1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,932 Marcel: Good morning, brothers and sisters. 2 00:00:02,798 --> 00:00:03,287 Good morning. 3 00:00:03,287 --> 00:00:03,641 Amen. 4 00:00:03,671 --> 00:00:07,262 My name is Marcel Hall, and, uh, honor and privilege to be able to 5 00:00:07,612 --> 00:00:09,793 speak and preach God's word today. 6 00:00:10,043 --> 00:00:14,497 Uh, we did wanna mention that, uh, we do have our Spanish-speaking 7 00:00:14,497 --> 00:00:16,964 ministry here in our service today. 8 00:00:17,566 --> 00:00:18,393 All right. 9 00:00:19,319 --> 00:00:21,269 Bienvenidos hermanos y hermanas. 10 00:00:21,288 --> 00:00:22,108 There you go. 11 00:00:23,092 --> 00:00:24,520 And we will stop right there. 12 00:00:24,525 --> 00:00:25,124 All right. 13 00:00:25,863 --> 00:00:28,027 Uh, our Korean-speaking ministry is not here today. 14 00:00:28,028 --> 00:00:32,085 They're actually on a retreat this weekend, and so, uh, we're, uh, uh, 15 00:00:32,137 --> 00:00:34,035 praying that they have a great time there. 16 00:00:34,284 --> 00:00:38,156 Um, I, I, I need to get this out the way right away, in 17 00:00:38,157 --> 00:00:41,870 that, uh, yes, I am struggling. 18 00:00:43,150 --> 00:00:47,715 I, I am, uh, I, I, I, I, I, I need your help. 19 00:00:48,623 --> 00:00:48,694 We know. 20 00:00:48,694 --> 00:00:49,447 I need your help. 21 00:00:49,447 --> 00:00:50,499 Some of you looking like, "Why? 22 00:00:50,499 --> 00:00:51,115 What happened?" 23 00:00:51,672 --> 00:00:51,758 Uh- 24 00:00:54,772 --> 00:00:56,559 USC lost yesterday. 25 00:00:57,570 --> 00:00:59,610 How dare any of you actually cheer. 26 00:00:59,611 --> 00:01:00,641 I heard some cheering. 27 00:01:01,629 --> 00:01:05,099 The Bible says to mourn when others mourn, and I am mourning right now. 28 00:01:05,884 --> 00:01:08,268 Some of y'all might be, you know, rejoicing, but we don't 29 00:01:08,268 --> 00:01:09,686 rejoice over that, okay? 30 00:01:10,137 --> 00:01:14,554 And so, yes, um, those who don't know me, that, that, that hits, that hits hard. 31 00:01:14,565 --> 00:01:16,679 That hits hard, uh, for a brother. 32 00:01:16,679 --> 00:01:20,139 I don't know why God allows me to preach when USC loses, you know what I'm saying? 33 00:01:21,175 --> 00:01:23,502 He must know I need something to get up, you know? 34 00:01:23,523 --> 00:01:24,463 'Cause if I don't, then I… 35 00:01:24,603 --> 00:01:26,220 Who knows, I might not make it on Sunday. 36 00:01:26,595 --> 00:01:28,988 Might just be at the house doing nothing, eating Cheerios, 37 00:01:28,991 --> 00:01:30,337 sulking, you know what I'm saying? 38 00:01:31,630 --> 00:01:32,515 But we're gonna get through it. 39 00:01:32,515 --> 00:01:34,761 All right, so, uh, again, my name is Marcell Hall. 40 00:01:34,768 --> 00:01:38,693 We are going to continue in a sermon series that we started a couple weeks ago 41 00:01:38,973 --> 00:01:43,803 called Come and See, and we're studying out what, uh, we call the Gospel of John. 42 00:01:43,803 --> 00:01:48,648 John is a letter written and, uh, uh, by the Apostle John, and, uh, really 43 00:01:48,648 --> 00:01:52,308 it's an auto- it's- it's a biography of Jesus' life, and it really has more 44 00:01:52,570 --> 00:01:55,249 theological framework in the text. 45 00:01:55,249 --> 00:01:59,279 And so, at one point in John chapter 1, as they're recounting Jesus and some of 46 00:01:59,279 --> 00:02:03,570 his first followers, they, uh, as they tell their friends about Jesus, they 47 00:02:03,570 --> 00:02:05,256 say, "Hey, you need to come and see." 48 00:02:05,559 --> 00:02:06,902 And so there's this invitation. 49 00:02:06,903 --> 00:02:10,523 You need to come and see for yourself who this Jesus is. 50 00:02:10,526 --> 00:02:14,064 And so we're going ourselves, and we're being refreshed to remind it, 51 00:02:14,065 --> 00:02:18,298 or maybe some of us for the very first time, realizing who Jesus is. 52 00:02:18,310 --> 00:02:21,714 We're, we're accepting this invitation to come and see. 53 00:02:21,935 --> 00:02:26,206 And, uh, we, uh, uh, have went through the first four chapters of the Gospel of 54 00:02:26,206 --> 00:02:28,817 John, and we saw Jesus is the greatest. 55 00:02:28,820 --> 00:02:32,259 We come and saw how Jesus is the divine, the Savior, and 56 00:02:32,260 --> 00:02:33,709 then last week, the Messiah. 57 00:02:34,031 --> 00:02:38,118 Now, we're gonna skip John chapter 5 because Kyle, uh, our campus 58 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,618 minister, he preached on John chapter 5 earlier this year. 59 00:02:41,620 --> 00:02:44,836 So we're gonna jump on over to John chapter 6. 60 00:02:45,101 --> 00:02:47,135 And so today, we are going to… 61 00:02:47,135 --> 00:02:48,281 It's a little bit longer of a title. 62 00:02:48,281 --> 00:02:52,652 We're gonna come and see the one who satisfies your soul. 63 00:02:53,296 --> 00:02:53,310 Amen. 64 00:02:53,314 --> 00:02:55,444 The one who satisfies your soul. 65 00:02:55,454 --> 00:02:57,057 Let's go to God in prayer. 66 00:02:58,647 --> 00:03:03,991 Father in heaven, we thank you so much already for the opportunity to 67 00:03:04,005 --> 00:03:06,517 be encouraged and to encourage others. 68 00:03:06,961 --> 00:03:10,353 Father, we thank you already to hear how you worked in Kiana's life. 69 00:03:10,363 --> 00:03:15,175 Father, we're grateful to be reminded of the opportunity to join in your good work 70 00:03:15,176 --> 00:03:17,774 as we give to you through Derek's sharing. 71 00:03:18,077 --> 00:03:22,368 Father, we're reminded of, uh, how good you are and how you wade in the 72 00:03:22,370 --> 00:03:24,288 water, Father, how we wade in the water. 73 00:03:24,289 --> 00:03:28,418 We see you trouble the water, therefore you move in our lives and 74 00:03:28,418 --> 00:03:32,983 you stir us in our hearts, and you provide blessings upon blessings. 75 00:03:32,986 --> 00:03:35,726 Thank you that you are a God who's worthy of us building 76 00:03:35,757 --> 00:03:37,741 our trust and our lives upon. 77 00:03:38,063 --> 00:03:40,067 God, you are good. 78 00:03:40,293 --> 00:03:44,053 And Father, I pray right now that your Word may c- be communicated, 79 00:03:44,315 --> 00:03:48,070 that your Word may be preached, that your Word may be understood, and 80 00:03:48,070 --> 00:03:52,204 Father, your Word may not only be absorbed, but it may be lived out. 81 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:58,988 We pray in Jesus' name, amen We all understand physical hunger. 82 00:03:59,922 --> 00:04:02,744 When our bodies are hungry, they tell us. 83 00:04:03,199 --> 00:04:04,108 And what do we do? 84 00:04:04,118 --> 00:04:07,011 We go and we start looking for something to eat. 85 00:04:07,668 --> 00:04:12,689 But we also have a hunger that food cannot satisfy, that physical food 86 00:04:12,724 --> 00:04:15,940 cannot quench, uh, an intangible hunger. 