John 3:16

John 3:16
For God
So love the world
That He gave
His only begotton Son
That whosoever
Believes
In Him
should not perish
but have eternal life

Interpreting the Bible Responsibly

Now here is how it happens: every time I talk about the doctrine of Election, the first verse that gets thrown up to me is how about John 3:16.

"What about John 3:16?"  And I would say what about John 3:16 I would say? 

"For God so love the the world that whosoever..........rest of the verse. 

• And they  would unline whosoever five times. and whosoever believe will have everlasting life?" they will read.

• "And".... I would say:

• They say "well that means everyone has the moral power to choose Jesus and anybody who choose Jesus out of that moral power will be saved."

I look at John 3:16 and I can't find that. Where is that in that verse?

"Well it is obvious?" 

 Well no it isn't.

 You are drawing an inference (a conclusion reached on the basis of your reasoning, or you are inferring something on the text that is not there, or stated)

• "No what the verse states explicit (stated clearly and in detail. leaving no room for confusion or doubt) all who do A will not receive B and will receive C."

• "All who believe will not perish."
•  
•  All who are in the category will not be included in the category of those who will perish. But will be included in the category who participate or share will have eternal life.

That is what the text teaches explicity.  It tell us what happens to those who believe as oppose to those who do not believe.

Now what does the verse  say to those who have the moral power to believe?

• Do I need to translate that? Nothing.

 What does the Bible say explicity about man's natural ability to incline himself to believe and do the things of God.

What does the Lord say explicity?

•  "No man (universal nagative) can come to Me unless it is given to him by the Father." John 6:44.

•   "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." (esv)

Does the Bible teach that in our fallen condition man have the natural ability in his own power to bring himself to Christ? To choose Jesus when we want to.?

•  No it doesn't.

• The Lord Jesus Christ said. we do not have the natural ability, none of has, unless God meets the necessary conditions for us to be able to respond to the Gospel.

• That is what the Bible tells us explicity, (fully and clearly expressed and is demonstrated; leaving nothing mrerly implied. ) about our moral ability.

But that explicit teaching that Jesus gives in John 6 is trumped by an implication drawn (the conclusion that can be drawn from a verse although it is not explicity stated.) from John 3. Same author who said in John 6 only God can grant salvation .

Do not interpret the explicit by your inplicit. But you interpret  the implication by what is explicit stated.

• Luther said'  You intereprete the obscure with the clear, not the clear with the obscure."

"No man can come unto me."  

• Unless the fields had been hpdrepared it was in vain to sow the seed. No effort on the sower's part could make them receptive.

• The fact that they believed not, declared that their hearts were not prepared, but did not affect the goodness of the seed.

• This defection did not surprise Him,s he ad alread used words whicdh anticipated it. (John 6:37, 44.)

• The soul of man the flesh is of no value, so without the quickening Spirit of God all forms of religion are dead and worthless.

"except it were given him." John 6:65

•  "Plainly showing that by the Father's "drawing" (John 6:44) was meant an internal and efficacious operation, for in recalling the statement here He says, it must be "given to a man to come" to Christ. "

"that no man can come to me, except it be given him by my Father"

• 'Which is the same, as to be drawn by the Father; for faith in Christ is the gift of God, and coming to Him, is owing to efficacious grace, and is not the produce of man's power and free will." John Gill.

• "Because many of you believe not, and therefore, though there is in them the outward appearance of 

•  discipleship, they lack the inward divine preparation. "  Myers.

• "All that brings men to Christ is the Father's gift." John 6;65

• "Therefore" (better to say:, "for this cause." (John 12:18; John 12;27) John 5:15; John 5:18; John 7:22 and John 8:47.

• "Given"  by the drawing of grace.

Christ has come completely round to the fundamental principles with which he sated.

• The coming to Him, the believing on Him, the spiritual apprehension of His Divine humanity, the adoring acceptance of His precious blood, the reception of the spiritual life-giving energy which went forth from Him in word, depended on the Father's "drawing" - on those fundamentnal characteristics of appetite and capacity to receive the grace of Chdrist which are subjective and are referrible to the Father's good pleasure.

• Christ does not give the hunger, but the bread.  From the beginning He saw the presence of the appetite after that which He came to bestow.

