I almost forgot I was supposed
to get up and preach. John chapter 6. I'm going to
read some pretty good sections of scripture,
so we'll just take this as we go. I'm going to try to preach
through the rest of the chapter. I want to go back later and look
at these in detail, but I think it's important to see this overall.
It says in verse 22, the day following, now this was after
he had fed the multitude with the fish and the loaves, and
it says, the day following, when the people which stood on the
other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there,
save that one wherein two of his disciples were entered, and
that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but
that his disciples were gone away alone. There was just one boat that
left and Christ wasn't in it, So they're waiting, they think
Christ's gonna show up. Verse 23, howbeit there came
other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did
eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks. When the people
therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples,
they also took shipping and came to Capernaum seeking for Jesus.
And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said,
Rabbi, when camest thou hither? These folks put forth a lot of
effort to get over there, to come to Christ. They went all
the way across this sea to get to Him and they asked Him, how
did you get over here? You didn't come with the boat
with your disciples, how did you get here? Now, the Lord could
have said, I walked across the sea. But He wasn't impressed
with their efforts to come to Him. Because Christ is God and
He knows the heart in all sinners. So rather than tell them how
he came over there, he told them why they came over there. Look
at verse 26, Jesus answered them and said, verily, verily, I say
unto you. Now when the Lord says that,
verily, verily, I say unto you, this is very important. He's
going to say this four times in this chapter. He says, you
seek me not because you saw the miracles, but because you did
eat of the loaves and were filled. They sought Christ not because
they saw the miracles with spiritual understanding. They didn't see
Christ as God coming to flesh, the salvation of His people.
They didn't see themselves as depraved sinners who needed Christ
to save them. But they sought Christ for temporal
good. They sought Him just for the
bread they'd eaten. They sought Him just for their bellies. They
wanted Him just for what He could give them for worldly advantage.
And so the Lord says in verse 27, labor not for the meat which
perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting
life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you. For him hath God
the Father sealed. He's not saying we don't labor
to provide earthly bread or the things we need to take care of
the cares of this life. He's saying labor more for the
spiritual meat and make that our preeminent concern rather
than the other, rather than the earthly bread. Everything in
this world is meat that is perishing along with these bodies that
are gonna perish. Everything. The only lasting,
enduring bread is Christ. And then if we just labor for
this, the temporal things, these earthly things, we're gonna die,
all that's gonna be left behind, and then we're gonna face God,
then we're gonna face eternity. So he's saying, indeed, labor.
Labor. Put forth more effort than you
did in getting to this side of the sea. Put forth more effort
than that. And put forth more effort in
seeking temporal bread. Put it forth to seek Christ. That's what he's saying. Christ
will declare here, if a sinner seeks Him earnestly, it's going
to be because God gave him a heart to do it. But he's also saying,
if we seek Him earnestly, You are going to find Him. Now where
is this enduring meat? Where does it come from? Now
first of all, it is the words that Christ Himself speaks. Because
He is preaching here. He is in Capernaum and He is
preaching the truth. If they are going to hear, it
is going to be because He is going to speak into their heart and
give them life to hear Him and believe what He is saying. So
it's first the words. He said there, which the Son
of Man shall give unto you. This lasting meat is what the
Son of Man shall give to you. For him hath God the Father sealed. God the Father sealed our Lord
Jesus Christ when He spoke from heaven. He put His seal on Him. He said, this is my beloved Son
in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye Him. They are going to
have to hear Christ and not just with these ears. They are going
to have to hear Him by His effectual word in their heart. When He
begins the work of grace to give us an earnest desire to hear
Christ's words, it's going to be by Christ's words. It's going
to be through this gospel. Get where you can hear the gospel
and get on to the gospel and pay, give earnest heed, labor
to hear the gospel. It's like what the Hebrew writer
said, labor to enter into this rest. Christ our rest. He's in the synagogue preaching
to them and the bread that he's going to give, the true meat
that's going to endure is going to be by the words he speaks.
Look down at verse 63. He said, it's the spirit that
quickeneth the flesh profits nothing. See, we can't do this
by our natural ability. The words that I speak unto you,
their spirit and their life. Look down at verse 68. Simon
Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the
words of eternal life. What's the result when he speaks
those words of eternal life? We believe. And we're sure. Thou art that Christ, the Son
of the living God. See, what the Lord's declaring
here is what He declared when He gave the manna in the wilderness.
