John pt. 33 | John 6:26-40

John 6:26-34 and the Bread from Heaven

You will at this time Open your Bibles to the gospel of John. This is our 33rd message in this gospel the gospel of John chapter 6. We will for the second time consider verses 26 to 40 the gospel of John chapter 6 Six through 40.

Oh God, please Lord the beloved Precious name of Jesus the Christ. Use what I have prepared. So that we may feast on your word Lord if you do not through your spirit. Speak to your people through me. We this day will start.

I'm going to begin reading with the reading of the text the gospel of John chapter 6 26 through 40. Jesus answered them and said Before I continue to read remember, this is the group of Jews who are following Jesus after the feeding of the multitude.

Truly truly I say to you you seek me not because you saw signs. Because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Do not work for the food which perishes but for the food Which endures to eternal life which the Son of Man will give to you for on him the Father God set his seal.

Therefore they said to him what should we do so that we may work the works of God? Jesus answered and said to him. This is the work of God that you believe in him whom he has sent. So they said to him what then do you do for a sign so that we may see and believe.

What work do you perform. And I remind you again, this is the group of Jews. They just took an aside. Our father a Fathers ate the manna in the wilderness as it is written. He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Jesus said to them truly truly I say to you Moses has not given you the bread from heaven, but my father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of heaven is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.

And they said to him Lord.

Always.

Give us this bread. Jesus said to them I am The bread of life. He who comes to me will never hunger and he who believes in me will never thirst. But I say to you that you have seen me and yet you do not believe.

All that the father gives me will come to me and the one who comes to me. I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven Not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. Now this is the will of him who sent me that of all that he has given to me I lose nothing.

But raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my father that everyone who sees the son and believes in him Will have eternal life and I myself will raise him up on the last day. Our theme for this chapter has been the reality of false disciples.

False Disciples and the Question of Perseverance

Right, we get a good parallel of what a true disciple is. Speaking of I would say the 11 not the 12 the 11 and what a false disciples are those who ate who saw and partook in the sign who crossed the Sea looking for Jesus not to be taught by Jesus not to truly learn from him, but to be fed.

Jesus was their cash cow. And my proposition is this those who believe in Jesus will never perish. For a Christian to perish God would have not entered creation. Jesus would not be the Christ and the Christ would not be on the throne.

One Christian perishes this has to be true. God would have not entered creation. Jesus would not be the Christ and Christ would have not would not be on the throne. Now this is an issue that Christians have misunderstood thought about wrote about and divided over.

Right, we know this is true. There's one thing in church history that took place in the sixteen Hundreds fifteen and sixteen hundreds. It's this issue now. This is a subject that if I was to claim to know or if you were to claim to know or if someone was to claim to know and understand completely They will be completely fooling themselves.

I Do not stand up here telling you that I completely understand this because I do not we are.

Simultaneously.

Saints Positionally righteous before God and also sinners, right? I mean If you think that I'm standing up here without saying you are Rome. You have too high of a standard for me too high of a standard.

I mess up if you want a second. My wife will be you want a third you can ask my children. You want to come into the conversation hang out with me for a week? I mess up. But my sin Does not separate me from Christ.

It does not eliminate the reality that I am a saint Positionally righteous before God. This is a subject that brings other theological questions into discussion like the sovereignty of God. We'll get into a little bit.

The question is this can a Christian lose his or her? Salvation. Can someone be a Christian one day? Have eternal life and the next day not a Christian no longer having eternal life. Again, many Christians say you can.

While others including myself Say that you cannot. I believe the Bible teaches that That someone who is a Christian they are always a Christian. If someone is a Christian They are always a Christian. Again, though. I do not pretend To understand everything about it.

What I can tell you is this. Is that the Bible says that the saved are?

In.

Christ You this day have experienced salvation. You are right now and already not yet in Christ fully completely and Those who are in Christ cannot be on in Christ and also can tell you I'm sure Every one of us can.

