The gospel of John does not contain any parables. What the gospel of John has in it is
conversations and we learn from those conversations. There’s a conversation that we have with
Nicodemus, there's the conversation that we have with the woman at the well, the woman caught
in adultery. We have a long conversation that takes place in John 6 that we're going to look at
together. It's fifty verses. So I've got my iPad here and I've got things all organized in the
scriptures, which I'll show you in just a minute on the screen. But I want you to see that we're
going to go through these fifty verses and look at a conversation that Jesus has. Because these
conversations teach us some valuable things about our lives, about God, and how we can serve
Him.
John 6 starting in verse 22. Would you stand with me as we read the first three verses just as the
introduction that gets us into the story. Notice it says – On the next day (now the next day is after
the feeding of the five thousand and then at night they had the walking on the water of Jesus and
the storm and so on) the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had
been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his
disciples had gone away alone. And they’re wondering where is Jesus? Of course He took the
shortcut walking on the water. They couldn’t figure out where He went. Other boats from
Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. So
when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the
boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
You may be seated.
Seeking Jesus. Now, we're going to see several responses here that we make toward Jesus. And
there are some people that are seekers. They're seeking Jesus. There are some churches that kind
of designed their whole programs around seekers. Seeker sensitive churches. I think that there
can be some value to that. I'm not saying it's not good, I just think that there has to be a way for
people to get depth. Because once they are attracted to a church by being seekers, they must
come in and understand what it means to be disciples. And that's what Jesus is going to talk
about today. He's going to help us understand what it really means to be a disciple.
So these are the guys who are seeking Jesus. As people come to the Lord, as they start thinking
about the Lord, people have questions. And so if you look in verse 25, it says – When they found
him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” So they
just got questions about Jesus. Now, Jesus is not going to answer their question. Jesus is going to
answer a different question. He says to them – Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.” In
other words, your bellies are full. Instead of seeking the signs. The signs are the signposts
pointing toward Jesus, that He is the one that’s going to radically change your life. Instead of
looking at the Messiah, the Christ, trying to understand who Jesus is, you’re just after having
your bellies full. We look at that and we go that’s pretty hard.
I think there's some counselors that are just listeners. There's nothing wrong with that. There's
some counselors you go into and you talk to them, and you say, “Hey, I'm having a problem with
this.” Oh, tell me about it.” And you tell them a little bit. “Oh, tell me more.” And so there are
some counselors that are just listeners. Some of us need just someone to listen to us and we can
kind of talk ourselves through till we know what the solution is. There are other kinds of
counselors that when you say to them, “Let me tell you about my problem,” they say, “Let me
tell you what your real problem is. Let's not talk about your husband, let's talk about you.” And
so that's what's going on here. Jesus is saying let's talk about the real issue that's going on here. I
want you to draw attention to the real thing that's going on. When someone goes to that kind of a
counselor, then they come to the pastor and they say, “Oh, that person was not very
compassionate. They didn't listen to me.” But I think sometimes we need that kind of approach
and that's what Jesus is doing right here. He's going to tell them, let me tell you what's really
going on here.
He says then – “Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal
life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” This is
the key verse. If you're marking the verses in your Bible, this would be a key verse, verse 27,
which says – Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life.
The word life there is the word zoe. It’s not the word bios, not the word psuche. It’s the word zoe
used ninety-eight times in the book of John because John’s whole purpose is to help us
understand life. And this is eternal life.
Now He's going to draw a distinction between the earthly things (the things that we enjoy
physically, like bread) to the spiritual things that nourish our soul on a spiritual level. Because
Jesus knows that in order for these people to get it, they must move past “I want Jesus just for the
things He's going to do for me” to “I want Jesus because He is the Lord of my life.” They need to
move to that spiritual component.
It's really interesting as people start coming close to the Lord and they say, wow, this is different.
I'm realizing life is more than just climbing the ladder of success, or raising a family, or having a
house and a car and two kids and a dog and whatever. There's something more to life. It's the
spiritual dimension. That's what Jesus is drawing attention to in the passage. He says – “Do not
work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of
Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
The next slide shows you what I'm looking at in my iPad. You can't read that, but I just wanted
you to see. I went through and I color coded all of the passage so that I could see. Now all the
blue on these…there's actually three pages here, but we don’t have slides for all those. But on my
iPad, I have three pages and all the blue represents God the Father and what He does. Then
there's Jesus doing His part. And then all of the orange represents our actions, what we do. We're
seeking, we're believing (as is mentioned here), and there's several other words we're going to
see that are our response.
