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John 6:63
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But none of this is attractive to the unregenerate mind and heart. The flesh does not really want eternal life. It does not want union with God, or spiritual life and understanding, or the wonderful truth of God. It does not want moral power, or happiness in spiritual things and in beholding God and in worshipping him. The flesh wants earthly things. But the disciples had found Christ, and had experienced their tastes being changed. They did not yet understand how he was going to redeem, but they believed he was the Redeemer. Their minds were still confused on some issues. They still had the remnant of the teaching that they had been brought up to, the mistakes of the Jewish clergy of their day about a national Messiah. They were slowly having to unlearn all that, and when Christ was crucified, the process would be complete. They would realise he was their deliverer. He had borne away sin.
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People say, ‘Oh, you speak about the Gospel. This is just you selfish Christians. You offer eternal life, and people naturally want something more than they can get on earth; they want eternal life. But those who speak this way do not understand. Christians do not simply want life that goes on for ever. It is the character of that life that matters to them: to see God, to see their Redeemer, to know his love, to be with him eternally, to be free from sin, to explore all his being and his created order. This is what they want and not just a continual existence of the present.
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