John 3 v16 Greatest Potential

"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".    John 3 v16

5)   Greatest potential envisaged

"Whosoever", it's a very special word, and one that only an impartial God can pronounce.  The world prefers exclusivity, something which is the privilege of the few(in their eyes elite), but whosoever is the vocabulary of God for He is all- inclusive.  His provision for the world is for all.  The Labour party has a slogan "for the many not the few", and this is a noble idea, but God goes further and says "for all, without exception, and without exclusion".  It just means "everyone", every man, every woman, every boy, every girl, in all the world.  The best way to say it is "Whosoever means you!".  There are no limitations with God, no doctrine of limited atonement in the bible, we are the only ones who place limitations upon the free grace of God shown to an undeserving world.  Listen to the words of scripture on the matter, in different settings, and at different times;  the apostle Peter in Acts 10v43 speaking to the Roman centurion and friends "To Him give all the prophets witness, that through His name whosoever believeth in Him shall receive remission of sins"; the apostle Paul in Romans 10 v13 "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved"; the risen glorified Jesus, speaking from heaven through the apostle John in what are almost the last words of the bible in Revelation 22 v17 "Whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely".  This is an invitation to all, without exception.  God is no respecter of persons, as it says many times in the bible.  Men like to cow tow to "faces", not so God.  He places no barriers of human origin on His free offer of salvation, everyone comes the same way:
No age barrier.....Jesus said, "suffer little children to come unto me"; Anna at the age of over 100  "spake of Him to all that looked for redemption in Jerusalem"(Luke 1 v36-38).
No gender barrier....In Christ Jesus "there is neither male nor female"(Galatians 3 v28); in the list of 37 names in Romans 16 there are many men and women cited. No feminism or male chauvinism with God.
No national barrier... in the same verse in Galatians "..neither Jew nor Greek"; Acts 17 v26-27 "..and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation, that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us".
No class barrier..."bond or free", the bible was written in times when there were many slaves.  It still exists today but more pronounced is the thought of rich and poor, or working class and middle class.  The master comes the same way as the servant; the rich and the poor together, although Jesus did say the rich would find it harder accepting they are saved in the same way as the poor.
No religious barrier..."circumcision nor uncircumcision", "Jew or Gentile".  In modern language, all religions whether Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Atheist, Agnostic, Non-conformist.  It is an accident of birth into which religion we were born, and the tendency would always be to follow the beliefs of the fathers. It  has no place with God, even Christian where only nominal, and all must come the same way.  Jesus was speaking to Nicodemus who was a devout Jew, and more, for he was the foremost religious teacher in Israel.  In the next chapter(4), He spoke to an immoral woman, who had a different slant of religion but did not follow it.  The same Saviour, the same salvation for both!
No intellectual/cultural barrier...Romans 1 v14 "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise".  The Greeks are known to be a nation of academics, philosophers, and a very cultured people, whereas the Barbarians were a basic, sometimes wild people.  No matter the gospel is the same to both.
No moral barrier...Colossians 3 v11 "Barbarian or Scythian"; where the Barbarians were sometimes classed as a wild pleasure loving people, the Scythians were the wildest of the wild, the extremists, the amoralists, with no scruples.  God has room for all, there is no sinner too bad, no sin too great for Him to forgive.  He saved the demon possessed Mary Magdalene, He saved the criminal on the cross, He can save the deepest dyed sinner, "Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as wool, though they be red like crimson they shall be as white as snow".

Whatever barrier we may raise, none can escape the pardoning grace of God.  He saved the super religious Nicodemus, He saved the self-righteous Paul, He saved the runaway slave Onesimus, He saved the sceptic Thomas, He saved the despised traitor Matthew, He saved the immoral woman of Samaria, He saved the zealot Simon, He saved the demon possessed, He saved the rich Lydia, the seller of purple, He saved Priscilla and Aquila, the tentmakers. He saved from the sons of Shem Ham and Japheth(who according to Genesis 10 were the origins of the present world), He saved the white Europeans, and the coloured Rufus, and Simon of Cyrene, and the Ethiopian treasurer, to name but a few;  He saved Roman centurions and He saved slaves, He saved those in the household of Caesar, He saved Kings and Queens, Lords and Ladies; He saved religious rulers and public officials.  He saved individuals, He saved twin sisters.  Best of all He saved me!, and He can save you!  He is still saving people from every walk in life in the millions, even today, don't miss out.

Whosoever.........means you!