What I want you to see today (and I think what Jesus wants us to see in this passage) is that
salvation and coming to be a disciple involves all three parts. There's the Father who does the
designing. He's the one who draws us to Him. There is the Son who implements that and who
gathers them. He dies on the cross, and He’s the one gathering the people. And then we have a
responsibility to respond to Him. That's what we're going to see as we continue on.
So it starts there. God the Father has set His seal. His seal, that is certification. So we can go to
that next slide, we're back to the scripture, where it says that God the Father has set his seal.
Then they said to him… And here's their next question. And you know people, as we come to the
Lord, we have questions. If you're here today and you're just coming to Jesus, that you're just
getting to know what the church is about (it's really about Jesus), but if you're getting to know
Jesus at the beginning here, then you're going to identify with some of these questions. He asked
this question. They say to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” You see, you
got to think about these people. These are the people who are Jewish people who grew up with
the Law. And it's all about doing these works in order to accomplish the task of pleasing God is,
is what could develop out of their Law-based theology. There are even some churches today that
focus in on works. You do these works, these works, and these works, and then you'll be pleasing
to God. There can be a temptation in our own mind that says, “Well, God is going to look at me
and evaluate my works to see if I have enough credit to get into heaven.” Jesus is going to say
that is not how we should be thinking.
I talked to a man this week, thirty-nine years old. He was telling me his testimony. He's
definitely a Christian. He just got saved last year. He's telling me his story, a dramatic story in
his life. As he gets through the story, he's saying, “I've done a lot of bad things in my life and
now I'm focusing on the good. I know that God's going to look at the bad and the good. And He's
going to see that I'm really working on the good in my life.” I'm saying in my own mind, wow,
that's like this. This young man who's a Christian is going to come to the realization that it's only
about Jesus. That's what Jesus is going to say right now in the passage.
So they’re asking – “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them,
“This is the work of God.” So this is your answer. If you're wondering what work you need to do
in order to earn your salvation, here is it. It is that you believe in him whom he has sent. That's
where salvation comes from. We don't believe in our works. We believe in Jesus Christ and His
work of salvation. And because of His work on salvation, our sins are covered. We take on His
righteousness and we're able to experience this salvation. That is the essence of the gospel. Jesus
is trying to explain this to those people. That you believe in him whom he has sent. There's the he
has sent again, the Father's part.
So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do
you perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread
from heaven to eat.’” Jesus then said to them… And I’m going to tell you what He said to them
in just a moment.
But see, they're having this… They're going okay, alright. We want to understand what this is.
What is it we need to do? I mean, what is this sign you're going to perform? And Jesus is going
to say, okay, let's go back to the beginning here. Let me explain the basics to you. I think every
once in a while, it's good for us to go back to the basics in our own Christian life to remember
where we are. Because sometimes, even as Christians, we can get so used to the blessings that
we come close to Jesus because of what He does for us. And He does a lot of things. But we
really need to come to that realization that it's all about Jesus. Then we get to know Jesus as God,
as He’s going to describe Himself here.
As you get to know Jesus as God, it changes everything. It changes the way we live. It
transforms our lives. It brings us to that place. We have to make a decision. Are we going to
partake? Are we going to believe and allow God to completely transform our lives? Or are we
going to stay where we are and just enjoy a lot of the blessings and benefits from hanging around
Jesus? There are a lot of blessings from hanging around Jesus. Same thing is true in our world
today. If you hire Christians, then those Christians have the blessing of God and they're likely to
produce more blessing in your business. If you hang around the church, you're going to
experience a lot of good things. But it's not about the results; it's about this personal relationship
with Jesus that we want to understand and appreciate. Let's go back to the basics.
I love this story of Vince Lombardi, a famous football coach of the Green Bay Packers many
years ago. They came off of a losing season. And they lost the championship game. As they get
back together for the new season, the players are all thinking, okay, we're going to build from
here and go forward. But Vince Lombardi, the coach, gets everybody together and he says,
“Okay, everybody.” He picks up a ball and he says, “This is a football.” In other words, we're
going back to the basics. And they started working on tackling, and they started working on
throwing and catching and positioning themselves well, and all of these things. They had a
winning season that year. They ended up beating the Giants 37-0 in that final championship
game. Vince Lombardi went on to win many, many championship games. Just an amazing
coach. But he got it right. Let's go back to the basics.
