1 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:15,120 If you have your Bibles, turn over to John chapter 6. 2 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,720 I'm not sure how far we'll go today because if we could make 3 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,160 it through the whole passage that I want to look at today, or 4 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:24,240 we may stop early. We'll just see how the Holy 5 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:25,800 Ghost wants to move and flow with it. 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,360 I do want you to know that this Friday, December the 13th, so 7 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,640 say Friday the 13th, it's not a scary day, people. 8 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:38,640 All right, on Friday the 13th at 6:00 PM here at Mall 2121, 9 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:43,160 Washington will be having their choir singing in the mall. 10 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,160 And so I'd encourage #1 if you're already shopping for 11 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:48,480 Christmas, you should shop in your own mall. 12 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,160 I mean, there's, there's stores available for you to purchase 13 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:56,200 some at least one gift you should get out of your own mall. 14 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,560 Amen. And so I encourage you to come 15 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,640 by, but you could also be a support to our Washington 16 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,400 students as they are are singing some Christmas carols during 17 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,320 that time. And so we encourage you to come 18 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:09,920 and be a part of that. Turn over to John chapter 6. 19 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,920 John chapter 6, we're going to talk about the bread today. 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,240 Amen. Let's look at this passive 21 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:16,720 scripture. We're going to break some things 22 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:18,400 up. And I want us to first look at 23 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,640 verse 25 and we'll go to verse 31. 24 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,040 And it says this. And when they found him on the 25 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,760 other side, say the other side of the sea, they said to him, 26 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,560 Rabbi, when did you get here? Jesus answered them saying 27 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,360 truly, truly. I say to you. 28 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:40,440 You seek me not because of Saul signs, but because you ate of 29 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,920 the loaves and were filled. Do not work for the food which 30 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:50,080 perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which 31 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,600 the Son of Man will give to. You for on him the. 32 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:58,920 Father God has set his seal. Therefore they said to him, What 33 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,960 shall we do so that we may know that we may work the works of 34 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,160 God? Jesus answered and said to them, 35 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:10,080 This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has 36 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,680 sent. So they said to him, What then 37 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:18,360 do you do for a sign so that we may see and believe you? 38 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:24,600 What work do you perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the 39 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:29,240 wilderness, as it is written. He gave them bread out of. 40 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,120 Heaven to eat, OK, And let's pray again. 41 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,320 Father, we just thank you so much for the opportunity to 42 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,400 receive Your Word. And Father, by receiving this 43 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,400 word, it can change our lives. And so, Father, we have ears to 44 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,680 hear today. We want ears of understanding. 45 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,920 As Paul prayed for the churches that he planted, he said, our 46 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:51,360 Lord, I pray that the eyes of their understanding would be 47 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:53,480 enlightened, that they may know what is the hope of your 48 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,040 calling. He prayed for spiritual wisdom 49 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,520 and insight, revelation, knowledge, conturning Scripture 50 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,320 so that when the light comes on, is revealed in the heart and 51 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:06,000 transforms the mind, then we can walk in light of the truth. 52 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,400 We can be extremely powerful people on the planet. 53 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,720 We can be all that you've destined us to be, even in this 54 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,840 life so that we can accomplish the work that you've called us 55 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:17,720 to do. So Holy Spirit, we thank you 56 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:18,960 that you're here in our presence. 57 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,080 We thank you for the gifts of the Spirit that have been in 58 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,240 operation already today. We thank you that those gifts 59 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,320 have been outlined in your Word and we've functioned in them. 60 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,200 But we also think that you're going to do the assignment. 61 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,320 Jesus first introduced you to his disciples, and that is you 62 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,280 would cause things to come to our remembrance that you've 63 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,920 said. You're going to teach us all 64 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:39,640 things. You're going to guide us into 65 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,160 all truth, and you're going to disclose things to come. 66 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,400 And we received the ministry of the Holy Spirit through the 67 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:50,600 gifts, the gift of ministry, the ministry gift of the apostle and 68 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:57,800 pastor in Jesus name, Amen. So they conclude this he said he 69 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,280 gave them bread out of heaven to eat. 70 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,520 Now notice this passive scripture. 71 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,640 The people who have come to hang out with Jesus are to have come 72 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,520 across the sea to Capernaum to see him is a group in the same 73 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,200 chapter. If you go to the beginning of 74 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,560 it, that was spending time hearing Jesus and. 75 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,760 I've been listening for listening to him for three days 76 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:24,280 and were not eating because they were listening to the words he 77 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:27,200 was preaching and that's at the time that he turns to his. 78 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,040 Disciples and says now listen, that what God has asked me to 79 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,000 give them, I'm done. But I do not want to send them 80 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,440 away because they've been here for three days listening to the 81 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,160 Word and they've not eaten anything. 82 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,640 So we need to feed. Them because I don't want them 83 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,840 to go on their journey home and faint. 84 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:47,000 And so the disciples like, wow, I mean, there's like 5000 men 85 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,520 here, not counting the women and children. 86 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,480 I'm obviously paraphrasing, but they says, you know, do you want 87 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:56,000 us to get food for them? One gospel says it would be like 88 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,160 200 Denarian for us to go purchase loaves of bread, bring 89 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,480 them back and feed everybody here. 90 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,360 Now, they obviously suggested that because they had finance, 91 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,280 Judas was in charge of the treasury and there was so much 92 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:13,200 money that they had that he would be able to pull off or 93 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,920 embezzle out-of-the-box, you know, without things being 94 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:16,840 noticed. OK. 95 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,080 And so with that being said, because again, you're not 96 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:20,920 embezzling if there's hardly anything there. 97 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,600 A lot of money must have been there that he was obviously 98 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,720 coveting it and he began to pull from it. 99 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:29,600 So the the money was there to do so, but the Lord said, that's 100 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,080 not where I'm going. And So what he did is he took a 101 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,200 boy's lunch, 5 loaves and two fish, right? 102 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,960 And he began to then take those loaves and, and bless them and 103 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,760 broke them and fed everyone that was in attendance. 104 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:46,920 Now they ate and were satisfied. Well, after they were satisfied, 105 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:50,720 you know, Jesus then goes across the sea and they. 106 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,480 Come after the Lord again. Now notice here the Lord says 107 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:59,840 that you didn't come seeking after me because of a son. 108 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,120 Because you understand that's a pretty big sign that a child's 109 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,000 lunch of five loaves and two fish that he can multiply and 110 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,480 feed 5000 men. Plus wives. 