John 17:2

John 17:2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

Some people seem unable to see that there is perfect harmony between the general and the particular aspects of Christ’s atonement. As the one Mediator between God and men, he has absolute power over all men, to do with them as he wills, yet that power has a special relation to those whom his Father gave him before the foundation of the world, and they are those who come to him in accordance with his declaration, "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out."