I think sometimes we need to go back to the basics. And Jesus is going to do this. Let's go there
together. I know you some of you've been Christians for years. But let's go back to the basics and
ask ourselves some important questions about why are we here? What are we doing? And Jesus
says to them in regards to their question – “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave
you the bread from heaven. Now the words from heaven are going to be used several times,
which are going to indicate Jesus is coming from heaven. We’ll see that, but here’s one of them.
But my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. In other words there’s a difference between
the bread and the true bread. Jesus is going to draw a distinction between our earthly lives and
our spiritual lives here. We need to focus in in our spiritual lives, our spiritual health. What does
God want to do in the midst of that?
“For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” That is
another one of your key verses. That’s verse 33. For the bread of God is he who comes down
from heaven and gives life, zoe, to the world. This is the answer to your question. This is what
you need, everybody. You need to understand that this is the bread that God provides. It gives
life to the whole world. Their response in verse 34 is – “Sir, give us this bread always.” We
want it. If it gives life to the world, we want it.
Jesus says okay, but you got to understand some more basics here. Let's see if you really want it.
He says in verse 35 – He said to them, “I am the bread of life.” He's going to say that down in
verse 41. He's going to say that again in verse 48. He's going to say it in verse 51. It's pretty clear
what Jesus is saying. Over and over again He's going to make this clear that He's the bread of
life. In other words, Jesus Christ is the sustenance that we need. And the same way you eat food
to stay alive, you need spiritual food. Jesus Christ is what fills that for us and provides us with
that spiritual blessing that we have in Christ.
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes…” Now I highlighted in red these
words. These are all responses that you and I make. If you're here today and you haven't accepted
Christ, we've already seen words like ‘seeking’ and ‘believing.’ Here's another word, ‘come.’
Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said
to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me (there’s the
Father’s initiative again) will come to me (that means we need to come to Him as well, that’s our
part), and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to
do my own will but the will of him who sent me. So we've got the Father sending, we have Jesus
coming down from heaven, and we have our response to believe.
You might think, wow, that's kind of interesting. We know this because we've already read this
chapter. We've already accepted Jesus, many of us. We know that He came down from heaven.
But He's talking to people and He's saying to them He's come down from heaven. He's the bread
of life that came down from heaven. You can imagine they're thinking, what does it mean He
came down from heaven? How do I translate that? What does it mean for us?
Verse 39 – And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has
given me, but raise it up on the last day.” Do you see the words raise up on the last day there?
Also in verse 40, you’ll see it again in verse 44, and again in verse 54. Raise up on the last day.
Now the last day is the day of the rapture, the day of the resurrection that start this whole end
times series of events that take place. Raise it up on the last day.
We call that eschatology. That's the study of last things. But I want you to think for a moment
about your own personal eschatology. Personal eschatology is the day you're going to die. Each
one of us are going to die unless Christ comes before then. And when we do, where are we going
to be? That's what Jesus is talking about. There’s a last day when there's a resurrection for those
who have taken of the bread, those who participated in that. This is an eternal decision that we
make, it has eternal consequences.
He says – “I will raise him up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone
who looks (there’s another word that we have in our response to God) on the Son and believes in
him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” There's this eternal benefit
that we have by trusting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
Verse 41 says this: So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came
down from heaven.” They’re grumbling. They don’t understand this. Of course Jesus knows
what’s going on in people’s hearts. He knows that they’re grumbling. So He’s going to respond
to that. But 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’?” This, of course, is another question
that people ask as they’re coming closer to Jesus. They’re often saying, well, are you telling me
Jesus was not just an ordinary man? Are you telling me that He wasn’t just a moral person or a
good person or a good teacher? He wasn’t just an example? He was something more than that?
And when we recognize that Jesus is God, it changes everything. That's why they're upset about
this. They're trying to figure it out.
Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.” He knows what’s going on as they
grumble. “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.” In the salvation
process here's what happens. God the Father has elected some to come to Him. And He places
something inside of their hearts to draw them to Himself. So that they'll respond with these
believe, come, behold, all these different words that are used here. And we have a response.
That's the Father's job in all of this is to draw people. He’s elected people and these draws them.
Which leads us to questions like, what is predestination? What is foreknowledge? What does all
this mean? How do I figure all this out? And so if you have questions about that, I want you to
come tonight. We're going to spend time talking about predestination tonight. Pastor Don is
going to tell us everything we didn't know about predestination, foreknowledge in twenty
minutes. That's tonight as he gets into 1 Peter because that's what 1 Peter 1 starts with. So he's
going to talk about that tonight. So come and hear more about this.
