Chapter 6. I always struggle coming up with
a title for messages. I just want to title it Simple
and Mighty Assurance. If you lack assurance, if you
ever have any woes, am I his or am I no? I think I can give
you some words that our Lord gave that will be a comfort to
you. I believe I'll title this The
Bread, The Promise, and The Will. It's very simple. This passage
we're going to look at is quoted by many people and preached from
so often, but it's very simple. It's the simplicity of the Gospel.
And I am thankful for that. How simple the Gospel is that
becomes more and more precious to me. The more I study, the
more the Lord reveals Himself to me in His Word, the more I'm
just amazed at the plainness of His Word. the more I want
to take Him at His Word. Not out of what I perceive His
Word to be that suits me, but out of understanding that He
gives. I want to take Him at His Word. It ain't complicated. It's simple. It's given to us
in a very simple language. I pray we can see that tonight.
These parables are understandable that He gives. He meets people
where they are. He goes to farmers and talks
to them about seed. I know what that is. He goes to fishermen.
You know what a hook is? I know what a hook is. He speaks
to them plainly. He speaks to little children
so they can understand. All these types and these pictures throughout
the scripture as He's enabled us and given us men after His
own heart to explain these things to us, it's so clear. He's that
brazen serpent. Christ is the ark. That's Him.
Plain. If you're in Him, you live. If
you ain't, you're dead. You suffered the wrath. You brought
on yourself. These things are so plain to
us. I'm not a little child. I'm not an infant. And I need
to be grown down to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. To understand,
to get a hold of the Kingdom of God, He has to grow me down. And that was the problem these
Jews here in John 6 were having with the doctrine of Christ.
The Lord had fed 5,000 men. I'm counting the women and children.
Five biscuits and two sardines. And then they wanted to make
him king. I said, boy, all of our woes will be over. We're
going to make him be over us. He'll build all kinds of hospitals.
We won't need to go to the doctors no more. Whatever earthly benefit
we can think of. Poverty's out the window. We'll
never have to have woes again. No more wars. He'll win them
for us. And we'll tell him what to do. You can't make him king,
he is. So he left them. And he walked
out on the water and that storm that he sent to his men, that
he sent out on the waters, calmed the storms, come to the other
side. And those people followed him.
Quite a large group out of the 5,000 that come to him. And they
said, when did you get here? Who told you you was allowed
to come over here? Work of grace hadn't been done in him yet.
But these men that were following him, they were the disciples
of the Pharisees. They were Jewish folks. We read
that in chapter 5 and down in verse 41 of John 6. Then the
Jews murmured at him. So they were trained up. They
had a religious background. They had an understanding of
the law. They understood what some of
these things were. These weren't just wild heathens that come
out of the mountains or something. These are church-going folks,
elders and deacons and all these titles, reverends and fathers
and doctors and all this. And they asked the Lord Jesus
what they could do to work the works of God. There in verse
28. And He told them plainly. Verse 29, He said, This is the
work of God that you believe on Him whom He hath sent your
whole life all you've heard to do. Believe on the One that made
it done. All your life you've been told
this law and law keeping and day keeping and works. And He
gave them something they've never experienced. Have faith. the
leave. That's what he told them. Then
they ask him for a sign. Without a breath in between questions,
no doubt. I had several people get a hold
of me this week and before they ask a question, before I can
answer it, they ask me another question. I'm out of town and
I never met these people and they're just, they ain't even
waiting for me to stop talking so they can talk more. They just
cut me off. I said, why don't you just, I'm gonna let them
things go to voicemail from now on. I'll just, let's do it later.
Save us both some oxygen. some attempts. But watch this,
they don't even ask. Verse 30, John 6, verse 30. They
said therefore unto him, what signs showest thou then that
we may see and believe thee? You want us to believe on you?
What sign are you going to show us? What dost thou work? Ask them another question. No
breath in between. Just tell them what they know.
Ask them what they want to see. They just had their bellies filled.
