Toward the end of the sixth chapter
of John's Gospel, in verse 66, we read the following. From that
time, many of Jesus' disciples went back and walked no more
with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve,
Will ye also go away? And Simon Peter answered him,
Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. And we believe and are sure that
Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. To whom shall
we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. And we believe and are sure that
Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. this chapter is a remarkable
chapter as so much of John's gospel is but it's a remarkable
chapter in the declaration of Christ as the Son of God and
as the bread of heaven as he who comes down from heaven as
the bread which brings life eternal life unto men if ye eat of my
flesh and drink of my blood shall live forever. It encompasses
the feeding of the 5,000, a miracle which Christ performed as part
of this sign to present unto us the miraculous way in which
God through Christ provides bread to those who are starving and
who are dead. brings life unto his people. Following that miracle, the Jews
were offended at Christ and questioned him and he spake of who he is
and he spake of the bread of life. They spake of Moses and
the manna which Moses provided unto the people. But Christ reminded
the Jews that it was not Moses that provided that manna but
God, the same God that sent Christ, the same Christ who is the bread
of life. He fed his people then physically
as a picture of his feeding of his people now spiritually in
Christ. He reminds the Jews and tells
the Jews that as the bread of life, as the Son of God sent
from heaven, he will save and deliver all that the Father gives
unto him. He comes for all his people and
none shall come unto him except those that the Father has purposed
and chosen to come unto him. This is the will of the Father
which hath sent me that all which he hath given me, 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 that seeeth the Son and believeth on him
may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last
day. He that believeth on me have everlasting life. I am that
bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in
the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh
down from heaven that a man may eat therefore and not die. I am the living bread which came
down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread
he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give
is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world. And
the Jews' reaction to this? They strove among themselves
saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? They opposed
him, they hated him, they despised him, they murmured against him.
Jesus says, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and
drink His blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh,
and drinketh my blood, have eternal life, and I will raise him up
at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed,
and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and
drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. as the living
father has sent me and I live by the father so he that eateth
me even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came
down from heaven. Yet these words, these wonderful
words These words full of mercy, grace and blessing. These words
which reveal the love of God for his people. That God should
send his son, that God should send such bread to a people who
are dead and who are hungry. These words offended the Jews. They hated them. Many therefore
of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, this is a hard
saying. Who can hear it? because they
did not like that life was in the hands of Jesus Christ. That life was in the bread which
comes down from heaven which God sends under whom God chooses
to send, which God gives unto those that God gives it to. That's
what offended them. Christ's words took life and
the possibility of attaining unto life out of the reach of
man. Out of your reach and out of
my reach. He took it away from man. Life
cannot be attained by what you do, think or say. Life cannot
be attained by your religion or your good works. Life could
not be attained by the Jews, by their rituals, by their sacrifices,
by their worship, by their priesthood. He made plain to the Jews, yes,
Moses in the wilderness, At the hand of God provided you with
manna. Yes, you have that heritage.
Yes, God has given you bread in days gone by. But it's God
that gave it to you. It's not you. It's not your heritage
which will save you. It's not your religion which
will save you. It's not your birth which will
save you. It's not what you do which will save you. Salvation
isn't in your hands. Life isn't in your hands. It's
of God and He will give this life, He will give this bread
to all whom He chooses and none else. That's the message that
came across to these who heard Christ's words here. It is not
simply that life is from Him, not simply that He is the Bread
of Heaven, but the obvious consequence of this is that unless He comes,
unless He gives you this bread, unless you eat of this bread,
unless He chooses to feed you and to make you live by this
bread, then you are dead and you will remain dead. Whatever
your heritage, Whatever your background, whatever
your religion, however zealous you are, whatever you do, you
will only live if you eat of the bread of heaven and if that
bread of heaven is given unto you by God above. So this offended
them. It's a hard saying. Who can hear
it? Does it offend you? When Jesus
knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto
them, Doth this offend you? What, and if ye shall see the
Son of Man ascend up where he was before? It is the Spirit
that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak
unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life. But there are
some of you that believe not. And there are some of you that
believe not. These are a hard saying. You
shut your ears to these things. Or you desire to get to heaven
by something you do, something to your credit. 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 said I unto you that no man can come unto
me except it were given unto him of my father and from that
time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with
him then said Jesus unto the twelve will ye also go away and
he says unto you you who murmur at his word You who believe not,
you who sit with hard hearts, he says unto you, will you also
go away? Will you also go away? Then Simon
Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. Lord to whom shall we go thou
hast the words of eternal life and in so speaking Peter demonstrated
an understanding, a wisdom, a faith which so few are brought to see,
to know and to have. To whom shall we go he says Thou
hast the words of eternal life. How can I go away? Peter says. How can we go away? We'd be walking into death. There's no life outside of you. There's no life anywhere else. We can do nothing else but remain
with Thee. To whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. Now I ask again, will you also
go away? Will you walk away from Christ? Will you turn your back on his
gospel? Will you shut your ears to the
truth? Will you harden your heart unto
these things? Will you go away? For if you
do, to whom and to where are you going? If you turn away and walk away from
Christ and his gospel, You walk into the darkness. You turn from
the light and walk to the darkness and you walk as a dead man to
the darkness of death from whence there is no escape. You are a
fool no matter what men may tell you. No matter what men may say
when they murmur at this Gospel, and murmur at these truths, and
murmur at the Son of God and His words of eternal life, no
matter what men may say and no matter what they may tell you,
and no matter what they may promise you of the wonders of this life
and this world in which you live, of the pleasures and the riches
and the ambitions which you can seek after, no matter what they
may promise you, all that will be gone in a moment and you will
realize it was fleeting, brief and worthless and you end your
days with nothing, nothing but darkness, nothing but death. To whom shall you go? Will you go to the leaders of
the media Will you go to the leaders in entertainment? Will
you follow after the sports stars? Will you follow after governments
and politicians and the wisdom of men? Will you follow after
scholarship, the educated? Who are you going to follow that
will bring you unto life? Will you follow after religion?
After this great religion or that great religion and this
great teacher and that great teacher and this great philosophy
and that great philosophy? If you do, are their words the
words of eternal life? Or are they the words of men?
the wisdom of men which have led others unto destruction and
will lead you unto destruction also. For when Peter addresses
Christ he says Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of
eternal life and we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ
the Son of the Living God. What a confession But it's a
confession which begins with a definitive word. Thou hast
the words of eternal life. The words of eternal life. The. The definite article. He doesn't just say to whom shall
we go, thou hast words of eternal life. We hear words of eternal
life from the Christ. We hear words of living words.
Why would we go elsewhere? We're hearing these words. As though there's the possibility
that similar words of life might be heard from someone else. He
doesn't just say that Christ has words of eternal life. He
says that Christ has THE words of eternal life. This is definitive. It is exclusive. Christ has the
words of eternal life and they're not to be heard from anyone else
or anywhere else. It's not merely that there they
were with one man who had life. and to leave him was taking a
risk because they might find life elsewhere or they may not
find life elsewhere. Peter knew there was no life
elsewhere. Christ was his only hope. He
had the words of eternal life. There are certain words of eternal
life and all other words are not the words of eternal life. But these which flowed from the
lips of Jesus Christ were and are. They are absolute and they
are exclusive. They are His words and none others. You will hear them from Christ
and none other. The words, the words of eternal
life. Then to whom? Shall you go? Will you turn from he who speaks
the words of eternal life and go to anyone or anything else
in the hope of living when the fact is that all else will simply
bring death? Every other word and message
from every other source is a message which does not contain
the words of eternal life. The words. Secondly, Peter says,
to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. Words. It's what Christ said
which brought life. It was his speech which brought
life. Peter doesn't just say, to whom
else shall we go, thou hast eternal life, or thou art eternal life,
or there is eternal life to be gained from thee, but thou hast
the words of eternal life. It's what they heard from Christ's
lips that brought them life. Christ didn't simply come unto
them and touch them and make them live. He didn't only perform
an act which made them live. But fundamentally Christ spoke
and the words that he spoke made them live. He had the words of
eternal life. Now we live in a day and an age
We're in the professing church, in the professing church of Christ,
in churches which say they follow Jesus Christ and which know the
truth, we live in a day and an age where the gospel and the
preaching of the gospel is set to one side and has been for