That manna pictured Him. And what did he say when he gave
that manna over in Deuteronomy 8.3? He said, man doesn't live
by bread only. Not this temporal bread that
we're eating that we're going to live by. But by every word
that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord does man live by.
We've got to hear Christ speak through this gospel. And that's
how he's going to save his people. He's going to make us labor for
this meat. All the other labor is for this meat. So we can hear
the gospel. But until he speaks this word,
until he really speaks personally to us, into the heart and gives
life, a sinner doesn't hear Christ correctly. We don't hear Him
or write, we don't enter into these things spiritually. Look
at verse 28. Then said they unto him, What
shall we do that we might work the works of God? They heard
him speak of labor, They heard him speak of working, so they
said, well, what shall we do that we might work the works
of God? Now, that's the natural sin nature in us. That's how
we hear the word of God. That's how we originally went
to the word of God, trying to find out what must I do to work
the works of God. But that's not only the sin nature
in an unregenerate, that's still the sin nature in us as believers,
brethren. Let something happen. First thought
we have is what are we going to do? And you know, the Lord
said to Philip and Andrew, when they saw that multitude, He said,
where are we going to get bread to feed all these multitudes?
And what did they say? What shall we do to work the
work of God? That's basically what they were saying. There's
not enough here, we can't do this. So from the first moment
He speaks and teaches us this, He's constantly, in every situation,
He's teaching us, increasing our faith, that He's the only
one that can work the work of God. He is the only one. The only one. Well, what is the
work of God? It is to believe on Christ. Look
here in verse 29. Jesus answered and said unto
them, This is the work of God, that you believe on Him whom
He hath sent. This is the work of God, that
you believe on Him whom the Father hath sent. He is saying, this
is the work of God. that you cease trying to do the
work of God and believe on Christ who God has sent who finished
the work of God. Stop trying to work the work
to bring yourself to God and believe on Christ because the
Father sent Him to work the work God requires. God sent His Son
to work the work of God. That's why the Son of God came
and took flesh was to work the work of God. Now think about
that. If any sinner could work the work of God, he wouldn't
have sent his son. He sent his son to work the work
of God. And so he tells us, this is the
work. Believe on him whom he sent. Well, what's the work that
God the Father sent his son to accomplish? That's pretty much
what they ask. Look at verse 30. They said therefore
unto him, what sign showest thou then that we may see and believe
thee? What dost thou work? Now here they refer back to Moses
when they said, our fathers did eat manna in the desert. As it's
written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. And Jesus said
to them, here's another verily, here's the second one, verily,
verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from
heaven. A man didn't give you that bread from heaven. Remember
the manna fell down from heaven and they had nothing to eat.
They were murmuring against Moses. He rained down manna from heaven.
But it was God that did it. Now look what our Lord said.
But my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the
bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life
unto the world. Now this is the deadness of the
natural heart. Here is why we need him to speak
into our hearts right here. He had just fed this multitude
of people from nothing. He took five loaves and two fish
and created bread to feed over 20,000 plus people from nothing. He created it. And they saw that. They saw that happen. But this
sight with these eyes is not faith. They were looking at Christ
who is the bread. They were looking at him as he's
speaking this. And they're saying, are you going
to do something to show us that you're really the bread? Are
you going to do something to prove it to us? And what they're really
saying is, Moses, you fed us one time. Moses fed them 40 years. Well, Moses didn't feed them
40 years. God fed them 40 years. And he's showing who Christ is
and how that when you eat Christ, you'll never hunger or thirst
again. He feeds us all through this wilderness, all through
eternity. But they say to him, he says
to them rather, that that bread, that manna that fell in the wilderness
was a picture of Christ the true bread. Christ the true bread. Now I want to preach simply today
because this is a very simple illustration. He's referring
back to that manna. It's very simple. You eat a piece
of bread. And He's saying, I'm the true
bread. Why do you eat bread? To live. He's saying, I'm the
true bread. I came down from heaven. I'm
the bread that God the Father gave from heaven. The bread of
God is Christ who came down from heaven. And what does He give?
He gives life unto the world. He gives life to the world. Now
this word world throws people off. They say, see there? Christ
died for everybody. He came to give life to everybody.