If you're old enough has stories where someone served in a church professed faith as a Christian and has fallen away. What do we do with that. I Would say that they're Christian and name-only. They professed faith, but never possessed faith.

They professed faith for whatever reason. But they have not possessed faith and as a minister of the gospel I will also Be a fool to think that everyone that I meet or everyone that becomes a member of this church Though they profess faith possess faith.

I as a minister at the very end of our Sermon or there we've been here from the beginning together, and it's just me and you here that day. I am going to call the hearers to faith and repentance because I just don't know I'm to always call.

Myself.

To you who come here who sit under the word at Covenant Reformed Baptist Church. All of us have seen people in Christian and name Christian in name only. In our outline we're going to follow the pattern laid out in the paragraph concerning the word work.

The work which they perform. The work which They want to perform. The work which All are called to perform. The work which God perform. The work which they cannot perform. The work which God must Perform.

And the work which Jesus must perform. Now when I laid those seven Points out. I was thinking I could get them all done in one week. I got to point number four and realize I Just can't do it. I'm not that guy.

My wife didn't have much faith in me and I don't blame her when I told her I was going to do that. So we're going to pick back up in point number four today. And last week we looked at points one through four this week we'll pick back up in our fourth point.

The Bread of Life and the Second Exodus

So the fourth point. The work which God must. The work which God Excuse me, the work which God poor perform past tense. We'll pick up in verse.

35.

6 verse.

35 Jesus said to them I am the bread of life He who comes to me will never hunger and he who believes in me will.

Never.

Thirst.

Again, this is we exegetically walked through this verse last week and our takeaway from it was Jesus in this I am statement. I am the bread of life. It's clearly made. Right, this is pointing us back to Exodus chapter 3 verse 14 where God speaking to Moses in the burning bush says I am who I am and If you take the Greek Septuagint of that portion of Scripture He says they go.

I mean. And here Jesus says I am Ego I mean and I pointed out that ego can mean I. And our text is translated ego as I am II mean I mean I'm gonna say is am but that both of them actually say I am. So eggo is I am I Mean is I am.

So Jesus here when he uses that word eggo. I mean He's saying I am I am I Am I am. Which points us back to Exodus. Clearly Jesus is pointing out his divinity. God alone gives life. God alone forgives sins and we see as we read these Gospels that Jesus gives life.

Jesus forgives sins. Jesus is doing things that only God could be. Jesus is raising the dead only God. Jesus is doing things that only God can be. Clearly here in this statement. He is saying that he is God and that he Is the bread of life.

The work which God must perform Was sending the bread of life which came down from heaven in Exodus. The the Jews wandering through the wilderness. Moses did not make it rain man. God made it rain man.

We saw the reason why was to see if they would be obedient. They were to gather the bread for six days and on the sixth day they were to gather a double portion. To see if they would be obedient. But also so they would know that Yahweh had brought them out of the land of Egypt.

And right now God has sent the true bread of heaven speaking of in our text He's calling them to repentance. Obedience. Change the way you think and we clearly see that what's taking place here is the second Exodus.

The true Exodus what that Exodus in the book of Exodus was pointing to something greater is coming. A greater Exodus is coming and it's not just for the Jews, but it's for all those who believe Jesus makes the claim that whoever whoever comes to him will listen never.

Hunger.

And I don't pretend to know what everything that means. And whoever believes in him will never thirst again. I don't pretend to know what that means right now. I'm Thirsty right mom as I'm speaking. I Need water, right?

So obviously it's not talking about the physical need that we have for for being hungry and being thirsty. But that's either true or it isn't. There is no middle ground when it comes to Jesus and what he says believing in Jesus means putting one's trust in and committing oneself to.

Work the Stewart.

Coming to Jesus is believing in Jesus coming to Jesus means leaving your own self behind. Coming to Jesus means no turning back. Jesus said no one after putting his hand to the plow and looking back is fit.

For the kingdom of God again quoting from Lawson Steve Lawson. What bread is to the body Jesus is to the soul. In the same way that our our bodies hunger and thirst for bread and water Jesus is that for our soul.