111 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,400 So if every man had a wife, that's another 5000. 112 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,360 Then if they had children, you know, now that could be anywhere 113 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,200 from 1:00 to 4:00 to 6:00. Whatever the case, we really 114 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,160 don't know. A lot of times scholars try to 115 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,320 equate it maybe to around 10,000. 116 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,920 People at least double the amount were there besides the 117 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,240 men. And as a result of that, that's 118 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,560 a pretty powerful sign. But he says you didn't come 119 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,320 because of the sign. He says you came because you ate 120 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,160 and were satisfied. In essence, they showed up 121 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:44,280 because they were thinking, if we just follow this guy, he'll 122 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:50,240 meet our daily need. And they were coming for the 123 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:55,000 natural need. But Jesus is saying to them, 124 00:06:55,280 --> 00:07:01,360 there's a bread that's better than the bread you ate on that 125 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,880 day. You're coming just seeking me to 126 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:09,400 take care of you naturally. That was not the reason by which 127 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:14,440 I fed you. That is not the reason that I 128 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,040 fed you, which tells us as believers there are things the 129 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,920 Lord is showing us, maybe not for the reason that we are 130 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,080 thinking. In fact, God is not showing us 131 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:29,320 His word only so that our natural means are met. 132 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:37,440 OK, So he they end up saying, now listen, you show us a sign 133 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,200 because our fathers had this son that he gave them bread out of 134 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,280 heaven to eat. Now this comes from Deuteronomy 135 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,200 chapter 8 verse one and three, the real intent of why the 136 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:53,440 Father God through Moses gave bread to their fathers out of 137 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,360 heaven. He said all the commandments 138 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,120 that I'm commanding you today, you shall be careful to do that 139 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:04,160 you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which 140 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,720 the Father swore to give to your father's. 141 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,280 You shall remember, say, remember all the way which the 142 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:14,600 Lord your God has LED you in the wilderness these 40 years, that 143 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:19,360 you may hump, that He may humble you, testing you to know what 144 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:24,000 was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandment or 145 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,480 not. Now how did He do this test? 146 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:32,919 Verse three He humbled you and let you be hungry and fed you 147 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:38,240 with manna, which you did not know, nor did your Father's know 148 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:43,200 that he might make you understand what that man does 149 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:49,480 not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that 150 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,160 proceeds out of the mouth of God Jesus. 151 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,680 In the New Testament, He has a crowd of people that he just 152 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:00,400 supernaturally fed with five loaves and two fish. 153 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:05,760 OK, they've come to him again because they're seeking just for 154 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,120 the natural. They miss the sign. 155 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:13,960 They just want the natural and they work for the natural. 156 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:19,680 And the, the, the test or the theme that he's trying to teach 157 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:23,160 them is that you're not supposed to be living just so your 158 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,960 natural means are met. I'm gonna say that again. 159 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:31,800 You're not supposed to be living because your natural means are 160 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,000 met. Yet how many are going through 161 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,760 life living just to meet their natural means? 162 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,960 Only, he says that was not the intent of the bread. 163 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,880 The intent of the bread was not to sustain you naturally, 164 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,680 although it did because if we went on to Deuteronomy, it says, 165 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:55,640 listen, your clothes didn't wear out, your shoes didn't wear out, 166 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,800 your feet didn't swell, swell. You were healthy and whole 167 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,080 except for the rebellious ones that died, you know, of 168 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,640 different issues. But the reality is, is that he 169 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:05,960 provided for them. He took care of them, but it 170 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,320 wasn't about sustaining them naturally. 171 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:14,960 It was about life is in the word and that your pursuit while on 172 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,560 the earth is not to determine how successful you can be 173 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:23,320 naturally, how far you can get ahead naturally. 174 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:28,720 That is not the point. The point is, are you living 175 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:37,240 everyday life to obey what He is saying to you, that your actual 176 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,520 existence, as Paul said, we live and move and have our being, is 177 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,320 that we are wanting to just obey the voice of our king. 178 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:48,080 What's happening in the natural in our lives is secondary. 179 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:49,560 I mean, it may not even be secondary. 180 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:53,760 It could be so far down the list in our lives of not of of 181 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:58,080 unimportance because what is super important is that my whole 182 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,760 existence is to obey the voice of my king. 183 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,480 Are you hearing what I'm saying? And so the voice of the King is 184 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:09,400 the lesson of life. I'm going to say that again. 185 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:14,240 The voice of the king is the lesson of life. 186 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,000 This is the goal. The goal is to become very 187 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,160 proficient at obeying the word of our King as He speaks to us 188 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,200 because life is contained within His word. 189 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:33,400 If we go on and look at verse 32 of John 6, it says this. 190 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,120 Then Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, it is not 191 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:40,560 Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but is my 192 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:43,400 Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven. 193 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,720 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven 194 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,680 and gives life to the world. Then they said to him, Lord, 195 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:56,840 always give us this bread. And Jesus said, I am the bread 196 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:02,240 of life. I am the bread of life. 197 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:06,960 Hallelujah. He said I am the bread of life. 198 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,880 He who comes to me will not hunger. 199 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:18,160 Now that doesn't mean you won't feel hunger, because God is 200 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,600 meeting our need on a totally different level. 201 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,600 I said on a whole nother level. In fact, we saw in Deuteronomy, 202 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,120 what did he say? He said, listen, He said, I let 203 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:33,600 you go hungry and then I fed you because I'm trying to teach you. 204 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,080 Quit living by your stomach. Quit living by your appetites. 205 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,000 Quit living by your eyes. Quit living by your sight. 206 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,400 Quit living by your own personal success. 207 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:45,880 Quit talking to me about how I can make you blessed and how 208 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,280 great you can be. And you miss out, that really 209 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,040 your success is contained within obeying me at my word. 210 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,120 He said I am the bread of life, right? 211 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,760 He said he who comes to me will not hunger. 212 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:01,880 He who believes in me will not thirst. 213 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:07,280 But I say to you that you have seen me and do not believe. 