Eat the bread,
you will have life.
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Eat My flesh,
you will have life.
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Drink My blood,
you will have life.
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The evidence is
our willingness to hear
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and to obey the Word of the God,
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especially since we
realize this is God speaking.
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This is not an ordinary book
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we are talking
about this morning
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this is the word of life.
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This is the Word of God
we have in His presence.
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The Holy Spirit's
ability to inspire.
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Let's bow our heads together
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as we get into
the word this morning.
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Our loving Father in
heaven, You are a gracious God.
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We just pray that You're word
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will be so clear
this morning Father,
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that our hearts will be touched,
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our minds will be
strengthen with in us
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and we will just know
with an absolute certainty
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that there is a God in heaven
who loves us unconditionally
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and who is willing
to share Himself for us
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and in us every single day.
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Thank You and anticipation
of your word coming to life
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again today in
Jesus precious name,
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Amen.
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Theopneustos,
well, what a huge word
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that is to being with
here in Auburn. Theou,
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which you're all familiar with
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is the Greek word for God.
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It's the word for God.
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And Pneustos, the "P" is silent.
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This is the word inspired
now, inspired is Theopneustos
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and this is the word,
if you look at pneu there
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you think of pneumatic.
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What do you
think about in English
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when you think of pneumatic?
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You think of air.
Yes, you do indeed.
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Pneumonia a diseases
of the air in the lungs.
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This is the word breathed.
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It's the same word
from Genesis Chapter 2
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where God breathed into man
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and man became a living soul.
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So if something is
inspired by the Holy Spirit
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it means God breathed.
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Isn't that exciting?
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Oh, I thought I heard
a response there from--
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That must be an Auburn, okay.
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Isn't that exciting?
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Thank you, Lord.
Yes. Thank you, Lord.
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So whatever we speak
about being inspired this week
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it is God breathe
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and I remind you, turn
with me to Genesis Chapter 1,
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Genesis Chapter 1
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because there is
something about God breathe,
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this is also by the way
the same word for Spirit.
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Because the breathe of God
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is associated
with the Spirit of God.
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Genesis 1:26, notice it begins
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with "And God said,"
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are you catching that? God said,
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so whenever we see Theopneustos
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the Word of God
is always present.
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God spoke, God said.
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I'm always fascinated
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by the first time
things occur in scripture.
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It's the basis of course
for understanding all symbols
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in the Book of Revelation.
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You trace them
back to the first time
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they pop up in scripture.
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And this is the first
usage of speaking in scripture
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and its God said. Each
day of creation God spoke.
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And here we are on
the sixth day of creation
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and what did God
say? Notice it carefully.
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"God said, Let's" He
didn't say let Me. Did He?
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Even though there is
a whole movement around
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today trying to
reduce the us to me.
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Let us, He is
trying to tell us something
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about Himself, isn't He?
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That God is a plural, God head.
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"Let us make man in
our" don't you love that?
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I don't know why
we got to struggle
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so much over the trinity?
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"Let us make man in our image,"
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and then notice what happens
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as you going down to
chapter 2 and verse 7,
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where its repeated again.
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"The Lord God formed man
of the dust of the ground,
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and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life
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and man became a living soul."
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So I'm wanting you to
catch the meaning of inspired
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right from the
beginning this week.
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Every time you
see the word inspired
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you are going to
think, God breathed
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and you are gonna say
to yourself, my goodness,
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God breathed
after He had spoken.
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Amen.
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Hallelujah, I'm
not prepared for this.
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This is Auburn, isn't it?
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God breathe after He had spoken.
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Whenever you see
the word inspired
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I want you to
think the Word of God
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and the breath of God.
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Let those two
things come together,
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the Word of God and the
breath of God coming together.
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And I have news
for you this morning
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and this is a time
to drop that bomb on you
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that this is not
just the word about God,
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this is
actually the Word of God.
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Amen.
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Who was that? You
should be sitting up the front.
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This is not just
the word about God,
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this is the Word of God.
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Beautiful little
statement by the way
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from six, Testimonies, page 393,
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listen very carefully to this.
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"The word of the living God
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is not merely
written, it is spoken.
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The Bible is God's
voice speaking to us,
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as surely as though
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we could hear it
with our own ears.
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If we realized
this, with what awe
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would we open God's word,
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and with what earnestness
would we search its precepts!"
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Now listen to
this last statement.
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"The reading and contemplation
of the word would be regarded
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as an audience
with the Infinite One."
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Amen.
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What was that?