They probably had a toothpick in their mouth getting that fish
and the bread out of it. You fed 5,000 people, 5,000 men the
other day, but we want a sign. We want wonders. Verse 31, they're
going to recall a sign and wonder they've heard about. Something
better than what he did. Like that ain't a miracle enough. Ain't that enough for you? They
recall what their mommy and daddy told them. What grandma and grandpa
tell us. Let's lean on that. Verse 31,
our fathers did eat manna in the desert. As it is written,
he gave them bread from heaven to eat. What are they getting
at? Well, Moses and there was manna that came down from heaven
that was about the size of coriander. See, that's true. But they're
saying this man, Moses, he fed our people. He gave them food
for 40 years in the desert. All you've done is give us one
meal. There might have been 15, 20,000
people there. You fed them. It was a miracle, and you did
it, but you did it one time. Now Moses, he fed, what, millions? Several hundred thousand? That's
a whole lot more people, wasn't it? And he did it for longer than
you did. Now we believe in him. We believe in Moses. What about
you? Gurgle, gurgle. What, the food
in our family? That's for me. That's for me.
See, how many times do I just doubt the Lord and what He's
willing to do for His child what time I'm eating a hamburger?
One time I'm sitting in a car, driving with gasoline in it,
and I think, I don't know if the Lord's going to provide.
Where do you want to eat dinner? I do it all the time, don't I?
What a shame. What they're getting at is that
Moses was much better than the Lord. They had exalted Moses
over the Lord as man does the law over believing on Christ. He says in verse 32, Then Jesus
said unto them, Verily, verily, truly, truly, I say unto you,
Moses gave you not that bread from heaven. You're looking at
Him, He didn't give it to you. 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. And they
say unto Him, Lord evermore give us this bread. You know, if you've
got a Marjorie Resprich Bible, there's that woman at the well.
What'd she say? He said, you thirsty? You drank
the water I gave you, you'll never thirst again. She said,
good, I'm tired of walking up this hill every day. I don't
want to carry a bucket up here no more. This is a one and done. It's got a lifetime warranty
on it. That's what I want and that's what these men say. Give
us that bread. We don't have to worry about dental hygiene
no more. We don't have to worry about brushing our teeth. What do we
got to do? We don't have to eat no more. Saves a ton of money. Jesus said unto them, I am the
bread of life. You're still looking for something
carnal. I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But
I say unto you that you also have seen me, and believe not."
He could have ended it right there. The living bread that
all that manna for 40 years typified is standing in front of him.
God Almighty is speaking out of a human mouth, and it's hitting
their human ears, and he's looking right in front of them with a
belly full of food he just gave them. And he said, you don't
believe me. Oh, you're close to the kingdom
of God. You're breathing the same carbon dioxide that's coming
out of him. How frightful that is to me. But he doesn't leave. They don't
hear a word he says after this. They're going to kill him. But
he keeps speaking, how could he do such a thing? For me and
you, 2,022 years later. It's important to us, isn't it?
We need this. Verse 37, All that the Father giveth me shall come
to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
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
which hath sent me, that all which he hath 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. The Lord gives
us three divisions here. He gives us a word about Himself
in verse 35. He gives a word to His people,
a promise to His people in verse 37. And in verse 38 through 40,
He gives us something about the Father's will. So many people
are so worried about what's the will of God? What's the Lord's
will in this? Have you ever asked that? Ever?
Once maybe? Have I done it 47 times today?
What's the Lord's will? You want to know that? He gives
us three verses on it. But before we can enter into
that, before we even care to know, we act like we want to
know, I act like I want to know something against what I think. I need to see Him. I need to
believe His promises to His people and then I'll be ready to hear
the will of God. He starts there talking about Himself in verse
35. 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." The bread of God is the Lord Jesus Christ. This
is the one the Father sent to redeem us from the curse of the
law, sent to redeem us from the death by sin that we earned. He's the manna. And that manna
years ago, that was a picture that pictured Him. That bread
of old, it didn't have any power against physical death. Everyone
in the wilderness, they died. Everybody ate that bread. Someday
they went to the ground, didn't they? But Christ is the true
bread. He doesn't give temporal life.
