I started with this text, but
I'm going to go back and we're going to look at several things
that the Lord had said prior to this. Our text will be found
in verse 46. 47, I'm sorry, 47. John chapter 6 and verse 47. Our Lord says, verily, verily. That word means truly, truly. I say unto you, he that believeth
on me hath everlasting life. Verily, verily, I say, the Lord
Jesus Christ, the God-man, says, he that believeth on me hath
everlasting Now, the men that the Lord Jesus Christ was saying
this to were these who had seen His power. They had seen His
power in feeding the 5,000 with those five loaves and two fishes. These are the ones who professed
that He is the Christ. They said this is that prophet,
speaking of what Moses said in Deuteronomy, that God would raise
up a man like unto me, that prophet. They believed he was the Christ
and they desired to make him king. And yet you know the story,
you know the history. Jesus did not commit himself
to them. Jesus did not stay with them
and commanded his disciples to sail to Capernaum, to leave these
men alone. And these men in great zeal and
sincerity of heart sailed to Capernaum. They sought out Christ. They found Him. Can you imagine
how hard that is to find one person in the middle of a city?
And they did it. They did it. They sought Him
out. They had great zeal, great desire to have Him. But what they did not desire
was this. They were lacking in one thing.
Now they had the understanding. They knew He was the Christ.
They desired Him to be King. But one thing they were lacking
was they had no need of salvation. They had no need of salvation. It was not for pardon for sin. It was not to be made acceptable
to God. That's not the reason they sought
Him. Our Lord declares the reason why they sought Him in verse
26. Look back in your text here.
Verse 26. They said, Where did you go,
Master? Where did you go, Rabbi? And
Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
You seek me not because you saw the miracle, not because you
know I'm God, not because you know my deity, not because you
know that I am the Savior come to save sinners, but here's why,
but because you did eat the loaves and were filled. He said, I know
why you sought me. The Lord was not deceived like
we are. We don't know if men are seeking
Christ or not. I don't know if this evening
if you're seeking Christ or you're just here because you have to
be. I don't know. But I know this, the Lord knows
And what does He do to such men? Now eventually, listen, these
men are going to go away, these men are not going to believe,
and the Lord knows who's His and who's not. But I want you
to take note of this. The Lord did not neglect to preach
to them. Matter of fact, that's what He
begins to do in the very next verse, verse 27. Listen, labor
not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which endureth
unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give you,
for Him hath God the Father sealed." The Lord says the meat. He uses
this term meat because that's what they wanted. They wanted
some food. And so He uses it in order to preach the gospel
to them. He uses it as a picture, as a
metaphor of what He is saying spiritually. They wanted and
labored for physical food. And listen, physical food is
necessary, but I tell you, it cannot satisfy. Now the other
day I ate a steak, and it was good. It was good. But that steak
did not last until today. I needed more food. I need more food every day to
sustain life. This is what it is a picture
here. Physical food cannot sustain or cure hunger. It's always needed. Bread cannot satisfy, but is
needed daily to sustain the physical body. But listen, no matter how
much bread or how good the bread is, it may sustain this life,
but it can do nothing for the soul. You can have the best food
in the world, but it can't do anything for the soul. How many today labor in the service
of Christ in order to just have physical things? That's what
these men were wanting. They were wanting some physical
food. They wanted free food. They wanted Christ to give them
free food. And realize He gave them food
every day of their life. He was giving them food every
day. But men today, they labor for
carnal things. They come in the name of Christ
for carnal things. Jesus, therefore, points them
to a higher and greater need. You need meat, just not physical
meat. What you need is spiritual food. Labor not for the meat that perisheth,
but labor for the meat which endureth unto everlasting life.
The food that does not perish. Jesus is pointing them to a spiritual
food. One that is not made with human
hands. One that does not satisfy the
flesh, but rather gives life to the soul. Because I tell you
this, listen to me, the greatest need of man is not physical,
it's spiritual. Man has a spiritual need. that is much greater than any
carnal need. He has a spiritual need. And
you listen, the only bread that can satisfy this spiritual need
is the bread of life. The bread of life. Jesus is the bread of life. Behold what the Word of God says
about man. I told you man has a spiritual
need. What is this spiritual need?
