And his is like, okay. He missed
my part that I was going to say. But it's all good, it's all good.
John chapter six, and I want to begin reading in verse 36.
Verse 40. But I said unto you, these are
the words of Christ, that ye also have seen me and believe
not. 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 has sent me. that of 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 title is All the Father Gives
Me. And here is the introduction.
God is not fair. That's it. That's the whole introduction. Because in verse 36, he starts
off saying, but I said unto you that ye also have seen me and
believe not. Paul read the same thing when
he was reading further on in the chapter. But here he's already
said it. Jesus, the Christ, always knew
exactly who he was speaking to. Man, that is a killer advantage. I don't always know who I'm speaking
to. I don't know whether somebody's
elect or not. I don't know whether someone has been called or is
still possibly elect and dead in trespasses and sins. I have
no way of knowing. But I'm called upon to preach
the gospel. That's all we got. I don't know
who I'm talking to. Walter doesn't know who he's
talking to. You don't know who you're talking to. But Jesus
did. And the beautiful thing about
this is Jesus told them. The man always spoke the truth,
because this man is God. So what did he tell him? He said,
you've seen me. And what? Ye believe not. Now what is he saying here? What's
the deeper meaning? Well, ye've also seen me, and
ye believe not. That's the deeper meaning of
this scripture. They did not believe, and I still
find this hard to grasp, but when God spoke to them personally,
they didn't believe him. How is that possible? Well, we
are that dead in trespasses in the sea. We are that depraved. Our senses, or we should say,
are so dulled as to be non-existent. Our will is so corrupt, we can't
choose. Our minds are so corrupt, we
can't believe. Our heart is so messed up, we
can't understand, even when God himself is speaking to these
men. And they think we overemphasize
depravity. This is important. He's speaking
to those that don't believe him. Because this will affect what
the Lord of glory says. Most people don't believe this,
but Jesus Christ spoke differently to some people than he did to
others. Now, he always spoke the exact truth to each and every
person. But to some, more has been revealed. I pulled it out of Luke 8 and
10. He says, and these are the words of Christ. And he said,
unto you, it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom
of God, but to others in parables, that seeing they might not see
and hearing they might not understand. See, my introduction was God's
not fair. That's what men think. When you
preach this gospel, when you talk about this Christ who revealed
himself to some and didn't reveal himself to others, that's not
fair. That's what they say. And that's what they mean. And
they're still wrong both ways. Christ spoke differently. It's
not fair by man's standards. It's right by God's standards. Shall not the judge of all the
earth do right? Oh yes, he has, he will, and
he will continue to do right. What's the scripture say? I will
be gracious to whom I'll be gracious. There were those who had seen
him and believed. But never forget, there are those
who saw him, who saw him, who heard him, and not believed. Now people ask, what's the difference
between the two? Well, that's the way of man,
always asking what when the question's who. We can't even get the question
right. How depraved are we? We can't even get the question
right, much less the answer. These men who believed not, okay,
they had heard the gospel by the one anointed by the spirit
of the Lord to preach the gospel to the poor. And they believed
not. And he follows it up with this
statement. All the Father giveth me shall come to me. And him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. Now this statement, all the Father
giveth me, the word giveth, that is actually present tense. It's
not past tense. Then it moves to the future tense,
shall come to me. There's a thing about timing
here. Now I know what people say about this scripture. And I'll just mention it here.
All that the father giveth me shall come to me and him that
cometh to me I will and no wise cast out. They say God saw who
would choose Jesus and he gave them to the son. Okay, that's
a lie. That's a bald-faced lie. Or if
you prefer, it's hermeneutical eisegesis. I still like that
term. I do, I can't help it, I'm that
way. Because you can say, oh, that's hermeneutical eisegesis.
