it in regardless. We continue to pray for her also.
Always help. Okay, let's begin our worship
service with hymn number 50. Is that right? Fairest Lord Jesus. Hymn number 50. Fairest Lord Jesus, Ruler of
all nature, O Thou of God and man the Son, Thee will I cherish I honor thou my soul's glory,
joy, and crown. Fair are the meadows, fair still
the woodlands, robed in the blooming Jesus is fairer. Jesus is purer. Who makes the woeful heart to
sing? Fair is the sunshine. Ever still the moonlight and
all the twinkling starry host. Jesus shines brighter, Jesus
shines purer. that all the angels, heav'n can
boast. Beautiful Savior, Lord of the
nations, Son of God and Son of Man. Glory and honor, praise
and adoration, Now and forevermore be thine. After scripture reading and prayer,
we'll sing hymn number 62, crowned with many crowns. If you have
your Bibles, turn with me to John chapter 6, the 6th chapter of
John. Begin reading with verse 35,
And Jesus said unto him, 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. But I said unto you 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 to raise it up again
in the last day. And this is the will of him that
sent me, that every one that seeth the Son, and believeth
on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up
in the last day. And the Jews then murmured at
him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
And they said, is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know, How is it then that he saith, I came down
from heaven? Jesus therefore answered and
said unto them, murmur not among yourselves, no man can come to
me except the Father which has sent me draw him, and I will
raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets,
and they shall all be taught of God. Everyone therefore that
hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh to me. Our Father, we are thankful that
as poor, wretched sinners we are able to read such glorious
things, to know that we were numbered
among those unbelievers, but that you chose us before
the foundation of the world, made us holy and blameless before
you, predestinated us to the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ unto yourself. The praise of the glory
of your grace wherein you made us accepted in the blood. Father, we pray today for those
who are sick and going through trials. Remember Mary Ingle,
she's facing these kinds of treatments. Cynthia, she's waiting for the
notification of operation on her knee. Pray for the others who requested
prayer, Brother Marvin. Father, help us to remember each
other in prayer. Call out each other's names to
heaven. You have made us one family in Jesus Christ, and we
are thankful. And praise you that we're not
in this world alone. in some dark place where we cannot
associate with those of like precious faith. We thank you that you've made
a congregation and given us peace within ourselves and love one
for another. Father, we pray today that you'd
be pleased to meet with us by the presence of your spirit to
take the things of Christ and reveal them unto us calls us
in our hearts to worship you. Truly worship you. Bow us down
into the dust where we belong. And then, Father, if you will,
lift our eyes to see him who's enthroned at thy right hand because
he has purged our sins and earned the right to be Lord over all.
Help us now, we pray in Christ's name, for his glory. Crown Him with many crowns. Crown Him with many crowns, the
Lamb upon His throne. Hark how the heavenly anthem
drowns all music but its own. Awake, my soul, and sing of Him
who died for thee. And hail Him as thy matchless
King through all eternity. Proud is the Lord of love. Behold his hands and side. Rich wounds yet visible above,
in beauty glorified. No angel in the sky can fully
bear that sight. But downward bends his wandering
eye at mysteries so bright. Crown him the Lord of life, who
triumphed o'er the grave. rose victorious to the strife
for those he came to save. His glory's now we sing, who
died and rose on high, who died eternal life to bring, and lives
that death may die. Crown Him the Lord of Heaven,
one with the Father Lord. One with the Spirit, through
Him give from yonder glorious throne. To Thee be endless praise,
for Thou for us hast died. Be Thou, O Lord, through endless
days adored and magnified. Let us pray. Father, again we
approach in the name of Jesus Christ, our great savior, who
died in the room instead of his people, secured their salvation,
accomplished salvation for them. We thank you that he finished
that work on Calvary's tree. And in this time that we live,
he is applying it in different ways to our hearts and minds.
Till that day when our redemption is full and finished, We know
there's nothing left to do save that the Holy Spirit makes us
aware of what's been done for us. We thank you for the gift
of Jesus Christ. What a precious gift it is. He
is. To all believers, He is precious. We know that what we have, we
have by your mercy and grace. We ask now, Father, if you'd
be pleased to cause us to worship you in this manner by returning
unto thee that which you've given us and being thankful for the
privilege that you employ your children as one of the means
of getting the gospel here and getting it out in other places
in this world. We pray for our missionaries
that you'd watch over them and give them strength in the gospel.
