John 6:39-40

Main Thought: This section of Scripture begins with one of the “I am” statements of Christ, that being “I am the bread of life.” In this passage of Scripture, Jesus is continuing to proclaim to the Jews that He has been sent by God the Father as the way of salvation. In John 6:26, Jesus proclaims that God has set “His seal” on Him, indicating His approval of Him. In John 6:29, he says to His listeners that the “work of God (the Father) is that you believe in Him whom He has sent.” In John 6:33, Jesus again speaks of Himself as “the bread of God (the Father)… which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” Finally, our Savior speaks of the will of God, the Father who sent Him, is to give eternal life, to lose none of the ones given to the Son by the Father in eternity past (Rom. 8:28-30; Eph. 1:3-6; John 17:1-2). What a great realization this is, a realization of the grace of God, that if you have believed on Christ you were a gift of God to the Son. You and I who have believed were not some afterthought or part of “plan B” because Israel rejected Christ; no we have been part of God’s plan before the world was ever created before there was the earth, sun, moon, stars, or the vast expanse of space. What a marvelous and tremendous thought this is, that we were given to the Son by God the Father. And the plan of God promised that none of those given to the Son would ever be lost (John 6:39), and that God’s will was that all those given to Him would see Him, hear Him, believe in Him, have eternal life in Him and be raised by our Lord and Savior when He returns again. This truth removes all reason for pride and pompousness, because all the glory for our salvation goes to God, and it also gives us great trust and security, knowing surely that what God has started in us will be brought to finality on the final day, the day of Christ’s return. May every one of us be humbled in the knowledge of this truth, the truth of the grace of God found in the person of Jesus Christ.