 No question that John 6 is one of the more powerful chapters in the entire Bible. However, it's also one of the more controversial. I don't think that it necessarily needs to be controversial. As I said before, I think if we just apply the plain reading, a normal, literal grammatical, even historical hermeneutic to this, I don't think it's that controversial and even should be that confusing. So let's go to John 6. And I want to first start off with the understanding of who Jesus is speaking to. So let's go to John 6. Let's go ahead and start in verse 26 to kind of give some background so that we can see who Jesus is speaking to and what he's speaking about. The reason why I ask that question to make that statement because there are those that are going to believe that when it comes to some of the more controversial passages, the passages that want to be debated, that Jesus is possibly speaking to only his disciples. But let's see if that's the case. In verse 26, Jesus asked them and said to them as he's speaking to the people, he says, I truly, truly I say to you, you seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled. Jesus did these signs, but not only that the signs were done because just doing the signs won't be enough for some people, but because they also received the benefit. In other words, they ate from the loaves and were filled. He says, do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to internal life, which the Son of Man will give to you for of him. I'm sorry for on him. The father, God has said his seal that is of Jesus. Therefore, they said to him, what shall we do that we may work the works of God? Jesus says, this is the work of God that you believe in him who has sent. And so this is an imperative. You should believe on him who has sent, which is obviously Jesus. So they said to him, what then do you do for a sign so that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? So the question is so you want us to believe you, but on what basis? What do you give us? And look at Jesus' response. His response to them speaking to these Jews is verse 31. Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness as it is written. He gave them bread out of heaven. Jesus said to them, truly truly I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but is my father who has given. In other words, Jesus saying that obviously the source of the bread is father. So the father, what he gives, what we eat, what they ate came from the father. So notice what he's saying, but it is my father who gives you true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world. Obviously we can see a little bit better than they could. And he's clearly speaking of himself. Then they said to him, Lord always give us this bread. And what is Jesus' response? And this is where we get into the controversial part. And we can see clearly who Jesus is talking to and who he's referring to. He says, I am the true, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger. He who believes in me will never thirst. Now I want to focus on a couple of words over here. The one that's coming is Eric Amenas. This is a present active part of simple. This word right here that's highlighted. It's a present, I'm sorry, present middle part of simple. And so the person's coming, they're coming on their own benefit. That's not the main point. The point is that it's a coming. It's a, you have the ING to it. So the person who is coming will not hunger. And notice what he says, the person who's believing, the high pistol one. And I focus on this several times in the past, this high pistol one, the believing ones, the ones that are believing. And the question is, is there a condition to that? Meaning, is it that if you keep coming? Well, some would say that if you keep coming, then you will never lose your salvation. The question is, does this passage or any of the other passages supply a condition? Does is a condition such as if you keep coming, then you'll have salvation. Or does it just describe the person who is a believer as someone who is constantly believing? When we look at the Bible, we keep seeing a believer as or a Christian as someone described as someone who is in a state of continual believing. There is no condition that's added to it when we see this. And so it would be probably unfair and unwise, certainly not necessarily scriptural either, to add that to that if the text doesn't say so, as though the Lord forgot to put the if there. But let's see if we can glean if this condition is even implied. Let's go back to it. So he says, but and he who believes the believing ones in him will never thirst and notice the emphatic negation in it. It is who may know not ever to to negative negations. Dip dip says say, which is to thirst. And so this is a future activity. So they never ever ever under any circumstance in the future will ever thirst. Well, some will say that this is once they finally get there. And we're going to address that too. It can't be talking about if they finally get there once they get to the end destination, then they'll never thirst once they get to the end destination, then they'll never lose their salvation. Once they're finally saved, then they'll never be unsafe. Well, the question begs them. When are you safe? I think Jesus answers that. Keep continuing verse 36. He says, but I say to you that you have seen me and yet you don't believe you don't know who's he speaking to these people that around them, you do not believe verse 37. This is where the controversy comes in here. He says, all that the father gives. So all pah and hadid, all the father has given to me, all the father gives to me will come. And this is pretty emphatic says that they