People have no idea what you're saying. That's right. But I'll
tell you this, you say sovereign grace, they got no idea what
you're saying either. That's exactly it. They are trying to
prove, and to use this scripture to prove, that salvation is dependent
upon the actions of men, even though they'll deny that. They
say, no, it's all grace. It was gracious for God to look
forward and see what you would do. Paul said, if it's works, it
works, if it's grace, it's grace, and I had the pit, ne'er the
twain shall meet. works happen because of salvation,
not in order to be saved. And I'll tell you something,
it's certainly not in this scripture here, or any other for that matter. Because this scripture doesn't
tell us how we come to Christ. It tells us why. That's important. Why do you
come to Christ? Why? And I can tell you this,
in the light of John 15 and verse 16, that they did not come to
Christ because they chose Christ. John 15, 16 is the words of Christ
himself saying, you have not chosen me, I have chosen you. If you get that wrong, you're
gonna get everything wrong. They didn't choose Jesus. Those
were the disciples, the ones who did believe it. He chose
them. However, this scripture certainly
does show that the giving of the Father comes before the coming
of those given. You got the present tense and
you got the future tense. All that the Father gives me
shall come to me. Jesus Christ spoke this in the
correct order. Now, I do wanna make this clear
if I can. Jesus is not speaking of before
the foundation of the world here. This is present tense. Now, that
did happen. We were chosen in Christ before
the foundation of the world. That is just as true as this
part is true. And that's just as true as you
haven't chosen me, I've chosen you. But he is speaking here in the
present tense of the work of the father. Now all those that were given
to Christ, chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world will
come. They shall come. But here they
have to be given. That's the context. And that's
the context here. Because the context here is about
those who are given to Christ in the Father's good time, and
those shall come to Him. So shall come to me, that's in
the future tense. Now, how many come? All the Father
gives me. That's a deeper meaning there. They are given and they shall
come. Now what kind of time frame we
have between the given and the coming? I ain't got one. But
I got a certainty. I got a certainty. Those that
are given shall come. That's the same kind of word
says I must needs go through Samaria. They shall come if they're
given by the Father. every single one of them. Walter
said it, not one more and not one less because here we have
a cause and an effect in this one verse, all that the father
gives me shall come to me. Guess what? The cause is God,
the father, the effect is on you. You shall come. And we are to come to Christ. Why? Because the Father gave
us to Him. And don't leave this out. By
any means, they come to Him. They come to me. All that the
Father giveth shall come to me. Christ said that. They're coming
to me. It's not that they come to church.
Although they'll assemble together with the people of God. But it's
not that they're coming to church. They don't come to doctrine.
Ah, but they will learn my doctrine. They don't come to men. although
they will hear his ministers and his preachers and his gospel
from men and women. They come to hear him preached
and promised and proclaimed. And if he's not preached, they're
disappointed. And if you go too many times
without hearing him preached, you might end up going somewhere
else. Hey, that's happened to some of us. Been there, done that. I burned
the T-shirt, but it's okay. I'm not going back, by God's
grace, to where this man that I want to come to is preached. That's where I wanna be. Because
those given by the Father come to a person. And guess what? That person that they come to
is their Lord God. They submit to him because they
submit to him. They will assemble together.
They will learn the doctrine. They will fellowship with their
brothers and sisters because of him. They come to me. They come to
me. And no one else. And him that cometh to me, I
will in no wise cast out. You know, the gospel does not
send forth an uncertain sound. The gospel is not uncertain.
We are uncertain, fine. But the gospel is not uncertain.
All those given by the Father come to the Son. They shall come. And him that cometh, I will in
no wise cast out. What'd he say? I will never leave
thee, nor never forsake thee. And guess what he meant by that?
He meant he's never gonna leave you, he's never gonna forsake
you, and he will in no wise cast you out. This is an individual
thing. Each and every single one that
the father gives him comes to him, and each and every single
one he will never cast out. I don't know that I can emphasize
that hard enough. But this is the truth of scripture.
The truth of religion is something totally different. There are
people losing and getting their salvation back and forth forever
around here. That's not a salvation worth
having. If it's dependent upon me, I'm
going home. Because there ain't no sense in me being here because
I'll mess it up before I get out from behind this desk. Will in no wise cast him out Now we have a statement of purpose
for For and a reason conclusion for I Came down from heaven Not
to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me Most preachers will breeze right
past this statement. Isn't that nice? He's such a
good son. They're missing the point. This is a fundamental statement
about Jesus Christ, by Jesus Christ, about his purpose in
this world. He gives, in this one little
verse, all the glory to the Father, while He Himself is God manifest
in the flesh. What are you supposed to do?
Worship the Father. Now, does that mean that the
Son's will is different than the Father's? No, no, no. I'll use John's word, Christ's
word here, in no wise. God forbid, whatever you wanna
say, this shows I and my Father are one. I came not to do mine own will,
come to do the will of my Father. You got a problem with what Jesus
said or Jesus did, you take it up with the Father. Good luck with it too. I don't
think it's gonna work. because the Lord from heaven
and the Lord of heaven are one. Guaranteed. Their will is exactly the same. If thou wilt, we do hear a little
bit about the will of Christ when a fellow asked him, if thou
wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Christ did respond positively,
I will. Be thou clean. See, so that's
separate from, no, it's not separate from anybody. All that shows
is it was also the Father's will to heal that leper. That's what
it shows. I and my Father are one. And Jesus gave glory to the Father. and he came to do the will of
the Father. Then the next verse says this,
and this is the Father's will. Which has sent me, that of all
which he hath given me, now this is in the past tense. Hath given
me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the
last day. Because this start, actually
the statement starts out in the present tense. This is the Father's
will. That's present tense. And I'll
give you this for free. Whatever is the will of the Father
is still the will of the Father and it always will be the will
of the Father because it always was the will of the Father. God
does not change. His will has never changed. Our circumstances change. There
was a change when our Lord came to this earth. There was a change
after he ascended into heaven. The Holy Spirit was here, but
then the Holy Spirit was given to indwell in believers. That's
a change, but guess what? That wasn't a change in the will
of God. Not a bit. The father's will
before the foundation of the world is the father's will with
his son right here. It has not changed. And it says, which hath sent
me. That's also past tense now because this being sent, this
incarnation in the world, this condescension only happened once. Now Christ had walked on this
earth before. They call them Christophanies or Theophanies,
appearances of Christ in the Old Testament. Melchizedek is
said to be one and I believe he was. Without beginning, without
end, without father, without mother. But this incarnation in the flesh
only happened once and it happened because the Father sent him.
