John chapter 6. And the title of the message is,
The Offense, The Offense of the Gospel. John chapter 6 and verse
66. From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him." The offense of the Gospel. Now here our Lord Jesus Christ
had just recently, the day before, performed a great miracle and
fed 5,000 men besides women and children with those fused loaves
and little fishes. He did a great miracle in their
presence and they themselves were partakers of the miracle.
They saw it. They witnessed it. They saw His
disciples with those little loaves and then they put them in a basket
and they kept pulling out and pulling out and pulling out until
everybody had enough and they were all full and there were
so many fragments that they took them up, twelve baskets full.
Great miracle was done. so much so that they purpose
to make him their king look at this back in uh... let's see
if i can and find a real fast for you versa fourteen it says and then
those men Verse 15, sorry. When Jesus therefore perceived
that they would come and take him by force to make him a king,
he departed again into the mountain himself alone. These men that
we read now are leaving him the day before desired him to be
their king. What happened? What happened? What made such
a change in these men? What happened from verse 15 to
verse 66? Something happened. I'm going
to tell you what happened. Jesus preached the gospel to
them. What drove them away was this. His gospel. His message. His message drove them away. The gospel was offensive. Now listen, what is so offensive
about the gospel? Believer, does the gospel offend
you? No, it's the truth. It's the truth. I'm not offended
by it because it's the truth. But yet people are offended.
Now today, many proclaim and preach, say they preach the gospel,
they profess to be the disciples of Jesus Christ, the church of
Christ, the elect of God. But if you listen to their message,
there's something missing. You know what it is? Offense.
It is not offensive. Now what I mean by this is we
who preach the gospel, we don't go around trying to offend men.
I'm not trying to pick a fight with people. I'm just telling
you, we just proclaim the gospel. The gospel itself is the offense. Now I've met preachers who desire
to do that. They want to purposely offend
you, but if you just preach the gospel, it does it all by itself.
It doesn't need you. I don't need to try to offend
anybody. This gospel message will do it
all by itself. I remember in our church there
in Lincolnwood in Houston, my neighbors, they came and visited
our church and they stayed a year listening to this same gospel
message over and over and over for one year. Now Brother Scott
Richardson came in and he preached one message and they got mad. What? It finally took hold. It
wasn't the preacher. It wasn't him. It was just the
message. They got mad and they said, if
that's your God, we'll have nothing to do with it. And they left. They were like these guys. One
day they wanted to make him king. Another day, They were mad and
offended. What was the thing that offended
them? The Gospel. You know, the Apostle said this.
He said, if I preach circumcision, why do I suffer persecution? Then is the offense of the cross
ceased. The Apostle suffered persecution
at the hands of Jews. Why? Because he preached the
cross of Christ, which is offensive to the self-righteous man. Paul said, if I were to preach
works, then the offense would cease. Nobody would be offended.
Listen, nobody's offended at free will works religion. You
got that? Nobody's offended. Matter of fact, they go out of
their way not to offend anybody. They've gone so far as to say
they don't even like talking about sin. It might offend somebody. We don't want to offend the Sodomites.
We don't want to offend them. We can't call them that. No,
sodomites. Adulterers, fornicators, effeminate,
abusers of themselves with mankind, covetous, boasters, proud, disobedient
to parents, sinners against God. Not against man, against God. Gospel proclaims that men are
sinners and men don't like to hear that. But the free will
works religion, they say, oh, you're good but not really good,
you know, you could be better. No, you can't. No. He's going to dispel that myth
here in a minute. Paul said, if I were to preach
works, then hey, everybody would be happy. Nobody's offended that
freewill works religion is pleasing to the natural man. The man that
has some part in his salvation, some work to do, something he
can do and must do to finish the work of God, he'll be pleased
with that message. To them, God has done all he
can do. He's put together salvation. He's got a plan for your life. I want to, I want to, it's like
raking your fingers across a chalkboard to say that to me. God does have
a plan for your life. You bet He does. Just not with
the plan you're talking about. You have no idea of His plan.