Well, listen. He's speaking right here to Jews.
To Jews who thought that because they were born Jews, they were
racially Jews, they thought they were the children of God. They
were the elect of God. And he uses the word world because
those that he gave his life for are elect Jews and Gentiles. Elect Gentiles. The whole world
divided into two people, Jews and Gentiles. Elect Jews, and
so he came to save, and elect Gentiles. Not all are elect Jews,
and not all are elect Gentiles. Chosen Jews, chosen Gentiles,
that's who he came for. You know there's really only
one place in scripture where the word world is used in reference
to everybody? One place. Let me give it to
you. Romans 3.19. Now we know that
what thing soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under
the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world
may become guilty before God. Now there it means everybody.
That's the only place that the word world means everybody. Because
either in this life by grace, that law is going to shut our
mouth in guilt, or when we stand before God and Christ Jesus judges
the world in righteousness, He's going to say, you're guilty.
But all are going to be condemned by it. So what's the work of
God that no sinner can perform? They said, what's the work you
work? He said, I came down to work the work. They said, well,
what is it then? What's the work of God that Christ came and finished
for these elect people? Well, God's holy, and he requires
that he must be obeyed in perfect obedience. Perfect obedience
from a perfectly holy heart. Outwardly, in thought, in heart,
the law's got to be upheld perfectly, and the nature in which it's
done's got to be perfectly holy. No sin. Absolutely perfect to
be accepted of God. Now, sinner, you and I can't
work that work of God. There's just no way. We cannot
work that work of God. We disobeyed God and Adam, and
we became guilty. God made it that way. He made
Adam our first father to represent everybody that would be born
of him, and we died in him. We became guilty in Adam. Say,
I don't like that. I don't like that I was made
guilty in another. The only way we are going to be saved is to
be made righteous in another. Because Christ, He made Adam
the head because Christ is the head of His people. Adam is the
head of His family. Christ is the head of His family.
And we are going to be found in one of those two. But if we
are going to be saved, it is going to be by the obedience
of another. We were made sin by the disobedience
of another. We are going to be made righteous
by the obedience of another. Not only were we guilty in Adam,
we were conceived in our mother's womb of corrupt seed. Adam passed corruption to his
son, to his son, to his son, all the way to your father and
my father, and they passed it to us. So in our mother's womb,
we were sin, and we grew as sin, and we came forth as sin, and
you know what, because we were sin, you know what we did? We
sinned. That's all we can bring forth
from our sin nature. And the work God requires is
perfect obedience from a perfect heart. So you see, we can't work
this work of God. God gave the law at Sinai, not
for us to try to go to it and obtain life by it. I just read
it to you. He gave it to shut our mouth
in guilt and declare us all guilty. God says the soul that sinneth
must die. And we've all sinned. We all
must die. God's law says we must die. We shall die under the justice
of God. Everybody shall. We must. God's
holy. He will execute strict justice
on everybody in this world. It has to be. It has to be. God says His law must be executed. He's just. His law's got to be
honored. He's not going to let one sin
slip by. He's going to punish all sin
in every sinner. You and I can't work that work
of God. Can you die under the strict
justice of God and yet live? We can't work that work of God.
Well, if God's going to receive all the glory and salvation,
which He says He's going to receive it all, that means God's going
to have to work the work of God. You see why this thing's up to
God to choose whom He will and save whom He will? We can't work
the work of God. If there was something God's
looking for in somebody and that's why He's going to choose you
and save you, there's nothing in us to look for. So God sent His only begotten
Son to work the work of God. Christ finished the work of God
by perfect holy obedience. He is born of the Virgin because
of the Spirit a body was formed and the Son of God who is Spirit
took that body and came forth. He is the only other man that
ever started out life that had no sin. Adam started that way
but he sinned. Christ came forth with no sin.
He is the last Adam, the last representative. So all his days
made under the law to represent the chosen people that God gave
him, he walked perfectly obedient under that law all his days.
