The Power To Overcome Unbelief - [John 6:30-40]

Sin as Spiritual Dissociation and the Root of Unbelief

I want to invite you to take your Bibles and open them to John chapter 6 as we continue to teach through the book of John. Just want to do a little research because I had a picture in my head. So I looked up, how many of you are familiar, maybe I should rephrase that because I don't want to say familiar with phencyclidine and then see a bunch of people raise their hand, the effects of phencyclidine.

Do you know what it is? The common name would be angel dust or PCP or I found one place where they called it embalming fluid. Why would they call it embalming fluid? Kind of gives you a picture of what it does, right?

Makes you virtually dead. Turns you, in fact, the fancy name for it. And what I found fascinating, we've been watching this old TV series. I mean, it's set in 100 years ago. And in it, a bunch of things are legal like cocaine and heroin and stuff like that.

And I'm going, just imagine those kind of drugs being legal. Well, how about this? In the 1950s, phencyclidine, PCP, came on the market as an anesthetic pharmaceutical drug. But it was taken off the market in 1965 due to its, I like this, dissociative hallucinogenic side effects.

What does that mean? What's that? Well, not only did you get high, but you really had no concept of what reality was. One of the things I learned while I was in the academy or one of the things we studied was officer safety.

And there was a situation in the town that I grew up in, West Covina, where a police officer, West Covina PD officer, had stopped somebody who was, it turned out, under the influence of PCP. And he did not want to shoot this guy.

And so they went round and round and round the car until the guy on PCP, listen, eventually took the shotgun and pulled it out of the rack. It was locked in the rack. He just wrenched the whole thing out and killed the police officer.

I say all that only to say that it has a very strong effect on human beings. It changes their way of thinking, changes their perception of reality. It makes them virtually immune to pain. You can have four or five officers on a person with PCP and it's nothing for the person on PCP if, you know, it's a female who weighs 85 pounds to throw everybody off of her.

So it is one powerful, powerful drug. And I had the opportunity one time, we were working up in the mountains and we got a call. We were giving a subpoena to somebody at a fire station up there in the mountains.

And you have to understand, well, you don't have to, but when you're working in the mountain cars in Los Angeles County, that is a vast region. I mean, we would be, I remember once we responded to a call that was two hours away.

I mean, it is big. And so we get this call, we're at this little fire station, and it's a call of an auto, a car burglary, somebody breaking into a car in progress. And guess what? It's like right across the street from where we are.

And I'm going, what are the odds of that? Almost impossible. So we go across, there's this little, it's like a little parking area where people would go up and they would pull down, not really a campground, but just kind of a place you could hang out for the day.

And so we're going down to this parking lot. And my partner says, well, what about that guy? And so we slow down and we can see that he's got robotic movement and all these other things. And he was obviously under the influence of PCP to make it short.

So my partner gets out of the car. And the suspect is not really playing the game the way we want. He's not spreading his feet and all this other stuff. So my partner started kicking his feet and started, you know, using some force on him.

And I just kind of leaned over to him and I go, I don't think that's a good idea. You don't want to get these guys riled up. You want to keep them calm. Anyway, to make a long story short, we got four guys in custody.

And we actually got some liquid PCP. And I was just thankful that we didn't have to get into any kind of physical activity because we're 25, 30 minutes away from anybody. And, you know, it's not really a good situation for us.

But I just wanted to bring that up because I want us to think about that kind of dissociative property. In other words, not being able to see reality correctly. Not being able to really interpret things the way they are.

And I'm going to suggest to you tonight that there's something similar to PCP on a spiritual level, and that something is sin. And to take it a step further, what is it? Well, let me ask you this way, and you should know this by the title of the message.

What is the root of all sin? All sin. Pride is a root. Yes, I would agree with that. I mean, certainly if we looked at Satan, Lucifer, and how he fell. Pride. Yes, very. Depraved hearts. Okay. Unbelief is the winning answer.

Why is that? Because it's in the bulletin. No, because it explains a couple of different things. One is, it explains the sin of the unbeliever, right? Because he doesn't believe, therefore he sins. But it also explains the sin of believers.