Why? You don't know His gospel. I
know His plan because I know His gospel. They think God's put together
salvation in Jesus Christ and blood and righteousness is given
to all men to make salvation possible for all men and left
one thing undone. He's left one thing undone that
you must do. Now that's their message. That's
not offensive to anybody. Why? It puts all the glory on
you. Man's not offended when you give
him praise and glory. Not offended. Problem with this is there is
no offense. The gospel is offensive. The gospel of the cross of Christ
is offensive. Now if I were to compromise with
free will, works, religion in the least degree, you make no
mistake, I am not preaching the gospel. Paul said, Behold, if I or an
angel from heaven preach to you another gospel than that which
we have preached, let me and them go to hell. Get away from
us as fast as you can if you don't preach a gospel. This gospel of Christ that we
preach is no different from the gospel Christ preached. I'm not
here to preach a different gospel. I want to preach the same gospel
he preached. I don't care who it offends. my business is not
to please men but to please god my business is to preach the
gospel the simply declared as plainly as we possibly can regardless
of the outcome regardless of what men think
or feel gospel of christ is no different than this gospel here
in this text The true gospel is always abases man and exalts
Christ. You want to know if it's a true
gospel? Those two things must be done. To preach the Gospel, you must
put man in the dust and God on the throne. That's exactly how
the Gospel is preached. It is to abase man and to exalt
God. It strips man of his covering
for sin. It exposes the vanity of his
works, the foolishness of his freewill works religion. It reveals
that his God is nothing more than a self-made idol of his
imagination. That's what the Gospel does.
sets up Christ and says this is Christ and when they take
their Christ and they put it against him if he falls short
their Christ is no Christ that's what it is it's a gospel The Gospel exalts, it abases
man, but it exalts Christ, it exalts God. In this measure,
listen, the Gospel says salvation is of the Lord. From start to
finish and everything in between, salvation is completely and absolutely
the work of the sovereign God and not of man in the least degree. this is the gospel that God had
from the beginning chosen the people that he would save and
he put them in Christ according as he had chosen us in Christ
before the foundation of the world that we should be holy
and without blame before him in love having predestinated
us according to the adoption of sons uh... having predest-
in love having predestinated us according to the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ unto himself according to His own
free will, to the glory of His grace. You see, salvation is
God chose a people and gave them to Christ. The Gospel is Christ
came to be one with our nature, to obtain righteousness and redemption. For who? All the Father gave
Him. That's what He says in this chapter
in our text. He says that in verse 30. 7. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and him to me that cometh to me I will in
no wise cast out. 8. I came down from heaven not to do mine own
will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the will
of him that sent me, that of all which he hath given me I
should lose nothing. This is what he came to do, to
save his people. But we, being dead in sins, could
not and would not come to Christ. Therefore the Holy Ghost comes
to us in sovereign, quickening grace. He gives us life and faith
in Christ. And all who believe on Christ
are kept in this faith, safe until glory." This is the gospel!
So who gets the glory for salvation? God does. Man is abased and God
is exalted. This is the message Jesus preached
and this is the message we preach. This is the message that offended
these men, and this is the message that offends the world. Salvation
is of the Lord. The lost and self-righteous religionist,
the freewill workmonger, who hoped to rob God of His glory
by adding their work or will to the work of Christ, is always
offended by the true gospel. When you witness to someone,
are you not surprised they're offended? Because I get surprised
too. I tell somebody about this, they say, oh I love Jesus too.
Oh great, let's talk. Boy, they get mad. What are you
mad at? Our Lord's teaching us not to
be surprised. They will hate you and they will hate this message. And so then let's look at our
text and see what Jesus Christ did to offend these people. What
was so atrocious about his message that they once wanted to make
him a king and now then they left him and would not follow
him anymore? Well, like I said, salvation
is the work of God, is the sum and substance of his message.