87 00:04:16,382 --> 00:04:19,777 We hunger, if you're a USC fan, for them to actually win a game, 88 00:04:19,778 --> 00:04:21,358 but we're not gonna go there, okay? 89 00:04:21,361 --> 00:04:21,793 All right. 90 00:04:22,292 --> 00:04:23,909 But we hunger to be loved. 91 00:04:24,342 --> 00:04:29,577 We hunger to be seen, to feel secure, to know that we are 92 00:04:29,577 --> 00:04:31,485 significant and our lives matter. 93 00:04:31,982 --> 00:04:35,328 And we will go after these things in the way we believe in 94 00:04:35,328 --> 00:04:37,159 which they will be satisfied. 95 00:04:37,488 --> 00:04:40,332 And so we will beli- any way that we believe those hungers can be 96 00:04:40,339 --> 00:04:42,318 satisfied, we go after it in that way. 97 00:04:42,318 --> 00:04:48,373 And so we may go after relationships, accomplishments, pleasure, 98 00:04:48,834 --> 00:04:52,093 approval, control, even religion. 99 00:04:52,707 --> 00:04:55,556 Now, not all of those things are bad, but some of those things are good, 100 00:04:55,558 --> 00:04:59,123 but they can also be twisted and actually end up being destructive. 101 00:04:59,718 --> 00:05:04,982 But none of those things can satisfy the human hunger of our souls. 102 00:05:06,056 --> 00:05:09,655 We can have full schedules, full stomachs, full bank accounts, 103 00:05:09,857 --> 00:05:12,712 and still have empty souls. 104 00:05:13,685 --> 00:05:18,802 Now, John 6 introduces us to a crowd who's been fed and full by Jesus, 105 00:05:18,997 --> 00:05:22,298 however, as we'll see, that even though they've been filled in their 106 00:05:22,299 --> 00:05:25,714 stomachs, their souls were still hungry. 107 00:05:26,344 --> 00:05:32,343 And John 6 is going to invite us to come and see the one who satisfies your soul. 108 00:05:32,861 --> 00:05:34,539 Let's go on over to John, chapter 6. 109 00:05:34,541 --> 00:05:36,216 Brothers, sisters, are you with me here? 110 00:05:37,058 --> 00:05:37,090 Yeah. 111 00:05:37,632 --> 00:05:39,903 In John, chapter 6, now we- it's a long chapter. 112 00:05:39,903 --> 00:05:42,599 We're not gonna be able to go through it all, and so I encourage 113 00:05:42,599 --> 00:05:44,150 you to read and study it out. 114 00:05:44,375 --> 00:05:46,606 And so I wanna summarize the first part of this. 115 00:05:46,610 --> 00:05:51,921 We have in John 6, verses 1 through 23, uh, Jesus and his disciples go 116 00:05:51,921 --> 00:05:56,317 to, uh, uh, uh, uh, the, the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee there, 117 00:05:56,317 --> 00:06:00,871 or Sea of Tiberias, and there's these thousands of crowds that come to Jesus. 118 00:06:00,871 --> 00:06:07,236 And Jesus, with just, uh, uh, two fish and five loaves, he feeds the 5,000. 119 00:06:07,698 --> 00:06:11,354 And then he feeds them, not only that, but there's actually, they're full 120 00:06:11,356 --> 00:06:13,878 and there's 12 basketfuls left over. 121 00:06:14,498 --> 00:06:18,561 And then they decide to cross over to the other side of the 122 00:06:18,561 --> 00:06:20,150 lake there, and this is at night. 123 00:06:20,157 --> 00:06:24,924 Jesus sends His people off, and, and, a- a- and, and what happens is 124 00:06:24,924 --> 00:06:28,845 they start to struggle on the waves there, and Jesus, He walks on the 125 00:06:28,847 --> 00:06:32,784 water, and then the waters calm down, and they cross over into Capernaum. 126 00:06:33,260 --> 00:06:37,358 I did want to mention also as well that when Jesus did this five, this miracle 127 00:06:37,358 --> 00:06:41,157 of feeding 5,000, some of the people were in awe, thought, "This is maybe the 128 00:06:41,157 --> 00:06:46,296 prophet that was promised, prophesied about and promised to us by Moses." 129 00:06:46,597 --> 00:06:50,039 And so they wanted to make Him king, and they wanted to do it by force. 130 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:52,323 "Let's go get, let's go get the rifles. 131 00:06:52,486 --> 00:06:54,632 Let's go, let's ante up and let's go do this." 132 00:06:54,816 --> 00:06:57,198 Jesus is like, "No, that's not what we're going to do." 133 00:06:57,799 --> 00:07:02,203 And so now we take it up here, and the crowd the next day, some of them have 134 00:07:02,210 --> 00:07:07,135 crossed over, and they follow Jesus so that they can see and look for Him again. 135 00:07:07,135 --> 00:07:09,056 We're in John 6:24. 136 00:07:09,205 --> 00:07:10,453 Are you guys all with me here? 137 00:07:10,453 --> 00:07:11,272 Yeah. 138 00:07:11,272 --> 00:07:12,503 Okay, we have the context. 139 00:07:12,503 --> 00:07:16,609 All right, let's go ahead and let's read John 6:24. 140 00:07:16,847 --> 00:07:21,061 It says, "Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor His disciples were 141 00:07:21,063 --> 00:07:24,244 there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus. 142 00:07:24,532 --> 00:07:26,797 When they found Him on the other side of the lake, they asked Him, 143 00:07:26,797 --> 00:07:28,451 'Rabbi, when did you get here?' 144 00:07:28,808 --> 00:07:32,383 Jesus answered, 'Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you 145 00:07:32,383 --> 00:07:37,420 saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 146 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,815 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, 147 00:07:42,039 --> 00:07:44,119 which the Son of Man will give you. 148 00:07:44,407 --> 00:07:49,034 For on Him, God the Father has placed His seal of approval.'" 149 00:07:49,628 --> 00:07:51,582 We have classic Jesus right here. 150 00:07:51,585 --> 00:07:53,646 He's asked a question, and what does He do? 151 00:07:53,650 --> 00:07:56,518 He actually doesn't even answer the question, but He gets into this deep 152 00:07:56,518 --> 00:08:00,462 spiritual conversation, and we see this throughout the Book of John here, 153 00:08:00,464 --> 00:08:04,251 where Jesus asked a question, and He, and He turns it into this deep 154 00:08:04,705 --> 00:08:10,000 teaching so that He can reveal God's truth to that person and persons. 155 00:08:10,311 --> 00:08:13,686 And so they're looking for Jesus to get more food or, you know, maybe 156 00:08:13,688 --> 00:08:17,614 see more miracles, but they're missing what the signs that they just 157 00:08:17,614 --> 00:08:20,680 saw revealed about God and Jesus. 158 00:08:21,042 --> 00:08:24,623 And Jesus tells them that there's food that leads to eternal life, and that 159 00:08:24,624 --> 00:08:26,688 the Son of God is the source of it. 160 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,320 You know, they came looking for bread from Jesus, but Jesus wanted 161 00:08:30,321 --> 00:08:33,998 to recognize that the bread was standing right in front of them. 162 00:08:34,813 --> 00:08:36,999 Let's continue reading in verse 28. 