"All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out."
John 6:37
No limit is set to the duration
of this promise. The promise does not merely say, "I will not cast out a sinner
at his first coming," but, "I will in no wise cast out." The original
reads, "I will not, not cast out," or "I will never, never cast out."
The text means, that Christ will not at first reject a believer; and
that as he will not do it at first, so he will not to the last.
But
suppose the believer sins after coming to Christ for the first time?
"If any man sin we have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."
But suppose that
believers backslide?
"I will heal their backsliding, I will love them
freely: for mine anger is turned away from him."
But believers may fall
under temptation?
"God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a
way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
But the believer may
fall into sin as David did!
Yes, but he will "Purge them with hyssop,
and they shall be clean; he will wash them and they shall be whiter than
snow"; "From all their iniquities will I cleanse them."
"Once in Christ, in Christ forever,
Nothing from his love can sever."
"I
give unto my sheep," says he, "eternal life; and they shall never
perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." What do you say to this, O trembling feeble mind? Is this not a precious mercy,
that coming to Christ, you do not come to One who will treat you well for a little while, and then send you about your business, but he
will receive you and make you his bride, and you shall be his
forever?
Receive no longer the spirit of bondage again to fear, but the
spirit of adoption whereby you shall cry, Abba, Father! Oh! the grace
of these words: "I will in no wise cast out."
(C.H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening)
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