From the campus
of Andrews University
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this is New Perception
with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson.
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Oh, God's
children, we're all children.
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Where you're children
there, we are earth's children,
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could it be we
are starving to death?
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We look well fed--
our tummies are full
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but are we starving, are
we on the point of death?
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Its morning and
Holy Scripture teaches,
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let the teaching be clear
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let us know how You
would have us respond
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we pray in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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You can't talk about starving
without thinking famine,
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you can't think about famine
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without thinking of
the Horn of East Africa.
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Let me put a map of the
Horn of East Africa up here.
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Take a look at this.
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The darker the color the
more extreme the suffering,
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that dark section in the middle.
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These are the
countries by the way of Somalia,
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Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti.
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You're getting into Somalia
there that's catastrophic famine
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according to the key
that's catastrophic famine.
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United Nations now estimates
that more than 13 million people
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on that map are suffering,
are starving to death.
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Sixty years
they've gone without water,
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60 years in the Horn of Africa.
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And Somalia alone
down where that's dark
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four million are starving,
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three million of whom
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live in the
southern portion of Somalia
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so it just gets worse
and worse as you move down.
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They're estimating
now that 750,000 people
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face the risk of death
in the next four months,
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the UN says if
help does not come.
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Maybe you're gonna
be there help they need,
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I don't know.
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But let me talk
about the children.
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The death rate now under five
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15.43 deaths per 10,000
individuals daily, daily.
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Thirty thousand
children have died
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to 2 per 10,000 is the
threshold of famine, its 15.43.
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But running numbers by
it doesn't move you at all,
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so let me put some faces by
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and take a look
at these suffering.
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Look at that sitting in
a little plastic bathtub,
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starving to death.
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Take a look at another
face, family looking on
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victims of
starvation, look at them.
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Look at one more.
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That little baby looks
like he's 80-years of age,
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does he not?
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He is starving to death.
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Could it be that
if you're putting
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the faces of the
starving our faces go up?
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Yeah, right like we just
prayed our tummies are full
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but are we on the edge
of spiritual starvation.
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Fourth gospel confronts
us with that question--
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familiar beloved
narrative and then
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a metaphor that
many find disgusting.
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We're getting to the metaphor
but first the familiar narrative
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that teaching today is entitled
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"Starving to Death
When the Pantry is Full."
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Let us pray.
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O God, amazing grace,
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that You come
to us full tummies.
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But in this narrative
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Holy Spirit confront us
with our desperate need.
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We pray in Jesus name, amen.
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Open your Bible
please to the fourth gospel,
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the fourth gospel,
the Gospel of John.
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Beloved
narrative-- do you know what,
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this is the only miracle
that all four gospels record.
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That's how popular
this miracle as you know
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the miracle you
grew up with it as a kid.
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You know John Chapter 6,
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but we return to
this beloved narrative,
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because a narrative sets us up
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for this revolting metaphor
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that it is
impaired if we wrestle with
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as we continue our
journey through the last word.
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That's the fourth
gospel the Gospel of John
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for the final generation.
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Let's go to John Chapter 6.
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I'm in the New
King James Version
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if you didn't bring a Bible
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grab the pew
Bible in front of you,
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it will also be the
New King James Version.
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Let's get into
the teaching together.
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John Chapter 6,
pick it up in verse 1.
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Let's go
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"After these things
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Jesus went over
the Sea of Galilee,
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which is a Sea of Tiberias."
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John is the only one who
refers to it by its Roman name,
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because John has
Gentile readers in mind.
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It's written
specifically for them.
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So Jesus went over
to the Sea of Tiberias.
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Verse 2 "Then a great
multitude followed Him,
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because they saw His signs
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which He performed on
those who were diseased."
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Jesus is at His
heyday right now.
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He has the
popularity of a rock star
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by the thousands
people are flocking to Him.
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I saw a news clip this
last week of President Obama.
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He's on the Denver Campus
of the University of Colorado
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and the place is just jammed
and there's the camera panned
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these young university students.
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I mean, it's just a look of wow.
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Jesus is in that same status.
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The people at the edge the crowd
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are holding up their iPhones
and they're taking pictures
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to email to their friends.
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I'm near, I'm
near the star himself.
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But in a few short
verses everything collapses.
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"So they followed Him,
because they've seen the signs
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which He performed on
those who were diseased."
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Verse 3 "Jesus
went up on the mountain,
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and there He sat
with His disciples.
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Now the Passover, a
feast of the Jews, was near."
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Four times John will
talk about the Passover,
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four times he wants
us to recall the images
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not only in the ancient exodus,
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he wants to read us
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post Calvary to recall
the images of the cross
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and so he intentionally
uses the word Passover.
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And by the way this
is his last Passover.
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The next Passover
it'scurtains, he dies.
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He will be the Passover lamb.
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John skips two-and-half
years of Jesus ministry.
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Boom, gone, and he
plunges in to the crisis
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and the crisis it's
a picture right here.
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"Now the Passover, a
feast of the Jews, was near."
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Verse 5 "Then
Jesus lifted up His eyes,
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and seeing a great
multitude coming toward Him,
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He said to Philip,"
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who have into
grow up in Bethesda
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a village near this mountain
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where Jesus is going
to perform this miracle.
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"He happens to say to Philip,
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'Where shall we buy
bread, that these may eat?' "
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You know, Philip,
you grow up in this town,
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any supermarkets
that can cover this crowd.
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Now we're gonna find
out there're 5,000 men--
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the only list of men.
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Who senses back
there that's the--
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those of the heads they count.
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But if the men are
married you're gonna throw in--
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probably you are
gonna throw in what,
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now they're 3,500 for.
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Yeah, 3,500 then you're
gonna throw in children.
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We could be looking at a
small baseball stadium AAA,
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not World Series,
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but AAA baseball
stadium with 15, 000 people.
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So "Philip 'where
we're going to get bread?'
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" But He said
this Jesus did, verse 6
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"He said this to
test Philip for him,
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He Himself knew
what He would do,
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" He wants to
set this up so that
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when Philip
experiences this miracle
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he will never forget
it as long as he lives.
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So "Philip answers Him"
verse 7 I thought about it,
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you know what, Lord,
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"Two hundred
denarii worth of bread
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is not sufficient for them,
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that every one of
them may have a little."
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Now Philip has
grabbed a big number.
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This is 200 days
of a common labor,
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its $8 an hour minimum wage.
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So that's eight hours a day
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so that be 64 times 200, $12,800
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even if we could $12,800
drawn from our ATM machines
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all of us at the same
time using our debit cards
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it wouldn't be enough
to pay for food for these.
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Ah, that's a point.
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Jesus wants Philips to get.
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Now Philip and
Andrew are buddies
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they appear in
chapter 1 together,
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they appear here together,
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they will appear in
chapter 12 together,
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they both grew
up in the same town.
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So where Phillip
is you'll find Andrew.
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And Andrew either is overhearing
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or he is standing beside Philip.
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And Andrew pipes up.
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Verse 8 "One of His disciples,
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Andrew, Simon Peter's
brother, said to Him,"
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hey wait a minute,
"there is a lad here
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who has five barley
loaves and two small fish,
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but what are
they among so many?"
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Jesus says to the two men.
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Make the people sit down.