Why do you sin? Because you don't believe God enough. You don't believe God enough. Why did Jesus never sin? Well, you know, you could say he's deity, and then I'd argue, well, he's also fully man. And I would tell you, he never sinned because his faith never wavered.

He never doubted. He believed fully at all times. But sin is like having your mind infected, polluted. It's a case of spiritual dissociation, and especially true in the case of the unbeliever. Now, just to kind of catch us up on where we are in the book of John.

We know that John, the beloved apostle, wrote the book. And it's the fourth gospel, probably about 90 AD. And he did so with the express purpose to convince his readers that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ.

Well, why does that matter? If you study the book at all, you'll know it matters because he is the only way of gaining eternal life, the only way of avoiding eternal damnation. So there's nothing more important than understanding the truths of this book.

The Demand for a Sign and Jesus as the Bread from Heaven

And last Sunday morning, we saw Jesus addressing an unbelieving crowd in Capernaum. He concluded by telling them that the way of salvation, the work of God, was to believe in him, the one that God the Father had sent.

During the discourse, Jesus made a claim of exclusivity. He said that, in verse 27, he said that on him, on Jesus, the Father has set his seal. In other words, there's no one else with the full approval of God the Father but Jesus.

And anyone else who claims to have that same seal of approval is a liar. Now, of course, this all follows Jesus feeding the multitudes, at least 20 ,000 people with five loaves and two fish. Is it fish or fishes?

Fish. We always go to the fish's house, so I'm just thinking through that. His subsequent, you know, what happens after that? He perceives that they want to take him and make him king. So he, we're not really told how he does that, but they fail to take him king, so we can sort of infer that he eludes them.

And after spending some time in prayer that night alone and sending his disciples off across the Sea of Galilee, he walked across to meet them. Now, he got to the other side eventually, and I won't go through the whole storm narrative.

I'm sure it's familiar to you. But this crowd that pursues Jesus has no idea how he got to the other side of the lake. And if you were here last Sunday morning, remember what they said? They said, when did you get here?

As if that was the main issue, right? When? You know, like, I don't know. It's now three o 'clock in the afternoon. Did you get here at noon or 10 o 'clock? They didn't care about that. There was only one boat.

The disciples took that. So the question rightly was, how did you get here? But they don't ask that. And we concluded last week by demonstrating from the text and declaring the singular means of being saved.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, not faith in a nebulous sense, like I'm a person of faith, because faith must have an object. And that object is, of course, the Lord Jesus Christ. So let's start at verse 30 in John chapter 6.

So then, and this is right after that, right after he said, after he's told them that they must believe in him. So then, or so they said to him, then what sign do you do that we may see and believe you?

What work do you perform? Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness. As it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my father gives you the true bread from heaven.

For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. They said to him, sir, give us this bread always. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to me, I will never cast out. For I've come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my father, that everyone who looks on the son and believes in him should have eternal life.

And I will raise him up on the last day. Now this evening, I'm going to ask and then answer four questions so that you will see that or where the power to overcome unbelief comes from. And really these truths are so central.

I would encourage you to internalize them, to fix them to your heart, to your hand, even your forehead. Why? Because it'll change the way that you do your apologetics, the way you preach the gospel to people.

They'll also bring joy to your hearts. And may I say, I think if we get this right, there will be a certain calmness and a surety to your life. You won't fret about things that aren't that important. This passage contains some of the most difficult doctrines to accept, and yet some of the sweetest truths you will ever hear.

Evidence, Miracles, and the Unbelief of the Crowd

Question number one, can evidence and miracles overcome unbelief? Can evidence and miracles overcome unbelief? That's why we do those wonderful shows down at the DCF Center, right? We go down there and we do miracle crusades so that you'll believe.

Does it work? No. No, it doesn't. What's the common refrain of the unbeliever? The atheist. You know, I would believe in God if, right? I would believe in God if there were no suffering. I would believe in God if he were to show himself to me.

I would believe in God if... Where are some other ones? If... yes. If someone came back from the dead. That kind of issue. They're looking for what? Proof. Proof. Look again at the passage. So they said to him, that is this crowd, this mob that had...