Believing in Jesus and never hungering and coming to Jesus and never thirsting has to do With Jesus satisfying us as only listen if something else can satisfy you besides Jesus. Let's believe you're Christian name only name.

There's been so many testimonies. I've listened to from from whether it be a rock star rap star or just someone who Hit rock bottom in life And found out that Jesus was the rock on the bottom right, they had all these these these great adventures trying their best to Take whatever that they can find in right whether it be Money sex drugs, whatever it is that they thought could satisfy them.

They took it in and still found themselves wanting they were Satisfying the flesh and realized that it was it was a continual knee. They could not actually satisfy their body. Just like your stomach can never fully be satisfied, right?

You eat one day. Maybe you eat three times a day. And the next day guess what you're hungry. You can never be satisfied. That's how it is with the world system no matter how much money you have no matter how much sex or how much drugs.

It's never enough and you will never be satisfied. I hear these testimonies from ex rock stars drug addicts who have come to Christ and Spoken about this. They've never truly felt satisfied in all of their money and all of their longing until They came to Christ.

I believe Humanity since the fall Has in it a wanting to be made whole. That being made whole may not be the the right hope that they're wanting to be made, right? That's why all of humanity are searching for this this life of a rock star this.

Those who can't do it find themselves in the life of a junkie like myself prior to Christ. All right living a life in the streets. Making money the best way that I knew how which was not a good way at all and trying to fulfill my desires by the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life and I found myself in terrible ones.

I can never be satisfied. Because I believe humanity has in it since the fall a wanting to be made home. And I'm not speaking about a god-shaped toe in your heart. I'm speaking about the broken image of God, which is the image of Adam ever since the fall.

The image of God Adam was created Has been broken. It has been broken. And I believe that all of us even though we don't even know it long to be made. Oh, and the only way to be made whole is that image of God coming upon us and that's only done through Christ.

All of mankind is searching for something and Evangelism is telling them that Jesus is that something they're searching for there. They're hungry for they cannot be satisfied. And only Jesus can satisfy.

You will turn with me to the book of Isaiah chapter 55 look at verse 1. Everyone who thirsts Come to the waters. So that again everyone who thirsts Come to the waters and you who have no money come buy and eat.

Come buy wine and milk. Without money without cost. Why do you spend money? For what is not bread and Your wages. For what does not satisfy. Listen carefully to me. And eat what is good and delight your soul and its enriches richness.

Incline your ear and come to me.

Listen.

That your soul may live and I will cut and everlasting covenant with you according to the faithful loving kindness of.

David.

Ladies and gentlemen that covenant was cut on Calvary's cross. And because it was cut on Calvary's cross the invitation is Come and buy with money. Oh. You hunger you thirst and buy without money. It's the free offer of the gospel and buy without money and it's through that.

Covenant.

That you and I and all who are hungry and thirst for righteousness Find reconciliation.

Reconciliation is only through what Jesus Christ has done for us.

The Inability to Believe Apart from the Father’s Gift

Point number five the work which they can not Perform. This will be taken from verse 36 of John's gospel chapter 6 verse 36. But I say to you That you have seen me and yet you do not believe. And this group of Jews Jesus just fed them they can visually see them see him and they do not believe.

We can sometimes think or wonder to ourselves. Why our family our friends and our neighbors don't believe. Why is it my family? My friends and my neighbors Don't believe. Why is it that I believe? But they don't believe.

Why is it that the name of Jesus can make nice people angry and cause your family not to invite you to the get-togethers? All right, amen. Why is that the first thing we need to understand is for the most part family friends and neighbors of Jesus who saw him I didn't believe.

They didn't believe. His brothers didn't believe until after his resurrection. They didn't believe. How much more someone nearly 2 ,000 years? Who hasn't seen him. Those who saw him didn't believe. This group of Jews saw him take a second Feet upwards to 20 to 25 ,000 people and they needed another sign.