214 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:13,040 Now this is powerful because this lets us know that miracles, 215 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:17,480 signs, and wonders are not a guarantee that it will produce a 216 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:24,280 lifelong follower. Miracle signs and wonders do not 217 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:28,600 guarantee it will produce a lifelong follower of Jesus. 218 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,600 Miracle signs and wonders are not what we are to pursue so 219 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:41,200 that we stay following Jesus. Miracle signs and wonders are 220 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:45,800 the testament or testimony that He always does what He says. 221 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:50,400 Hallelujah that he always does what he says. 222 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,320 He is the bread of life, I said. He is the bread of life. 223 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,400 I remember one time at when I was in the Florida National 224 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:02,400 Guard, I had a friend of mine. That I, I believe his parents 225 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,680 went to church, if I'm not mistaken. 226 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:09,320 He had some brothers and he himself was not following God. 227 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:12,480 Obviously, I was in church when I was in in the National Guard. 228 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:17,440 In fact, I was actually volunteered as a youth pastor in 229 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,720 a local body church within the community we lived in. 230 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,640 I worked full time in the Florida National Guard and then 231 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,720 when I wasn't working there, I was working full time, not for 232 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:30,680 pay, but for purpose. I was working full time for pay, 233 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,800 but for purpose as a youth pastor. 234 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,360 OK Of which Pastor Vanessa would you stand up? 235 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,280 Was in our first youth ministry that we had, OK. 236 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:44,080 She was not the first youth. Annie Stafford gets that credit, 237 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,240 but Vanessa came pretty soon after and she saw it come, which 238 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,400 I think we were in the little building in the back when you 239 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,840 came, which means then we had probably about 7:00 to 12:00 240 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:55,720 youth when she showed up. But then we ended up running 241 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,320 about 75 teenagers before we left to go to Rhema. 242 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,960 You can be seated. And so, you know, we were just 243 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:02,600 following God. I would work. 244 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:08,000 At Camp Blanding and I would do that full time and then I would 245 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,800 do activities with the youth. I would have to prepare for 246 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,080 sermons. I would serve the church, I 247 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,640 would help the pastor. And I'm doing all this and it 248 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,960 was a joy because God had called me. 249 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,840 I knew that my purpose would eventually get to it on a full 250 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,680 time level. But until then, I was just 251 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:29,800 privileged to be a part of the local body doing my fit. 252 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,040 Amen. And so I remember this 253 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:36,840 particular person that, you know, he knew that I was in 254 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,440 ministry. He knew because I would read my 255 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:42,360 Bible there. Obviously, we all got along 256 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,920 really well anyway, but at the end of the day, I let my light 257 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,920 shine before men. And so I remember we had gotten 258 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,800 into a discussion one time concerning the Scripture and, 259 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,560 you know, and he would be a little, you know, resistant, 260 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,360 right? Because again, it's by faith. 261 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,240 Well, we happened to be in a revival during the summer of 97. 262 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:07,680 And during this particular revival, a person came in that 263 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:09,400 we did not know. At all. 264 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,320 They were not a part of our church, but they came in and as 265 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:16,640 we were praying for them. As I I was. 266 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:20,240 Ministering that particular night, I laid hands on this 267 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,000 individual. And as I was, I had laid hands 268 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,240 on this individual. You know, they were in the 269 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,680 church and all of a sudden, you know, they were doing this here. 270 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,440 And then the next thing you know, they're doing this here. 271 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,320 And the next thing you know, they're doing this here and 272 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,280 they're waving their hand. And then they're jumping and 273 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,600 shouting, you know, and we're like Hallelujah, you know, I 274 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:39,560 don't know nothing. Nobody knows nothing because 275 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,960 this person just came in off the street, so to speak. 276 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,360 OK, We eventually get the testimony. 277 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,440 Now we happen to be recording this, not like what we have here 278 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,720 today, OK. Yeah. 279 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:54,320 I mean, this is like really, you know, this is Avhs time period. 280 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:59,560 Somebody only know what that is. This is when America's Funniest 281 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,400 videos first came out. Do you understand? 282 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:06,240 I mean this is like. Raw, unedited stuff. 283 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,160 And so we were having to film this and that person shot well, 284 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,079 we end up getting the testimony that we were in service 285 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:16,119 worshipping God and this person was driving this individual and 286 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,359 and on the inside. They said the Lord said you need 287 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:22,920 to go into that building and so they stopped. 288 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:25,880 He said you need to go to the service tonight because it was 289 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,440 during the middle of the week and so they end up coming into 290 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,200 the service. We'll come to find out the 291 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:34,280 gentleman. Had had a stroke and could not 292 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:38,680 move the right side of his body. We did not know that. 293 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,760 So they had helped them in. And so when we laid hands on God 294 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:45,600 healed them so that they could have full movement again. 295 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:51,040 Glory to God. So I said to my friend, because 296 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,360 he was talking about, you know, faith, and I said, let me tell 297 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:56,720 you something last night. And I told him this testimony. 298 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:01,160 I said no, I have it on video. I said, if I show you this 299 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:06,080 video, will you finally be convinced that God is real? 300 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,080 You know what he said to me? He said, yeah, probably not. 301 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,000 I said that's right, because it's not. 302 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:18,040 You're you're you're demanding evidence, but the reality is you 303 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:23,200 don't want evidence. You don't want to believe. 304 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,080 Are you hearing me? So never let someone bully you 305 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,520 into miracle signs and wonders to try to say, well, if this 306 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:34,520 happens because Jesus understood this principle, when they come 307 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,840 to him and say, work us a sign, show us why we would believe 308 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:39,800 what you're saying. I mean, Jesus could have said, 309 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,840 really, you want another sign? Did you not see the sign of the 310 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,760 five loaves and two fish? I mean, did you not see that? 311 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,280 But you know, I'm not going to sit here and entertain you. 312 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,200 You know, I'm not here to entertain you, so I'm telling 313 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:57,960 you what the sign is. You believe in me. 314 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:03,760 Because here's the thing, God has placed evidence of Him in 315 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:08,640 the earth today and he, what he said on this day is still being 316 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,080 said today. He said, He said, you have seen 317 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,960 and you do not believe. Do you understand? 318 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:15,920 You can see Jesus in the earth today. 319 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:20,480 How do I know this? Well, Matthew 1618, the Passion 320 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,640 translation, and they get it right here. 321 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,720 This translation is correct. It says I give you the name 322 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:32,200 Peter, a stone. And this truth of who I am will 323 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,240 be the bedrock foundation on which I will build my church. 