John 6:44 NIV
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
Jesus is saying in this verse that no one can come to Him unless he is drawn by the Father. We know that this is the ministry of the Holy Spirit on Earth. Jesus describes the Holy Spirit as the Helper and the Spirit of Truth in the following verses:
John 15:26 NKJV
“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
John 16:7 NKJV
Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.
John 16:13 NKJV
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
These verses teach us that after Jesus was raised from the dead, the Father sent the Holy Spirit to bear witness to the truth of Jesus. The Holy Spirit convicts the heart of sinners so they may be saved if they choose to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Without the conviction of the Holy Spirit, no one would be able to realize that they are a sinner in need of a savior. The Holy Spirit is patient, but if you keep refusing to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, He will withdraw from you and leave you to your fate of eternal damnation in Hell and the lake of fire. The Apostle Paul explains this in the first chapter of Romans. I encourage you to read the entire chapter, but I will bring your attention to the following verses Romans 1:20 and 28 below:
Romans 1:20,28 NIV
[20] For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
[28] Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
Verse 20 clearly states that no one has an excuse for not knowing God because His invisible qualities can be clearly seen in everything He created. The following verses describes how people traded the knowledge of the Almighty God to serve dumb idol gods. They committed sins that were an abomination to God with no shame. Because of their stubbornness to accept the truth of the true Almighty God, God gave them over to their evil desires which is explained in verse 28. The King James Version calls it a reprobate mind. Those people were abandoned by God.
Don’t be that person God abandons to an eternity to suffering and damnation. If you feel the tug in your heart to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, it’s not too late for you. Accept Jesus now. God is patient but even His patience runs out. God loves you, but He is a holy judge who cannot tolerate sin. The only way to the Father is through the Blood of Jesus. His blood is the only thing that can cleanse us of our sins so we can one day live in the presence of the Father for eternity in Heaven. Don’t keep waiting. Tomorrow, the next hour, or the next minute may be too late. Death doesn’t come announced with advanced warning. We must be ready all the time. Accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior while you are still able.
1 John 1:5-10 NKJV
[5] This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. [6] If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. [7] But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. [8] If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. [9] If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. [10] If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
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