The Spiritual Bread Of God (pt 1)
1 | Sin Induced Spiritual Blindness (6:30-36)
2 | Sovereign Grace Induced Spiritual Bread (6:37-40)
- John 10:27-29
- John 17:1-2, 6, 9, & 24
Truths We Should Agree With Concerning the Relationship Between Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility:
- The Father giving the Son a people is biblical language
- Faithfulness requires we deal with it
- We agree that God is the one who saves (Jonah 2:9).
- We all agree that Romans 10:13 is true: For everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.
- We all agree that Romans 10:14 is true: How are they to believe in whom they have never heard. And how are they to hear without someone preaching.
- Sovereign grace doesn’t undermine responsibility.
- Scripture nowhere explains the relationship between divine sovereignty in salvation and human responsibility
- God's Grace in salvation does not diminish the need for prayer:
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13 & 3:3 - We must affirm God’s divine sovereignty at some point in the equation
- There have been godly people who disagree on this (e.g. George Whitfield and John Wesley)
- There will be no victims in the Day of Judgment.
- Psalm 96:13 - The doctrine of divine sovereign grace in salvation does not exclude or condemn. Rather it works exclusively as a benefit to a world with no natural desire to love God
- If our understanding of God's grace in salvation is correct, it will provoke the same question hypothetically raised in Romans 9:14-16 What shall we shall then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy & I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So then it depends not on human will or exertion but on God who has mercy.
Topics:
Bread, Jesus, Material Desire, Spiritual Desire