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If we could open our Bibles to John 6.

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John 6 and we'll begin reading at v. 35.

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"Jesus said to them,

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'I am the bread of life.

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He who comes to Me shall not hunger,

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and he who believes in Me

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shall never thirst.

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But I said to you that you have seen Me

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and yet do not believe.

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All (that is every one)

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that the Father gives to 
Me shall come to Me,

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and the one who comes to Me

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I will certainly not cast out.

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For I have come down from heaven

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not to do My own will,

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but the will of Him who sent Me.

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And this is the will of Him who sent Me

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that of all that He has given Me

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I lose nothing,

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but raise it up on the last day.

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For this is the will of My Father,

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that every one who beholds the Son

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and believes in Him may have eternal life,

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and I Myself will raise 
him up on the last day.'

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The Jews therefore were 
grumbling about Him

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because He said 'I am the bread

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that came down out of heaven.'

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And they were saying,

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'Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph

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whose father and mother we know?

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How does He now say

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I've come down out of heaven?'

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Jesus answered and said to them,

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'Do not grumble among yourselves.

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No one can come to Me

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unless the Father who sent Me draws him,

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and I will raise him up on the last day.

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It is written in the prophets,

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'and they shall all (every one)

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they shall all be taught of God,

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every one who has heard

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and learned from the Father comes to Me.

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Not that any man has seen the Father

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except the One who is from God,

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He has seen the Father.

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Truly, truly, I say to you,

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he who believes has eternal life.'"

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And then v. 64,

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"But there are some of you

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who do not believe.'

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For Jesus knew from the beginning

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who they were who did not believe

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and who it was that would betray Him.

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And He was saying, 'For this reason

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I have said to you that no one

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can come to Me

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unless it has been granted him

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from the Father.'"

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Lord willing, I want 
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on the subject of everyone and no one.

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Everyone and no one.

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Normally we might think 
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but in this case,

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many of the everyone's are the no one's.

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And so it's everyone and no one.

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And in John 6 here we find

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the everyone and the no one

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spoken in terms of 4 absolute certainties.

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And we'll be using those 
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as a framework to look at these

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everyone's and no one's.

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And we'll be moving around in this section

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looking at these logically,

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rather than chronologically.

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Because the everyone's and the no one's

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are interconnected and I think this will

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help make it a little clearer as we go.

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I trust that that's the case.

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So first of all then, the first certainty

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is given to us in the first half of v. 37.

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"All that the Father gives Me

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shall come to Me."

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And before we look at the statement itself

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I want us to make note 
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The first one is "come to Me."

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And that in itself is an 
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We see it repeatedly in this passage.

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As you look down through here,

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v. 35, "I am the bread of life.

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He who comes to Me..."

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In v. 37, "All the Father gives Me

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shall come to Me."

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And v. 44, "No one can come to Me

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unless the Father draws him."

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In v. 45, "Everyone who has heard

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and learned from the Father comes to Me."

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And v. 65, "For this reason,

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I have said to you that no one can

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come to Me unless it's been granted

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by the Father."

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And what a glorious phrase this is!

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We can still - men still come to Christ.

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It's been 2,000 years since 
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but it's still possible to come to Christ.

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And we've been hearing that over and over

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during this conference: Come.

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It's possible.

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You could come to Christ 
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You can still come to Him.

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And it is a remarkable phrase.

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And just in this phrase itself,

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it shows the vast difference

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between the Lord Jesus Christ

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and all other religious teachers.

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No other religious teacher 
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The Lord Jesus offers salvation

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by inviting men to Himself.

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Come to Me.

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It's totally different than Confucius.

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It's totally different than Mohammed.

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It's totally different than Buddha.

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Matthew 11, "Come unto Me

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all you that labor and are heavy laden,

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and I will give you rest."

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So here He is offering

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rest for your soul -

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He goes on and says that -

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rest for your soul.

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Come to Me.

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Not: follow this philosophy.

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Not: follow this teaching.

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Not: follow the noble eightfold path.

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But come to Me,

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and I personally will give you

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eternal rest - rest for your soul.

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Can you imagine Confucius saying,

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"Come to me and I will 
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It's totally unique with the Lord Jesus.

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But not only that,

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the demands that He places

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on those who come to Him

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are entirely unlike those

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that any other religious 
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For example, Luke 14:26,

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"If anyone comes to Me..."

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There it is again.

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"...Comes to Me

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and does not hate his own father

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and mother and wife and children

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and brothers and sisters,

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yes, even his own life,

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he can't be My disciple.

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He who loves father or mother more than Me

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is not worthy of Me.

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He who loves son or daughter more than Me

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is not worthy of Me."

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So He's inviting us to Himself - 
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and He's demanding that we have

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a love for Him that's so much greater

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than our love for the dearest loved one.

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Now think of this.

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Can you imagine Mohammed saying

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you have to love me personally

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more than you love your wife

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or your father or your mother?

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This is totally unique.

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So here's this one, the Lord Jesus Christ,

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saying come to Me

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and if you come to Me,

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you have to love and be devoted to Me

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so much that by comparison

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all other loves are hatred.

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That's what He's saying.

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Incredible statement.

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Again, imagine Confucius saying

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he who loves father or mother more than me

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is not worthy of me.

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It's unthinkable.

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And these are not the only 
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in the Bible, are they? Listen to these.

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"You are unwilling to come to Me

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that you might have life."

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"I am the bread of life.

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He who comes to Me shall not hunger.

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He who believes in Me shall never thirst."

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"Now in the last day, 
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Jesus stood and cried out saying,

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'If any man is thirsty,

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let him come to Me and drink.'"

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"He who believes in 
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out of his innermost being shall flow

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rivers of living water."

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Picture any other teacher

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standing and saying "come to me."

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"I am the bread of life. Come to me.

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You'll never hunger. You'll never thirst."

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Amazing! We just read these.

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The Lord Jesus is in 
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that we read these things

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without even thinking about it.

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Even the little phrase: "come to Me" -

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nobody says things like that.

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"Come to Me and I'll 
give you eternal life."

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"I give unto them eternal life

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and they shall never perish."

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He's so exalted that He can say things

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that no other man could ever say.

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And we just read them naturally

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because they fit Him so well.

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So let me ask you a question

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before we go on.

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Have you come to Christ?

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Have you come to Christ?

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Not: have you believed historical facts?

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Not: have you turned over a new leaf

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and tried to follow a 
better path for your life?

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But have you come to Him personally?

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The Lord has been bringing this back to us

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every message, again and again.

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It's a serious thing to have heard

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the things that we've heard

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and not come.

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How many times have we 
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Well, there's a second phrase in v. 37

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that I want to mention before we look

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at the sentence itself,

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and that is this phrase:

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"All that the Father gives Me

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shall come to Me."

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"All that the Father gives Me..."

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This is amazing too.

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There are certain people

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whom the Father gives to the Son.

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He gives them.

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In many, I suppose, many cultures

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on a birthday or special occasion,

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somebody gives you a gift.

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that have even received slaves as a gift -

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sorry to say.

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But they made a gift. 
They received these slaves.

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Beloved, no mortal man has ever

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been able to receive a 
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That's not happening.

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You can give a guy a slave,

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but you can't give that person to anybody.

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Because you have to be a divine person

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to receive a soul as a gift.

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Think of this right in what 
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He says I'm able to 
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but I'm able to receive people -

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body and soul - as a gift,

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and take them and accept them as a gift.

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Isn't that amazing?

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John 17:1-2,

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"Father, the hour has come.

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Glorify Your Son

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even as You gave Him authority

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over all mankind,

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that to all whom You have given Him,

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He may give eternal life."

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He has authority over all mankind

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to receive the souls and persons of men

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and give eternal life to them.

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John 10:28-29,

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"I give eternal life to them

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and they shall never perish.

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No one shall snatch them out of My hand.

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My Father who has given them to Me

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is greater than all,

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and no one is able to snatch them

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out of the Father's hand."

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Once again, certain people

274
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the Father gives to the Son,

275
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and to those people He gives eternal life.

276
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What a glorious thing this is!

277
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John Murray says this,

278
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"Think of it.

279
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When a sinner comes to Christ

280
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in the commitment of faith;

281
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when the rebellious will is renewed

282
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and tears of penitence begin to flow,

283
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it is because a mysterious transaction

284
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has been taking place between

285
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the Persons of the Godhead.

286
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The Father has been making a presentation,

287
00:13:28,598 --> 00:13:32,665
a donation to His own Son."

288
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Amazing thing.

289
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Listen to John 17:6,

290
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"I manifested Your name to the men

291
00:13:39,528 --> 00:13:44,248
whom You gave Me out of the world.

292
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Yours they were,

293
00:13:46,681 --> 00:13:49,958
and You gave them to Me,

294
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and they have kept Your Word."

295
00:13:52,248 --> 00:13:54,737
Yours they were.

296
00:13:54,737 --> 00:13:57,202
And you remember back in Ezekiel,

297
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God says, "All souls are mine."

298
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The soul of the father,

299
00:14:01,757 --> 00:14:02,817
the soul of the son.

300
00:14:02,817 --> 00:14:04,770
I remember one time many years ago

301
00:14:04,770 --> 00:14:07,500
I was praying for a lost loved one

302
00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:11,259
and kind of trying to twist 
God's arm to answer me,

303
00:14:11,259 --> 00:14:14,099
and He brought this verse to mind.

304
00:14:14,099 --> 00:14:16,728
That person - whether it's your mother

305
00:14:16,728 --> 00:14:17,968
or your child or whoever -

306
00:14:17,968 --> 00:14:20,439
they don't belong to you.

307
00:14:20,439 --> 00:14:22,237
They're not yours. They're God's.

308
00:14:22,237 --> 00:14:24,958
He says, "All souls are mine."

309
00:14:24,958 --> 00:14:27,227
I'll decide about this.

310
00:14:27,227 --> 00:14:30,372
It's in My power.

