Introduction:
3 Reasons You are Secure in Your Salvation (John 6:35-51):
- Because God Draws you to Him. (John 6:36-37)
- Not everyone who Sees Jesus will come to Jesus. (John 6:36)
- Everyone that is Chosen will come to Jesus. (John 6:37a)
- Everyone who comes to Jesus is Welcomed . (John 6:37b)
Three Truths About the Salvation Process (from Jesus) That We Can All Agree On:
- Because its Jesus' Job to keep you. (John 6:38-39)
- Because Jesus will keep His Promise . (John 6:40-51)
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Open up your Bibles with me please to John chapter 6. As we continue our series, knowing Jesus, today we'll be picking up again in verse 35 as we talk about knowing the living bread. While you're turning there, when I was little, I can't remember the age, but I was young, I remember my one school teacher had an elderly aunt and she lived in this property with a lot of trees and my school teacher said, "Hey, she's looking for somebody that will come and rake her leaves for her. It's a paid gig." Now I was little, and I remember thinking, I'm going to have an opportunity to make some money.
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And do you remember that age when those opportunities started coming to you?
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And I remember going to this lady's yard to rake her leaves.
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And her yard wasn't huge.
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It was big, but it wasn't huge.
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The problem on the size of the yard, the problem was, the leaves were like knee to waist high.
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Granted, I was a little kid, but still, those are a lot of leaves to rake.
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So I show up to rake, and she gave me a bushel basket.
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Do you know how big a bushel basket is?
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She gave me a bushel basket to put the leaves in, and then take them to the edge of the tree line to dump.
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And if I would have used that bushel basket, I'd still be raking those leaves to this very day.
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So I ended up getting some garbage bags and hauling them that way and stuff.
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But anyways, I remember I was raking leaves for this woman immediately after school, all the way to dark, several hours every night for about three nights.
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And when it came time to finish the job, I knocked on her door and said, all done.
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I was proud of the work that I did.
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And she said, all right, what do I owe you?
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I was a little kid.
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I had no idea.
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I had no idea what the going rate was for something like this.
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I had no idea.
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So she's like, what do I owe you?
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like, $10?
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I thought that seemed fair for many, many hours of labor.
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But I'll never forget her reaction.
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I said, $10?
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And she said, $10?
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$10?
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She said, I know grown men that work for less than that a day.
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$10?
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And I was like, OK, I'll take less, I guess.
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She goes, oh no, I'll give you the $10.
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And she went and got her checkbook and wrote me a check and never hired me again, of which I'm very thankful for.
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Like, what's the point of this story?
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I just remember when I got that job, I took that so seriously.
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And I treated that yard like that was my yard.
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And I worked so hard until I physically couldn't see every night.
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It felt very important.
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You know, Jesus Christ, He has a job.
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Okay?
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There is a job commission to Him that Jesus also takes very seriously.
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And you're going to see it in the text that we're looking at today.
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John chapter 6.
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Just to get us caught up, this is all one big unit.
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John chapter 6.
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We're kind of breaking it up into smaller sections here.
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We saw that Jesus fed the 5,000 men to women and children with a little boy's lunch. We learned some things about his provision. When they tried to make Jesus King, he withdrew and sent the disciples off on a boat. And then when Jesus walked on the stormy sea to rescue the disciples, we learned about his care. Then last week we saw the crowds from the feeding of the 5,000 men caught up with Jesus in Capernaum because they They wanted more of that bread.
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And we learned that Jesus is the true bread.
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Let's pick up in v. 35.
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This is actually the verse where we finished last week.
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"Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life.
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Whoever comes to Me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in Me shall never thirst.'" This is the first of the seven "I am" statements of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of John.
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I am the bread of life.
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Jesus was using bread as a metaphor, as an image to describe something about himself.
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And yes, Jesus did feed the crowd literal bread.
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But in Jesus' day, bread was used as a metaphor to encompass all food.
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It was that which sustains life.
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And it's the same as today, right?
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We use the word bread.
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we use the concept of bread as a symbol.
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We say, you know, she's the bread winner in that home.
