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liberty bible church 6~/15~/08 a.M.
By Tom Zobrist
“two choices: faithfulness or failure”
John 6:60-71
introduction
Illus. of “Cheaper By the Dozen” clip.
All of us make choices that will have profound effects on our world around us.
The end product of our choices can sometimes dictate whether or not we will experience success or failure.
Then again, as we saw in the clip, how one defines success is open to interpretation.
However, if you want to raise a Godly remnant, then you must pursue success as God defines it.
Cf.
Josh.
1:8 indicates that success with God is knowing His Word and being careful to obey it.
We call that faithfulness.
Today, we want to examine two choices that we all have.
One is faithfulness, the other is failure.
You will see that there is only one that can be chosen that will bring success in the home or any other area of life.
Which one will we choose: faithfulness or failure?
OPEN to the passage.
*Prop.
*In this passage, we see two choices that every aspiring follower of Jesus has.
Open in PRAYER.
PREVIEW the passage.
Once again, Jesus is in the midst of a long discourse.
He is using bread as a metaphor for satisfying spiritual hunger and acquiring eternal life.
He has shown that as we are exposed to Jesus and His Word, we are drawn to God and then must choose whether or not we will believe and trust in Jesus for salvation.
Cf.
V 35, 40, 41-47 All the flesh eating and blood drinking represents spiritual nourishment that comes when we trust in Jesus.
We partake of Him in a spiritual sense.
But, that was hard to believe for these Jews.
That’s where some make a bad choice and that is…
i.
failure to believe vs. 60-66
Illus. of you’ve heard the story about the guy who was both a taxidermist and a veterinarian.
He had a sign on his door that said, “Either way, you get your dog back.”
Here’s a man that had a plan if his first attempts failed.
If I was the dog, I wouldn’t be too comfortable with that vet.
Any failure in life can be overcome, except one and that is the failure to believe in Jesus.
That’s where these people are failing.
a.
They fail to be offended (Offended?
Is this something we want to be?)
V 60a 1.
In this context, disciples is not just the 12, but all who had become His followers because of their needs being met.
V 60b 2.
“hard” here means difficult in the sense that they were beginning to understand, but they were not going to accept it.
It was unacceptable.
It was at this point that Jesus’ popularity began to wane.
He was not the Messiah they wanted.
They wanted someone to deliver them from Rome.
Jesus was offering something else that seemed harsh to them and many were not ready to accept Him in this way.
V 61a 3.
Here we go with the grumbling again.
It was not outward, but Jesus knew what they were complaining about.
So, He asks them this question?
V 61b 4.
“offend” here means to make one stumble.
That what offending someone is.
It makes them stumble.
It causes them consternation.
Paul said that Jesus was a stumbling block to the Jews.
Cf. 1 Cor.
1:23 To offend someone many times is wrong.
But many times, it is what someone needs to hear.
That is the case here.
Jesus is presenting them with the Gospel, the way of salvation and they are grumbling against Him.
They don’t like God’s plan.
Here’s God’s perspective on that…Too bad!!!
That is the plan.
To believe in Jesus.
But, many rebel against that.
V 62 5.
If the Gospel is an offense, then certainly the ascension will be.
This is where Jesus was vindicated.
He was seen in all His glory by the disciples.
At this point though, these people had to believe in someone that they thought had earthly origins.
He was asking them to believe that His origin was Heavenly.
Many refused to believe.
V 63a 6.
Jesus has just shown them the distinction between the flesh and the Spirit.
The HS is who gives eternal life and the ability to understand Jesus and believe in Him.
The flesh brings death and a lack of understanding.
V 63b 7.
Jesus is speaking in the spirit and it is these words that bring life.
These people find His teachings, hard or unacceptable.
Therefore…
b.
They fail to respond to God’s call in belief
V 64 1.
Some do not believe.
And Jesus knew it from the very beginning.
We need to note here that even though we can fool other people, we cannot fool God.
He knows whether or not we are of the faithful who actually believe.
V 65 2.
We saw back in verses 37 and 44 that we needed divine enablement to be able to receive Jesus.
But, that doesn’t take away the personal accountability of free will.
Don’t struggle with Jesus because of hard teachings about election.
That’s what this crowd was doing.
What we take away from this is that we should not be surprised when there is apostasy in the church.
There will be those that choose to walk away from Jesus.
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