To Whom Shall We Go?

October 4, 2026 | To Whom Shall We Go?| John 6:60-71

Will Davis

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John 6:60-71

60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? 62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) 65 And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.” 66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” 70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.” 71 He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

There is something I noticed during my time in the Army. Sometimes military spouses begin to take on the rank and identity of their Soldier.

Think about it. They spend years around the military. They live on or near military installations, are surrounded by Soldiers, understand the rank structure, and even begin picking up the language and acronyms we use. Some become so familiar with military life that they begin acting as though their spouse's rank belongs to them as well.

But here is the thing. Being married to a Soldier does not make you a Soldier. And it certainly does not mean you hold your spouse's rank or authority. You can spend your entire life around the Army, understand how it operates, and be deeply involved in the military community without ever actually being a Soldier.

And church, there is a similar danger when it comes to following Christ.

A person can grow up in church, attend every Sunday, know the Scriptures, participate in Bible studies, and even serve in ministry while never truly belonging to Christ.

Simply being around the things of God does not mean someone has been saved by God.

That is the sobering reality we are confronted with this morning as we come to the end of John chapter 6.

For the last several weeks, we have been working through this chapter, and I want us to remember how it began.

Jesus fed thousands of people with five barley loaves and two fish. The crowd witnessed an incredible miracle, and they began following Him, seeking more of what He could provide.

But as Jesus continued teaching, He began confronting them with who He actually was. He declared Himself to be the Bread of Life, the One who came down from heaven, and the One who would give His flesh for the life of the world.

And now, as we come to the end of chapter 6, something remarkable happens. Many of those who had been following Him begin to turn away.

Think about that.

These people had witnessed His miracles. They had heard His teaching. They had followed Him. And yet, as Jesus continued revealing Himself, their unbelief began to show itself.

And what makes this passage even more humbling is that John does not simply tell us about those who walked away. He also records Peter's confession of faith and then reveals that even among the Twelve, there was one who did not truly believe.

In our text this morning we have people who turn away from Christ, people who confess their faith, and one who seems outwardly faithful, while hiding his unbelief. And all of this confronts us with an important question.

Are we following Jesus because we truly believe in Him, or are we simply comfortable being associated with Him?

Because there is a difference.

So this morning, as we finish John chapter 6, I want us to examine what Jesus reveals about genuine discipleship and what happens when His words confront those who claim to follow Him.

That brings us to our first point this morning:

I. THE WORDS REJECTED John 6:60-66

Looking at verse 60, John tells us that many of Jesus' disciples, after hearing what He had just taught, said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”

Now, I want us to recognize something important here. John does not say that these were simply people who happened to be standing in the crowd. He calls them disciples.

The word translated disciple refers to a learner or follower. These were people who had attached themselves to Jesus in some way. They had followed Him, listened to His teaching, and witnessed His works.

But as we are going to see, not everyone who followed Jesus outwardly really placed their faith in Him. And notice their complaint in verse 60. “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”

The Greek word translated hard is sklēros. It carries the idea of something harsh, severe, or difficult to accept. So when they say this is a hard saying, they are not simply saying, “Jesus, we don't understand what You mean. Can You please explain it to us?”

Their objection goes deeper than that. They find His teaching offensive. What Jesus has revealed about Himself is not something they are willing to accept. And remember what Jesus has just been teaching.

He has declared that He is the Bread of Life who came down from heaven. He has told them that no one has eternal life apart from Him. And then He has spoken about giving His flesh for the life of the world, telling them that they must eat His flesh and drink His blood.

We spent time last week looking at what Jesus meant by those statements, so I don't want to go back through all of that again. But remember the significance.

Jesus is not offering Himself as another earthly king who will provide whatever the people want. He is declaring Himself to be the Son who came from heaven and who would give His life for sinners.

They had witnessed His miracles. They had received the bread He provided. They had seen enough to recognize that there was something extraordinary about Him.

But when Jesus began telling them who He actually was and why He had come, many found His words unacceptable. They were willing to receive what Jesus could give them, but they were unwilling to receive the hard truth about who Jesus really is, and the implications that come with truth.

