Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father.
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… Here's where Jesus rests at this sad reality of defection. He was saying, for this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father. that is a powerful statement. This salvation is all a work of God. Go back to verse 37 of John 6. All that the Father gives me will come to me. Verse 44. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And here for the third time, he says the same thing. No one can come to me unless it has been granted him from the Father. This is where you resolve this, in God's sovereign will, in God's sovereign will. The bottom line for you and for all of us is, do you believe, right? Some of you have not believed. You don't believe the words, the words of the gospel, the words of sanctification, the words of truth. But others of you believe, and for you the word is life. …
… the beginning who they were who did not believe and who it was that would betray Him. And He was saying, for this reason I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father. As a result of this, many of his disciples withdrew and were not walking with him anymore. So Jesus said to the twelve, You do not want to go away also, do you? Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. We have believed and have come to know that you are the Holy One of God. Jesus answered them, Did I myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil? Now He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him." This is a shocking moment in the ministry of our Lord. At the peak of His miracle working, He has a mass defection on the part of disciples. …
… Him. And He said, Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father. And from that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. And then Jesus said to the twelve, Do you also want to go away? But Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we've come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered them, Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil? He spoke of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve. You who has ears to hear the word of God, let them hear it. You may be seated. Let us pray. Father, as we turn our attention now to this text that we have read, which indeed contains so many hard sayings, we pray that the Spirit of truth would intercede with our weakness and slowness of heart to understand, and illumine these words, that we may grasp them in their fullness and be changed by them. …