I'll tell you, it's this. He needs life. He needs life. Why? Because man is dead. Dead. Spiritually dead. And this is a direct result of
Adam's sin. Go to Romans chapter 5. Read
it with me together. Romans chapter 5 and verse 12. The Scriptures
are very clear. Wherefore, as by one man sin
entered into the world, and death by sin So death passed
upon all men, for that all have sinned." You see, Adam was the
father of us all and was made a federal head. What does that
mean? When you hear that, I know you
hear preachers talk about a federal head. What is that? That is a
representative man. Adam was made a representative
man. He represented all of His race. Therefore, when Adam sinned,
when Adam sinned, we all sinned in Him. Now I know this, carnal
religion believes that man is born pure. When you see a baby
come in in the world, what's the first thing they say? Oh,
how beautiful, how precious, how spotless, how innocent. You get that? Innocent. Now that's
just a natural reaction to a baby being born into the world. But
that is an offense to the Word of God because God's Word is
clear. David said, he said, in sin did
my mother conceive me. The Scripture tells us that a
man goes astray from the womb doing what? Speaking lies. We do not have to teach our children
evil. Evil is innate in our children
because death has passed from Adam to us and from us to our
children. Death has passed. And when he died, when Adam died
as a result of his sin, we all died in him and therefore we
are all born dead. Dead in sins. What does this
mean to be spiritually dead? To be spiritually dead is to
be absolutely, completely, and utterly Incapable, unwilling
to please, obey, or seek, or know God. It is impossible for
a man to be righteous by nature. He is utterly incapable of being
holy. Utterly incapable of understanding
the Scripture. Utterly unwilling to seek after
God. None of us by nature can ever
be righteous. We cannot ever know God or come
to God. Now you know I don't like giving
you opinions. This is not my opinion. This
is the Word of Christ even in our text. Look at what he says
in verse 44 to these men. They were murmuring. He said,
I'm the bread of life. What you need is the bread of
life. You need life, is what he was telling them. You need
life. And they started complaining
and murmuring. And what did he say? You don't need to murmur
about this. Listen, no man can come unto
me. You do not need to be an English
scholar to understand can has to do with ability. No man can
come unto Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him,
and I will raise him up at the last day. As it is written in
the Prophets, they shall all be taught of God. Every man therefore
that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto Me. To come to Christ, to believe
on Christ, is not a work of the will of man. For all are dead
and can by no means of the flesh come to Christ. What is a dead man willing to
do? What can he will to do? See a man is limited by the confines
of his nature. And if our nature is dead, you
listen, our will is dead. And I'm talking about spiritual
will. God give you enough strength,
you could pick a hamburger or french fries. That's not the
will I'm talking about. The will I'm talking about is
something that's greater, something you have need of. It's not carnal.
It's spiritual. And man cannot by his own will
obtain it. He's dead. Now a man who will not come,
men by nature cannot come, they will not come, and this is the
grace of God, except the Father draw him, except the Father teach
him. You listen, you have family without
Christ, you have people that you know that do not believe,
I'll tell you this, they cannot come. Except. The Father draw them. Now that's not my words. That's not
my opinion. That's Christ's words. You just
read them. Accept the Father. Now a man,
listen, a man that will not come to Christ by nature, listen to
what he believes. A man by nature believes he can
come anytime he wants. That's what a man by nature believes.
He won't come But he says, well, I just, it's because I don't
want to. That's why. He believes that
he could come anytime he thinks that he has the power. And listen,
he thinks he has the right to come to Christ or reject Him. That's what man by nature thinks. But listen, Jesus cuts that right
at the quick. He takes that right at the root.
He said, no you can't. So who are you going to believe? I believe Christ. I believe Christ. He goes straight to the heart
of man's condition. You cannot come to me. This is the problem. This is
the condition. So what man needs is not carnal.
What man needs is spiritual. Man needs the bread of life. He needs life. He needs life. And this doctrine one of the
reasons why the disciples later many of his disciples no longer
walk with him look back look further on in this and see the
end the result of his teaching go I'm sorry go to go back to
text John I had you there in Romans but go back to John and
look at toward the end there at verse 64 Jesus said this but
there are some of you that believe not For Jesus knew from the beginning
who they were that believed not and who should betray him. And
he said, therefore I said unto you that no man can come unto
me except it were given him of my father. And listen what happened.