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This is verse 10
"'Make the people sit down.'
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Now there was much
grass in the place."
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that's John the eyewitness
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because it's springtime
Passover here so this mountain,
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it's not a
mountain, say hillside.
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We call it hill today.
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But this mountain is
just as verdant green carpet
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that goes all the
way up to the top.
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Nice soft carpet, Jesus
says "'Make everybody sit down.'
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Now there was much
grass in the place.
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So the men sat down, in
number about five thousand."
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Plus the women,
plus the children--
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we're looking at 15,000 perhaps.
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Verse 11 "And
Jesus took the loaves,
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and when He had given thanks"
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His characteristic behavior
at the beginning of a meal
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He takes a loaves, "and
when He had given thanks
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He distributed
them to the disciples,
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and the disciples
to those sitting down,
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and likewise of the fish."
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The fish was used as a relish.
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Those were actually sandwiches
that little boy brought.
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A barley sandwiches.
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Now barley is not your--
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is not the top
of the menu request.
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In fact Philo
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the Jewish
philosopher described barley
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which is a cheaper
substitute for wheat.
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Barley he described it as
fit for irrational animals
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and men in
unhappy circumstances.
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It's awful food.
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Only the poor,
the poor eat barley.
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So Andrew finds this poor kid.
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He said, hey, boy let me just,
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let me just have your
lunch, five barley loaves.
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The fish, little sardine or
whatever that's just relish.
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He just--
mother sent them slices
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and he has to put it on.
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So he gives the
relish and the five loaves.
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"Jesus breaks it,
gives it to the disciples,
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the disciples then
given to those sitting down."
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This is the end of verse 11.
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"And likewise at the
fish, as much as they wanted."
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So verse 12
"When they were filled,
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Jesus said to His disciples
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'Gather up the
fragments of remain,
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so that nothing is lost.'
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" We waste
nothing in my kingdom.
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I know a
commentator named Robert Smith
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delightful
commentary on the fourth gospel
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and he makes the point.
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He says you know what,
Jesus isn't so concerned
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about the fragments.
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Yes He is, but He is
making a point about humanity.
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I don't want any
fragments of humanity lost.
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I want every
men, women, and child
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picked up for the kingdom.
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Do you understand?
Nobody get's left behind.
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That be a good-- that be
a good slogan, wouldn't it?
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No child left
behind everyone comes.
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You get them all, you hear me?
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Get them all.
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And they go out and
they gather up the fragment.
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This is verse 13
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"Therefore they
gathered them up,
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they filled twelve baskets
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with the fragments of
the five barley loaves
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which were left over
by those who had eaten.
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And then those men, when"
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these are the men
sitting underground.
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"When they had seen the sign
that Jesus did, said," truly,
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"'This is truly the Prophet
who is to come into the world.'
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" And by the way this
is capital "P" Prophet,
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because they are thinking
of Moses in Deuteronomy 18
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it says "One day God
is gonna send a prophet
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just like me and
he will leads you."
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This is the capital "P" Prophet.
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Hey, wait a minute
guys, come here, come here.
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Think about this, we
would if when we go into battle
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we would never be hungry,
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we could be fed night and day
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and guess what
if any of us got hit
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He will heal us on the spot.
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We need this guy to become king.
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Exactly what's happening here.
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Look at that verse 15
"Therefore when Jesus perceived
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that they were about to come
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and take Him by
force and make Him king,
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He departed
again to the mountain
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by Himself alone."
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Now the deal is John
cuts out two key points
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that the
synoptics insert right here.
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Number one,
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knowing the
intentions of the crowd.
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The synoptics tell us Jesus
turned to the disciples and
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He says get in that boat,
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get in that boat
push off the shore now.
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And Desire of Ages
describes this way.
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The disciples protested
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but Jesus now
spoke with an authority
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He had never
before assume toward them
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and in silence, steaming,
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but in silence they
turn toward the sea.
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Now, go and then He
turns, He turns to the crowd.
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And going to the
synoptics He dismisses the crowd
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with the air of an authority.
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There were
strong men in the crowd.
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Desire of Ages says strong men
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who were ready to
force their will to be done.
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Jesus speaks to
them with a divinity
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that dispels the crowd.
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And then heartbroken, you
know, His heart has broken,
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because now the big
plunge He knows what lies ahead.
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Heart broken He
climbs that mountain,
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that tall hill to be
alone with His Father.
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And the disciples--
look at this verse 16.
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"Now when evening came,
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His disciples
went down to the sea."
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So they obey Jesus that
far they go down to the sea.
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"Got into the boat,
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and went over the
sea toward Capernaum.
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And it was already dark,
and Jesus had not come to them."
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In other words,
they actually waited.
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They didn't push
off, they waited.
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Desire of Ages fills us in
on the psyche of these disciples
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at this moment of
terrible disappointment.
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I want to read this to
you. I'll put it on the screen.
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I want to read this to you,
because I find it very familiar
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as to what happens in
my own spiritual journey.
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Watch this, maybe
it happens to you too.
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Words on the screen.
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"They the disciples had left
Jesus with dissatisfied hearts,
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more impatient with
Him than ever before
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since
acknowledging Him as their Lord.
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They murmured
because they had not been
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permitted to proclaim Him king.
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They blamed
themselves for yielding
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so readily to His command."
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I told you why
don't you stand up,
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what a whip?
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Well, why don't you stand up?
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They're blaming each other.
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"For yielding so
readily to His command.
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They reasoned that if
they had been more persistent."
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This was the golden
moment, He is a star.
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"If they had
been more persistent
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they might have
accomplished their purpose.
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Unbelief."
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Now keep reading.
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"Unbelief was taking
possession of their minds."
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Because that's what
happens whenever I catch myself
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moving into a
little pour me pity party
00:14:29.74\00:14:33.16
when I start
feeling sorry for myself
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God you really let
me down on this one,
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I can't believe it.
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The moment I start
moving into that thinking
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I tell you what, it
is self-perpetuating,
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it just kicks into
gear and suddenly questions
00:14:44.62\00:14:46.86
you would have never thought of
start popping up in your mind.
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Watch this with them.
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"Unbelief was taking possession
of their minds and hearts."
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Now here comes a
series of questions.
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Number one.
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"Were they
always to be accounted
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followers of a false prophet?"
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You know how hard
that is on my pride.
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Number two.
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"Would Christ never
assert His authority as king?
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Number three.
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"Why didn't He who
possessed such power
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reveal Himself in
His true character,
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and make their
own way less painful?"
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Number four.
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"Why had He not
saved John the Baptist
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from a violent death?"
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whoa, whoa, time out.
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How you getting
into John the Baptist,
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he has nothing to do with this.
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But when you move into
that pour me dark thinking
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suddenly the enemy of
your soul is able to slip in
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totally unrelated doubts that
will continue the way you down.
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His goal kill your
heart, kill your faith,
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cuts you off.
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And they are going down.
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"Thus the disciples
reasoned" isn't it something
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"until they
brought upon themselves
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great spiritual darkness."
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Last question,
can you believe this?
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"They questioned,
could Jesus be an imposter,
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as the Pharisees asserted?"
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Maybe guys, maybe,
maybe, He is a fake.
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Can you imagine?
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"Their thoughts were
stormy and unreasonable."