That distinction matters. There is a difference between being interested in Jesus and having faith in Jesus.

Look at verse 61. Jesus knows that His disciples are grumbling, and He asks them, “Do you take offense at this?”

There's that grumbling again. Earlier in the chapter, we saw the crowd grumbling when Jesus claimed to have come down from heaven. Now John tells us that those identified as His disciples are grumbling as well.

And Jesus knows what is happening. Notice that He does not change His teaching to make it more acceptable. He does not begin explaining away His claims in hopes that everyone will stay.

Instead, He confronts their offense. And in verse 62, He asks them what they would do if they were to see the Son of Man ascending right in front of them.

Think about what Jesus is saying. They have already taken offense at His claim to have come down from heaven. And now Jesus speaks of ascending back to where He was before.

He is pointing again to His heavenly origin. The Son did not begin His existence when He was born in Bethlehem. He came from the Father, and He would return to the Father.

And that return would come through His death, resurrection, and ascension. So Jesus is not backing away from what has offended them. He continues pressing the truth of who He really is.

And this brings us to something we need to understand about following Christ. We do not get to determine who Jesus is based on what we find acceptable. We do not get to decide which of His words are worth believing and which ones we would rather ignore.

If Jesus is who He declares Himself to be, then His words carry an authority that belongs to Him alone. And that authority does not change simply because what He says confronts something we believe, something we desire, or something we do not want to surrender.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in The Cost of Discipleship, wrote, “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”

Now, Bonhoeffer was not teaching that we somehow earn salvation through our willingness to sacrifice. Salvation is by grace through faith in Christ.

But he was recognizing something that Scripture makes clear. Following Christ means surrendering ourselves to Him rather than demanding that Christ conform Himself to us.

And that is where following Christ becomes costly. It is easy to follow after Jesus when His teaching does not challenge how we want to live.

But what happens when His Word confronts our sin?

What happens when obedience to Christ costs us something?

What happens when His commands stand against something our hearts desperately want?

Do we submit ourselves to Christ because He is Lord?

Or do we begin looking for reasons why His words should not apply to us?

Church, we must be careful that we are not trying to follow a Jesus we have created in our own image rather than the Jesus revealed in Scripture.

This is exactly where these disciples were struggling. They were judging the words of Jesus according to their own understanding, failing to recognize that the very words they found offensive were the words of eternal life. Look at how Jesus responds to them in verse 63. He says, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all.”

We need to understand what Jesus means here, especially considering what He has just said about giving His flesh for the life of the world. Jesus is not telling them that His own flesh is now worthless. He has just declared that He would give His flesh for the life of the world. His coming sacrifice is absolutely necessary for our salvation.

What Jesus is doing is confronting the inability of human flesh, apart from the work of the Spirit, to produce spiritual life. No amount of human reasoning, religious effort, or physical association with Jesus can give someone eternal life.

That life must come from God. We have already examined the Father's drawing earlier in this chapter, and now Jesus reminds us of the Spirit's life-giving work.

But notice what He says next. “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.”

Do you see the contrast?

The very words these disciples find offensive are the words through which Jesus reveals the truth of eternal life.

They are rejecting what they desperately need. And this is important for us as a church. The church has not been called to make the words of Christ more acceptable to the natural heart by removing whatever people find offensive.

We have been called to proclaim the truth faithfully. That does not give us permission to be harsh, prideful, or unnecessarily offensive in how we speak. We are called to speak the truth in love. But we must never confuse speaking the truth in love with withholding the truth because someone might reject it.

If Scripture confronts sin, we must faithfully teach what Scripture says about sin.

If Scripture calls sinners to repentance, we must proclaim repentance.

If Scripture declares that salvation is found in Christ alone, we cannot offer people another way.

Because the power to give spiritual life does not rest in our ability to make the gospel appealing. It rests in God, who works through His Word by His Spirit. And that truth makes what Jesus says next so striking. These disciples were hearing the very words of eternal life from Christ Himself, yet some of them still refused to believe. 

In verse 64, Jesus gets directly to the heart of the matter. He does not soften His words to make what He is about to say more appealing or acceptable to their ears. He confronts them with the truth, look at what He says, “But there are some of you who do not believe.”