will come all that the father has given will come question. Is he speaking of just the disciples? Well, it'd be hard to say so because the disciples have already come. He's speaking in the future. All that the father has given to me will come. Okay. I don't think that part could be under misunderstood. This is a future active indicative. They will come. So what about the disciples? Is it just about the disciples? I don't think so. He says, all the father gives me will come to me and those who come to me, I will not certainly cast out. And again, we still see this emphatic negation who may ask below, which is he will never, ever cast out. And so this egg bottle is also another way to give it in fact, negation, a double negation of a subjunctive, meaning that there is no possibility in the future. And the reason why you would use that is to say that he's speaking about now and that there's nothing in the past. I mean, in the future that can negate that. That's the point of using a double negation of a subjunctive. And so that he forecloses the possibility of it happening both now or in the future. He says, well, I've come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me for 39 that all that he has given. Notice this in order that Hena Pahn Ha did a diddokan. So in order that the reason why I came down this point in order that all the ones that have been given notice the text here. This is a perfect tense. So the ones that have been given, they have been given in the past. This is not that they will be given. They have been given perfect tense implies a completed action in the past. We don't have anything like that in the English, but the Greek makes it makes it pretty clear that they have been given to him even before they know about it. Now that just obviously brings up text that other people will have debate over such as Ephesians one and Romans eight and so forth. And then it have to be God knows who he is given to to the son. It's just like we have in our in our weddings. The father gives the bride to the who to the groom. And so similarly all the father that is given which is going to be the bride, the church that is given to the son. He will not lose and knows what he says. This is the will of him who sent me that all that he has given to me, I will lose none. I will not lose any but raise them on the last day. So he has them obviously at this very moment. He has been given to them in the past. He has them now. And what does he say? He will raise them in the future. So this is not talking about one someone receiving something in the future for them to be raised up. No, he has them now. They were given in the past and he will raise them and not lose any in the future for this is the will of my father that everyone who beholds knows what he's saying that pass high thorough on. I'm sorry. They are on which is those that are behold those that are seeing the son. And here it is again the pistol on those that are believing in him will have eternal life. Now the question is will they have eternal life or do they already have it? Well, if we drop down just a little bit further notice what he says. Matter of fact, no, let's keep it in contact. Let's say in verse 41. Therefore the Jews were grumbling about him because he said I am the bread that's came down out of heaven. And they were saying is not this Jesus the son of Joseph whose father and mother we know how does he now say I've come down out of heaven. So they understand that he is the one that's being sent by God. They get that they simply just don't like what he's saying. And so he says verse 43. Do not grumble amongst yourselves. No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him. Now his point is guys don't be so bothered about grumbling. You can't come to me anyway unless the father sent me. And so what's his point? You haven't come to me because the father has not sent you to me. No one can come to me unless the father has draw draws him and I will raise him on the last day. It is written to the prophets and they shall all be taught of God everyone who has heard of and have learned of the father comes to me. So those who have heard of and have learned of not you guys but those that have they will come to me not that anyone has seen the father except the one who was from God. He has seen the father. Notice what he says and this is how we can understand that we have this salvation right now. And as he said previously we'll have it in the end and he won't lose any notice what he says. Truly truly I say to you that he who believes and notice what the word of the shoes here for the he who believes it's also the hop pistol on the ones that's believing in him. He has a K a K is present tense. So the person is believing has present tense and that's what it says. So a I only on he has life into the ages. When does he have life into the ages a K he has it now who does who has life right now continuing into the ages the person that's believing. Well so if you take this just step back and ask yourself do you believe right now at this moment if you are one of the ones that truly believes and we can go ahead and have a caveat that if you truly believe but if you happen to be the one that is a believer a believer but believing one Jesus says you have life right now into the ages and going back to this word this pistol on where do we see this word again in one of the most beloved passages that we can think of matter of fact most famous passage in the Bible in John 3 16. He says for God so love the world that he gave his only begotten son and those what's used here. He gave his only son Hanna in order that all the here it is high pistol on the same ones that were given to him all the ones that are