enable men to believe in Christ. Man, who is totally depraved and alienated from God, must be spiritually reborn by the Spirit of God through the Word of Christ, before he can have the desire to believe in God. Indeed, the passage in John 6 emphasizes this: ‘For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him. And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.” From that time many of His disciples
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