At this point, I want you to see that the Father is drawing the people. And you wonder, “Well, I
wonder if I'm one of the elect?” I want to tell you something. If you feel the Holy Spirit drawing
you today to Him, and you respond to that belief, then you're confirming the fact that you are
elected, that God has chosen you. There's a process going on here. God has chosen, elected, He
is drawing you. And if you respond to that, you're confirming what God has already done in our
lives.
Now it's important because sometimes we say “choose Jesus,” as if it's our responsibility. We
need to know that even our ability to choose God comes from God Himself. There's this grace
that God provides for, saving grace that He gives to us so that we’ll respond. Very interesting
understanding of who God is, and is complicated and rather challenging, I think, for some of
these people. That's what they are wrestling with too here as they go forward.
And I will raise him up on the last day (verse 44). Verse 45 – It is written in the Prophets, ‘And
they will all be taught by God.’ Don’t miss this little quote from the Prophets. Because even in
the Prophets it says they are going to be taught by God. Something is going to happen inside of
them and they’re going to respond. Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes
to me. You see what’s being taught here? That God does something in a person’s heart and then
they’re turn because they’re being drawn and they respond to this come to me or believing.
Verse 46 – Not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the
Father. Here is a key verse. Verse 47 is another one of the key verses in this whole passage.
Truly, truly, I say to you (this is about as simple as it can get), whoever believes has eternal life.
That’s what He’s saying. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
So today, if you haven't accepted Christ, you want to believe and you want to respond, you want
to come. It's not just about believing in your mind, it's about participating and saying, “Okay, I
want this,” And then Jesus has to elaborate on this so we get it. And that's what He's going to talk
about next.
He says – I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
This is the bread that comes down from heaven. He didn’t start as a baby. I know that you think
He grew up in Nazareth, but He was far before that, as Upton was singing. That Jesus started in
eternity and came down from heaven. Wow, what a beautiful picture here that we can see and
understand. It’s really radical for them and they’re trying to figure it out.
“This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the
living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And
the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
There is this spiritual dynamic that's going on and there's this physical illustration that He's
using. There's this metaphor of bread that He's talking about spiritually. So we're trying to gather
what God is saying on a spiritual level in our lives. He's saying there's something more to life.
It's a spiritual relationship with me. That the person who believes needs to also participate by
taking me as their sustenance, as their life. It's a transforming experience that we give ourselves
completely to the Lord.
Verse 52 – The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his
flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the
Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks
my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and
my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in
him.
Jesus is trying to communicate that there are two different things. There's physical bread and
there’s spiritual bread. But when you really understand the spiritual bread, you need to eat it.
You need to participate in it. You need take it on.
I need to talk about this just for a moment because in the Catholic Church they mess this up. I
just got to say, I think this there's a lot of good things in the Catholic Church. I'm not bashing the
Catholic Church. I think there are Christians in the Catholic Church who've trusted Jesus Christ
as their Lord and Savior. But I think this one is a mistake. Because what has happened in the
Catholic Church is they've taken this to say, well, we must actually partake of Jesus’ body and
blood. And so they have changed or transformed communion into this experience of eating
Jesus’ body and blood. They believe in a theological concept called transubstantiation, which
means that when you take the bread and the wine, that it actually, before you take it, turns into
the body and blood of Christ. You're actually participating or taking that on. I think that whole
idea misses the concept. First of all, this passage isn’t talking about communion. Communion
won't even come until at well after this. But I think the concept is being missed here. The idea
that there is a spiritual transformation that takes place in our lives. It's about something we do
spiritually. That we're spiritually partaking in this.
Listen to the rest of the words here. He says – As the living Father sent me, and I live because of
the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. It’s not about eating Christ’s
body here, cannibalism. It’s about this sense of participating in Christ. That He is my life. I’m
going to trust Him fully. I’m going to make Him everything that I do. This is not an easy concept
for some when they realize that it's not just about gaining some benefits and adding them on to
our spiritual lives. It's about spiritual transformation. And that's what He's trying to communicate
to them.
Verse 58 – “This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate,
and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the
synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.
Well, let's look at the results. Because when you peel it back and you look at what salvation
really is, then you have to make a choice in your life. You have to decide what you're going to do
with that information. Is this something you're going to embrace and run with? Or is this going to
bother you so much that you're going to walk away? It says in verse 60 – When many of his
disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” But Jesus, knowing in
himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this?
Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? In other words,
what if you had the proof of seeing Jesus in heaven Himself? If you saw that, would you believe?