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You know what, I
found this to be true
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that's I wanted
this line in that quote.
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"And the Lord gave
them something else
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to afflict their souls
and occupy their minds."
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When you and I move into that
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sicky pour me
pity for me thinking,
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I found in my own journey
that's when I'm blindsided.
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But He allows it to take
my mind off me, me, me, me
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and refocus and
why I live any way.
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"Their thoughts were
stormy and unreasonable."
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Guess what, they get a storm.
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"God often does this when
men and women create burdens,
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and troubles for themselves.
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The disciples had no
need to make trouble.
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Already danger
was fast approaching."
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You know, just one
of the topographical
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features of the
eastern shore of Galilee,
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those towering hills they call
them mounts, we call them hills,
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but they are severed
by this massive deep gorge
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that runs straight to the lake.
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It is a veritable wind
tunnel and out of nowhere
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those gales would come
exploding out of that gorge
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onto the helpless Sea of Galilee
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and that's exactly what
God allows to happen tonight.
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Verse 18.
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"Then the sea arose
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because a great
wind was blowing."
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"So verse 19, when
they had rowed about
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three or four miles."
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Can you imagine rowing
for three or four miles?
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"When they had rowed
about three or four miles,
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they saw Jesus
walking on the sea
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and drawing near the boat,
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and they were afraid."
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It is a ghost this is
realm we're going down.
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David Jones locker here we come
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this is death and they scream
00:17:41.33\00:17:44.19
into the howling
gale they cry out.
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And I love this, verse 20.
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"But Jesus said to them."
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In the Greek.
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Read just like this.
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"I am, I am that's all.
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"I am, do not be afraid."
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"I am, do not be afraid."
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"Then they willingly
received Him in the boat,
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and immediately the
boat was at the land."
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Supernatural
miracle gets in the boat,
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it's there, they disembark.
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We need to hit the
pause button right here.
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We are moving into
this disgusting metaphor
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but there are two life lessons
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I wish we would
jot down right now.
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Would you grab your study
guides in your worship bulletin?
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I want to get
these two life lessons
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we can't, we can't hurry
through this story and miss
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what's imbedded in
this beloved narrative.
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And so
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grab the worship
bulletin, pull it out.
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Ushers, thank
you for slipping by
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and making sure everybody gets.
00:18:45.38\00:18:46.98
So, if didn't get one
hold you hand up in the balcony
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an overflow wherever you are,
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I want to make sure
you get that study guide.
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Those are who you
watching on television
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we're delighted to have you.
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You are live
streaming right now, good?
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I'm gonna put the
website on the screen for you
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and you will see their,
00:18:59.17\00:19:01.58
that you see right
now www.pmchurch.tv
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In a serious the
last word this is,
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I can't believe
its part nine, already.
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We are flying
through this gospel.
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Title of this teaching today
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"Starving For Bread
When the Pantry Is Full."
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So you see the last word,
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then you go to
starving for bread,
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and it says study guide
you click on a study guide,
00:19:19.55\00:19:21.66
you'll have the
same study guide.
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Jot down with us please,
those of you are watching.
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Right now jot down with us
the-- these two life lessons,
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just a little lessons
00:19:27.72\00:19:28.75
then we plunge
into this revolting
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some consider a metaphor.
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Let's go.
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Lesson number one,
would you please jot it down?
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No matter how small your gift,
00:19:35.53\00:19:38.55
that lad with a five
barley loaves and two fishes.
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No matter how small your
gift in the hands of a Master
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it can feed the world.
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Did you write that down, please?
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No matter how small,
00:19:51.00\00:19:52.32
your little gift
in the hand Jesus,
00:19:52.35\00:19:55.32
nails scarred hands.
00:19:55.35\00:19:56.42
He will feed the
world through you.
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This is Desire of Ages.
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Keep your pen moving.
00:19:59.94\00:20:01.98
"The means in our
possession may seem to be--
00:20:02.01\00:20:04.36
may not seem to be
sufficient for the work."
00:20:04.39\00:20:06.83
What can God do with my
all humble little tiny gift?
00:20:06.86\00:20:10.07
It doesn't seem sufficient.
00:20:10.10\00:20:11.34
God you cant do anything
big on this planet through me.
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"But if we will
move forward in faith."
00:20:13.80\00:20:16.57
Hold down now,
00:20:16.60\00:20:17.71
"believing in the all
sufficient power of God,
00:20:17.74\00:20:20.60
abundant resources
will open before us."
00:20:20.63\00:20:22.72
I love that.
00:20:22.75\00:20:23.78
Just step
forward, just step forward,
00:20:23.81\00:20:25.34
the little you
have God will provide
00:20:25.37\00:20:27.53
and in the
emphasis is mine here.
00:20:27.56\00:20:29.01
"If the work be of God,
00:20:29.04\00:20:31.16
He himself will provide
00:20:31.19\00:20:32.53
the means for
its accomplishment."
00:20:32.56\00:20:34.16
You say, what kind of
work we talk about God?
00:20:34.19\00:20:36.52
Well God, says,
any work you do for me
00:20:36.55\00:20:39.24
that can be your career.
00:20:39.27\00:20:40.46
The career you moving into
the career, you are ready in,
00:20:40.49\00:20:42.67
if you're doing it for Me
00:20:42.70\00:20:44.63
I will advance your cause.
00:20:44.66\00:20:46.78
You get an ambition for Me,
00:20:46.81\00:20:49.26
I will provide the
means for its accomplishment.
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And then in that last sentence
00:20:51.79\00:20:52.82
"He will reward honest,
simple, reliance upon Him.
00:20:52.85\00:20:56.39
The little" don't you love this,
00:20:56.42\00:20:57.99
"The little bit as
wisely economically
00:20:58.02\00:20:59.83
used in the service
of the Lord of heaven
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will increase in that
very act of imparting."
00:21:02.07\00:21:05.43
You just let go of
it, just let go that.
00:21:05.46\00:21:07.14
Have a little gift?
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I know it seems like nothing,
00:21:08.23\00:21:09.73
you know what that's
what the devil is gonna
00:21:09.76\00:21:10.87
do to you by the away,
00:21:10.90\00:21:12.03
don't let him fool you.
00:21:12.06\00:21:14.19
He's gonna come as,
you an insignificant nobody
00:21:14.22\00:21:16.89
just like that little lad,
you don't have what it takes,
00:21:16.92\00:21:19.37
but if you take
the little you have
00:21:19.40\00:21:21.27
and put it in His hands got
promises to feed your world.
00:21:21.30\00:21:27.51
And here is lesson
number two, then the metaphor.
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Lesson number
two, ambition for power
00:21:29.96\00:21:32.15
will destroy you.
00:21:32.18\00:21:33.57
You know, you live in
an institution like this
00:21:33.60\00:21:35.76
there's a lot of moving around,
there's a lot of jockeying,
00:21:35.79\00:21:37.83
there's a lot of
who's, who's silo is was this?
00:21:37.86\00:21:40.36
Who spaces this?
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I mean, who's got there?
00:21:41.45\00:21:42.48
What grade am I?
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Where am I in the pecking order?
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I wish you jot that down
and life lesson number two,
00:21:47.32\00:21:49.84
ambition for
power will destroy you.