• Sometimes a morbid cessation of all hunger, a moribund cessation of thirst, may be and is transformed into passionate and life-saving eagerness by The sight of food.

• The Father gives both the hunger and the food, the sense of need and the heavenly supply.

• The love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord, is ethe drawing of the Father through the Son to Himself.

• The drawing of the Father is the giving of souls to the Son:  A fresh thought is here added, This drawing, thus interpreted, is God's gift also to the human soul.

Landscaping

When came to our current house in 08 03 2012 the back of the house look like this.  While it was need to see, the tress was right up to the back deck.

Today 05 2020 we have done a lot of work.

What Does It Mean That God is Sovereign in SALVATION

What does it mean when we say that God is sovereign in salvation?

 

Charles H. Spurgeon has said it about as well as can be said by men:

 

"First, then, DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY AS EXEMPLIFIED IN SALVATION.

 

If any man be saved, he is saved by divine grace and by divine grace alone; the reason of his salvation is not to be found in him, but in God.

 

We are not saved as the result of anything that we do or that we will, but we will and do as the result of God’s good pleasure and the work of His grace in our hearts.

 

No sinner can prevent God; that is, he cannot go before Him, cannot anticipate Him. God is always first in the matter of salvation. He is before our convictions, before our desires, before our fears, and before our hopes. All that is good or ever will be good in us is preceded by the grace of God and is the effect of a divine cause within."\

 

"Again, the grace of God is sovereign. By that we mean that God has an absolute right to give that grace where He chooses and to withhold it when He pleases

 

He is not bound to give it to any man, much less to all men; if He chooses to give it to one man and not to another, His answer is,

‘Is thine eye evil because mine eye is good? Can I not do as I will with mine own? I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.’"

 

Scripture says the same thing, just as clearly and emphatically:

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 (^{John 6:44).}

 

65 And He was saying, "For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me, unless it has been granted him from the Father" (^{John 6:65).}

 

48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed (^{Acts 13:48).}

 

14 And a certain woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul (^{Acts 16:14).}

 

34 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR? 35 Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM THAT IT MIGHT BE PAID BACK TO HIM AGAIN? 36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen (^{Romans 11:34-36).}

 

30 But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, 31 that, just as it is written, "LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD" (^{1 Corinthians 1:30-31).}

 

6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus (^{Philippians 1:6).}

 

5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit (^{Titus 3:5).}

 

2 Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God (^{Hebrews 12:2). Those who are saved are saved because God has chosen them for salvation. The Holy Spirit has given life to a dead spirit and understanding to a mind blinded by sin and by Satan. Those who are saved may be said to choose God, but only after God has first chosen them for salvation:}

16 "You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask of the Father in My name, He may give to you" (^{John 15:16).The other side of the equation is also true. Those who are eternally lost are lost because God has not chosen them for salvation:}

 

8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!" 9 And He said, "Go, and tell this people ‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive; Keep on looking, but do not understand.’ 10 Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, and their eyes dim, Lest they see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed" (^{Isaiah 6:8-10).}

 

3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast; 4 and they worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?" 5 And there was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies; and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, that is, those who dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them; and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him. 8 And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain" (^{Revelation 13:3-8).}

 

8 "The beast that you saw was and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth will wonder, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come" (^{Revelation 17:8).Do not misunderstand what is being said here. In order to be saved, men must trust in Jesus Christ as God’s provision to save lost sinners. And when they do so, it is because God has given them the heart to do so. Men exercise faith out of the heart God has given them to believe:}

6 "Moreover the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live" (^{Deuteronomy 30:6).}

33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the Lord, "I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people" (^{Jeremiah 31:33).}

^{Jeremiah 31:33).}

Likewise, when men are eternally lost, it is because they have chosen to reject God’s revelation (^{Romans 1:18ff.) and His provision for salvation in Jesus Christ. Why do lost sinners go to hell? They perish because they have not chosen God. They also perish because God has not chosen to rescue them from their sin and rebellion. In the simplest terms, men go to hell not only because God decreed it, but because they deserve it (see Revelation 16:4-7).61}

 

Many texts like those cited above clearly reflect that salvation is not our work but God’s, and that we contribute nothing to it which He has not already given to us by His grace.

 

We will turn in this lesson to a text which establishes even more forcefully than the previous texts the sovereignty of God in salvation.