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Oh, you know, that sport, you know, that's where that's my bread and butter.
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Or we talk about a prison diet being bread and water.
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So you see, Jesus is using this metaphor of bread, the base substance to sustain life.
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And Jesus says, I am the bread of life.
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I am food for your soul.
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And this year's theme is "Knowing Jesus." Why?
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Because according to John 17:3, knowing Jesus is eternal life.
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Eternal life starts with knowing Jesus Christ.
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In 10 million years when we are in Heaven, eternal life will continue to be about knowing Jesus Christ.
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Yet, many Christians still struggle with security.
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If the whole of Christian life is knowing Jesus, why do so many Christians struggle to say, "I don't know if I'm really saved.
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I don't know if I really know Jesus Christ." Over my ministry, I've had several men, men who, in my estimation, had a strong walk with the Lord and had been walking with the Lord for a long time, come to me privately and say, "Pastor Jeff, I struggle.
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I don't know if I'm really a Christian.
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I don't know if I'm really saved." And maybe you just don't yet understand what the Bible teaches about that.
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Or maybe you grew up being taught something unbiblical.
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But as we continue in John chapter six, in this part of the exchange, we're going to see Jesus dig deeper on his teaching about being the living bread.
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We Christians, I want you to listen to His words closely, and we can be settled on the issue of security once and for all.
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So if you've ever struggled with, "I don't know if I'm saved, how do I know, how can I be sure I'm going to heaven?" However you want to word it, today I want you to just jot these three things down and I want you to keep them handy for future reference.
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Here's three reasons you are secure in your salvation.
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reasons you are secure in your salvation. Number one, because God draws you to Him.
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Because God draws you to Him. Now this passage we're looking at here is often used to teach election, predestination, Calvinism, whatever you want to call it. And we are going to discuss that simply and briefly. And if you don't know what the question is, if you don't know But the issue is with election, predestination, it really boils down to this.
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Do we choose to follow Jesus Christ or does God choose us to follow Him?
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Which is it?
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And the answer is both.
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You're like, "Wait, wait, wait.
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How can that be?
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How can it be that you choose to follow Jesus and God chooses you?
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How can it be both?" And my answer to that is I have no idea.
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You're like, "Well, then how can you stand there and preach this stuff if you don't know how it works?" And I'm going to tell you how I do that.
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It's because my dog thinks I'm God.
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That's how.
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If you have a dog, I want you to think about what you look like from your dog's perspective.
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Okay, can you do that?
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Just imagine what you look like from your dog's perspective.
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You know, I think of my dog.
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We got three at home, and my dog, he thinks I'm God.
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I take his water bowl into the kitchen, and with a flick of my wrist, I make water appear out of nowhere.
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Now, yeah, you and I know about pipes and plumbing and water pressure and things like that.
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He has no idea.
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He has no idea.
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He just sees me walk over to the countertop, and whoosh, here comes water out of nowhere.
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He thinks I'm God.
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Now, you see, here's the thing with my dog.
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When I put the water down, he doesn't sit and look at it and say, you know, I'm not drinking that until I figure out how he does the magic water trick.
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He doesn't do that.
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I put the water down and he drinks it.
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Why?
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Because he trusts me.
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That's why.
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He trusts me.
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He knows that I care about him.
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He knows that I'm going to take care of him.
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He doesn't need an explanation.
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You see, in the same way, we trust God.
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We can't explain God.
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We don't need to explain God.
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In fact, Jesus Christ never said, "You need to explain election." Jesus Christ never said, "Describe in detail how predestination works." He never said that.
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Jesus said, "Believe in me." Jesus said, "Trust in me." But the reality is salvation is God's work.
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God gives people to Christ.
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You're going to see here in a second, verse 37.
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God draws people to Christ, verse 44.
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We'll see that in a minute too.
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gives the bread of life, we'll see in verse 51.
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But when it comes to Calvinism, Arminianism, election, free will, people get so wrapped up about this.
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People get so emotionally charged on the issue.
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And I have witnessed many very heated discussions on, do we pick God or does God pick us?
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But from this passage, here are three things that we can all agree on.