Six, Testimonies, 393.
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Isn't not a beautiful statement?
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Amen.
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The reading and
contemplation of the Scriptures
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would be regarded as what?
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An audience with
the Infinite One.
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Amen.
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We are right in the
presence of the Infinite One
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this morning
because we are in His word.
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Amen.
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We are in the
presence of the throne
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of the Majesty of heaven.
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This blows me away
whenever I think about it.
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This is not an ordinary book we
are talking about this morning,
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this is the word of life.
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This is the Word of
God, we are in His presence.
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It's the breath of God.
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If you are hearing
the word this morning
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and you make a
conscience choice to act upon it
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you will walk
out of this church--
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oh, hallelujah,
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oh, I like you very
much, a living soul.
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You will have the
breath of God in you.
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You will have the spirit
of the living God in you.
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You will be alive in Christ
for another day of your life.
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Amen.
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That's why Jesus
taught in John 17,
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"Sanctify them through
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thy truth, thy word is"
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do you notice the two
things coming together there,
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sanctify and word? I don't know
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why it took me so many years
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to put those
two things together.
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You know, we are not in
the Pentecostal tradition.
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We don't just raise our
hands and say, God, zap me,
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through me. Make me holy.
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Oh, that it was that easy, ah?
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I wish it was that easy.
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God has designed
it so that His breath,
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His spirit comes into
us as we digest His word.
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Amen.
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If you want
confirmation of that,
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turn over to 1
Peter this morning.
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I know, of no clearer statement
in scripture than this one
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on this subject.
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1 Peter Chapter
1, it's good to hear
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those pages
rustling this morning.
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Praise God. We are here
to be in the word, aren't we?
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And I'm reading
1 Peter 1:22, 23.
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"Since you have in
obedience to the truth"
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done what?
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"Purified your souls."
That's what I kept missing,
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the relationship
between obedience to the truth
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and the
purification of our souls.
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What other word
came through in John 17
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that means
purification of your soul?
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Sanctification, thank you.
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You are sharp this morning.
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Indeed
sanctification comes about
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as we act upon the Word of God
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because it is the
living Word of God.
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It's not just a set of
rules, it's not some good advice
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that God has given us.
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This is God in His
word. Do you believe it?
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No wonder the devil
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wants to keep
attacking the Word of God
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because He doesn't
want us to cross the line
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and start believing
that it's actually God.
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It's His voice,
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it's His ability
to breathe in us.
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If I can succeed this
morning in communicating
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that one point to you
we've had a successful morning.
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I'm gonna repeat it again.
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The relationship between hearing
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and acting on the Word of God
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and receiving the
breath, the Spirit,
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the very life of God Himself
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in the person of the
resurrected Jesus Christ
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being brought into
our lives for another day.
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Wow, what a privilege that is?
We can be God breathed people
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every day of our lives
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just by hearing the word
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and acting upon
it. What word here
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tells us that the
action is important?
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Oh, thank you, obedience.
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It's an ugly word
to many people today
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but we can even obey
without God in us, can't we?
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It's not even possible.
It's God who puts faith in us.
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It's God who makes it possible
for us to respond to His word.
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Took me years to
realize its Jesus in me
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who is responding to
His Father so willingly.
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It's not me getting
more willing every day,
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its Jesus in me
who has such a willing
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response to His
Father. Not my will, Father.
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Even if it's to lay
down my life, it's not will.
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This is Jesus
and if He is in you
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and He is in me you
will have a great willingness
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to hear the word
and to act upon it
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because you will know
this is God's means of bringing
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sanctification, inspiration,
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he added again,
our theologian here.
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It's God's means
of bringing His life.
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His very life into us.
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Wow.
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And I know all kinds of
people wish to shortcut that.
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They beg God to
give them His life
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and I tell them
don't waste your breath.
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Simply hear His
word, act upon it,
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you will have the life of
God in you every single day.
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Amen.
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How is your faith this morning?
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Amen.
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To the most deadly thing
we could ever do of course,
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dangerous thing to do
is to hear the Word of God
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and make a deliberate
choice not to act upon it.
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Deadly dangerous
because we are cutting ourselves
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off from the source of life
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even though we might be
loud in our proclamations
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about how we believe in
Jesus and His soon return.
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The evidence is
our willingness to hear
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and obey the
Word of God especially
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since we realize
this is God's speaking.
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It enables God to come
into us through the Holy Spirit.
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The speaking and the
breathing go together
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and they all cement
themselves in the word inspired.
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This is the
inspired Word of God.
