(John) the Total Depravity of Man — Willie Mullan

The Setting and Structure of John 6

Chapter Six. Just to recapture where we have traveled in the last two weeks, do you remember some weeks ago we were down here at Jerusalem when our Lord Jesus was speaking to Nebuchadnezzar in the night time?

And then he journeyed from Jerusalem up to Judea here, as he must need to go to Samaria. And then you remember that wonderful night we had as we listened to him revealing himself to the woman up there.

Then he journeyed from Samaria back into Galilee, to Cana of Galilee, where he performed that first miracle. And he came back again, and it was there on that second occasion that he spoke the word of power, and the noble man's fountain over here in Capernaum, twenty-five miles away, was wonderfully and miraculously healed.

And when he left Cana of Galilee, he came down over the Jordan, and down the Perea Valley, and back over the Jordan, and back to Jerusalem. And you remember, up the gate of the Pool of Bethesda, that our Lord performed that other wonderful miracle.

And when he came back out of Judea, and you remember, he was right back to Galilee, and last week we saw him crossing over to the other side, and then back again in the clouds. And that's where we're still at, where the clouds followed him back to Capernaum.

And we're in John, chapter six, this evening. Do you remember verse twenty-four? When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, that is, on the other side of the lake, neither his disciples, they also took shipping and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.

And take note, please, of verse fifty-nine again this evening. These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. And so we find the crowds coming to teach him, and they're finding him in the synagogue in Capernaum, and we have some wonderful things to look at this evening as he speaks to the multitude.

We finished the lesson last week, verse thirty-seven. What a wonderful verse it was to finish that. And he's looking up at the crowds and saying, "'All that the Father giveth me '—and do you remember the exclamation I made behind it?

"'What a majority!'. You see, he was thinking about all the saints of all the ages. "'All that the Father giveth me, what a majority!'. And I believe, of course, that our Lord will have the preeminence even at the end of time, for more will be saved than lost.

And here again he goes on, "'All that the Father giveth me shall come to me.'. And I made an exclamation mark behind that phrase, "'What simplicity!'. You know, the Lord didn't get excited. He depended on the Holy Ghost who preached the word, and knew that God would work out his purposes.

"'What simplicity!'. And then he said, "'All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me. What responsibility!'. Don't think, my dear friend, just because there are teachings in this book about this, about God choosing, or God electing, or predestining, that you're going to get out of your responsibility, for you're not.

For there is not a truth in God's word that does away with man's responsibility. How could you? You're responsible this evening, but you're not safe of coming to the Lord here. We'll find more about it again tonight.

We're on the same theme. But the Lord said, "'All that the Father giveth me, what a majority, shall come to me. What simplicity! And him that cometh to me, what a responsibility! I will end no wise cast out.

What security!'. My, have you ever wanted that for eternal security? Here it is. I will end no wise. And it was our Lord Jesus who said that. End no wise, cast out. And remember, he meant exactly what he said.

And remember, he always says exactly what he means. What security. So we're journeying on now, following Jesus through John, from verse 38, and we're trying to get right down to the end of the chapter that is.

I've outlined the chapter for you, if you're looking up your notes. Some great things in the chapter this evening. First of all, we shall gaze upon the total butchervity of man's nature. Now, this is something, I think, that needs to be underlined in these days, when people think they can do something in the flesh to please God.

I think we need to learn that symbols are culturally prepared. And this is in the chapter this evening. And then, following on, it comes the truth that balances it up very nicely, the vital necessity of the Father's joy.

You see, unless God moves, and unless God moves upon sinners, then sinners will just go to hell without a thought. So this is very vital, this necessary thing of the Father drawing sinners to the faith.

And then, we shall gaze upon the eternal sufficiency of Christ's provision. It's wonderfully outlined in the chapter this evening. We shall take our time to listen to the critical chronology of the Jews' moment, always when they were cornered by truth.

Their chronology and criticisms came out in all their fierceness. Then, we shall gaze at the logical surety of Peter's answer. I think that's a lovely bit of the chapter. Peter said, Lord, where shall we go?

To whom shall we go? Why, there's no master like you. Thou hast the words of eternal life. Why, he couldn't find another master or another message that he could put in the place of Christ and his word.

