<p>3:36- see on Eph. 2:3.</p><p><i>He that believes on the Son has eternal life; but he that does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him</i>- When we read of &ldquo;eternal life&rdquo; being granted to us now, we are reading about &ldquo;the life belonging to the age&rdquo;, i.e. the Kingdom of God in the future. The idea is that we can live the life which we will eternally live- right here and now. We can experience the quality of that life now. And if we don&rsquo;t&hellip; we don&rsquo;t have the guarantee of eternity in the Kingdom. For in spiritual terms, in terms of essential spiritual experience, there will be a seamless transition between the spiritual life we now enjoy, and that which we will experience in the future Kingdom. The location of that eternity will be on earth; and yes, there must be death, resurrection, judgment and immortalisation of our body. But those more &lsquo;physical&rsquo; realities don&rsquo;t figure so deeply in the message which John is putting across in his record of &lsquo;the Gospel&rsquo;. Notice how in Jn. 3:36, 'having everlasting life' is paralleled with 'seeing life'; to perceive and live what God's Kingdom life is all about, is in a sense to 'have' it.</p><p>For those who refuse to obey the Gospel, having heard it, then God's wrath will come and remain upon them right now, until judgment day. The idea is not that God is angry with all men and that wrath abides on everyone who is outside the Lord Jesus. These words are alluded to several times later in the New Testament, about the wrath to come upon the Jews, the &quot;children of disobedience&quot;, in that they heard the Gospel and rejected it by killing God's Son (Rom. 1:18; 2:5; 3:5; 9:22; Eph. 5:6; Col. 3:6).</p>