Help us now, we pray in Christ's name and for his glory. I'm. You. I invite your attention back
to John chapter 6. Paul, in his encouragement and charge to the
elders at Ephesus in Acts chapter 20, to which he said, he's free
from the blood of all men, for he had not shunned to declare
all the counsel of God until those who he left behind because
he knew he was going to be bound when he went to Jerusalem. They
had had a vision of it and they were trying to stop him from
going because they didn't want him to be bound and put in prison. But he knew that that was coming
and he said, that doesn't bother me. He said, I've just got to
finish the course that God has given me to do, to preach the
gospel of God's grace. And he told the Ephesian elders
that he had preached the gospel He had preached the gospel to
his people, to the people, and he left them with the words,
some believed and some didn't. Some believed and some didn't. That happens every time the gospel
is preached. Some believe and some don't believe. In this great chapter six of
John, when John records the words of
the Lord Jesus Christ talking to those who had basically chased
the Lord down and wanted Him to be their King. He had done
some wondrous things in this passage. He had walked on water.
He had fed 5,000 with a few fishes and loaves of bread and had 12
baskets of leftovers left over. And he knew in the heart of these
people that he wanted to make him their ruler. Now, they didn't
want to make him their ruler because they wouldn't put him
under a theocracy or a sovereign reign. They wanted to make him
ruler because he had fit them and their bellies were full.
They followed him because of the miracles he did, as many
do today. They follow him because they
think they're going to get a miracle out of him. or they like him
because of the miracles he did. You listen to people talk and
they talk about Jesus being a miracle worker. But then the problem
arose when he opened his mouth and began to tell people who
he was. They wanted to be able to work
these things of making fish and bread multiply so they could
feed themselves, feed their friends, So they said, how do we work
the works of God? How can we figure out this miracle,
this trick, whatever you did that made these fishes and these
loaves multiply? But we'd like to know how to
do that too. Much like Simon Magus in Acts chapter 8, after
he had saw the men receiving the Holy Ghost and speaking languages
that weren't their languages, speaking in their own language
and being heard in other languages, Simon Megan said, I won't be
part of that. And so he says he believed and was baptized,
but he didn't really believe. He just believed that he could
get something out of it. He said, I want the Holy Ghost
too, because I won't be able to do what you guys are doing.
And Peter said, you and your gold and your heart perish with
you, because your heart's not right with God. people would
like to have that kind of power if you listen to a lot of preaching
in the day in which we live people talk about getting that talk
about being able to command God to do things to bring the spirit
down by multiplicity of prayers or by getting together and holding
hands or by having some kind of great big convention they
can get the spirit of God to come down the spirit of God is
God And he does as he pleases in heaven and earth and all the
deep places and none can stay his hand to say him he won't
do it. Now he is the sovereign God. He's the spirit of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And they wanted what Christ had. He said you know what the work
of God is? He says the work of God that you believe on him whom
God has sent. That's the work of God. If God
has worked a work in your life, if God has worked in your heart,
it's caused you to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And he
illuminates that in the things we'll see this morning. But after
he had said, I am the bread come down from heaven, he said, Moses
didn't give you the bread from heaven, I'm the bread of heaven.
Moses didn't give you anything. Moses told you about the Lord
forming the manna on the ground. When you got up every morning
for 40 years, you'd see that manna outside, except for Saturday,
you wouldn't see it on the Sabbath day. but you'd see it on Friday
enough so you could make it through the Sabbath without doing any
work and so you'd have something for Saturday to eat. He said, Moses didn't give you
the manna from heaven. He said it wasn't even manna
from heaven, it was manna formed on the earth. He said, God gave
you me. I am the manna or the bread from
heaven. and it says in verse 36, But
I said unto you, Ye have seen me, and believe not. The title
of my message is Some, All, or None. Some, All, or None. Some, and these are the some
mentioned in verse 36, Some don't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Even when faced with the truth of the gospel, they don't believe
it. He said unto you that ye also see me, but ye believe not. Some just simply will not believe.