Then, the last two verses of the chapter brings before us that diabolical treachery of that act that Judas performed so long ago. That is the chapter. Now, we've got to get these tools out this evening.

Now, I want you to notice, and I'm sure you have noticed, that this is one of the deepest, and I would say one of the most difficult portions of John's Gospel. I'm sure those of you who've read through this last part of John's chapter 6 that you're conscious that it's a very difficult part, and I shall have to just treat it very carefully so that I won't work in the usual way of taking it phrase by phrase.

I'll take the subjects, and I think you'll see it clearer like that. Let's look at this tremendous phrase for a moment in verse 44. Our Lord Jesus is talking to these murmurers. Do you see verse 43? Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, murmur not among yourselves.

Total Depravity and the Father's Drawing

No man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him. Well, that's a tremendous statement with a great depth. Our Lord Jesus is very open about this. He's just saying, no man, no son of Adam's race, no poor lost sinner, no one dead in trespasses and infamy, no one of Adam's race can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him.

So you can see that he's underlining for us an impossibility for a lost son of Adam's race. No man can come to Christ except the Father who sent Christ to draw the man. That brings before us the total depravity of man's nature.

I think that's something we ought to see. Now, don't be rushing me and getting this in the back of your mind. Don't be saying to yourself, well, that sort of clears me, you know, I'm not responsible anymore.

Take your time for a minute and don't rush things. My dear friends, it's not teaching any such thing. You won't get out of your responsibility no matter what you find in this book. And if you read things into the verse that's not there, it's a great pity.

But the Lord Jesus is recognizing here the total depravity of man's nature. And if you go through this book, and you take every specialty that man has, you remember some time ago I just was man, and I said with man's mind.

Man's mind is made up of different faculties. You must know this. We've got a part called imagination. Yes, that's a part of your mind. You can imagine certain things. You can think pictures in your mind.

And then we've got memory. Imagination usually looks that way. You can imagine what happens like and so on. But memories always go in the other way. Yes, we remember faces and names and places and dates and all the rest of it.

We've got imagination and memory. And then we've got understanding in varied degrees. But we all understand with some kind of intelligence. And then, right down deep in your heart and mind, we've got affections.

And right in the very center, we've got something that's called will. Sometimes it's a very stubborn thing. But you'll find this, that when Adam saw in the garden, and came into it, the understanding as far as spiritual and eternal things were concerned, became darkened.

That's the teaching of your book, that the understanding is darkened in the unsaved man, and he cannot of himself understand the things of God. My, they're not understood by nature, you know. And not only is the understanding darkened, but you'll find this, that as far as the things of God are concerned, the imagination is vain.

You remember the second psalm? My, the imagination was vain there. Vain imagination. And you remember that when God looked down in the days of Noah, he could see that the heart and the imagination of man and of thought were evil, and that continued.

And you'll find this, that in the unsaved man, his affections are all centered on things below, not on things above, oh no. And you'll find this, that not only is the understanding darkened, the imagination vain, the affection centered on things below, but the memory.

My, he could look into the woods of God tonight, just like a man looking into a well, and he can even, and straightway forget what man or woman is. They'll learn from God's words that they're on the very edge of the precipice of an eternal hell, and shudder, and groan, and forget.

They do. You'll find that man is totally depressed. Let me say this to you. If God would elect tonight a discipline that never should speak to you of darkness again, you would go to hell. And every other unsaved soul on earth stands in the same position.

If you have one tiny little thought tonight of eternity, or of getting right with God, or even a small longing in the corner of your heart to be saved, my dear friend, it didn't spring from your darkened nature.

It's God that's working in your heart. And unless God works, you'll go to hell. But remember this, that God does work, and God can work, and you can resist God. And there are people who resist the very strivings of the Holy Ghost.

Why, Stephen charged the crowd long ago, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost that hid your heart. And so this is bringing out the truth of the prophecy of man's nature. Except God works, no one will come to Christ.

But only God does work. You see, this verse 44, "'No man can come to me except the Father which has sent me draw him.'". Now, how does God do this drawing? Don't think that this is a movement apart from the servant of God, for it's not.

