“NO ONE!”

 “NO ONE!”

John 6:41-45                 (ESV)

“[41] So the Jews grumbled about HIM, because HE said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” [42] They said, “Is not this JESUS, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does HE now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” [43] JESUS answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. [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.”

Many people want to challenge what Scripture records as THE WORD OF GOD.  I am not a person who Believes that I am far enough advanced that I am unable to learn more about GODS WORD ….. every day!!!  But one thing that I am very careful NOT TO DO is to “add to NOR take away from” (Revelation 22:18-19) THE WORD that GOD IN FLESH spoke when HE walked among us!!!

Humanity, no matter how clean they live, doesn’t have the ability nor inclination to beg GOD for HIS MERCY, WITHOUT THE FATHER “drawing” them!!  JESUS plainly says in the passage of Scripture above that “NO ONE” can come to ME UNLESS the FATHER WHO sent ME draws him!!  I’m no Biblical Scholar, but “NO ONE” pretty much says what HE meant to say?!?  “NO ONE”!!!

Romans 5:1 says plainly “Therefore, since WE HAVE BEEN JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THROUGH our LORD JESUS CHRIST.”  Ephesians 2:8 also says “For BY GRACE by grace you have been saved THROUGH FAITH. And this (FAITH) is not your own doing; IT (FAITH) IS THE GIFT OF GOD,”!!!

So SEEING that OUR ONLY HOPE is FAITH in JESUS CHRIST, and that FAITH is purely a GIFT FROM GOD, we DO NOT have the even the inclination to desire a relationship with HIM UNLESS THE FATHER DRAWS US!!!!  “NO ONE”!!!!