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(John 6:37)
I. Introduction.
A. Orientation.
This morning, we were looking
At the first point our passage teaches:
That Jesus is the Bread of Life.
He is the One you must eat/feed on by faith
If you are to have eternal life
You must repent of your sins
And trust in Him, if you hope to get to heaven
B. Preview.
But this passage also contains a second point:
It tells us why some believe and some dont
Why some hear the Gospel and reject it,
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While others believe and follow Jesus,
Even if it costs them their lives:
It has to do with what we call irresistible grace
The work of the Father drawing His elect to Jesus by the Holy Spirit.
b. But there are many who hear the Gospel who dont believe.
This shouldnt come as a revelation to you
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They can stop traffic, cause amazement,
Verify that the messenger is from God,
They can even make someone follow Jesus for a while,
But not to the end,
Because they cant change your heart.
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That well return to in a few moments.
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That there was salvation in no one else.
They believed He was the Holy One of God,
And so they would not leave Him.
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There might be a question.
But as weve already seen,
The Bible clearly teaches election.
Paul writes, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in
Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that
we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to
adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind
intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He
freely bestowed on us in the Beloved (Eph. 1:3-6).
He chose us that we would be holy and blameless
He didnt choose us because we would be holy and blameless.
This is what He predetermined us to be.
It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.
What does that mean?
It would have been better not to exist
Than to have to spend an eternity in hell.
The Bible doesnt teach annihilationism, but eternal punishment
If Judas had been annihilated,
He would have been the same as if he had never been born.
b. Second, you believe because the Father drew you by His Spirit.
No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I
will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, AND
THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD. Everyone who has heard
and learned from the Father, comes to Me (vv. 44-45).
We saw last week,
That this passage speaks of ability, not permission.
Jesus doesnt say, No one may come to Me unless the Father draws him,
But, No one can come to Me.
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Paul writes, And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you
formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons
of disobedience (Eph. 2:1-2).
We couldnt believe, we couldnt trust Christ,
Because we didnt want to.
Again, Paul writes, Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God;
for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do
so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God (Rom. 8:7-8).
Jesus says, It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words
that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life (John 6:63).
The Spirit convinced us that we were sinners.
He showed us our need of Jesus,
And caused us to love Him,
So that we would come to Him.
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B. This brings us to the second (evangelistic) point: Everyone the Father has given
Jesus will come to Him.
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They will all come to Him.
He will receive them.
Jesus will keep them.
And they will be glorified.
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many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom
He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified
(Rom. 8:29-30).
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