You know, God uses human vessels to do the drawing. My God, how delectable that some of us poor worms of the dust shall be cool workers, fellow liberals with God. Wonderful thing, you know, that God, the great, eternal, almighty, holy, inflexible God, would deem to take up a thing like me to work through it, to draw man to itself.

But He does. But, you know, there's more to it than that. God is drawing through serpents who are I want you young fellows to learn. And the Lord Jesus said, I, if I be lifted up, will draw. He said, God is the cause of a man.

And it was the man, Christ Jesus. And God is using real vessels who are to the great work of continually, unceasingly, in the gospel, uplifting His Son. Ah, you know, some of you never learned that. No wonder you're no use, you know.

Remember every tooling minister, or any other queen that you might like to bring in, or pitching classes, or not uplifting Christ in the gospel. I'd love to teach you that, you know, whether you like it or whether you don't.

You know, when Paul, the great, could we learn at his feet? When he went down to Columbia, his mind just squared the shoulders. And he said, I'm determined to know nothing among you save Christ and Him crucified.

It was Paul who said, crucify. Do we think we're cleverer? Do you think you know better? Do you think you've got a better dream than this? When Philip went down to Samaria, he preached unto them. And, you know, God is pitching real vessels who are dedicated to the pitching of the glorious gospel of Christ.

Men who, through the blessed blessings of the gospel, can uplift continually Christ. And when Christ is uplifted, you know, the magnetic power of God itself. And I believe there are men and women in this meeting this evening, and time after time you fought the drawing power of God.

God was drawing you to His hand, but you resisted the drawing power. And I'll tell you this, God will not go on drawing forever, you know. One of these nights, God may open His hands and let you go. This is the work of you.

You'll die and go to hell in the last for all eternity. My dear friends, we're looking at serious things this evening. You're totally deposited. You'll not get saved without God working, but God is working.

For God to make thousands have come to Christ. Why? Because God drew them. Thank God for the day and hour when the Holy Ghost worked upon us through the message of the cross, and we were drawn to the Christ.

Bless God we were taken in and eternally saved. Now, I want you to see this. You see, the Father draws through the servants who are dedicated to the preaching of the Gospel, and the Gospel uplifts Christ, and Christ is the magnetic power.

And then we go back from verse 44 to verse 37, And all that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and in the trammels I will in no wise cast out. And now, I want you to see this. You can look into your own heart, and you see the total depravity there.

If God leaves you alone, you'll die and go to hell without a thought. And then you see the vital necessity and how God works. You know, He's drawing poor lost sinners to one who is all-sufficient for all eternity.

Christ's Promises and Eternal Sufficiency

And, you know, the all-sufficient is brought before us here in a wonderful way. You see, that very word that went out in verse 37 brings out one of the promises of Christ. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and in the trammels to me I will in no wise cast out.

That is one of the promises. Why, that's a promise that you can put your feet on this evening. Many a poor lost soul was led to rest for all eternity on the Lord Jesus through this promise coming to the heart by the Holy Ghost.

The Lord Jesus is saying to you, if you'll only come, I will in no wise cast out. That's the promise. Here's another lovely one. Do you see verse 47? Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath, present tense, everlasting life.

The very moment that you're drawn to let your all rest upon the Savior for all eternity, at that very blessed moment you get eternal life, and you can have this to it, you'll never perish. You couldn't have eternal life for six months, could you?

I'd like to know how you'd work it out. How could you get eternal life for six months? That would only be six-month life. At the very moment you come, you get everlasting life, and you'll never perish.

You see, we are coming to one who has made great promises, and even the very promises are eternally sufficient. But, you know, not only do we see in this wonderful discourse here his promises, but do you see his purpose?

We're starting at verse 38, really now. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. You see, he came into this world to be the servant of Jehovah. He didn't come to act as the eternal son, he came to serve as the servant of Jehovah, and to do exactly what the eternal council had planned.

And verse 39 says, and this is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose none. Why, that's the point. You know, that purpose would make you secure too, wouldn't it?

You know, the Father sets his affection on some poor lost soul, and through the gospel he draws that soul to Christ, and as that soul comes, he gives that soul into the keeping of the Savior. And he says, you know, I'm giving you that precious soul, and you're not to lose him.