They repeat it again in verse 42. And they said, Is this not
Jesus, the Son of Joseph? He had just said some powerful
words to them. And they said, This is Jesus,
the Son of Joseph. How do you say that he's the
bread come down from heaven? How did He say that? Some didn't
believe on Him, and in verse 52 they said, The Jews therefore
strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his
flesh to eat? How can that take place? How
can that take place? Some don't believe. Some don't
believe. And in verse 66, Our Lord said
to those that didn't believe, He said, From that time many
disciples went back and walked with Him no more. They walked
with Him no more. Why? Because God hadn't drawn
them. But they walked with Him no more.
Why? They didn't believe. The fact is that the preacher,
if he looks for some kind of result in his preaching, is wasting
his time. Because the Spirit works independently
with each individual in a different way. Our Lord dealt with people
individually. He didn't deal with deaf people
like He dealt with blind people. He didn't even deal the same
with blind people. By and Bartimaeus, he said, just
receive your sight. With another, he said, put mud
on your eyes and go dip in the Jordan seven times. Now if you
were a Baptist, you'd be, I'm a mud-in-the-eye Baptist, I'm
not an open-the-eye Baptist. That's where Baptists do things,
they split up on everything. But the Spirit deals individually
with people invisibly. The problem with most of religion
in this day is they must see something that they can believe
that they have seen that means something has taken place. I
was talking with a brother just this week about a man who had
written a treatise on loving the brethren. Our Lord said,
By this shall men know that you are my disciples, that you love
one another. Now this fellow gave a treatise
on that, and before he ended it, he was given a whole bunch
of examples of what love was. A whole bunch of evidences of
what love was. God doesn't do that. In fact, he was given these
examples so you could look at a brother and say, that brother
don't love me. But the fact is, God never tells
your brother to love you. Nowhere in Scripture will He
tell your brother to love you. He tells you to love your brother.
And if you love your brother, you do not care whether he loves
you or not. That does not matter. It does not enter the issue.
Love is not a thing that requires reciprocation. It does not require
it. Love goes that way all the time,
never this way. always outward, never inward.
He loved himself and what? Gave himself for us. God so loved
the world that he gave his only begotten son. That's what love
is. It's giving. It's charity. Charity. It cannot be legislated. It ain't
legal. It ain't legal. God never tells you to love me. He tells me to love you. Always
that way. Some believe. Some didn't. The fact is, if you believe the
Lord Jesus Christ, it's a work of grace in your heart and nobody
really knows whether you do or not. You can say it. I can say it. I'm a believer.
But you don't know whether I'm lying or not. Because you can't
see belief. And you see, faith is the only
evidence in Scripture given of salvation. It's the only one. act like a Christian. How do
you do that? My mama used to tell me, why don't you act like
a Christian? I don't even know what that is. How do you act like something? If you're a believer, you know
it. In your heart, you know it. I don't know it. But if you say
they are, I believe you. But only you know, because you're
the one that has faith that God has given. Some didn't believe. Our Lord, the very Son of God,
looked these men in the eyes and said, The work of God is
that you believe on Him whom you sinned. I'm the one that
God sent. I'm the bread from heaven. If
you feed on me, you'll never hunger again. If you believe
on me, you'll never be thirsty again. You'll always have an
abundance of what God has given you, if you believe on me. some didn't believe but all who are supposed to did for he said all that the father
giveth me shall come to me what an answer to unbelief you don't
see him whining and crying and trying to figure out some way
to manipulate people's mind and psychology to get them to do
something for him You don't see him like Finney invented the
altar call in his common use today. That's one of the biggest,
you know why he did that? Because his people were sick
of his preaching. They were sick of his preaching,
the independence was falling off. He says, I got to give them
something to do. And so he gave them that, Finney. You're talking about a man who
they call the pioneer of modern Christian preaching. That man
was a fool and a liar. He actually said this in one
of his lessons. He hated election, hated the
doctrine of election, I mean despised it. He said, if I get
to heaven, he said, when I get to heaven, If I find out that
God has chosen whom he would save before the foundation of
the world, I'll shake my fist in his face and say, you are
unjust. Can you imagine a human being,
a Bismarck, a maggot on a dumb hill, saying that to Almighty
God? He thought he was God and God
wasn't. Some won't believe, but all that
the Father giveth me, Christ said, shall come to me, and him
that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. All of them are
going to come. How many are going to come to
Christ? Everyone whom God has chosen from the foundation of
the world. Everyone whom God has blessed to give faith. Everyone
whom God has shown grace and shown mercy in this world will
come to the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe in the message, and
I know the message is what does the work. I can't make you come.
