All Those The Father Gives Me

John 6:28,32,35-40,44 – Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”… Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven…Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”…“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.

John 10:28-29 – I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

John 17:12,15,19 – While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by^[a]that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled…My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one…For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

Application:

• ·         God’s action, not ours, is primary in salvation, and Christ’s mercy is unfailing.
• ·         True believers will persevere because of Christ’s firm hold on them.
• ·         People do not come to Christ strictly on their own initiative; the Father draws them.
• ·         The Father’s power is greater than that of any enemy, making the sheep completely secure.
• ·         “What must we do…?” means they missed the point that eternal life is Christ’s gift and were thinking in terms of achieving it by pious works.
• ·         Jesus corrected the people, pointing out that the manna in the wilderness did not come from Moses but from God and that the Father still “gives” the true bread from heaven (life through the Son).
• ·         Death cannot destroy the life that Christ gives.
• ·         Eternal life is Christ’s gift.
• ·         The sheep’s security is in the power of the shepherd, who will let no one take them from Him.
• ·         Christ’s power is adequate for every need.
• ·         The world is where Jesus’ disciples are to do their work; Jesus does not wish them to be taken from it until that work is done.
• ·         Jesus died on the cross not only to save us but also to consecrate us to God’s service.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV