John 6:37

“All whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and him who comes to me I will in no way cast out.”

Happily, however, there would be those who  would  respond and would recognise Him for what He was. ‘All whom the Father gives to me will come to me.' It is impossible to avoid here the suggestion that in the end those who truly come do so because the Father chooses them out, for the ‘giving' by the Father is before the ‘coming'. John continually quite clearly depicts the difference between those whose faith is temporary and based on the emotion of a moment, and those whose faith is permanent and lasting, and he sees Jesus as demonstrating that this second kind of faith results from the work of the Father. It is because they have been given to Him by the Father that they believe in Him so fully.

‘And the one who comes to me I will not reject for any reason whatsoever'. And Jesus indicates that once a man has been called by God and truly responds there is not the slightest chance of his ever being rejected again, for he is part of the Father's gift to His Son. It does not matter how bad he may have been, or how weak he might be, God will do the necessary to ensure his perseverance and spiritual growth. This is a promise of hope providing underlying security for the believer. It is not, however, a grounds for assuming that from now on what we do does not matter. Someone who has that attitude is not a true believer. If we have truly believed, what we do will matter to us almost as much as it matters to God.