“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” — John 6:37 (KJV)
What a morning to begin the week beneath the canopy of sovereign grace! John 6 is one of the most glorious chapters in all of Holy Scripture, and it thunders with the majesty of God’s electing love.
Notice the iron certainty of Christ’s words: “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me.” Not may come. Not might come. Shall come. John Gill, that faithful expositor of sovereign grace, rightly observed that “the whole body of the elect are here meant, who, when they were chosen by God the Father, were given and put into the hands of Christ” — and that this act is unchangeable. There is no slipping through the fingers of divine purpose.
Then come those soul-steadying words of verse 44: “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.” Here, our Lord strips away every ground of human boasting. We did not find Christ; the Father drew us to Him. Salvation from first to last is the sovereign work of God.
And what is the Father’s will in all of this? Verse 39 answers plainly: “of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” Dear saints, your perseverance is guaranteed not by the strength of your grip, but by the faithfulness of His.
Begin this week resting in that promise. You are given to Christ. You are drawn by the Father. You are kept to the last day. Go forward in confidence, not in yourself, but in the sovereign God who saves to the uttermost.
Soli Deo Gloria
— Pastor Michael
What a morning to begin the week beneath the canopy of sovereign grace! John 6 is one of the most glorious chapters in all of Holy Scripture, and it thunders with the majesty of God’s electing love.
Notice the iron certainty of Christ’s words: “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me.” Not may come. Not might come. Shall come. John Gill, that faithful expositor of sovereign grace, rightly observed that “the whole body of the elect are here meant, who, when they were chosen by God the Father, were given and put into the hands of Christ” — and that this act is unchangeable. There is no slipping through the fingers of divine purpose.
Then come those soul-steadying words of verse 44: “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.” Here, our Lord strips away every ground of human boasting. We did not find Christ; the Father drew us to Him. Salvation from first to last is the sovereign work of God.
And what is the Father’s will in all of this? Verse 39 answers plainly: “of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” Dear saints, your perseverance is guaranteed not by the strength of your grip, but by the faithfulness of His.
Begin this week resting in that promise. You are given to Christ. You are drawn by the Father. You are kept to the last day. Go forward in confidence, not in yourself, but in the sovereign God who saves to the uttermost.
Soli Deo Gloria
— Pastor Michael
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