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Today we are looking at John 6:35-46.
In this passage we get a glimpse into the heart of God.
Jesus tells us very specifically what the will of God is.
How many of us want to know what God’s will is?
Then, let’s look into this passage and see what Jesus has to say to us.
Prayer
The Will of the Father
As I mentioned, in this passage, Jesus tells us what the will of the Father is.
Did you see it?
In what verse do you see it?
“I shall lose none of all that he has given me...”
What is Jesus talking about?
What has God given Him?
What should He not lose?
I know when I give something to my kids, I don’t want them to lose it.
But is that what Jesus is talking about here?
What is it that the Father has given Him, that Jesus should not lose?
People.
The context of this passage is all about people needing to receive Jesus as their Savior.
It is all about people believing in Jesus, and finding in Him eternal life!
Real life!
Satisfying life!
But what does Jesus mean when He says now, “All that He has given me?”
What does that mean?
This passage in which Jesus talks about the Will of the Father has some important doctrine for us to understand.
What is doctrine?
Doctrine is just a fancy word for teaching.
There are some important things taught in this passage.
Today, as we begin to look at the will of the Father, we are going to focus on a couple verses in the passage we just read.
John 6:37, and John 6:44.
Doctrine of Election
Jesus is talking to a bunch of people who have seen Him doing the miraculous.
They have seen Him do what only God can do, and what God has done before.
They have heard Him teach.
They have heard Him declare that He is fully God.
Yet, as we saw in verse 36, they do not believe.
Jesus was not surprised by this.
In fact, He knew the hearts of all mankind as we saw in John 2. And, He knew that those God the Father gave Him would believe.
Jesus uses this specific term, ‘gives’ on a few different occasions.
He uses this term in John 6:65.
The scriptures are clear that God has given people to Jesus.
These are the ones that we saw in Ephesians 1:4 when we studied that book, that God the Father chose those who are, or will be saved before the creation of the World.
We also saw it in 1 Peter.
The scriptures are clear that ever since Adam and Eve first disobeyed God and followed their own desires, all men and women have done the same.
This is called sinning.
We all sin.
We all do what we want even when it is against God’s Holiness and righteousness which He created us to reflect.
We are disobedient, and rebellious.
We are born like that, and as such, we are enemies of God.
We think we are free, but we are slaves of the very things we do in rebellion against God.
God knew that as slaves, we would not come to Him on our own.
So, God went to work.
Doctrine of Drawing
God knew that we would not just seek Him out.
He knew that we would not just come to Him humbly to see salvation.
So God went to work, and started drawing us.
Now drawing is the same word used for when fishermen would draw in their nets.
They pull them in slowly and deliberately to catch the fish.
In the same way, God works deliberately to bring us to Himself.
Jesus spoke of this in John 6:44.
How does God go about drawing us in?
His kindness!
God draws people through His kindness.
The fact that He created and sustains this world.
The way He makes blessings to come on all, both the good and the bad.
The scriptures speak of Him causing the rain to fall on the just, or righteous, and the unjust, or unrighteous.
Not only does He send those common blessings on people, but He sent He best blessing when He sent Jesus.
He did not wait for people to ask for a savior.
He did not wait for people to respond to His general blessings of sun, and rain, and creation.
Even while we were His enemies, He sent Jesus to be our savior!
He sent Jesus to die and rise again to bring us new, eternal life!
And that leads us to the next doctrine,
Doctrine of Repentance
Did you see in Romans 2:4 what the drawing of God is for?
To lead us to repentance.
God is the One who chose before the creation of the World.
God is the One who draws.
But throughout scripture, not all who are drawn respond.
We see that from Cain, on through Israel when they are sent into exile because they would not repent.
They would not receive what God wanted to give them.
The people of Israel were drawn with kindness.
They refused to repent.
They turned from God.
Repent means to turn.
It is a change of mind, or heart.
It means to change the mind from one of rebellion against God, to receiving what God has to say.
It is to change the mind to believe and receive what God says is true.
God is the Judge of the Universe.
It is His to save by applying the justice of what Christ did when He died on the cross to the sinner who repents and believes.
Or, it is His to mete out justice to the one who will not repent.
God draws.
God will save.
It is men and women who are responsible to repent and believe.
I love this verse.
Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to me.
All of these people heard from the Father.
They heard the words that Jesus taught.
And we saw in John 5 that Jesus only taught what the Father gave Him to say.
These people all heard from God.
But hearing from God isn’t the only part is it?
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