From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more
with him. This doctrine is offensive, friends. It is offensive. It
is hated. And I'll tell you, when this
doctrine is preached, listen, men will not walk with us. Even because it is Christ's doctrine,
they will not walk with Him. If you do not believe this, you
don't believe Christ. You're not walking with Him. And I'll tell you this, this
is the same word, the same doctrine of Christ is the reason many
will not walk with Him today. They don't mind you talking about
elections so long as it's by man's choice. They don't mind
you talking about predestination so long as God looked forward
to see what they would do. They don't mind you talking about
the blood of Christ so long as it redeemed everybody and gave
everybody a chance. Listen, if God gave everybody
a chance, you listen, nobody would come. Why? Man is dead. And what does man need? Man needs
life. That's what man needs. Life.
And only God can give life. Only God can give life. Because
man is dead in sins, he cannot come to Christ. He will not hear
or believe the Word of God. I get this when I, when we witness,
you're going to get this. If you're declaring this often
and faithful enough, you're going to hear this. Why preach? I heard it just last week. Why
preach? If God's already chosen a people and they can't come
by their own free will, then why do you preach? It's a very technical, very complicated
answer. I want you to understand it. Because God said so. You listen. These Christ knew
were not His people and what did He do? He still preached
to them. So why preach? Because God said
so. Because Christ did. And He knew
who His were. Why preach? Not only this, But
we preach because God has ordained, decreed, and willed that some
will believe. Now, if God didn't give me any
promise of some believing, if God gave no evidence that there
were an elect, if God gave no evidence that there were some
who would come to Christ, that He would draw, then you're right. What good would be preaching? You remember Ezekiel out there
over those bones, those dry bones? And he said, son of man, can
these bones live? Lord, thou knowest. Lord, if any of these bones gonna
live, you're gonna do it. And he said, preach to them.
And what did he do? He preached to bones. That just
doesn't make any physical, carnal, rational, logical, earthly sense. It is a spiritual thing that
is being done here. We are preaching the gospel. We're preaching about spiritual
things. And what are we preaching? Look
at verse 35. And Jesus said unto them, I am
the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. This is the gospel message Christ
preached to them. What do they need? Life. What
gives them life? The bread of life. This is what
he said, I am the bread of life. I am the bread of life. See, man needs life, and the
only bread of life that can raise the dead is Christ. Friends, this is the simple gospel. It's simple in that it's singular.
It only has one object. The gospel has only one object,
Christ. Christ is all. Christ is all
the Gospel. Christ says, I am the bread of
life. Jesus is the substance of life
and all who believe on Him. And this is the picture that
He's putting forth. He said, you take a piece of
bread and you put it in your mouth and you eat it and you
swallow it. And He said, this is the metaphor
for faith. The eat of His flesh and drink
of His blood is not carnal. It is a spiritual metaphor for
faith, to believe on Him. And all who believe on Him listen
to the result. He said, I am the bread of life.
He that cometh to Me, He that eateth of Me shall never hunger. He that believeth on Me shall
never thirst. See? He's interchanging this.
He's telling you the same thing over and over again. You come
to Me. You eat of Me. You believe in
Me. It's all the same thing. It's faith in Him. And listen
to the result. You shall never hunger or thirst. Which is to say, you shall be
forever satisfied. He shall never have any more
need Or will he never, he will never lack or hunger for what? Life. When you eat this bread,
when you believe on Christ, one thing you'll never lack, life.
Why? Because it's everlasting life. Isn't that? Verily, verily, I
say unto you, he that believeth on me, he that eateth of my flesh
and drinketh my blood, listen, half, what? Everlasting life. When you believe on Christ, listen,
you have this. You have this. And you'll never
need life again. You'll never die again. Isn't
that what he said? He that believeth on me shall
never die. Believest thou this? If you have life, you believe
that. You sure do. Why? I've got life. Therefore I preach the same message
unto you. Christ alone can give you life.
In Him alone is all that God requires. You know, like, if
you were to eat food, I know we like to eat good, tasty food,
right? It's pleasing to the palate,
the tongue. Pleasing. But that's not really
why you eat food, is it? You eat food because of what's
in the food. It gives you strength. It gives
you nourishment. It gives you life. It sustains
your life. Listen, when we believe on Christ,
it is the same thing as we ingest. When we believe on Christ because
of what is in Christ. what Christ provides for this
life. And there are two things, two
ingredients in which Christ, the bread of life, sustains and
gives life. First ingredient is this, righteousness. Righteousness. What man requires
for life and acceptance with God is, first of all, righteousness. How ignorant is man to suppose
or try to guess what God requires? Isn't that what most religion
is? Everybody's out there guessing what God wants. They guess. They get these big candles and
ceremonies and temples and cathedrals. Why? They're guessing. They're
guessing. Why do you think the traditions
of churches continually get bigger and bigger? Why? They keep guessing.
