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“Neither did His brethren believe on Him” (John 7:5).
“No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him” (John 6:44).
The brothers of the Lord Jesus (and there were at least four of them) had lived with Him all their lives, and had seen His perfection. Yet right up until He went to the cross, none of them believed on Him. Why was this? It was because our natural hearts do not want Christ, and no matter how much evidence is placed before us, we will not believe. It is only when God begins a work in our hearts that we will believe, and this did indeed happen to at least two of the Lord’s natural brothers (perhaps we should call them half-brothers) after He went to the cross. Both James and Jude were the natural half-brothers of the Lord Jesus, and God used each of them to write a book in the New Testament.
That is why you can make the gospel so clear to those who are not saved, and yet they do not come to Christ. But the Lord can use those words you said later on, to bring them to Christ, so keep on telling others about the Lord!
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