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Thursday, April 12, 2012



"All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." (John 6:37)

In this verse and the verses to follow, we find Christ using a marvelous teaching technique. Several times He makes a general, generic statement, but quickly advances from the general and impersonal to the particular and personal.

Note that at the first, Christ tells of an abstract gift to Him from the Father of an entire group, ("all") of which should come to Him for salvation. This is in itself a wonderful truth, for Christ highly values this gift from His Father, we are that gift that He was willing to die for that gift and He has promised that He love for us is so great that He will be with us always. What blessing that Jesus considers us the treasure because the Father gave us to Jesus and that which Jesus has been given he keeps.  So once we are in the hand of Christ nothing can separate us from him and no one can take us from HIM>

 Christ switches in mid-sentence from general to specific: "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out," a concrete statement of the effect of this work on an individual. We are part of a group, without doubt, but also each one of us individually is His precious child.

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