John 3:1-12
What Does it Mean to be Born Again?
John 3:13-24
What does it mean to believe?
John 3:22-30
Confusion About The New Birth
John 3:25-36
“He must increase, but I must decreaseā€¯
John 4:1-15
Jesus Meets the Samaritan Women
John 4:16-26
It is not Where You Worship But How
John 4:27-38
The Harvest is Ready
John 4:39-45
Jesus’ time with the Samaritans
John 4:46-54
Jesus Heals the Nobleman’s Son
John 5:1-13
Man Healed at the Pool of Bethesda
John 5:14-18
Jesus Claims to be God
John 5:19-29
Four Types of Resurrections
John 5:30-47
Blindness to the Truth of the Scriptures
John 6:1-14
Philip Fails the Exam
John 6:15-27
Jesus Calms Their Fears
John 6:28-40
What’s Your Motive for Following Jesus
John 6:36-44
The Reaction of The Jews
John 6:41-59
Confusion of The Body And Blood of Christ
John 6:60-71
Rejection by Many Followers
John 7:25-39
Blinded to The Truth
John 7:40-53
Divided Opinions About Jesus
John 8:1-11
Jesus Forgives The Adulterous Women
John 8:12-30
Jesus Predicts His Death
John 8:31-38
The Truth Will Set You Free
John 8:39-47
You Are of Your Father The Devil
John 8:48-59
Jesus’ Claims To His Identity
John 9:1-12
Contentment in Any Circumstance
John 9:13-23
Trouble with the Jewish Leaders
The Reaction of The Jews
John 6:36–44
» View this passage in NIV (Bible Gateway)
Howard Hendricks tells how he came from a broken family and was a problem kid. During his first day in fifth grade the teacher said, ’Oh, Howard Hendricks. I’ve heard a lot about you. I understand you are the worst kid in school.’ That year Howard did whatever he could to prov … More
Jesus then rebukes the crowd for their lack of faith (v.36). They had the great privilege of seeing Him, and yet they refused to believe. It is evident here that seeing does not necessarily lead to believing. He goes on to explain that salvation involves both divine sovereignty and human responsibility (vv. 37-40). The Jews supposed that by virtue of their national origin and religious works they were assured of a place in the Kingdom. Our Lord revealed their thought that they could manipulate the Messiah into adapting to their conception of the Kingdom. Quite the opposite was true. Entrance into the Kingdom is not ultimately a matter of our choice, but God’s. It is not we who bring God to us, but God Who draws us to Himself (vv. 41-44). He assures them that anyone who comes to Him will never be lost, but will be raised at the last day (v. 39). In fact, those who put their trust in Christ will be resurrected from physical death to everlasting life with God when Christ comes again (v. 40).
The audience suddenly changes. No longer are we dealing with the wandering crowds that pursued Jesus from the site of the feeding miracle. We are now confronted with an audience of hostile ‘murmuring’ Jews. Again John seems insensitive to the fact that all his characters, with the exception of the Roman official, are ‘Jews’. But as we have noted, by ‘Jews’ John means the religious leadership determined to destroy Jesus. By implication they were still causing the original readers of this Gospel difficulties.
Application
The fact I am going to heaven when I die is not because of something I have done but because of Jesus revealing himself to me and drawing me to Him. All I had to do was believe in Him.
John 6:36-44 (English Standard Version)
Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (Space required at line 39, column 24) in /var/www/html/familytimes/includes/magpie6-1/rss_fetch.inc on line 230
Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /var/www/html/familytimes/includes/rss/esvLookup.php on line 15
View this passage in NIV (Bible Gateway) »