Now He uses the term disciples here, not as the twelve. He’s going to use the word twelve in just
a moment. These are people who are followers. These are people who have kind of hung around
Jesus for a while, His disciples. The ones who are learning from Him. But now they’re getting to
the real crux of things and will they make the choice. Will they decide to follow Jesus
completely in their lives?
“Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he
was before? It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken
to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from
the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
Verse 65 – And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted
him by the Father.” Do you see the Father’s role here? This makes us so grateful for the
sovereignty of God. That when we respond to the Lord, it's just confirmation that He's chosen us
and we're coming toward Him. We go, yes. Thank you, Lord, for drawing me. No one can come
to the Father… And they're wrestling with this hard saying in their lives. They're wrestling with
the hard sayings of Jesus and Jesus talking to them about something that’s difficult to
understand.
I think this whole idea of sovereignty of God is a difficult thing to understand too. When you
start understanding this, we take this by faith, we are welcomed into this special dynamic, a
special relationship with God. We call it becoming a Christian or getting saved or being
converted. You can call it whatever you want. But the idea is you're becoming a disciple of Jesus
with some spiritual transformation that's taking place that's different from the earthly stuff we
normally experience in our lives.
Notice verse 66. It says – After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with
him. Well that’s a statement. When they realized that they really had to make a decision, that
this was about giving up my life the way it exists now and I'm going to totally follow Jesus in my
life, they said, “I don't think so. I'm not going to do that.” Wow.
So verse 61 – So Jesus said to the twelve (He’s just going to talk to His disciples), “Do you want
to go away as well?” Do you want to go away as well, guys? Are you into this? I love Simon
Peter’s answer because this is my answer, this is your answer. This is when we really understand
this concept, this is what we say. Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go?
Where are we going to go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have
come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” When you get to realize that Jesus is the Holy
One of God, it changes everything. It changes everything about our lives because there’s
nowhere else to go.
It's fascinating when a person in their life tries all these different things in their lives to get where
they want to be. Some doing things that are bad, like getting involved in drugs and all kinds of
illicit relationships, and they, “Oh, I can't live this way anymore.” And other people are on the
path to success. And they continue on, and they're being very successful, and they say, “This isn't
what life's all about either.” It's about a personal spiritual relationship with God. Wow. That's
what Peter says. That's what I think we need to say.
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.” He
spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.
When I think about the challenge here, I think it's a pretty important question that we ask
ourselves. I'm just going to ask you, I have to ask myself the same question – what would it take
for you to walk away from Jesus? That's kind of a scary question. What would it take for you to
walk away from Jesus? It's an important question, because I see this happening. I see people,
they come to church, they're here for a while, and then they stop coming to church. Now church
isn't the same as knowing Jesus. And sometimes people go to another church, and that's fine.
Sometimes they leave our church because they were offended by something here because we
have broken people here. And they go to another church and they're going to find broken people
over there, but we won't tell them that yet. But they're going to go there. And that's okay. You
know, we go to different churches for various reasons. And that's okay. The point is, is your
relationship with God intact? But there are some people who not just back out of church, they
kind of walk away from the Lord. Why do they do that? Something happens in their lives where
they start to say this isn't worth it for me. And when you start saying this isn't worth it for me, I
think you're right here where Jesus is talking.
We tend to evaluate sometimes whether we want Jesus because He's doing something for us.
He's our utility knife. He helps us solve problems. He's like the lucky charm of life. Jesus is
saying you guys are coming because you have your bellies full. He's saying you're not coming
for the signposts. The signs that are posting that I am the bread of life. And we need to come to
that place regularly in our lives, especially when we're tempted to move away from the Lord to
ask ourselves the question, why am I here? Why am I doing this? And the answer is because I
want to be totally committed to the Lord. He is the only way to experience the satisfaction, the
fulfillment of a good meal. It's the bread of Jesus Christ that provides for us. And that's what we
need. Every one of us needs that in our lives.
I trust that that will provoke you in your own heart to rethink the basics. To go back and say, you
know, I'm not in this for just the answered prayers or the rewards or the friendships that I have.
I'm in this because I need Jesus as my Savior in my life. I have a sin problem and that sin
problem creates a distance between my heavenly Father. I want to have a close His relationship
with my heavenly Father. Therefore He's drawing me. I'm going to choose Him, I'm going to
respond to Him, and I'm going to experience then the life in Christ that God wants for me.
That's why John included this long dialogue in this passage to make sure we get it. Make sure we
understand that Jesus Christ is the Holy One of God. When we get that, it changes everything.