a long time now. For decades the trend in the
professing church, you can see it all around, you can see it
up and down this country, throughout America, throughout Europe, throughout
the world, the trend in professing churches, whatever name they
go by, Baptist, Brethren, Evangelical, whatever name they may take,
the trend has been to set aside the preaching of the gospel or
the preaching of the Word of God and to emphasize every other
aspect in the meeting. The trend has been towards worship
services and family services. The trend has been towards what
we sing and the music and making ourselves appealing unto a younger
generation because they don't want to sit and they don't want
to listen. They don't want to listen to words. They want to
just come and sing and be entertained and come and worship how they
want to. Even though they don't know who they're worshipping
and how they're worshipping because they never listen and they never
hear. They want to do what they want. They want to be entertained. The trend has been to go away
from the Word. Away from the Word of God, away
from the preaching of the Word of God. So what passes as preaching
has become ever smaller and ever more reduced and ever more divorced
from the Scriptures. Make the message, if there is
one in the meeting, 10 minutes long, littered with jokes, appealing
to the trendy, and take out the word of God because it offends. And when it's preached, people
go away like they did here. Christ preached the word, the
Jews murmured at it, the disciples who once followed him, who once
saw his miraculous signs, who once liked what they saw, when
he began to speak and to preach the truth. The words offended
them. They weren't offended at his
miracles. They liked the fact that when
they came under him blind, he healed them. That when they came
under him lame, he healed them. They liked the miraculous and
people today love the miraculous. They like the entertainment.
They like to come with the crowds and follow the big speaker and
see where something is going on. Where something exciting
is to be seen. But when he spake and preached
the truth and the word of God came unto them, then they were
offended. The words offended. And they said, this is a hard
saying. And many went away and walked
no more with him. As many have gone away today,
they may have their congregations, they may still say they're a
church, they may do this, that and the other, but they're no
longer walking with Christ, and they're no longer listening to
his word, and they're no longer preaching his word, and the life
of God and the bread of heaven is no longer in their midst.
and you can go and join with them you can turn away from him
you can go away and you can go into their company and you can
say oh but i'm going to a church oh i'm going to a meeting oh
i'm going along this sunday and that sunday but if the word of
god and the gospel isn't there and the bread of heaven isn't
broken and you're not feeding and drinking upon christ if there's
no offense then you're in the congregation of the dead and
you know it From that time many of his disciples went back and
walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve,
as he says unto you, will you also go away? Because his words,
his speech were the words, the words of eternal life. They brought offense unto those
that did not know them. They brought offense unto many,
but unto those whom God chose, whom he gave unto the Son, who
had faith put into their hearts to hear and to believe, to those
like Peter, their response was, to whom else shall we go? thou
hast the words of eternal life and it is those words his speech
which brings life it's that speech by which we live except he speak
you will ever remain dead in sin Except he preaches gospel
unto your soul from heaven on high, you will remain in darkness. Life comes through the gospel. Exclusively through the gospel. How often have I heard different
ones come unto me and contend and argue and say, well I was
saved and I never heard the gospel, I heard that many years later.
I was just lying in the garden looking up and there was just
this wonderful experience and how they set the truth of God
and his gospel aside and set the word of God at naught. If
you're ever saved it will come through the gospel. and through
the power of the Gospel and through the Spirit of God. He must speak
unto your soul and He will speak unto your soul through the Gospel.
He will preach the Gospel unto you. And it is to this end that
God calls and raises up preachers whom He teaches by His Spirit
and sends forth in power to preach it. He wouldn't bother if He
didn't need to. But He has chosen to save by
His Word, by the words of eternal life, He's chosen to save his
people by the gospel, which is why he prepares and sets apart
men for the preaching of this gospel, which is why he puts
them through the fires and the trials of life, and teaches them. by putting them in a desert,
by making them starve before Him, by putting them through
the coals, by teaching them His truth which is why He prepares
them in such a way that they know what it is to die and then
to be brought to life again by God's grace, that they may go
forth and preach that message unto sinners, that others may
hear what God has done through them. through his word, done
unto them through his word. What God has done by his gospel
that they may preach that gospel unto others that others may live.
They're sent to preach the gospel. Thou hast the words of eternal
life. The words. If you're to live
you'll hear this message. and the message will go into
your heart, not just in your head. It won't be words in the
flesh that remain in your head like the wisdom of men, but God
will speak from on high, He will speak by His Spirit, and these
living words will enter into your heart and make you live.