324 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,880 Well, who's who is Jesus, He's the Christ, he's the king. 325 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,440 That's what the church has built on. 326 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:44,120 He said I will build my church, my legislative assembly and the 327 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:46,960 power of death will not be able to overpower it. 328 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:53,960 So Jesus is going to leave a scene evidence that he exists in 329 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:58,800 the earth. It's his church in Acts chapter 330 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,560 2 verse 38 through 42 Peter said to them, this is on the day of 331 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:04,680 Pentecost when the church age was ushered in. 332 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,560 He said, repent each of you and be baptized in the name of Jesus 333 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,000 Christ for the forgiveness of your sin, and you will receive 334 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,920 the gift of the Holy Spirit for the promises for you and your 335 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,200 children, for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God 336 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:20,000 will call to himself. For with many other words he 337 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,800 solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying. 338 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,200 Be safe from this perverse generation. 339 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:30,680 So then those who had received the word had what had received 340 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:38,640 the word were baptized and they and that day they they there 341 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:43,280 were added about 3000 souls. They what continually, 342 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:49,200 continually, verse 42 says devoting themselves to the 343 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,440 apostle teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of 344 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:55,880 bread and prayer. So the minute they were born 345 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:00,480 again, they immediately started to do the legislative assembly 346 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,960 where they were hearing from the apostles the teachings of God, 347 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:09,080 the ministry of God. They did this on a daily basis 348 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:12,840 they continually. So when someone is truly born 349 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:18,240 again, the 1st instinct of a new believer is to assemble with 350 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,240 others of like precious faith. And this is the first. 351 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:29,160 Sure, there is no 123 steps to get integrated in a church. 352 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,000 This is your pathway to church integration. 353 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:35,520 I mean born again. You're in and you should desire 354 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:39,600 to be in, want to be in, want to be taught, want to be renewed, 355 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,280 want to have your mind renewed to the word of God. 356 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:46,000 Your spirit man definitely wants to get around other believers of 357 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:51,000 like minded faith and wants to grow, grow, grow just like 358 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,160 newborn babes. They desire the milk of the word 359 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,320 and you cannot show me an infant that comes out of the womb and 360 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:04,960 and never cries and turns away milk that holds itself back and 361 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,640 says until you give me a steak, take me to Longhorn. 362 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,960 I'm not eating. It doesn't happen. 363 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:16,600 No, they cry out and say give me the milk. 364 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,600 And every newborn believer is saying that give me the milk of 365 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,040 the word. Help me to grow up. 366 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,680 It is a sign in the earth today. There are churches everywhere. 367 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,880 Well, it's got there's churches everywhere because he's building 368 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,480 them. And in First Corinthians 12/18 369 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,120 it says, but now God has placed the members, each one of them in 370 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:44,360 the body and the body is the church just as he desires. 371 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,520 So a scene evidence of God is the church in the earth today 372 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:50,560 and there are many people. Well, I just don't. 373 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:55,920 There's the church, there is the church, and the reality is the 374 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,600 seeing of the church is an evidence. 375 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:05,680 But you still don't want to believe because no matter what 376 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:12,720 we see and even can experience, it never replaces. 377 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,720 If you're going to eat the bread of life, you have to be a person 378 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,320 who obeys His word. That's what you have to be. 379 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,520 And that's what Jesus is saying. Listen, I'm telling you right 380 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,240 now, if you're going to follow me, you're going to have to. 381 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:32,400 Eat of the bread of life. Are you hearing me? 382 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,840 So in in John 6, let's jump down to verse 41. 383 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:37,680 Now let's look what it says here. 384 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,520 It says therefore the Jews were grumbling about him, because he 385 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,800 said I am the bread that came down out of heaven, and they 386 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,880 were saying is not. This Jesus, the son of Joseph, 387 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:51,520 whose father and mother we know, how does he say I have come down 388 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,840 out of heaven? And Jesus answered and said to 389 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,920 them, Do not grumble among yourself, No one can come to me 390 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,600 unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him 391 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,800 up on the last days. It is written in the prophets. 392 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,720 They and they shall all be taught of God. 393 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:13,400 Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to 394 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,720 me. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 395 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,320 Are you hearing what I'm saying? So in essence, Jesus saying now 396 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,000 when you get born again, you are going to want to assemble 397 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,800 because in order for you to be eating of the bread of life that 398 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:31,320 will never leave you hungry or thirsty because his word always 399 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,280 comes to pass. I said it always come. 400 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,880 This is the Kingdom life. If you want to have a Kingdom 401 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,280 life, then you're going to have to eat bread daily. 402 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:46,160 Give us this day our what daily bread. 403 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:51,440 Which means you cannot live for God not daily eating. 404 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,920 God never intended for you to not eat daily. 405 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,000 Can we go fasting for a time? Absolutely. 406 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,320 But you understand if most people's spiritual diets were 407 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,160 applied to their physical diet, they would die pretty quick of 408 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:15,600 malnutrition. Same in anyway, right? 409 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:21,520 Because again, when I eat bread, right, when I eat bread and I 410 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,720 try to avoid it at this time in my life. 411 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:29,040 But when I eat bread, OK, when I am a bread eater, you 412 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,240 understand, If I eat bread, which if I eat this kind of 413 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:36,960 bread here, then man, it definitely makes me hungry for 414 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,120 more. This was this was warm this 415 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:42,720 morning, all right. Oh, and here's another one. 416 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,360 Hallelujah. Shall I come by? 417 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,560 It could be like there's a restaurant in Missouri called 418 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,840 Lambert's where they throw rolls all over the place. 419 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:01,560 They'll want me to throw some bread. 