In a world of sin with all kinds of temptation and all kinds of
trouble and persecution and opposition, just think about it. Never one
sinful thought toward anybody. Nothing ever offended him so
that any sin welled up in him whatsoever toward anybody. We
can't work the work of God, can we? We can't. And then not only was that obedience
perfect all his days, here was the display of his perfect obedience. He presented himself to the Father,
this holy spotless Lamb of God. and willingly submitted to God,
making Him to bear the sin of the people He came to save. Why
did He have to bear that sin? Because God is declaring He is
a righteous God. He wouldn't even pour out justice
on Christ until He made Him bear the sin of His people. But when
He made Him bear the sin of His people, because He is just, even
though that was His Son, He wouldn't clear Him. He would not let Him
slide. He poured out fierce justice
on Him. The cross of Calvary is not Christ trying to make
something possible for sinners if they'll just let Him. The
cross of Christ is Christ satisfying the justice of God for His people.
It's declaring God holy and just and righteous. That's what the
cross of Christ is about. It's Christ successfully, victoriously
accomplishing the redemption of everybody He laid down His
life for. That's what the cross is about. God made His Son spare that death
that we owe to justice and He satisfied it so that that death
is extinguished for His people. It's done. His people are made
righteous in Him. God looks at His people in Christ
and He says, no sin, perfectly righteous. We saw this morning
how God dealt with David. That's how God deals with you
and me every day, every moment. He sees us in Christ. Sometimes
we sin more in a greater way, like David did, and we see it
more. We see that grace and mercy more.
But he's dealing with us that way every day. It's only Christ's
obedience, by Christ working the work of God, that chosen
sinners are made righteous. So this is why he says here,
He says to you now, and this is pretty much essentially what
He is saying, would you work the work of God? You want to
work the work of God? Here it is. You want to do all
this work, perfect obedience from the womb to the tomb. You want to be perfectly obedient
to God? You want to be perfectly righteous
from a holy heart before God? He said, believe on Christ and
everything He did be freely given to you. Everything he said verse 33 the
bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and give us
life To the world to his chosen people scattered throughout the
world he gives it freely well Each one the father chose now
you think about this if we're such foul sinners, and it can't
believe God How are we going to be brought to believe him
then? I? Everyone that He chose and gave to Christ and Christ
redeemed shall come to Christ and believe on Christ. He's going
to make it happen. Watch this, verse 34. Then said
they unto Him, Lord evermore give us this bread. They're still
thinking about earthly bread. Now listen to the Lord. Jesus
said to them, I am the bread of life. I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger. He that believeth on me shall
never thirst. You think it was something that
you think Moses fed you for 40 years in the wilderness, fed
your fathers for 40 years. The one that comes to me will
never hunger and thirst again. Ever. Watch. But I said to you,
you've also seen me and believe not. All, now here we go. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise
cast out." You see, when He says, all that the Father giveth to
me, they were given to Him from eternity. They were given to
Him before this world was made. God didn't come and start doing
things as an afterthought. He said it all in order from
the beginning. He knew who He was going to come to save. Many
in this multitude didn't come to Christ believing on Christ.
He said, you see me and you don't believe. This is the natural depravity
right here. This ought to make you cry out, Lord, make me believe
or something. Because he told them, you're
standing here seeing me and you don't believe me. And then he
says, but all that my Father gives me shall come to me and
believe me. Wouldn't, if we had some spiritual
discernment, you'd say, you're saying I'm not one of yours.
That's what he's saying. That's exactly what he was saying.
Not only shall all the Father gave to Christ come to Christ,
Christ shall not cast one of them out. He says, him that comes
to me, I will in no wise cast him out. Why? Because he's our righteousness.
There's nothing we did to make him receive us, he did it. There's
nothing we can do to make him cast us out, he's our righteousness. He said, I will not cast one
of them out. If you come to Christ, believe in Him, casting yourself
entirely on His mercy, Christ shall in no wise cast you out.
No way. Not ever. For any reason. Because
if you can do that, He has drawn you. He is your righteousness. Now look, all who come to Christ
believing on Him, Christ will save every one of them. He will
save each one of them. Because He alone is our righteousness.
Here is why he says, they are going to all come to me, and
I will not cast them out. Verse 38, For I came down from
heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent
me. And this is the Father's will. You want to know God's
will? Everybody is going around saying, I want to know the will
of God. What is the will of God for me? Well, I don't know what
the will of God for you is, but I can show you what the will
of God is for His people. He says, This is the Father's will
which He has sent me, that of all which He has given me, I
should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last
day. And this is the will of Him that sent me, that everyone
which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting
life, and I will raise Him up at the last day. You see that? He said, Father gave them to
me in eternity, they're going to all come to me, and I'm not
going to cast one of them out, because it's the will of the
Father that I don't lose one of them, and I'm going to raise
them all up at the last day. Now, do we need proof that only
God can give us faith? Do we need some just resounding
proof that it takes God to give us faith? Well, Christ declared
this message so plainly, so clearly. It's so simple what He said to
them. I mean, this is simple. I'm the bread of life. I give
life. My father has given me a people.