 

The sovereignty of God in salvation can be inferred from a number of biblical texts, and it is claimed or clearly stated by other texts.

 

But the ninth chapter of Romans is devoted to establishing the sovereignty of God in salvation. I

 

t is the issue in view and the conclusion of the entire chapter. It is not merely implied, or even stated; it is declared, proven, and even defended against some of the popular objections to this truth. For this reason, we shall trace Paul’s inspired logic through the first 24 verses of ^{Romans 9.}

 

Israel’s Pitiable Plight
(^{Romans 9:1-5)}

1 I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises, 5 whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

 

In the first eight chapters of the Book of Romans, Paul sets down the most detailed and reasoned explanation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

In 1:18–3:20, Paul establishes the doctrine of man’s depravity—that sinful, fallen condition of every human being, without exception—which places sinners under the sentence of divine condemnation with no human hope of salvation apart from divine intervention.

 

In 3:21-5:21, Paul explains the divine provision whereby sinners may be justified by faith in Christ.

In chapters 6-8, Paul speaks of the present and future implications of this justification by fa

The X Ray of a Good Pastor

 

 

 

The sermon is one my facebook page from 2 Corinthians 1:15 to 2:4.

 

I have never pastored a church where there were not someone or a group that was not trying to undermined my character or preaching.

 

Well was the same for Paul. There were those who would come into the church and try to undercut his preaching or character.

 

And so very early here in the first chapter, very early in the epistle, he tackles this crucial issue.

 

In this case they could only find a small silly reason to change him with.

 

And in these verses Paul gives a defense of this position.

 

"In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, that you might twice receive a blessing; that is, to pass your way into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be helped on my journey to Judea.

 

Therefore, I was not vacillating when I intended to do this, was I? Or that which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time?

 

But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yes and no. For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us – by me and Silvanus and Timothy – was not yes and no, but is yes in Him.

 

For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; wherefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.

 

And He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.

 

"But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth. Not that we lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm.

 

But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again. For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad

but the one whom I made sorrowful?

 

This is the very thing I wrote you, lest when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.

 

out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you."

 

In this passage we will see seven attitudes that every pastor should have .

 

Well you need to listen to the message.

 

 

 

Bible Clarity of Scripture

So men have to be holy in order to have a relationship with God. They are not holy. For the most part, they don’t even recognize that they are not holy and if they do recognize that they sin, they will usually blame someone else’s and that someone in a very vague sense is the God who put them in the circumstances they are in and gave them the impulses he gave them and they want to shirk the responsibility.
 
 So James says in 1:13 to 18, you cannot blame anyone but yourself for your sin. In verse 13 he says, the nature of evil demonstrates that. No man can say, when he is tempted, I am tempted by God, for God can’t be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man.
 
 You can’t blame God for evil because God and evil are mutually exclusive. And then in verse 14, the nature of man. He says, man has his own problem. Man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. The problem is in man, it is in his sinfulness, his fallenness.
 

James chapter 1.

It says this, of his own will, speaking of the father, God the father mentioned in verse 17, "Of his own will begot he us, with the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. A simple verse, but on in which is bound up all the richness of the new birth.

 

The Old Testament said, be holy for I the Lord am holy. Peter says in his epistle, be holy, for I the Lord am holy. In order to enter into the presence of God, man must be holy. Set apart from sin unto righteousness. Now men are not holy. That’s obvious.

 

They are not righteous, that is, they are sinful.

They do not think right, speak right, act right, do right. They to not rightly perceive God.

They do not rightly perceive themselves.

 They do not rightly perceive God’s truth, God’s revelation or God’s law or God’s will.

 
 

James 3:13 to 18 Who Is A Wise Man Among You?

 James 3:13 to 18 Who Is A Wise Man Among  You?

"Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good life his works with humility of wisdom. But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descends not from above but is earthly, sensual, demoniacal; for where envying and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace."  

Wisdom does not mean knowledge.

1. It does not mean information.
2. It means the application of knowledge with divine power to the reshaping of life, transforming attitudes, transforming behavior into righteousness.

 Wisdom, then, is not what I know, wisdom is how I live. And so how I live, according to the wisdom of God, is a barometer on my spiritual condition. And I pointed out to you in the past that God puts no premium on a wisdom that is cerebral or a wisdom that is creedal. The only premium God has to put on wisdom is the wisdom that transforms the life.