420 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,520 OK, let me use it as an illustration first before I tear 421 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,720 it up. But. 422 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:10,800 He's the bread of life. So George, we know that I could 423 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,200 eat some of this bread today, but if I never go back to this 424 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:21,280 bread, then I can die. If this was my only source, if I 425 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:26,360 eat it once, it's not enough to sustain me yet. 426 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:31,120 How many are living a life where they've asked Jesus Christ to 427 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:35,240 come into their heart and save them, but they're not daily 428 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:40,880 eating and they're wanting to know why. 429 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,560 Where's God? How come he's not well? 430 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:47,400 God sustains if you eat of the bread of life. 431 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,040 If you eat of the bread of life and you know as well as I do, 432 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,600 you can go to some restaurants and by the time the main course 433 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:59,640 comes, you're like, can you just bring me A to go box? 434 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,200 Well, you're not hungry. Well, I ate so much bread 435 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:07,360 before, right? So that's how they get you. 436 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,920 You know, they, they, they put all that bread out there and you 437 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,120 devour it. Then your food comes around and 438 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:15,800 now you don't want to eat it. And then you justify yourself 439 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,560 for your gorging of bread. Well, this is lunch tomorrow, 440 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,040 but if some of you are kind of like me, you really aren't 441 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,160 leftover people. So it's gets in the 442 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,320 refrigerator. You actually do not eat it. 443 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,720 It gets thrown away and you basically bought a meal that you 444 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,960 didn't eat because you ate. All the bread first. 445 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,520 But is it not addicting? You know what the word of God is 446 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,080 addicting. Once you actually get into it 447 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,320 and begin to taste and see that the Lord is good. 448 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,120 If you would just get in the word and say this is the best 449 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:48,400 yeast roll I've ever. Had. 450 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,320 Now, I understand that Jesus told them that they don't have 451 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:53,760 the leaven in it when they went out. 452 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,680 Obviously manna was not that case. 453 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,240 But you understand the Kingdom of God is like a woman who put 454 00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:02,560 yeast into flour. So even though yeast in some 455 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,800 instances of the Bible is a negative, it is also a positive 456 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,240 also. And the Kingdom of God is like 457 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,800 yeast that gets into a measure of flour that once it gets in, 458 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,680 it can't get out and it goes through the whole dough. 459 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,400 And all of you in this room, very few are like. 460 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:30,000 I don't want to have a hot, buttery yeast roll, right. 461 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,560 I mean, just the smell. I mean, just me pulling it out. 462 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,960 Had some of you. Your stomach's growling right 463 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,720 now because you saw it. Now who is it? 464 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:40,120 Gavin. Yeah, that's what I thought. 465 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,720 Gavin's like. I am hungry. 466 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,360 I have seen the bread and now I am hungry. 467 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:51,600 See, the word should do that for us, that it makes us hungry, 468 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,120 hungry for more. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 469 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,040 OK, I'm gonna leave this bread up here so y'all can enjoy 470 00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,960 looking at it for a moment. All right, now here's the thing. 471 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,200 He said you're going to be taught. 472 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,480 Now, we need to get a little context here. 473 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,240 Look at first John chapter 2, verse 26 to 27. 474 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,840 Because this passage of Scripture is taken out of 475 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,960 context so much that I need us to go to 26 so that you 476 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:22,280 understand the context of 27. John says this in his first John 477 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,400 letter. He says these things I have 478 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:30,760 written to you concerning those who are trying to trying to 479 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:38,840 trying to deceive you. So verse 27, its context is 480 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:46,880 you're going to be taught by someone, but not everyone 481 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:55,680 teaching is teaching truth. So because of that, I have a 482 00:29:55,680 --> 00:30:01,160 mechanism within you. Verse 27 As for you, the 483 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,520 anointing which you receive from Him abides in you and you have 484 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,960 no need for anyone to teach you. Now that doesn't mean that no 485 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,920 one has to teach you. What it's saying is according to 486 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,360 the old covenant, when you are dead and your spirit man was 487 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,920 dead and you had to have someone that had the anointing come upon 488 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:24,320 them to teach you, which was the prophet and a priest that was to 489 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,520 communicate the word of the Lord. 490 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:31,600 He's saying now you get that you have someone on the inside who 491 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,520 checks up to make sure what you're hearing is whether it's 492 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:40,360 truth or not. And ultimately it is only him 493 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:44,320 who's teaching you. Because the one who's anointed 494 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:49,800 to help instruct you and is hearing from God will then 495 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:54,720 confirm the Holy Ghost in you that those words are actually 496 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,880 true. You're not just dependent on 497 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,200 doing exactly what they said without questioning, because now 498 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,920 you have in you an anointing. So you have no need for anyone 499 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,560 to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you 500 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,520 about all things and is true and not a lie, and just as he has 501 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,560 taught you, you abide in him. So the anointing in you, which 502 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:21,040 is the same Holy Spirit that came upon the author of, of, of 503 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,000 of John who wrote this letter. And that same anointing came 504 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:31,040 upon Paul because no scripture say no scripture say no 505 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,400 scripture. No scripture is of anyone man's 506 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:41,120 interpretation. So John is not saying one thing 507 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,800 by the Holy Ghost to negate something Paul's saying no, he 508 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,880 is in context there. There's things you're going to 509 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,400 hear that is there to try to deceive you. 510 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,680 Good news, you have an anointing he teaches you. 511 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,160 And when he says that in right, you don't receive it, but when 512 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,400 you get under the anointing of those that God has placed in the 513 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:05,720 body, come on, y'all know where it is? 514 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,320 Look at Ephesians chapter 4 in Ephesians chapter 4. 515 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,760 And he gave some as apostles and prophets, as some as evangelists 516 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,320 and pastors and teachers. Why? 517 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,320 For the equipment of the Saints, for the work of service to the 518 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:18,720 building up of the body of Christ. 519 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,080 Until we all attain to the unity of faith and of the knowledge of 520 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,520 the Son of God to a mature man, we're maturing to the measure of 521 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,640 the statute which belongs to the fullness of Christ. 522 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:32,240 What is the result of this, of this being taught and equipped 523 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:37,000 by the fivefold ministry? Which are gifts to you Now? 524 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,680 You don't have to open up your gifts if you don't want to on 525 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,640 Christmas, but they're your gifts nonetheless and you'll 526 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,600 never benefit from the gifts you do not open up. 527 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,120 But if you'll open up the gift of the apostle and open up the 528 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,840 gift of the prophet and open up the gift of the advances and 529 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,720 open up the gift of the pastor and teacher, then you can grow. 530 00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:00,000 And the anointing in you will say pastor was right, the 531 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,000 apostle was right. The prophet discern is 532 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,920 communicating that right. The evangelist is right. 533 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,000 The teacher has line upon line, precept upon precept said that 534 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,280 right. Receive it, accept it, walk in 535 00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,720 the revelation of it. OK, what's the result? 