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Jul 03, 2022

John - Seek & Draw

Passage: John 6:24-47

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: John: Come and See

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: faith, grace, salvation, predestination

God isn’t up in heaven crossing his fingers, hoping that somebody is smart enough to believe and come to faith. Neither are we mere puppets with God pulling our salvific strings. This topic of free will vs. God’s sovereignty has created a lot of confusion and division. In this passage Jesus is speaking to people who are “seeking” him, but on their own terms and for their own personal (and temporary) benefit. Jesus is calling them into something so much bigger, easier and better. He relentlessly pursues His Bride, bringing us home and giving us Eternal Life that cannot be taken away.

CENTRAL TEXT: John 6

24 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.

25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26 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.

37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 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 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

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. 45 It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— 46 not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

64 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.) 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.”


Themes: God isn’t up in heaven crossing his fingers, hoping that somebody is smart enough to believe and come to faith. Neither are we mere puppets with God pulling our salvific strings.  This topic of free will vs. God’s sovereignty has created a lot of confusion and division. In this passage Jesus is speaking to people who are “seeking” him, but on their own terms and for their own personal (and temporary) benefit. Jesus is calling them into something so much bigger, easier and better. He relentlessly pursues His Bride, bringing us home and giving us Eternal Life that cannot be taken away.