00:21:49.87\00:21:52.20
I mean, why else
did Lucifer come?
00:21:52.23\00:21:54.45
And he reserves for the final,
00:21:54.48\00:21:56.68
the final blast after 40
days and 40 nights of praying
00:21:56.71\00:21:59.33
Jesus in the wilderness
00:21:59.36\00:22:00.57
why does Lucifer reserve
number three for the end,
00:22:00.60\00:22:03.69
because it's most deadly.
00:22:03.72\00:22:05.07
If you bow down to me,
hey, hey boy, listen to me,
00:22:05.10\00:22:07.76
if you bow down to
me, you give me your life,
00:22:07.79\00:22:11.26
I will give you this world,
00:22:11.29\00:22:12.50
I will make you the most
powerful the most popular,
00:22:12.53\00:22:15.06
I will move you to position
you've never been before.
00:22:15.09\00:22:19.91
That's why I save
it through the end
00:22:19.94\00:22:22.00
because we're so vulnerable.
00:22:22.03\00:22:23.10
How many stars of Hollywood,
how many stars of washed and
00:22:23.13\00:22:26.08
how many stars a Wall Street
00:22:26.11\00:22:27.47
have cut this Faustian
bargain with the devil?
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All right I'll sell my
soul but you make me number one.
00:22:30.69\00:22:33.55
Numero Uno, you make me
Numero Uno and I'll follow.
00:22:33.58\00:22:40.01
Robert Smith in his
commentary Wounded Lord,
00:22:40.04\00:22:43.19
its there in your study guide.
00:22:43.22\00:22:44.73
"The crowds are astonished."
00:22:44.76\00:22:47.07
Boy is this insight for what?
00:22:47.10\00:22:48.62
"The crowds are
astonished by this great sign,
00:22:48.65\00:22:50.70
" the feeding of the 15,000.
00:22:50.73\00:22:52.51
"They call Jesus 'the prophet.'
00:22:52.54\00:22:54.58
And impressed by his powers,"
00:22:54.61\00:22:56.37
get this "they
want to make him 'king.'
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The prophet and king
are high compliments,"
00:22:58.77\00:23:01.61
but hold on, "not high enough."
00:23:01.64\00:23:05.99
The devil will always get
you to sell yourself short
00:23:06.02\00:23:08.82
through your ambition.
00:23:08.85\00:23:10.02
He said, hey listen,
I'll get you up to here but
00:23:10.05\00:23:12.00
he will never raise you
to where God can raise you.
00:23:12.03\00:23:15.35
Jesus isn't a prophet,
He's not a king, He is the I am.
00:23:15.38\00:23:19.39
If He hear to that
siren song of those crowds
00:23:19.42\00:23:22.48
He to cut Himself
down to prophet and king
00:23:22.51\00:23:24.69
when He is the eternal I am.
00:23:24.72\00:23:27.64
The devil will
never let you rise
00:23:27.67\00:23:30.12
to your divine potential.
00:23:30.15\00:23:32.24
He will sell your
ambition, he will sell you here,
00:23:32.27\00:23:34.69
stop you here.
00:23:34.72\00:23:36.67
And then you live
never having life raised
00:23:36.70\00:23:41.39
to the heights God will for you.
00:23:41.42\00:23:44.02
Take the humble road.
00:23:44.05\00:23:47.05
Forget that position, let it go.
00:23:47.08\00:23:49.48
One day you're
gonna sit on the throne
00:23:49.51\00:23:51.42
of the humble in
the kingdom of God
00:23:51.45\00:23:54.06
and that ought
to be payoff enough.
00:23:54.09\00:23:56.76
Two little life
lessons along the way,
00:23:56.79\00:24:00.94
but how can we meet the ambition
00:24:00.97\00:24:05.92
that takes us to that kingdom.
00:24:05.95\00:24:07.34
Now I come, now
we are confronted
00:24:07.37\00:24:09.84
with the strong metaphor.
00:24:09.87\00:24:10.93
Some feel almost on
the border of disgusting.
00:24:10.96\00:24:14.35
Let's go.
00:24:14.38\00:24:15.81
Let's pick it up in verse 25.
00:24:15.84\00:24:17.93
The crowd by the
way is waiting for Jesus
00:24:17.96\00:24:19.91
when the boat comes in they're
trying to figure out hey,
00:24:19.94\00:24:21.36
how would you get it because
they want another miracle.
00:24:21.39\00:24:22.88
Jesus cuts through all of that.
00:24:22.91\00:24:24.33
Verse 25 "And
when they found Him
00:24:24.36\00:24:26.01
the crowd on the
other side of the sea,
00:24:26.04\00:24:27.98
they said to Him,
'Rabbi, when did You come here?'
00:24:28.01\00:24:29.50
Jesus answered," verse
26 "and He said to them.
00:24:29.53\00:24:31.79
'Most assuredly, amen, amen."
00:24:31.82\00:24:34.27
Twenty five times
in the gospel of John,
00:24:34.30\00:24:35.94
four of them are
right here in chapter 6.
00:24:35.97\00:24:37.92
Whenever we run
into that double amen
00:24:37.95\00:24:39.65
remember there is a giant red
flags say yo reader, so down,
00:24:39.68\00:24:42.92
this is big stuff.
00:24:42.95\00:24:44.20
"Amen, amen, I say to you.
00:24:44.23\00:24:47.17
You seek Me, not
because you saw the signs,
00:24:47.20\00:24:49.38
not because you
remove by the glory of God,
00:24:49.41\00:24:51.29
but because you ate of
the loaves and were filled."
00:24:51.32\00:24:53.66
You just want your
tummies filled 24/7.
00:24:53.69\00:24:56.09
Verse 27 "Do not labor
for the food which parishes,
00:24:56.12\00:25:00.50
but for the food which
endures to everlasting life,
00:25:00.53\00:25:03.38
which the Son a
Man will give you,
00:25:03.41\00:25:05.19
because God the Father
has set His seal on Him."
00:25:05.22\00:25:08.09
And the crowd is
primed and ready.
00:25:08.12\00:25:09.92
Man, this is the rock star,
this is the miracle worker.
00:25:09.95\00:25:13.69
"And they said to
Him, 'what shall we do,
00:25:13.72\00:25:15.50
that we may work
the works of God?'
00:25:15.53\00:25:17.24
And Jesus answered," verse 29.
00:25:17.27\00:25:18.69
And He said to them,
"This is the work of God,
00:25:18.72\00:25:21.78
that you believe
in Him whom He sent."
00:25:21.81\00:25:24.41
And "Therefore
they said to Him."
00:25:24.44\00:25:25.62
Oh, come on, you're not
talking about you, are you?
00:25:25.65\00:25:27.75
See they are bating Him.
00:25:27.78\00:25:29.03
They want more.
00:25:29.06\00:25:31.23
"What sign will
you performed then,
00:25:31.26\00:25:32.64
that we may see
it and believe You?
00:25:32.67\00:25:34.04
What work do you do?"
00:25:34.07\00:25:35.54
Because you see there
was a rumor going around
00:25:35.57\00:25:37.05
the Jewish
community at that time
00:25:37.08\00:25:38.75
that when the Messiah comes,
00:25:38.78\00:25:40.35
He would give them
manna day after day after day.