They were really after one thing. They were after free food. So they said to him, then what sign do you do that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? Our father's eight men in the wilderness, as it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Again, this is kind of a standard thing. Show us a sign. Do some work. Make something happen so that we can go, if you'll just do this or do that, if you can eliminate somebody's suffering, if you can do...

Here's one. The atheist prayer, God, if you get me out of this, I promise I'll change my life. But remember, Jesus has just told them that the work of God, that is to say really what is needed for salvation, was faith in him.

But they don't really accept that. They want to see a work. What does that mean? They want a miracle. They want something that can only be done a sign. They want something that can only be done by the power of God.

And really what this is kind of like a miracle on demand, you know, instead of movies on demand, they want to set the remote and just choose miracle. Amazon Prime, just download that thing. This is what they expect.

Now I've said before that there was a certain messianic expectation in the air. They were waiting for someone who was greater than Moses. A greater than Moses prophet is what they wanted. So their reasoning, the reasoning of this crowd is something like this.

Jesus, what you did was impressive, but there's certain problems. You had five loaves. You had two fishes or fish. Moses, on the other hand, what did he have? Nothing. He had nothing. And yet he brought down manna from heaven.

You gave us run-of-the-mill bread. Maybe we could go to the store and get this, you know, or our wives would make this. This is nothing. He fed the entire nation of Israel for 40 years. You fed 20 ,000 for one meal.

Nice job. Really, really helpful, but you're not Moses. Now these were the same people, keep in mind that just a day before had wanted to make Jesus king. And now they're like, show us something else.

One man said, Christ could produce no credential so conclusive, but that the Jews would demand one more conclusive. J .C. Ryle said, they were always deceiving themselves with the idea that they wanted more evidence and pretending that if they had this evidence, they would believe.

Thousands in every age do just the same. This is the oldest trick in the book, as it were, for the unbeliever. If you'll just do this, if you'll just do that, then I'll believe. No, you won't. And Jesus refutes their assertion.

Look at verse 32. Jesus then said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven. He starts with what? Amen. Amen. Verily, verily. The highest form of assurance.

Jesus tells them that this out of heaven bread that they're calling for, and that's what they, that's how they referred to it. If you break down the grammar, they were saying it was bread out of heaven.

You gave us, in other words, the implication is you gave us earthly bread. Moses, he brought the stuff out of heaven straight from God. And Jesus tells him, look, that bread was not from Moses. And really, when you think about it, it's a little bit of an absurd idea.

What was Moses? A magician? You know, I mean, even the best magician has to have something to work with. Moses had nothing. It was all the power of God. He was just the conduit, the prophet, the human face in front of what God was actually doing.

Moses didn't create anything. Furthermore, the manna just filled a physical need for a limited amount of time. It had zero eternal significance. It was nothing like what Jesus was talking about. And we're going to see that here in a moment.

So can miracles? I mean, Jesus had done many miracles, many signs. And again, think about it. They're suppressing the truth and unrighteousness by not even asking, how did you get over here? They don't really want to know that.

They don't want to know the power of God. They just want to be fed by the power of God. Second question, can the unbeliever overcome unbelief? Sola bootstrapsa, you know, just tighten his belt up a little bit tighter and, or tighten his shoes a little tighter or pull himself up by his own bootstraps and believe.

The answer is no. Look at verse 32, the second half of, but my father gives you the true bread from heaven. That first word there. But again, it's important. There are a couple of different Greek words, not to get too technical, but there's one day, the postpartum of days.

It's just a simple contrast. Just means, you know, on the one hand and on the other hand kind of thing. This one is meant to underscore. It's meant to show a broad, bright contrast between two items. But my father gives you the true bread from heaven.

This is nothing like what Israel experienced in the wilderness. The father gave you temporal sustenance for a fixed amount of time. Now he's giving you present tense, something far greater. And that's something far greater is Jesus himself.

Look at verse 33. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Now that's quite a, quite a bold claim, right? That you come down from heaven. But this is, this is the narrative of John right from the beginning.

