Proving Calvinism Without Paul Part 4 – John
Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by Les in Proving Calvinism Without Paul, Theology
Challenge Update
This exercise has been pretty amazing so far. I’m going through at least one book of the Bible each week and confirming the things I believe, in the places people say it doesn’t exist. The talks with Andrew are incredibly insightful. I think he is profiting at least as much as I am from the critical debate.
This week I went through the Gospel of John, easily the most blatantly reformed of the four gospels. I had so much material, It was taking forever to decide which to put in the top 5. There were just too many powerful verses, so I’m changing the format for this post. Here are the top 10 verses from John, followed by some other amazing verses, then the normal other notable texts.
The red letters in the Gospel of John leave no question about God’s electing love. As John MacArthur puts it, “Jesus is no Arminian”.
My Top 10 Texts From John
John 1:12-13
“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”
John 5:21
“For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.”
John 6:37
“All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.”
John 6:44
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:63
“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.”
John 6:65
“And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.””
John 10:25-30
“Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me, but you do not believe because you are not part of my flock. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.””
John 14:16-17
“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.”
John 15:16
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”
John 17:9
“I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.”
Runners Up
John 3:27
“John answered, ”A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.”"
John 8:42-45
“Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.”
John 10:14-16
“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.”
John 14:22
“Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?””
Other Notable Texts
John 3:3
“Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:5-6
“Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
John 3:18
“Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”
John 3:21
“But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.””
John 3:36
“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
John 6:39
“And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.”
John 6:45
“It is written in the Prophets, ’And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—”
John 6:70
“Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.””
John 9:39
“Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.””
John 10:3-5
“To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
John 11:51-52
“He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.”
John 13:18
“I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. Butthe Scripture will be fulfilled, ’He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’”
John 15:5
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”
John 15:19
“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
John 17:2
“since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.”
