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Take every other verse out of the Scriptures, and leave but this, and you have a foundation on which a world of souls may build their hopes and never be put to shame. Hear it, impenitent sinners, alarmed souls, desponding believers, rejoicing saints.

I. THE PERSON POINTED OUT. What is meant by coming to Him.

1. Negatively.

(1)  Not to the Scriptures, they only testify of Him (John 5:39, 40).

(2)  Not the Church, that is only a means, not the fountain of grace.

(3)  Not prayer, that is a well of salvation but not salvation.

(4)  Vers. 5, 22-24, show how possible it is to come, and yet not to come to Christ Himself.

2. Positively. Christ addresses the spiritual part of man's nature, and the invitation implies —

(1)  A forsaking of sin. To come to is to come from (2 Corinthians 6:14-18).

(2)  A renouncing of self.

(3)  Faith which worketh by love (vers. 35, 68, 69).

I. THE ASSURANCE GIVEN CONCERNING THE PERSON INDICATED.

1. The assurance itself.

(1)  It is unrestricted.

(2)  Personal.

(3)  Based upon the good "will" of Christ.

(4)  Emphatic, "in no wise."

2. The grounds of the assurance.

(1)  The purposes of the Father.

(2)  The death of Christ.

(3)  The resurrection of Christ.

(4)  The work of the Spirit.

(5)  All God's attributes make it sure.Conclusion.

1. What say you to this?

2. Transpose the text, "Him that cometh not to Me I will cast out."

(S. Miller.)

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KJV: All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

WEB: All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.