John 6:34-40
34Then they said to Him, “Lord, always give to us this bread.” 35But Jesus said to them, “Am the bread of life! The one coming to Me shall by no means hunger, and the one Believing (Trusting) in Me will by no means thirst at any time! 36But I said, that have both seen Me, and do not believe. 37All that the Father gives to Me will come to Me, and the one coming to Me I shall by no means cast out. 38Because I have come down out of heaven, not so that I shall be doing My will, but the will of the One having sent Me. 39And this is the will of the Father having sent Me, that out of all which He has given to Me I will not lose it, but I will raise it up on the last day. 40And this is the will of the One having sent me, that every looking on the Son and Believing (Trusting) in Him shall be having Eternal Life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Good Day Child of God! "Father? Your Will Be Done!" This seems like De'ja' Vu all over again. An old Yogi Berra joke, and appropriate for the verses above. It seems as though we just read them a day or two ago. No so, but one thing is for certain, Jesus is making it plain as can be, what was given to Him as a prime directive for visiting earth.
Realizing that the readers of this blog and the Archive "Grace Words" blog, have been used to reading soft messages of God's Love and His Provisions, it must be difficult to read the previous couple of Study messages that are harsh to a certain point. The Truth is the Father has put lots of planning and making way for His Will, and to ignore it is both dangerous, and possibly insulting to Him. Worry not about the how of the message presentation, worry that the message is sinking in.
Today's easy lesson: In reading the verses above in most Bible Translations, there is a bit of a confusion in the sentence structure in verse 36. It tends to read that there are two reasons Jesus is speaking, but only one comes out. The fact is that Jesus is saying that both (one) He has come to witness to them and (two) they don't Believe in Him. More importantly there is the message, which is repeated in this one paragraph twice. Why? Let's see what the Spirit has to say.
What is the message? For a change there are actually three messages. The primary message is that Jesus came to do the Will of the Father, so that as many as mankind that will Believe in Jesus' works will be given Life. Whatever it may look like to us at the time a body gives up the soul, those with the Spirit of God attached to it, live on. In this one short paragraph, Jesus says it twice, so we can be assured this is the reason for Jesus coming to earth as a man, to do what the Father Will's. Then of course there is the Gospel itself, which is "Trust in Christ Jesus and all He has done on your behalf, and you will be given the gift of Life, never having to fear of losing it, because, as Jesus says, those that are His can never be taken away. Lastly, all the arguments concerning the Rapture, pre-middle-post Tribulation, all rather new teaching, if it were pre or middle, how is it that Jesus says He will raise all those that Trusted in Him at the very end? Seems pretty straight forward to me, but then again, the whole Rapture teaching, that so many hang onto as though it is the Gospel, is just about 200 years old now, and it has nothing to do with what your Father really wants from you, a relationship. The most important issue is that you to are talking to your Abba, Daddy, Father, all day long, all week long. That habit does not lead to the road to perdition, but to the road of peace. Have a Grace Day!
Brother Glenn
This blog link: http://askgodsword.blogspot.com/
Complete New Testament Grace Studies link: http://gracehouseministry.blogspot.com/
34Then they said to Him, “Lord, always give to us this bread.” 35But Jesus said to them, “Am the bread of life! The one coming to Me shall by no means hunger, and the one Believing (Trusting) in Me will by no means thirst at any time! 36But I said, that have both seen Me, and do not believe. 37All that the Father gives to Me will come to Me, and the one coming to Me I shall by no means cast out. 38Because I have come down out of heaven, not so that I shall be doing My will, but the will of the One having sent Me. 39And this is the will of the Father having sent Me, that out of all which He has given to Me I will not lose it, but I will raise it up on the last day. 40And this is the will of the One having sent me, that every looking on the Son and Believing (Trusting) in Him shall be having Eternal Life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Good Day Child of God! "Father? Your Will Be Done!" This seems like De'ja' Vu all over again. An old Yogi Berra joke, and appropriate for the verses above. It seems as though we just read them a day or two ago. No so, but one thing is for certain, Jesus is making it plain as can be, what was given to Him as a prime directive for visiting earth.
Realizing that the readers of this blog and the Archive "Grace Words" blog, have been used to reading soft messages of God's Love and His Provisions, it must be difficult to read the previous couple of Study messages that are harsh to a certain point. The Truth is the Father has put lots of planning and making way for His Will, and to ignore it is both dangerous, and possibly insulting to Him. Worry not about the how of the message presentation, worry that the message is sinking in.
Today's easy lesson: In reading the verses above in most Bible Translations, there is a bit of a confusion in the sentence structure in verse 36. It tends to read that there are two reasons Jesus is speaking, but only one comes out. The fact is that Jesus is saying that both (one) He has come to witness to them and (two) they don't Believe in Him. More importantly there is the message, which is repeated in this one paragraph twice. Why? Let's see what the Spirit has to say.
What is the message? For a change there are actually three messages. The primary message is that Jesus came to do the Will of the Father, so that as many as mankind that will Believe in Jesus' works will be given Life. Whatever it may look like to us at the time a body gives up the soul, those with the Spirit of God attached to it, live on. In this one short paragraph, Jesus says it twice, so we can be assured this is the reason for Jesus coming to earth as a man, to do what the Father Will's. Then of course there is the Gospel itself, which is "Trust in Christ Jesus and all He has done on your behalf, and you will be given the gift of Life, never having to fear of losing it, because, as Jesus says, those that are His can never be taken away. Lastly, all the arguments concerning the Rapture, pre-middle-post Tribulation, all rather new teaching, if it were pre or middle, how is it that Jesus says He will raise all those that Trusted in Him at the very end? Seems pretty straight forward to me, but then again, the whole Rapture teaching, that so many hang onto as though it is the Gospel, is just about 200 years old now, and it has nothing to do with what your Father really wants from you, a relationship. The most important issue is that you to are talking to your Abba, Daddy, Father, all day long, all week long. That habit does not lead to the road to perdition, but to the road of peace. Have a Grace Day!
Brother Glenn
This blog link: http://askgodsword.blogspot.com/
Complete New Testament Grace Studies link: http://gracehouseministry.blogspot.com/
