“Men do not get life through baptism or the Lord’s Supper, or through doing penance, attending church or giving money. They receive eternal life through hearing and believing the voice of the Son of God. “Hear and your soul shall live” (Isa. 55:3). Have you heard that voice? Men turn away from it. Christ is speaking all the time, down through the ages, but many turn away and go on in their sins.”
H.A. Ironside (1876-1951) in John: An Ironside Expository Commentary (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2006) 119.