 
Wisdom, then, in biblical terms equals lifestyle.
 
It equals lifestyle, behavior.

True wisdom is knowing God in a life-changing relationship, okay?

True wisdom is the outworking of a life-changing knowledge of God.



Remember that the wisdom of the Old Testament was basically initiated by the fear of the Lord. Do you remember that? The fear of the Lord is the what? Beginning of wisdom. Wisdom begins in fearing the Lord.

 To fear the Lord is to have a reverential trust in Him. When the Old Testament says fear God, fear the Lord, it is a call to salvation, it is a call to reverential trust, to commitment, in which a person turns from sin in faith to God and has a hatred of evil and a love of obedience. And we went through all of that in great detail a couple of weeks ago.

So wisdom began at the point when one was ushered into a relationship with God through reverential faith and trust, called in the Old Testament the fear of the Lord.

You remember that Cornelius, because he was a believing gentile, was called a God what?

Fearer, because that was the essence of saving faith. So once a person put their faith in God, then that introduced them into a life of wisdom. The fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom. The fear of the Lord was to turn from iniquity. The fear of the Lord was to hate evil and love righteousness. The fear of the Lord was to do God’s commandments.


And that all is a part of a saving work, so when a person put his faith in God, he was ushered into the sphere of wisdom.


And then became the - really, the student of divine wisdom who lived that wisdom out. True wisdom, we saw, comes from God. It is given to one who comes into relationship with Him. And all of us who know God in a personal, intimate way have received from Him that wisdom. Now let me say that again. All of us who know God through Christ in a personal way have received the wisdom of God. And that wisdom of God is manifest in the life of a true believer. Every true believer will manifest the wisdom of God.


We will manifest the wisdom of God, and we should manifest more of the wisdom of God.

A true Christian will love the Lord Jesus Christ and should more love the Lord Jesus Christ.

A true Christian will serve God and should more and more serve God, right?

A true Christian will obey and should more and more obey


. So when we say that having become believers, we have received the wisdom of God, that does not mean we have received and are applying all the wisdom that it’s possible to have. Okay?

It is truly a mark of a believer to manifest the wisdom of God, but none of us manifest the wisdom of God to the fullest possible capacity. And so when we say this is the mark of a believer, we can also say it is an encouraging and exhorting text to increase our commitment to that wisdom at the same time.


The New Testament also ties wisdom to the act of believing.

Matthew chapter 7:26, which is a very familiar text to anyone who has studied the gospels. You remember there are people who hear the Word of God and that’s all, and then there are people who do the Word of God, and they are the true believers. Not the ones who hear and not the ones that say but the ones that do.

And then He gives an illustration of that in verse 24.


"Whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him unto a" - what kind of man? - what kind? - "wise man who built his house upon a rock, the rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, beat on the house, fell not. It was founded upon a rock. These sayings of mine are also heard by people who do not do them and they are likened unto" - what kind of a man? - "a foolish man who built his house on the sand, the rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, beat on the house, it fell, and great was the fall of it."

Now, here you have the unregenerate man who is very religious. He’s got all the religious superstructure but no foundation, and he is a fool. On the other hand, you have a truly converted man who does the Word of God, and he is a man who is what? Wise. Wisdom, then, in the words of our Lord right here is equated with true salvation. It is equated with saving, working faith.


Matthew 24:42. "Watch, therefore, for you know not what hour your Lord does come, but know this, that if the householder had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched and would have not allowed his house to be broken into."


Our Lord is speaking. "Therefore, be also ready for in such an hour as you think not, the Son of Man is coming. Who then is a faithful and" - what? - "wise servant whom his lord has made ruler over his household to give them food in due season?"

What Does John 3:16 Really Teach

 What Does John 3:16 Really Teach

 

For God

 

So love the world

That He gave

His only begotten Son

That whosoever

Believes

In Him

should not perish

but have eternal life

 

 

 

Interpreting the Bible Responsibly

 

 

Now here is how it happens: every time I talk about the doctrine of Election, the first verse that gets thrown up to me is how about John 3:16.

"What about John 3:16?" And I would say what about John 3:16 I would say?

