Him That Cometh to Me

And here in John chapter 6, now
here's our subject today, him that cometh to me, him that cometh
to me. I want to make this clear as
I can possibly make it. Put it right down here where
everybody can at least in their heads understand it. Him that
cometh to me. In John 6 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. Him that cometh to me, I will
in no wise cast out. But I came down from heaven.
I came down from heaven, Christ said. He's no mere man, he's
the God-man. I came down from heaven. I was
before. Glorify me with the glory which
I had with thee before the world was. But I came down from heaven. The word was made flesh in I
came down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will
of him that sent me. I came down from heaven because
I was sent down from heaven, and I was sent down from heaven
to accomplish a particular task. And this is the Father's will
which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, And he
just spoke about those a few moments ago, he said, all that
the Father giveth me shall come to me. And here he says, those
which he hath given me I should lose nothing, not one, but should
raise it up again at the last day, and this is the will of
him that sent me, that every one that seeth the Son and cometh
to him believeth on him. might have eternal life, and
I'll raise him up at the last day." Now, it's very clear, very
clear from the scriptures that the Father loveth the Son, and
hath put all things into his hands. I wish I could emphasize
that like it needs to be emphasized. The Father loveth the Son, and
hath given all things into his hands. And all spiritual But
whatever God has for sinners is in Jesus Christ, our Lord.
In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. It's all
in him. All of God's love, God's mercy, God's grace, God's glory,
God's eternity is in the hands of Christ. And we're complete
in him. You see, Christ is the light.
He said, I am the light of the world. And those who are without
Christ are in darkness. It doesn't matter what kind of
religion they may have, if they don't have Jesus Christ, the
Lord, who is the light, they live in darkness. Christ is the
life, L-I-F-E. He said, I'm the resurrection
and the life. I'm the way, the truth, and the life. Christ is
life. Christ who is our life shall
appear, then shall we appear with him in glory. Well, men
without Christ then are dead. If he's alive and men do not
have Christ, they're dead. Christ is the love of God. The
love of God is in Christ Jesus our Lord. He that believeth not
on the Son, the wrath of God abideth on him. So men without
Christ are under God's wrath, judgment, anger. Christ is the
truth. Is that not what he said? I am
the truth, Pilate asked him about that. He said, I am the truth.
You shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free.
You shall know the Son, and if the Son makes you free, you'll
be free indeed. So men without Christ, they don't have the truth. They live a lie. If he is the
truth, be true. Christ is the wisdom of God. The scripture says that all the
way through. He is the wisdom of God. So men without Christ
have no wisdom. Foolishness. Christ is our peace. It plainly says that. He is our
peace. So men without Christ are living
in a warfare. Our gods are consuming fire outside
of Christ. And the scripture says Christ
in you is the hope of glory. There's no hope without Christ.
In other words, without Christ, Paul wrote to the Ephesians,
is to be without God and without hope. in this world. Do you see
what I'm saying? Christ is the light, life, love,
truth, wisdom, peace, and hope. And men without him perish. Then I ask this question, why
do men and women not come to Christ? Why do they not believe
on him? He plainly says, you will not come to me that you
might have life. Search the scriptures, in them
you think you have life. They are they which testify of
me, and you will not come to me that you might have life.
In other words, he charged the people to whom he preached in
the flesh, he said, I come in my Father's name, and you receive
me not. Let another come, and this reminds
me of our day, let another come in his own name, promoting himself,
promoting himself, and him you will receive. Isn't that strange?
Men will not come to Christ. They'll come to a church, but
not to Christ. They'll come to an altar. They'll
come to a preacher. They'll come to the front, but
not to Christ. They'll come to a law. People
love rules. The more rules you can make,
the more some folks love it. They'll come to the rules of
religion, the laws of religion, but not to Christ. People have
come to denomination. They'll come to their doctrine,
but not to Christ. Not to Christ. I brought a message
on that, and I saw it for long ago. Some of you may remember
it, but I think I can answer that question by looking at three
people who definitely came to Christ. In the Word of God, I
picked out three people who definitely came to Christ, no question about
it. The first one is in Matthew 8, the leper. You remember when
Christ came down from the mountain? And there was a leper, an unclean,
isolated, separated, helpless, hopeless leper, who came and
fell at his feet. And he looked up into his face
as he worshiped him, and he said, Lord, if you will, you can make
me clean. Now, he came to Christ. And then there was a woman in
Matthew 9 who had an issue of blood, the scripture said. She
was hemorrhaged for 12 years. Her life was just flowing away. And she had been to many doctors,
spent everything she had and was no better. And she said,
if I can get to him, I'll be healed. She said, if I can just
touch his clothes. And she came through the crowd,
multitude, and reached out and touched him, she was made whole.