Well, God will like this. God will surely like this. It
makes me feel good, so obviously God's got to feel good about
it. Men are ignorant of what God
requires and how foolish of them to try to make God like it. God, I think this is what you
want. Now you better accept it. That's what man does by righteousness,
this idea of righteousness. But God's Word is not unclear
as to what God requires. Perfection. Men suppose God wants their best. Like we tell our kids, you know,
just try your best. That's how they think God is.
They think God is altogether like we are. That he just wants
his children to try their best. No. Your best ain't good enough. What God requires is this, perfect,
absolute, and continual holiness, obedience, sinlessness in thought,
in word, and in deed. That is what God requires. That's the bare minimum. And
it's the highest standard. It's the same. The bare minimum
and the higher standard are the same. There's not different levels
of success or acceptance. To be accepted with God, you
must be, listen, as holy as God is. I'm going to read this to
you because of time. You can look it up later. Leviticus
19.2. Speak ye to all the congregation
of Israel and say unto them, listen, ye shall be holy. Why? For I, the Lord your God,
am holy. In Micah chapter 6, he says this
to that heathen king, who said, what shall I do to be accepted
with God? Shall I give 10,000 lambs, 10,000 rams, 10,000 rivers
of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for
the sin of my soul? And he says this, he has showed
the old man what is good. Hadn't God put the law in your
heart? Don't you know what's good and
what's evil? And what doth the Lord require
of thee? Listen. This one right here just does
us all in. To do justly. What does that mean? To be holy.
to be holy and love mercy. Which we cannot do either. And
to walk humbly with thy God. If you're not holy and you don't
know anything about mercy, you're not going to be able to walk
with God. Especially humbly with thy God. Paul said this, follow peace
with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.
Now is that not plain what God requires? Anybody got a question
as to what God requires? Holiness is not an option, neither
is it partial. Isn't that what men think holiness
is? You can develop levels of holiness. You can be holier That's what they think by their
works, that they can make themselves holier. No, there's no holier,
there's holy. And there is only holy. There's
no levels of holiness. To be holy, even as God is to
be holy, listen, not only passively holy, but actively holy. You must be passively righteous
and actively righteous. Talk about the nature. When a
man is born, he's passively wicked. He's just born by nature dead. He's passively corrupt. So what
does man need to be righteous? He needs a new nature. And he needs to be actively holy.
Not only passively, but actively holy in thought, word, and deed.
Actions and motives. Therefore, Paul concludes that
a man is unrighteous, a man is full of sin, and by the law cannot
be saved. Go to Romans chapter 3. Romans
chapter 3. Verse 10, as it is written, this
is our condition, there's none righteous, no not one. There's
none that understandeth, there's none that seeketh after God.
They're all gone out of the way, they're all together become unprofitable.
There's none that doeth good, no not one. See, that's passively
wicked. But not only are we passively
by nature wicked, look at this, their throat is an open sepulchre,
their tongues they have used deceit. Poison of asp is under
their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their
feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in
their way. The way of peace they have not known. There is no fear
of God before their eyes. See, this is what man is. He's
passively and actively evil, not righteous. And so what does man supposed
to do to get righteous? He goes to the law. And but what
now Paul says about the law, verse 19, now we know that what
things soever the law sayeth, it sayeth to them that are under
the law. that every mouth may be stopped and all the world
become guilty before God therefore by the deeds of the law shall
no flesh be justified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge
of sin the law cannot help us to make us holy but what cannot be done by nature
or law Behold, Christ has fulfilled in His perfect, sinless obedience
as a man. Look at the next verse. But now
the righteousness of God without the law is manifest, being witnessed
by the law and the prophets. Even the righteousness of God,
listen, which is by the faith of Jesus Christ. How is this
righteousness earned? How is this passive and active
righteousness earned? By the faith of Jesus Christ. See, Jesus is the bread of life. He was like unto Adam in that
he was a representative man. He was a representative man just
like Adam was. Though Adam brought death and
sin, Jesus Christ came to bring life and what? Righteousness. Righteousness. He came down from
heaven being the sinless eternal Son of God. And by His faith,
by His obedience, merited the righteousness of God we could
not do. And who is this righteousness
given to? Listen, to all them that believe, to all that eat
His flesh by faith. We are given the perfect, spotless
righteousness of Christ. Just as that bread, you take
a piece of bread and you put it in your body, it becomes one
with you. That's exactly in it how it is
spiritually. When we believe on Christ, we
become in union with Him, and His righteousness becomes ours. He says this, "...the righteousness
of God by the faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all
them that believe." so to us who believe we shall
never hunger or thirst for this righteousness you'll never hunger
thirst for life why you have everlasting life you'll never
hunger or thirst for righteousness why christ is your righteousness
both passively and actively everything that he did you did you see i don't think that uh...