Do you think he will? Why, it was the great eternal God, through the preaching of the old-fashioned gospel, that brought me to the Savior, and the Father gave me to the Son. Do you think the Son will lose me?

Because I'll tell you different, if you haven't been taught that. In the great to come, the Lord Jesus will stand in eternity. He boosts up the tomb each spring, and he'll turn round to God, and he'll say, behold, I am the children which thou hast given me, and there'll not be a hoof left behind.

And that's sufficient, isn't it? His promises are sufficient, or they would be sufficient for me anyway, because the Lord Jesus looked at me and said, Willie, if you come and trust me, I will end no wise talker.

That would be enough for me. But when he tells me that this is the Father's purpose, that when the Father gave us me to the Son, then he's not to lose me, that's the purpose. Now, the purpose goes further than that.

Do you see we're reading verse 39? This is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing. Verse 40, and this is the will of him that sent me, that every one, so that means everyone, doesn't it, which seeth the Son, gets a revelation of the Son through the gospel, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life.

Now, that's the will of the Son. You know, the will of the Father is that the Son is to keep me for all eternity, and the moment that I come and trust him, I'm to get there and then everlasting life. That's his purpose.

You see, this is an all-sufficient Saviour that we're looking at. Not only his promises, but the purpose of the Father that he came to do through the eternal sufficiency of Christ's provision. But not only his purpose—have a look at this passage.

Christ's Divine Person and Heavenly Origin

I think this is the bit we need to know. Verse 38, "'For I came down from heaven '—didn't they? Verse 41, that's the bit that touched the Jews. The Jews then murmured at him because he said, "'I am the bread which came down from heaven

They got annoyed, the Bokchans. Oh, the modernists get annoyed, the Bokchans, too. My, there are quite a number who don't believe that he would be eternal Son. That there was any pre-existence of Christ before Bethlehem.

Lots of folks have got it into their heads that he began his existence at Bethlehem. Never! He came down from heaven to get the halls of God. He came down from heaven. Christ Jesus came into the world, came down from heaven.

Look at it again. You see, verse 50, "'This is the bread which comes down from heaven.'". Verse 51, "'I am the living bread which came down from heaven.'". You see, this is the eternal Son, the one we read about in the beginning of this gospel, the one who was the Word, who was with God and was God.

And then the Word became flesh. He came down from heaven. Let's get a good look at the person this evening that we're asked to lean upon for our eternal salvation, and you'll find he's all-sufficient.

Have you seen his prominence? I'm the person, I'm the person. Now, you want to go deeper. Here's this power displayed here. Do you see verse 39, at the end of the verse, "'The Father's will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day.'".

You see the next verse? "'And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which heatheth the sun and believeth on him may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.'". My dear friends, we're looking at his power.

You know, I think this is wonderful. When we're given over to Christ, you know, he takes complete control of body, soul, and spirit. And though death may come, physical death, and the spirit and soul may go to be with him, which is far better, and the body is laid in mother earth and goes to dust, yet he's responsible for that body, because it was given to him, you know.

But all this belongs to him. Eyes and ears and arms and feet and bones and veins all belong to him. Body, soul, and spirit. And in the last day of this death and passion, he'll raise again the precious dust that was given to him.

This is not a general resurrection we're talking about here. We're talking about things that were given to him, talking about things. Born-again ones. My dear friends, he'll raise them all, because he's responsible to see body, soul, and spirit in eternity, like himself, and for all eternity.

The Passion of Christ and the Bread of Life

Look, you've been gazing at his person, gazing at his purpose, gazing at his promises, gazing at his power. I think the most important part of the chapter, of course, is his passion. Now, let's get the hold of this.

Let's read on from verse 45. It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me. You see, that's explaining the drawing power.

You see, God teaches you about the wonder-working Saviour who died and rose again, and everyone who has learned, and everyone who has heard cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen the Father, if he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. That's the first of the seven I am's in John's Gospel. We'll find them all as we go on. In chapter 8 he said, I am the light of the world.

Then again he said, I am the resurrection and the life. I am the good shepherd. I am the door. I am divine. But we'll get them as we go through. And there are seven wonderful I am's in John's Gospel, but this is the first one.

