God's Greatest Gift, Part 1

Insight for Living Daily Broadcast

Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Christian, Religious And Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 9:15 John 3:16 is the most familiar verse in the Bible. Many of us can recite it from memory. For millions of people, its powerful truth marked the beginning of their journey with Christ. Listen as Pastor Chuck Swindoll recounts how this verse spoke to him as a child. God loves the world—He loves you! His love is for everyone, and His call to believe in Jesus is open to all. Accept God’s invitation to believe in His Son and receive His promise of eternal life.

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0:00.0	Stop the average man on the street and ask how a person qualifies for eternity in heaven.
0:13.0	Most will say the same thing. Be good. Try harder. Do better. It's the world's oldest assumption.
0:20.0	Goodness secures our destiny. But heaven
0:23.0	doesn't work that way. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall unwraps the shocking simplicity
0:29.5	of God's gift. In this study, we'll discover why salvation isn't about our effort, but about
0:35.7	a single act of trust.
0:38.3	Prepare to see John 316 like never before, and perhaps receive the greatest Christmas
0:44.1	gift of your life.
0:49.5	If you have your Bible with you, please open to the third chapter of John.
0:59.4	I'll be reading just a few verses right out of the core of that chapter.
1:05.4	In many ways familiar and in some ways unfamiliar to all of us.
1:12.4	The words we know, but the meaning behind them, may have slipped.
1:18.1	As we often have discovered, familiarity tends to not just breed contempt, but also make
1:27.2	us unaware of the hidden truths of those familiar words.
1:33.7	I'll be reading John chapter 3, beginning at verse 14 and a few other verses that follow.
1:42.4	John 314, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted
1:52.8	up so that whoever believes will in him have eternal life.
2:08.2	For God so loved 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.
2:20.3	For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world
2:28.5	might be saved through Him.
2:33.3	He who believes in him is not judged. He who does not believe has been judged
2:42.1	already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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