i don't say that's unfair for me to be represented by Adam. Why? Because I'm represented
by Christ. I like being represented by Christ. So I don't mind so
much being represented once by Adam, because now I have the
righteousness by imputation. By impartation of another. And secondly, the second ingredient
in Christ, the bread of life, is this. Redemption. Redemption. No man... Now, man, we know this. We have sinned. We have sinned. God having imputed and imparted
the righteousness of Christ to us by faith, listen, by no means
does He excuse or dismiss our sins. When He gave me the righteousness
of Christ, God did not pretend I was not a sinner. He's not
pretending. God doesn't pretend. He doesn't
dismiss our sins. God cannot and will not overlook
His justice in order to show you mercy. He cannot do that. Nor will God pretend that we
did not sin. Look at the next verse here in Romans 3. For all
have sinned and come short of the glory of God. being justified freely, how? By His grace. How? Through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God has set forth
to be the propitiation through faith in His blood to declare
His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through
the forbearance of God. To declare, I say at this time,
His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of
him which believeth in Jesus." How can God be just and the justifier
of sinners? The great question. The great
question. How can God be holy and just
and yet we have sinned? How can He have mercy on us? Through the redemption. that is in Christ. What is redemption?
What does that mean? Payment. Payment. Redemption means to pay sin's
debt that we owed to God. By such a redemption, such a
payment, It was not by silver and gold of your vain conversation,
not by the tradition of your fathers, not by the works of
your hands. Redemption comes by the precious
blood of Jesus Christ. That is the only payment for
sin God will accept. The only payment. The only payment. Behold that Jesus is the propitiation. That word propitiation means
mercy seat. It's the place where the blood
was sprinkled on the day of atonement. Thus Jesus, our Redeemer, the
spotless Lamb of God, upon Him were all the sins of God's people
laid. God made Him to be sin for us
who knew no sin. Why? That you might be made the
righteousness of God in Him. You could not be made the righteousness
of God in Him had God not put away your sin. He could not give
you the righteousness of Christ had He not really paid them on
the cross. And so in holy justice, God dealt
with our sins in Christ. And once God was pleased, once
God's justice was satisfied, our Lord let us know it. He let
us know it. He shouted it out. He said, it
is finished. God's justice completely satisfied. Friends, no more payment for
sin. No more sacrifice for sin. It's
finished. Propitiation made. Redemption
accomplished. Sin had been paid in full. Sin
had been remitted, removed, so that the justice of God could
never come upon those who believe. You believe? Have you eaten of Christ? Then know what you have. You
have life. You'll never hunger for life. You have righteousness. You'll
never need righteousness again. Not from your own hands. You'll
never need another sacrifice for sin. God says this to you
who believe. Speak comfortably to Jerusalem. Cry unto her. Tell her. her warfare is accomplished.
That her iniquity is pardoned. You listen why? For she hath
received double at the Lord's hand, double for all her sins. Believer rejoice, for we shall
never lack Never hunger or thirst for righteousness or have need
of any other sacrifice, for the Scriptures has said, He hath
by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high. By His one offering, He hath
perfected forever them that are sanctified." Now, I have preached to you the
Gospel. And though no man by nature can
come, by nature will not come, we still declare it. Why? Even because some will. Because
God has determined some will. Go back to your text just for
a few minutes. We'll look at this and I'll close. Look at verse
36. The Lord's preaching to them
very confidently. Why? Because He knows some will
come. He knows who they are. I don't,
but I know He does. Listen, in verse 36, But I said
unto you, that you have also seen me, and believed not. These
didn't believe. They weren't going to believe.