163 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:42,215 It says, "Then they asked him, 'What must we do to do the works God requires?' 164 00:08:42,219 --> 00:08:46,530 Jesus answered, 'The work of God is this, to believe in the one He has sent.'" 165 00:08:46,667 --> 00:08:47,787 You know, that's a good question. 166 00:08:47,787 --> 00:08:50,446 What, what kind of work should we do that God wants? 167 00:08:50,696 --> 00:08:51,563 Good question. 168 00:08:51,586 --> 00:08:56,907 Could be potentially wrong motives or maybe wrong theology, thinking that they 169 00:08:56,908 --> 00:09:03,163 can earn God's favor or thinking that they can earn eternal life through their works. 170 00:09:03,738 --> 00:09:04,965 And Jesus tells them what? 171 00:09:04,967 --> 00:09:07,804 He tells them to believe in the one He has sent. 172 00:09:07,834 --> 00:09:08,582 This is the thing. 173 00:09:08,584 --> 00:09:13,543 Now, we can misinterpret this if we forget all that's been happening prior to John 174 00:09:13,548 --> 00:09:16,481 6 or all that happens after this verse. 175 00:09:16,954 --> 00:09:20,540 And so we wanna make sure we're reminded, and I shared about this a couple weeks 176 00:09:20,540 --> 00:09:24,141 ago, that biblical belief includes BTS. 177 00:09:24,186 --> 00:09:25,283 Do you guys remember this? 178 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:27,629 Okay, those, remember BTS. 179 00:09:27,645 --> 00:09:30,617 I know some of you are already going to your K-pop moves, you know what I mean? 180 00:09:31,530 --> 00:09:34,600 But we talked about this, that biblical belief, it means believe, 181 00:09:34,633 --> 00:09:39,815 trust, and surrender And so that we believe in who He is, that Jesus is 182 00:09:39,826 --> 00:09:42,535 the Son of God, that we trust His word. 183 00:09:42,535 --> 00:09:47,944 What He says is truth because it's from heaven, it's divine, and we trust His 184 00:09:47,944 --> 00:09:52,357 sacrifice on the cross being the only way that we can have atonement and a 185 00:09:52,371 --> 00:09:54,883 salvation with God for eternal life. 186 00:09:55,125 --> 00:09:59,338 But it also includes surrender to Jesus as Lord. 187 00:09:59,339 --> 00:10:01,495 He's not just Savior, but He's Lord. 188 00:10:01,514 --> 00:10:05,593 So every time when we see this word belief, especially in John, we have 189 00:10:05,593 --> 00:10:11,247 to remember it's not mental belief, but it's a belief in who He is, it's 190 00:10:11,248 --> 00:10:15,733 a trust in what He did, and it's a surrender to Him and His lordship. 191 00:10:15,735 --> 00:10:16,966 Are you guys with me here? 192 00:10:16,966 --> 00:10:17,419 Yes. 193 00:10:17,419 --> 00:10:21,024 Because that way we can make sure we capture it and not misinterpret 194 00:10:21,182 --> 00:10:25,043 and misapply to our lives, therefore missing out on eternal life. 195 00:10:25,467 --> 00:10:28,268 And so let's continue reading here in verse 30. 196 00:10:28,887 --> 00:10:32,173 "So they went and asked Him, 'What sign then will You give that 197 00:10:32,173 --> 00:10:33,848 we may see it and believe You? 198 00:10:34,127 --> 00:10:35,296 What will You do? 199 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,050 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness. 200 00:10:38,079 --> 00:10:41,480 As it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat."'" 201 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:46,136 Now, this is a reference to the Israelites going out of slavery and into the 202 00:10:46,136 --> 00:10:48,077 promised land, The Prince of Egypt. 203 00:10:48,078 --> 00:10:49,141 You remember that movie there? 204 00:10:49,141 --> 00:10:55,321 Okay, so and so as they went across, they hit this point, and God provided bread 205 00:10:55,328 --> 00:10:57,270 from heaven, and they called it manna. 206 00:10:57,283 --> 00:10:57,464 They… 207 00:10:57,474 --> 00:10:58,970 In fact, manna means what is it? 208 00:10:58,995 --> 00:11:02,347 They didn't understand what it was, so they just said, "Hey, you know what? 209 00:11:02,383 --> 00:11:03,520 Let's call it what is it." 210 00:11:03,916 --> 00:11:07,862 And so every day, God would provide what is its, and they would go ahead 211 00:11:07,862 --> 00:11:09,827 and have their fill for each day. 212 00:11:09,999 --> 00:11:15,097 And so some, uh, uh, uh, Jewish, uh, uh, traditions at this point in time, 213 00:11:15,097 --> 00:11:18,976 and we know it, it further later on, especially after Jesus, but during the 214 00:11:18,977 --> 00:11:24,249 first century, some believed that the Messiah, the promised prophet, would 215 00:11:24,297 --> 00:11:30,072 also repeat this bread of heaven, this manna being delivered, so therefore 216 00:11:30,072 --> 00:11:32,206 revealing that they are the prophet. 217 00:11:32,213 --> 00:11:33,191 You guys with me here? 218 00:11:33,442 --> 00:11:36,069 And so this is why they're asking, "Wait, so are you gonna do something? 219 00:11:36,071 --> 00:11:38,970 Because if you are, that means this is who you are." 220 00:11:39,076 --> 00:11:40,786 And so they're asking questions. 221 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:45,482 Jesus says in verse 32 here, He says, "Very truly…" 222 00:11:45,492 --> 00:11:48,261 Remember, listen up, I'm giving you some truth. 223 00:11:48,263 --> 00:11:50,003 I'm about to drop a jewel for you here. 224 00:11:50,228 --> 00:11:54,179 "Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven." 225 00:11:54,179 --> 00:11:54,909 That's interesting. 226 00:11:55,643 --> 00:11:58,792 "But it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven." 227 00:11:59,050 --> 00:12:00,539 Hey, don't get caught up on Moses. 228 00:12:00,543 --> 00:12:02,962 Moses was a great figure, but he was a servant of God. 229 00:12:03,115 --> 00:12:07,218 Remember who the source was And he tells them, "Hey, there's actually 230 00:12:07,221 --> 00:12:08,126 bread that comes from heaven. 231 00:12:08,128 --> 00:12:09,125 It's true bread." 232 00:12:09,429 --> 00:12:13,168 And in verse 33, "For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from 233 00:12:13,169 --> 00:12:16,369 heaven and gives life to the world." 234 00:12:16,602 --> 00:12:18,709 He's obviously not talking about physical food. 235 00:12:18,709 --> 00:12:21,041 We're talking about spiritual food. 236 00:12:21,364 --> 00:12:23,449 Jesus says there is a food from heaven. 