Now these self-righteous men These self-righteous men, these
carnal men, they came across the sea at their own expense
looking for Christ. They wanted to make Him king.
They wanted Him to be their king. And they said, where'd He go? And so they sailed across the
sea. And look at this in verse... Verse 25, And when they had found
him on the other side, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest
thou hither? Where did you go? Why did you
come over here? Why did you leave us? We were
just about to make you our king. Why did you leave? Jesus saw
the truth about their nature, what they could not see. He saw
the wicked and selfishness of their own motives. And in verse
26, He said, He answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say
unto you, you seek Me not because you saw the miracles, but because
you did eat of the loaves and were filled. These men followed
Jesus for what? Bread. They wanted bread. They
wanted to make Him king of bread. That's what they wanted. They
wanted him to just give them bread every day. They didn't
want a king, they wanted a slave. They wanted a bread factory.
That's what they wanted. They wanted to be filled like
Israel, remember? And that's what they started
talking about. He said, our fathers did eat
man in the wilderness. Won't you do that for us? If
you say you are who you say you are, then you do for us what
Moses did. Feed us for 40 years and then
we'll believe you. These people, there's people
like that today who profess to believe in Jesus. What do they
want? They only want what physical things He can give them. They
only care of health, wealth, and prosperity. That's what they
want Christ for. These men were the same. They
wanted to make Him king because of what He could give them physically,
carnally. These men followed Jesus at their
own expense and only wanted bread. But they had a greater need.
Did they not have a greater need? They needed spiritual life. Jesus, knowing their need, declares
unto them in verse 27 what they should be seeking for. He said,
You sought Me for the bread, but this is what you should be
looking for. Labor not for the meat that perisheth, but for
the meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son
of Man shall give unto you. for him hath the Father sealed."
These men went to great pains, great expense, they came across
the ocean for bread. They sought bread. And Jesus
said, don't labor for that. How many in religion are laboring
hard and taking great pains at their own expense, seeking Christ
only for the things of this world now you pay attention they were
in the very presence of the one who created all things they were in the presence of
god manifest in the flesh who had power to give them anything and what was their highest request A loaf of bread. They wanted a loaf of bread a
day. Didn't He give that to them all
the days of their life? Instead of eternal life, they
wanted bread. This is because man by nature
is dead in his sins. Today, Jesus is now in our midst,
and what are you asking for? He's here. He's with us this
morning. The very God of heaven is with
us, and what would you ask of Him? What do you want? Most of all, what do you want?
These men wanted bread. What do you want? Jesus said,
don't labor for that. Don't labor for that. Why? It
perishes. Labor for that which is unperishing. Spiritual life. Spiritual life. These men sought Jesus because
of a need, but it wasn't the right need. They had a greater
need that they didn't know of, and Jesus was telling them of
their need. This is what it is to preach the gospel. I'm here
to tell you of your need. Well, I don't feel that need.
It doesn't matter. You have it. You need life. You need righteousness. You need
a sacrifice that you cannot provide. You are under the wrath of God
and you are dying. You have a need. You have a need. I'm here to tell you of that
need. So how then can sinners be received
into life and have pardon for sin? Listen, labor not, that's
how. You get it? Don't work. So many are trying. Again, another
statement that drives me crazy. It said, are you a believer?
Are you a Christian? And someone would say, well,
I'm trying. No! Stop trying! Stop working! In order to be a Christian, you
must first of all, understand you have nothing to offer. Nothing to offer. The only thing you have is sin. That's all you have is sin. Labor
not for the bread that perishes, but that which endures to eternal
life. How is this going to come? Not by your hands. Not by your
works. You know, I know this, believer,
you have needs, don't you? You have physical, carnal needs.
What I'm never telling you is not to pray for them. You should.
You have need of bread? Well, pray for bread. It's okay.
