A couple verse broken down...

John 6:65

 And He was saying, "For this reason I have said to you,..." - so Jesus has said this before

 "...that no one..." - a double negative that doesn't turn into a positive but more negative the more it is said so no one yet no one yet no one

 "...can..." - has ability - so no one has ability

 "...come to Me..." - the destination - so no one has the ability to come to Jesus

 "...unless..." - the condition, the exception, the necessary thing needed

 "...it has been granted him..." - so something is granted, something you receive, you are the grantee and then there is a grantor, so what is needed isn't coming from you but from the grantor

 "...from the Father." - so the grantor is God - so no one has the ability to come to Jesus unless the Father gives or grants something to us

 But what is "it"?  Remember Jesus has said this before.

 John 6:44

"No one..." - double negative - no one yet no one yet no one

"...can..." - the ability - so no one has the ability

"...come to Me..." - the destination - so no one has the ability to come to Jesus

"...unless..." - the condition - the "ahhh" moment - the necessary thing

"...the Father who sent Me..." - the grantor of this condition that is necessary

"...draws him;..." - the "it", the drawing by the Father of us to Jesus

"...and I will raise him up on the last day." - the result - so no one has the ability to come to Jesus unless the Father draws that one to Jesus and the result is being raised, eternal life.

That drawing can be used negatively like in James when someone is dragged into court or the positive (in which this is a positive passage) like the drawing of water from a well or the drawing of the fisherman's net.  God would be the one drawing the water or drawing the net.

It is also interesting that prior to these statements of Jesus there is grumbling about who He is (isn't he just the carpentar's son) and the commitment level of following Jesus.  If we recognize that God is drawing us to Jesus, we will start to change how we look at Jesus and who He is to us and we will raise our level of commitment to giving our lives to Him for the rest of our lives.

These two verses have helped me see and explain what is happening behind the scene to something that is so focused on us and what we do rather than what God has done and is doing and how much He is in charge of it all.

Adam

 
A simple man serving a great God and the local pastor of Stillwater Community Chapel (stillwater-chapel.org). We are in our 38th year of full time ministry. God directed us to this local body of believers on the Western Range of the Rockies to grow with them in mission and mindedness of Christ.

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