given. So if you are one of the high pistol ones if this is you and John 3 16 if you have placed your faith in Christ and you feel like you have turned a life right now you are part of a high pistol on as it says here that's highlighted Hanna pause high pistol on the Bible says you will never perish Jesus makes this point Jesus says that you will never be cast out you'll never thirst and you have eternal life you have life into the ages right now and as we know about John 3 16 well it comes after John 3 1 3 I mean 3 2 3 4 5 6 all the all the proceeding passages earlier you must be born of the spirit in order to be one of the believing ones in other words you must be born again this was also prophesied what was going to happen in the Old Testament in Deuteronomy 30 and 6 God says that I will circumcise I will do the one I've told you to circumcise your heart you won't do it but God says in 36 more of the Lord will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants of God is going to be the one who is going to do the circumcision of the heart you won't do it you either can't do it or won't do it either way God says that those people are going to be the ones whose hearts he circumcises and then notice what he says in chapter 36 verse 27 of Ezekiel I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues and you'll be careful to observe my ordinances also covered before in Jeremiah 32 39 and 40 that when he does so his spirit is in us he will not turn away from us we won't turn away from him so these parts are understood those it'd be very difficult to debate that and say well I see something different out of Ezekiel 36 out of Jeremiah 32 out of Deuteronomy 30 what is God saying it's clear you'll put his spirit in the people and they will never turn away from him he will never turn away from we will never turn away from him they will turn away from him and he states that it will cause those people to walk in his teachings Jesus makes it clear Jesus makes it clear in John 3 that those has been born again are those that born again born of water and spirit which is what Ezekiel 36 brings up born of the spirit those people are those that have been have been born from above that's what the word means and at the end of them in John 3 born from above born of the spirit and those who are born of the spirit and oh by the way it's not just the Jews it's not just Israel how do I know because Jesus makes a statement the Bible makes a statement in John chapter 112 he says but as many Hossai Hossai all those the ones that have received him to them he gave the right to become and people think that well you have the right but you're not you don't become no there's no such scripture as a matter of fact it's really it's antithetical to the scripture say that if a person has received him that that person is not a child of God all of those that are born of God are of God if you have the spirit you have the son you have life according to the Bible and he says that he gave them the right to become children of God even to those who believe in his name and this word that's used here is the pistil pistil usin it's the same word this use of the pistuan the believing ones it's just a plural version of it so those that are believing in his name who were born and by the way notice is this is a plural heiress passive so you didn't want you didn't bear your you weren't born on your own you were born because it's passive someone caused you to be born that's important they were born not of the will I'm not a blood nor the will of flesh nor the will of man but they were born of God keep that in mind that's vitally important because Peter also tells in 1 Peter 1 3 he says bless it be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his great mercy has caused us notice this cost us to be born again or to be born from above be born from up words up from heaven born of the spirit he caused that not us so we go back to John 6 when he makes a statement truly true I said you that he who believes the high pistol one has eternal life he has life right now all the father that has given to him all of those that he has given those all of those ones are the believing ones if you had if he's given you to him then he has caused you to be one of the believing ones and so it would be difficult for someone to take and say that one that this passage invokes a condition that you if you are believing know you are believing because you were born of him and he caused you to be born again and cause you to walk in his statues and you would never turn away from him he would never turn away from you he says that all of those those believing ones high pistol ones that he will raise every last one of them and the Bible says that that's the reason why he came think about the invocation if that's the reason why he came he came and we know that because verse 39 this is the will of him who sent me and we see this word here henna in order of that all of the ones who he gave in the past and so if Jesus does not bring about does not raise all of the ones that he came that's the reason why he came in order that all of those that were that were given would be raised in the last day within that would mean that could we say that Jesus failed in Israel in that in an attempt we won't ever want to say that Jesus failed because he does not fail he's got and so he came for a reason he succeeded in that reason so if you are one of those that are believing this is the power and the beauty of John 6 if you are one of those that believe if you are believing one you've been given to him he will raise in the last day and that's that you have life right now and you keep having that life you keep living from now into the ages amen