There it is. Jesus identifies the problem as unbelief. These people had been around Him and followed Him. They had witnessed His works. They had listened to His teaching. They were even identified as disciples.

But none of those outward actions could produce genuine fatih in their hearts.

John tells us that Jesus knew this from the beginning. Their response had not surprised Him. He knew who did not believe, and He knew that betrayal would come from within His own disciples.

Church, don't miss the warning here. You can convince everyone around you that you belong to Christ. You can do all of the “church” things. But none of our works, even in service to the Lord, can hide the condition of our hearts from Jesus. He knows whether you truly believe in Him or whether you are merely going through the motions of following Him. 

And Jesus reminds us why all of our religious activity can never produce genuine faith. Look at verse 65.

No one can come to Christ unless it has been granted by the Father. We spent time last week examining that truth. And here we see why it matters.

Being physically close to Jesus is not enough. Hearing His words is not enough if they are never received by faith. Spiritual life requires the gracious work of God.

And church, unbelief does not always remain hidden. Eventually, what a person truly believes begins to reveal itself in how they respond to Christ. These disciples had followed Jesus as long as they were comfortable with what He was saying. But when the truth of His words confronted what they were willing to accept, their unbelief was exposed. And rather than surrendering to Christ, they chose to walk away from Him. 

John tells us in verse 66 that many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him. Church, that statement ought to stop us in our tracks. 

We are so familiar with the beginning of John chapter 6, with Jesus feeding the five thousand and the crowds following Him, that I think we sometimes lose sight of how this chapter ends. Thousands had gathered around Jesus, amazed by His miracles. But now, many who had called themselves His disciples are turning their backs on Him and walking away. 

These were people who had been following Jesus. They had heard His teaching and witnessed His miracles. Yet when His words confronted what their flesh was willing to believe, many turned away.

I know there are some of you who know how painful it is to watch someone you love turn away from Christ. Someone who once seemed to follow Him, who attended church, and who professed to believe, but now wants nothing to do with Him.

And when that happens, we ought to grieve. But we must also remember where our hope rests. Our hope is not in our ability to convince someone to return to Christ. Our hope rests in the sovereign God who alone has the power to change a sinner's heart and bring that person to faith in Christ .

So never cease praying for them, loving them, and faithfully proclaiming the gospel. We plead with God for their salvation, trusting that He is able to accomplish what we cannot. And we leave what belongs to God in His hands, knowing that He is both sovereign and faithful.

But trusting in God's sovereignty also means recognizing that we do not know the hearts of others as He does. And I want us to be careful in how we apply this. There is a difference between a believer struggling to understand a difficult passage and someone rejecting the authority of Christ.

There is also a difference between leaving a particular church and abandoning Christ Himself. Jesus is not condemning every person who struggles with a question or needs help understanding His Word.

The issue here is unbelief. Jesus has told us that plainly. So the question for us is not whether we have ever struggled with something in Scripture. The question is what we do when Scripture confronts us. 

Do we come to God's Word willing to be corrected by it? Are we willing to surrender our own understanding and desires when they conflict with what Christ has revealed? Or have we decided that we will only follow Jesus as long as following Him does not require us to change or cost us anything?

Church, genuine discipleship is not built upon our ability to make Jesus fit into the life we already want. It begins with recognizing that He is Lord, that His Word is true, that we belong to Him, and we are conformed to His image.

And here in John 6, many who had called themselves His disciples decided they would no longer follow Him. But not everyone walked away.

And that brings us to verse 67, where Jesus turns to the Twelve and asks them a question.

II. THE SON CONFESSED John 6:67–69

Look with me at verse 67.

Jesus turns to the Twelve and asks, “Do you want to go away as well?”

Notice what Jesus does not do. He does not ask how they can bring the crowds back. He does not ask what He should have said differently to keep everyone following Him.

Instead, He turns to the Twelve and confronts them with a question about their own willingness to remain with Him. In the original Greek, the way Jesus asks this question anticipates a negative response. It is something like asking, “You don't want to leave too, do you?”