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whether you consider yourself a hyper-Calvist, or whether you consider yourself the most staunch Arminian, whatever.
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There's three things from this passage we can all agree on.
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Three truths about the salvation process from Jesus we can all agree on.
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Letter A, not everyone who sees Jesus will come to Jesus.
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Look at verse 36.
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Jesus said, "But I said to you that you have seen me, "and yet do not believe." This crowd, they'd already seen a lot.
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They were there when Jesus fed the multitudes.
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But it's not about seeing what Jesus has done.
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It's about believing in who he is.
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It's about trusting him.
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You see, that is spiritually appraised.
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And whatever you believe about Calvinism, election, whatever you believe about that, everybody recognizes that some people are going come to Jesus Christ, and some people absolutely will not ever come to Jesus Christ, regardless of the evidence.
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Letter B, ok, so not everyone who sees Jesus will come to Jesus.
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Letter B, everyone that is chosen will come to Jesus.
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Look at verse 37.
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All that the Father gives me will come to me.
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All that the Father gives me will come to me.
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To come to Jesus is proof that you've been chosen.
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And I want to tell you this morning that if you've ever struggled with, "Am I chosen?
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Am I one of the elect?
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Was I one of the ones predestined for salvation?
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How do I know if I'm chosen?" You don't need to struggle with that.
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Just come to Jesus Christ.
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Just come.
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Jesus invites you to Himself.
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Jesus doesn't say, "Evaluate whether or not you think you're chosen." He says, "Just come." chosen will come. Letter C, something we can all agree on regarding salvation, everyone who comes to Jesus is welcome. Look at the rest of verse 37. Jesus said, "And whoever comes to me I will never cast out." Everyone who comes to Jesus is welcomed. No matter what you've done, you will not, you will never be cast out.
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thinking your sin is too bad to be forgiven, is to undermine the power of the death of Jesus Christ. I would have to ask you, which do you think is greater? Which do you think has more power? Your sin or Christ's forgiveness? Which has more power? God draws people to himself. The a person to himself.
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Like, well, how does he do that?
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Well, sometimes God draws people to himself by discipling them in the home through godly parents.
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That's one of God's ways of drawing people.
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Sometimes God draws people through painful experiences.
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They go through some hurt or some loss.
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Sometimes God draws people through joy.
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I've talked to many people that have come to Christ because they had a child born.
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And something about that event opened their hearts towards the Lord and He drew them to Himself.
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Like, wait a second, Jeff.
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I thought you were talking about being secure in your salvation.
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I am.
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Because get this, being drawn by God speaks directly to security.
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You see?
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Being called by God is proof that your salvation is secure.
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What do you mean?
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I mean this.
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If God were to call you to salvation, and then you could somehow lose your salvation, that would mean that He was mistaken in giving it to you.
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He was mistaken in drawing you to Himself at all.
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Because when God calls you to Himself, does He know you?
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Does God know you ahead of time?
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Does God know the mistakes that you're going to make in the future?
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Of course He does, but He calls you anyways.
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And to reject you at any point meant that He was wrong in choosing you in the first place.
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And God doesn't make mistakes.
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So if God has drawn you to Himself, you are secure in your salvation.
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Number two, because it's Jesus' job to keep you.
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Because it's Jesus' job to keep you.
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You can never lose the eternal life that Jesus gives, and He gives two reasons for that.
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Verse 38, "For I have come down from Heaven not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me." So letter A, it's Jesus' work.
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It's Jesus' work.
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I told you at the beginning how seriously I took this leaf-raking job.
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Well, Jesus said He came to accomplish His Father's will, to do the work that His Father gave Him.
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How seriously do you think Jesus took His job?
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Jesus' Father says, "Here's what I want you to do." How seriously did Jesus take that?
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I'll tell you how seriously He took it.
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We saw back in chapter 4, verse 34, Jesus said it was His food to do God's will and to accomplish God's work.
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He says, "That's like eating to Me.
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That's the thing that sustains Me." Jesus' work was His sole drive during His time on the earth.
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So it's not only that Jesus' work - letter "B" under number 2 here - it's God's will.