536 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:21,000 You're no longer to be children, carried here and there by waves, 537 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000 and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of 538 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,360 men, by craftiness. And what deceitful scheming did 539 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,840 we not just read this in first John chapter 2 for those that 540 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:37,720 are teaching you to deceive you. So the fivefold ministry. 541 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,480 Our teachers are ministers that communicate truths from God's 542 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:48,880 word so that you will not leave it, live a deceived life, say 543 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,480 Amen. But speaking the truth and love. 544 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,000 We are to grow up in all aspects into Him who was the head, even 545 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,600 Christ, from whom the whole body being fitted and held together 546 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,120 by what every joint supplies according to the proper working 547 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,800 of. Each individual part causes the 548 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:06,640 body to grow for the building up of itself in love. 549 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:12,600 And so John was saying, or Jesus is saying, listen here you are 550 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,960 arguing about what I say. And the religious always argues 551 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,719 with God. The lost who do not want him and 552 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:25,679 reject him will argue with God. Don't find yourself arguing with 553 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:30,000 the Word. Don't find yourself arguing with 554 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,080 the Word. Because again, if you want to 555 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,679 have life, you're then going to have to embrace and eat the 556 00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:38,239 bread of life. I said you're going to have to 557 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,760 embrace and eat the bread of life. 558 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:48,080 Can I get an Amen? So he wants to teach us the word 559 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,639 John chapter 6. Now it will jump to verse 47 560 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:54,000 real quick. Says this truly. 561 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:59,360 I say to you, he who believes has eternal life, I am. 562 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,160 The bread of life. Say I'm the bread of life. 563 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,360 Your father ate. The manna in the wilderness. 564 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,480 And they died. This is the bread which comes 565 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,760 down out of heaven, so that you may eat of it and not die. 566 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,240 I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. 567 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:20,800 If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. 568 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:28,120 And the bread also, which I give for the life of the world is my 569 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:32,320 flesh. Whoo, here we go. 570 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,840 Then the Jews began arguing with one another, saying, how can 571 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,120 this man give us his flesh to eat? 572 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,840 So Jesus said, truly, truly. I say to you, unless you eat the 573 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:45,680 flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no 574 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,880 life in yourself. He who eats my flesh and drinks 575 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,160 my blood has eternal life. And I'll raise him up on the 576 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:57,200 last day. For my flesh is true food, and 577 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:01,240 my blood is true drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks 578 00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:03,440 my blood abides in me and I in him. 579 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,440 Man, you hear this. You're like this guy is in the 580 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:12,200 cannibalism and he wants you to eat him. 581 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,400 He says as the living father sent me, I live because of the 582 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,720 father. So he who eats me, he also will 583 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:25,400 live because of me. This is the bread that came out 584 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,520 of heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. 585 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,160 He who eats this bread will what? 586 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:32,920 What are you going to do? You're. 587 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,040 Going to live. Forever and these things he said 588 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,760 in the synagogue and he taught in Capernaum. 589 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,040 Therefore, many of the disciples, when they heard this, 590 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:45,320 said This is a difficult statement. 591 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:51,640 How can who can listen to it? And you know what? 592 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:59,160 That statement is being made by Saints still today, still today. 593 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,720 Because if it isn't for the death, burial and resurrection 594 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:06,440 of Jesus, if it isn't for the fact that Jesus had to sow 595 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:11,400 himself as a king in order to reap kings, that he had to lay 596 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,160 down his life so that you could have life and life more money. 597 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:18,480 That He had to sow Himself and take on your unrighteousness so 598 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,160 that He could give you His righteousness and His blood is 599 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,920 what is poured out on the mercy seat of heaven that takes care 600 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:31,200 of every sin you ever committed. It is the fulfillment of the 601 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,400 assignment and the reason you must eat of His flesh and drink 602 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,560 of His blood. What He is literally saying is 603 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:43,240 you must believe that I came as as God in the flesh, as the Son 604 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:46,040 of Man. I died for your sins. 605 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,920 I gave my life for you. I put stripes on my back for 606 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:54,320 your health and well-being. I poured out my blood for all of 607 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:58,040 your wrongdoing. And I've been raised from the 608 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,520 dead on the third day. And if you'll call on my name, I 609 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,920 will be your Lord. And when I'm your Lord, then you 610 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:11,480 can eat bread daily because the bread of life is to do the words 611 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,480 that I say on a daily basis. Are you hearing me? 612 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,080 But they're like, this is a hard saying. 613 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,760 You know, there's a lot of believers that are saying this 614 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,320 is a hard saying. They're not saying it's hard to 615 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,560 believe Jesus died on the cross and rose from the grave. 616 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:31,840 What they are saying is that it's hard to eat the bread of 617 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:39,840 life daily. This is the problem that in 618 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:45,800 order for them to eat the bread daily, they have to be a 619 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,480 follower of His word. And for a lot of people, he 620 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,720 said, that's a hard thing to hear. 621 00:38:54,920 --> 00:39:00,680 That's a hard thing to hear that I have to think about God first. 622 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:09,080 I I work. I mean, I have a job. 623 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:11,520 I have a business. I have this, I have that. 624 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,120 I've got bills to pay. I have. 625 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,200 He said wait a minute now. I need you to. 626 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,800 Hear my word grow in my word. Let me be. 627 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,560 First you seek me first. Come on. 628 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,360 Who wants some bread here? Gavin, you ready? 629 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,640 All right. Y'all want some over here, man, 630 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,440 It's good to be in service today, is it not? 631 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,000 Come on. Interception. 632 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:38,520 Oh, we got some people in the back. 633 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:39,840 Back there. All right. 634 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,880 Here we go. All right. 635 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:46,040 Y'all ready? Oh yes, man, I should play 636 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:47,440 quarterback or something right now. 637 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:48,760 I don't know what's happening with me. 638 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,680 Here you go. Big piece, big piece. 639 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,160 Oh, Greg's like, man, it hit me in the face. 640 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:04,680 Oh, you look at that. Eat it. 641 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,520 Anyways, 5 second rule, 5 second rule. 642 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,400 There you go. Oh, Isaac, can I get you in the 643 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,040 back back there? I bet I can. 644 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:19,720 Oh, come on now. Did it get on top? 645 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,000 Oh great. You know what we're? 646 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,360 Going to have a rat in there now. 647 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,080 Probably I have to do something about that. 648 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:33,360 Thank you. Wow, how crazy, Isaac. 