I'm gonna ask you to take your
Bibles and turn with me to the book of John. John chapter six. If I were asked to present the gospel, the good
news, of salvation in Christ alone. If I were asked to present
the gospel in one verse of scripture, there's 66 books in this Bible. If there was one verse of scripture,
can you set forth for me the clarity of the gospel of God's
free grace? Where would you go? I'd go to
John 6, 37. John 6, 37. That verse of scripture to me
sets forth the truth of the glory of God to show mercy to undeserving
sinners. Now here's what I know. I know
that there's no man, no woman ever been born in Adam that deserves
salvation. I know that. I know just a little
bit about myself and what I know about myself and my being born
in Adam's fall, Adam's transgression. I've told you this before. As
far as any of us, ain't none of us worth shooting. But this is what the scripture
says. All I want to know, I was looking at Hebrews, I'll just
read this to you, one verse of scripture, Hebrews 13, 17. I
was looking at this this morning. Obey them that have the rule
over you, and submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls,
as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy
and not with grief, For that is unprofitable for you. Here's what I need. I need to
hear the Word of God. I need to hear it clearly. I
need to hear it simply. Just keep it simple. And just
tell me the truth from God's Word. Don't tell me what you
think. Don't tell me what somebody told you that they messed up.
Just tell me what God has to say. because I'm not far from leaving
this world. I know that. Now here's what
God has to say. John 6, 37. Concerning salvation. All that the Father giveth me. Now I know that from that part
of that scripture, There was a secret transaction
that took place before the foundation of the world. I know that. All
that the Father giveth me. God is set forth in three persons. One God, three persons. Father,
Son, Spirit. All that the Father giveth me. You know what that means? That
means, according to the Word of God, that out of the race,
of humanity, that God has chosen a people. All that the Father
giveth me. That there is an election of
grace according to the good pleasure of God the Father's will. All that the Father giveth me. Now that's just set forth in
Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 4. That God has chosen a people
and given them to the Lord Jesus Christ. I know that. So I know
that God has a people that he's chosen. All that the Father giveth
me. According to Jeremiah 31.3 that
those that the Father gave the Son, I know that the Father everlastingly
loved them. I've loved you with an everlasting
love. That's Jeremiah 31.3. Now this is what God has to say. And they were the Lord's to give. All that the Father giveth me.
Ezekiel 18.4 says all souls are mine. All souls are mine. So I know that that which has
everlastingly belonged to God. He said, all souls are mine. The Lord Jesus Christ said, all
that the Father giveth me. Placed in the person of the Lord
Jesus Christ. The only place of security. The
Lord Jesus Christ, who was the trusted Messiah, came into this
world because the Father had given Him a people, and He gave
Him a people to save. And He came into this world to
save them. Call His name Jesus. Listen to this. This is what
God has to say. For He shall save His people from their sins. Yeah, I'll save them. When the
Lord Jesus Christ came into this world, he said in John 10, 15,
I lay down my life for the sheep. Do you know when he came into
this world, he didn't go to the cross and just die as a fool? When he came to the cross, when
he went to the cross, he went with a purpose. I lay down my
life for the sheep, for those that the Father gave me. He did
not die and then leave his death to be handled, being placed in
the hands of men to see what men would do with it. No, no,
no, no, no. Salvation is sure. All that the Father giveth me,
back in John 6, now listen to this. Here's the second thing
I know according to God's word, not mine, not yours. I'm not
making this up. Take your Bible and look at it.
All that the Father giveth me, and look at the next four words,
shall come to me. Now according to God's word,
and again, let's just, I've said before, let's just forget everything
else we've ever heard. And let's hear what God has to
say. All that the father giveth me. How many of them that the
father gives him? All of them. Shall come to me. What's the possibility that those
that the father gave the son are not gonna come to him? What's
that possibility? Zero possibility. How do you
know? Because God said so. Y'all growing up, did your mama
and daddy ever tell you something, you say, why? And they say, because
I said so. You know, that just settled it. Because I said so. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me. The truth that God has a people,
given to the Lord Jesus Christ is established by God's word. This word is not going to pass
away. You can have men, you can say, no, no, no, no, that's not
true. I'm going to tell you something.