237 00:12:23,451 --> 00:12:26,462 There is a bread from heaven that actually meets your soul. 238 00:12:26,472 --> 00:12:29,820 This is the first example of true soul food. 239 00:12:30,853 --> 00:12:32,841 And you know a brother loves his soul food. 240 00:12:33,460 --> 00:12:36,123 If you don't like soul food, then you just don't like food, okay? 241 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,562 But this is bread from heaven that gives you life. 242 00:12:40,592 --> 00:12:43,414 It gives you true life, and it gives you eternal life. 243 00:12:43,415 --> 00:12:46,672 Again, John reveals that eternal life isn't just in the 244 00:12:46,673 --> 00:12:49,754 life to come, it begins now. 245 00:12:50,519 --> 00:12:53,042 It's true life, and it's for who? 246 00:12:53,897 --> 00:12:54,765 For the world. 247 00:12:55,363 --> 00:12:57,775 It's not just for the small or the minority. 248 00:12:57,889 --> 00:13:02,584 It's not just for the Jews, but this is for all of creation. 249 00:13:03,832 --> 00:13:05,628 We continue in verse 34. 250 00:13:06,255 --> 00:13:09,494 Or excuse me, we're gonna, uh, we're gonna, we're gonna jump on over to 251 00:13:09,495 --> 00:13:11,845 verse 47 here for the sake of time. 252 00:13:11,847 --> 00:13:14,532 And so what happens is that some of them start to grumble. 253 00:13:14,544 --> 00:13:17,558 They start to get angry, and, you know, it's similar to even the, 254 00:13:17,604 --> 00:13:18,851 the, what happened with Moses. 255 00:13:18,866 --> 00:13:20,089 The people started to grumble. 256 00:13:20,335 --> 00:13:21,837 But, but we won't go there right now. 257 00:13:21,837 --> 00:13:25,150 But they started to grumble because Jesus claims to have come from 258 00:13:25,151 --> 00:13:26,473 heaven, and they're like, "Hold on. 259 00:13:26,481 --> 00:13:26,697 Huh? 260 00:13:26,971 --> 00:13:27,660 What in the world? 261 00:13:27,660 --> 00:13:29,253 How's this guy gonna say he's from heaven? 262 00:13:29,253 --> 00:13:30,258 We know his kinfolk. 263 00:13:30,278 --> 00:13:32,558 We know his cousins, his mama, his auntie. 264 00:13:32,696 --> 00:13:33,877 He can't be from heaven." 265 00:13:33,877 --> 00:13:36,848 And so Jesus goes and he says, "Look, you know what? 266 00:13:36,859 --> 00:13:40,011 You guys can't come to me unless the Father draws you to me," 267 00:13:40,464 --> 00:13:45,550 and that he alone is the only one who has seen God the Father. 268 00:13:45,918 --> 00:13:48,389 And so we take it up in verse 47. 269 00:13:48,604 --> 00:13:52,198 It reads, "Very truly," listen up, "I tell you, the one who 270 00:13:52,199 --> 00:13:54,371 believes has eternal life. 271 00:13:54,699 --> 00:13:57,169 I am the bread of life. 272 00:13:57,501 --> 00:14:00,227 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness…" 273 00:14:00,876 --> 00:14:01,933 Hold on here one second. 274 00:14:02,467 --> 00:14:03,880 We skipped verse 35. 275 00:14:03,895 --> 00:14:04,826 Ooh, I sure did. 276 00:14:04,826 --> 00:14:05,182 Okay. 277 00:14:05,185 --> 00:14:05,522 All right. 278 00:14:05,523 --> 00:14:05,826 Here we go. 279 00:14:05,830 --> 00:14:06,108 All right. 280 00:14:06,779 --> 00:14:07,618 Sorry about that. 281 00:14:07,717 --> 00:14:08,141 You know what? 282 00:14:08,141 --> 00:14:09,467 Can we rewind for a second? 283 00:14:10,881 --> 00:14:10,903 Rewind. 284 00:14:10,903 --> 00:14:12,052 Let's rewind for a second 285 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:17,801 Verse 34 and 35, let me recap that for you too, okay? 286 00:14:18,179 --> 00:14:18,541 All right. 287 00:14:19,217 --> 00:14:22,827 He tells them that He is the bread of life, "Whoever comes to me will 288 00:14:22,829 --> 00:14:27,487 never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty." 289 00:14:28,579 --> 00:14:31,491 And so He tells them, "Hey, I am the bread of life. 290 00:14:31,518 --> 00:14:33,404 I am this bread of heaven. 291 00:14:33,476 --> 00:14:35,420 This bread that I'm referring to, guess what? 292 00:14:35,441 --> 00:14:36,084 It's me. 293 00:14:36,239 --> 00:14:38,719 I'm standing right here in front of you." 294 00:14:41,016 --> 00:14:43,811 And so he's telling them, "Hey, don't just come to Jesus for bread, come 295 00:14:43,811 --> 00:14:46,072 to Jesus because he is the bread." 296 00:14:47,249 --> 00:14:50,092 We go back on over to verse 47 to 51. 297 00:14:50,095 --> 00:14:51,580 Sorry there, now we're back, we're all caught up. 298 00:14:51,596 --> 00:14:52,396 You guys with me here? 299 00:14:52,899 --> 00:14:52,924 Yeah. 300 00:14:52,924 --> 00:14:53,790 All right, here we go. 301 00:14:54,068 --> 00:14:56,795 "Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. 302 00:14:56,832 --> 00:14:58,871 I am the bread of the life, uh, bread of life." 303 00:14:58,875 --> 00:14:59,822 Second time he says this. 304 00:14:59,990 --> 00:15:03,387 "Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 305 00:15:03,727 --> 00:15:07,919 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 306 00:15:07,966 --> 00:15:11,701 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. 307 00:15:11,849 --> 00:15:13,843 Whoever eats this bread will live forever. 308 00:15:13,845 --> 00:15:18,689 This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." 309 00:15:19,313 --> 00:15:23,403 Now, he continues again, and now he says he's this living bread from heaven, 310 00:15:23,860 --> 00:15:27,568 but also who eats this bread will live, and then he goes on and says, 311 00:15:27,768 --> 00:15:29,968 "All right, this bread is my flesh." 312 00:15:30,266 --> 00:15:32,886 Now, now i- things turn for the crowd. 313 00:15:33,579 --> 00:15:34,411 What in the world? 314 00:15:34,427 --> 00:15:37,552 Now you're saying that your, your flesh is the bread? 315 00:15:38,624 --> 00:15:40,918 Mm, now we're starting to get into some cannibalism. 316 00:15:42,246 --> 00:15:46,053 And so then the people get upset, and they sharply argue amongst themselves, "How 317 00:15:46,054 --> 00:15:48,881 can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 318 00:15:48,881 --> 00:15:52,924 And i- you know, you can understand that gets a little weird Now, it's 319 00:15:52,924 --> 00:15:56,986 interesting, though, because they, they really should have understood that 320 00:15:56,986 --> 00:16:00,277 it was a metaphor, but they didn't. 321 00:16:01,494 --> 00:16:04,376 You know, they took it literally because they couldn't get it 322 00:16:04,392 --> 00:16:06,469 or they didn't want to get it. 323 00:16:08,086 --> 00:16:13,908 You know, we too can also do this, where we don't get the simple truth, or 324 00:16:13,908 --> 00:16:16,664 we don't want to get the simple truth. 325 00:16:17,261 --> 00:16:20,572 Because maybe our hearts are hard, and we don't really want what the 326 00:16:20,588 --> 00:16:23,964 implications are from this simple truth. 