And you must hear, you must hear the Gospel, and those who set
aside the gospel, who minimize the gospel, who murmur at the
gospel and the sovereignty of God in the gospel are just deceiving
and lying and leading you astray. To whom else shall we go? To
whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. Thou hast the words of Eternal
life. OF These are words of eternal
life. They are not just words about
eternal life but they are words of eternal life. They originate
with the life, they flow from the life, they come from the
life and except they flow and come forth from that life then
there is no life in them. They are not just words about
eternal life. Peter does not say, Thou hast
the words about eternal life. Thou hast described unto us the
truth. Thou hast described unto us how
we might be saved. Thou hast described unto us the
gospel. Thou hast the words about eternal
life. He doesn't just say that, he
says Thou hast the words of eternal life. These words in the gospel
are not just a description. of how you might come to life. of all the truth and the doctrine
of God. They are not just a description
of the sending forth of the Spirit of God. They are not just a description
of the sending forth of the preaching of the Gospel. They are not just
a description of the new birth and of how the Spirit of God
quickens sinners unto life. They're not just a description
of these things. They originate with the life. They are the words of eternal
life. They come from Him who is life. Now many can come to the scriptures
and they can take the letter of the word and with great wisdom
they can imbibe them and they can send themselves forth as
preachers and tell you many facts which may be true. But if God
never sent them, if God never called them, if God never put
his words in their lips then he doesn't speak by them. There
is merit as far as the truth has been spoken if God chooses
to use those words in spite of the men that have taken those
words. But if those words don't come from God and are merely
in the letter from men, they remain lifeless. And so many
and so many churches have their doctrine and they have so many
things right but they've been moaned that there's no power
in life and it's because they've just got the letter. and they've
turned from Christ, they're not communing and walking with Him,
they're murmuring at things, they're murmuring at those that
God sends with the truth, they're murmuring at the life when it
is brought forth, and they remain in the letter and they remain
dead. But these words are not just
the words about eternal life, they are the words of eternal
life. not just about but from originating
from life containing life life as their very substance they
flow from him in heaven who is life they flow by his spirit
down into this world into the hearts of those whom he has chosen
to bring life unto they flow from him who is life they are
words of life they are from him and they are from no one else
except Christ speak by his spirit through those whom he sends to
preach his gospel unto you except Christ speak there's no life
there's no life to be found in this church or that church or
this religion or that religion or this wisdom or that wisdom
he must speak men may speak But except he speaks,
their words are nothing. And you know they're nothing.
How many men have you heard? And no matter how right they
may seem on many things, there's nothing in it. Your heart is
cold when you go in and your heart is cold when you go out.
You're unmoved, you're unchanged. Their words are nothing. But
there is one God one Savior and one gospel. There is one speech
which saves, one gospel, a definitive, eternal, unchanging, life-giving
gospel, THE gospel, THE words of eternal life. Have you heard
THE words of eternal life? To whom shall we go? Thou hast
the words of eternal life. Eternal. Not just life, not just
everlasting life, but eternal life. Without beginning or end. Not just words which may cause
you or I to live forever from this point forth as though we
came into being at our birth and then we are immortal onwards
and we will never die. Not just words which make us
live forever from now on but words which come from a life
which had no beginning. Words which if they bring us
to life give us a life which is not just without end but without
beginning in other words not just an extension of our own
life our own natural life not just a reprieve of the death
which stands in front of us if we remain in the natural state
in death and sin not just an extension not just a removal
of the judgment which would cast us into hell not just that we
will continue and live forever as might have been the case if
Adam and Eve had been able to stay in the Garden of Eden and
not fall and not rebel against their God they came into being
once and if they remained and lived exactly as he said and
never transgressed maybe they'd have carried on for many years
later not just a life like that This eternal life which the gospel
brings is not simply a return unto Eden. It's not a return
to the paradise which was there in the beginning. It's to bring
a life which even Adam at the creation didn't know. He never
had this life. He had a natural life which was
innocent and without sin when he was created. But he soon sinned
and fell and that life turned into death. But if he hadn't
sinned and fallen, he'd have had an extension of a life, a
certain life, but a natural human life, not the life which comes
