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NASB | John 6:37 "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 6:37 "All that My Father gives Me will come to Me; and the one who comes to Me I will most certainly not cast out [I will never, never reject anyone who follows Me]. |
Subject: What is eternal life? What is saved? |
Bible Note: Hank, Your analogy of the lost son is innaccurate. In vs. 31-32 you will see that the son was "lost but is found, dead but alive." The context of chap. 15 is sinners that need to repent. If the son never came back to the father he would have remained "dead" and "lost". But he did repent saying "I have sinned against heaven and you.""I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[1] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. John 15 Here Jesus gives us the choice to remain in him or not to. If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. 22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. Rom. 11 We see here that we need to stand by faith. Our part of the covenent. To say that Jesus has to be crucified over and over is not what I said. Absolutely his blood covers over all sins! But the covenent that God gave us requires us to have a heart of repentence in order to "remain in him". The ability to choose, that God gave us from the beginning when Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and were thrown out of the garden, was given to us because God wants us to stay with him because we want to. If you take away the ability to choose you you take away love. And as far as a child of God wanting to leave for Satan...I have seen those committed to Christ turn back to the world because they were unwilling to pick up their cross and deny themselves, a cost that Jesus tells us to count before we follow him (Luke 9:23). We are all subject to temptations. If we are unwilling to walk the narrow way, and try to change the things in our lives that caause us to sin, those very things will entangle us all over again and harden our hearts for God, turning us back to yhe world. Peter warns us that it will happen; 2 Peter2:20-22 -Kin |