He talks about in the beginning was the word and the word was with God. And then he talks about how the word came down and dwelt among us. But back to this text here. The manna foreshadowed what Christ would do.

But it was not the father's greatest gift. He was the father's greatest gift. He came down from heaven of his own volition. But at the father's behest, the father's desire, he came to do the father's will.

And notice also that he gives life, eternal life, not the word is changed here. They were talking about, the Jews were talking about temporary, this, this earthly life. And every time this, this concept of Zoe is mentioned here in this discourse, it has to do with eternal life.

So the contrast could not be more clear. But again, as we saw last week, and then with the woman at the well, this is a mishal, a difficult saying. So the Jews intentionally, and with more than just a little bit of sarcasm, misinterpret the Lord.

They said to him, Sir, give us this bread always. Now it's interesting because the word there, Sir, is often translated. What do you think it's translated as quite often? What's that? No, not rabbi, but Lord.

But here, almost no translator uses Lord. Why? Because they understand that the Jews are not being, that they don't believe in him as Lord. They're not bowing to him as the Christ. They're just being respectful.

So they could have said rabbi, that would have been fine. But it's not, it's not a deep respect. They certainly don't think of him as their master. They see him as kind of dodging their challenge. They want him to do miracles.

And now he's talking about, you know, the bread come from heaven. And they're not really happy with him at this point. And I think it's safe to say that there really isn't a spiritual thought in their collective mind because they've really got this dissociative view of the world.

They don't see the world as it really is. They see it as they want to see it. They do not believe that Jesus is capable of doing what they're asking him to do. And in fact, the implication of their statement here is that not only do they not believe, but it's his fault they don't believe.

After all, if he could do these miracles, then they believe in him. Listen to what John Calvin said. He said, thus unhappy men are not satisfied simply with the sin of rejecting God's promises, but throw the guilt of their unbelief on Christ.

If he was able to meet their demands, they would believe in him. But he doesn't. So they don't. It's his fault. Again, they're trapped in their unbelief. They're incapable of understanding what Jesus is teaching.

We go to 1 Corinthians 2 and talk about how, what? The natural man cannot understand the things of the spirit. Look at verse 35. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger.

And whoever believes in me shall not thirst. This is the first of the seven I am statements in John. And Jesus is claiming here to be the only giver and sustainer of spiritual life, just as physical bread gives and sustains physical life.

So Jesus is able to give and sustain spiritual life. Now, what sort of bread? I mean, this is an amazing statement here. What sort of bread relieves your thirst? You ever eat a loaf of bread and go, I can't, I'm, I'm no longer thirsty.

There should be a clue in that. He's not talking in literal, a literal sense about a bread that satisfies thirst. He's talking about a spiritual and a hunger or a spiritual hunger and a spiritual thirst.

Now, I have to address the whoever's in this verse in verse 35. And they're actually, they come from two different participles. Whoever comes and whoever believes. There is no implication of free will.

I mentioned this before, but a present participle, what does that mean? A participle is a word that usually could end in an ing, for example, believing, you know, so this could be translated instead of whoever believes, believing ones or whoever comes, the coming ones, the ones who come forward.

But it has no implication of a choice here. It's just describing the action that takes place. And it's the same in verse 33. If you look back up there, when the words who comes down, that is a participle talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.

It doesn't indicate that he made a choice. It just indicates that the action that he took in coming down, he did choose to do the father's will, but that's not the point of the wording. So anyway, I say that people read 35 and they want an important meaning into whoever, you know, whoever believes.

But it really does have to do with a constant state of believing. It's a description and nothing more. Now back to the bread. This satisfies both hunger and thirst. This is not to say that a believer may not want a deeper relationship with Christ, because that's not the point.

I think it's certainly right to want a deeper relationship with the Lord. It is to say that Christians, believers will not look for another spiritual source. You see, you know, so if you see something like the Christian Buddhist club, well, that wouldn't be a good club to join because they're trying to mix these two things together.

His point is that he alone can satisfy the spiritual needs of people. Again, look at verse 36. Jesus says, but I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. Not only have they seen him, they've seen what he could do.