I am that bread of life, the bread that came down from heaven. Now, he enters into the depth of the teaching. Now, watch it carefully. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. Well, the bread that they got in the wilderness, you know, didn't make them immortal.

They're dead. Oh, they have blessing, all right, but they're dead. This is the bread which some have done from heaven. That's one of the times when he uses this word, this. I think before the crowd he said, this is the bread.

It's just the same as we had in John chapter 2. He looked at the crowd and he said, destroy this temple, and in pages I will raise it again. And you must be careful when he uses the word like that. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die.

And I want you to watch the word die. You see, he's talking about them eating manna in the wilderness, and they're dead. Because that's physical death, isn't it? And he's talking about, I am that bread of life, this is the bread of life, that if a man eats, he shall not die.

He's not talking about physical death now, is he? I'll tell you there's a deep truth there. I wonder, could I get it out quickly? You see, the crowd that he was talking to, listen to this, they were already spiritually dead.

Oh, they were, away from God, spiritually dead with no taste. And they were going fast into physical death. And they were. And he said, if you accept me, I'm the bread of life, you'll not die. And he wasn't talking about spiritual death and he wasn't talking about physical death, he was talking about the second death, which is eternal death.

You know, you could trust Christ tonight, but you could die tomorrow physically. And if you trusted Christ tonight for the first time, then you came into this meeting spiritually dead, so that spiritual death was yours and physical death could be tomorrow.

But eternal death will never be yours if you trust the faith. Oh, there's a lovely way of saying this. Now, let's get on into this. Verse 51, I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever.

And the bread that I will give is my flesh, or as some of the translations have it, the bread that I will give is my body, which I will give for the life of the world. No wonder the Jews said in the next verse, the Jews therefore spoke among themselves, saying, how can this man give up his flesh to eat?

You see, he was getting into the depths of the great truth. He's revealing to them, I came from heaven. I came to do the Father's will that can give you life eternal, life eternal, when I give my body for you.

That was good teaching, you know. If they'd only cropped their ears, you know, the teaching was good. And he had to go to Calvary and give himself as a sacrifice. A young, blood-thin cross to meet every requirement of a holy God, that he might rise from the dead to be the savior who can give life to everyone that will trust him.

But let's get down to it, you know, it goes deeper still. Verse 63, then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

I tell you, this was tremendous, and we're at the depths of it now. You see, the Lord Jesus, to put it plainly, was revealing to them his passion on yon cross at Calvary. That's the very depth of this whole discourse.

Revealing to them his passion. And, you know, this has been mixed up down through the years. You see, when he started talking about eating my flesh and drinking my blood, they began to talk and think about literal flesh and literal blood.

And, we want to get that into our minds, they thought, well, what's he talking about? Why, this is horrible. How can, how can we eat his flesh, and how can we drink his blood? They began to think in the literal sense.

And then there are some people who have strained the passage, and they begin to think in the memorial sense. Why, there are people in the world who say, you don't need the table anymore. You can eat the flesh and drink the blood in a spiritual sense, and they're trying to do away with the memorial bread and wine which the Savior actually left for all his believers.

Let me say to all the folks that talk like that, when the Lord Jesus spoke about eating flesh and drinking blood here, the table wasn't instituted at all. So put it out of your mind. Don't be getting mixed up with the literal and the memorial.

And then there's another crowd, and they get mixed up with the mystical, the pagan, popish, baboonish Roman church. They try this move of transubstantiation, and the priest blesses the widow, and he says, that's the body, now eat it.

And, this is the blood, now drink it. And they're trying to get it mystically, but to the actual. My dear friend, all these are wrong, you see. He's not talking about the literal, and he's not talking about the memorial, and he most certainly isn't talking about this nonsensical mystical.

You know, I read the story once of a Roman Catholic priest who blessed the widow, and was supposed to turn it actually into the body. And before it was taken into his hands, it was eaten by rats. And he went off his head, said that the rat of it is God.

Oh, wouldn't you know that was nonsense without me going any further? If he didn't know the truth before, he ought to have known it afterwards. Oh, how could a rat eat your God? But it was the nonsensical thing that he was working up that made them so confused.

