Father calls..chlidren answer?

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[mizzdy]

God is the one who plants the seed and it is up to each of us to choose to follow Him and produce His fruit. God also knew before we were all here who in the end will obey Him. The bit about being taught by God is refering to the millennial reign also where all will go to Jerusalem to hear the truth from Him!! Also it is the guiding of the Spirit that teaches us today so it is really God who imparts His knowledge, who is teaching us.

[Fez]

This is Jesus talking to gentiles, but using the example of the Jews who rejected Him as the Messiah. It is about us chosing Him and His promise to all who choose Him.

[nebula]

This is Jesus talking to gentiles,

Huh? That was a crowd of Gentiles He was speaking to? Where do you see that indicated?

[Fez]

This is Jesus talking to gentiles,

Huh? That was a crowd of Gentiles He was speaking to? Where do you see that indicated?

Neb, you are right, He was talking to Capernaites, but also to those who came from across the sea to listen. And as Barnes says:-

Whether this conference was with the Capernaites, in whose synagogue Christ now was, or with those who came from the other side of the sea, is not certain nor material; however, it is an instance of Christ's condescension that he gave them leave to ask him questions, and did not resent the interruption as an affront, no, not from his common hearers, though not his immediate followers.

Why would He say these words...

(40) And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes on Him should have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day.

(41) Then the Jews murmured about Him, because He said, I am the bread which came down from Heaven.

If He was not talking to Jews and Gentiles alike? Just an opinion.......

[Guest SavedbyGod12]

Joh 6:37-45 MKJV

(37) All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will in no way cast out.

(38) For I came down from Heaven, not to do My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.

(39) And this is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all which He has given Me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day.

(40) And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes on Him should have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day.

(41) Then the Jews murmured about Him, because He said, I am the bread which came down from Heaven.

(42) And they said, Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How now does this One say, I have come down from Heaven?

(43) Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Do not murmur with one another.

(44) No one can come to Me unless the Father who has sent Me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

(45) It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all be taught of God." Therefore everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to Me.

This seems to be a combination of God choosing people and people choosing God.

Is this true?

Praise the Lord!

[eis]

This seems to be a combination of God choosing people and people choosing God.

Is this true?

God is not "willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). He calls us through His word. I would not say He calls any individual in the sense that he picks you or me specifically.