from Christ. Adam had two trees in the garden. The tree of life and the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil. He could have eaten of
the tree of life. He chose to eat of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. The tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, or in other words the law, condemned him. He sinned and transgressed and
condemnation came down upon his head and the knowledge of good
and evil did nothing but slay him. just like the wisdom and
the knowledge of man it will do nothing but slay you that's
the tree he ate of but we never read and he never did eat of
the tree of life we never read of him eating of that tree he
never ate of it now if he had eaten of that tree he'd have
eaten of Christ he'd have eaten the bread of heaven He'd have
eaten of the flesh and drunk of the blood of Jesus Christ
as Christ speaks of in this chapter. He'd have eaten of Christ and
been one in Christ and Christ would have been one in him. He'd
have had eternal life. A different order of life, a
life without beginning and without end. He'd have been one with
Christ. Now he never ate of that tree
in the garden. we may believe that he came to
hear the speech, the words of eternal life and brought to live
but in the garden he never ate of that tree and that tree is
a picture of this life it's a different life, it's an eternal life you
see these words which Christ spake which Peter heard, which
Peter loved, which Peter believed as one who was sure that he was
that Christ and the Son of the Living God. These words that
Christ spake are not just words that bring us to life, not just
words which extend our life. They don't just make the dead
to live, but they convey a life which already was that that person
never had. They bring to the hearer something
which already was, the eternal life, which is Christ. They bring the hearer into communion
with a life which always was. They bring him into union with
Christ, the eternal Son of God. He is the life. These are why
the words that Peter heard are the words of eternal life. They're
the words of Christ. They're his words, his life.
He is the life when he speaks. And when the Spirit of God brings
these words into your soul that you live, he dwells in you. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh
my blood dwelleth in me and I in him. When you hear these words,
you're brought to dwell in Christ and he dwells in you, you're
one with him because his life becomes your life eternal life
you are in him as one who has no beginning and no end with
a life, an order of life way beyond anything that the natural
man has ever experienced ever knows or can ever comprehend
To whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. Life. Not death. Life. You can hear plenty of
people, plenty of men, plenty of religions, plenty of churches
speak many things unto you and the end result is death. You
can feel it when you go into their meetings at times. You
go in and you come out, if you're a child of God, you go in and
you come out and you feel dead. there's nothing living in it.
No matter how lively they may appear in a natural sense, no
matter how loud they may sing, no matter how smiley they may
all be, no matter how many of them may turn around at some
point in the meeting as instructed and shake their neighbors hands
and give them a hug and pretend that they they love all these
strangers that they've come into the midst of, no matter what
Bonhomiem, no matter what joviality might be in their midst, no matter
what pretense of life there may be, the child of God when he
goes in and hears and comes out again, comes out feeling dead
because there's no life in the words. And in the end, no matter
what the pretense may be, you may go in their congregations,
in their mitzvahs, you may go this way, you may go like the
Jews did in their religion. Separate from all the world.
Unlike the heathen around them, unlike the Gentiles. Here they
were. With God's word. With the scriptures. In Jerusalem. With the temple. With the sacrifices. With the
priesthood. Here's God's people. And when
eternal life came and spake unto them in their midst, they murmured,
and they rejected, and they despised, and they set him apart, they
sought to stone him, and in the end they crucified him. you may
go like them to their counterparts today and think you're God's
people, think you've got the scriptures, think you've got
the right worship and yet it's all death and in the end they
died. In the end this generation died,
they set Christ at naught, they crucified him and they died in
darkness and in death those who never believed. God had mercy
upon a number of them. He spake the gospel in power
even unto those, even unto those who were guilty, even unto those
who had crucified his son. The apostles were sent forth,
and on the day of Pentecost they preached unto them. And many
who heard were convicted in their heart, and they knew they'd wrongly
rejected Christ, and they knew they'd done wrong. And God had
mercy and changed their hearts and brought them unto Him. And
they were saved despite their hatred of the Son of God. but
there were those who hated him and went to their graves hating
him and for all their words they never lived the words they had
were dead words they had the scriptures in the letter and
the letter kills if you've got the scriptures only in the letter
you've not got the words of eternal life you've got a record of them
you've got a printing on paper of them you've got an assimilation