00:25:40.38\00:25:44.32
All right, one
fine meal you gave us,
00:25:44.35\00:25:47.62
but we want the big sign.
00:25:47.65\00:25:48.84
Can you feed us for
the rest of our lives?
00:25:48.87\00:25:51.01
"Our fathers" verse 31
"ate the manna in the desert,
00:25:54.09\00:25:56.88
it is written," it is
written "as it is written,
00:25:56.91\00:25:58.46
'He gave them bread
from heaven to eat.'
00:25:58.49\00:26:00.05
" Can you do the same?
00:26:00.08\00:26:01.35
Then Jesus said to them verse 32
00:26:01.38\00:26:03.09
"Most assuredly
amen, amen, listen to me,
00:26:03.12\00:26:07.59
Moses didn't give you
the bread from heaven,
00:26:07.62\00:26:09.39
but my Father gives you
the true bread from heaven
00:26:09.42\00:26:11.64
for the bread of God is
He who comes down from heaven
00:26:11.67\00:26:14.76
and gives life to the world.
00:26:14.79\00:26:16.42
And then they said to Him,
00:26:16.45\00:26:18.74
'Lord, give us
this bread always.'"
00:26:18.77\00:26:21.33
Just like this Samaritan woman
they have missed the point.
00:26:21.36\00:26:24.23
Give me this water,
00:26:24.26\00:26:25.29
so I don't have to come
back to this well ever again.
00:26:25.32\00:26:26.91
Lord, give me this bread,
00:26:26.94\00:26:28.02
so that I never
get hungry again.
00:26:28.05\00:26:30.26
They missed it.
"And Jesus said to them."
00:26:30.29\00:26:32.33
Here we go now.
00:26:32.36\00:26:34.09
"I am," its ego
eimi, it's the same I am
00:26:34.12\00:26:38.39
as He said on the high seas.
00:26:38.42\00:26:40.22
"I am the bread of life.
00:26:40.25\00:26:42.54
He who comes to me
shall never hunger,
00:26:42.57\00:26:44.62
and she who believes
in Me shall never thirst."
00:26:44.65\00:26:50.63
Verse 47 "Most
assuredly, amen, amen."
00:26:50.66\00:26:54.26
There is the fourth one.
00:26:54.29\00:26:55.41
"I say to you,
00:26:55.44\00:26:57.03
he who believes in Me
has everlasting life."
00:26:57.06\00:27:00.00
For verse 48 "I
am the bread a life."
00:27:00.03\00:27:06.35
"I am the bread of life."
00:27:06.38\00:27:13.17
I want to walk
over to the table now.
00:27:13.20\00:27:16.89
Can see the table
from where you are?
00:27:16.92\00:27:19.23
All right.
00:27:19.26\00:27:20.60
let me just remove this
lovely little doily at the top.
00:27:20.63\00:27:23.98
You know that is, don't not?
00:27:28.04\00:27:30.19
Yeah, the whole
world knows what that is.
00:27:30.22\00:27:32.26
You know what, every
culture, very society has bread.
00:27:32.29\00:27:35.15
South of the border
doesn't look like this,
00:27:38.81\00:27:40.46
they called them tortillas.
00:27:40.49\00:27:42.83
Isn't that right?
00:27:42.86\00:27:43.89
Yeah, it's a bread.
00:27:43.92\00:27:46.50
In France it's
long and narrowing.
00:27:46.53\00:27:48.43
Huge, I was over
in Paris, you know,
00:27:48.46\00:27:49.69
I went to a
restaurant this long thing.
00:27:49.72\00:27:52.27
They call them baguettes.
00:27:52.30\00:27:54.26
Over in India they
are thicken flat and round
00:27:54.29\00:27:57.46
and they're called naan.
00:27:57.49\00:28:00.33
They have it in Asia,
they have it in Africa
00:28:00.36\00:28:02.79
small and whites
it's called rice.
00:28:02.82\00:28:04.43
Don't you laugh.
00:28:07.47\00:28:09.41
I grew up in Asia, all right.
00:28:09.44\00:28:12.71
Rice was a staple.
00:28:12.74\00:28:13.80
We never ate, we hardly ever
ate bread maybe on a Sabbath.
00:28:13.83\00:28:18.13
My wife grew up in
an old American family.
00:28:18.16\00:28:20.03
Bread every single
meal, seven days a week.
00:28:20.06\00:28:24.92
But that's the world.
00:28:24.95\00:28:25.98
The whole world this by the way
00:28:26.01\00:28:30.41
is created by
there's lovely little
00:28:30.44\00:28:32.08
bread maker in our
village name Murnau Witsel,
00:28:32.11\00:28:36.07
she is the bread maker.
00:28:36.10\00:28:38.07
So I had to make two loaves
00:28:38.10\00:28:41.01
because I get to keep
them after this is over.
00:28:41.04\00:28:43.85
Okay, so I'm going to
slice bread, all right,
00:28:43.88\00:28:45.24
I'm a slice the bread, I mean,
00:28:45.27\00:28:46.49
every culture
in the world knows,
00:28:46.52\00:28:50.04
that this is what
you do with bread.
00:28:50.07\00:28:55.18
That's a homemade by the way.
00:28:55.21\00:28:58.27
You know, I wonder why Jesus--
00:28:58.30\00:29:00.75
I wonder why Jesus
chose His metaphor,
00:29:00.78\00:29:02.32
I mean, please bread.
00:29:02.35\00:29:04.73
Why did Jesus use a metaphor
a bread and say hey world,
00:29:04.76\00:29:08.77
I am the bread of life.
00:29:08.80\00:29:10.93
There must be something in this.
00:29:10.96\00:29:12.91
It's got to be.
00:29:12.94\00:29:13.99
I can't slice it all.
00:29:16.72\00:29:18.06
How about three
nice little slices?
00:29:18.09\00:29:19.62
Oh, it's beautiful.
00:29:19.65\00:29:21.54
Okay, here's the
deal, you see that,
00:29:21.57\00:29:23.34
you got a camera on it.
00:29:23.37\00:29:25.93
I want to put Jesus
words on the screen now.
00:29:25.96\00:29:30.15
Now that you've seen the
bread and I'm gonna ask you,
00:29:30.18\00:29:33.47
I'm gonna ask you
to call out to me.
00:29:33.50\00:29:35.07
We've never done this before.
00:29:35.10\00:29:36.95
I'm gonna ask you
to call out to me,
00:29:36.98\00:29:39.55
what the human race,
00:29:39.58\00:29:40.99
what benefits do we human earth,
00:29:41.02\00:29:43.73
do we earth children
gain from eating bread?
00:29:43.76\00:29:46.54
There are benefits,
come on, doesn't matter
00:29:46.57\00:29:48.27
what you call
the bread in the land
00:29:48.30\00:29:49.86
where you live
there are benefits.
00:29:49.89\00:29:51.59
And so let's put
it on the screen.
00:29:51.62\00:29:52.88
I am the bread of life.
00:29:52.91\00:29:54.07
And I'm going to
give you the first one.