Why? Your father gave you the bread
the day before. Did he not? So pray for it again. It's okay.
But what did he say this? He said, but seek first. There's
something of greater priority. The Gospel has a great priority. God understands your need of
food and shelter and clothes. But seek first the kingdom of
God and His righteousness. You see, the kingdom of God is
a person. The kingdom of God is His righteousness. Jesus Christ,
the King of the kingdom. And all these things will be
added unto you. Jesus, seek Him and find righteousness in Him.
Sinner, you have no righteousness. You have no goodness of your
own. That pulls a veil back over everything.
This just strips and pulls back the curtain of a man's heart
and what you find there is only evil. That's what you find. In
my heart, in my nature, is only evil continually. God said the
very thought of the imagination. You get that? The thought of
the imagination of the heart. Before you even thought it, it
was evil. Before you even imagined it, it was evil. Why? Your heart
is evil. Your heart is evil. And so then,
this does away with all laboring. How can one be accepted with
God? How can one by nature, that is an enmity against God, can
be reconciled to God? How can we who will not and cannot
obey the law of God ever be made acceptable or righteousness?
Not by the labor of your hands. Not by the labor of your religious
deeds or the works of your flesh. How foolish is it for a man to
take a cracker and a thing of wine and say, this is my salvation?
How foolish is it a man to fill up a bathtub full of water and
dip himself in and say, this is my salvation? How foolish is it of a man to
make a decision and say, this is my salvation? Jesus said, no, labor not. This
is offensive. Labor not for the meat which perishes.
You know what that water and that, when you eat that cracker
and drink that wine, what does it do? It perishes. You'll drain
the bathtub, it perishes. Your decision, you change that
every day. It perishes. Don't labor for that. Sinners
see that Jesus first. His first offensive statement
is this. The meat that endures eternal
life. Listen. It's not by labor but
by gift. Read it. Labor not for the meat
which perishes but the meat that endureth to everlasting life.
Well how does this come? Which the Son of Man shall give
unto you. Salvation my friend is a gift. It is not an offer. It's not
an offer. It's a gift. When you give somebody a gift,
are you offering it to them, or are you giving it to them? Give them a gift. You bought
it, you earned it, you merited it, and you are willing to give
the gift to them. It is given. Salvation is given. It is not earned by you. It is given. It is bought by
another. and is given to you. This is
offensive. Salvation is not merited, not
earned, not labored for, but is a gift of God's sovereign,
free grace. Jesus Christ, who the Father
hath sealed. He is the one that gives it.
This is offensive. Now listen, we say to the dead,
look to Christ. Behold the Son of God. The Father
has sealed Him. My whole message is Christ. I
want you to look to Christ this morning. I want you to stop looking
at yourself. Stop looking for anything in
you. You will not find anything but sin. So now then, take all
that you have and come to Christ, which is your sin. That's it.
That's all you've got to come with. You take it and you come
to Christ for mercy. Mercy. I say, behold the Lamb
of God. There is only one Savior, Jesus
Christ. The Father sealed Him in prophecy. The Father sealed Him by miracles
and signs and wonders, which He did in their presence. The
Father sealed Him when He killed Him on the cross and raised Him
from the dead. The Father sealed Him. The Father
set Him apart from everyone else. Behold My servant, Mine elect,
in whom My soul delighteth. I have put My Spirit upon him,
and he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. And what is
the result of this? He shall not fail nor be discouraged. This is whom the Father sealed.
Jesus Christ. Look and see the Father laid
on Him, who is mighty. Help! Psalm 89, verse 19. Then thou spakest in vision to
thy Holy One and saidest, I have laid upon one that is mighty,
help upon one that is mighty. I have exalted one chosen out
of the people. That's Christ. That's Christ.
This is what He was telling these people. He said, I'm the one
that the Father hath sealed. I'm the one that the Father spoke
of from the beginning. I'm the one in whom the whole
prophecy and Psalms speak of. He said, search the Scriptures,
in them you think you have eternal life, but they are they that
testify of me. I'm the one the Father sealed.