311
00:14:30,372 --> 00:14:33,363
Now, He's made wonderful promises,

312
00:14:33,363 --> 00:14:35,232
but we've got to go to God

313
00:14:35,232 --> 00:14:36,529
and pray for our loved ones

314
00:14:36,529 --> 00:14:38,069
on the basis that we know

315
00:14:38,069 --> 00:14:39,899
He doesn't owe us anything.

316
00:14:39,899 --> 00:14:44,069
We don't deserve anything.

317
00:14:44,069 --> 00:14:46,768
Those souls belong to Him.

318
00:14:46,768 --> 00:14:49,598
Every soul is His.

319
00:14:49,598 --> 00:14:51,457
I remember Don Johnson told

320
00:14:51,457 --> 00:14:52,992
about praying for his son James.

321
00:14:52,992 --> 00:14:54,658
He said, "Mae, I'm going to go out

322
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and pray for James again."

323
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And he went out

324
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and the first thing he said,

325
00:14:59,267 --> 00:15:01,688
"Lord, he deserves to go to hell.

326
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You can send him to hell

327
00:15:03,418 --> 00:15:05,627
and you'd be right."

328
00:15:05,627 --> 00:15:07,287
What's that? That's acknowledging:

329
00:15:07,287 --> 00:15:08,958
Lord, I know he belongs to you.

330
00:15:08,958 --> 00:15:12,459
His soul is not mine. It's Yours.

331
00:15:12,459 --> 00:15:14,947
But if You could have mercy on him...

332
00:15:14,947 --> 00:15:18,158
See, that's the attitude that we come.

333
00:15:18,158 --> 00:15:21,247
And lo and behold, God did. He saved him.

334
00:15:21,247 --> 00:15:23,658
Basically we're saying,

335
00:15:23,658 --> 00:15:26,459
"Father, I know that that person's soul

336
00:15:26,459 --> 00:15:28,936
is in Your hands to dispose of

337
00:15:28,936 --> 00:15:30,348
as You see fit,

338
00:15:30,348 --> 00:15:33,060
but if You could ever see fit

339
00:15:33,060 --> 00:15:36,366
to give them as a gift to Your Son,

340
00:15:36,366 --> 00:15:37,967
I would thank You so much."

341
00:15:37,967 --> 00:15:39,691
Isn't that amazing?

342
00:15:39,691 --> 00:15:44,438
That's what we're asking.

343
00:15:44,438 --> 00:15:45,638
"Thine they were,

344
00:15:45,638 --> 00:15:47,887
and You gave them to Me,

345
00:15:47,887 --> 00:15:50,549
and they have kept Your Word."

346
00:15:50,549 --> 00:15:52,978
Alright, we've made 
note of a couple phrases

347
00:15:52,978 --> 00:15:55,065
at the first part of v. 37,

348
00:15:55,065 --> 00:15:56,957
but the phrase itself is this:

349
00:15:56,957 --> 00:15:59,704
"All that the Father gives Me

350
00:15:59,704 --> 00:16:01,538
shall come to Me."

351
00:16:01,538 --> 00:16:03,624
So this is the first certainty.

352
00:16:03,624 --> 00:16:06,038
Everyone - some translations have that.

353
00:16:06,038 --> 00:16:09,146
Everyone that the Father 
gives Me shall come to Me.

354
00:16:09,146 --> 00:16:11,457
It's an absolute certainty, beloved,

355
00:16:11,457 --> 00:16:13,270
that anytime the Father

356
00:16:13,270 --> 00:16:15,538
gives a person to the Son,

357
00:16:15,538 --> 00:16:17,407
that person comes.

358
00:16:17,407 --> 00:16:18,998
Jesus just said that.

359
00:16:18,998 --> 00:16:21,977
Everyone that the Father gives Me

360
00:16:21,977 --> 00:16:23,077
shall come to Me.

361
00:16:23,077 --> 00:16:25,408
There's no thought of anybody -

362
00:16:25,408 --> 00:16:28,526
the Father wants to 
give this gift to His Son

363
00:16:28,526 --> 00:16:30,868
and that person refuses

364
00:16:30,868 --> 00:16:32,897
the Father's good and kind intention

365
00:16:32,897 --> 00:16:35,459
to be given to the Son.

366
00:16:35,459 --> 00:16:36,597
That never happens.

367
00:16:36,597 --> 00:16:39,287
We have the Lord's Word for that.

368
00:16:39,287 --> 00:16:41,360
It's an absolute certainty

369
00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:45,287
that that person will come.

370
00:16:45,287 --> 00:16:49,988
You remember Saul of Tarsus.

371
00:16:49,988 --> 00:16:52,588
Said he was separated from 
his mother's womb.

372
00:16:52,588 --> 00:16:54,399
God set him apart.

373
00:16:54,399 --> 00:16:58,768
One day, I'm going to give him as a gift.

374
00:16:58,768 --> 00:17:00,628
I remember one time

375
00:17:00,628 --> 00:17:03,149
I was having a Bible study 
with some Buddhist girls

376
00:17:03,149 --> 00:17:04,649
and one of the girls said -

377
00:17:04,649 --> 00:17:05,986
God began to deal with her -

378
00:17:05,986 --> 00:17:07,457
she said don't pray for me.

379
00:17:07,457 --> 00:17:10,819
I don't want to become a Christian.

380
00:17:10,819 --> 00:17:13,966
Well, she did become a Christian

381
00:17:13,966 --> 00:17:15,709
because the Father determined

382
00:17:15,709 --> 00:17:18,116
to give her to the Son.

383
00:17:18,116 --> 00:17:21,509
And "all that the Father gives 
Me shall come to Me."

384
00:17:21,509 --> 00:17:22,748
Every one of them.

385
00:17:22,748 --> 00:17:29,056
Every one.

386
00:17:29,056 --> 00:17:30,989
What a glorious thing!

387
00:17:30,989 --> 00:17:32,738
You realize we're not dealing

388
00:17:32,738 --> 00:17:34,207
with human frailties.

389
00:17:34,207 --> 00:17:37,597
We're not dealing with 
the fickle will of man.

390
00:17:37,597 --> 00:17:39,048
We're not dealing with things

391
00:17:39,048 --> 00:17:40,809
that can fall through and not happen.

392
00:17:40,809 --> 00:17:42,128
We're dealing with things

393
00:17:42,128 --> 00:17:45,578
that are absolute certainties.

394
00:17:45,578 --> 00:17:47,717
Everyone that the Father gives Me

395
00:17:47,717 --> 00:17:49,988
shall come to Me.

396
00:17:49,988 --> 00:17:54,579
And nothing can stop it from happening.

397
00:17:54,579 --> 00:17:56,607
Well, we'll return to this a little later

398
00:17:56,607 --> 00:17:58,776
because the Lord says it in different ways

399
00:17:58,776 --> 00:18:00,328
down through here.

400
00:18:00,328 --> 00:18:02,157
Let's move on to the second certainty.

401
00:18:02,157 --> 00:18:08,888
V. 44, "No one can come to Me..."

402
00:18:08,888 --> 00:18:11,463
He just said everyone the 
Father gives shall come.

403
00:18:11,463 --> 00:18:13,288
Now He said "no one."

404
00:18:13,288 --> 00:18:15,928
No one can come

405
00:18:15,928 --> 00:18:19,336
"Unless the Father who sent Me draws him."

406
00:18:19,336 --> 00:18:21,167
People say, well, that's true,

407
00:18:21,167 --> 00:18:22,928
but God draws everyone.

408
00:18:22,928 --> 00:18:25,694
You know, He's tugging at their heart,

409
00:18:25,694 --> 00:18:26,988
at their heart strings,

410
00:18:26,988 --> 00:18:31,568
and some people resist effectually.

411
00:18:31,568 --> 00:18:33,609
Some people come.

412
00:18:33,609 --> 00:18:36,878
Well, God does tug on people,

413
00:18:36,878 --> 00:18:39,589
but that's not what the 
Lord's talking about here.

414
00:18:39,589 --> 00:18:41,841
(incomplete thought)

415
00:18:41,841 --> 00:18:44,190
Well, let me just prove 
it to you what it means.

416
00:18:44,190 --> 00:18:46,671
In v. 64 and 65, He says it

417
00:18:46,671 --> 00:18:48,919
in a different way.

418
00:18:48,919 --> 00:18:52,137
V. 64, "Jesus knew from the beginning

419
00:18:52,137 --> 00:18:55,428
who they were who did not believe,

420
00:18:55,428 --> 00:18:57,659
and who it was who would betray Him.

421
00:18:57,659 --> 00:18:59,609
And He was saying, 'for this reason

422
00:18:59,609 --> 00:19:02,380
I have said to you that 
no one can come to Me...'"

423
00:19:02,380 --> 00:19:04,418
And He words it a little differently.

424
00:19:04,418 --> 00:19:07,683
"...Unless it's been granted 
him from the Father."

425
00:19:07,683 --> 00:19:12,088
So He does not grant to everyone

426
00:19:12,088 --> 00:19:14,669
to come to Christ.

427
00:19:14,669 --> 00:19:17,177
Parallel statement -

428
00:19:17,177 --> 00:19:20,107
He does not draw everyone.

429
00:19:20,107 --> 00:19:21,427
You see that?

430
00:19:21,427 --> 00:19:23,468
Same phrase said in a different way.

431
00:19:23,468 --> 00:19:26,609
Same truth.

432
00:19:26,609 --> 00:19:29,218
But not only that, the word "draw"

433
00:19:29,218 --> 00:19:33,039
does not mean "tug," it means "draw."

434
00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:36,978
In John 18:10, "Simon Peter

435
00:19:36,978 --> 00:19:39,957
having a sword drew it."

436
00:19:39,957 --> 00:19:41,177
Same word.

437
00:19:41,177 --> 00:19:42,549
So what's that mean?

438
00:19:42,549 --> 00:19:46,426
Here's Peter with his sword.

439
00:19:46,426 --> 00:19:49,409
That's not what it means that he drew it.

440
00:19:49,409 --> 00:19:51,318
Not: He tugged on it.

