The Promise Of Eternal Life - John 6:37

All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out. - John 6:37

    Christ, speaking to His disciples often used parables. He sometimes used analogies. He spoke in simile and metaphor. But sometimes His words were simple, succinct, and to the point. “ . . .the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.” Is this not a bold invitation by our gracious Lord to flee the world and accept His loving and forgiving mercy; to accept His substitutionary sacrifice; to accept Him as Lord and Savior through the blood He shed for us?
    No one will be cast out! No one. Not your philandering neighbor, not your wayward brother or sister, not the brutish stranger, not even you or I. But we must first come to Him. We must come to Him with our sinful baggage and drop it off at the foot of the Cross. We must leave it there and return to it no more. “She said, ‘No one, Lord.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.’” - John 8:11.
    But there is more here than first meets the eye. Why? Why won’t Christ cast us out?
“For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.” - John 6:38. Jesus came here to do God’s will. But what is God’s will? “And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” - John 6:40. This, in effect, is the summation of why Christ will not cast anyone out. Everyone who believes in Christ (everyone who believes Christ) will be raised up into eternal glory on that last day. This is the conditional promise of God! This is the gospel within the Gospel. In his commentary on John, Dr. R.C. Sproul explains it this way - “It is God’s will that those whom He has given to the Son - whom the Bible over and over again describes as the elect, or those who are called and chosen by God - should not be lost but have everlasting life.” or those who are called and chosen by God - should not be lost but have everlasting life.”  This is the promise of eternal life that only Christ can make. “ . . . I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” - John 14:6. May we praise God in all His glory for the promise that only Jesus can keep.