649 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:33,960 You're tall. You should be. 650 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,080 Able to jump up there. Thank you. 651 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:45,200 Shall we try again? Isaac, guys, OK. 652 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:47,840 Oh, over there in front row people, huh. 653 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:52,280 Oh. It hit his. 654 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:53,920 Hands. I just want you to know it hit 655 00:40:53,920 --> 00:41:05,210 his hands. All right, See, that was 656 00:41:05,210 --> 00:41:21,800 beautiful. Just say Amen, wow, you know 657 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,560 this right here will be good with some of my wife's, then my 658 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:38,680 homemade soup, like tear out the inside and make it my bowl, you 659 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:44,160 know? Oh, Hallelujah, Amen. 660 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,520 It's a difficult thing, right? It's difficult now, many years. 661 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,240 Not difficult unless you're like trying to withhold yourself from 662 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:55,480 bread. But if you have no issue of it 663 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,520 showing up in your body, you know as well as I do you're 664 00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:01,200 after it, right? Because some of you who don't 665 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,720 think US grain's good, and I understand why you go to the 666 00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:08,120 other countries and you have no limitations because you're like, 667 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,720 Lord, I'm eating some bread. All right, The bread of life. 668 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,680 There's joy about it. And there's joy. 669 00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,400 My wife came home the other day. She said, I bought you 670 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,240 something. I said you bought me something. 671 00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:22,080 She goes, yeah, you got me some uncrustables. 672 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:35,520 I'm like, she got the good stuff now. 673 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,120 It wasn't the actual uncrustables. 674 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:41,800 So healthier version, but I was like, man, I'm really trying to 675 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:46,920 not go there. So I'm like, OK, I said we don't 676 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,440 have to give this stuff away because I'm going to be honest 677 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,480 with you, if it's in the house and it's not good to eat, I'm 678 00:42:54,480 --> 00:43:00,040 eating it anyway. I'm like, we got to get rid of 679 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,080 this stuff. It's no good for our household. 680 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,120 Get it out of here. I mean, look, that's biblical. 681 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:06,560 If something offends you, cut it off. 682 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,600 So I try to give it away, but if it's not there, I just consume 683 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,240 it, work out a little bit harder and say don't do that again. 684 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,240 All right, let's finish this up. It's a hard thing. 685 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,440 Why does it become a hard thing? Hebrews 511 says it this way. 686 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,280 Concerning him. We have much to say and it's 687 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:30,160 hard to explain. Since you have become dull of 688 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:35,840 hearing. A dull ear does not want to eat 689 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,480 of the bread of life. When you start to develop a dull 690 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,080 ear, you're going to be like what we're fixing to read here 691 00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:44,960 and that is you're going to turn away. 692 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,560 This is happening. You know, Jesus said I'm the 693 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,000 bread of life. Nothing's changing and how to 694 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,800 eat of him is the same. It's not changed in all these 695 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,200 thousands of years, OK? It's not changed really since 696 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,600 the creation because Adam the 1st. 697 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,040 Adam he was to eat of the bread of life. 698 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,800 And all he had to do was obey God at His word. 699 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,080 But the day he ate of the fruit he was not supposed to. 700 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:18,040 Then death entered in, and God was looking for someone who 701 00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,800 would be able to obey him without blame so that He could 702 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,840 redeem humanity and give them the opportunity to come back in 703 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,720 through obedience. To his Word, God did all the 704 00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:30,480 work. Our work is just. 705 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,360 Obeying him by faith. OK. 706 00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,320 So if we get all the earring, then we get into this issue, 707 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,160 Second Timothy 4, three and three and four of the Amplified, 708 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,640 and we've read this, the other service in a different context, 709 00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,200 he said. For the time will come when 710 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,840 people will not tolerate sound doctrine and acquire an accurate 711 00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,280 instruction that challenges them with God's truth. 712 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,800 But wanting to have their ears tickled with something pleasing, 713 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,400 they will accumulate for themselves many teachers, one 714 00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,680 after another, chosen to satisfy their own desires and to support 715 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,880 the errors they hold. And they will turn their ears 716 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,120 away from the truth and will wander off into myths and man 717 00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:13,280 made fictions and will accept the unacceptable. 718 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,200 What dole hearing. Because again. 719 00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,840 When we start to hear the bread of life speak to us. 720 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,240 And that's a hard and, and and I've said this, there's always a 721 00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:26,160 message. I call it the one thing because 722 00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,320 when Jesus confronted the rich young ruler who came to him and 723 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:30,880 said, what must I do? Inherit eternal life? 724 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,240 Good teachers said, why are you calling me good? 725 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:34,680 Only that which is good come from heaven. 726 00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,440 And he said, just keep the commandments. 727 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,160 He said, I've done them since I was a child. 728 00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:39,760 And Jesus didn't say, no, you haven't. 729 00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,520 He knew he had, but he had done it on his own terms. 730 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:47,920 He was following the word based upon his way of doing, not based 731 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,120 upon the one who authored the word he was following. 732 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,040 So he tests him and says there's one thing you lack. 733 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,800 And all of us in our what with God will come to our one thing 734 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,480 meaning that which will determine whether you keep your 735 00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:07,400 course and be a disciple or whether you hang your head and 736 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,920 develop dull hearing. And when you develop dull 737 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,320 hearing, it doesn't mean that you'll leave the church. 738 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:22,040 It just means you go to 1's. That support your belief all 739 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:26,360 right and so this is what Jesus was confronted with when he's 740 00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,960 like I am the bread of. Life all y'all wanting signs but 741 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,360 I'm just telling you if you'll just follow what I say you taste 742 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,800 and see you'll find that I'm good and it's awesome. 743 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:35,240 And they kept pushing for natural. 744 00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:37,200 So then he went a little bit further and he said, listen, you 745 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:38,600 got to eat my flesh and drink my blood. 