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NASB | John 6:44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 6:44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him [giving him the desire to come to Me]; and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day. |
Bible Question:
Here, Jesus says very plainly that no one can come to Him unless that person is drawn to Him by the Father. However, later in John 12:32, He says that If He will be lifted up from the earth then He will draw ALL men unto him. Does He mean being lifted up on the Cross? Or, does He mean being lifted up from the earth in His ascent into Heaven. Both of the latter having been fulfilled and in realization that one must be drawn, is it now Jesus or the Father Who draws. It would "seem" that in John 6 Jesus would mean to say in context that unless the Father draws one, the is no hope for the "undrawn". Then in John 12 it would "seem: that Jesus has become the Person of the Trinity Who draws all men. This is a real dilemma for me, can anyone expound please? |
Bible Answer: Dear Charlie, there is a multitude of commentaries at Preceptaustin.org. You can search the commentaries by verse. Just enter the verse in question, scroll down and you will see what the classical commentors said as well as modern day scholars. Because the book of Romans explains that all creation has an innate knowledge of God, man is without excuse. Also God has put within his creation, the world we live, the knowledge that He is the one who created everything on earth, in the heavens and underneath the heavens. One of the things that the Holy Spirit does is convict the world of sin. World meaning each of us individually. What we read in Romans that man, people individually, ignore this conviction or they recognize it is from God and seek Him. Romans specifically says that anyone who ignores this conviction is without hope. This is what makes one's heart hard and hard to reach. This is why we are to live for God when we are young because the older we get the harder our hearts, our conscience becomes to sin and eventually our conscience becomes seared, in other word we have no conscience for the wrongs we do, the wrongs being those things that God has said is immoral, stealing, adultery, etc. This type of person does not care for God or the things of God. Even the person who does seek God and listens to God's convicting Holy Spirit, if he does not read and study the bible, obeying the Lords commands and instructions written there, he will not be following the light the bible sheds. This is much the problem of our modern day church today. People rely on a twenty minute sermon once a week to be their guide. Often the speaker with take one verse and build a commentary around it rather than reading the word of God itsself as the prophets did to Israel. Also in the synagogues they read the scriptures. Christ draws us to himself through his death, burial and resurrection. All of us who have heard his story and those who have not see it in creation and their innate knowledge that God gave them. All people are drawn. All people are given plenty of chances to surrender to God. When people die without having surrendered to God, they have no one to blame but themselves. They didn't listen to God speaking to them through creation, through their consciences, through the spoken word, through the experiences of life such as death of a loved one. There is hope for anyone who will surrender to Jesus who came to rescue us from our sins and give us a heavenly home with Him. If you are worried about someone in particular that they are not drawn, you can pray for them and tell them the gospel story of how much God loves and wants to have a relationship with them. When I saw Jesus there on the cross and how much He suffered for me, that he could have called ten thousand angels to rescue Him but instead endured the death on the cross, it was at that moment that I saw why he died, because of my sins. I saw how much He loved me; enough to die for me. There was no sin in Him; I saw my sin next to Him and it broke my heart. I said God if you are really out there, I want you to be my Savior, I want to follow you. I bring myself and all my sins to you. I am not ashamed of Him anymore. I was raised in a christian home but was always ashamed because of how we were made fun of, church-goers. I am not ashamed anymore. I will tell anyone, anywhere, anytime about what Christ has done for me. Happy New Year, Val |
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