But regardless of how the question is phrased, it brings the Twelve face-to-face with their own response to Christ. And then Peter answers.

Look at verse 68. “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”

Church, I want us to pay close attention to Peter's answer. Notice what he does not say. He does not say, “Lord, where else would we go?”

He says, “Lord, TO WHOM shall we go?”

Peter is not looking for another place to go, another teacher to follow, or another religious system to join. His answer is centered entirely upon the person of Jesus Christ.

And that is significant. Because throughout this chapter, Jesus has been revealing Himself as the only source of eternal life. He has declared that He is the Bread of Life. He has revealed His heavenly origin. He has explained that He will give Himself for the life of the world.

And now Peter responds by confessing that there is no one else to whom they can go.

Why? Because Jesus alone has the words of eternal life. And I think we need to understand the significance of what Peter is confessing here.

Peter is not simply saying that Jesus is a better teacher than anyone else. There were plenty of religious teachers in Israel. There were scribes, Pharisees, and others who claimed to understand and teach the Scriptures.

But Peter recognizes something different about Jesus. Jesus does not simply teach people about eternal life. He is the One through whom eternal life is given. His words carry divine authority because He is the Son who came from the Father.

And that is exactly what Jesus has been declaring throughout this chapter. Now consider what Peter's confession tells us about genuine faith. Peter does not claim that he understands everything Jesus has taught.

In fact, as we continue through John's Gospel, we are going to see that the disciples still have much to learn about Jesus, His death, and His resurrection. Their understanding is not yet complete.

But Peter has come to recognize something that is more important than having every question answered. He knows who Jesus is. And because he knows who Jesus is, he knows there is nowhere else to go for eternal life.

Church, that is so important for us to understand. Our faith does not rest upon our ability to understand every mystery of God. It rests upon the person and finished work of Jesus Christ. And that is why Peter's confession is so important.

He recognizes that if he turns away from Christ, he is turning away from the only One who can give him eternal life.

Where else can a sinner go to have his sins forgiven?

Where else can someone who stands guilty before a holy and righteous God go to find reconciliation with Him?

Where else can we find someone who has lived without sin, fulfilled the righteousness we could never fulfill, and offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for sinners?

There is nowhere else. Jesus Christ is not one possible way of salvation among many. He is the only Savior. And Peter recognizes that.

Look how Peter continues in verse 69, “and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” Notice those two expressions. “We have believed.” “And have come to know.”

Peter is expressing a settled conviction about the identity of Christ. They have heard His teaching. They have witnessed His works. And they have come to believe that Jesus is exactly who He declares Himself to be.

He is the Holy One of God. That title is significant. Throughout Scripture, holiness speaks of being set apart. And when Peter identifies Jesus as the Holy One of God, he is confessing that Jesus belongs uniquely to God, that Christ is set apart from all.

He is not merely another prophet or teacher. He is the One sent from the Father, the One who has come down from heaven, the One who speaks the very words of eternal life. 

And church, this is why we cannot separate faith in Christ from faith in His Word. We do not have one Jesus revealed in Scripture and another Jesus whom we can create according to our own preferences and image, or personal private revelation. 

We know Christ because He has revealed Himself to us. And if we want to know Him more deeply, we must continually return to His Word. But I also want us to see something encouraging here.

Peter's confession is not a declaration of his own strength. He is not telling Jesus how faithful he has been or how much better the Twelve are than those who walked away. He is pointing to Christ. “Lord, to whom shall we go?”

That is the language of someone who has come to recognize that his hope is found entirely outside himself. And that should be the confession of every believer here this morning. 

When we recognize the depth of our sin, where else can we go? When we recognize that our righteousness will never be sufficient to stand before a holy God, where else can we go? When death comes, and everything we have accumulated in this world is left behind, to whom shall we go?

There is only one answer. Jesus Christ.

Because He alone has the words of eternal life. His faith is directed toward Christ. And that matters because biblical faith is not simply agreeing with certain facts about Jesus. Saving faith receives and rests upon Christ Himself. We believe what Scripture reveals about Him because we believe in the One whom Scripture reveals.