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Look at v. 39.
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"And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I should lose nothing of all that He has given Me, but raise it up on the last day." Did you see that?
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He says, "I was sent to do this work, I've been sent to do God's will." And you're like, "Well, what is God's will?" Very plainly, he says it in verse 39, "That I should lose nothing of all that He has given me." Jesus won't lose what He's been given.
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Jesus won't lose who He's been given.
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That was the Father's will.
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I understand that there was a divine purpose, a specific reason why Jesus came.
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I think some people think God became a man and showed up on the earth and just sort of figured it out along the way, like Jesus came to the earth and he looked around and he saw things were so bad that he decided to do something about it.
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No, no, no.
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From before the beginning, he had a job to do.
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Jesus came to save you and, catch this, just as importantly, He came to keep you.
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That's security.
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You're secure in your salvation, first of all, because God draws you to Himself.
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Secondly, because it's Jesus' job to keep you.
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And finally for today, because Jesus will keep His promise.
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up in verse 40. It says, "For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." So the Jews grumbled about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." They said, "Is this not Jesus, the Son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say I have come down from heaven? Jesus answered them, "Do not grumble among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, and they will all be taught by God." That's Isaiah 54 13 by the way. Jesus Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God.
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He has seen the Father.
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Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
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I am the bread of life.
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Your fathers ate the manna and the wilderness, and they died.
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This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
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I am the living bread that came down from heaven.
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If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.
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And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." The third reason you're secure in your salvation is because Jesus always keeps His promise.
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This is so interesting to me.
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This crowd, just a couple of scenes ago, were trying to force Jesus to be king.
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Like, "You're awesome! You're special!
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You're amazing!" And now when we get to this passage, they're incredulous that He would say He's from heaven.
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Now they're trying to reduce Him to just being an ordinary man.
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They're like, "We know His family!
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Hey, isn't that Joe's boy?
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Why is Joe's boy talking like that?" They just totally were trying to reduce Jesus.
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But Jesus emphasizes to them again, verse 44, "The Father has to draw you to Himself." And some would say, "Well, does that mean we don't do anything?
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We have no part in this, right?
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When it comes to receiving salvation, when it comes to being born again, does that mean we do nothing?" And the answer is no.
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Because Jesus made it very clear in this passage, our part in this salvation process.
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He says to come to Him - verse 35.
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He says to look - verse 40.
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He says to hear and learn - verse 45.
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And verse 47, He says to believe.
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You must believe.
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Believe what specifically?
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Jesus talked about believing in His death.
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What has dying on the cross accomplished?
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He says, "The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." You see, Jesus was taking them back to that bread metaphor that he was using earlier.
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And he was describing - catch this, because this is going to set the tone for the rest of the passage, so you've got to make sure you get this part down.
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Going back to the bread metaphor, Jesus describes believing as eating.
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Because it goes beyond looking.
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It goes to consuming.
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It leads to taking Him in.
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In other words, looking is not the same as eating.
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Do I really have to explain that?
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It would be like if I took you down to the Oakmont Bakery.
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Say, "Hey, I'm gonna pick you up.
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We're going down to the Oakmont Bakery today." I pick you up and we drive down, we park the car, we go into the Oakmont and you're like, "What are we gonna get, Jeff?
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What are we gonna get?" And I say, "We're not getting anything.
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We're just gonna look." How happy would you be?
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Not at all, right?
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Like, "No, no, no, we just came to look." Well, isn't looking at a donut the same thing as eating one?
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Oh, absolutely not.
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That's what Jesus is driving at here.
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Eating is a necessary and personal act.
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Eating requires you to take action.
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You have to take the food and put the food in your mouth.
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You have to make the choice, take the action.
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That's why Jesus was comparing believing to eating.
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And Jesus' words in verse 51 about the bread that he's giving for the life of the world being his flesh, Jesus' words cause more disputing among his hearers.
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That's going to lead to a deeper explanation and we're going to cover that next time.
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But here I want you to see that our security is the promise of the Word of God.