I came to do my Father's will. Not my own will, my father's
will. This sent only happened once,
now he's coming again, but that's not gonna be another incarnation.
That's gonna be the same Jesus that you've seen go up, is coming
back. And he's coming back for his
saints and he's coming back with his saints. And y'all can fight
about that if you want. I don't think so, but. Because he is coming again. but
he's not coming again the way he came the first time. But this
statement then where it says all the father half given me
all which he had given me, that is actually not in the past tense.
It's even better than that. Uh, I know this is getting, you
know, maybe a little tedious on the verb things, but I can't
help it here. This is in the perfect tense and it's active. Okay. And I wrote this down,
I copied it down because I couldn't trust my definition of it. The
perfect tense, okay, describes an action which is viewed as
having been completed in the past. It's like the past there. But there's more to it than that.
In the perfect tense, it says it was done in the past once
and for all. And not needing to be repeated. So whatever this given is here,
it's a one-time thing. And that's right in accord with
what Christ said about it. It's perfectly in accord with
what Christ said about it. All that the Father giveth to
me shall come to me, and all that comes to me I will in no
wise cast out. There's only a need to be this
given one time, and that's it. So that saved and lost, saved
and lost stuff is just kind of right out the window. It's nonsense. It's man's imaginings, his imagination. It's an image and not the image
of the uncorruptible God. The giving is active, but it
is done once. And here he's talking about in
the past. Because it says, all which he
hath given me, which the Father hath given me, what? I should
lose nothing, but raise it up at the last day. Now I lose stuff
all the time. He never loses anything. And
more importantly in this context, he never loses anyone. I will in no wise cast you out. What about what I do? What about
it? I will in no wise cast you out.
I mean that's as flat as I can be with it. It doesn't matter
what you do, it matters what he did. It matters what the father
did and it's mattering what the son is doing. You're giving people
license to sin. No, I'm not. They're sinning
anyway. I remember what Henry said. He
said, well if I believed that, I'd sin all I want to. Somebody
told him that. Henry said, I sin more than I
want to now. And that's the God's honest truth.
I wish I could sin less. I sometimes find myself thinking
I do. That's a sin too, you know that. I do understand the saying, A,
I am my own worst enemy, and B, I can't win for losing. But it's not up to me. It's not
up to me. Then he repeats, and this is
the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the
sun, but he didn't stop there, and believeth on him. But I said unto you that ye also
have seen me and believe not. Guess what? These are different
people. 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 is the will of the father
that the son is performing. And I tell you what, he's doing
it today. It has not changed. It has not
modified. No, our glorious knowledge of
man has not changed the will of God ever. And it never will. Everyone that sees the son and
believes on him will have what? perpetual life. I like that word. Well, I'm telling you something,
people around here don't know what everlasting life is. They
don't know what eternal life means, because like I said, they
think you can get it and lose it. That's not eternal. This is perpetual life. It'll
go on even when you don't. Why? Because it's not your life,
it's His. Our life is hid with Christ in
God. I live, yet not I. Christ lives
in me. And that life is perpetual. It never ends. And I will raise him up at the
last day. Why? Because that's the will of the
Father too. Do you need another reason than
that? The will of the Father? Too bad, there ain't one. Because
there really isn't another reason. Everything Christ did, everything Christ is doing, and
everything Christ will do to those who are given to the Son
by the Father is according to the will of the Father. And this is what the Son lives
to perform. I came not to do mine own will,
but the will of Him who sent me. What? From the beginning to the end.
Sort of like that thing, Alpha and Omega. Wait a minute, that's
Him too. I am the Alpha and I am the Omega. I am the beginning and I am the
end. Those given shall come and those
that come will never be cast out because they have perpetual
life. And Jesus Christ will raise them
up on the last day. Because of and by the will of
the Father. Now you remember my introduction?