And believer, there may be seasons in your life when Peter's confession becomes especially important. There may be circumstances you cannot explain. There may be prayers that seem to go unanswered. There may be suffering that leaves you wondering what God is doing.

And in those moments, faith does not require us to pretend that everything is fine or that we understand everything God is doing. But we can say with Peter, “Lord, to whom shall we go?”

While we may not understand everything God allows, we know who Jesus is. And we know that there is no one else who can give us eternal life.

The foundation of our faith is not our ability to explain everything perfectly. It is the person of Jesus Christ. And as we grow in our knowledge of Him through Scripture, our desire should be to trust Him more deeply, love Him more faithfully, and follow Him more closely.

Church, Peter gives us a wonderful confession here. But before we move on, I want us to notice something important. Peter has spoken on behalf of the Twelve. He has said, “We have believed.”

Yet Jesus is about to reveal that not everyone standing among those Twelve shares that genuine faith.

And that brings us to our final point.

III. THE DANGER OF FALSE DISCIPLESHIP John 6:70-71

Peter has just made this wonderful confession of faith. Speaking on behalf of the Twelve, he declares that they have believed and come to know that Jesus is the Holy One of God.

But notice how Jesus responds. “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”

What a startling response to Peter's confession. Peter has just spoken about the faith of the Twelve, but Jesus immediately reveals that not everyone standing there shares that faith.

And then John tells us in verse 71 exactly who Jesus is referring to. Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. I want us to recognize something important about Judas. He was not simply another person standing among the crowds. Judas was one of the Twelve. He had been personally selected by Jesus to be among His closest disciples.

He traveled with Jesus. He sat under His teaching. He witnessed many of His miracles that were never written about. He was involved in the ministry alongside the other disciples.

Think about the privilege Judas had. He heard the very words of eternal life spoken by the Son of God Himself. He witnessed things that generations of believers would only read about in Scripture.

And yet, despite all of that, Judas did not truly believe. We know that because Jesus has already told us in verse 64 that He knew from the beginning who did not believe and who would betray Him.

So when Jesus identifies Judas here, He is not discovering something new about him. Jesus has known all along. And notice something else. Jesus says that He chose the Twelve, but one of them is a devil.

We need to make a distinction here. Jesus choosing Judas to be one of the Twelve is not the same thing as the Father's saving work that we examined earlier in John 6.

Judas was chosen to an office, to serve among the Twelve. But being chosen for that position did not mean that he possessed saving faith.

And when Jesus calls him a devil, He is exposing the character of the one who would eventually betray Him. Judas was serving the purposes of the devil, even while outwardly appearing to be a faithful disciple of Christ.

John makes a point of reminding us that Judas was one of the Twelve. Judas was one of the Twelve!

He was not standing outside the group opposing Jesus. He was not a Pharisees or a Scribe mocking Jesus.

He was standing among those closest to Jesus.

And church, that is what makes this warning so serious. Because Judas shows us that someone can be deeply involved in religious activity and yet remain spiritually lost. 

A person can know the right answers. They can understand biblical language. They can participate in ministry and appear, from the outside, to be a faithful believer.

But none of those things will ever be a substitute for genuine faith in Jesus Christ. And I think this is especially important for those of us who serve in the church. We can become so accustomed to doing the work of ministry that we begin confusing our activity with our relationship to Christ.

We teach. We lead. We serve. We attend. And before long, we begin looking at those things as evidence that everything must be right between us and God. 

But church, the ability to do ministry is not what saves us. The title pastor does not bring salvation with it. Being a deacon does not save you. Teaching Sunday school does not save you. And having your name on a church membership roll does not save you.

We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Now, please understand what I am not saying. I am not saying that serving the church is unimportant. Scripture commands believers to serve one another, and good works should be evident in the lives of those who have been saved.

Our service is not the foundation of our salvation. It is the fruit of what God has already done in us. 

And there is a tremendous difference between those two things. Our confidence before God must rest in Christ and His finished work, not in the amount of religious activity we have accumulated throughout our lives.

This is why Scripture calls us to examine ourselves. Paul tells the Corinthians in 2 Corinthians 13:5, “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves.”