They're going to come to me. I'm going to receive them. I'm
not going to cast them out. I'm going to save every one of
them. And all that he gave me is coming to me. I'm the bread
of life. Verse 41. Here's proof we need
God to give us faith. The Jews then murmured at him
because he said, I'm the bread which came down from heaven.
And they said, is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know? How is it then that he says,
I come down from heaven? Now let me be real personal. Every sinner that's hearing this
right now, who doesn't believe on Christ, in their heart they're
murmuring this same word right here. In their heart they're
saying, this Jesus was only a man. You expect me to believe him?
He's just a man. They're saying, I don't believe
He came down from heaven because unbelief caused God a liar. This
is God speaking. Unbelief caused Him a liar. Well,
how's a sinner going to be given life and faith to come and believe
on Christ? It's going to be by God. Verse
43, Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, murmur not
among yourselves. Now listen to just how truthful
He is with them on that. Don't murmur amongst yourselves.
No man can come to me except the Father which has sent me
drawing. And I'll raise him up at the
last day. It's written in the Prophets. They shall be all taught
of God. Again, this word all doesn't
mean everybody or everybody be coming to Christ and believing
on Him. Who does it mean? It means all those He gave to
Christ. They're going to all be taught by God. In the heart, every man therefore
that has heard and has learned of the Father, who's been given
this spiritual understanding from my Father, he says, they're
going to come to me. And the word cometh unto me means
they're not going to ever stop coming to me. Not that any man
has seen the Father, save he which is of God. He's seen the
Father. Well, what evidence is there that I have everlasting
life? How am I going to know God chose me? How am I going
to know Christ died for me? How am I going to know that I
have this everlasting life? Here's another verily, right
here, verse 47. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. That's it. Do you believe him? Do you believe
him? I am that bread of life. I said
it again. Your fathers ate manna in the
wilderness and they might have ate it for 40 years but they're
dead now. This is the bread which cometh
down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die. I am
the living bread. The living bread. You know when
you eat bread, that's not living bread. You know who makes that
bread make you live? God does. We pray, Lord, bless
this food to the nourishment of our body. If he don't bless
it, it's not going to nourish your body. There's all kinds
of medical reasons for that, but ultimately the reason for
that is if God don't bless it to your body, it ain't nourishing
your body because it ain't living bread. Christ is a living bread. He came down from heaven. If
any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread
that I'll give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
world. The one way of knowing I have
everlasting life is faith in Christ. Believe in Christ. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread
of life. You got some people that never
have believed, and they're wondering, what do I need to do to work
the work of God? Christ says, believe on me, and
if you can, you have everlasting life. You got others who believe
on the Lord, but they don't have any assurance. They're looking
at everything else down here below, what they've done, what
they haven't done, and trying to find some assurance. You want
assurance? He said, believe on me. The evidence
is faith in Christ. You believe on Christ, you have
everlasting life, regardless of how you feel. He's the bread
of life. And you have believers who trust
Him and believe Him. And the one thing we know is
this. I believe Him. He said, if I
believe Him, I have everlasting life. Well, look at verse 51. I like this. At the end there,
the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for
the life of the world. Still talking about those people
scattered throughout the world through every generation to the
end of time. Now listen, Christ gave His flesh
A body was given him for one purpose, for him to lay it down
and be broken under the law of God. Broken under God's judgment. Now look, he gave his life for
the life of his people. He gave his life for their life. He shed his blood unto death,
which ended death for his people. He gave his life for their life,
so they could live. And he arose and we arose in
him. He didn't give his life to make
it possible for us to have life. He didn't say that. The bread I'll give is my flesh
which I'll give to make it possible for people to have life. He said,
I'm giving it for the life of the world. Without the shedding
of blood, there's no remission of sin. I'm shedding my blood,
I'm pouring out my life unto death so that they live. And
he accomplished that. Either he accomplished that or
he is a total failure. But he accomplished it. Again,
how incapable are we of believing God? Unless we are quickened. Verse 52, The Jews therefore
strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his
flesh to eat? They are still thinking about
earthly things. They think he really means they
need to come up there and take a bite out of his arm. That is
what they really think. How is he going to give us his
flesh to live? Then Jesus said to them, Here
is another, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh
of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in
you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh
my blood, hath eternal life. Now look at that. If you don't,
you have no life in you. If you do, you have eternal life. The reason you do is you have
eternal life. You're going to have eternal
life before you ever partake of Him. But when you partake
of Him, He's going to make you know you've got eternal life.