He did these miracles, but they didn't want to believe. And again, it's a stark contrast, strong contrast. But I've said to you, you know, you, this is what's going on. I am the bread of life, but I've said to you that you've seen me and yet you do not believe because they didn't want to.

What more could Jesus do? They had seen him, they had seen his works and they rejected him. They are fully responsible for their unbelief. They want to blame him. But the truth is they are 100 responsible.

Now the question comes about, did they have the ability? We talk about that sometimes responsibility versus ability. They're responsible, but did they have the ability to believe? And the truth is, and we're about to see it.

No. But it's interesting because Jesus doesn't have a problem with us. He doesn't have a problem with people not having the ability to do something and them still being responsible. Why? Because we don't have to resolve those two things.

They're both true. Man is responsible, but he may not be capable of doing something. Let's look at verse 37 and we'll get to our third question here. Can the triune God that is father, son, and Holy spirit overcome unbelief?

I hope so. I mean, I certainly am thankful. Yes. A hundred percent. Look at verse 37. All that the father gives me will come to me. Now it's interesting. What are the preconditions that Jesus gives for the father's giving?

What does he say? All the ones who are on a spiritual path that the father gives me. All who have a desire for a better life that the father gives me. There are no conditions. It's not all who choose to believe, but it's all that the father gives me.

I want you to just keep your finger in John six. And I'm going to turn to John chapter 17, because this whole section here just reminded me of John 17. And I'm going to edit it, but we're going to read a little bit from John 17 verses one to 18.

And I'll try to indicate when I'm going to skip. I'm going to go right over the first few words here and just go to where he starts actually praying. Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son that the father may glorify you.

This is the high priestly prayer of the intercession by Jesus on behalf of some of mankind. Glorify your son that the son may glorify you. Since you have given him authority over all flesh to give eternal life.

Listen to all whom you have given him. Can that be all people? Well, let's keep reading. Let's look at verse six. I have manifested your name to the people who you gave me out of the world. Not everyone yours, they were, and you gave them to me and they have kept your word.

Now they know that everything you have given, given me is from you for I have given them the words that you gave me and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you. And they have believed that you sent me.

Verse nine, I am praying for them, for this group. I am not praying for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours. The ones you gave me are yours and yours are mine.

And I am glorified in them. Under verse 14, I have given them your word and the world has hated them, not the earth, but the people on the earth. The unbelievers has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Verse 16, they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. There is a group that is talked about consistently here.

A singular gift from the father to the son. And the only qualification is what? The father's choice. He chooses. There's another word for that. It's called election. And in Ephesians chapter one, Paul writes that the father chose when?

Before the foundation of the world. In other words, before time existed. Paul didn't create that doctrine. Instead, he added some detail to what our Lord taught here in John 17 and in John 6. Now, does he give, does the father give every human being to the son?

No. How do we know that? Well, look at verse 37 again. We're back in John chapter six. Look at verse 37. All that the father gives me will come to me. No exceptions. So if the father gives the son every single person, every man, woman and child, then guess what?

Every man, woman and child, Jesus says will come to me. So we have a little problem here. Is everybody on the face of the planet a believer? Listen what Hendrickson says. He says a person cannot be saved unless he comes to Jesus.

And he cannot come to Jesus unless he is given by the father. That's exactly what the, what the verse says. If we just look ahead at verse 44, no one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him.

What does that mean? No one can. Well, that word can is the one that is the, it has at its root, the same word from which we get dynamites, dunamis, power, ability. No one has the ability or the power to come to Christ unless the father who sent me draws him.

In other words, Jesus says, you cannot make a decision for Christ on your own. You cannot choose to follow him on your own. It must be the work of the father. But those whom the father has given, the ones he elected from before the foundation of the world, those will without fail come to Christ.

It said that right there in verse 37, all that the father gives me will come to me. John Calvin said, faith is not a thing which depends on the will of men, so that this man and that man indiscriminately and at random believe, but that God elects those whom he hands over as it were to his son.

For when he says that whatever is given cometh, we infer from it that all do not come true. So now there are a few objections to this. First objection, of course, is that's not fair. It's not fair response to that.

