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John 6:60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a
hard saying; who can understand it?”
John 6:61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this,
He said to them, “Does this offend you?
John 6:62 What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak
to you are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from
the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him.
John 6:65 And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me
unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”
John 6:66 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no
more.
John 6:67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”
John 6:68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have
the words of eternal life.
John 6:69 Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son
of the living God.”
John 6:70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you
is a devil?”
John 6:71 He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was he who would betray
Him, being one of the twelve.
I. THE DISAGREEABLE DROP-OUT DISCIPLES.
John 6:60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a
hard saying; who can understand it?”
John 6:61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this,
He said to them, “Does this offend you?
John 6:62 What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?
Not only did Jesus say He came down from heaven but He also says He is going
to go back to heaven.
John 6:41 The Jews then complained about Him, because He said, “I am the bread
which came down from heaven.”
John 6:42 And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother
we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven?”
We can become so familiar with Jesus that we are no longer astonished by Jesus
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak
to you are spirit, and they are life.
All is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down.
John 6:64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from
the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him.
Matthew 9:4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your
hearts?
Matthew 12:25 But Jesus knew their thoughts, …”
Luke 6:8 But He knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered
hand, “Arise and stand here.”
Luke 9:47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a little child and set
him by Him,
Mark 15:10 For he knew that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy.
Psalm 139:1 O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
Psalm 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my
thought afar off.
Psalm 139:3 You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted
with all my ways.
Psalm 139:4 For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O Lord, You know
it altogether.
John 6:65 And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me
unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”
John 6:37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me
I will by no means cast out.
John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of
Him who sent Me.
John 6:39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I
should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
John 6:40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and
believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I
will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore
everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
John 6:47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
It’s both the Father draws and you decide.
John 6:66 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more.
Jesus doesn’t argue with them.
He doesn’t chase after them.
He doesn’t change the message.
John 6:37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me
I will by no means cast out.
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us,
they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest,
that none of them were of us.
John 6:67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”
Acts 1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (altogether
the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said,
1 Corinthians 15:6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once,
of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.
The Barna Research Group says, ” It is estmated that 40% of those presently
serving in the church body will not be doing so 10 years from now.”
II. THE DEDICATED DEVOTEE DISCIPLES.
John 6:68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have
the words of eternal life.
John 6:69 Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son
of the living God.”
If you believe the words, you stay; if you resent the words, you leave.
III. THE DEVILISH DEFECTOR DISCIPLE.
John 6:70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you
is a devil?”
John 6:71 He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was he who would betray
Him, being one of the twelve.
Psalm 41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread,
hath lifted up his heel against me.