Look, I'll raise him up at the last day for my flesh is meat
indeed, my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh
my blood dwelleth in me and I in him. That's how you have eternal
life. He comes through this word and enters in the living bread
and gives you life and dwells in you and in that new man that
he's created, that new spirit, you're dwelling in him. And that's
how you believe on, that's how you have life, that's how you
have faith. Verse 57, as the living Father sent me and I live
by the Father, the Father sent me and I live
by the Father, he that eateth me, even he lives by me. This is that bread which came
down from heaven, not as your fathers did eat man and are dead,
he that eat this bread shall live forever. And we're about
to partake of this broken piece of bread and this little thimble
of wine right here. And the Lord gave us this ordinance
to picture, to remember how he broke his body for his people
and shed his blood for his people. That's what this is to remember
him by. We're going to take this bread
and we're going to eat it and it's going to become one with
our body. We're going to drink the wine and it's going to become
one with our body. And that's what he's saying here. He's saying
believing on Christ is evidence. Christ dwells in us and we dwell
in him. That's some pretty radical thinking,
but that's so. Christ dwells in his people in
spirit. The new man in you that believe
is Christ. If so one with him, you can't
tell where one ends and another begins. And we're one in him,
even as he and the Father are one. Well, verse 53, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, except you eat this flesh and drink
this blood, you have no life. Well, what makes the difference?
Why do some eat and some not eat? He is talking about believing
Him is what He is saying. Why do some believe and some
don't? Verse 59, These things said He in the synagogue as He
taught in Capernaum. And many therefore, the disciples,
when they heard this, they said, This is a hard saying. Who can
hear it? When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples murmured at
it, He said to them, Does this offend you? What if you see the
Son of Man ascend up where He was before? It's the spirit that
quickens. The flesh profits nothing. The
words I speak, there's spirit in their life. But there's some
of you that believe not, he said. For Jesus knew from the beginning
who they were that believed not, and he knew who was going to
betray him. And he said therefore unto them, no man can come to
me except it were given him of my father. See this notion you
hear preachers saying, the Lord has done everything he can, he's
just begging for you to let him do something for you. He's not. He's not. He's God. He don't
beg. He sat there and told them, I
know you that don't believe because I didn't come to give you faith.
That's why. Those that are going to come
to me are only going to come because the Father drew them.
What is that going to do if he speaks that into my heart? That's
going to make me quit boasting. That's going to make me quit
thinking I did something. That's going to make me hit the
dust and say, Lord, have mercy on me. I'm at your mercy. I can't
do anything. That's the whole point. He says, verse 66, they went
back from that time, walked no more with him. And then Jesus
turned to the 12 and he said, you want to go away? Now here's
the difference the grace made. Here's the difference when he
spoke into the heart. Here's the difference. There's
others left. They said, we can't hear this anymore. We don't even
understand what he's saying. He's not going to give us any
bologna sandwiches today. That's all we wanted. We're not
going to hear this. They left. And he turned to them
and he said to his true disciples, he said, you going to go? They said, Lord, to whom shall
we go? to whom? Not to what church,
or what denomination, or what, what, what. To whom shall we
go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life, and we believe and are sure Thou art that Christ, the
Son of the living God." And he said, the reason you believe
me is I chose you. And he said, I didn't even choose
all of you to save. One of you is the devil. One
of you is going to betray me. But I chose You who believe,
and I gave you the faith, and that's why you believe me. He
is the bread, brethren. He is the bread. I pray he'd
speak this and make somebody believe him, and give us faith
to believe him. And if we're troubled, make us
see he's the only one that can work the work, and that's what
he's gonna do. All right, let's observe the
table. I need somebody to pass out the
elements. Ben and Greg, pass them out.