He gives eternal life. And he says, I am the bread of
life. Who is this bread? He says, I
am. Where are we going to begin? What's the beginning of knowledge?
Fear in the Lord. Knowing who the Lord is. I am.
And the English word, for us to say it in English, we've got
to use two words. This is Jehovah, the great God. And he said he's
the bread that came down from God. That's what he is. He was
on high, on his throne in heaven. And he come to this earth. Be
born of a virgin. Be made like me. Made like you. Made under the law. And all points
tempted like we are. He came down. Down to the miry
pit. Be acquainted with grief. Be
acquainted with guilt. Have that laid on Him. My guilt. Why'd He do that? Because He's
the bread and He gives spiritual and eternal life. We need bread
to get till tomorrow. We need Him for eternity. Nothing's
going to change. We'll be with Him. Boy, we want
Him. We'll be with Him. And He's the
bread that nourishes and sustains that life that He gives. He gives
the life. He nourishes that life. And He
keeps that life living until we're made like Him. Until we're
with Him. It's necessary. We're all going
to be taught of the Father. And here's something God the
Father would have His children to know. He's going to teach
us something. Christ is the food that He has
ordained for His people. What are we going to need to
survive? What are we going to need to consume? His Son. He's ordained it that
way. And Christ is the only food that's necessary for His people. He's the necessity. He's the
necessity. Every person born of Adam into
this world is starving of the bread of life. They don't have
it. And they don't know any different.
They need Him. We have no life apart from that
One that's our Prophet, our Priest, and our King. We can't live without
Him. Not eternally. We have no satisfaction outside
of the Father being satisfied in that One that died for us.
We have no mediation on our own. And no other man can mediate
for us. There's only one mediator between God and man. That's the
man across Jesus. We can't rule and reign ourselves. My mom used to say, boy, if everybody
in the world was just like us, it would be a good place to be.
Everybody would be dead. We'd kill each other. If I could
just be in charge. My brother Scott said that mountain
genius. He said, if I had the power of God, I'd change everything.
And if I had the wisdom of God, I'd change nothing. I started
to understand by who you're dealing with and who's dealing with us. We would perish before our next
breath if it was in my hands. Christ is our bread of life.
Christ is what the Father appointed and he's the one thing needful.
I thought this was beautiful. Bread throughout the scripture,
it represents food that's necessary. Sometimes you say meat, you say
drink, but it's like saying comida in Spanish. It's food. It's necessary. It's something you have to have.
Food that sustains and it satisfies hunger. That's Christ our Savior.
That's who does it. We must have Him or we're all
dying our sins. He's the bread. Bread is food
that suits us all. You know, in real life, I love
bread. I know now everybody's on a big kick, not supposed to
eat bread, and I think that's got something to do with sinful man,
destroying the types and pictures of Christ, but I like bread. It suits everybody. Did you know
that? You go to the poorest person down at the homeless shelter,
and they'll probably have a slice of bread at some point this week.
and you go to the Queen of England. You know what they have at tea
time every day? Little Thai biscuits. They have bread. It suits all,
rich and poor, wealthy and educated, uneducated. Just like Christ
suits us in every class, doesn't he? Does it matter if you're
rich or poor, if you're Jew or Gentile, bond or free? He's the
one thing made for it. It's savory to all. Bread's the
food we need daily. We need other foods occasionally.
I wouldn't want to eat lobster every day of the week, every
day. Did you know that? If you eat lobster three times a day,
seven days a week, 365 days a year, do that for a decade, everything's
gonna taste like rubber. You'd just get so sick of it.
I'd feel like I'm on a deserted island eating crab every day.