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God has breathed into
the minds of individuals
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and this is what
they hear God saying.
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Isn't not exciting?
That is really exciting.
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So Jesus is the
great expert on this.
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John Chapter 6, open
your Bibles to John 6.
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Powerful passage
here. John Chapter 6,
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this is our big
passage this morning, John 6.
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John 6:33, I want
you to notice something
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quite fascinating this morning.
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I'm gonna have
three columns here
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and the first one is
going to deal with the symbol.
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Jesus loves symbols. So
beginning with verse 33,
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what symbol does
He now introduce?
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The bread. The bread of God.
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And where does
that come from? Heaven.
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Does it have any
result in verse 33 let's see.
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It gives life to the world.
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It gives life.
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This is the result.
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This is action here on
our part here by the way.
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There is no action
on our part in verse 33.
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It's just a beginning statement.
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Jesus is introducing
the subject by using bread.
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What could be more
common or more simple
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than an illustration
like that the bread of heaven
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comes down from heaven and
it gives life to the world.
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Notice already the connection
between bread and life.
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I wonder where
Jesus is going with this.
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I think it's
becoming quite apparent.
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Already moving on to verse 35,
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the symbol
intensifies now in verse 35
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because Jesus identifies
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the bread as I am.
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I am the bread. Well, verse 35.
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So He actually gone
beyond the symbol here.
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He is putting some
meaning into the symbol.
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I am the bread of life
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and what incredible
result comes about now.
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Is there any action
on our part first of all?
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Coming and,
coming and believing.
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Wow.
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Whoever comes to Me,
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well, shall not hunger
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and whoever believes
in me shall never thirst.
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So there will be no hunger
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and no thirst.
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Wow, you notice how the picture
is expanding step by step.
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I'm actually the
bread, if you come to Me
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you will never be hungry.
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If you believe in Me
you will never be thirsty.
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Now jumping down to verse 51,
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something different pops up now.
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Takes a whole chapter
for him to get this out.
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In verse 51
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there is another
action involved on our part.
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He reminds us
again, I'm the living bread
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coming down out of heaven
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but whoever eats,
any other action there?
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I think that's it, isn't it?
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Whoever eats this
bread shall live forever.
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Notice the use of the term eat.
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Is that impacting
anyone here this morning?
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Whoever eats this bread,
who is being impacted by that?
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What's it saying
to you? Taking it in.
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When you eat
something you assimilate it.
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It spreads
through your whole body.
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So the eating
becomes very significant.
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And at the end of the verse
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He throws us a curve,
the symbolism intensifies.
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This bread is actually My flesh.
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Notice how we progressed.
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We've gone from bread--
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it's actually My flesh.
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I'm sure nobody
listening to this understood
00:20:34.56\00:20:36.56
what He was saying.
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The New Guineans
used to love this verse.
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It was their favorite verse
because they were eating flesh.
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They love the fact that
Jesus said, it's My flesh.
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And notice how He
expands on that in verse 53
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and we're just in verse 53.
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"Truly, truly, I say to you,
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unless you eat the flesh
" I'll put 53 here as well."
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Unless you eat the
flesh and drink My blood."
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Wow, that's the verse
they especially enjoyed.
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If you ate My
flesh and drink My blood,
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you have no life in yourselves.
00:21:31.19\00:21:34.76
Have you proved
that about yourself?
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We do not have
life in ourselves.
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Amen.
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We don't even have the capacity
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of generating
life within ourselves.
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This kind of life
can only be generated
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when you ate the bread
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which is the
equivalent of eating My flesh
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and drinking My blood.
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But notice where He goes now.
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Verse 54, "He who eats My flesh
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and drinks My
blood has eternal life,
00:22:12.29\00:22:16.06
and I will raise him up."
00:22:16.10\00:22:20.00
So he has eternal life
00:22:20.04\00:22:24.31
and will be raised up.
00:22:24.34\00:22:28.94
Wow, has eternal life
and will be raised up.
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It's about to get much
better. Look at verse 55,
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"For My flesh is true food,
and My blood is true drink."
00:22:40.36\00:22:46.29
So it's true
food and true drink.
00:22:46.33\00:22:52.40
Wow, now He is
about to pull up together.
00:22:52.43\00:22:56.40
Notice it very carefully.
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Verse 56,
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"He who eats My
flesh and drinks My blood"
00:23:04.51\00:23:07.05
this is a huge transition now.
00:23:07.08\00:23:11.05
If you eat and
drink, this is verse 56.
