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“From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him” (John 6:66).
This is a rather sad verse, and the Lord Jesus really felt it, as many of His followers left Him. What was the problem? Why did they do this? It was because the Lord Jesus had clearly explained to them that it was only through His death that they could have any real blessing. Those Jews who followed the Lord Jesus really believed that He was the Messiah, but they wanted a glorious kingdom to be set up, and all their enemies (especially the Romans) to be driven out. However, this could not happen while they were in their sins; they could not inherit blessing without a new life, and this could come only through the death and blood-shedding of the Lord Jesus.
Many today do not want the Lord Jesus, because it means following One who is rejected and cast out in this world. Are you willing to come to Christ, first of all to be saved, and then to follow Him as a rejected One?
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