And I'm the one that gives eternal life. I'm the one. Salvation is not by then the
works of man, but it is a free gift of the Son of God without
merit, without asking, or without pleading. You get that? You see, this free gift doesn't
come by asking for it. This gift comes before you ask.
You remember in John chapter 5, just the chapter before this,
that the Lord Jesus Christ took that man at the pool of Bethesda.
You know we read nothing of the man ever asking Christ for any
of it. He's laying there, he's waiting for that water, he's
been laying there for years, and all of a sudden the Lord
God comes to him out of sovereign mercy and says, get up and take
your bed. That's exactly how he saves sinners.
That's exactly how this gift comes. It comes even without
asking. and you hath He quickened who
were dead in trespasses and sin." But once the work of grace has
begun, what happened to those bones when He spoke and the power
of God moved? They began to move, didn't they?
You see, the bones didn't ask. And then God sent power and the
bones began to move. They began to rattle. They began
to come together and sinew and flesh came upon them. This is
what happens in the operation of grace. Our hearts begin to be stirred.
It's then we begin to feel our sin, our guilt, our need. We
run to and fro trying to grasp the vanity of our works, grasping
the vanity of religion until we see it's useless. And what
happened? You grasped at every straw until
you found out they were nothing but straws. You found they were
nothing. It's only then will we cry like
the Philippian jailer, Lord, what must I do to be saved? We cry like the men at Pentecost,
men and brethren, what must we do? We are brought to see that our naturalist state is
only sin, that our depravity and helplessness, we say, what
are we going to do? Have you ever been brought to
that place? Then you've heard the gospel. God's given you something
that He's not given everyone else. He stirs in us. What must we do? And you know
what the answer is? Nothing. Believe on the Son of God, and
thou shalt be saved. Believe on the Son of God, and
thou shalt be saved. Isn't that something? Throughout
the Scripture, we're given many instances of this. Whosoever
believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For
God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John
11, 26, Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Believest thou this? Jesus said, I am come a light
in the world. Whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. Romans 10, For the scripture
saith, Whosoever believeth on him should not be ashamed. Believe! Sounds simple, doesn't it? It
is. It is. I remember Spurgeon's conversion
being in that church. He was snowed in and couldn't
get to his regular worship and he came along this little church.
And even the pastor of that church couldn't make it and the deacon
was not a real preacher of the gospel, didn't know much. He
took his text, look. Look and live. And he said, how hard is it to
look? He said, you, young man, look
unto Jesus and live. And he said, then I looked and
I lived. Simple words, simple understanding.
But let me tell you this. Belief in Christ is also impossible. This is offensive to the natural
man. This is offensive. Look at verse
28. And they said unto him, What
shall we do, that we might work the works of God? And Jesus answered and said unto
him, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom
he has sent. Friends, faith in Christ is what
men need, and yet it's impossible for men to have, except God work
it in you. This is the work of God. Faith
is the work of God. He said, look, stop working. Stop laboring. I'm the one that
gives eternal life. I'm sealed of the Father. And
they said, well, what must we do? He said, this. This is the
work of God. What you must do is something
you can't do. This is the work of God. That you believe on Him
whom He has sent. To believe on Christ is not a
labor of the flesh, the will, the deeds,
or the decision of man, but it is a work of the sovereign God. Now listen, you can by no means
enter in to heaven except you be holy. You must be holy. You must be righteous as God
Himself, but in order to receive these things, you must believe
on the One who alone has obtained both righteousness and redemption,
Christ. You must believe on Him whom
He has sealed, that He has finished the work, completed the work
of redemption. Now, sinner, are you willing
then to abandon all your works, all your will, all your religion,
all that you hold so dear to you? Rather yet, are you able? Are you able to know that all
your offerings and all your labors cannot satisfy the triune God? Then I tell you this, turn to
Christ, This is our gospel. Turn to Christ. Turn to Christ.