441
00:19:51,318 --> 00:19:53,317
He drew it.

442
00:19:53,317 --> 00:19:55,188
Isn't this amazing?

443
00:19:55,188 --> 00:19:56,777
"No man can come to me

444
00:19:56,777 --> 00:19:59,579
unless the Father draws him."

445
00:19:59,579 --> 00:20:01,398
And He draws him to Christ.

446
00:20:01,398 --> 00:20:04,508
It's this effectual thing again.

447
00:20:04,508 --> 00:20:06,597
Same thing whenever it says

448
00:20:06,597 --> 00:20:08,727
they dragged them -

449
00:20:08,727 --> 00:20:10,577
let me just read it.

450
00:20:10,577 --> 00:20:12,347
This is Acts 16:19,

451
00:20:12,347 --> 00:20:14,396
"When her master saw

452
00:20:14,396 --> 00:20:16,148
that their hope of profit was gone,

453
00:20:16,148 --> 00:20:18,217
they seized Paul and Silas

454
00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:21,266
and dragged them into the marketplace."

455
00:20:21,266 --> 00:20:23,826
Same word. They drew them in there.

456
00:20:23,826 --> 00:20:26,027
They didn't tug on them.

457
00:20:26,027 --> 00:20:28,426
They drew them in.

458
00:20:28,426 --> 00:20:30,447
And you get the feeling of the movement

459
00:20:30,447 --> 00:20:36,409
that's taking place when the Father draws.

460
00:20:36,409 --> 00:20:40,079
What a glorious thing this is!

461
00:20:40,079 --> 00:20:42,037
Now think about this.

462
00:20:42,037 --> 00:20:44,908
We don't want to get this wrong.

463
00:20:44,908 --> 00:20:49,997
It says that no man can come to Christ

464
00:20:49,997 --> 00:20:53,188
unless it's granted to him by the Father,

465
00:20:53,188 --> 00:20:55,508
unless the Father draws him.

466
00:20:55,508 --> 00:20:57,718
What the Lord is setting forth here

467
00:20:57,718 --> 00:21:02,038
is man's moral inability 
to come to Christ,

468
00:21:02,038 --> 00:21:04,828
to respond rightly to the Gospel.

469
00:21:04,828 --> 00:21:09,348
Men are not able to come to Christ

470
00:21:09,348 --> 00:21:12,168
apart from this drawing

471
00:21:12,168 --> 00:21:14,868
and work of the Father.

472
00:21:14,868 --> 00:21:17,627
That's the only way.

473
00:21:17,627 --> 00:21:20,997
And this movement takes place,

474
00:21:20,997 --> 00:21:23,138
but we don't want to misunderstand this.

475
00:21:23,138 --> 00:21:25,067
This is a moral inability.

476
00:21:25,067 --> 00:21:27,259
It's not a physical inability.

477
00:21:27,259 --> 00:21:31,621
It's a moral inability.

478
00:21:31,621 --> 00:21:33,411
I've had people say things like this:

479
00:21:33,411 --> 00:21:34,742
Well, you're saying that God

480
00:21:34,742 --> 00:21:36,621
commands men to believe.

481
00:21:36,621 --> 00:21:37,883
Yes.

482
00:21:37,883 --> 00:21:40,234
But they can't believe.

483
00:21:40,234 --> 00:21:41,983
Right? Yeah, they can't believe.

484
00:21:41,983 --> 00:21:43,630
So then He sends them to hell

485
00:21:43,630 --> 00:21:47,342
for something they can't believe anyway.

486
00:21:47,342 --> 00:21:48,274
Right?

487
00:21:48,274 --> 00:21:50,764
And I've literally read this.

488
00:21:50,764 --> 00:21:53,754
It was compared to a father.

489
00:21:53,754 --> 00:21:56,562
It said what father

490
00:21:56,562 --> 00:21:58,234
would take his little boy -

491
00:21:58,234 --> 00:21:59,833
you know, his five year old boy,

492
00:21:59,833 --> 00:22:03,394
and say carry this 
500 pound sack of grain?

493
00:22:03,394 --> 00:22:05,555
He can't do it.

494
00:22:05,555 --> 00:22:09,131
And then he beats him 
for something he can't do.

495
00:22:09,131 --> 00:22:10,745
Well, men can't come to Christ.

496
00:22:10,745 --> 00:22:12,805
God says come to Christ.

497
00:22:12,805 --> 00:22:14,853
They can't do it. Jesus said that.

498
00:22:14,853 --> 00:22:16,773
He doesn't draw everybody

499
00:22:16,773 --> 00:22:19,143
and He doesn't give it to everybody.

500
00:22:19,143 --> 00:22:21,824
And so here the poor guy can't come

501
00:22:21,824 --> 00:22:23,233
and then God puts him in hell

502
00:22:23,233 --> 00:22:24,813
because he can't come.

503
00:22:24,813 --> 00:22:27,423
Now that is a misunderstanding.

504
00:22:27,423 --> 00:22:29,473
(incomplete thought)

505
00:22:29,473 --> 00:22:31,153
See, this little boy not being able

506
00:22:31,153 --> 00:22:32,564
to carry that sack of grain -

507
00:22:32,564 --> 00:22:35,621
there's nothing wrong with that.

508
00:22:35,621 --> 00:22:38,033
That's totally innocent.

509
00:22:38,033 --> 00:22:42,132
But man's inability is a 
totally different thing.

510
00:22:42,132 --> 00:22:44,054
The inability to come to Christ

511
00:22:44,054 --> 00:22:46,834
is a totally different thing.

512
00:22:46,834 --> 00:22:49,101
I think one of the old Puritans

513
00:22:49,101 --> 00:22:53,154
brought up the case of Joseph's brothers.

514
00:22:53,154 --> 00:22:55,913
It says they hated Joseph

515
00:22:55,913 --> 00:23:00,284
and could not speak a good word about him.

516
00:23:00,284 --> 00:23:02,183
They couldn't do it.

517
00:23:02,183 --> 00:23:03,521
That's not the idea that:

518
00:23:03,521 --> 00:23:04,933
here comes that dreamer,

519
00:23:04,933 --> 00:23:06,853
I think I'll speak a good word about him

520
00:23:06,853 --> 00:23:09,393
and they try and can't get 
it out of their throat.

521
00:23:09,393 --> 00:23:11,453
That isn't it.

522
00:23:11,453 --> 00:23:13,832
They hate him so much

523
00:23:13,832 --> 00:23:15,476
that all that comes out of them

524
00:23:15,476 --> 00:23:17,643
is hatred toward him.

525
00:23:17,643 --> 00:23:18,833
You see that?

526
00:23:18,833 --> 00:23:20,992
That is a culpable inability.

527
00:23:20,992 --> 00:23:23,735
That is an inexcusable inability

528
00:23:23,735 --> 00:23:29,573
that rises from hatred of the object.

529
00:23:29,573 --> 00:23:31,523
And men can't come to Christ

530
00:23:31,523 --> 00:23:35,044
not because they're 
poor little innocent things

531
00:23:35,044 --> 00:23:36,342
that can't come to Christ.

532
00:23:36,342 --> 00:23:39,823
They can't come to Christ 
because they hate Him.

533
00:23:39,823 --> 00:23:44,584
They hate Him without a cause.

534
00:23:44,584 --> 00:23:46,795
I think those Pharisees -

535
00:23:46,795 --> 00:23:48,552
they were the religious -

536
00:23:48,552 --> 00:23:50,144
I think they were shocked

537
00:23:50,144 --> 00:23:52,243
when they saw themselves

538
00:23:52,243 --> 00:23:55,041
shouting, "Crucify Him!"

539
00:23:55,041 --> 00:23:56,574
They got put in a corner

540
00:23:56,574 --> 00:23:58,733
and you know the evil -

541
00:23:58,733 --> 00:24:01,662
you know, the rat began to snarl.

542
00:24:01,662 --> 00:24:05,424
And I think they themselves 
were shocked by it.

543
00:24:05,424 --> 00:24:10,812
Because all men - all men - hate God.

544
00:24:10,812 --> 00:24:15,832
They do. The Bible says that.

545
00:24:15,832 --> 00:24:17,953
So when we talk about inability,

546
00:24:17,953 --> 00:24:20,013
we don't want to get 
the wrong end of this.

547
00:24:20,013 --> 00:24:21,482
We're talking about something

548
00:24:21,482 --> 00:24:23,514
that is an index of depravity.

549
00:24:23,514 --> 00:24:26,074
It tells just how bad you are.

550
00:24:26,074 --> 00:24:28,912
You're so bad, you hate God so much

551
00:24:28,912 --> 00:24:31,154
you can't bring yourself

552
00:24:31,154 --> 00:24:33,223
to do the right thing.

553
00:24:33,223 --> 00:24:37,212
You don't want to.

554
00:24:37,212 --> 00:24:38,814
When we're speaking to the lost,

555
00:24:38,814 --> 00:24:41,102
we need to keep both 
of these things in mind.

556
00:24:41,102 --> 00:24:43,764
On the one hand, we need 
to realize they're unable.

557
00:24:43,764 --> 00:24:46,163
They need a miracle from God.

558
00:24:46,163 --> 00:24:49,154
It's not a matter, and if you just said it

559
00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:50,441
a different way

560
00:24:50,441 --> 00:24:53,290
and just had a little 
more of this and that

561
00:24:53,290 --> 00:24:54,654
in what you say to them,

562
00:24:54,654 --> 00:24:57,494
and if you just showed a 
little more love and so on,

563
00:24:57,494 --> 00:25:00,813
then they'd be saved.

564
00:25:00,813 --> 00:25:03,212
It's like Brother John said the other day.

565
00:25:03,212 --> 00:25:06,034
It takes God -

566
00:25:06,034 --> 00:25:09,652
and He can use the slightest thing -

567
00:25:09,652 --> 00:25:11,733
some little phrase or something

568
00:25:11,733 --> 00:25:13,364
God brings home to the heart.

