Why  do they have John 3:16 at sporting events?
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They are trying to get the Word out. (pun intended)\n\nThere are many people who will see the verse at a sporting event. They are hoping that some will check it out in the Bible and read about God's love.
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There are many things that Jesus did where the Tanach (OT) fulfillment is hard to find such as Jesus walking on water. Then we find an obscure little passage in Job where we read that God "treads on the sea". In the case of the "I AM" statement knocking the sense out of the arresting officers, I do not think there is any prophecy related to it other than what would have happened to Moses if he didn't take the shoes off his feet. We do know one thing, and that is that Jesus was not just saying "I AM", He showed that there was power and authority behind it.
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For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever beleiveth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. - John 3:16\n\nYour answer: He loves us.
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John 3:16\n\nRomans 10:9-10;13\n\n2 Peter 3:9\n\nMatthew 18:11\n\nJust to name a few. . . .
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1 John 4:7-8\n\n"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
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Dead in sin-Gen 2:16-17 "you shall surly die", Gen 6:5 "of his heart was only evil continually" ,See Rom 8:7, 1 Cor 2:14\n"There is none who seeks after God" Rom3:11\n"No one can come to me unless it is grated them by the Father"  John 6:65\nSovereign election-Ephesians 1:4 \njust as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, Romans 9:16  So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.\nJohn 1:13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.\nLimited-John 10:26-28  But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.\nJohn 17:9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours\nGrace-John 10-My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.\n1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.\nPhilippians 1:6\nbeing confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;\nPermanent- Jude 1:24  Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,\nSovereignty of God=Jonah 2:9\nBut I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.” \nEph 1:11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works ALL things according to the counsel of His will,\nvs 22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,  \nIsaiah 46:9-11 \n     Remember the former things of old,\n      For I am God, and there is no other;\n      I am God, and there is none like Me,\n        Declaring the end from the beginning,\n      And from ancient times things that are not yet done,\n      Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,\n      And I will do all My pleasure,’\n        Calling a bird of prey from the east,\n      The man who executes My counsel, from a far country.\n      Indeed I have spoken it;\n      I will also bring it to pass.\n      I have purposed it;\n      I will also do it.
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coz it's holy! and it comes from Jesus... they just wanna keep it secret ^^
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I think that god is a Yankees fan--only kidding. i think you make a great point and ask a question i asked a while ago. mine was why do fans pray in the stands during the game. I don't know if it's a sacrilege but it's certainly silly. we credit god with always being on our side, and that, my friend, is about as egotistical as you can get.
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Revelation is a dream that God gave to John.  Yes it is somewhat symbolic, but what real choice did John have to explain the things God was showing?  John was seeing the future, something that has not even happened yet in the 21st century, and he was in the first century.\n\nIn Daniel there were prophesies that came true hundreds of years later that were so accurate that historians try to prove the book of Daniel was written after the events.\n\nThe point is that that the language is symbolic, but the symbols are highly recognizable.
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It's actually a different rendering on a verse in the Bible. Jesus told the Pharisees in the book of Matthew that they were hypocrites, straining at gnats, but swallowing camels. Basically, they would nitpick other people's very minor problems that really had no relevance, while they themselves IGNORED the large problems and sins THEY were committing. It's also known as "majoring on the minors." You're question seems to be formatted differently, but the overall meaning and idea are the same. For example, if you were to owe a friend $300 and he said, "Oh don't worry about it buddy. It's on me! Don't fret over it." And you, being naturally happy, turn around and demand a different friend that owes you $8 to hand it over or ELSE. You've just gagged at a gnat, but swallowed a camel! You've missed the whole point.
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May be they are in a wild celebration after their team had won..take it easy..yours was a good question!
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i don't have any love at the winter olympic, why should i get to my knees? i rather get to my knees while praying to my Lord of lords and King of kings yet my friend Jesus Christ my Saviour
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In the movies, it always portrays Jesus looking up and addressing heaven. Some say that this is when Jesus absorbed all the sin of mankind and God had to look away--seeing that He cannot look upon sin. I am not saying that this is not what happened, but there is a better explanation--it is very Jewish.  \n\nBack then, they did not have multiple copies of the Tonakh. They kept one copy safely stored in an ark in the synagogue. So the students and priests, back then as well as today, would memorize the scriptures (they did this by singing it). Whenever they wanted to bring a chapter, or a Psalm to the attention of the students, they would not recite the entire chapter, they would say the first verse and the rest of the students would know the rest by memory.  \n\nWhen Jesus was on the cross, He employed this rabbinical device--He quoted the first verse. The Pharisees would hear this, then in their mind they would immediately do the "scripture shuffle" and find that this was the first verse of Psalm 22.They would then automatically recall the entire Psalm that would show that what was happening before them was prophetic--that Messiah had to die, be surrounded by accusing Gentiles scoffing, "he trusted in God, let Him deliver", He will have His hands and feet pierced causing His bones to come out of joint, that they would divide His garments, and at the end He will say "It is finished" (which is the Greek translation of the last verse). \n\nSo really, was alerting the Pharisees to what was happening and that all what they were seeing was planned from the foundations of the earth and that He was who He said He was--the Messiah, the subject of Psalm 22.
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Whoever you are, be careful what you say about Jesus. As a joke, your question is one easily answered. But it is obviously a direct reflection of your lack of knowledge, or faith. He was meant to be the picture of the lowest man, so that He could reach them. But I'd be willing to bet, if I was a gambling man, that you would tremble in fear if you were required to ask Him that to His face. Oh.. but you will.
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First John, chapter 4, begining with verse seven tells about the love of God.  Specifically, verse 10 says, "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."  The famous John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."  God loves all individuals, all communities, and all mankind so much that he sent his Son Jesus who willingly sacrificed himself on the cross to save us from the punishment for our sin.\n\nGod is the creator of every man, woman and child.  He cares about us unconditionally, for 1 John also tells us that, "God is love."  His love for every individual, for every community, and for the entire human race is eternal and unmeasurable, because love is part of what God is.  God cares equally for individuals, communities, and the human race, because his love for all mankind is fathomless.
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Heaven, not because I deserve it (I don't), but because it is a gift from God based on John 3:16, and I believe in my Lord Jesus!
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John 3:16 \n    "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. \n\n1 Cor. 13:1-13 \n    If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. [2] If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. [3] And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. \n    [4] Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, [5] does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, [6] does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; [7] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. \n    [8] Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. [9] For we know in part and we prophesy in part; [10] but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. [11] When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. [12] For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. [13] But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.\n\n1 John 4:10-11 "In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."