Speaking to this group of Jews Jesus says to them You have seen me. The trust was not in Jesus and they were not committed to him meaning they wasn't. They were with him. They saw him partook in the greatest.

One of the greatest signs and all of Scripture and I said it's one of the greatest signs because it points to The gospel it points to the new covenant living. I Don't have time to go back and hash that out, but two or three or four messages ago.

I did that. They did they didn't believe in Jesus their trust and commitment was in themselves. It was in the law of Moses. Why should we expect. Why should I expect. Why should you expect? Your friends your family or your neighbors to believe to put their trust in and commit themselves.

To someone they can't even see to be honest. No one you or I know one and in of ourselves can cause ourselves to believe. Because of the fall of Adam no one can just decide to believe and come to Christ.

No one can decide to be a Christian maybe in name only. But not in Christ. The work which they cannot perform as well as you and I cannot perform is to believe. The work which they cannot perform is belief.

Now as we transition verse 37 gives us our only hope for people believe it as a matter of fact. It gives us the answer as to why you and I believe and others don't. Point number six the work which God must perform look at verse.

37.

Verse 37. Oh The father gives me will come to me and The one who comes to me. I will never cast out. Coming to Jesus is contingent upon the father giving us to the son. Repeat. Coming to Jesus is contingent upon the father giving us to the son.

If you have not been given to him you are not coming to him now. So that we don't think we're special. Don't think of us being given to the son as gifts to the son from the father.

Right.

My salvation is not a gift to him, but instead. Well, what should come to mind is the doctrine of unconditional?

Election.

Unconditional election says that God chose an eternity past those who would be saved. Listen. By his grace and the sending of his son. By his grace and the sending and the sending of his son. His choosing is Unconditional and those whom he chose will come to faith in Christ.

The word here all. So the word all here does not mean everyone who has ever lived. But instead the word all is in reference to those who were given again. Verse 37 a. All That the father gives me will come to me.

You know how I know that the all here is not everyone who has ever lived. Verse 36, but I say to you that you have seen me and yet you do not believe. All that the father Gives me will come to me. He's speaking to a group of Jews probably and upwards to 20 ,000 people who have followed after him because he's their cash cow.

And he's letting him know that you're not a part of this. All all is not does not always mean all of everyone. To everyone that was given to Christ By the father will come to him the covenant. The covenant of redemption gives to us a way to understand.

Unconditional election. Now heard me say this before. God the father's the covenant of redemption. God the father purpose. God the Son accomplishes the purpose. God the Holy Spirit applies the purpose now.

Here's the here's the key. The purpose is to save. God's purpose is to save a people not all people. A people. God the father purpose to save a people. The people whom God the father purpose to save were the people who He chose to be saved.

In eternity past He chose a people to be saved meaning he purposed to save them. So all that the father chose He gives to the son and those Whom the father gives to the son.

Comes.

They come.

Coming to Jesus again is believing in Jesus. Coming to Jesus means leaving yourself behind. Coming to Jesus means no Turning back. This is the warning that we're given throughout scripture. It talks about the warnings here.

The warnings are to believe in Jesus. The warnings are leaving yourself. The warnings are not turning back through belief. This is what it gives to you and those who come to Jesus. Jesus will never pass out meaning if you are in Christ, you cannot be in Christ.

Jesus is not going to remove you from himself. All right. I started out saying that I don't understand how it is that I am Simultaneously a saint and a sinner. I'm positionally righteous before God and yet if you know me, you know that I Sin like everyone else does.

There's nothing special about me. All right when I Break God's law in a simple way. Jesus is not grabbing me and removing him removing myself from him. I'm in Christ right now in Christ sitting with him in the heavens.

In a way that I don't understand completely. He is not Removing myself from him every time I sin and every time I repent putting me back in himself. That's not how this works. Hopefully I can tie it all in a bow right here point number seven the work which Jesus must perform verses 38 Through 40.

The Son’s Mission to Accomplish the Father’s Will

Jesus still speaking for I have come down from heaven. Not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me. Now this is the will of him who sent me all that he has given to me. I lose nothing. But raise it up on the last day.

