the angel said it was “Good news of great joy for ALL the people for unto you has been born in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord.”
It’s good news for ALL people because it addresses a problem that ALL have.
All don’t have cancer…All don’t have diabetes
All don’t have arthritis…All don’t have Alzheimer’s
But ALL have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory
Death has spread to ALL men because ALL have sinned
It describes Heaven’s greatest promise.
We can be forgiven!
We can receive eternal, never-ending, e ...
Mike Stone
John 3:16
I’ve heard some great stories in my life.
But John 3:16 is by far the greatest story ever told.
The great commentator William Hendrickson called this verse, “The golden text.”
RC Sproul called it, “The best-known verse in the New Testament.”
John MacArthur said it is undoubtedly the most familiar and most beloved verse in the Bible.
James Montgomery Boyce called it “Everyone’s text” and noted that there’s hardly a place in the world to which the gospel of Jesus Christ has gone that this verse has not been taught and embraced.
It is arguably the most memorized, quoted, and preached in all the Bible.
It’s often the first one that translators put into other languages.
Steven Lawson said of this verse, “It’s a forest of truth in an acorn.”
It was told by history’s greatest Person.
This isn’t a story from Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, or Flannery O’Conner. This story flows from the lips of the Lord Jesus.
It solves humanity’s greatest problem.
I think we’d all agree that a story about how to cure cancer would be better news than a story about how to get gum out of the carpet. But John 3:16 deals with a problem that’s actually worse than cancer ever thought about being…because THIS problem is one that we all have.
This story tells us how to deal with the issues of sin, death, judgment, and eternity.
The first time this story was specifically told the angel said it was “Good news of great joy for ALL the people for unto you has been born in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord.”
It’s good news for ALL people because it addresses a problem that ALL have.
All don’t have cancer…All don’t have diabetes
All don’t have arthritis…All don’t have Alzheimer’s
But ALL have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory
Death has spread to ALL men because ALL have sinned
It describes Heaven’s greatest promise.
We can be forgiven!
We can receive eternal, never-ending, e ...
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