She came to Christ. And then in Mark 10, there was
a blind man, Bartimaeus, who the scripture said, arose and
came to Jesus. Now, what did all these people
have in common? They all came to Christ. Most
of the people of my day won't come to Christ. They don't come
to Christ. Why did they come? What did they
have in common? Well, first of all, it's certain of this, they
had heard of Christ. They had all heard of him. Many
of my generation, now listen to me, I don't mean to be offensive,
but many in my generation have heard of another Jesus. They
haven't heard of the Christ of the Bible, the sovereign, eternal,
incarnate, surety of an everlasting covenant who cannot fail, the
Christ who reigns, the Christ who is victorious, the Christ
who is sovereign. the Christ who is sufficient,
the Christ who is effectual in his work. I know most of them
have never heard of him, but these people had, because the
leper called him Lord. He didn't call him Jesus. He called him Lord. He called
him Lord. He'd heard of him. He knew he
was the Lord. The thief on the cross called
him Lord. Nicodemus called him Master. The woman said this, she said,
if I can but touch his clothes, now she had heard about him and
his power and his glory, because she knew in her heart if she
could just touch him, she'd be made whole. And Bartimaeus, listen,
he called him son of David. He didn't call him Jesus either.
No over-familiarity on the part of these people. They were filled
with fear and awe at the presence of the Lord. They called him
Lord. Most preachers today just call him Jesus. They're on a
real intimate first name basis with the king. But these people
called him Lord. Lord. Blind Bartimaeus called
him to Christ, the son of David. Great respect, great fear, great
awe. Another thing about these people
is they knew of his power. The leper said, Lord, if you
will, if you will, if it's in your will, you can make me clean. And the woman said, I shall be
healed. If I can touch his clothes, I
shall be healed. The centurion, you know what
he said? He said to the Lord Jesus, recognizing his sovereignty
over all things, he said, now, my servant is sick. And the Lord
said, well, I'll come to your house. He said, no, you don't,
I'm not worthy for you to come to my house. He said, you just
speak the word. I'm a man with authority, and
I say to this man, go, and he goes, and to this man, come,
and he comes. And I know you've got the power
and the authority. You just say the word, and my
servant will be healed." And our Lord said, Great is your
faith. Blind Bartimaeus said, Lord,
that I may see. Lord, that I may see. That's a gnaw in the presence
of the King. We don't have that today. We've got something wrong
with this familiarity with deity. I can't explain it. But there's
something wrong. There's something wrong. Tell
you another thing about these people. They had heard of Christ.
They knew of his power. And they all came to him. They
didn't come to his disciples. It's not going to help you to
come to a preacher. They didn't come to his mother. I can't find
anywhere in the Bible where they came to his mother, except some
folks that wanted some wine. They didn't come to his mother
to be saved, they didn't come to his mother to be forgiven,
they didn't come to his mother to be healed. They came to his
mother because they wanted some wine. But if you want to be healed,
if you want to be saved, if you want to be forgiven, you come
to Christ, not to his mother. They didn't come to his temple,
they came to him. Temple one of them came directly
to Christ. I'll tell you something else
about them. Their hope for healing and their hope for mercy was
not in their own merit, not a one of them. The leprosy didn't say,
Lord, I think I'll let you cleanse me. He said, Lord, if you will,
you can make me clean. Brian Bartimaeus didn't say,
Lord, I believe I've decided for you and I think I'll just
take up your offer and I think I'll see. No, he said, Lord,
that I may see. These people all recognized that
their hope was not in their merit and not in their works and not
in their own strength, but in him. In him. Now, all of this is true, and
you know it's true. What do these people have in common? They came
to Christ. They came to Christ. They recognized
his power. They came to him depending on
his mercy, his grace. his goodness. But you know I've
left out one thing, this one thing they had in common that
I haven't mentioned. Do you know what it is? And it's
the most important thing of all, the very thing that led them
to believe on him, that led them to seek him, that led them to
come to him, that led them to beg for mercy. What was the one
thing they all had in common that was the very background
of everything they did. They called him Lord, they came
to him, they sought him out, they would not leave until he
had blessed them. What was the one thing that brought
them to Christ? They needed him. They needed
him. The leper was a what? A leper. That's why he came. He was a
leper. Incurably so. He had no ability
to do anything. He came because he needed Christ. He came because he was a leper.