00:29:54.10\00:29:55.29
I'm gonna-- there are seven
blanks in your study guide,
00:29:55.32\00:29:57.91
you're gonna fill them in
00:29:57.94\00:29:58.97
whatever you say
goes in that blank,
00:29:59.00\00:30:00.68
all right, so I have no
idea what you're gonna say,
00:30:00.71\00:30:02.16
but whatever you say
it will go in the blank
00:30:02.19\00:30:04.41
and there is our producer up
there sitting behind a keyboard
00:30:04.44\00:30:07.24
and she is gonna get it
when I repeat it to her,
00:30:07.27\00:30:09.75
I'll hear it and
then I'll repeat it.
00:30:09.78\00:30:11.60
But let's put one up,
let's just say number one
00:30:11.63\00:30:14.88
what is it that bread
does it nourishes you,
00:30:14.91\00:30:18.50
isn't that true?
00:30:18.53\00:30:19.56
Bread nourishes you.
00:30:19.59\00:30:21.15
Now we got six more blacks
00:30:21.18\00:30:22.64
on your study
guide to fill it in.
00:30:22.67\00:30:24.57
So you call it in
and let's filled it.
00:30:24.60\00:30:26.78
It has to begin with
it and then something you,
00:30:26.81\00:30:29.51
all right, let's go.
00:30:29.54\00:30:30.68
Tell me what benefits do
humans accrue from bread?
00:30:30.71\00:30:35.81
It comforts.
00:30:35.84\00:30:36.87
I heard comfort
let's fill that in please.
00:30:36.90\00:30:39.09
It comforts you.
00:30:39.12\00:30:42.05
Hey, you know what,
that's true isn't it?
00:30:42.08\00:30:43.83
When somebody comes up from
00:30:43.86\00:30:44.89
south of the border
to north of the border
00:30:44.92\00:30:46.99
feeling lonely,
feeling abandoned,
00:30:47.02\00:30:50.10
if you can just get a
hold of some bread from home,
00:30:50.13\00:30:52.92
some tortilla
there is a comfort.
00:30:52.95\00:30:56.39
You know what, that's true.
00:30:56.42\00:30:58.06
When an American
travels overseas in a country
00:30:58.09\00:31:00.49
where there isn't a lot of
bread and you go to a restaurant
00:31:00.52\00:31:02.19
and they have bread it's
a comfort food I like that.
00:31:02.22\00:31:05.02
Yeah, it comforts you
that's what bread does,
00:31:05.05\00:31:06.79
it comforts us.
00:31:06.82\00:31:07.85
All right,
let's put another one.
00:31:07.88\00:31:09.04
How about another one?
00:31:09.07\00:31:10.10
Keeps you alive.
00:31:12.92\00:31:13.96
Now I want to
put-- keeps you alive.
00:31:13.99\00:31:16.17
Let's put that up there.
00:31:16.20\00:31:17.23
It keeps-- well it's--
00:31:17.26\00:31:20.21
Okay, it keeps alive you.
00:31:20.24\00:31:24.29
Let's do that.
00:31:24.32\00:31:27.76
All right, Jenna,
just put it up there,
00:31:27.79\00:31:30.26
it keeps you
alive. That'll be fine.
00:31:30.29\00:31:31.66
It keeps you alive. That's good.
00:31:31.69\00:31:34.53
Just keep it a
one word, if you can.
00:31:34.56\00:31:36.87
All right, it keeps you alive.
00:31:36.90\00:31:38.95
See they're
trying to figure out.
00:31:38.98\00:31:40.16
Yeah there it is,
it keeps you alive.
00:31:40.19\00:31:42.15
Okay, what else does bread do?
00:31:42.18\00:31:43.60
What are the benefits?
00:31:43.63\00:31:44.80
Jesus says "I am
the bread of life."
00:31:44.83\00:31:46.41
If you eat this bread
this is what happened you.
00:31:46.44\00:31:48.65
It nourishes
you, it comforts you,
00:31:48.68\00:31:50.67
it keeps you alive.
00:31:50.70\00:31:51.73
Give me another one.
00:31:51.76\00:31:52.79
Little louder.
00:31:56.38\00:31:57.77
It fills.
00:31:57.80\00:31:58.84
Okay, I got fills, I heard that.
00:31:58.87\00:32:00.55
It fills you.
00:32:00.58\00:32:01.99
Yeah, it does, it fills you.
00:32:02.02\00:32:05.11
You know why,
that's why the poor
00:32:05.14\00:32:06.28
by the way eat the barley bread.
00:32:06.31\00:32:08.37
It wasn't the
greatest file asset,
00:32:08.40\00:32:11.33
but it fills your tummy.
00:32:11.36\00:32:13.23
You eat that barley
bread it just fills you.
00:32:13.26\00:32:14.92
If you can't have can't
have broccoli and Thai salad
00:32:14.95\00:32:17.00
that's can't afford
it, but you eat the bread,
00:32:17.03\00:32:18.94
it fills the stomach.
00:32:18.97\00:32:21.10
Yeah, that's
good, it's fill you.
00:32:21.13\00:32:23.17
All right, I got to come
over this way a bit more,
00:32:23.20\00:32:25.33
'cause I'm hear a lot
of voices from over there.
00:32:25.36\00:32:26.76
What else is it do? Over here.
00:32:26.79\00:32:28.87
It pleases you.
00:32:28.90\00:32:30.10
I heard that. Pleases you.
00:32:30.13\00:32:32.34
It pleases you.
00:32:32.37\00:32:34.65
Well, I like that.
00:32:34.68\00:32:36.18
Yeah, why does it please you?
00:32:36.21\00:32:38.54
Because I have
something at last,
00:32:38.57\00:32:40.59
my hunger is satiated
by that which pleases me.
00:32:40.62\00:32:45.13
I love my bread, I love
my naan, I love my baguette,
00:32:45.16\00:32:48.02
I love my tortilla, I
love my rice, it pleases me.
00:32:48.05\00:32:50.71
All right, one,
two, three, four five.
00:32:50.74\00:32:52.35
We can do two more.
00:32:52.38\00:32:53.41
How about this side here?
00:32:53.44\00:32:56.20
What part?
00:32:56.23\00:32:58.64
It energizes. I like that.
00:32:58.67\00:33:00.59
It energizes you.
00:33:00.62\00:33:02.32
Why we're now
consumes this bread
00:33:02.35\00:33:04.06
I draw strength from a donut
00:33:04.09\00:33:05.28
and it's just like putting on--
00:33:05.31\00:33:07.05
the change in my
Duracell batteries.
00:33:07.08\00:33:09.25
And now I'm energized.
00:33:09.28\00:33:11.05
Oh, I like that,
it energizes you.
00:33:11.08\00:33:12.79
One, two, three, I got one more.
00:33:12.82\00:33:15.16
What does bread--
what are the benefits
00:33:15.19\00:33:16.92
that accrue from bread?
00:33:16.95\00:33:18.20
One more.
00:33:18.23\00:33:20.21
Satisfies.
00:33:20.24\00:33:21.78
It's not up
there, let's put it up.
00:33:21.81\00:33:23.27
I like that satisfies you.
00:33:23.30\00:33:24.74
It satisfies you.
00:33:24.77\00:33:27.51
I don't have to
go anywhere else.
00:33:27.54\00:33:29.27
You give me a loaf of
bread, you give me that naan,
00:33:29.30\00:33:32.91
you give me that baguette
I'm happy, I'm satisfied.