Believe on Christ. Look to Christ. All the while
I understand this, it is a work of God. It is a work of God. If you turn at all, it is a work
of the living God. Faith is the work of God. We
compel men to come and believe in all who do. Listen, you are
saved. You who come, you will be saved.
Without a doubt, He will save you. But faith in, my friend, is a
work of the living God. I tell you to come to Christ,
and yet why will men die? Some of you, listen, some of
you do not believe. You do not believe. You do not love the
things of God. And I tell you, you will die
in your sins. And yet you still will not come. Why? Why will men hang on to their
freewill works religion all the way to hell? Why? Will they not
let it go? Even because it's impossible
for them to do so unless God does it. Look what Jesus said
in verse 44. He said this, the Jews began to murmur and
complain about his message about him being the bread of life he
said no man can come to me except the father which has sent me
draw him and I will raise him up at the last day See, man is
incapable. And listen, here's the proof.
Look at verse 30. After he said this, they said, therefore unto
him, what signs showest thou that we might see and believe
thee? What dost thou work? Our fathers
did eat man in the desert, as it is written, he gave them bread
from heaven. This is proof of man's depravity.
I just told you. I just told you that this...
Why would you not plead for mercy? Why would you not beg for the
one that God sealed to save you? And what did they do? They said,
first show us something. They wanted to see something. Instead of simple faith, and
bowing down to Christ, whom God has sent to give everlasting
life, they desired a sign. They had already seen a sign
a day before. What did they want? They said,
well, Moses did that for 40 years. We're not impressed. That's what
they said. They said, we're not impressed.
You need to do something greater than this for us to believe in
you. You see, what man is always doing is they're always saying
they'll believe if they see something. That's why you have so many people
following these miracles and following signs and wonders.
Because they've got to see something to believe it. Oh no. No, if you're ever going to believe,
it's going to be without sight. Man by nature says, show me and
I'll believe. We are surrounded by witnesses,
are we not? How many wonders has God done? Did not Christ
die and rise from the dead in a scene of five hundred? And
yet what does men say? Show me more. I got to have more. More
proof! More proof! More proof! You know
why? Because they're dead. They can't. John in Luke 16, that rich man,
he said, hey, send Lazarus back from the dead and then they'll
believe. And he said, no. They have Moses and the prophets.
Let them hear them. If one rise from the dead, they
shall not believe. Miracles never save. Miracles
never save. And therefore, Jesus redirects
them. He says this in verse 32, He
said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you
not that bread, but my Father giveth you the true bread. Stop
looking for things. Stop looking at the physical.
See the spiritual here. I am the bread that the Father
sent. For the bread of God is He which
cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world. You know
what's offensive to man is that Jesus Christ is God. He said,
I'm the one that came down. He had to actually exist before
He came down from heaven, right? What is he saying? I'm God. I
am the self-existent One and I came down to be the bread of
life, in human flesh, the God-man. How many people are offended
at the person of Christ's deity and humanity? How many people
fail and will not believe on His person? This one who came down from heaven
was born of the virgin's womb. He was manifest in the flesh.
The only begotten of the Father, Jesus Christ, the bread of life,
has come to give life to the dead of this world. Now then,
the question is, do you need life? What bread are you looking
for? The bread of life or the bread
of the world? The bread of the flesh? or the bread from God,
Christ. And He said this, they said,
give us more of this bread. And they're still talking about
physical bread. They're not even on the same,
they're not speaking the same language, are they? On two different
planes. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that
cometh to me shall never hunger. He that believeth on me shall
never thirst. And listen to what He said, but I said unto you,
that you have seen me and believe not. You've seen and not believed. So then, who's going to believe?