That'd be good for a week. Get real old real quick. What
do people have for breakfast? Toast. What do you pack a dinner
bucket with? Sandwich. What do you have for
supper? Dinner rolls. They have dinner
rolls at supper. You need bread three times a
day, don't you? We need it every day. Same with our Lord. There's
never a day that goes by in our lives we don't need His blood.
There's not a day that doesn't go by I don't need His righteousness.
I don't need His intercession. I don't need His grace to me.
Morning, noon, night. Don't make a difference. That's
what I want. That's what I need. Is it complicated? You got to
have a degree in theology to understand these things? No,
it's bread. You hungry? Eat it. Take it. I've said all that and everything
I can say, as simple as I can, it'll fall on deaf ears, except
for those that hunger for the bread. All things spiritual are known
by experience only. You have to be hungry. I can
describe what hunger is to a person that's never experienced it.
And they can kind of get a gift and they may be able to describe
it to somebody else. They can chameleon their way clean through
that. But they don't know what it's like to be hungry. They
don't know what it's like to eat something and it's delicious.
Delicious. And you get halfway through and
you start getting filled and you're like, this ain't as good as I thought it would
be. They don't know what that's like. Unless God the Holy Spirit
makes you hungry for Christ, You won't eat. It won't smell
good to you. That smell won't draw you to
it. He's been made a sweet-smelling savor to His people because He's
a sweet-smelling savor to our Father, to our Lord that we have
offended. And whenever you've been kind
of hungry and you come home and you smell something good in the
oven, I had that happen this evening. I wasn't all that hungry. Now
I'm hungry. I want to eat. What if we get
a whiff of Him? Christ is the bread of life.
We get a whiff of Him. You'd have a hunger in you. God, the Holy
Spirit, has to give that. That's a work of God. That's
His workmanship. That's His doing. You want to work the works of
God? It's His work. He's got to do that. I can't. No matter how true it is, no
matter how well my points are, if it's a true God-honoring message,
it does not matter if the Holy Spirit don't make an effect on
His people. That old hymn writer Joseph Hart wrote, A form of
words, though air so sound, how good you got them in order, can
never save a soul. The Holy Ghost must give the
wound and make the wounded whole. Though God's election is a truth,
small comfort there I see, till I am told by God's own mouth
that He has chosen me. Isn't that something? You can
believe in election all day long. Don't save you. Election is unto
salvation. Election is not salvation. But
until God comes to you and says you're mine. Plain and simple,
isn't it? Two words, you're mine. That's
mine. Give me that one. Until that
happens, We won't hunger after Him. Jesus of Nazareth is the
Christ. He's the Messiah, the one who God sent to the world
to quicken those that are dead in trespasses and sins and to
give eternal life to as many as the Father had given Him.
If we're going to have that life, we must come to Him. We must
believe on Him. We must eat this bread. Do you
know anything of spiritual hunger? Selah. You been hungry lately? You ever walk this earth miserable?
I mean, just wake up crying and say, there ain't no way in the
world I could be God's child. I quit. I'm going to go back to fishing.
I need him. And it ain't in a book. And it
ain't on television. And it ain't a feeling. It ain't
the one fuzzy. I need a person. There's one
thing needful, and I need him. A craving. Have you ever had
an emptiness in your conscience? Your heart's just ripped out
of you. Affections are just all gone. You just feel dead. We must come to Him by faith.
We must believe on Him. We must commit our souls into
His hands. He's the only one that can satisfy.
Hearing of Him, rejoicing in Him, hearing His words and His
promises, that's the only thing that can satisfy. This world
ain't gonna do it. It's all vanities of vanities. So coming, He gives
His word that we will find lasting satisfaction. But for this time
that we're in right now, when we come to Him, we come to Him,
that bread of life, we eat of Him. He promises us, gives us
His word that right now you're going to be fine. I'm going to
comfort you right now. Trauma might not go away. Hunger in this world
and the pains we have in this world may not go away, but I'm
going to feed you right now. And that's going to let you know
you'll be fed for eternity. He gives us His word. He says
in verse 35, He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he
that believeth on me shall never thirst. Now He's going to give
us a word concerning His people. It says in verse 37, All that
the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to
me I will in no wise cast out. Here He makes a statement. about
His people. The Son of God makes a broad
statement. It's an unconditional statement.
There's no prerequisites for the statement that He makes.
Some people call that unguarded. Many people say you've got to
guard the statements of God. You have to explain it thoroughly
before you give it. He gave it just like this, why
wouldn't I? It's plain. There's so many men and dead
men that ain't alive, that can't hug you, that can't tell you
nothing, that can't relate anything of God's Word to today. They
say things like, well, Arminianism is all door and no house. And
Calvinism is all house and no door. What are we going to do
with that? God says here in this verse,
He that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. What a great promise. What's
that word mean, cometh to me? That's referring to that movement
of the soul. Is it walking an aisle? Is it
physically coming to church? Is it being a good little boy
and girl or changing your life and moving to where the gospel
is or anything like that? No, you come to Christ right
where you are. Your heart moves to Him. Your
soul moves to Him. And when a sinner is feeling
his sins, You know what you are because you've been convicted
of sin by the Holy Spirit. And you find out there's only
one that can save. You see you've offended a holy
God. There's only one that can save. And you hear of Christ.
Christ the bread. And you run to Him. And you trust
in Him. And you lay a hold of Him. And
you put all your weight, all your burden, all your hope, everything
on Him. Trusting Him alone for all of
your salvation, lock, stock and barrel, every bit of it. Think
of any 14-letter word you can think of. It's going to be Him
or nothing. When you do that, you've come to Him. Scripture
said you're believing on Christ. I have a picture at the house
of Jayla Grace when she was little. We were in Yellowstone by this
big waterfall. And I thought I was scared of
heights. She was more scared of heights than I was. And she climbed me
like a tree and wrapped her arms around my neck and her legs around
my body. And I stuck my hands out like this. Kimberly took
a picture. A backhoe and a forklift wouldn't
have got that girl off me. She wasn't going to let go of
me. Why? She believed in her daddy. She
trusted her father. She clung to Him. That's what
it is to believe on Christ. You get a hold of Him, you let
Him go. He won't let you. What if I go to sleep? He'll
hold you. He's holding you the whole time. It's His arms squeezing
His neck. You just think it's you. I'm grateful for that. He says in verse 37, All that
the Father gives me shall come to me and Him that cometh to
me. Those that believe on Him. Those
that cast all their cares on Him. Here's a word of assurance.
You want assurance? You struggle with that? I do.
Here's seven words. Every one of these words is one
syllable and the biggest word in the whole lot of them is four
letters. Is this complicated? I will in no wise cast out. You come to Him. The Lord God
Almighty says, I will in no wise cast out. What can I do to lose
it? He said, Kevin what's your theological
standpoint on eternal salvation and sanctification? He said,
I will in no wise cast out. You don't need a dictionary for
that one do you? What about your past sins? If
you will come to Him, and I know the evil things I've done. I
watched me do them. Does that mean I'm too bad to
come to Him? He said, Him that cometh to me, I will no wise
cast out. What if my sins are a great number?
I mean a multitude of them. You may have a problem with that.
He said, you come to me, I will no wise cast out. What if I'm weak? What if I'm
just so tossed to and fro? What if I'm infirm, I'm ill?
Well, you may not be no earthly benefit to us. God says, He's
coming to me, I will in no wise cast out. What if I don't come
quick enough or well enough or I don't come in a way that suits
other people? He said, all the Father gave me shall come to
me. And when they're coming, I'll in no wise cast them out. You know what cometh is? That
there's a proof of a believer being kept to the end. There's
a lot of false professions. I've scared to death, I have.
And every time I think that I couldn't be a child of God, God saved
me. I have come to Him. I'm coming to Him right now.