327 00:16:24,695 --> 00:16:26,718 We continue in verse 53. 328 00:16:27,125 --> 00:16:31,343 Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh 329 00:16:31,345 --> 00:16:34,674 of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 330 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,218 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I 331 00:16:38,219 --> 00:16:40,168 will raise them up at the last day. 332 00:16:40,169 --> 00:16:43,243 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink." 333 00:16:43,420 --> 00:16:45,303 D- Jesus double downs on this. 334 00:16:45,995 --> 00:16:47,183 "All right, y'all don't get the metaphor? 335 00:16:47,192 --> 00:16:48,315 I'm gonna keep going with it. 336 00:16:49,025 --> 00:16:51,158 You gotta eat me and drink me, okay? 337 00:16:52,461 --> 00:16:56,448 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in them. 338 00:16:56,449 --> 00:17:00,167 Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one 339 00:17:00,167 --> 00:17:02,403 who feeds on me will live because of me. 340 00:17:02,584 --> 00:17:04,375 This is the bread that came down from heaven. 341 00:17:04,375 --> 00:17:07,190 Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on 342 00:17:07,191 --> 00:17:09,896 this bread will live forever." 343 00:17:11,030 --> 00:17:15,188 And so Jesus here, and the main crux here that we see that he communicates 344 00:17:15,188 --> 00:17:18,888 at what's real, what, what's revealed, what we get to come and see, is 345 00:17:18,888 --> 00:17:22,339 that Jesus is the bread of life. 346 00:17:22,872 --> 00:17:27,156 Jesus is the bread of life, but he also expands on this by saying 347 00:17:27,156 --> 00:17:30,221 he's the bread from heaven, and he's also the living bread. 348 00:17:30,418 --> 00:17:33,481 And so there's this idea here that's developed. 349 00:17:33,481 --> 00:17:35,927 And this bread from heaven means he's divine. 350 00:17:36,985 --> 00:17:38,150 He comes from heaven. 351 00:17:38,155 --> 00:17:43,352 He's, his, his, his origin isn't Earth, and he brings life and 352 00:17:43,362 --> 00:17:45,880 truth from heaven to Earth. 353 00:17:46,741 --> 00:17:50,686 And like manna in the desert, but he's even greater than the manna 354 00:17:50,696 --> 00:17:55,496 in the desert because he leads to spiritual nourishment and eternal life. 355 00:17:56,162 --> 00:18:00,708 Jesus did not come just to simply fill some stomachs with food, but 356 00:18:00,709 --> 00:18:05,592 to fill our lives with the very presence, power, and blessing of 357 00:18:05,611 --> 00:18:09,398 God He says He's the bread of life. 358 00:18:09,515 --> 00:18:14,645 Jesus didn't just give us what we need, no, He is what we need. 359 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,657 Jesus, Jesus satisfies our souls by giving us the life with God 360 00:18:18,869 --> 00:18:21,918 that you and I were created for. 361 00:18:22,835 --> 00:18:28,751 You, we need both, we need food to live, but we need Jesus to live spiritually. 362 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:35,340 And Jesus is the one who gives true life, and He sustains this true life. 363 00:18:36,110 --> 00:18:40,082 You know, if you think about it, this includes the meaning to life. 364 00:18:40,612 --> 00:18:47,180 You know, from Jesus, we know the purpose to life, this eternal purpose to life 365 00:18:47,182 --> 00:18:49,806 that God has designed and created us for. 366 00:18:50,193 --> 00:18:54,687 From Jesus, we gain an eternal mission for our lives. 367 00:18:55,670 --> 00:18:58,747 Because we consume the bread of life, that we don't go just from 368 00:18:58,747 --> 00:19:01,249 surviving from Friday to Friday. 369 00:19:01,679 --> 00:19:02,815 You guys get what I'm saying? 370 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,320 Sometimes it's, maybe you're at this point or you were at this 371 00:19:06,322 --> 00:19:08,535 point where you're like, "I'm just trying to make it till Friday." 372 00:19:09,277 --> 00:19:11,744 'Cause you're like, "Man, this Monday through Thursday was tough, but I can 373 00:19:11,744 --> 00:19:13,254 get to Friday, the weekend is here." 374 00:19:15,226 --> 00:19:17,981 But Jesus, when we consume the bread of life, we don't live just to get to 375 00:19:17,981 --> 00:19:22,220 Friday, because we know we have a mission and a purpose Monday through Thursday. 376 00:19:23,323 --> 00:19:24,729 He says He's the living bread. 377 00:19:24,729 --> 00:19:26,958 This manna sustained them temporarily. 378 00:19:26,958 --> 00:19:32,678 It gave them sustenance for the day, but Jesus gives and sustains eternal life. 379 00:19:33,619 --> 00:19:36,086 Eating and drinking, you know, with flesh and blood, again, this 380 00:19:36,086 --> 00:19:40,868 is a metaphor, means to consume Him in our innermost being. 381 00:19:41,822 --> 00:19:41,885 Right. 382 00:19:41,901 --> 00:19:43,373 We take Him in. 383 00:19:44,170 --> 00:19:49,046 Leviticus 17, God told the people that life is in the blood. 384 00:19:49,573 --> 00:19:54,965 So when we drink the blood of Jesus, when we consume Jesus' 385 00:19:54,978 --> 00:19:57,815 life, His life is now in us. 386 00:19:58,874 --> 00:20:04,068 And it, we need Jesus for our soul's deepest need, our soul's deepest 387 00:20:04,070 --> 00:20:07,486 desires, and our soul's satisfaction. 388 00:20:07,874 --> 00:20:13,716 And only He can satisfy the deepest hunger of our human soul. 389 00:20:14,221 --> 00:20:14,472 Yeah. 390 00:20:14,510 --> 00:20:14,908 That's right. 391 00:20:15,264 --> 00:20:17,254 The problem is, you and I, what do we do? 392 00:20:18,033 --> 00:20:21,966 We keep snacking on the false or the temporary things that, that satisfy 393 00:20:21,966 --> 00:20:25,566 our soul for a second, but leave us starving for the bread of life. 394 00:20:26,912 --> 00:20:26,956 Oh. 395 00:20:26,956 --> 00:20:30,937 So the question now is, what are we feeding our souls? 396 00:20:30,937 --> 00:20:31,904 Yeah. 397 00:20:31,905 --> 00:20:34,254 What are we feeding our souls? 398 00:20:34,612 --> 00:20:37,330 You know, we wanna make sure we have the real and not the imitation. 399 00:20:38,421 --> 00:20:41,038 You know, sometimes we can settle for imitation when it comes, 400 00:20:41,254 --> 00:20:43,777 you know, you're expecting some Oreos, but then they give you the 401 00:20:43,791 --> 00:20:45,767 generic chocolate sandwich cookies. 402 00:20:46,940 --> 00:20:50,870 You're like, "This is cool, but I like the Oreos." 403 00:20:51,629 --> 00:20:54,103 Or you're looking for some Cheetos, and you get the Cheese Curls. 404 00:20:56,091 --> 00:20:59,412 Or you want the Nutella, but you get the generic hazelnut spread. 