For this was the will of my father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him Will have eternal life and I myself will raise him up on the last.

Day.

The work which Jesus must perform. Listen is the will of the father and by will I need you to think. Purpose purpose of the father. God the Father purposed. To save a people doesn't covenant. Theologists make everything make sense.

I don't know what dispensational. The work of Jesus the work which Jesus must perform Is to accomplish the purpose? It's to accomplish the purpose set before him. He does that by keeping the covenant of works and by all.

So I'm only pronouncing an all statement and by all I Mean everyone.

Who has ever?

Everyone who has lived after Adam Has fallen in Adam all of us have falling in Adam again and by all I mean Everyone who has ever lived after Adam. Some of us will be saved and by some I mean Those whom the father chose and purpose to say by giving them to the Son all are saved and Kept safe.

So my all who are saved the same all that Jesus is speaking about. It's the sum. The sum of humanity. Some of us are going to be saved because we were given to him by the father. Jesus kept the covenant listen by keeping the law and By doing so he earned righteousness.

For everyone he believed so again right now. I am both saint and sinner. I am positionally righteous before God. Because Jesus earned righteousness for me in his keeping the covenant keeping the law my believing in him.

Which is a gift. I Can't perform it my believing in him. I received righteousness. Abraham believed God and was counted as righteous when you believe God in this sense is this speaking about? The promise see Jesus is that promise see we have righteousness.

We're believe again. It's the Greek word pastewa, which means to put their trust in and commit themselves to. If you're here today and you say that you believe what you're saying Is is that your trust is in Jesus Christ and you are committed to him?

If that's not what your believe means guess what name only Christian in name only. In name only because the belief given to us in Scripture. It's pastewa and it means to put your trust in and commit yourself to.

And who does that? Everyone know all that the father has given to the son. Jesus came down from heaven to do the will of the father if listen if Jesus loses one disciple that means That was given to him.

If Jesus loses one disciple that was given to him by the father. That means Jesus failed in doing the father's will. It means Jesus did not accomplish the purpose. Now to seal the deal on what it means for Jesus to accomplish the purpose.

Not only was he to keep the covenant by keeping the law to earn Righteousness for them for you and I but he was also to take the punishment for those Whom the father gave him by dying in their place. Which is where I get the saying he lived the life.

We could not live. He took our punishment in his death. But also he was buried and he rose again on the third day. And just as Jesus was raised from the dead a Part of what Jesus Accomplishes in this purpose will be our raising again from the dead on the last day.

I know right now. There is a lot of confusion Concerning the resurrection of the dead. Jesus makes it clear right here. This is the will of my father verse 40 that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him Will have eternal life and I myself Will raise him up on the last day if he is just talking about those who see him physically.

Something is majorly wrong. I don't know how to live it. I don't know how to teach it. I Cannot say that everyone Who is born again. Like how do you tell someone who has received Christ is born again as a new creation that this is not speaking about him.

He is not a part of the all he was not given to the father. All that the father gives me will come the all that he is speaking about that will come is the same people here in verse 40 where he says for this is the will of my father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Have eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day.

Last day could not be 70 a .d. It could not be 70 a .d. It is a day in our future. So who is it that is raised on the last day all that is given that the father gives to the son. Ladies and gentlemen, I was given to the father.

I was given to the to the son by the father if you're in Christ. You have been given to the son by the father and he will raise you up on The last day. The Greek word here for C. So if you notice it says Verse 40 for this is the will of my father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him will have eternal life.

The Greek word here for C is they are a oh they are a oh which means to literally or figuratively.

Experience.

Not necessarily gazing at could mean Gazing at but it's literally or figuratively figuratively experience Everyone who experiences Jesus. And by that I'm thinking new birth, right? What is the Gospel of John speaking about the new birth?

This book is about being born again being given faith to believe. Everyone who experiences Jesus in this supernatural way of the new birth Believes in Jesus and has eternal life. There's no new purpose for believers after 70 a .d.