I need Him every hour. And tomorrow, guess what's going
to happen? If I'm His, I'm going to come to Him. I ain't going
to go back to see nothing else. To turn to Christ is to turn
away from something else. Boss, you turned from your idols.
You left that junk. Why? Because He's your goal.
He's the race. He's everything. He's what I
need. He's the bread of life, isn't
He? If you come to Christ by faith,
He promises to embrace you and keep embracing you forever. Come
to Christ. Whosoever. Whosoever. Come to Him. Come to Him. And
I can command that. Man can't do it. He said, you
will not come to me. You cannot come to me. Well,
how come I can stand up here in a pulpit and go on the internet
and anywhere else and anybody will listen to me and say, come
to Christ? Same as the prophet went down and told them bones,
live. Because his people shall come
to him. Whosoever come to him. And he will receive all that
come to him and he'll never cast anyone out that comes to him
for any reason, upon any condition, no matter what. If he's drew
you, he's going to keep you. You can't mess it up. And I need
to hear that often. He will in no wise cast out.
Those are precious words. I need to soak them in. I need
the Lord, I need to ask Him to commit that to my heart, commit
it to your hearts, and the day will come when we won't be able
to rely on this world. There's comforts I have left
and right. Right now I've got a warm jacket on. I've got comfy
shoes on. There will come a time when this
world will have no comfort in it. I won't be able to stand
in this body anymore. I won't be able to lean on loved
ones. I won't have any comfort. It will either be all gone or
the Lord is going to reveal to it, it's all vanity of vanities
to me. All that comfort is going to be gone. How blessed would
it be if in that moment of what seems like the world despair
and all is lost, that God the Holy Spirit reveal to our spirit
that we've come to Christ. He made us come to Him. I didn't
do it. If I did it, I'd have messed
it up. And because He drew me, He made me come to Him, He will
in no wise cast me out. That's deep, buddy. I said, Kevin,
those are little tiny words. Well, if you get a hold of that,
you'll walk up in those streets a lot different. That's dying
grace right there. You can enter into eternal glory. with full confidence to go in
front of the Holy God we offended because of Christ and Him crucified.
Because He did the work, He drew me, and I believe Him, and this
is what He said. And because of His Word, I have no fear. What about God's will? I'll be
quick. That's Word for Himself. Who is He? The Great I Am, the
Bread of Life. To His people, you come to Him.
Keep coming to Him. Don't quit coming to Him. And
you won't if you're His. And He'll in no wise cast you out.
What's the will of the Father? Now we've got that established.
We know who He is. We know who we're kept by. We know that we
are kept. I want to do the will of God. Do you? I want to be concerned. I want
my business from daylight to dark in this world to be fulfilling
and doing the will of my Father. I don't know what it is, but
I want to do it. Do you want to do that? Verse 38 said, 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 which hath sent me, that
all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise
it up again 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 that last day. Three times in three verses,
the Savior speaks of the will of our God, of our Heavenly Father. First, He tells us that He was
sent to do the will of God. They said, we want to work the
works of God. He said, this is the work of God. He's going to
do it. You ain't doing nothing. He may
use the means, He may use the vessels, but He's going to do
it. He identifies the will of God as the salvation of His people.
What's God going to do? He's going to save His people. Do you believe that? Do we? If we believe it, what's
going on on the other side of the world right now? I ain't
going to say what it is. Fifty years from now you may
go Google that instead of worrying about what God says. What's going
on on the other side of the world right now? That's God saving
His people. What's going to happen in schools in two weeks? That's
God saving His people. How many cars went down that
road this evening? That's God saving His people. Is it? Christ
came to do the will of the Father. He came to save His people. And
Him and His Father are one. He does the will of the Father.
They're one. He said in Hebrews 10, then said, I, lo, I come
in the volume of the book it is written to me to do thy will,
O God. He goes on later and says, then
he said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the
first, that he may establish the second. By which will? By
this will of God saving his people, we are sanctified. We're set
apart. We're made holy by him completing
the Father's will. By him saving his people. By
him dying for our sins. Through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ, once for all. For all is in italics. For the
offering of Jesus Christ, once. How many times do you have to
do it? One time. What's the will of the Father? To save His people.