The woman with the issue of blood, why did she come to Christ? I
know she came, and I know she believed, and I know she knew
his power, and I know she didn't have any merit or reason in herself
that he should heal her. She came because she was dying.
She tried everything else and nothing worked. She was dying.
She needed him. Bartimaeus, why did he come to
Christ? He was hopelessly blind. And Christ was the only one that
could make him whole. You want me to tell you why men
and women, boys and girls, don't come to Christ today? They don't
need him. They're not sinners. Do you know
any sinners? What brings a man to the well?
Why does a man come to the well? He's thirsty. What brings a man
to the table? Why do you come to the table
at noon or six o'clock in the evening? Why did I go to the
restaurant tonight? I was hungry. That's why I went. What brings a man to the doctor?
He's sick. Well, what brings a man to the
cross? What brings a man to Christ?
What brings a man to a Savior? Sin. And that's what these people
had in common, and that's our problem today. Matthew 9, verse
10, our Lord said, the word of God says this, it came to pass
as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners
came to him. Many publicans and sinners came
to him and sat down with him. And when the religious fellows
saw it, they said, why does your master eat with these people?
Why does he sit and talk with this kind of people? Why does
he associate with sinners? And when Jesus heard them, he
spun around and looked at them, and he said, they that behold
well do not need a doctor, but those that are sick. Now you
go learn what that means. You go learn what that means.
I'm saying Christ is the light, and men without him are in darkness.
Why don't they come to the light? They think they have the life.
I'm saying Christ is the life. Men without him are dead. Why
don't they come to Christ? They think they're alive. Christ
is wisdom. The Word of God says he's the
wisdom of God. Well, why don't men come to this
wisdom? They think they're wise. Christ is the truth. They don't
come because they think. They say like the Pharisees,
we're not sinners. We're not born of fornication.
We're not like the Gentiles. We're not pagan. We have our
religion. We have our heritage. We have
our Sabbath day. We have our ceremonies. We have
our tradition. We have these things. We have
Moses. We have Bibles. We're nice folks. We go to church on Sunday and
pay our tithes and sing in the choir. We don't need you. We don't need you. And Christ
said, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. I will have mercy,
not form and ceremony and sacrifice. I'm dealing in mercy. Christ
says I'm dealing in mercy. He was sitting here with these
publicans and harlots and sinners, and that bunch of religious fellows
were back there pointing and saying, well, why are you associating
with those people? And he said, because the well
don't need a doctor. The well do not need a doctor.
Who needs a doctor? They that are sick. Go learn
what that means. I didn't come to call the righteous,
the self-righteous, the so-called moral good, of which there is
none, but they think they are. I came to call sinners, sinners
to repentance. Christ died for sinners. He died
for the ungodly. He came to seek and to save the
lost. Are there any lost people? Do you know any? Do you know any? Christ came into the world to
save sinners, Paul said, of whom I'm chief. I've not come to call
the good and the moral, I've come to call sinners. Somebody
wrote this one time years ago, Christ means nothing to those
who have not felt their woe. A sinner is a sacred thing, the
Holy Ghost has made him so. I went out to the state of Oregon
about three years ago to preach a meeting in a large grange hall
out there. Some people rented the hall and
asked me to come out and preach for four or five nights. local
pastors came to the service, one been a pastor 15 years and
one about 6 or 7 years. They came every night, and they
sat and listened to me preach Christ, Christ Jesus the Lord,
Christ the Savior of sinners, Christ the Redeemer of the lost,
Christ who died for the ungodly, Christ who came to seek and to
save the lost. And when that meeting was over,
both of those young men told me and that congregation, that
they had never known that Christ. They had been pastors of churches,
they had been preachers for years, and they had never come to Christ
as a sinner. They just grew up in religion.