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What does it mean spiritually?
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You abide in Me,
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and I in you.
00:23:23.43\00:23:27.94
Did you hear that this morning?
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If you eat My
flesh and drink My blood
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you are abiding in me
and I'm abiding in you.
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And now the cream
on the cake verse 63,
00:23:45.39\00:23:49.06
this is the most
amazing, amazing message.
00:23:49.09\00:23:54.70
Verse 63, the key verse now.
00:23:54.73\00:23:59.03
First of all it was
the bread that gave life,
00:23:59.07\00:24:02.00
then it was the
flesh that gave life,
00:24:02.04\00:24:04.14
then it's the
blood that gives life
00:24:04.17\00:24:06.57
and now it
turns out its actually
00:24:06.61\00:24:10.25
it's the Spirit who gives life.
00:24:10.28\00:24:15.42
Wow. It's actually the
Spirit all alone who gives life
00:24:15.45\00:24:22.82
and not only is it the
Spirit its not over yet,
00:24:22.86\00:24:25.93
there is one more step.
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Notice it there at
the end of verse 63,
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the words that I have
spoken unto you they are?
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"The words that I have spoken
00:24:38.21\00:24:40.78
unto you are
spirit and" they are?
00:24:42.58\00:24:44.45
Life.
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Are you hearing it this morning?
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Are you hearing it?
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Eat the bread,
you will have life.
00:24:52.19\00:24:54.49
Eat my flesh,
you will have life.
00:24:54.52\00:24:57.16
Drink my blood,
you will have life.
00:24:57.19\00:25:00.76
It's actually the
Spirit. It's actually the spirit
00:25:00.80\00:25:05.57
and it's really My words.
00:25:05.60\00:25:12.37
The words that I speak
unto you they are Spirit.
00:25:12.41\00:25:18.75
You want the Holy Spirit
in your life for another day?
00:25:21.38\00:25:23.92
Amen.
00:25:23.95\00:25:26.15
What step you are
gonna consciously take today?
00:25:26.19\00:25:29.39
You not only gonna read
it, you not only gonna hear it
00:25:29.42\00:25:32.59
from some
preacher that's in town.
00:25:32.63\00:25:35.40
What are you gonna do with it?
00:25:35.43\00:25:36.87
We are gonna act upon.
00:25:36.90\00:25:38.23
You are gonna act upon it
00:25:38.27\00:25:40.20
and as you do God's
breath will come into you.
00:25:40.24\00:25:47.58
You will have the
very life of God in you
00:25:47.61\00:25:52.15
for another day of your life
00:25:52.18\00:25:55.08
and this is how God incredibly
00:25:55.12\00:25:57.95
grows us into His divine image.
00:25:57.99\00:26:03.12
Isn't that simple
and yet so beautiful?
00:26:03.16\00:26:06.59
And all in one little message
that Jesus brings out beginning
00:26:06.63\00:26:09.56
with the loaf of
bread confusing us all
00:26:09.60\00:26:13.13
with these
references to flesh and blood
00:26:13.17\00:26:17.21
and finally telling us
hey, its actually My spirit
00:26:17.24\00:26:19.81
but that's not
even the end of it.
00:26:19.84\00:26:22.24
It's the words that I
speak unto you they are Spirit.
00:26:22.28\00:26:27.42
That's what I
missed for 25 years.
00:26:27.45\00:26:30.12
The words are spirit
and the words are life.
00:26:30.15\00:26:36.76
Let's have our prayer together
00:26:36.79\00:26:38.13
and then we're
going to warp things up.
00:26:38.16\00:26:42.60
Father in heaven, what
an incredible God You are.
00:26:42.63\00:26:48.07
What a remarkable
teacher You are, Father.
00:26:48.10\00:26:51.47
Your Son was the
most profound teacher
00:26:51.51\00:26:55.44
and we've learned this morning
00:26:55.48\00:26:57.58
that the words of Jesus
are indeed words of life
00:26:57.61\00:27:02.15
and we pray for grace
today not just to hear
00:27:02.18\00:27:06.05
but to act upon
those words Father,
00:27:06.09\00:27:09.52
so that Your very
life can become our lives
00:27:09.56\00:27:13.73
and we can be transformed
totally into Your divine image.
00:27:13.76\00:27:18.27
Bless this camp meeting,
bless this congregation.
00:27:18.30\00:27:21.44
May this be an exciting journey
together in the word today?
00:27:21.47\00:27:25.97
We pray earnestly in
Jesus precious name, amen.
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