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NASB | John 6:65 And He was saying, "For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 6:65 And He was saying, "This is the reason why I have told you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him [that is, unless he is enabled to do so] by the Father." |
Subject: Study the Word, Calvin, or Aminian??? |
Bible Note: bgg, perhaps I'm wrong, but I've thought for some time that the rich young man who came to Jesus and went away, as the Bible says, sorrowful, because he had great wealth, was not willing to give up his other god, riches. Jesus is willing to accept me and forgive me 'just as I am, without one plea, but that His blood was shed for me.' But I must be pentinent; I must be resolved to turn my back on my other gods, and surrender, not a part of myself, but all of myself to Him, to subject my will to His, to bow down to Him and Him only as my Lord and my Savior. Jesus accepts no half-way measures, no partial commitments, no double-mindedness. You know, the Bible says we can't serve both God and mammon, mammon being understood as wealth, wordly goods, temporal things. So, in the story of the rich young man, he may have been so devoted to his riches, so devoted that they were in essence the god of his life, that Jesus, knowing this, commanded him to sell his possessions. He may have been saying essentially, "You shall have no others gods before me." The young man did not do this, indicating with almost certainty that he prized the god of wealth more than the eternal life the Savior was offering him. One doesn't have to look long or hard to see the same story being played out in our world today. --Hank |