00:33:32.94\00:33:36.33
Very good.
00:33:36.36\00:33:37.39
Now here's a deal guys,
leave it up there please.
00:33:37.42\00:33:39.37
I want to look at, by the way,
00:33:39.40\00:33:40.43
you can fill it
in your study guide,
00:33:40.46\00:33:41.49
fill those in, those seven.
00:33:41.52\00:33:43.30
Here's a deal.
00:33:43.33\00:33:44.87
Does Jesus who says
I am the bread of life,
00:33:44.90\00:33:47.80
does Jesus do the same?
00:33:47.83\00:33:51.35
Let's go to that list.
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Does Jesus nourish you?
00:33:53.13\00:33:54.96
But He does.
00:33:54.99\00:33:56.53
He said, I will nourish you,
00:33:56.56\00:33:58.83
I'll put those vitamins
00:33:58.86\00:34:00.82
into your
spiritual body and vitamins,
00:34:00.85\00:34:02.55
I will nourish you.
00:34:02.58\00:34:03.87
Does Jesus comfort you?
00:34:03.90\00:34:05.73
Oh, but of course.
00:34:05.76\00:34:06.84
Does Jesus keep you alive?
00:34:06.87\00:34:08.58
Yes.
00:34:08.61\00:34:09.93
Does Jesus fill you?
00:34:09.96\00:34:12.15
Yeah, fill me
till I, that old song
00:34:12.18\00:34:14.29
feed me till I want no more.
00:34:14.32\00:34:17.26
Fill me.
00:34:17.29\00:34:18.48
Does Jesus please you?
00:34:18.51\00:34:20.59
Yeah, does He?
00:34:20.62\00:34:21.65
Yeah, but of course.
00:34:21.68\00:34:22.83
Does Jesus energies you?
00:34:22.86\00:34:25.13
How does He energies you?
00:34:25.16\00:34:28.19
I mean, how
does He energies you?
00:34:28.22\00:34:30.12
What's He do?
00:34:30.15\00:34:31.18
Gives you the strength
and powers you for the moment.
00:34:34.65\00:34:39.59
One more does Jesus satisfy?
00:34:39.62\00:34:42.28
Nobody, that old gospel hymn,
nobody satisfies like Jesus.
00:34:42.31\00:34:47.44
Jesus says, hey, guys,
look, look, look, look, look,
00:34:47.47\00:34:50.05
you see this bread.
00:34:50.08\00:34:53.57
I am, I am the
bread of life for you.
00:34:53.60\00:34:59.01
Now having made that point
00:34:59.04\00:35:00.82
who He pivots to
this revolting metaphor.
00:35:00.85\00:35:04.03
Come on, we can't skip it.
00:35:04.06\00:35:05.68
Let's confront
it, let's go verse 51.
00:35:05.71\00:35:08.41
"I am" Jesus speaking
now "I am the living bread
00:35:12.15\00:35:15.31
which came down from heaven.
00:35:15.34\00:35:16.45
If anyone eats of this
bread, he will live forever,
00:35:16.48\00:35:18.48
and the bread that I
shall give is" My what?
00:35:18.51\00:35:21.75
"Is my flesh,
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that I shall give for
the life of the world."
00:35:25.85\00:35:30.89
Wait, wait, wait, hey, do
you hear what He just said?
00:35:30.92\00:35:32.87
Did He say what I thought I
heard Him say, yep, yep, yep.
00:35:32.90\00:35:36.61
And in fact, the
Greek here in verse 52.
00:35:36.64\00:35:38.51
"The Jews therefore quarreled"
00:35:38.54\00:35:39.57
the Greek means
they came to fight,
00:35:39.60\00:35:41.35
they came to fight
00:35:41.38\00:35:42.41
so that some commentators wonder
00:35:42.44\00:35:43.97
if they were not
physical altercations
00:35:44.00\00:35:46.33
in the synagogue of Capernaum
00:35:46.36\00:35:48.14
when Jesus comes and says
00:35:48.17\00:35:49.52
it's my flesh I'm talking about.
00:35:49.55\00:35:51.19
They quarreled.
00:35:51.22\00:35:52.25
He didn't say. Yes, He did.
00:35:52.28\00:35:53.31
He did? Yes He did.
00:35:53.34\00:35:54.71
Then Jesus says all
right, I want this metaphor
00:35:54.74\00:35:57.42
to be crystal clear and
four times in a row now,
00:35:57.45\00:35:59.96
four times in case we missed
at the first and the second,
00:35:59.99\00:36:02.75
four times He will
state the metaphor.
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Here we go, verse 53.
00:36:04.71\00:36:06.10
"Jesus said to
them, 'Most assuredly,
00:36:06.13\00:36:07.86
here it comes, amen, amen.
00:36:07.89\00:36:10.81
"I say to you."
00:36:10.84\00:36:11.87
This is huge now, red flag.
00:36:11.90\00:36:13.90
Listen reader.
00:36:13.93\00:36:14.96
"Unless you eat the
flesh of the Son of God
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and drink His blood,
you have no life in you."
00:36:17.85\00:36:22.02
That's number one.
00:36:22.05\00:36:23.09
Number two, verse 54.
00:36:23.12\00:36:24.25
"Whoever eats My flesh
00:36:24.28\00:36:25.85
and drinks My
blood has eternal life,
00:36:25.88\00:36:27.79
and I will raise
her up at the last day."
00:36:27.82\00:36:29.92
Here comes number three.
00:36:29.95\00:36:30.98
"For My flesh is food indeed,
00:36:31.01\00:36:32.99
and My blood is drink indeed."
00:36:33.02\00:36:34.88
And here comes number four.
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"He who eats My flesh
00:36:35.97\00:36:37.47
and drinks My
blood abides in Me,
00:36:37.50\00:36:40.21
and I in him."
00:36:40.24\00:36:43.36
That is revolting.
00:36:43.39\00:36:46.01
Can't miss it.
00:36:46.04\00:36:47.39
You know this
earthquake in Turkey
00:36:47.42\00:36:48.74
we've been
following just this week.
00:36:48.77\00:36:50.61
A previous earthquake
00:36:50.64\00:36:51.67
I'll never forget the
story as long as I live.
00:36:51.70\00:36:53.44
The previous earthquake,
a mother and little child
00:36:53.47\00:36:56.94
were trapped
beneath the rubble for days.
00:36:56.97\00:36:59.64
They find it,
halleluiah, found them alive
00:36:59.67\00:37:01.79
and they asked the mother,
00:37:01.82\00:37:02.85
how did you keep
your little child alive?
00:37:02.88\00:37:05.26
And the mother said, I
let my child drink my blood.
00:37:05.29\00:37:10.05
That's what it makes
you feel, doesn't it?
00:37:10.08\00:37:11.35
Unless you eat My flesh
and drink My blood you live.
00:37:14.93\00:37:21.21
That was on the
border of revolting.
00:37:21.24\00:37:25.90
So what's Jesus saying here?
00:37:25.93\00:37:28.15
For a long time
scholars have thought,
00:37:28.18\00:37:30.05
you know what He's doing,
00:37:30.08\00:37:31.11
He is slipping in a little
homilies on the Lord's supper
00:37:31.14\00:37:34.56
because Matthew, Mark and Luke
00:37:34.59\00:37:36.28
all have the Lord supper in them
00:37:36.31\00:37:38.17
and there is no
Lord supper in John,
00:37:38.20\00:37:40.63
no Lord supper.
