God Saves
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How many of you know everything there is to know about God?
How many of you know everything there is to know about God?
19 And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.”
v. 35 - “I am”
v. 35 - “I am”
7 “I am” statements (v. 41, 48, 51)
Believe
CSB Study Bible: Notes (Chapter 6)
pisteuō
Greek pronunciation [pihss TYEW oh]
CSB translation believe
Uses in John’s Gospel 98
Uses in the NT 241
Focus passage John 6:29–47
The Greek word pisteuō means to believe, trust, rely upon, and its related noun is pistis (faith). In his Gospel, John never uses the words repent, repentance, or faith to describe the way people are saved. Instead, he used believe since this term included all these ideas. John preferred the verb form to emphasize the act that is necessary for someone to be saved—total dependence on the work of another. John does indicate, however, that believing can be superficial; that is, it can be merely intellectual without resulting in true salvation (Jn 2:23–24; 12:42–43; see Jms 2:19). But John’s main point is that complete reliance upon Jesus, the Christ and Son of God (20:31), for salvation gives eternal life to the person who believes (3:16; 6:47). Jesus used a wordplay when he said that people must do “the work of God” for salvation, for his point was that we must not try to work for it at all. We must simply “believe in the one he has sent” (6:29).
v. 36 - see but don't believe.
v. 36 - see but don't believe.
v. 37-46 - salvation is the work of God.
v. 37-46 - salvation is the work of God.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Bible (Chapter 6)
Verses 36–46
The discovery of their guilt, danger, and remedy, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, makes men willing and glad to come, and to give up every thing which hinders applying to him for salvation. The Father’s will is, that not one of those who were given to the Son, should be rejected or lost by him. No one will come, till Divine grace has subdued, and in part changed his heart; therefore no one who comes will ever be cast out. The gospel finds none willing to be saved in the humbling, holy manner, made known therein; but God draws with his word and the Holy Ghost; and man’s duty is to hear and learn; that is to say, to receive the grace offered, and consent to the promise. None had seen the Father but his beloved Son; and the Jews must expect to be taught by his inward power upon their minds, and by his word, and the ministers whom he sent among them.
v. 37- 40 - God gives/His will
v. 41-43 - rejection
v. 44-46 -
v. 44 - God draws (illumination by the Holy Spirit)
v. 45 - “taught by God”
12 “Moreover, I will make your battlements of rubies, And your gates of crystal, And your entire wall of precious stones.
39 “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; 40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
v. 46 - Jesus is God and has seen God. He knows...
v. 47- 58 - Jesus gives the key to eternal life.
v. 47- 58 - Jesus gives the key to eternal life.
v. 59-71
v. 59-71
8 “My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.
IV. Conclusion
IV. Conclusion
Ephesians 2
Colossians 2:1-14
There are people waiting to get saved.
All those chosen will be forever saved
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