Church, that is not an invitation to spend every waking moment questioning whether we are saved. And it certainly does not mean that a genuine believer will never struggle with sin or experience seasons of weakness.

And church, let me ask you something. If tomorrow you were no longer able to serve in the way you have been able to for years, would your confidence before God change?

If you could no longer teach that class, lead that ministry, or serve in the position you have held for so long, would you still have the same hope of eternal life?

Because if our confidence rests in what we have done for Christ rather than what Christ has done for us, then our confidence is resting in the wrong place. But where there is genuine faith, God also begins changing how we respond to His Word. We are not saved by our obedience, but a heart that has been changed by Christ will not remain indifferent toward Him. 

And for those of you who are already in that situation, who because of age, sickness, or circumstances beyond your control can no longer serve the way you once did, I want you to hear something.

Your standing before God has not changed because your ability to serve has changed. If you belong to Christ, your hope was never found in what you could accomplish for Him. Your hope has always been in what Christ accomplished for you.

And that is just as true today as it was when you were actively serving in every ministry you could.

Do we recognize our sin and our continual need for Christ, or have we convinced ourselves that our religious activity makes us acceptable before God? And when God's Word confronts us, is there a genuine desire to repent and obey Him, even when we struggle to do so? 

Not because our repentance or obedience earns our salvation, but because saving faith does not leave a person indifferent toward the Christ who saved him. And I want us to be careful about one more thing.

Jesus knew Judas's heart. We do not have that same knowledge of other people's hearts. So this passage is not calling us to become suspicious of everyone around us or to begin deciding who is genuinely saved and who is not.

It is calling each of us to examine ourselves before the Lord. And perhaps the most sobering thing about Judas is that he remained among the Twelve when so many others had already walked away.

Outwardly, he was still there. But Jesus knew his heart. Church, being near Christ is not the same as belonging to Christ.

And as we come to the end of this chapter, I want that truth to cause us to examine where our confidence rests. Not in our church attendance. Not in our ministry responsibilities. Not in how much Scripture we know.

But in Jesus Christ Himself. Because when everything else is stripped away, the only hope any sinner has of standing righteous before a holy God is the finished work of Jesus Christ.

Church, as we come to the end of John chapter 6, I want us to consider what we have witnessed throughout this chapter.

It began with thousands of people following Jesus. They had witnessed His miracles and eaten the bread He provided. But as Jesus continued revealing who He was and why He had come, many of those same people turned away.

And yet, in the middle of all that rejection, we hear Peter make one of the most wonderful confessions of faith in Scripture. “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”

And then we have Judas. A man who remained among the Twelve, who enjoyed the privilege of being close to Jesus, and yet never truly believed.

Church, John has given us a clear picture of the difference between outward discipleship and genuine faith. And I think this passage should cause every one of us to examine our own hearts.

Not simply asking whether we attend church, serve in ministry, or know the right answers. But asking ourselves whether we have truly placed our faith in Jesus Christ.

Because there is coming a day when every one of us will stand before a holy God. And on that day, our religious activity will not be sufficient to make us righteous before Him.

We need a Savior. And that Savior is Jesus Christ. The Son of God who came down from heaven, lived without sin, gave Himself as a sacrifice for sinners, and rose again from the dead.

And the wonderful truth of the gospel is that everyone who repents and believes in Him has eternal life. So if you are here this morning and you have spent your life around the things of Christ but have never truly trusted in Christ Himself, I plead with you, do not mistake familiarity with the gospel for saving faith.

Repent of your sin and come to Christ. And believer, I want you to take encouragement from Peter's confession.

Our hope is not that we understand everything perfectly, that we never struggle, or that we have somehow managed to remain faithful through our own strength. Our hope is Jesus Christ.

The One who has saved us, the One who continues to sustain us, and the One who will bring us into His presence. So when we face difficult circumstances, when the world opposes what Scripture teaches, or when following Christ comes at a cost, may we remember Peter's words.

Because where else can we go? Who else can forgive our sins? Who else can reconcile us to the Father? Who else can give us eternal life? There is no one else.

Church, as we close this chapter, may Peter's confession be our own. “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”

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