405 00:21:01,649 --> 00:21:02,542 You know, that's fine. 406 00:21:02,546 --> 00:21:03,388 There's no knock on that. 407 00:21:03,389 --> 00:21:06,575 Hey, look, if that's what, you know, your, your, your jam, then go ahead. 408 00:21:07,565 --> 00:21:10,581 But we don't want any substitute or imitation for our souls 409 00:21:13,141 --> 00:21:18,383 But there are a number of false imitation, temporary substitute for our souls. 410 00:21:19,124 --> 00:21:22,723 We can pursue and think sin or pleasure, that's gonna satisfy 411 00:21:22,744 --> 00:21:25,198 my human hunger of my soul. 412 00:21:25,778 --> 00:21:31,943 Accomplishment and success, perfection and control, other people's approval, 413 00:21:32,355 --> 00:21:38,021 religious activity and hard work, even the things we hope Jesus will give us. 414 00:21:39,043 --> 00:21:43,035 You know, it's not something that satisfies our soul, it's someone 415 00:21:46,264 --> 00:21:49,803 You know, and over time, and many of us, we know this to be true, but over time 416 00:21:49,803 --> 00:21:55,313 we can lose our appreciation, and then we start to devalue Jesus, who He is and His 417 00:21:55,314 --> 00:22:01,283 role in our lives, leading to a distance from God and an unfulfilling faith. 418 00:22:02,854 --> 00:22:07,109 As I was reading this the other day or, or last week, and I asked myself, "Wow, 419 00:22:07,627 --> 00:22:11,946 do I see Jesus as the bread of life?" 420 00:22:12,851 --> 00:22:14,901 I've taught this many times. 421 00:22:14,903 --> 00:22:19,331 I have a whole, a, a Bible discussion just on this topic, but I thought recently, 422 00:22:19,426 --> 00:22:24,848 "Do I value Him as the bread not only of life but the bread of my life?" 423 00:22:26,043 --> 00:22:27,936 And I was like, "Uh, I don't think I really do. 424 00:22:27,939 --> 00:22:31,937 I don't think I'm, I'm seeing that He's the only one that fills and fulfills 425 00:22:31,937 --> 00:22:35,366 and satisfy my soul's deepest hunger." 426 00:22:36,249 --> 00:22:36,418 That's right. 427 00:22:36,418 --> 00:22:40,173 And so I know He's great, but as I'm going into my time with God, 428 00:22:40,173 --> 00:22:43,851 there's not this desperation and understanding that, man, I know I 429 00:22:43,852 --> 00:22:45,838 don't just do this because I have to. 430 00:22:45,866 --> 00:22:49,263 I do, I do this because I absolutely need Jesus. 431 00:22:49,264 --> 00:22:49,881 Yeah. 432 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:51,590 I need to feed on Him. 433 00:22:52,899 --> 00:22:56,073 And maybe some of you can relate to what I'm sharing. 434 00:22:57,302 --> 00:23:01,650 And so this is why it's important that we realize or that we recall that Jesus, 435 00:23:01,867 --> 00:23:03,891 again, is not just the bread of life. 436 00:23:04,429 --> 00:23:07,053 Jesus is the bread of my life 437 00:23:09,882 --> 00:23:14,680 And so, yes, it applies to the whole, but we need to internalize and see 438 00:23:14,682 --> 00:23:17,110 it applies to me, the individual. 439 00:23:18,608 --> 00:23:22,813 And so if Jesus is the bread of life, then what should our response be? 440 00:23:22,813 --> 00:23:28,164 Well, I believe it's this, to consume the bread of life, to take in the bread 441 00:23:28,165 --> 00:23:30,715 of life, to consume the bread of life. 442 00:23:31,401 --> 00:23:34,564 And for those of us who are not disciples of Jesus, this means, yes, 443 00:23:34,738 --> 00:23:40,177 to come and to believe in Jesus, trusting and surrendering to Jesus 444 00:23:40,357 --> 00:23:44,408 and accepting the gift of salvation through repentance and baptism. 445 00:23:45,206 --> 00:23:48,959 For those of us who are disciples of Jesus, this means to continue to live 446 00:23:49,191 --> 00:23:55,968 in Jesus by faithfully following Jesus' word and example, but continuing to live. 447 00:23:55,978 --> 00:24:00,206 This isn't just a one-time meal, but to continue to live. 448 00:24:00,404 --> 00:24:04,868 And we see this in the results and the ramifications here, and the examples 449 00:24:04,871 --> 00:24:07,265 for us here still in John chapter 6. 450 00:24:07,428 --> 00:24:09,034 Brothers and sisters, are you still with me here? 451 00:24:09,744 --> 00:24:09,770 Yeah. 452 00:24:09,770 --> 00:24:10,245 Okay. 453 00:24:10,470 --> 00:24:14,657 We continue with the story here in, in John chapter 6, but actually, let 454 00:24:14,658 --> 00:24:16,849 me point this out in verse 56, 57. 455 00:24:17,116 --> 00:24:23,617 This points us to this idea of a continuing relationship, a continual 456 00:24:23,692 --> 00:24:28,405 feeding upon and consuming and taking in and abiding in Christ 457 00:24:28,437 --> 00:24:31,070 and having Christ abide in us. 458 00:24:31,436 --> 00:24:35,884 And so again, it's continuing to view and appreciate Jesus 459 00:24:35,885 --> 00:24:37,293 as the bread of our lives. 460 00:24:37,656 --> 00:24:42,420 We need Jesus and therefore, we are so thankful for Jesus. 461 00:24:43,155 --> 00:24:46,504 And we have to remember that we follow Jesus continually, 462 00:24:46,533 --> 00:24:49,760 but we follow it on His terms 463 00:24:53,213 --> 00:24:55,645 Let's go and read John 6:60. 464 00:24:55,918 --> 00:24:57,700 Brothers and sisters, I said are you still with me here? 465 00:24:58,287 --> 00:24:58,311 Yeah. 466 00:24:58,311 --> 00:25:02,184 All right, it says, "On hearing it," again, Jesus is teaching, "On 467 00:25:02,190 --> 00:25:04,343 hearing it, many of his disciples…" 468 00:25:04,343 --> 00:25:04,899 His who? 469 00:25:04,923 --> 00:25:05,976 His disciples. 470 00:25:06,358 --> 00:25:10,313 These are followers of Je- These are ones who have claimed to have belief in Jesus. 471 00:25:10,529 --> 00:25:12,947 They said, "This is a hard teaching. 472 00:25:13,054 --> 00:25:14,678 Who can accept it?" 473 00:25:15,058 --> 00:25:18,180 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said 474 00:25:18,180 --> 00:25:19,735 to them, "Does this offend you? 475 00:25:20,143 --> 00:25:22,866 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before? 476 00:25:23,041 --> 00:25:25,484 The spirit gives life, the flesh counts for nothing. 477 00:25:25,695 --> 00:25:28,995 The words I have spoken to you, they are full of the Spirit and life." 478 00:25:29,638 --> 00:25:34,053 Again, pointing, hey, guys, y- you, y- you know I was talking, this is a metaphor. 479 00:25:34,541 --> 00:25:36,896 Again, this is Spirit and life that I'm speaking here to you. 480 00:25:36,896 --> 00:25:40,180 If you receive it, boy, you have the Spirit and you have eternal life. 481 00:25:40,436 --> 00:25:44,291 But they weren't understanding, and look what happens in verse s- 66: 482 00:25:44,512 --> 00:25:50,020 "From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. 