569
00:25:13,364 --> 00:25:16,255
It doesn't have to do 
with how eloquent you are

570
00:25:16,255 --> 00:25:19,293
or how good you are presenting the Gospel.

571
00:25:19,293 --> 00:25:21,925
A.W. Tozer - he was 
so burdened for his mom,

572
00:25:21,925 --> 00:25:23,394
he came into the room.

573
00:25:23,394 --> 00:25:27,083
Now here's going to be an eloquent

574
00:25:27,083 --> 00:25:28,793
presentation of the Gospel.

575
00:25:28,793 --> 00:25:30,382
No, he just burst into tears

576
00:25:30,382 --> 00:25:36,035
and said, "Mom, you're lost."

577
00:25:36,035 --> 00:25:40,115
Sometimes that's about all we can do.

578
00:25:40,115 --> 00:25:42,263
(incomplete thought)

579
00:25:42,263 --> 00:25:44,653
They're not able.

580
00:25:44,653 --> 00:25:46,443
And they won't be able

581
00:25:46,443 --> 00:25:52,133
unless the Father draws them.

582
00:25:52,133 --> 00:25:54,213
On the other hand, we've got to remember

583
00:25:54,213 --> 00:25:56,052
that their inability - we don't start

584
00:25:56,052 --> 00:25:57,923
feeling sorry for them in the sense

585
00:25:57,923 --> 00:25:59,853
of blaming God.

586
00:25:59,853 --> 00:26:01,473
You've got to be reminded,

587
00:26:01,473 --> 00:26:03,505
you've got to realize why is it

588
00:26:03,505 --> 00:26:05,633
that men can't believe?

589
00:26:05,633 --> 00:26:08,572
I've seen parents that have two boys

590
00:26:08,572 --> 00:26:10,134
and they're both Christians

591
00:26:10,134 --> 00:26:12,163
and their parents harden themselves

592
00:26:12,163 --> 00:26:15,223
to what their boys are saying. Why?

593
00:26:15,223 --> 00:26:17,942
Why not listen to them?

594
00:26:17,942 --> 00:26:19,592
Why would they not say

595
00:26:19,592 --> 00:26:25,712
tell us about this?

596
00:26:25,712 --> 00:26:27,583
Brother Gilbert gave that parable

597
00:26:27,583 --> 00:26:31,043
of the great dinner.

598
00:26:31,043 --> 00:26:33,483
(incomplete thought)

599
00:26:33,483 --> 00:26:36,023
I'm sorry - Josue.

600
00:26:36,023 --> 00:26:39,402
There's another similar one

601
00:26:39,402 --> 00:26:41,043
you remember, of a king

602
00:26:41,043 --> 00:26:46,564
who gave a wedding feast for his son.

603
00:26:46,564 --> 00:26:50,234
Matthew 22.

604
00:26:50,234 --> 00:26:54,433
And he says in there - now this is a king.

605
00:26:54,433 --> 00:26:57,863
And he says my oxen, my livestock,

606
00:26:57,863 --> 00:26:58,983
everything's ready.

607
00:26:58,983 --> 00:27:02,245
He said the same thing: 
everything's ready.

608
00:27:02,245 --> 00:27:07,043
What an honor to get an 
invitation from a king!

609
00:27:07,043 --> 00:27:08,205
What does it say?

610
00:27:08,205 --> 00:27:12,732
They paid no attention and went their way.

611
00:27:12,732 --> 00:27:15,553
You've got an invitation from the king.

612
00:27:15,553 --> 00:27:19,264
They come running up, show it to you.

613
00:27:19,264 --> 00:27:21,203
They go their way, one to his farm,

614
00:27:21,203 --> 00:27:23,203
another to his business.

615
00:27:23,203 --> 00:27:25,953
They ignore.

616
00:27:25,953 --> 00:27:28,183
That's an insult right there

617
00:27:28,183 --> 00:27:29,904
when you don't do anything.

618
00:27:29,904 --> 00:27:31,213
You don't respond.

619
00:27:31,213 --> 00:27:32,903
You say, well, I'm not for Jesus

620
00:27:32,903 --> 00:27:34,742
or against Him - I'm kind of neutral.

621
00:27:34,742 --> 00:27:36,693
Well, as soon as you pay no attention

622
00:27:36,693 --> 00:27:40,895
you're already slapping 
the King in the face.

623
00:27:40,895 --> 00:27:42,243
But what else does it say?

624
00:27:42,243 --> 00:27:45,143
This is incredible.

625
00:27:45,143 --> 00:27:47,613
"The rest seized his slaves

626
00:27:47,613 --> 00:27:50,674
and mistreated them and killed them."

627
00:27:50,674 --> 00:27:52,586
And that's going on, beloved, right now

628
00:27:52,586 --> 00:27:53,654
around the world.

629
00:27:53,654 --> 00:27:56,783
It's going on in one 
country after another.

630
00:27:56,783 --> 00:27:58,983
We know of Christians.

631
00:27:58,983 --> 00:28:00,894
We know of them.

632
00:28:00,894 --> 00:28:02,924
They come and they say to a person:

633
00:28:02,924 --> 00:28:05,114
"Good news! There's a feast for you."

634
00:28:05,114 --> 00:28:07,664
"Oh, I'm going to kill you."

635
00:28:07,664 --> 00:28:09,544
Think of that.

636
00:28:09,544 --> 00:28:12,343
Isn't that amazing?

637
00:28:12,343 --> 00:28:16,382
They mistreat them and kill them.

638
00:28:16,382 --> 00:28:18,117
We've got to remember both.

639
00:28:18,117 --> 00:28:19,694
We've got to remember and pray.

640
00:28:19,694 --> 00:28:21,202
When you think of this person,

641
00:28:21,202 --> 00:28:23,934
they can't, they're helpless in sin.

642
00:28:23,934 --> 00:28:25,304
We've got to pray for them.

643
00:28:25,304 --> 00:28:26,723
They're not going to make it

644
00:28:26,723 --> 00:28:29,425
if we don't pray that God 
does some miracle in them.

645
00:28:29,425 --> 00:28:30,651
But at the same time,

646
00:28:30,651 --> 00:28:32,296
you don't start blaming God

647
00:28:32,296 --> 00:28:34,794
for the fact that they're lost.

648
00:28:34,794 --> 00:28:37,682
It's evil what they're doing.

649
00:28:37,682 --> 00:28:40,474
If you're not a Christian here tonight

650
00:28:40,474 --> 00:28:42,064
and you've heard these ones

651
00:28:42,064 --> 00:28:43,944
like Brother Josue and different ones

652
00:28:43,944 --> 00:28:45,274
pour out their hearts

653
00:28:45,274 --> 00:28:46,823
and have this invitation,

654
00:28:46,823 --> 00:28:52,744
it's evil if you don't come to Christ.

655
00:28:52,744 --> 00:28:54,083
You just walk away,

656
00:28:54,083 --> 00:28:56,153
one to his business.

657
00:28:56,153 --> 00:29:00,373
Huh... ho hum.

658
00:29:00,373 --> 00:29:02,275
We're not talking about an earthly king.

659
00:29:02,275 --> 00:29:08,213
We're talking about 
the King of the universe.

660
00:29:08,213 --> 00:29:09,844
Well, you saw the "no one."

661
00:29:09,844 --> 00:29:12,543
Everyone whom the 
Father gives Me shall come.

662
00:29:12,543 --> 00:29:16,163
No one can come unless...

663
00:29:16,163 --> 00:29:18,012
There's none. There's none righteous.

664
00:29:18,012 --> 00:29:20,823
No not one. There's 
none that understandeth.

665
00:29:20,823 --> 00:29:25,923
You see, moral inability 
flows from moral depravity.

666
00:29:25,923 --> 00:29:28,243
There's none that seeketh after God.

667
00:29:28,243 --> 00:29:29,172
There's nobody.

668
00:29:29,172 --> 00:29:30,404
Nobody in the whole world

669
00:29:30,404 --> 00:29:32,814
apart from the Holy Spirit 
working in their heart.

670
00:29:32,814 --> 00:29:36,076
There's nobody that's 
really seeking after God.

671
00:29:36,076 --> 00:29:38,335
Men might be out here 
laying on a bed of nails.

672
00:29:38,335 --> 00:29:40,103
They're doing it because they want

673
00:29:40,103 --> 00:29:42,944
to bolster up their pride.

674
00:29:42,944 --> 00:29:44,803
But if anybody seeks God,

675
00:29:44,803 --> 00:29:49,153
God will save them.

676
00:29:49,153 --> 00:29:50,741
"All have turned aside,

677
00:29:50,741 --> 00:29:52,586
together they have become useless."

678
00:29:52,586 --> 00:29:54,301
There's none who does good -

679
00:29:54,301 --> 00:29:56,353
no not one.

680
00:29:56,353 --> 00:29:58,102
And so it's by grace through faith,

681
00:29:58,102 --> 00:30:00,323
that not of yourselves, 
it's the gift of God

682
00:30:00,323 --> 00:30:02,022
lest any man should boast.

683
00:30:02,022 --> 00:30:03,823
No man can boast because nobody

684
00:30:03,823 --> 00:30:06,635
is able to believe on his own.

685
00:30:06,635 --> 00:30:13,844
Even that God has to do.

686
00:30:13,844 --> 00:30:15,557
Now before we move on from this,

687
00:30:15,557 --> 00:30:18,386
I just want to say, beloved,

688
00:30:18,386 --> 00:30:20,225
you know you might have this idea -

689
00:30:20,225 --> 00:30:22,135
He just said no man can come to Me

690
00:30:22,135 --> 00:30:24,505
unless God draws him.

691
00:30:24,505 --> 00:30:26,156
If you take this idea:

692
00:30:26,156 --> 00:30:28,135
Well, I'll do that someday.

693
00:30:28,135 --> 00:30:30,075
You know that offer's hanging out there.

694
00:30:30,075 --> 00:30:31,530
I'll just do it someday.