746 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,920 And that was like, whoa, you have stepped over the line right 747 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,280 now and they're like, we are out of here. 748 00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:45,920 OK. What's strange is the first 749 00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:49,040 Timothy 41A dull of hearing person has said, but the spirit 750 00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,360 explicitly says, and this has been one of the verses we've 751 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:52,800 used all year. That's why we've been talking 752 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,640 about the reigning spirit. But the spirit explicitly says 753 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,760 in the latter times, some will fall away from the faith, paying 754 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:03,760 attention to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons because 755 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,320 they'll come to a point where the Lord saying, hey, I need you 756 00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,760 in your life. That's a hard thing that's hard 757 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,800 to listen to. That's hard to listen to. 758 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,960 I mean, really, as a believer, can we get to a place that we're 759 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:22,600 like, you're asking too much of me now the answer should be no. 760 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,720 But can the Lord ask of something of you that you're 761 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:33,280 like, that's too far and we just have to be honest about these 762 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,960 things. We have to be honest about those 763 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:40,440 things because again, God's not here to help your natural 764 00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,360 comfort. The gospel that we have is not 765 00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:48,320 that includes prosperity, is not for you to focus on you building 766 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:54,200 the most prosperous life here. Prosperity is a byproduct of 767 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,480 your purpose. But with prosperity, if God 768 00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,680 wanted you to give it all away like He did the rich young ruler 769 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:06,200 you would do it for as a disciple, Because again, if you 770 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,080 did, how are you going to lose? He's only going to give all of 771 00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,000 that back to you. Good measure, press down, shaken 772 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,040 together and running over. But are you willing to let go? 773 00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:18,840 I cannot guarantee you that all the blessings God gives you that 774 00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,520 He won't have a saying at some point because all He's doing is 775 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:25,240 testing. Am I what you feed on daily? 776 00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,320 Though the latter part of this scripture goes on and says it 777 00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,840 this way. John 661 to 68 but Jesus 778 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:37,200 conscious. That his disciples grumbled 779 00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,840 about this says, Does this cause you to stumble? 780 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:46,440 Now, we've already had the crowd leave, and from that day they 781 00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:53,200 quit following him. In fact, the day that they quit 782 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,200 listening to the Bread of Life is when they harden their heart 783 00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:01,600 enough that the religious could convince them to shout on 784 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,400 another day and say, crucify him. 785 00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:11,400 Give us Barabbas, the very group that was fed the from the five 786 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,160 loaves and two fish are asking for his death. 787 00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:24,200 He says, verse 60. What then if the Son of Man 788 00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:29,400 ascends to where he was before? It is the Spirit who gives life. 789 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,560 The flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to 790 00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:40,360 you are Spirit and our life. But there are some of you who do 791 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,520 not believe. For Jesus knew from the 792 00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:47,880 beginning who they were, and who did not believe, and who it was 793 00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,040 who would betray Him. And he was saying For this 794 00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,080 reason I have said to you that no one can come to me unless it 795 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,840 has been granted him of my. Father as a result. 796 00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:01,440 Of this, many say many of his disciples withdrew and we're not 797 00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:06,920 walking with him anymore. So Jesus said to us, 12 do you 798 00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:14,840 want to go? Also, the terms of Pastor Hagen, 799 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,520 when I've gone to some of his meetings, he'll say, if you 800 00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:22,960 don't like it, there's the door EXIT, right as he said that 801 00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,520 because he's saying, listen, at the end of the day, if you 802 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,040 cannot do what the word is saying, then there's the door 803 00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:36,880 EXIT. And here's Jesus, his whole 804 00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:41,680 crowd, his ministry where everybody's like, look at the 805 00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,680 crowd that is following this guy. 806 00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:47,640 I mean, he's so anointed and successful in ministry and now 807 00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:52,400 they're leaving him because he's preaching truth, that he turns 808 00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:56,280 to his core and says there's the door as well. 809 00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:09,400 But Peter, Peter says, Lord, to whom shall we go? 810 00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,400 You have words. Of eternal life. 811 00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,760 Wow. Is Jesus that in your life? 812 00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,720 Is he words of eternal life to you? 813 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,760 This is why it's easy for me to read daily. 814 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:33,680 It's easy for me to commune because these words of like, 815 00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:39,560 it's not religious. Although I create a structure 816 00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:43,640 for me to be able to be and taste and see and stay under the 817 00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,360 bread of life. It's not religious duty, it's 818 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:50,920 desire. I'm like Peter, where am I going 819 00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:55,720 to go? This situation occurs. 820 00:51:55,720 --> 00:51:58,040 This situation occurs, this happens. 821 00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:01,400 Where am I going? To go, you have words of life. 822 00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:03,880 So I conclude with this passage of Scripture. 823 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:08,040 John 15 verse 7 says. This if you abide in Me and My 824 00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:12,280 words abide in you, Ask whatever you wish and it will be done for 825 00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,200 you. My Father is glorified by this, 826 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,040 that you bear much fruit and so prove to be My disciples. 827 00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,040 Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. 828 00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,320 Abide in my love. How do you abide in His love? 829 00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:26,560 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I 830 00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:30,480 have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His 831 00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:34,000 love. Jesus is the bread and if we 832 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:39,160 want true Kingdom life, then we have to understand the things of 833 00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:43,760 the natural are not more important than coming to the 834 00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:51,360 table daily when we're not assembling as called by God 835 00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,680 because he's over his church. You're going to eat daily. 836 00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:57,800 You're going to pull your own source of food. 837 00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,800 You're going to go through the scripture yourself. 838 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:03,080 You're going to be meditating on things yourself, but when the 839 00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:07,440 the dinner bells ringing for the family to come, well then you 840 00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:09,800 find yourself here. You don't let the distractions 841 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,000 of the worlds and the cares of life and the things of life that 842 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,360 seem like they're more important when they're not. 843 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:20,080 Because your natural success and any success you have is 844 00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,600 God-given anyway. Because what good is in a man to 845 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,560 gain the whole world and forfeit his soul. 846 00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:29,240 But all of us who've called on the name of the Lord, we know 847 00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,920 that the blessings, the things that we're in is by the grace of 848 00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:36,840 God, is by the power of God and is by his word and us following 849 00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:38,440 him that we're even in this position. 850 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:44,160 Why would I abandoned that when if I'm going to taste and see 851 00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:48,120 and eat daily of his bread that I'm not doing it and I'm doing 852 00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:49,480 that. And I want to encourage you, 853 00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,640 especially on Wednesday mornings, again, for those who 854 00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:55,480 can, I know not everyone can. There was a time that Wednesday 855 00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,200 morning prayer was a lot larger than it is today. 856 00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:02,760 And I know why because we just get out of a routine because 857 00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:05,280 there's someone out there that is a bread stealer. 858 00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:13,040 He's a bread stealer. All he wants to do is steal your 859 00:54:13,240 --> 00:54:17,720 daily devotion, your time with him. 860 00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,280 There's some things we can get in private, there's other things 861 00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:28,080 we get corporately, but I encourage you come and do as 862 00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:32,320 much corporate as possible because you're coming. 863 00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:33,680 To the bread of life, Amen.