Seeing Red. Day 4, Week 1

Joh 6:43-51  "Stopgrumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent medraws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. It iswritten in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hasheard the Father and learned from him comes to me. No onehas seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen theFather. Verytruly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. I am thebread of life. Yourancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But hereis the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. I am theliving bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever.This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

No man can come to me - This was spoken by Jesus to reprove theircomplaints - “Murmur not among yourselves.” They objected to his doctrine, orcomplained against it, because he claimed to be greater than Moses, and becausethey supposed him to be a mere man, and that what he said was impossible. Jesusdoes not deny that these things appeared difficult, and hence he said that ifany man believed, it was proof that God had inclined him. It was not to beexpected that of themselves they would embrace the doctrine. If any manbelieved, it would be because he had been influenced by God.

Draw him - This word is used here,evidently, to denote such an influence from God as to secure the result, or asto incline the mind to believe; yet the manner in which this is done is notdetermined by the use of the word. It is used in the New Testament six times.Once it is applied to a compulsory drawing of Paul and Silas to themarket-place, Act_16:19. Twice it isused to denote the drawing of a net, Joh_21:6,Joh_21:11. Once to the drawing of asword Joh_18:10; and once in a sensesimilar to its use here Joh_12:32; “AndI, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” What is its meaninghere must be determined by the facts about the sinner’s conversion (AB)

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