695
00:30:31,530 --> 00:30:36,300
You don't have that guarantee at all.

696
00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:37,941
If you're feeling in your heart

697
00:30:37,941 --> 00:30:40,131
the Holy Spirit - God said My Spirit

698
00:30:40,131 --> 00:30:43,491
will not always strive with man -

699
00:30:43,491 --> 00:30:46,011
and you're feeling the 
Holy Spirit tugging on you,

700
00:30:46,011 --> 00:30:48,980
you don't know, you have no guarantee

701
00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:52,040
that you're going to 
feel that way tomorrow

702
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:56,051
or down the line somewhere.

703
00:30:56,051 --> 00:30:58,429
That is in the hands of God.

704
00:30:58,429 --> 00:30:59,780
If He leaves you alone,

705
00:30:59,780 --> 00:31:04,849
you're going to go right down into hell.

706
00:31:04,849 --> 00:31:06,019
Putting it off.

707
00:31:06,019 --> 00:31:08,440
It's like, well, the king said to come.

708
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:09,930
I don't want to do that now,

709
00:31:09,930 --> 00:31:11,371
but I'll do it some other time

710
00:31:11,371 --> 00:31:13,391
whenever I choose.

711
00:31:13,391 --> 00:31:19,997
That's a really dangerous position.

712
00:31:19,997 --> 00:31:21,838
Third certainty.

713
00:31:21,838 --> 00:31:24,948
Number 3. Verse 45.

714
00:31:24,948 --> 00:31:27,538
"It is written in the Prophets

715
00:31:27,538 --> 00:31:33,217
they shall all be taught of God."

716
00:31:33,217 --> 00:31:36,167
Everyone.

717
00:31:36,167 --> 00:31:37,970
The third absolute certainty

718
00:31:37,970 --> 00:31:40,679
is that everyone who 
ever becomes a Christian

719
00:31:40,679 --> 00:31:43,976
is personally taught by God.

720
00:31:43,976 --> 00:31:45,596
Personally taught by God.

721
00:31:45,596 --> 00:31:47,677
And this being taught by God is described

722
00:31:47,677 --> 00:31:50,765
a little later in the verse

723
00:31:50,765 --> 00:31:54,267
as hearing and learning from the Father.

724
00:31:54,267 --> 00:31:56,477
Everyone who has heard and learned.

725
00:31:56,477 --> 00:31:58,178
So being taught by God

726
00:31:58,178 --> 00:32:03,465
is the same as hearing 
and learning from God.

727
00:32:03,465 --> 00:32:05,788
And going back up to the verse before,

728
00:32:05,788 --> 00:32:09,886
it's the same as being drawn by God.

729
00:32:09,886 --> 00:32:12,497
So He comes and teaches you personally.

730
00:32:12,497 --> 00:32:14,908
You hear and learn from Him

731
00:32:14,908 --> 00:32:17,198
and He draws you.

732
00:32:17,198 --> 00:32:23,876
A little bit above that it says,

733
00:32:23,876 --> 00:32:26,607
v. 40, "This is the will of My Father

734
00:32:26,607 --> 00:32:28,466
that everyone who beholds the Son

735
00:32:28,466 --> 00:32:29,896
and believes in Him..."

736
00:32:29,896 --> 00:32:31,764
So there's an opening of the eyes.

737
00:32:31,764 --> 00:32:33,296
You've got to get a glimpse.

738
00:32:33,296 --> 00:32:35,326
When the Father teaches you,

739
00:32:35,326 --> 00:32:36,588
He starts to teach you,

740
00:32:36,588 --> 00:32:38,709
He starts to draw you.

741
00:32:38,709 --> 00:32:41,397
You hear and learn from the Father.

742
00:32:41,397 --> 00:32:44,098
And what happens is you get a glimpse.

743
00:32:44,098 --> 00:32:45,568
You behold.

744
00:32:45,568 --> 00:32:47,998
In a little measure, you behold the Son.

745
00:32:47,998 --> 00:32:50,306
And it also tells us what it means

746
00:32:50,306 --> 00:32:52,948
when He says "all that 
the Father gives Me."

747
00:32:52,948 --> 00:32:55,368
This giving of the Father

748
00:32:55,368 --> 00:32:56,847
is what takes place

749
00:32:56,847 --> 00:32:58,847
when the Father begins to teach a person

750
00:32:58,847 --> 00:33:01,316
and they begin to hear 
and learn from the Father

751
00:33:01,316 --> 00:33:03,079
and He begins to draw them

752
00:33:03,079 --> 00:33:06,785
and He draws them in this gift to the Son.

753
00:33:06,785 --> 00:33:15,104
All those things fit together, you see.

754
00:33:15,104 --> 00:33:17,247
Every Christian has been personally

755
00:33:17,247 --> 00:33:20,361
taught by God and heard and learned

756
00:33:20,361 --> 00:33:26,566
from the Father prior 
to his coming to Christ.

757
00:33:26,566 --> 00:33:28,505
Now how does that happen in practice?

758
00:33:28,505 --> 00:33:30,366
Well, we've heard some of that.

759
00:33:30,366 --> 00:33:33,028
Here's a person. They've gone 
to church all their life.

760
00:33:33,028 --> 00:33:37,566
They've sat in meetings year after year.

761
00:33:37,566 --> 00:33:41,145
And one day, they hear and 
learn from the Father.

762
00:33:41,145 --> 00:33:44,697
It's like they've never heard before.

763
00:33:44,697 --> 00:33:45,976
They've heard these words,

764
00:33:45,976 --> 00:33:48,466
but now they hear.

765
00:33:48,466 --> 00:33:51,187
And everyone who hears and 
learns from the Father

766
00:33:51,187 --> 00:33:57,008
comes to Christ.

767
00:33:57,008 --> 00:33:59,836
So the question: have 
you been taught by God?

768
00:33:59,836 --> 00:34:02,256
What does the Father teach a lost person

769
00:34:02,256 --> 00:34:04,167
prior to his coming to Christ?

770
00:34:04,167 --> 00:34:07,128
Well, He teaches him that he's lost

771
00:34:07,128 --> 00:34:10,675
and He teaches that Christ is the Savior.

772
00:34:10,675 --> 00:34:14,306
It just boils down to that.

773
00:34:14,306 --> 00:34:18,307
He teaches him that he's lost.

774
00:34:18,307 --> 00:34:21,637
John talked about that

775
00:34:21,637 --> 00:34:28,298
in terms of some of these different men.

776
00:34:28,298 --> 00:34:33,646
He teaches a person that 
he's lost and undone.

777
00:34:33,646 --> 00:34:36,818
And He teaches him that there's a Savior.

778
00:34:36,818 --> 00:34:39,704
He convicts him of sin and 
righteousness and judgment,

779
00:34:39,704 --> 00:34:42,208
and He leads him to Christ.

780
00:34:42,208 --> 00:34:44,865
You remember Matthew 16?

781
00:34:44,865 --> 00:34:46,336
"Who do men say that I am?"

782
00:34:46,336 --> 00:34:49,098
Well, some say You're this. Some say that.

783
00:34:49,098 --> 00:34:50,595
"Who do you say that I am?"

784
00:34:50,595 --> 00:34:53,336
He says, "You're the Christ, 
the Son of the living God."

785
00:34:53,336 --> 00:34:56,467
"Blessed are you Simon Bar Jonah..."

786
00:34:56,467 --> 00:34:58,328
You've been taught by God.

787
00:34:58,328 --> 00:35:00,865
Flesh and blood didn't reveal it to you.

788
00:35:00,865 --> 00:35:02,737
You saw.

789
00:35:02,737 --> 00:35:03,907
You were taught by God.

790
00:35:03,907 --> 00:35:05,066
2 Corinthians 4,

791
00:35:05,066 --> 00:35:06,397
If our Gospel is hidden,

792
00:35:06,397 --> 00:35:08,685
it's hidden to those that are lost.

793
00:35:08,685 --> 00:35:10,838
And then the god of this world has blinded

794
00:35:10,838 --> 00:35:12,526
the minds of the unbelieving

795
00:35:12,526 --> 00:35:14,466
lest the light of the Gospel of Christ

796
00:35:14,466 --> 00:35:17,426
who is the image of God 
should shine unto them.

797
00:35:17,426 --> 00:35:18,696
But what?

798
00:35:18,696 --> 00:35:21,696
God who commanded light 
to shine out of darkness

799
00:35:21,696 --> 00:35:23,934
has shown in our hearts

800
00:35:23,934 --> 00:35:25,837
to give the light of the knowledge

801
00:35:25,837 --> 00:35:28,816
of the glory of God in 
the face of Jesus Christ.

802
00:35:28,816 --> 00:35:32,767
So God shines in the heart.

803
00:35:32,767 --> 00:35:36,847
We hear and learn from the Father.

804
00:35:36,847 --> 00:35:39,917
And we see a glimpse of who Jesus is

805
00:35:39,917 --> 00:35:42,488
and we believe on Him.

806
00:35:42,488 --> 00:35:45,492
Now, there's one more certainty to look at

807
00:35:45,492 --> 00:35:47,876
but before we do that, notice this:

808
00:35:47,876 --> 00:35:50,846
The Lord Jesus repeats 
this first certainty.

809
00:35:50,846 --> 00:35:53,007
What was in v. 37 - He said

810
00:35:53,007 --> 00:35:56,307
all that the Father gives 
Me shall come to Me -

811
00:35:56,307 --> 00:35:58,037
He repeats that here and He says

812
00:35:58,037 --> 00:36:01,298
everyone who's heard and 
learned from the Father comes.

813
00:36:01,298 --> 00:36:02,877
Every single one of them.

814
00:36:02,877 --> 00:36:05,898
It's just a different way 
of saying it, you see.

815
00:36:05,898 --> 00:36:08,987
This certainty that everyone who has

816
00:36:08,987 --> 00:36:11,346
heard and learned from the Father

817
00:36:11,346 --> 00:36:13,908
comes to Christ.

818
00:36:13,908 --> 00:36:17,296
The teaching of the Father 
is always effectual.

819
00:36:17,296 --> 00:36:20,466
No one ever hears and 
learns from the Father

820
00:36:20,466 --> 00:36:22,926
and doesn't come to Christ.

821
00:36:22,926 --> 00:36:26,576
You've got to get ahold of this.

822
00:36:26,576 --> 00:36:30,456
Nobody rejects Jesus in that sense.

823
00:36:30,456 --> 00:36:32,067
Once you begin to hear and learn

824
00:36:32,067 --> 00:36:35,568
from the Father, you come to Christ.

825
00:36:35,568 --> 00:36:38,766
It's a glorious thing.

826
00:36:38,766 --> 00:36:40,557
Just an aside, for what it's worth

827
00:36:40,557 --> 00:36:41,697
for you theologians,

828
00:36:41,697 --> 00:36:44,078
I think this hearing and 
learning from the Father

829
00:36:44,078 --> 00:36:46,766
is what we see happening in Romans 7.

830
00:36:46,766 --> 00:36:48,666
People look at that and they say

831
00:36:48,666 --> 00:36:52,057
how could that be a man 
who isn't converted?

832
00:36:52,057 --> 00:36:53,806
How can he say such things as that?

833
00:36:53,806 --> 00:36:56,457
Well, the answer is he couldn't.

834
00:36:56,457 --> 00:36:59,756
But Paul is writing that as one

835
00:36:59,756 --> 00:37:02,646
who is now a Christian 
(incomplete thought).

836
00:37:02,646 --> 00:37:04,086
The lost man coming to Christ

837
00:37:04,086 --> 00:37:05,867
doesn't have a clue what's going on.

838
00:37:05,867 --> 00:37:07,848
He couldn't begin to write these things

839
00:37:07,848 --> 00:37:09,538
that Paul writes in Romans 7.

840
00:37:09,538 --> 00:37:11,868
He's in a muddle and all he knows is

841
00:37:11,868 --> 00:37:15,309
he's starting to realize 
he's lost and he cries out.

842
00:37:15,309 --> 00:37:17,548
But Paul as a Christian looking back

843
00:37:17,548 --> 00:37:20,688
analyzes this whole thing.

844
00:37:20,688 --> 00:37:22,477
(incomplete thought)

845
00:37:22,477 --> 00:37:24,427
Listen to this, there is a hearing

846
00:37:24,427 --> 00:37:25,947
and learning from the Father

847
00:37:25,947 --> 00:37:30,047
that is qualitatively 
different in the elect

848
00:37:30,047 --> 00:37:33,476
than anything that ever 
happens to a lost person.

849
00:37:33,476 --> 00:37:36,496
And it always leads to them saying

850
00:37:36,496 --> 00:37:40,036
thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

851
00:37:40,036 --> 00:37:41,276
They always get converted.

852
00:37:41,276 --> 00:37:43,446
This guy that's writing Romans 7 -

853
00:37:43,446 --> 00:37:46,336
he's been converted.

854
00:37:46,336 --> 00:37:48,816
And he's come to Christ.

855
00:37:48,816 --> 00:37:51,635
Well, you can think about it.

856
00:37:51,635 --> 00:37:54,916
Before we go on though, 
let me ask you this:

857
00:37:54,916 --> 00:37:56,713
Have you experienced

858
00:37:56,713 --> 00:38:01,286
the irresistible attraction 
of the Redeemer?

859
00:38:01,286 --> 00:38:03,696
Have you experienced that?

860
00:38:03,696 --> 00:38:06,558
Is He so lovely to you 
and so precious to you

861
00:38:06,558 --> 00:38:09,406
that you can't live without Him?

862
00:38:09,406 --> 00:38:13,797
This thing of saying 
"for me to live is Christ,"

863
00:38:13,797 --> 00:38:17,345
that's not some super-Christian.

864
00:38:17,345 --> 00:38:19,636
If you're a Christian and 
you have the thought

865
00:38:19,636 --> 00:38:23,568
I've got to go without Him;

866
00:38:23,568 --> 00:38:27,849
I've got to go on and press 
on forever without Him -

867
00:38:27,849 --> 00:38:30,419
see, it's more than just 
I'm going to be in hell.

868
00:38:30,419 --> 00:38:34,777
It's the idea that I'm going 
to be without Christ.

869
00:38:34,777 --> 00:38:36,477
Every Christian can say that:

870
00:38:36,477 --> 00:38:38,228
for me to live is Christ.

871
00:38:38,228 --> 00:38:40,647
I don't have any reason to live

872
00:38:40,647 --> 00:38:43,069
if I don't have Him.

873
00:38:43,069 --> 00:38:45,936
That's a person that has experienced

874
00:38:45,936 --> 00:38:48,208
the irresistible attraction.

875
00:38:48,208 --> 00:38:51,497
They're drawn. They will come.

876
00:38:51,497 --> 00:38:54,226
Every one of them will come to Christ

877
00:38:54,226 --> 00:39:01,989
because they can't keep from it.

878
00:39:01,989 --> 00:39:03,668
That's what it is to be drawn.

879
00:39:03,668 --> 00:39:04,737
Philippians 3:3,

880
00:39:04,737 --> 00:39:06,327
"We are the true circumcision..."

881
00:39:06,327 --> 00:39:07,697
You remember the second one?

882
00:39:07,697 --> 00:39:12,138
"They glory in Christ Jesus."

883
00:39:12,138 --> 00:39:14,616
A true Christian can feel so weak.

884
00:39:14,616 --> 00:39:17,446
They can question whether 
they're even a Christian or not,

885
00:39:17,446 --> 00:39:20,067
but you start talking to them about Jesus

886
00:39:20,067 --> 00:39:21,358
and the glories of Jesus

887
00:39:21,358 --> 00:39:24,166
and they glory in Christ Jesus.

888
00:39:24,166 --> 00:39:25,837
They love Him!

889
00:39:25,837 --> 00:39:32,157
They want to hear about Him.

890
00:39:32,157 --> 00:39:34,307
Last one.

891
00:39:34,307 --> 00:39:38,116
Verse 37

892
00:39:38,116 --> 00:39:40,516
"All that the Father gives 
Me shall come to Me..."

893
00:39:40,516 --> 00:39:42,037
and the last half of the verse:

894
00:39:42,037 --> 00:39:45,169
"The one who comes to Me,

895
00:39:45,169 --> 00:39:49,056
I will certainly not cast out."

896
00:39:49,056 --> 00:39:50,766
Absolutely certainty that Christ

897
00:39:50,766 --> 00:39:53,817
will in no wise cast out 
anyone who comes to Him.

898
00:39:53,817 --> 00:39:57,426
Now the term "cast out" in this verse

899
00:39:57,426 --> 00:40:01,727
is often taken in the 
sense of "turn away."

900
00:40:01,727 --> 00:40:02,998
The one who comes to Me,

901
00:40:02,998 --> 00:40:05,282
I will not turn away; I won't refuse him.

902
00:40:05,282 --> 00:40:07,927
I won't refuse to accept him.

903
00:40:07,927 --> 00:40:11,087
And certainly that's true.

904
00:40:11,087 --> 00:40:12,897
I mean, can you imagine the Father

905
00:40:12,897 --> 00:40:14,467
wants to give a gift to His Son

906
00:40:14,467 --> 00:40:16,287
and He says, "I don't want it."

907
00:40:16,287 --> 00:40:19,116
That's not possible.

908
00:40:19,116 --> 00:40:21,249
But that's not what Jesus is saying here.

909
00:40:21,249 --> 00:40:23,906
The word translated "cast out"

910
00:40:23,906 --> 00:40:25,868
is used with reference to something

911
00:40:25,868 --> 00:40:30,068
that's already in that 
is ejected or driven out.

912
00:40:30,068 --> 00:40:33,606
Same word used with reference to demons.

913
00:40:33,606 --> 00:40:36,096
They're in and they're cast out.

914
00:40:36,096 --> 00:40:38,867
Or when Jesus drove 
them out of the temple.

915
00:40:38,867 --> 00:40:40,395
Same word.

916
00:40:40,395 --> 00:40:43,357
He cast them out of the temple.

917
00:40:43,357 --> 00:40:45,277
And what He's saying here is He's saying

918
00:40:45,277 --> 00:40:46,739
if you ever come to Me,

919
00:40:46,739 --> 00:40:49,135
if My Father ever gives you to Me,

920
00:40:49,135 --> 00:40:50,537
I'll never get rid of you.

921
00:40:50,537 --> 00:40:53,329
I'll hold on to you forever.

922
00:40:53,329 --> 00:40:57,566
I will in no wise part with you.

923
00:40:57,566 --> 00:40:59,735
Nothing could cause Me to part with you.

924
00:40:59,735 --> 00:41:02,366
Douglas McMillan - he told a story.

925
00:41:02,366 --> 00:41:04,963
He said he had a Bible 
that his father gave him.

926
00:41:04,963 --> 00:41:06,595
His father died.

927
00:41:06,595 --> 00:41:08,328
But that Bible his father gave him

928
00:41:08,328 --> 00:41:09,555
is up there on the shelf.

929
00:41:09,555 --> 00:41:11,966
It's all worn out, falling apart.

930
00:41:11,966 --> 00:41:14,747
And some friend came and 
he's looking through his books.

931
00:41:14,747 --> 00:41:16,816
He said you ought to 
throw that Bible away.

932
00:41:16,816 --> 00:41:18,535
It's about to fall apart.

933
00:41:18,535 --> 00:41:21,077
He said no way I'll ever get rid of that.

934
00:41:21,077 --> 00:41:24,896
My father gave that to me.

935
00:41:24,896 --> 00:41:27,857
That's what Jesus is talking about here.

936
00:41:27,857 --> 00:41:31,746
I will in no wise - nothing could cause Me

937
00:41:31,746 --> 00:41:34,677
to get rid of them and throw them away.

938
00:41:34,677 --> 00:41:40,696
I've received them as 
a gift from the Father.