483 00:25:51,479 --> 00:25:53,368 'You do not want to leave too, do you?' 484 00:25:53,370 --> 00:25:54,465 Jesus asked the 12. 485 00:25:54,794 --> 00:25:57,292 Simon Peter answered, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? 486 00:25:57,535 --> 00:25:59,883 You have the words of eternal life. 487 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:06,220 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.'" 488 00:26:06,251 --> 00:26:06,360 Amen. 489 00:26:07,477 --> 00:26:10,896 You see, the people wanted the Messiah to fit in their image. 490 00:26:12,036 --> 00:26:14,956 They didn't want the Messiah that Jesus offered. 491 00:26:15,553 --> 00:26:19,693 And so we can see here that what there was a difference in what the 492 00:26:19,694 --> 00:26:21,880 crowd wanted and what Jesus offered. 493 00:26:22,362 --> 00:26:25,181 What the crowd wanted, they wanted bread from Jesus. 494 00:26:25,457 --> 00:26:28,123 What Jesus offered is Jesus is the bread. 495 00:26:29,020 --> 00:26:31,976 What the crowd wanted, they wanted temporary satisfaction. 496 00:26:31,982 --> 00:26:33,887 Jesus offered eternal life. 497 00:26:34,470 --> 00:26:37,354 What the crowd wanted was a Messiah on their terms. 498 00:26:37,639 --> 00:26:41,091 Jesus offered a Lord to follow on his terms. 499 00:26:41,906 --> 00:26:45,372 Again, remember when I told you early on when they saw him when he fed the 5,000, 500 00:26:45,373 --> 00:26:47,321 they wanted to make him king by force. 501 00:26:47,629 --> 00:26:50,705 You see, they had this image of a political king, so they 502 00:26:50,705 --> 00:26:53,869 wanted Jesus to fit their mold of what the Messiah was like. 503 00:26:54,015 --> 00:26:56,697 So we see it then, and we see it even with his own people. 504 00:26:57,270 --> 00:27:01,432 And when they didn't get what they wanted, they decided to leave 505 00:27:03,582 --> 00:27:07,507 We have to make sure we follow Jesus on His terms. 506 00:27:08,199 --> 00:27:11,705 The crowd wanted Je- what Jesus could give them, but when Jesus didn't meet their 507 00:27:11,706 --> 00:27:13,743 expectations, they stopped believing. 508 00:27:14,513 --> 00:27:18,600 You know, it's possible to want Jesus as a healer, as a provider, 509 00:27:18,791 --> 00:27:23,707 as a problem-solver, without surrendering to Him as Savior and Lord. 510 00:27:24,822 --> 00:27:28,085 But if He's Lord, then He must be followed as Lord. 511 00:27:29,506 --> 00:27:33,187 Brent says, "Jesus is the Lord we must trust." 512 00:27:33,961 --> 00:27:36,168 You know, the apostles say, "Lord, to whom shall we go? 513 00:27:36,168 --> 00:27:37,033 You're the Holy One." 514 00:27:37,176 --> 00:27:41,620 You know, it's funny, they didn't fully realize and understand who 515 00:27:41,629 --> 00:27:45,817 Jesus was and all that was taking place until after the resurrection. 516 00:27:46,668 --> 00:27:50,759 But they truly believed in Jesus so that they surrendered 517 00:27:50,776 --> 00:27:52,894 to His Lordship in their lives. 518 00:27:53,662 --> 00:27:55,140 You know, the same for us. 519 00:27:55,657 --> 00:28:00,153 Will we believe and follow when we don't completely understand? 520 00:28:01,025 --> 00:28:06,933 Or when, when Jesus' words challenge us, our opinions, and our worldviews? 521 00:28:07,940 --> 00:28:12,845 Or will we follow only the part of Jesus that is easy and that we agree with? 522 00:28:14,943 --> 00:28:16,374 They wanted bread from Jesus. 523 00:28:16,374 --> 00:28:19,089 Jesus offered himself as the bread. 524 00:28:19,565 --> 00:28:20,331 I'll say it again. 525 00:28:20,331 --> 00:28:21,704 Don't come to Jesus for bread. 526 00:28:21,922 --> 00:28:25,103 Come to Jesus because he is the bread. 527 00:28:25,907 --> 00:28:30,504 And when we consume Jesus, he meets our soul's needs, and that's where 528 00:28:30,504 --> 00:28:33,778 true and eternal life takes place. 529 00:28:34,654 --> 00:28:38,300 And so I want to remind us, you are what you eat 530 00:28:40,658 --> 00:28:41,729 You are what you eat. 531 00:28:41,905 --> 00:28:42,764 Isn't that true? 532 00:28:43,859 --> 00:28:45,229 You are what you eat. 533 00:28:45,442 --> 00:28:48,711 I remember being in college and, and I had some health ch- uh, challenges 534 00:28:48,713 --> 00:28:51,935 my s- I think it was my senior year in college, and I went to the, um, 535 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,997 to, like, the school nurse or doctor, whatever it was on campus, and so she 536 00:28:55,998 --> 00:28:57,405 says, "Well, tell me about your diet." 537 00:28:57,694 --> 00:29:04,989 I said, "Well, I eat frozen burritos, Top Ramen, hot dogs, hamburgers, and, uh, and 538 00:29:05,001 --> 00:29:06,591 maybe some vegetables every now and then." 539 00:29:07,312 --> 00:29:09,918 And she said, "Do you think that could be part of the problem? 540 00:29:11,199 --> 00:29:11,799 You're right. 541 00:29:11,817 --> 00:29:12,632 That could be part… 542 00:29:12,663 --> 00:29:13,966 Wow, that's deep right there." 543 00:29:15,843 --> 00:29:18,533 I was like, man, maybe that's what it is. 544 00:29:19,612 --> 00:29:21,501 You are what you eat spiritually. 545 00:29:22,872 --> 00:29:26,793 If we feed on the imitation and the substitutes, we'll be frustrated. 546 00:29:27,947 --> 00:29:28,792 We'll be discouraged. 547 00:29:28,810 --> 00:29:29,999 We won't like Jesus. 548 00:29:30,204 --> 00:29:30,468 Why? 549 00:29:30,477 --> 00:29:32,390 Because we're feeding on the substitutes. 550 00:29:32,740 --> 00:29:36,257 We'll start disagreeing and making up our own version of who the Lord should 551 00:29:36,268 --> 00:29:38,638 be and how he should fit into our box. 552 00:29:40,073 --> 00:29:45,320 We'll believe and follow only when Jesus meets our expectations, and 553 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:50,335 we may eventually stop following or we may remain physically present, 554 00:29:50,601 --> 00:29:52,908 but stop following in our hearts. 555 00:29:54,245 --> 00:29:59,987 And what can happen is a false version, an imitation of crea- Christianity with cheap 556 00:29:59,999 --> 00:30:06,368 grace that doesn't lead to eternal life, but leaves us being spiritually deceived. 557 00:30:07,384 --> 00:30:11,990 But when we feed on Jesus, the living bread of life, his life grows 558 00:30:11,990 --> 00:30:16,254 in us, and that's the perfect life of heaven that will abide in us. 559 00:30:17,037 --> 00:30:19,716 His character forms in us. 560 00:30:19,929 --> 00:30:22,439 His words direct us. 561 00:30:22,650 --> 00:30:27,865 His mission gives us purpose, and his life sustains us now and leads 562 00:30:27,868 --> 00:30:30,865 to resurrection and to eternal life. 563 00:30:31,871 --> 00:30:36,622 Don't just come to Jesus for bread, come to Jesus because he is the bread, 564 00:30:37,047 --> 00:30:40,664 the only one that satisfies your soul. 565 00:30:41,405 --> 00:30:42,816 So let's get real practical here. 566 00:30:42,822 --> 00:30:45,108 Let's have some action steps here for the week. 567 00:30:45,328 --> 00:30:46,918 And here, we're gonna do this first one… 568 00:30:47,152 --> 00:30:48,948 Uh, we're gonna do this one right here, right now. 569 00:30:48,949 --> 00:30:49,351 Okay? 570 00:30:49,351 --> 00:30:49,787 All right? 