God the Father purpose to save a people. God the Son Accomplishes the purpose by living the life. We could not live and take in our punishment at that cross. At that cross with the wrath of God and the mercy of God men God the Holy Spirit applies the purpose by the message of Christ.

And if you've been paying attention You will know that I've only mentioned unconditional election by name. We just walk through all of Calvinism. Total depravity. We have fallen in Adam and because we have taken Adams curse, right?

We are born in sin bent on sin searching for something to fill our lives besides God. The only way that we can be saved if we have been unconditional.

Elected.

Right God in eternity past chooses who it is that is going to be saved and that Christ died to accomplish the purpose of Those whom the Father gave to him. And we are irresistibly by irresistible grace.

We are saved through that message. We hear that message if we are of the call if we have been given to Jesus guess what we do. We come. Oh that the Father gives me will come to me. And if we are in Christ He does not remove us every time we sin and put us back every time we repent.

It's the perseverance of the Saints. And guess what? It's not you in your own power persevering in Christ. That too is the grace of God in Christ. And today I Pray that you have heard that message. There's nothing we can do to be saved ourselves.

We are fully dependent upon God. Our salvation is contingent upon us being given to the son by the father and that the son Really did come into existence that God entered into creation and he did what we could not do in Reconciling us to himself.

Being our.

Propitiation being the payment for our.

Doing.

And last week in closing last week. I asked two questions. And I hope that as I was preaching. That I said it in such a way last week that it came to mind I was like, what was that or what was that he was talking about last week?

Towards the end of the message when he was calling us to repentance. Why would he say those words if what I'm saying now is true. I Asked this. If you have not come to Jesus why not you do not believe in Jesus.

And what do you believe in. I asked those two questions because I knew it was coming next. The ordeal we cannot believe. We cannot come unless the father gives us to him. But I asked if you have not come.

Why not give the reason? If you do not believe in Jesus, then what do you believe in when you die? You did not choose me God is not an excuse. You did not choose me God is not an excuse.

It's not.

As much as I believe the Bible teaches the sovereignty of God and salvation. It just as much teaches men the responsibility to repent and believe all men. Everywhere are called to repentance and faith.

All men everywhere are called to believe. To repent to turn from sin and to come to Christ. All men everywhere. There is no excuse. God. You did not choose me is not something that's going to come off of your lips.

It's not an excuse. By the good grace. By the by the grace of God. If you're here today and you are in name only listen. The Holy Spirit is here to apply the purpose. The Holy Spirit is here to apply the purpose.

All men everywhere are called to repent and to believe. And so the call is always repentance and faith no matter what the text says when it comes to the sovereignty of God. We're planning our next conference around this whole idea of Calvinism.

And that's why I didn't really dive too deep on verse 37. That's probably going to be my exposition. The Holy Spirit is here. Do you believe that? The Holy Spirit is here. He's calling all men everywhere to repent and believe.

And the question is still the same if you if you do not come to Jesus, why not? Get the reason. And if you do not believe in Jesus, then what do you believe in? The world's largest fairy tale of Darwinian evolution.

The Holy Spirit is here. It's here.

Jesus come to Jesus.

He will not cast you out put your trust in him commit yourself to him and he will raise you up on the last day. That's his promise. And this is the work. Your leadership is available. Pastor Calvin myself you have any questions.

Let's pray Oh God Lord in Jesus name or I pray right now Lord for everyone in here Those that believe and those who have not.

Believe that.

Lord that your grace in this house Lord will be overwhelmed. Just pray that you will Say all of us that we will be in in this kingdom together living together. Walking it out together or please in Jesus name.

Not only save the grown-ups Lord save our children. Granted them faith to believe grant to them faith to believe and to come to Jesus Christ. Well, we pray that in his name. Lord right now we thank you For the opportunity to partake in the Lord's Supper and Lord we pray.

Bless.

This supper this meal and that you use it to conform us to the image of Christ Lord. For only in him are we satisfied. In his name we pray.