939
00:41:40,696 --> 00:41:42,257
Beloved, if you're a Christian,

940
00:41:42,257 --> 00:41:45,918
Christ is never going to part with you.

941
00:41:45,918 --> 00:41:49,106
And He goes on to explain why.

942
00:41:49,106 --> 00:41:51,235
Verse 38, "For..." now He says,

943
00:41:51,235 --> 00:41:53,847
"he that comes to Me, 
I will certainly not cast out,

944
00:41:53,847 --> 00:41:55,795
for I have come down from heaven

945
00:41:55,795 --> 00:41:58,637
not to do My own will, but 
the will of Him who sent Me."

946
00:41:58,637 --> 00:42:00,836
He says the reason that I will never

947
00:42:00,836 --> 00:42:04,627
cast away anybody who has been given to Me

948
00:42:04,627 --> 00:42:07,665
is that I came down here 
to accomplish a purpose.

949
00:42:07,665 --> 00:42:10,645
I came down here to do the 
will of Him who sent Me.

950
00:42:10,645 --> 00:42:12,966
What's that, Lord? Well, the next verse:

951
00:42:12,966 --> 00:42:15,746
This is the will of Him who sent Me

952
00:42:15,746 --> 00:42:17,896
that of those that He's given Me -

953
00:42:17,896 --> 00:42:19,166
all that He's given Me -

954
00:42:19,166 --> 00:42:24,137
I lose nothing - not one -

955
00:42:24,137 --> 00:42:25,807
but raise them up on the last day.

956
00:42:25,807 --> 00:42:28,198
He said I came down here 
to accomplish a purpose.

957
00:42:28,198 --> 00:42:31,646
I came to save everyone 
that the Father's given Me

958
00:42:31,646 --> 00:42:33,308
and I'm not going to fail

959
00:42:33,308 --> 00:42:39,811
at what I came to do.

960
00:42:39,811 --> 00:42:43,345
Not one.

961
00:42:43,345 --> 00:42:46,687
Have you ever noticed the 
"not one" of Scripture?

962
00:42:46,687 --> 00:42:53,537
Let me just read some of them to you.

963
00:42:53,537 --> 00:43:03,475
This is out of Matthew 18.

964
00:43:03,475 --> 00:43:07,225
"Whoever receives one such child

965
00:43:07,225 --> 00:43:08,887
in My name receives Me."

966
00:43:08,887 --> 00:43:10,456
Now He's talking about believers.

967
00:43:10,456 --> 00:43:12,577
I'd have to go into 
that to prove it to you.

968
00:43:12,577 --> 00:43:15,057
"But whoever causes one

969
00:43:15,057 --> 00:43:18,448
of these little ones who 
believe in Me to stumble,

970
00:43:18,448 --> 00:43:21,490
it were better for him 
that a heavy millstone

971
00:43:21,490 --> 00:43:25,557
were hung around his neck."

972
00:43:25,557 --> 00:43:28,066
"See to it that you do not despise one

973
00:43:28,066 --> 00:43:32,615
of these little ones."

974
00:43:32,615 --> 00:43:35,177
"What do you think? If a 
man has a hundred sheep

975
00:43:35,177 --> 00:43:37,196
and one of them has gone astray,

976
00:43:37,196 --> 00:43:39,356
does he not leave the 99 on the mountains

977
00:43:39,356 --> 00:43:42,366
and search for the one?

978
00:43:42,366 --> 00:43:45,068
Thus it is not the will of your Father

979
00:43:45,068 --> 00:43:46,267
who is in heaven

980
00:43:46,267 --> 00:43:48,786
that one of these little ones perish."

981
00:43:48,786 --> 00:43:50,629
Again, He's talking about believers.

982
00:43:50,629 --> 00:43:53,316
God the Father - it is not His will

983
00:43:53,316 --> 00:43:55,178
that one believer perish.

984
00:43:55,178 --> 00:43:57,656
It's the same thing as 
He's saying here in John 7.

985
00:43:57,656 --> 00:43:59,707
This is the will of Him who sent Me

986
00:43:59,707 --> 00:44:01,556
that of that which He has given Me -

987
00:44:01,556 --> 00:44:03,027
of those whom He has given Me,

988
00:44:03,027 --> 00:44:04,777
I lose not one.

989
00:44:04,777 --> 00:44:10,655
It's not His will for one of 
the little ones to perish.

990
00:44:10,655 --> 00:44:12,417
John 17:12

991
00:44:12,417 --> 00:44:14,335
"While I was with them,

992
00:44:14,335 --> 00:44:15,827
I was keeping them in Your name

993
00:44:15,827 --> 00:44:16,997
which You have given Me

994
00:44:16,997 --> 00:44:18,557
and I guarded them

995
00:44:18,557 --> 00:44:23,767
and not one of them perished..."

996
00:44:23,767 --> 00:44:25,597
but the son of perdition of course.

997
00:44:25,597 --> 00:44:27,485
Judas was a different story.

998
00:44:27,485 --> 00:44:29,368
He never did believe.

999
00:44:29,368 --> 00:44:31,307
"That the Scripture might be fulfilled."

1000
00:44:31,307 --> 00:44:33,437
And again in John 18:8-9,

1001
00:44:33,437 --> 00:44:35,984
"Jesus answered, 'I told you that I am He.

1002
00:44:35,984 --> 00:44:38,626
If therefore you seek Me, 
let these go their way,'

1003
00:44:38,626 --> 00:44:40,467
that the Word might be fulfilled

1004
00:44:40,467 --> 00:44:44,487
which He spoke, 'of those 
whom You have given Me,

1005
00:44:44,487 --> 00:44:48,066
I lost not one.'"

1006
00:44:48,066 --> 00:44:49,836
And that's the initial fulfillment.

1007
00:44:49,836 --> 00:44:52,568
Even in this lifetime He was keeping them.

1008
00:44:52,568 --> 00:44:56,837
And He will keep us forever.

1009
00:44:56,837 --> 00:45:00,036
Right there in the high 
priestly prayer so called,

1010
00:45:00,036 --> 00:45:01,759
He says, "Father I will that those

1011
00:45:01,759 --> 00:45:03,638
whom You have given Me

1012
00:45:03,638 --> 00:45:06,057
be with Me where I am."

1013
00:45:06,057 --> 00:45:08,775
That settled it right there.

1014
00:45:08,775 --> 00:45:11,257
I mean, is Jesus going to pray

1015
00:45:11,257 --> 00:45:12,894
contrary to the will of God? No.

1016
00:45:12,894 --> 00:45:15,266
Is He going to pray in unbelief? No.

1017
00:45:15,266 --> 00:45:16,936
As soon as He prayed the prayer,

1018
00:45:16,936 --> 00:45:20,290
"Father, I want all those

1019
00:45:20,290 --> 00:45:21,367
that You have given Me

1020
00:45:21,367 --> 00:45:22,586
be with Me where I am

1021
00:45:22,586 --> 00:45:24,159
that they may behold My glory."

1022
00:45:24,159 --> 00:45:25,797
That guaranteed the salvation

1023
00:45:25,797 --> 00:45:29,036
of every single one given.

1024
00:45:29,036 --> 00:45:31,157
That one day, it's just a matter of time,

1025
00:45:31,157 --> 00:45:33,743
everyone who's been given to the Son

1026
00:45:33,743 --> 00:45:35,177
in just a few heartbeats

1027
00:45:35,177 --> 00:45:37,188
is going to behold His glory.

1028
00:45:37,188 --> 00:45:39,128
It's going to happen.

1029
00:45:39,128 --> 00:45:40,917
I love these certainties, don't you?

1030
00:45:40,917 --> 00:45:46,105
I don't like this: well, maybe...

1031
00:45:46,105 --> 00:45:48,409
Gilbert, what if Jesus said

1032
00:45:48,409 --> 00:45:50,058
that of all whom He has given Me,

1033
00:45:50,058 --> 00:45:53,089
I lose only five?

1034
00:45:53,089 --> 00:46:00,648
Think of how horrible that would be.

1035
00:46:00,648 --> 00:46:04,347
See, God is concerned about the one.

1036
00:46:04,347 --> 00:46:06,167
And He's so powerful that He can

1037
00:46:06,167 --> 00:46:08,735
keep track of and take care of

1038
00:46:08,735 --> 00:46:12,329
one out of millions, out of billions.

1039
00:46:12,329 --> 00:46:14,457
Actually out of a lot more than that.

1040
00:46:14,457 --> 00:46:16,016
You remember how many stars?

1041
00:46:16,016 --> 00:46:19,217
Ten thousand billion trillion.

1042
00:46:19,217 --> 00:46:20,968
You have a trillion stars.

1043
00:46:20,968 --> 00:46:22,899
You have a billion of those trillions.

1044
00:46:22,899 --> 00:46:24,416
And then you have ten thousand

1045
00:46:24,416 --> 00:46:26,777
of those billion trillions.

1046
00:46:26,777 --> 00:46:28,728
This is what it says.

1047
00:46:28,728 --> 00:46:30,288
"Lift up your eyes on high

1048
00:46:30,288 --> 00:46:32,066
and see who has created these stars,

1049
00:46:32,066 --> 00:46:34,498
the one who leads forth 
their hosts by number.

1050
00:46:34,498 --> 00:46:36,937
He calls them all by name

1051
00:46:36,937 --> 00:46:39,446
because of the greatness of His might

1052
00:46:39,446 --> 00:46:42,208
and the strength of His power

1053
00:46:42,208 --> 00:46:45,866
not one of them is missing."

1054
00:46:45,866 --> 00:46:49,356
Not one.

1055
00:46:49,356 --> 00:46:51,596
"Are not two sparrows sold for a cent?

1056
00:46:51,596 --> 00:46:54,037
And yet not one of them will

1057
00:46:54,037 --> 00:46:56,655
fall to the ground 
apart from your Father."

1058
00:46:56,655 --> 00:46:58,927
How many sparrows are there in the world?

1059
00:46:58,927 --> 00:47:01,866
Not one.