571 00:30:49,958 --> 00:30:52,110 So I'm gonna give you a couple action steps here, and 572 00:30:52,110 --> 00:30:53,028 here's what I want you to do. 573 00:30:53,032 --> 00:30:55,785 We're gonna take 60 seconds, and I want you to reflect 574 00:30:55,970 --> 00:30:57,584 on what could possibly be… 575 00:30:57,606 --> 00:31:03,284 what, what could become possible this week with Jesus as the bread of your life. 576 00:31:03,916 --> 00:31:06,121 So I'm gonna go ahead and give you 60 seconds right now. 577 00:31:06,295 --> 00:31:12,119 I want you to think through and reflect upon what could become possible this 578 00:31:12,119 --> 00:31:15,657 week with Jesus as the bread of my life. 579 00:31:15,657 --> 00:31:17,186 You can go ahead and write it down. 580 00:31:17,704 --> 00:31:19,293 You can go ahead and just pray about it. 581 00:31:19,420 --> 00:31:23,246 But I'm gonna give you guys 60 seconds to have a little reflection upon that 582 00:31:26,225 --> 00:31:30,489 Okay, I want you to take maybe 30, 45 seconds and, um, and I 583 00:31:30,492 --> 00:31:33,488 want you to go ahead and share with the person next to you. 584 00:31:33,488 --> 00:31:33,865 All right? 585 00:31:33,866 --> 00:31:35,311 If you know them, then go ahead and share. 586 00:31:35,311 --> 00:31:38,567 If you don't know them, uh, you go ahead and introduce yourself real quickly. 587 00:31:38,568 --> 00:31:41,272 If you're online, uh, maybe you could put it in the chat there. 588 00:31:41,428 --> 00:31:44,414 All right, share what was something that you felt like the Spirit, uh, 589 00:31:44,431 --> 00:31:47,379 said to you and ministered to you as you reflected upon this question. 590 00:31:47,379 --> 00:31:50,466 I'll give you guys 30 to 45 seconds to go ahead and share with each other 591 00:31:55,235 --> 00:31:55,947 All right. 592 00:31:57,243 --> 00:31:58,002 Sorry about that. 593 00:31:58,003 --> 00:31:59,321 We're gonna have to cut you off there. 594 00:31:59,928 --> 00:32:02,852 I only said 30 seconds here, okay, so don't be mad at me, okay? 595 00:32:03,897 --> 00:32:04,429 All right. 596 00:32:04,729 --> 00:32:07,057 So, here's the second thing here. 597 00:32:08,028 --> 00:32:09,563 Action step for the week here. 598 00:32:09,941 --> 00:32:10,397 Pray. 599 00:32:10,954 --> 00:32:16,035 Pray about Jesus being the bread of life, either to realize it, maybe to 600 00:32:16,036 --> 00:32:18,864 return, or maybe to live in this reality. 601 00:32:18,864 --> 00:32:22,952 Just go ahead and pray this week about living in this reality there. 602 00:32:23,064 --> 00:32:28,190 And then lastly, pick, pick one way you will feed on Jesus this week. 603 00:32:28,758 --> 00:32:30,599 Pick one way you will feed on Jesus this week. 604 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,728 Maybe it's listen to His words, respond in prayer, or maybe it's put 605 00:32:33,744 --> 00:32:35,312 one thing He teaches into practice. 606 00:32:35,312 --> 00:32:36,210 Whatever it is. 607 00:32:36,516 --> 00:32:37,010 All right? 608 00:32:37,010 --> 00:32:39,686 And if you want to still share your reflection after service, 609 00:32:39,689 --> 00:32:40,937 please feel free to do that. 610 00:32:41,128 --> 00:32:43,304 A- a- and over lunch have a great discussion. 611 00:32:43,871 --> 00:32:45,895 Right now, we're gonna go ahead and take communion. 612 00:32:46,333 --> 00:32:50,399 Communion's where we remember Jesus' sacrifice on the cross for our salvation. 613 00:32:50,399 --> 00:32:54,011 We take the bread and the juice that, that resemb- uh, that, that, that, 614 00:32:54,011 --> 00:32:58,833 that, that, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, represent His blood and His body that 615 00:32:58,833 --> 00:33:00,829 was sacrificed for our salvation. 616 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,631 And as we can see in John chapter six, there, there's some language there that's 617 00:33:04,631 --> 00:33:08,455 used that helps us think of communion, uh, as he talked about receiving and 618 00:33:08,457 --> 00:33:12,302 eating the flesh and the blood, and again, the emblems that we take for communion. 619 00:33:12,774 --> 00:33:16,059 And in John chapter six in verse 51, we'll read this verse. 620 00:33:16,336 --> 00:33:19,667 It says, "I l- I am the living bread that came down from heaven. 621 00:33:20,007 --> 00:33:22,316 Whoever eats this bread will live forever. 622 00:33:22,683 --> 00:33:27,308 This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." 623 00:33:28,050 --> 00:33:31,007 Jesus satisfies our souls because He did more than just give us 624 00:33:31,015 --> 00:33:35,313 teachings, more than just blessings, and more than just physical bread. 625 00:33:35,650 --> 00:33:37,692 He gave us Himself. 626 00:33:38,564 --> 00:33:42,387 And as we eat the bread and drink the cup, may we remember that Jesus gave His body 627 00:33:42,389 --> 00:33:45,298 and blood so that we can have life in Him. 628 00:33:45,395 --> 00:33:45,973 Let's pray. 629 00:33:46,592 --> 00:33:49,029 Father in heaven, we thank You so much for Jesus. 630 00:33:49,065 --> 00:33:52,879 We thank You for Him being the bread that came from heaven, the 631 00:33:52,879 --> 00:33:54,425 living bread, the bread of life. 632 00:33:54,770 --> 00:33:59,950 And Father, we're so grateful for the sacrifice that Jesus did, the offering of 633 00:33:59,953 --> 00:34:03,197 His life so that we can have salvation. 634 00:34:03,442 --> 00:34:04,950 We are humbled and we are grateful. 635 00:34:04,951 --> 00:34:07,467 God, we know You didn't have to, but You chose to. 636 00:34:07,766 --> 00:34:11,203 And Lord Jesus, we're grateful because You fulfilled it, and You could've 637 00:34:11,203 --> 00:34:15,344 gotten off the cross, but You chose to stay, and we say thank you. 638 00:34:15,871 --> 00:34:18,913 And thank You that not only can we believe in You, but we can have 639 00:34:18,913 --> 00:34:24,152 eternal life in and through Your death, burial, and resurrection. 640 00:34:24,578 --> 00:34:27,455 Thank You for Your Spirit that abides in us, and we pray to respond 641 00:34:27,458 --> 00:34:30,112 faithfully, truthfully, and holy. 642 00:34:30,757 --> 00:34:33,288 It's in Jesus' name we pray, amen