{"id":346,"date":"2013-10-16T21:27:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T05:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmoutreach.org\/tg\/?p=346"},"modified":"2018-04-06T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:38:38","slug":"fathers-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/tg\/fathers-will\/","title":{"rendered":"The Will of the Father John 6:38-40"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is the Will of the Father?<\/h1>\n

In our verse by verse discussion of John 6, we come to verse 38, a verse that highlights the will of the Father.<\/span><\/p>\n

John 6:38 (NASB) \u201cFor I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the\u00a0will of Him who sent Me<\/strong>.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The will that Jesus reveals about salvation is founded not on human will in time, but on the transcendent will of God. It is the will of the Father who sent the eternal Word from Heaven. What is the Father’s revealed will? Jesus reveals the Father’s will in two different ways, by what He says in verses 39 and 40.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0John 6:39 \u00a0(NASB)\u201cThis is the will of Him who sent Me, that\u00a0of all that He has given Me<\/strong>\u00a0I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who are the all that He (the Father) has given<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Me (the Son) in verse 39? The grammar will help us to understand.\u00a0“Have given” is the perfect verb tense which means that the action done by the Father (the Giving) is a completed action that occurred in the past, but which produced a state of being or a result that exists in the present<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(the time it was spoken). Who is Jesus talking about who were presently existing as ones who have been given to the Father? Let’s look at Jesus’ words in the context of John.<\/span><\/p>\n

John 17:6-12 (NASB) 6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world<\/strong>; they were Yours<\/strong> and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word<\/strong>. 7 “Now they have come to know<\/strong> that everything You have given Me is from You; 8 for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You<\/strong>, and they believed<\/strong> that You sent Me. 9 I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours<\/strong>; 10 and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11 “I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name<\/em> which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are<\/em>. 12 “While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished<\/strong> but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The ones who were presently existing as those who had been given to Jesus were the disciples.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Greek term for “given” in John 6:39 is an important word that means to entrust to the care of another. The BDAG Lexicon shows the clear meaning:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jesus has been entrusted with those who have been given to Him and He “keeps watch over” them. (John 17:12)<\/span><\/p>\n

But not all are protected<\/h2>\n

The ones who were given to Jesus in the past and are still being watched over and preserved by Jesus at the time that Jesus spoke the words, were the disciples. However, not all of the disciples were included in those who were “given” to Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n

John 13:16-21 (NASB) \u00a016 “Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. 17 “If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. 18 “I do not speak of all of you<\/strong>. I know the ones I have chosen<\/strong>; but it is<\/em> that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘HE WHO EATS MY BREAD HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.’ 19 “From now on I am telling you before it<\/em> comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He<\/em>. 20 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.” 21 When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jesus said that not all<\/strong><\/em> of his disciples were included in the giving to Jesus from the Father. Judas was one that Jesus chose to be His disciple, but Judas was not one of those given to Jesus by the Father. Why was Judas not given to Jesus? It was because Judas was not one who belonged<\/strong><\/em> to the Father. Judas was not one of those who kept<\/strong><\/em> the Father’s word (John 17:6), and Judas was a practiced thief (John 12:6). Judas was not one who received<\/strong><\/em> Jesus’ words (John 17:8) nor was he being kept in the name that the Father gave Jesus (John 17:12).<\/span><\/p>\n