1060
00:47:01,866 --> 00:47:03,988
And in the parallel,

1061
00:47:03,988 --> 00:47:06,277
the Lord said these 
things in different ways.

1062
00:47:06,277 --> 00:47:09,186
You know, He was saying 
these things all over the place.

1063
00:47:09,186 --> 00:47:10,681
(incomplete thought)

1064
00:47:10,681 --> 00:47:11,947
Aren't you grateful?

1065
00:47:11,947 --> 00:47:16,837
Because it puts a little 
different light on them.

1066
00:47:16,837 --> 00:47:20,967
"Are not five sparrows sold for two cents?

1067
00:47:20,967 --> 00:47:26,068
And yet not one of them 
is forgotten before God."

1068
00:47:26,068 --> 00:47:27,900
He says it a little differently.

1069
00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:30,008
Not one of them is forgotten.

1070
00:47:30,008 --> 00:47:31,637
And I've shared this many times.

1071
00:47:31,637 --> 00:47:33,486
You may have heard it.

1072
00:47:33,486 --> 00:47:41,092
I love this idea of the forgotten sparrow.

1073
00:47:41,092 --> 00:47:45,347
"Are not two sparrows sold for a cent?"

1074
00:47:45,347 --> 00:47:48,567
"Are not five sparrows 
sold for two cents?"

1075
00:47:48,567 --> 00:47:49,979
Now wait a minute.

1076
00:47:49,979 --> 00:47:51,587
Two sparrows for a cent.

1077
00:47:51,587 --> 00:47:53,698
That would be four sparrows for two cents,

1078
00:47:53,698 --> 00:47:55,225
not five.

1079
00:47:55,225 --> 00:47:57,255
But they're considered so worthless,

1080
00:47:57,255 --> 00:47:58,887
you just throw in one.

1081
00:47:58,887 --> 00:48:01,796
It doesn't even cost.

1082
00:48:01,796 --> 00:48:03,646
The forgotten sparrow.

1083
00:48:03,646 --> 00:48:06,796
And He says I won't forget that one.

1084
00:48:06,796 --> 00:48:09,666
Not one of them will be forgotten

1085
00:48:09,666 --> 00:48:12,908
before your Father.

1086
00:48:12,908 --> 00:48:15,356
That's good to remember, isn't it?

1087
00:48:15,356 --> 00:48:19,587
Because sometimes you feel 
like God has forgotten you.

1088
00:48:19,587 --> 00:48:28,947
Lord, don't You care that we perish?

1089
00:48:28,947 --> 00:48:30,576
He says you'll be delivered up

1090
00:48:30,576 --> 00:48:32,246
even by parents and brothers

1091
00:48:32,246 --> 00:48:33,576
and relatives and friends.

1092
00:48:33,576 --> 00:48:36,657
They'll put some of you to death.

1093
00:48:36,657 --> 00:48:39,677
You'll be hated by all 
on account of My name.

1094
00:48:39,677 --> 00:48:41,348
Yet, not a hair -

1095
00:48:41,348 --> 00:48:44,257
not one hair of your head shall perish.

1096
00:48:44,257 --> 00:48:47,936
They may kill you, but not a 
hair of your head shall perish.

1097
00:48:47,936 --> 00:48:53,187
That is, not anything can 
happen bad to a Christian.

1098
00:48:53,187 --> 00:48:58,297
God's in control of every bit of it.

1099
00:48:58,297 --> 00:49:02,405
We may need these 
things some day, you know?

1100
00:49:02,405 --> 00:49:05,956
We may need them tomorrow.

1101
00:49:05,956 --> 00:49:08,215
Or tonight.

1102
00:49:08,215 --> 00:49:09,836
Christ won't lose one.

1103
00:49:09,836 --> 00:49:12,605
Now before we quit here,

1104
00:49:12,605 --> 00:49:14,365
did you notice this phrase:

1105
00:49:14,365 --> 00:49:16,456
"...raise it up on the last day"?

1106
00:49:16,456 --> 00:49:19,584
It comes up over and over. V. 39.

1107
00:49:19,584 --> 00:49:22,878
"I lose nothing, but raise it up

1108
00:49:22,878 --> 00:49:25,765
on the last day."

1109
00:49:25,765 --> 00:49:27,556
V. 40,

1110
00:49:27,556 --> 00:49:29,510
"...May have eternal life

1111
00:49:29,510 --> 00:49:31,757
and I Myself will raise him up

1112
00:49:31,757 --> 00:49:33,007
on the last day."

1113
00:49:33,007 --> 00:49:36,135
Believe and you'll be raised up

1114
00:49:36,135 --> 00:49:38,328
on the last day.

1115
00:49:38,328 --> 00:49:40,846
V. 44,

1116
00:49:40,846 --> 00:49:42,735
"No one can come to Me unless

1117
00:49:42,735 --> 00:49:44,706
the Father who sent Me draws him,

1118
00:49:44,706 --> 00:49:46,737
and I will raise him up on the last day."

1119
00:49:46,737 --> 00:49:49,127
It jumps from: you come to Christ,

1120
00:49:49,127 --> 00:49:52,818
and He jumps all the way 
over your whole lifetime -

1121
00:49:52,818 --> 00:49:54,298
"And I will raise him up..."

1122
00:49:54,298 --> 00:49:57,787
He even jumps over all of history

1123
00:49:57,787 --> 00:49:59,238
to the last day -

1124
00:49:59,238 --> 00:50:00,587
the day of the resurrection.

1125
00:50:00,587 --> 00:50:02,106
He says, "And I'll raise him up

1126
00:50:02,106 --> 00:50:03,906
on the last day."

1127
00:50:03,906 --> 00:50:07,917
V. 54,

1128
00:50:07,917 --> 00:50:10,298
"He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood

1129
00:50:10,298 --> 00:50:11,657
has eternal life

1130
00:50:11,657 --> 00:50:14,066
and I will raise him up on the last day."

1131
00:50:14,066 --> 00:50:17,418
So He jumps from our coming to Christ

1132
00:50:17,418 --> 00:50:18,989
all the way through history,

1133
00:50:18,989 --> 00:50:20,747
all the way through our lifespan

1134
00:50:20,747 --> 00:50:22,546
and all the way through human history

1135
00:50:22,546 --> 00:50:24,546
to the last day and says I'll raise him.

1136
00:50:24,546 --> 00:50:26,907
It's this and I'll do that.

1137
00:50:26,907 --> 00:50:27,927
Isn't that glorious?

1138
00:50:27,927 --> 00:50:30,498
That's what Paul does in Romans 8.

1139
00:50:30,498 --> 00:50:32,765
Whom He justified,

1140
00:50:32,765 --> 00:50:35,724
them He also glorified.

1141
00:50:35,724 --> 00:50:40,097
Jumps over the whole in between.

1142
00:50:40,097 --> 00:50:43,085
You know, some of these popular

1143
00:50:43,085 --> 00:50:46,725
movies and novels that are in series,

1144
00:50:46,725 --> 00:50:49,694
occasionally they do kill the hero off.

1145
00:50:49,694 --> 00:50:53,246
Usually it's in the 
last book of the series.

1146
00:50:53,246 --> 00:50:54,606
You've got to do that.

1147
00:50:54,606 --> 00:50:59,143
But the hero occasionally gets killed off.

1148
00:50:59,143 --> 00:51:00,593
And sometimes you're not sure

1149
00:51:00,593 --> 00:51:04,557
whether the hero's 
going to get killed off.

1150
00:51:04,557 --> 00:51:07,485
But if you look ahead and 
read the last chapter

1151
00:51:07,485 --> 00:51:08,844
and he's still alive,

1152
00:51:08,844 --> 00:51:10,346
you don't have to worry about

1153
00:51:10,346 --> 00:51:13,956
whatever's going on in between.

1154
00:51:13,956 --> 00:51:15,767
And what God is giving us here

1155
00:51:15,767 --> 00:51:20,606
is the last day.

1156
00:51:20,606 --> 00:51:22,755
I'll raise him up on the last day.

1157
00:51:22,755 --> 00:51:25,146
Anybody that comes to Me,

1158
00:51:25,146 --> 00:51:27,246
anybody that's been drawn by the Father;

1159
00:51:27,246 --> 00:51:29,437
anybody that's heard and learned

1160
00:51:29,437 --> 00:51:30,596
from the Father -

1161
00:51:30,596 --> 00:51:31,746
I want to tell you this,

1162
00:51:31,746 --> 00:51:32,855
I'll lose nothing.

1163
00:51:32,855 --> 00:51:36,227
I'll raise him up on the last day.

1164
00:51:36,227 --> 00:51:39,987
It will happen.

1165
00:51:39,987 --> 00:51:43,146
Now once again, there's an action here

1166
00:51:43,146 --> 00:51:45,216
on the part of those who are given,

1167
00:51:45,216 --> 00:51:47,626
on the part of those who 
hear and learn from God,

1168
00:51:47,626 --> 00:51:49,806
on the part of those 
who are taught by God.

1169
00:51:49,806 --> 00:51:51,446
What is the action on their part?

1170
00:51:51,446 --> 00:51:53,225
They come.

1171
00:51:53,225 --> 00:51:55,357
We've talked about this a lot.

1172
00:51:55,357 --> 00:51:58,456
Different men that have been up here.

1173
00:51:58,456 --> 00:52:00,657
God doesn't come. You have to come.

1174
00:52:00,657 --> 00:52:05,146
You have to come to Christ.

1175
00:52:05,146 --> 00:52:08,846
So again, will you come to Him?

1176
00:52:08,846 --> 00:52:13,255
That's what we're left with.

1177
00:52:13,255 --> 00:52:15,963
I wonder if for an appropriate hymn

1178
00:52:15,963 --> 00:52:19,918
we could sing "I Know 
Whom I Have Believed"?

1179
00:52:19,918 --> 00:52:22,207
I know not, I know not...

1180
00:52:22,207 --> 00:52:24,686
but I know whom I have believed.