A Tour Through John, Lesson 14

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/tour-john-lesson-14/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p>6:37 Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away; 38 for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 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. 40 This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life; and I will raise them up on the last day.”</p><p>41 Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43 Jesus answered them, “Do not complain among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.</p><ul><li>The Jews could not conceive how Jesus could be both man <i>and</i> God (v.42). This classic question in theology was the focus of debate for two centuries in the early church!</li><li>This concept was hard for fleshly man to accept.<ul><li>For most people, on "channel 2," spiritual bread (a "channel 1" concept) was hard to comprehend.</li><li>The notion of eating flesh and (especially) drinking blood would have been <a href="http://douglasjacoby.com/articles/3545" target="_blank">shocking</a> to an orthodox Jew.</li><li>The grumbling is like that of the Jews in the desert (e.g. Exodus 16-17; Numbers 14; 16).</li></ul></li><li>Jesus tells them to stop grumbling (v.43), and adds several vital truths.<ul><li>We must be drawn to God (v.44). This does not necessarily support Calvinism.<br /> </li></ul></l