Look, the Lord is not dealing with the physical, and the Lord is not even touching the memorial, and most certainly he's not touching anything that's nonsensical or mystical. He's talking about a spiritual truth.

Spiritual truth. And he's saying, you know, I'm going to give my body. Well, that's the word that boggles the whole crowd of them. My dear friend, I think that's one of the best words the Lord could have used to bring forth the depth of a spiritual truth.

Remember this, that when Adam fell in the garden, and sin entered, he did it by eating. He did. That's just exactly what happened. And so he is our Lord Jesus, and he's saying this. He's saying, I'm going to the cross, I see him dying from heaven, and I'm in the center of the Father's will, and I'm going to give my body, and I'm going to give my blood, and then that sacrificial thing.

What does he mean? Appropriation. You know, I'm very fond of babies. I know that I'm a rough customer and all that, and well, uh, lots of things could be laid to my charge, but I've got a soft, tender spot for babies.

I could nurse a baby all day. Now, don't get this wrong, do it, but send in Rome for me, and I've got more to do these days. But you know, I was in the house just the other day, just about three days ago, and I always cuddle the babies, you know, and lift them just for a minute or two, a minute or two does me all right, and the mother was feeding the wee things, just a lovely wee dimple treat.

A wee girl, she was lovely, and the mother was feeding her. She was trying to give her some more than she usually gets, and she was actually chewing the thing. It was a little bit of some sort of a kick, and the mother chewed.

She said, you know, I'm eating it for her. She was chewing at me and putting it into the baby's mouth, you see, and she said to me, you know, I'm eating it for her. I said, indeed, you're not. You're chewing it for her.

You're not eating it for her. You see, I always learn by watching very carefully. I said, go on, give her it as you're going to give her it, and so she put it into her mouth, and then I could see the wee thing, you know, trying to make her face go the way it ought to go, and I watched her for a moment.

I said, now, she's only trying to chew it through, but then, you know, you could see her. So you could. I said, you know, she's eaten it now, and I want to tell you this. You know, she had to appropriate it for herself.

Oh, it was a wonderful world. And by eating the appropriate thing that will bless you. And our Lord Jesus said, don't fiddle about with the little one. He didn't want you to be a cannibal. And don't fiddle about with a memorial.

It is only a memorial. It's symbolic. And for any sake, don't fiddle about with the mystical. Let the Holy Ghost take you to Calvary, and see him giving his body and shedding his blood as a question of special blessing.

And appropriate it for yourself, and make it your own, personally. And you'll have everlasting life. Do you know what Saint Augustine said? And you know, it's not very often that I would go to the saints for help.

But Saint Augustine said this, believe in Christ, and thou hast eaten. And that was well said. Believe, and thou hast eaten. I want you to get the hold of this. Do you see the eternal sufficiency? Do you see the total depravity?

Another thing you can do about it. Your dooms. Do you see the vital necessity of God to have to move? Do you see what God's trying to do? He's trying to bring you to Christ, where that being brought out in this very meeting is uplifting Christ, of the all-sufficient saviour.

Can you hear the promises? Can you see the process? Do you see the person? Do you see his power? Listen, do you see his passion? He gave his body and blood as a sacrifice. And when you buy faith, out you bring it, that sacrifice, and make it yours.

You've got life eternal. That's a good gospel. That's a good gospel. The word was well spoken. Eat mine. I believe mine. I'll take mine. Make it yours. Yes, they're all the same thing. Of many, I've received it.

The Jews' Carnal Criticism and Unbelief

Now, let's get the hold of this. You see, we've got down the chapter so far. You've noticed the total depravity, and the vital necessity, and the eternal sufficiency. Now, I want you to notice the carnal, the critical carnality of the Jews.

We've got to go back the chapter a little bit. In verse forty-one, the Jews then murmured at him because, he said, you know, they could always find a cause for murmuring. All the critics that I know can easily find a cause for murmuring.

Remember back in the other page? Yes, they murmured because we performed the miracle on the Sabbath day. Oh, they can always find something to murmur about. All the critics can easily find something. But, you know, usually when the critics really open their mouths, they show their ignorance.