If salvation is a gift of God, if Christ is the only one that
has procured salvation by coming down and being the bread of life,
by obtaining righteousness by His works, obtaining a redemption
by His death, He is the only hope of everlasting life, And
so then, it's impossible for us to believe it, except God
draw us, except God call us. So who then are going to believe?
Was Jesus discouraged? Was He discouraged? I often picture
Him as He's just walking away and talking to them as He's turning.
He's not even paying attention to them. He's telling them something
and they just keep following Him. Our Lord is not discouraged.
Listen to what He said. He said, I'm not discouraged. You don't
believe. All that the Father giveth me, they shall believe.
They shall come to me. And listen to this. Him that
cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. Is that not clear every
road? If you come to Christ, what should
you expect? What should you expect Him to
do? He that cometh to me, I will what? In no wise cast Him Ever. For any reason. For any reason. I will not cast him out. Why?
The Father gave him to me. I'm responsible for him. I have
come to save him. I have come to redeem him. I
have come to be all his righteousness, wisdom, sanctification, and redemption. I've come to be everything for
him. He said, for I came down from heaven not to do mine own
will, but the will of him that sent me. And what is this will
of God? What is this purpose of God that
cannot be thwarted? He said, I'm God, there's nobody
else. He said, declaring the end at
the beginning, from ancient times the things that were not yet
done, saying, my counsel shall stand. So what is the will of
this God? He said, this is the will. This
is the will of the Father which has sent me, that of all he hath
given me I should lose nothing. The very existence of hell shows
us that free will works religion is an abominable gospel. that
god loved everyone in desires to save everyone and yet there
is a hail That verse right there totally annihilates such foolishness.
All that the Father gave Him will come to Him. Why? Because
it was the will of the Father that I save them and I will lose
none of them. But I will raise them all up
at the last day. I will be victorious. I will
be triumphant. It is a triumphant Savior that
is offensive to this religious world. Victorious Savior. And this is the will of Him that
sent me, that of all which He had given me I should lose nothing.
And this is the will of Him that sent me, that everyone that seeth
the Son, all those I died for, will see me and believe on Him. And that they may have everlasting
life, and I will raise them up at the last day." And what did
people do? They murmured and complained. They murmured and
complained against the sovereign grace of God. Why would you murmur
and complain at the only thing that can save you? Yet this is the depravity of
man. That he would murmur at the only thing. Don't murmur,
Jesus said. No man can come to me except the Father which hath
sent me draw him. As it is written out of the prophets, they should
all be taught of God. Every man therefore that hath
heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me. Verse 47, he that believeth on
me hath. You get that? Hath. Already everlasting
life. I am the bread of life. I am
the bread of life. And what did these people do?
They left. They left. They heard this, verse
64. He said, but there are some of
you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning.
who they were that believe not and who should betray him and
he said therefore I said unto you no man can come to me except
it were given him of my father and from that time many of his
disciples went back and walk no more with him so Jesus then
turning to his other disciples he said this will you go away
also doth this offend you and will
you go away The answer of Simon Peter is
the answer of one who is given faith in Christ. One who is sanctified
by Christ and the Holy Spirit. This is the answer we give. And
Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, to whom shall we go? I don't always understand what
Christ is doing. I don't understand everything about the book. But where else am I going to
go? You have the words of eternal
life. He said, Thou art the Christ. We believe that Thou art that
Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus said, Have not
I chosen you twelve, and one of you is the devil? Now listen,
even among the saints, even among the real church of God, we know
there are wheat among the tares. There wasn't this time. But we
know this, and are sure of this. that salvation is completely
and absolutely a work of god it is a work purpose of the father
accomplished by the sun applied by the spirit and kept in us
until the end this is the offensive gospel but to us to us Everything he says about me in
this book is true. Everything he says about me is
true. But the good news, everything
he said about Christ is true. And I found it to be true. And it's my heart that every
one of you should come. That he would give you faith.
to believe and be saved. Safe. Safe. I pray God will bless
this to your hearts. Let's stand and be dismissed.