In fact, I don't want to make you come, because if I made you
come, I'd end up having to keep you, and that would be a big
problem for me, because I can't keep myself. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me. In another place, He said to
others that didn't believe Him, in John chapter 10, He said,
I know you don't believe on Me, He says, you don't believe on
me because you're not my sheep. What? You mean I can't become
a sheep? No, you're either a sheep or
a goat. One to the other. A goat ain't never gonna become
a sheep. And a sheep ain't never gonna be a goat. He says, you
don't believe because you're not my sheep. He said, because
my sheep, they follow me when they hear my voice. If you don't
follow me, that must mean that you're not my sheep. you're not
my sheep because my sheep follow me and he says that these that
don't believe you all that the father gives me shall come to
me and him that come to me I will in no wise cast out in verse
40 he says this way and this is the will of him that see me
that everyone everyone would seeeth the son and believeth
on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up in the
last day I'll raise him up. What does that mean? He's going
to be there with me when I come back in glory. He's going to
be there with me. Then in verse 45 it says, It
is written in the prophets. Where is it written? It's written
in Isaiah chapter 54 and verse 13. I'm going to turn over there
and you can see where it's written from. it says in verse 13, and all
thy children, wait a minute, thy children, you mean he's their
father? I reckon he is. All thy children
shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace
of my children. They'll have peace in this world.
The child of God's the only one that does. Ain't no peace out
there. No peace among nations, no peace
among people. Only peace in the church of the
living God. and they're at peace with each other because they're
at peace with God. And they're at peace with God
because of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is written in the prophets,
they all shall be taught of God. All shall be taught of God. What
is that word, that word taught? Didactos. arlene was a teacher
she was a bad back tissue she didn't know that that's what
she was actually means to greatly influence
greatly and they all shall be brainwashed every man and learned from God, or of the
Father, comes to me. Everyone whom God has taught
this gospel, every one of them comes to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why do they come? Because God told them. Because
God told them. What did He teach them? Is He
teaching out of both sides of His mouth? Is He teaching that
He saves men by His grace, and grace alone, and Christ alone
is their salvation, and nothing else? Is He teaching that their
only hope is a substitution, die in the room and place, and
then again teaching that it's up to you whether or not you're
saved? Is He teaching that out of both sides of His mouth? No,
He's not. God's got a gospel, and that gospel says Jesus Christ
is salvation. from start to finish, from pole
to pole, from age to scissor, He is our salvation. Nothing else. Nothing else. God will teach you that. It ain't
bitter and sweet water coming out of that spring, just sweet
water's coming out of that spring, and it's the gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ. It is written in the prophets,
and they all shall be told of God, every man, therefore, that
has been taught of the Father comes to the Lord Jesus Christ.
It comes to the Lord Jesus Christ. Some won't believe. All that
are given to Christ and taught of the Father will believe. And
then we have the none. The none. Verse 44, our Lord
said, because the disciples, or because the Pharisees said,
that's Joseph's son, we know his mom and dad, but he ain't
just like us, he ain't no bread out of heaven or nothing like
that, he's just one of us guys. He says, you know what? You can't
come to me. You can't come to me. No man
can come to me except the Father which he sent me draw him. That
word is haelcho, draw. It can mean drag, but basically
it means taking an inanimate object and moving it somewhere
else. When Peter drew his sword and
cut the ear off of Malchus, he wasn't trying to cut off Malchus'
ear, nobody's that good a swordsman. He was trying to cut off his
head, but he missed. that word is Helga. He drew the sword out
of the scabbard. He moved the sword from one place
to another. What does that mean? No man can
come to the Father unless God reaches down to your inanimate
dead soul and moves you from darkness to light, from the kingdom
of darkness to the kingdom of his dear Son. He must move you
or you won't come. No man can come except the Father
which is in bedrolling. when A.W. Pink wrote Sovereignty
of God and sent the transcript to Dr. Harrington many years
ago, sent the transcript for the Sovereignty of God and Harrington
wrote back, just what do you mean by the Sovereignty of God?