They could not believe. Verse 37, All that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. You didn't believe, but I know
this, all that the Father gives me, they shall believe. and him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out." See then the hope. The hope of men coming
to Christ does not rest in the hands or wills of dead souls,
dead sinners, but in the sovereign election of the Father. It rests
in the perfect redemption of the Son. It rests in the sovereign
spirit to quicken the dead. Jesus said, all shall come to
me all shall come to me who is this all it's not the whole world
it's not all men without exception it's all that the father gave
him They will come to Him. Why preach? Because all that the Father giveth
Christ will come to Christ. That's why we preach. Though
man is dead in sins, I know this, God has purposed some. Jesus
said, all that the Father giveth me shall come to me. You know,
in John 17, he uses that same phrase seven times. Those that
thou gavest me. seven times in his high priestly
prayer. He has prayed, I pray not for
who? The world. I don't pray for the world, but
for them Thou hast given me. I pray for them. I will, Father, that those Thou
gave me, they be one, even Father, as we are one. And you listen, the glory of
God rests on the salvation of His elect. You see, God put all
of His marbles in one bag, all of His glory on this, that His
children, His elect, will be redeemed and stand before Him
holy. That's what God determined. That's
what God had willed. God did not put His trust in
men to finish His salvation. But God in his infinite wisdom
and grace chose a people for himself, gave them to Christ,
and Christ has made them holy. And you mark it down. I know
this without a doubt. All that the Father gave Christ
shall come to Christ. Without a doubt. Whether it be
one in one million, that one is gonna come. How one is going
to come. They're all going to come. They're
all going to believe. They're going to believe because
Christ did the will of God. He said, I came to do the will
of the Father, which has sent me. And you want to know what
that will is? That of all He has given me,
I should lose nothing. That's good news to you who believe.
He's not going to lose you. not gonna lose you he said those
that the father gave me they're in my hand and they shall never
perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand for
the father which gave them me is greater than all and no man
shall pluck them out of his hand He's not going to lose one. The
will of the Father was that Christ, the servant, should offer himself
and pay for their sins, which he did upon the tree. This is
the Father's will that sent me, that of all He had given me I
should lose nothing, but 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." The question is now,
have you seen the Son? Have you eaten of Christ? Believe. He that believeth on me hath
everlasting life. Do you believe on Christ? What is it to believe? To believe on Christ is a work
of God and it affects the whole man. Faith is just not intellectual.
How many people today will say they believe on Christ? 96% of Americans believe on Christ. What does that mean? Absolutely
nothing. Because it's all mental. The man is made up of the mind,
the heart, and the will. Faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the Word of God. A man must hear the Gospel, and
he must understand the Gospel. He must understand who God is,
holy. He must understand who He is,
sinful, without any hope of saving himself. He must understand who
Christ is, the only Savior, Redeemer, and the only... The only sacrifice for sins,
the only righteousness God will accept is Christ. He must understand
that. And you listen, when a man understands
that by the gift of grace, something's going to affect his heart. His
heart is going to be changed and he's going to be moved. He's
going to be moved to flee, to run from self. to run from self-righteousness,
to flee from any hope of earthly carnal religion. He's going to
come as a hungry man seeking bread, and he's going to find
Christ, and he's going to eat Christ. This has to do with the
will. Oh, the will has a part in salvation in this. A man is
made willing in the day of God's power. Any of you believers,
are you being forced to believe on Christ? It's like saying a
starving man would be forced to eat a piece of bread. No,
we must have Christ. That's what it is to believe.
It is the whole man is affected. The heart, the mind, the will,
all of it goes to Christ. We surrender all to Christ. Have
you? If you have, we praise God for
it. Why? Because we couldn't do it on
our own. I could not believe on my own. He drew me. He taught me. He gets all the
glory. And you know what I get? Everlasting
life. Listen, you can either claim
the glory or you can have everlasting life. You can't have it both.
Men want to claim glory for salvation. I did this, my will. You can't
have everlasting life and claim glory. All the glory belongs
to God. He that believeth on me hath
everlasting life." Why? Christ obtained it. The Spirit
applied it. And yes, I believe it. By the
grace of God, I believe it. Do you? If you do, happy are
you. Happy are you. Let's stand and
be dismissed in prayer.