“Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast
out.” John
6:37
No limit is set to the duration of this promise. It does not merely say, “I will not cast out a sinner at his first coming,” but, “I will in no wise cast out.” The original reads, “I will not, not cast out,” or “I will never, never cast out.” The text means, that Christ will not at first reject a believer; and that as He will not do it at first, so He will not to the last.
But suppose the believer sins after coming? “If any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” But suppose that believers backslide? “I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for Mine anger is turned away from him.” But believers may fall under temptation! “God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” But the believer may fall into sin as David did! Yes, but He will “Purge them with hyssop, and they shall be clean; He will wash them and they shall be whiter than snow;” “From all their iniquities will I cleanse them.”
No limit is set to the duration of this promise. It does not merely say, “I will not cast out a sinner at his first coming,” but, “I will in no wise cast out.” The original reads, “I will not, not cast out,” or “I will never, never cast out.” The text means, that Christ will not at first reject a believer; and that as He will not do it at first, so He will not to the last.
But suppose the believer sins after coming? “If any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” But suppose that believers backslide? “I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for Mine anger is turned away from him.” But believers may fall under temptation! “God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” But the believer may fall into sin as David did! Yes, but He will “Purge them with hyssop, and they shall be clean; He will wash them and they shall be whiter than snow;” “From all their iniquities will I cleanse them.”
“Once in Christ, in Christ for ever,
Nothing from His love can sever.”
Nothing from His love can sever.”
“I give unto My sheep,” saith He, “eternal life;
and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My
hand." What sayest thou to this, O trembling feeble mind? Is not this a
precious mercy, that coming to Christ, thou dost not come to One who will treat
thee well for a little while, and then send thee about thy business, but He
will receive thee and make thee His bride, and thou shalt be His for ever?
Receive no longer the spirit of bondage again to fear, but the spirit of
adoption whereby thou shalt cry, Abba, Father! Oh! the grace of these words: “I
will in no wise cast out.”
From Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening Devotionals
From Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening Devotionals
I searched for the hymn referenced by Spurgeon, and have yet to find it. I found something similar in the second stanza of Hymn 634, page 634 in John Dobell’s A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns, 1810:
2. Once in Christ, in Christ forever;
This the gospel-scheme declares;
Death, nor hell, nor sin shall sever
Jesus from his chosen heirs;
Blest in Jesus,
Members of his mystic frame.
There is a different version referenced in James Smith’s 1850 Daily Bible readings for the Lord's Household:
Once in Christ, in Christ for ever,
This the gospel scheme declares;
Satan, death, nor hell shall sever
Jesus from his chosen heirs:
Blest in Jesus,
Life, eternal life, is theirs.
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