Christ is going to do it. Then He tells the Father's will
that He will lose none of those which were given to Him, that
were trusted to Him. When did that happen? Before
we ever were around. The covenant of grace before
this world was. All that He was trusted to, that
were put in Christ then. They're gonna have everlasting
life in that everlasting covenant that Christ came to fulfill.
He said in verse 39, and this is the will of the Father which
has sent me that all of them which have given me I should
lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day.
God Almighty declares that it's the sovereign will of God that
all those elected by the Father, all those redeemed by the Son,
and all those called by the Spirit, they're gonna come out of the
grave one day. and they're going to be in eternal glory and not
a one of them is going to be lost. It ain't possible. It ain't possible. You don't
see a sign of wonder but he's giving it to them. He's giving
the whole account to God. Right to them. You want to know
the will of God? He's telling them. More than
I could hear. that I could hear. It was the
Father's choice, it was the Son's obedience and sacrifice, and
it's the Spirit's working in grace revealing it to His children. It's every bit of Him. And He says in verse 40, 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. This verse is talking about
those same people in those previous verses. God's elect. But election
is not salvation, is it? Election is unto salvation. The work of God to save His people.
Christ was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world.
But He had to come to this earth. He had to be made like me. He
had to die if we're going to be saved. That's how it had to
take place. Even so, they were chosen to
life in eternity, but they must be saved in that experience of
grace in time. All the chosen must hear the
gospel. If God saves a man, they're going
to know about it. They have to. He ain't going to lose one. Each
one must have Christ revealed in them. That's how He saves
them. Each one must see Christ for
themselves. You can't see it for somebody
else. Somebody else can't see it for you. It's individual.
It ain't family times and husband and wife teams and everything
else. It's individual. You have to see Him for yourself
and have Him as all your righteousness, all your wisdom, all your sanctification,
all your redemption. And each one must believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ with a sincere heart. All of that is because this is
the will of God. Why is all these things going
to happen? Why is it something from the foolishness of preaching?
Why did I go to New Caney, Texas to preach this weekend? I had
a nine-year-old boy come up and thank me at the end of it. Told
me what a good job I did. All them plane rides, that man
committed his life and women committed their lives to be pilots
of those planes and dedicated their life to that to get me
out there so a nine-year-old could hear the gospel preached.
Could that be? It's the will of God, isn't it? He ain't going to lose one. Our Savior, Lord Jesus Christ,
will never allow any soul that comes to Him to be lost, to be
cast away. He's going to keep us safe. He's
going to keep us in His grace all the way until we're with
Him in glory, in spite of this world, in spite of our flesh,
in spite of Satan, whose only goal is to divide His people
and divide His people from Christ. If there's a division and fitting
and strife and everything else, Satan's quick at work. Watch
out for it. In spite of all those things,
great adversaries, I ain't no match for. God will keep his
people. Not one bone of his spiritual
body will ever be broken. I've dwelt on that a long time
today. Not one bone of Christ's physical body was broken. He
wouldn't break his legs. It was already dead. Don't break it.
Because he fulfilled the scriptures. He ain't going to lose a pinky
finger. He ain't going to have a broken ankle and that would
just not work just right for eternity. It ain't going to happen.
He's going to preserve it. Not one lamb will ever be left
behind in the wilderness. And he's going to raise to glory
the whole flock that was given to him. That he was given charge
over. And we'll praise him for it.
What's man got to do with anything I just told you? Nothing except
saying out, thank you. Did you see what he did? Let
me tell you about it. Tell you what God does for sinners.
Come to Him. He won't cast you out. Jude wrote
now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to
present you faultless before the presence of His glory with
exceeding joy to the only wise God our Savior. Be glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now, what's going on right
now, and ever. Amen. Amen. That's a God worth
praising.