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And some people think that it's arrogant for me to say, "Well, I know that I'm saved." Some people think, "Well, if somebody walks around saying they know they're saved, that's arrogant and that's, 'Boy, you're awfully full of yourself, and who do you think you are?'" Well, that would be arrogant, yes, if salvation was based on my works.
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Then it would be arrogant.
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If salvation was based on my works, that I'm walking around saying, "I've been to mission trips and I'm a pastor at a church and I did this and I gave that," yeah, that'd be pretty obnoxious.
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But you see, it's not based on my work, it's based on His work.
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It's based on His Word.
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So there's nothing arrogant about saying, He made me a promise and I believe this promise.
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You see, if your security was based on your works, you're either going to always wonder if you've ever done enough, or you're always going to feel like a loser.
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Because the standard is perfect obedience, and none of us are able to do that.
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But people put security in all kinds of things.
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You know you're going to heaven?
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Well, I was baptized.
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Well, I joined this church.
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Well, I went through this confirmation class.
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Look, those things are fine, but none of those things save.
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Jesus said, it's eating of the bread of life.
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It's Him.
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You eat of the bread and you will not die, Jesus said.
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You live forever.
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And He accomplishes this, and He gives it as a gift to those who will come and believe in Him.
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That means you didn't earn it and catch this.
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You can't work to keep it.
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I tell my sons all the time, "You're my son, and I love you on your best day, and I love you on your worst day." Nothing will change that.
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And when we're adopted children of God, nothing can change that.
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Not on your best day, not on your worst day.
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You're a child of God still.
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And though your body is going to wear out, Jesus said three times here, verse 39, verse 40, verse 44, that on that last day, He will raise you up.
27:32-27:46
He's talking about our bodily resurrection, that someday we are going to receive a body exactly like the body of Jesus Christ, that we're going to enjoy in heaven forever.
27:49-28:21
So you see this salvation process from being drawn by God, Jesus takes it all the way to the end to being raised by Him. Every point in between. You are secure in your salvation because Jesus Christ always finishes what He starts and He always keeps His promises. Church, we have all struggled with doubt from time to time.
28:22-28:31
But I want to encourage you that next time the enemy begins accusing you, have you ever heard that little voice in your head, "Are you even a Christian?
28:32-28:35
You know you don't act like a Christian. You sure didn't act like a Christian today.
28:36-28:53
You probably don't even feel like a Christian. How do you know that you're a child of God?" The next time the enemy begins accusing you, you see our answer from this passage is simply this, I know I'm a child of God, because God drew me to Himself.
28:54-28:58
I know that I can't lose that, because Jesus said it's His job to not lose me.
28:59-29:00
And Jesus always keeps His Word.
29:02-29:10
I know that I am a child of God forever, because I know the living bread.
29:10-29:12
I'd like you to bow your heads and pray with me, please.
29:14-29:22
Father in Heaven, as we look at Your Word today, so many people struggle with being confident in their salvation.
29:23-29:25
And it's because we try to base it on our performance.
29:26-29:31
Help us, Father, to instead fix our eyes on the performance of Jesus Christ.
29:33-29:35
He accomplished it. He gives it.
29:35-29:38
And we see very clearly in this passage, Father, He has promised.
29:40-29:46
It's His job to not lose anyone that He's been given.
29:48-30:03
Father, let us find our confidence and assurance, not in our feelings, not in our circumstances, but in Your Word and by the indwelling power of Your Holy Spirit.
30:04-30:05
We thank You, Father.
30:05-30:12
We praise You that You've given us confidence in Christ In Jesus' name, Amen.
Small Group Discussion
Read John 6:35-51
What was your big “take-away” from this passage / message?
How do you know when someone is being drawn to Christ? How did YOU know you were being drawn to Christ (John 6:44)?
Specifically, what are ways God draws someone to Christ?
Tell of a time you have struggled with doubting your own salvation. How was that struggle resolved?
Imagine a friend tells you they are struggling with doubting their own salvation. What would you advise that friend to do?
In John 6:51, what did Jesus mean by “eating of the living bread”? How does someone eat the Bread of Life?
Breakout
Pray for those affected by the current pandemic, and our nation’s leaders to make wise decisions.