of them that you can put into your head and repeat but unless
Christ comes unto you unless you go under him unless you're
with him like Peter was with him knowing there's no one else
to whom you can go unless you hear him and know that his words
are the words of eternal life then all you've got is the letter
the letter killeth you need the spirit it is the spirit that
quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak
unto you they are spirit and they are life but you can read
words and they're just words You can read words in the flesh,
in your flesh, in your strength, in your wisdom, and they're just
words. Even in the scriptures, even
in John's gospel, even this chapter, except he speaks unto you, they're
just words in the flesh, profit if nothing. But if he speaks,
they are the words of eternal life. Everything else apart from
his speech of this gospel, of this truth, everything else,
all other words, all other speakers, all other religions, all other
wisdom, all other words, they are just dead. But here, here, Here in the gospel, here in Jesus
Christ, here in the Son of God that stood before Peter, here
in Peter's confession, here in Christ, here is the words of
eternal life. Here is life. Consider the context
in the chapter, the bread of life. he is the bread of life
he is the bread of heaven he comes down from heaven to his
people to bring life the bread of life to be eaten to be taken
in within oneself to be one with his words are spirit and our
life they enter into us like bread enters into us they do
us good they feed us they nourish us they make us live the flesh
Can't do that. Words in the flesh, can't do
that. Words in the letter, can't do
that. All that the flesh speaks, all
that men speak, all that religious men in the flesh speak, just
begets death. But this speech, this speaker,
these words bring life. It is and they are life, they
are bread from heaven. Here is the bread of heaven. To whom shall we go? Thou hast
the words of eternal life and we believe and are sure that
Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. We believe
that Thou art the bread of heaven. We do eat of your flesh and we
will drink of your blood. We believe in you. We believe
in what your flesh is. We believe in what your blood
is. We believe in what your flesh and your blood will and has done
for us. We believe that thou art the
bread of heaven. Have you come unto the bread
of heaven? Has the bread of heaven come
unto you? Have you eaten of it? For to
be eaten bread is first broken except bread is broken before
you it cannot be eaten and it will not bring life but once
broken and then eaten this bread gives life And this bread was
broken for sinners. It was broken once and for all. When Christ came into this world,
when the Jews who murmured at him on this day later took him
and betrayed him and gave him into the hands of the Romans
and cried out to crucify him when they led him forth to Golgotha
when they had him nailed to the tree when they hung him up to
crucify him and when in the darkness he died when in the midday sun
which was taken away when the world went dark he died when
he died in the place of sinners when he was crucified for sinners
the bread of heaven was broken he was broken he suffered under
the outpouring of God's wrath for his people he was broken
and his blood was shed His blood was shed for many, that blood
of atonement, that blood of sacrifice, that blood which washed away
the sins of his people. He was broken. He was crushed. The blood poured forth once and
for all. Have you gone to Him at the cross
through the Gospel? by the Spirit. Have you beheld
him upon that cross broken for you? Have you beheld him with
the blood pouring forth from his side? Have you seen the sacrifice
of God offered up once and for all? Have you by faith been brought
to eat of his flesh and drink of his blood that you might dwell
in him and he in you have you like Peter ever been brought
to that point of thinking of going astray and yet knowing
that you can go nowhere else how can you go because God has
taught you that you're nothing, that you're dead, that you need
to live, that your sins are multiplied above your head, that you need
a ransom to be paid, that you need to be redeemed, that you
need to be set free, that you need the judgment against your
sins to fall upon another, that you need mercy and grace from
God, that you need him to show you love when all you've shown
him is hatred, Has God brought you to the point of knowing that
you can't do anything to save yourself, that you're falling,
you're slipping, you're sinking into hell, and that you're lost
without God, you're lost without Christ. You need life, you need
eternal life, you need the words of eternal life, you need the
Gospel to quicken you by the Spirit and bring you to life.
Has God brought you to that point of coming unto Christ, of standing
before Him, hopeless, helpless, without anything, nothing. Saying unto Him, to whom shall
I go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life, I can go nowhere else. Thou hast spoken, Thou hast spoken
life unto my soul and I know they are the words of eternal
life. Oh Lord make me live. For I believe and am sure that
thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. I believe
and am sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living
God. O Lord, forgive me. O Lord, make
me live. To whom shall I go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. Thou hast the words of eternal
life. Amen.