I tell you, if you've never been lost, you've never been saved.
Where is the fear of repentance today? Where is the fear of the
Lord? Where is the man or woman in
need of a Savior? Do you know anybody? Oh, everybody
needs their bodies healed. Everybody's got some kind of
aches or pains somewhere. I've got aches and pains. You've
got aches and pains. I wear glasses and wear hearing
aid and got bad back, aches and pains, but I've been blessed.
God's blessed me so wonderfully. But it's not healing of this
body. This old body's going to die and I've got to bury it someday
anyway. I need healing of the soul. Do you know anybody that
needs healing of the soul? You know anybody that's lost?
You know anybody that's got any sins? You know anybody that's
under the judgment of God? Do you? Where's the Macedonian
cry, come over and help us? No, everybody wants you to come
over and get them a job, buy them a car, build them a home,
heal their bodies. Make life easier down here on
this earth. Depth of mercy. Where is this
cry? Depth of mercy. Can there be
mercy still reserved for me? Can my God his wrath forbear
and me the chief of sinners spare? Where is the cry, and can it
be that I should gain an interest in the Savior's blood? Are you
a sinner? Are you in need? Are you lost? Are you helpless before God? Do you need a mediator? Do you
have any guilt? To offend in one point of the
law is to be guilty of the whole law. I tell you this, self-righteousness
is your greatest enemy. Your sins won't keep you from
Christ, but your righteousness will. I found something here
in the book of Isaiah some several months ago that I want to pass
along to you. I call this Isaiah's path of
redemption. Isaiah's path of redemption.
Isaiah shows us the means of mercy, the path that mercy takes
in coming to a center. There's a path that mercy takes
in coming to a center. I can give it to you briefly.
In Isaiah 2, verses 10 through 12, he tells us that the day
of redemption is a day of conviction. If you miss Holy Spirit conviction,
you're going to miss repentance. If you miss repentance, you'll
miss faith. If you miss faith, you'll miss Christ. He says,
listen to this, the lofty looks of men shall be humbled, and
the holiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord exalted,
alone, exalted in that day, in that day of mercy, in that day
of grace, The proud, haughty, arrogant looks of men, spirit
and attitude is going to be brought down into the dust. Judgment
always precedes grace. Emptiness always comes fulfilling.
Humbling before exaltation and repentance always accompanies
faith. You'll be stripped before you'll
be clothed. Have you ever been convicted?
Have you ever been a sinner? a lost, defiled, ungodly, hell-deserving
sinner. Have you ever been lost? If you
haven't, you've never been found. And then secondly, in Isaiah
25, and he said, And in that day it shall be said, O this
is our God, we have waited for him, he will save us. This is the Lord, we've waited
for him, we'll be glad and rejoice. This is the Lord, this is the
message I've been waiting on, a message for sinners. Christ
was sent of God in the fullness of time. God sent his Son into
the world. He was sent to be our righteousness.
He who knew no sin was made sin for us that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him. He's revealed as our sin offering.
He brought us to God, the just for the unjust. He's revealed
as our justifier. He's revealed as our faithful
high priest and our mediator. You know, when Simeon held that
child Jesus in his hands, the Lord Jesus Christ, even as a
babe, he lifted his eyes to heaven and said, Now, Lord, let me die.
I've seen your salvation. I've seen him. Have you seen
him? Have you seen him? In that day,
the lofty looks of men shall be brought low. In that day,
Christ is revealed, and they say, Now, this is our Savior. This is the one we've been waiting
on. We've been waiting on someone who could honor God's law, satisfy
God's justice, and save folks like us. And then Isaiah said
this, And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee,
for thou wast angry with me, and thine anger is turned away
in Christ. Behold, God is my salvation,
I'll trust him. And I'll never be afraid. That's
assurance. And that's the path of mercy
now. The path of mercy always takes the path of conviction,
stripping, humbling, repentance, faith, a sight of Christ, a knowledge
of the Son of God in his redemptive character, and assurance. You'll
find him to be your comforter. Him to be your salvation. Him
to be your strength and Him to be your righteousness, for of
God are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. All I need is
found in Christ.

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