Let me tell you something. These words right here, they're not going
to pass away. Men can dispute them, they can
reject them, but I'm telling you in the day of judgment, Let
me tell you what the standard is going to be. This book right
here. These are the words. These are
the words. All that the Father giveth me. They're going to receive the
benefits of God's grace and mercy. They're going to come to Christ. They're going to come to Him
because the Spirit of God is going to, this is according to
Ezekiel 36, he's going to come to them and he's going to remove
a heart of stone, a heart of resentment. That's Ezekiel 36,
26. And he's going to give them a
new heart. He's going to give them a new
will. He's going to give them a new spirit. And the Lord said,
I'm going to write on your heart. I'm your God and you're my people.
And they're going to come. And the scripture says in Isaiah
61 10, he's going to clothe them in his righteousness. When he
goes to the cross, second Corinthians 5 21 says he was made sin. For them, he hath made him to
be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. He gonna pay their debt before
God's law, gonna lay down his life for the sheep, gonna bear
their sins in his own body, and he's gonna put away the guilt
of that sin. He gonna save them, they gonna
come to him. They're gonna come, according to Psalm 110.3, with
a willing heart. They will come. All that the
Father giveth me shall come to me. They're not gonna come kicking
and screaming. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. And they're gonna come to him
for mercy. And they're gonna come by faith. That's the only
way they can come, by faith. Men are born, the scripture says,
in trespasses and sins. Romans 3.23, all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God. And when men are born, I
want you to turn to this scripture, Galatians 5.22, Galatians 5.22. You know, we talk about coming to
the Lord by faith, which is true. That's how we're gonna come,
we're gonna come by faith. Now let me tell you what kind
of characteristics all men have when they're born. Now this is
the characteristics of every one of us born in Adam. Galatians
5 verse 19, now the works of the
flesh. Now what that means is, this
is what we're born with. The works of the flesh are manifest
with these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, enviance, murders, drunkenness,
reveling of such like of the witch I tell you before as I've
told you in time past that they which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God. But now, just keep your hand
right there, don't move. That's what we're born with.
And unless Almighty God in the person of His precious Son bears
all of this right here in His own body and pays the debt of
it, unless He puts this away from me, I'm going to stand before
God bearing the guilt of all this. Now, I've got the presence
of it, I got the presence of sin still with me. That's what
Paul said in Romans 9. I see in me, that is in my flesh,
dwells no good thing. The presence of that still with
me, but the dead of it has been put away by the blood of Christ
for all that the Father gave the Son. All that the Father
giveth me. The sheep, he said, John 10,
15. That's who I laid down my life for. But in regenerating
grace, there's a new spirit. The Holy Spirit is given to the
vessels of God's mercy. And when the Spirit of God is
imparted in regenerating grace, this is the fruit of God's Spirit. Now let me tell you something.
Until the Spirit of God is given in regenerating grace, we don't
possess any of this. Verse 22, the fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance. Against such there is no law.
You say, well, I think I've always believed. No, according to the
Word of God, we didn't believe until God gave us His spirit,
the fruit of the spirit is faith and love. God is love, meekness,
joy, temperance. God's people are going to come
to the Lord Jesus Christ for mercy. All that the Father gives
me shall come to me. How are they going to come? They're
going to come by faith. Where are they going to get it?
God's got to give it to them. God has got to give it to them,
because until the Lord gives it to them, they don't have it. You say, well, how do you know? Because
I just read it. That's the only way we know anything.
What God has to say. Back in John 6, all that the
Father giveth me shall come to, now let's grab this, shall come
to me, me. Me. You're not going to hear me say,
come to the front. You're not going to hear me say,
come to the altar. You're not going to hear me say, come to
me. You're not going to hear me say, come to the baptismal
pool. You come to Christ. How do you come to Christ? You
come by faith, given you in your heart without moving a muscle.
You don't have to move a muscle. You come in your heart, that
new heart, by faith that was given. Well, how did it, how
did it come about? Paul said in Romans chapter one,
verse 15, 16, he said, I'm not afraid of the gospel. What I'm
telling you is the gospel. This is the good news. God has
a people. that have been given to the Lord
Jesus Christ. I just read it. All that the Father giveth me.
And I know this, they're gonna come. They're gonna come. They're
gonna come by hearing this gospel preached. This is the only way
that they're gonna come. They're not gonna come by trying
to figure it out. They're not gonna come by, they're
gonna come by hearing the gospel. Hold your place and turn to 2
Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians. You've heard all this before,
but I'll tell you what, we need to hear it again. 2 Thessalonians
chapter two, 2 Thessalonians 2.13, we're bound
to give thanks all the way to God for you, brethren, beloved
of the Lord. And let's just look at these
next words. because God hath from the beginning
chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit
and belief of the truth, whereunto he called you by our gospel to
the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. You're
saying, now are you telling me that God from the beginning has chosen
a people unto salvation? Is that what you're telling me?