God's not fair. This is how we come to the Son.
He told us the why, then he told us the how. The Father gives
us to the Son. Who is the difference between
those who have seen Him and believe not and those who have seen Him
and believe? Well, I didn't read it, but I
wasn't gonna go away without reading it. John chapter six,
verse 44. No man can come to me except
the Father which has sent me draw him. And, what? I will raise him up
at the last day. You understand, this giving of
the Father's talking about the giving of life and faith to the
dead alien sinner. And everyone he does that to,
everyone who is born from above, everyone that is born of God,
all that are given to me by my Father shall come to me. And no man comes except the Father
which has sent me draw him. That one, Paul read the other
part this morning before that. Therefore I said unto you, no
man can come unto me except it were given unto him of my father. Those two verses hit me awful
hard when I was first converted. The first one stopped me and
then I submitted to it. I submitted to him that I had
nowhere else to go And then I read the second one, and then when
Peter said, we got womb tombs, here we go. It was like, wow, I've just been
there. All that the Father giveth to
me shall come to me. And it's a hard thing for people
who don't believe to understand it doesn't matter what Christ
said. I'm coming to him. And if that's
not your attitude, you're not coming to him. Not saying you
won't rebel, not saying you won't kick against the pricks. Paul
did that. Not saying you won't, I don't
get this, I don't believe that. That's right, you don't. But
you will come to learn his doctrine. And you will come to love his
doctrine. You will come to hear his gospel
preached. Why? It's the work of God in
you. He's gonna draw you. And that
word does mean drag. You can look it up. That's what
it means, like drawing a bucket of water out of a well. Guess
what? The bucket ain't helping and neither is the rope and neither
is the water. Somebody's dragging all of it
out. And it ain't you. It's you being drug out. Deliver him from going down into
the pit. I have found a ransom. See, how do we come to the Son?
After being given by the Father, we are drawn by the Father. To
the Son. To Him. To a person. And yes, it means to be dragged,
to be drawn. What? Against my will? Oh, yes. Yes. But don't worry, your will
will change. Your will will change. Come on now, folks. My will's
changed even as a person. You know, I hated to go to church
when I was a little fella. And when I got to be a bigger
fella, guess what? I hated it even more. And now I love to come here.
I am willing to come here. I'm willing to drive 30 miles
to come here. Your will will change. The man who raised you from the
dead can fix anything. I guarantee it. And you don't
have to worry about me guaranteeing it, the Bible guarantees it.
With men, this is impossible. But with God, all things are
possible. Your will's just as corrupt as
your heart. and your head, and your toes,
and your hair, because your will is just as dead and trespasses
in sin as you are. No man can come. That's ability. That's ability. Don't worry about
will it, you can't. I'll tell you this, you won't
anyway. because your will is just as corrupt as your can't. No man can come. This is what
Christ Jesus, the Lord of glory said. I wonder what he meant.
He meant no man can come unless the father draws him. Now you
gotta deal with it and you gotta get over it. Or not. And if it's or not, I got nothing
for you. Because everything I talk about, everything I, comes down
to this. We either believe Sovereign Grace,
the Sovereign Lord of Sovereign Grace, or we don't. That's all there is to it. Except the Father, which has
sent me Draw him. Accept a good word here. That's
like but God in some places. It is. Because except the Father
draws him, what is this? This is part of being given to
the Son. In this context, in this scripture
right here, that's what this is talking about. It's talking
about actually being given to the Son in time, the Father draws
you. And it's in God's time, and guess
what? It's in God's will. It's in the Father's will, which
the Son came to perform. And I will raise him up at the
last day. You understand? God doesn't start something without
finishing it. And you can take that however
you want. But this is true of salvation,
and that's what he's talking about here. He started it, he's
doing it, and he's gonna finish it. And he's gonna raise everyone
that the Father gave him at the last day. Guess what? That's the day that counts. You understand? I don't have
any hopes of being like Enoch. I'd like to. Enoch walked with
God and was not because God took him. That'd be the way to go
out. But it ain't up to me. But I
got this promise. Enoch has this promise. Because
he's gonna get his body. I will raise them up at the last
day. The salvation of God is the salvation
from God and it is the salvation performed by God. to all those that the Father
has given to the Son. Now, what do you say about that?
That's it, that's all I was gonna say. You better say amen. And I do, by his grace, believe
him. Heavenly Father, we're thankful
again for this time, this place. Thank you, Lord, for all that
you have done to us, for us, in us, and are continuing to
do in this perpetual life that you have given to your children.
Thank you most of all for your son who came to do your will.
Be with Walter as he stands to preach. Be with all of us as
we go forth to walk. And we ask this in Christ's name,
amen.