So Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you want to leave too?”Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, Would ye also go away?
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… turned back and no longer followed him. You don't want to leave too, do you? Jesus asked the church without walls. Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God. This is the Word of God. You may be seated. The Great Confession. in every discipline of life there's a turning point where things go forward or they regress and go backwards this is a catalytic moment in the life of Jesus with his disciples a critical moment a point of turning we're in John chapter 6 Let's go. If I keep referring to that, it's because I know that there may be people who are here this morning and who are listening who have never read the Gospel of John or they are new in the faith. So those of you who are old church heads, be patient with me as I'm patient with those who are on a new journey learning about God. …
… Let me read you verses 59 and following. These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum. Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a difficult statement. Who can listen to it? Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, "'Does this cause you to stumble? What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before? It is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, our spirit and our life. But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from 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? …
… 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. …