That's exactly what I'm telling you. How do you know? I just read it because God said
it. There's a people chosen unto
salvation. That's what the Apostle Paul
was moved by the Spirit of God to say. We were bound to give
thanks all the way to God for you, brethren, beloved of the
Lord, because God had from the beginning chosen you to salvation.
So I know this. All that the Father has given
the Son is going to come to Him. They're going to come to Him.
They're going to come to Him. All that the Father gives me
shall come. Look at that last part, verse
37, chapter 6. And Him that cometh to me Him that cometh, that word cometh,
you've heard this before at ETH, it is a progressive, continual
thing. God's people are continually
coming to Christ. This morning, when you called
upon the Lord in prayer, what were you doing? You're coming
to Him. There's never a need in a believer to not come anymore.
What believer in here said, well, okay, I've come all I need to
come? No, no, God's people don't say that. I'm not gonna go back
to a time in my life when I think, here back years ago, I was 17,
31, 12, I don't know. Somebody were to ask me, can
you name the date and the moment that you believed? No. You can't
prove that in scripture either. So don't try. If you can't come
in your heart, they'll say, and name the moment you believed,
then you're lost. You cannot prove that. You made
that up. But I can tell you what a believer
does. They're coming right now. What if I didn't come 30 years
ago? What if I didn't? What think
ye of Christ right now? That's the only thing that matters,
right now. I couldn't change that back then if I had to. That's
water under the bridge. Somebody say, you don't think
it's that important? Oh, I'm not saying it's not important.
I'm just telling you right now, Him that cometh to me, according
to these scriptures. What do you think of Christ right
now? Him that cometh to me. There's a continual coming, a
continual coming. There's a new man created, the
scripture says, in righteousness and true holiness that consistently
sees his need of help and deliverance. And so therefore, he's continually
coming. He's coming. He's coming. Him that cometh
to me. And here's the last part of this
message. Here's some good news. for needy
sinners. He said, I will in, now here's
a good part. Here's a good part. No wise. No wise. Him that cometh to me,
I will in no wise cast out. Well, what if he falls into sin? You will. What if he doubts his salvation?
You will. What if he's troubled on every
side by temptation and stuff? You will be. But I'm telling
you, a believer that's coming to Christ, that sees his need
of Christ, he said, I will in no wise. Marvin, are you saying
that you're giving us a license for sin? You that believe don't
have that. You don't want that. You're not
looking for a reason to rebel against God. You're not looking
for one. It's just there. And you're struggling with it.
And you're having a hard time with it right now. Him that cometh
to me, I will in no wise cast out. The scripture said in John
10, 27, 28, my sheep hear my voice, and I know them,
and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life, and they
shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my
hand. They may deny him like Peter, and Peter's heart was broken. They may fall into gross iniquity,
Like David took Bathsheba, had her husband killed. And David
was moved to pen Psalm 51, against thee and thee only have I sinned
and done this evil. I've done this evil in your sight. Have mercy, have mercy. Take
not your spirit from me. Don't Lord help me, forgive me.
That's the struggle of a believer. But in the midst of this trial,
this trying world, I'm going to tell you something. I need
some help. I need some help. I need something that I can hang
on to. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him
that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. I jotted this
down here just a moment ago. I said, tremble whether you be one of
those that was given to the sun. Do you tremble whether or not
you were one of God's elect? I said before, if I could get
into heaven right now and get to the book of life right now
and find my name written in the book of life right now, that
may give me some more hope. But I can tell you this, I've
got a sure hope. of being right here in this world, and it's
this. Has the Lord given me a heart to cast myself upon the mercy
of God and to rejoice in Christ Jesus,
and listen to this, and have no confidence in my flesh? Don't look. Don't look to something
you've done and think that you're gonna find some confidence in
that. By the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in
his sight. For by grace are you saved through
faith. And that faith, not of yourself,
it was a gift of God. Why, lest any man should boast.
Think he's done something. Lord have mercy on this sinner
right here. I need a savior. I need one to rescue me from
me for His glory and my good. Amen. All right. Let's take a
little break. Come right back.