Grace is not fair. Grace is unmerited favor. That means there's nothing you can do to earn it. Fair is you get what you deserve. And if we think about it, well, you know what, God, just give me what's fair.

Okay, hell. I don't want fair. I don't know about you, but I want grace. I love grace. Grace is great, greater than all my sin. It's not fair. Well, it's not fair if we look at it from our perspective, we say we want everybody to have an equal chance.

But the truth is, left to our own devices, we all would have an equal chance, and that chance would be zero. No chance. Why? Because no one can. No one has the ability. No one is able to come to the son except the father draws him.

And we also know from verse 37 that all that the father gives will come. You can't resist it. It's a done deal. It's going to happen. Why? Because it's not ultimately about us. In fact, if you study John chapter 17, you find out that the ultimate purpose of the elect is to glorify one another.

To glorify the triune God. It's not ultimately about us. We are the object of affection between the persons of the Trinity. It's not fair. It's not really a legitimate issue. It's what the Bible says.

Another objection. How do I know if I am given by the father? How do I know if I'm chosen? How do I know if I'm one of the elect? What's wrong with that question? The answer is, for one, you don't know, right?

Here's what you do know. You can look at the Bible and say, it never says test yourselves and see if you are elect. See if the father has given you to the son. See if the father is drawing you to the son.

It never says that. What does it say? See if you are in the faith. You know, here are a series of tests by which you can determine whether you are walking according to the gospel, according to Christ.

Are you one of his people? Do you love his people? All these things that are in 1 John, there are a series of tests there that make you think, well, this is the marks of a believer. So it's not a question of whether you're one of the elect.

It's a question of, are you saved? Do you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? And if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, if you truly believe, then you are one of the elect. Third one, third objection, well, why evangelize then?

If the father is going to give them to the son and they're all going to come and there's nothing that anybody can do about it, then why do we bother preaching the gospel? Why not just sit back and let the father give them to the son and we'll just all kind of, you know, we'll meet in heaven.

Obvious problems with that. First of all, there is an appointed means. Bible says what? That faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. You have to hear the word of God. Somebody has to preach the gospel to you, says blessed are the feet of those who bring the message of good news, right?

Second problem with that is we're commanded to evangelize. We're commanded to preach the gospel. We're commanded to make disciples. Third answer to it is, comes right out of Matthew 22. Many are called, but few are chosen.

The gospel message needs to be broadly spread out. And then the father draws whom he wills, the spirit convicts whom he will and people get saved. But that's how it happens. It's not a question of, you know, is it wrong to preach the gospel to somebody?

No, it's always the right thing to do. And then we just trust the Lord with the results. The biblical truth is, as I said earlier, that the natural man cannot comprehend the things of the spirit and he doesn't listen.

He doesn't want to. The word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing. It is an offense. It's a stumbling block. Listen what D .A. Carson says. He says, people do not come to Christ because it seems like a good idea to them.

It never does seem like a good idea to sinful people. Apart from a divine work in their souls, people remain more or less contentedly in their sins. Jesus had another way of saying that. He said what to Nicodemus?

You must be born again. There has to be a work that takes place inside of you. It's not something you do. It's something that has to be done to you. Now, it's certainly fair to ask this question. Can one of the elect fail to get to heaven?

You know, if the father is going to give them to the son and they're all going to come, well, can they fail to get to heaven? Can something go wrong? Well, look again at verse 37. The answer is no. And whoever comes to me is or whoever comes to me, I will never cast out.

Now, this is a figure of speech. The pastor Mike talked about some time ago. It's a light of tease, which is to say that you're stating a simple truth, but you're doing it by emphasizing the negative.

So look again at that. He says, and whoever comes to me, I will never cast out. What's he trying to say? It's this, that all who come to him, all that the father gives to him that come to him, he will eternally embrace.

And you say, well, where do you get that? That word ekbalo, to cast out or to drive away, or maybe in the common parlance, we would say the kick to the curb. Jesus says he will never do that, meaning he will always do the opposite.

Hold them close. Instead of casting them out, he will keep them in. He will embrace them. He will never cast them out means that he will keep them always. Now you also have to ask yourself this question.