 

"For God so love the the world that whosoever..........rest of the verse.

And they would unline whosoever five times. and whosoever believe will have everlasting life?" they will read.

"And".... I would say:

They say "well that means everyone has the moral power to choose Jesus and anybody who choose Jesus out of that moral power will be saved."

I look at John 3:16 and I can't find that. Where is that in that verse?

"Well it is obvious?"

Well no it isn't.

You are drawing an inference (a conclusion reached on the basis of your reasoining, or you are inferring something on the text that is not there, or stated)

"No what the verse states explicit (stated clearly and in detail. leaving no room for confusion or doubt) all who do A will not receive B and will receive C."

"All who believe will not perish." All who are in the category will not be included in the category of those who will perish. But will be included in the category who participate or share will have eternal life.

That is what the text teaches explicity. It tell us what happens to those who believe as oppose to those who do not believe.

Now what does the verse say to those who have the moral power to believe?

Do I need to translate that? Nothing.

What does the Bible say explicity about man's natural ability to incline himself to believe and do the things of God.

What does the Lord say explicity?

"No man (universal nagative) can come to Me unless it is given to him by the Father." John 6:44.

 

"This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." (esv)

Does the Bible teach that in our fallen condition man have the natural ability in his own power to bring himself to Christ? To choose Jesus when we want to.?

No it doesn't.

The Lord Jesus Christ said. we do not have the natural ability, none of has, unless God meets the necessary conditions for us to be able to respond to the Gospel.

That is what the Bible tells us explicity, (fully and clearly expressed and is demonstrated; leaving nothing mrerly implied. ) about our moral ability.

But that explicit teaching that Jesus gives in John 6 is trumped by an implication drawn (the conclusion that can be drawn from a verse although it is not explicity stated.) from John 3. Same author who said in John 6 only God can grant salvation .

Do not interpret the explicit by your inplicit. But you interpret the implication by what is explicit stated.

　 Luther said' You intereprete the obscure with the clear, not the clear with the obscure."

"No man can come unto me."

Unless the fields had been hpdrepared it was in vain to sow the seed. No effort on the sower's part could make them receptive.

 

The fact that they believed not, declared that their hearts were not prepared, but did not affect the goodness of the seed.

 

This defection did not surprise Him,s he ad alread used words whicdh anticipated it. (John 6:37, 44.)

 

The soul of man the flesh is of no value, so without the quickening Spirit of God all forms of religion are dead and worthless.

"except it were given him." John 6:65

"Plainly showing that by the Father's "drawing" (John 6:44) was meant an internal and efficacious operation, for in recalling the statement here He says, it must be "given to a man to come" to Christ. "

"that no man can come to me, except it be given him by my Father"

'Which is the same, as to be drawn by the Father; for faith in Christ is the gift of God, and coming to Him, is owing to efficacious grace, and is not the produce of man's power and free will." John Gill.

"Because many of you believe not, and therefore, though there is in them the outward appearance of discipleship, they lack the inward divine preparation. " Myers.

"All that brings men to Christ is the Father's gift." John 6;65

"Therefore" (better to say:, "for this cause." (John 12:18; John 12;27) John 5:15; John 5:18; John 7:22 and John 8:47.

"Given" by the drawing of grace.

Christ has come completely round to the fundamental principles with which he stated.

 

The coming to Him,

 

the believing on Him,

 

the spiritual apprehension of His Divine humanity,

 

the adoring acceptance of His precious blood,

 

 the reception of the spiritual life-giving energy which went forth from Him in word,

 

 depended on the Father's "drawing" -

 

on those fundamentnal characteristics of appetite and capacity to receive the grace of Chdrist which are subjective and are referrible to the Father's good pleasure.

 

 

Christ does not give the hunger, but the bread. From the beginning He saw the presence of the appetite after that which He came to bestow.

 

 

Sometimes a morbid cessation of all hunger, a moribund cessation of thirst, may be and is transformed into passionate and life-saving eagerness by The sight of food.

 

 

The Father gives both the hunger and the food, the sense of need and the heavenly supply.

 

 

The love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord, is ethe drawing of the Father through the Son to Himself.

 

 

The drawing of the Father is the giving of souls to the Son: A fresh thought is here added, This drawing, thus interpreted, is God's gift also to the human soul.