Pink wrote this verse, Dear Dr. Harrington, John 6, 44. This
is God's sovereignty. No man can come to me except
the Father which hath sent me, draw him, and I will raise him
up again in the last day. Verse 46 says this about no or
none, Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is
of God, he hath seen the Father. And he said in John 14, verse
6, when one of the disciples said,
Show us the Father, you just show us the Father.
He says, I'm getting ready to leave you. I'm going to prepare a place
for you and I'll come again and get you to myself. He says, you
believe in God, believe also in me. Let not your heart be
troubled. One of the disciples said, well, you know, we'll be
okay. We'll just be okay. We'll understand
and we'll believe what you're talking about if you'll just
show us the Father. Show me something, preacher.
Show me something in your life that makes me believe you're
a child of God. Show us something so we'll be able to wrap our
hands and our minds around it. God ain't gonna show you nothing. I said, you seen me? You looking
at me? You're looking at the Father.
I am the Father of one. Jesus Christ is God. the very
God, the creator, sustainer of the universe, and Lord over all
that is. He's God. My brother-in-law,
Tom, when he was working at a magazine in New York City, right next
to the Twin Towers he was. It wasn't far from him. It was
his day off when they fell, but he had a clear view. I got a
picture, and he sent me of the Twin Towers from where his office
was. one day he was having lunch,
and it sounds like a joke, with a Jew and a Muslim and a Presbyterian
at lunch. You know? And it sounds like
a joke, doesn't it? They all went in the bar together.
No, they were at lunch. Tom was sitting there, and they
started talking about Jesus. And the Jew said, well, he was
a prophet, and a Jew. The Muslim said, he was a great
prophet. The Presbyterian said, he's a savior. and don't say he's not he's not
you see man can come to me except the father which in verse sixty-five some disciples that left him,
walked with him no more, and he looked at his disciples and
said, you're going to leave me too. You're going to leave me too.
And Peter, bless your heart, old Peter, he looked at Christ
and said, where are we going to go? I can almost hear the
tenor of his voice. when he looked at his disciples
and all these people had just left because he said you're going
to have to eat my flesh and drink my blood and I'm not going to
be here for you to do it. Well how in the world can we
eat it and drink it if you're not here? Only by faith. This is a hard saying. They didn't
like it and they just left. I mean you can imagine, here's
a throne of people waiting for some kind of miracle going on
and he tells them he's the bread of life and they don't believe
him. Then he tells them, unless you eat my flesh and drink my
blood, you can't be a part of me. Boy, that's too much. That's
way too much. I had an old friend that worked
in the instrument shop with me when I was working on C-130E
models in 1966 and 67. This old man was a clock repairer. He was an old man, been in the
instrument shop for years. He was a civilian. I don't know
how we got talking about religion. We got talking about it. He says,
I just can't. I can't eat that flesh and blood thing. I can't
do it. He said, I don't believe. That's why I don't believe. That
ain't why I don't believe. He don't believe because he's
lost. But he said, I don't believe because I can't eat that flesh
and drink that blood. And I told him, I said, well,
I kind of got a feeling. That's spiritual. I didn't even know Christ then.
He said, no, I can't do it. So I can understand why people
would leave. If you said that to me, I'd tell
you to get out of town. Peter had been with him. Peter
said, Lord, where are we going to go? We've got
nobody else to go to. You've got the words of eternal
life. Your words. What you say is eternal life. That's what we have. That's all
we have. Before he said that, john chapter
six verse uh... or sixty-five or
sixty-five he says uh... therefore said i believe that
no man can come here some me all give Christ man can't come
to the ball this issue show your child you just uh... uh... uh... Father, bless us to our hearts.
We pray in Christ's name, amen.