00:37:40.66\00:37:42.15
So this is John's way of
slipping the Lord's supper
00:37:42.18\00:37:44.19
in a little bit
early to make sure that
00:37:44.22\00:37:45.96
he still get the
value of Lord supper.
00:37:45.99\00:37:47.90
But scholars now
and I'm Craig Keener
00:37:47.93\00:37:50.38
whom I'm leaning
on rather heavily
00:37:50.41\00:37:53.91
in the writing
of these teachings.
00:37:53.94\00:37:57.17
Craig Keener makes the point.
00:37:57.20\00:37:59.11
He says wait a minute,
wait a minute, wait a minute
00:37:59.14\00:38:00.37
if this were
really a Lord supper
00:38:00.40\00:38:02.32
a homilies there is
something huge is missing,
00:38:02.35\00:38:05.51
the word wine is
never used in the paschal
00:38:05.54\00:38:08.61
or the Passover
supper and the Lord supper.
00:38:08.64\00:38:10.54
You always have bread and wine.
00:38:10.57\00:38:11.86
We have the bread,
no word about wine.
00:38:11.89\00:38:14.34
And he says by the way, flesh,
00:38:14.37\00:38:17.25
the word here for flesh is
socks in the Lord supper formula
00:38:17.28\00:38:20.66
it's not socks
it's soma it's body.
00:38:20.69\00:38:23.66
Jesus says this is My body.
00:38:23.69\00:38:25.44
He never says this is
My flesh broken for you.
00:38:25.47\00:38:28.80
Keener says John is
doing this for a reason.
00:38:28.83\00:38:31.59
Now put it on the screen.
00:38:31.62\00:38:33.18
You have in your
study guide as well.
00:38:33.21\00:38:34.53
"Flesh and
blood." What's the point?
00:38:34.56\00:38:36.20
"Flesh and blood
show the believer's
00:38:36.23\00:38:38.20
absolutely
dependence on Christ's death.
00:38:38.23\00:38:40.85
John not only
omits the final paschal
00:38:40.88\00:38:43.81
Lord supper meal in
his Passion Narrative,
00:38:43.84\00:38:46.28
he makes Jesus actual
death the real Passover."
00:38:46.31\00:38:50.91
Now listen,
scholars, what happens is
00:38:50.94\00:38:53.11
the Passover
occurs when Jesus dies
00:38:53.14\00:38:55.39
in John's gospel
that's the Passover.
00:38:55.42\00:38:58.19
There is no
Passover Thursday night.
00:38:58.22\00:39:00.53
The Passover is when He dies.
00:39:00.56\00:39:03.59
Keep reading.
00:39:03.62\00:39:04.65
"John plainly moves the Passover
00:39:04.68\00:39:06.24
from the Last
Supper to the crucifixion.
00:39:06.27\00:39:08.58
In the context of
the entire Gospel,
00:39:08.61\00:39:10.85
John's Eucharistic language
00:39:10.88\00:39:12.48
thus applies
directly to Jesus' death
00:39:12.51\00:39:16.62
the way one partakes is
through faith and the Spirit.
00:39:16.65\00:39:19.59
John's words invite his audience
00:39:19.62\00:39:21.10
to look to
Christ's death itself,
00:39:21.13\00:39:22.95
not merely to those symbols
which point to his death."
00:39:22.98\00:39:26.73
Now here's the
point, listen carefully.
00:39:26.76\00:39:29.27
Sometimes we get to thinking
00:39:29.30\00:39:30.62
when we
celebrate the Lord supper
00:39:30.65\00:39:32.30
that it's all wrapped up
in the emblems themselves.
00:39:32.33\00:39:36.20
There are some of our
friends who by the grace of God
00:39:36.23\00:39:40.17
would try to go to a
mass every single day
00:39:40.20\00:39:42.70
so that they get the symbols
and they become a part of Me.
00:39:42.73\00:39:47.16
But John is
working overtime to remove,
00:39:47.19\00:39:51.23
to remove the
focus on the symbols
00:39:51.26\00:39:53.64
and said, no, no, no, no, no.
00:39:53.67\00:39:54.87
What counts is
Calvary itself the real flesh,
00:39:54.90\00:39:57.86
the real blood of the cross
that's what Jesus is calling
00:39:57.89\00:40:03.55
you and me to come
to, not the symbols,
00:40:03.58\00:40:07.39
but the event
itself, Calvary, Calvary.
00:40:07.42\00:40:13.74
In fact, would you
jot this down please.
00:40:13.77\00:40:15.12
"Christ's bold language
is His call to His disciples
00:40:15.15\00:40:18.40
to meet Him at the
foot of the cross."
00:40:18.43\00:40:20.15
When He says eat my
flesh, drink My blood.
00:40:20.18\00:40:22.53
Come here, come here,
quick, quick, quick, quick
00:40:22.56\00:40:24.39
come here to the
foot of the cross.
00:40:24.42\00:40:25.79
Meet Me here as
the Passover lamb.
00:40:25.82\00:40:28.31
So what does it mean?
00:40:31.38\00:40:33.29
What is that
mean to eat the flesh
00:40:33.32\00:40:35.53
and drink the blood of Christ?
00:40:35.56\00:40:36.83
I want to end with
this one more quotation.
00:40:36.86\00:40:38.90
Desire of Ages.
00:40:38.93\00:40:39.96
You have it in your study guide,
00:40:39.99\00:40:41.10
you have to
fill it in. Let's go.
00:40:41.13\00:40:42.97
"To eat the flesh and
drink the blood of Christ
00:40:43.00\00:40:46.24
is to receive Him
as a personal Savior."
00:40:46.27\00:40:49.53
Not a collective savior,
not a campus wide savior,
00:40:49.56\00:40:51.92
not a congregational
savior, personal your own,
00:40:51.95\00:40:55.13
not your family, not your daddy,
00:40:55.16\00:40:56.80
not your mommy, your Savior.
00:40:56.83\00:40:59.11
Have you accepted
Him as your Savior?
00:40:59.14\00:41:01.39
That's what it means.
00:41:01.42\00:41:02.46
To accept Him as
a personal Savior.
00:41:02.49\00:41:03.81
"Believing that
He forgives my sins,
00:41:03.84\00:41:06.56
and that I am complete in Him.
00:41:06.59\00:41:08.32
It is by beholding His
love" at the foot of the cross,
00:41:08.35\00:41:11.10
"by dwelling upon
it, by drinking it in,
00:41:11.13\00:41:13.32
that we are to become
partakers of His nature."
00:41:13.35\00:41:15.10
Now jot this down.
00:41:15.13\00:41:16.23
"What food is to the body,
Christ must be to the soul."
00:41:16.26\00:41:21.09
We'll come back to that line.
00:41:21.12\00:41:22.27
That's the point of
this radical metaphor.
00:41:22.30\00:41:26.40
"What food is to the body,
Christ must be to the soul.
00:41:26.43\00:41:29.21
Food cannot benefit
us unless we eat it,
00:41:29.24\00:41:31.57
unless it becomes
a part of our being.
00:41:31.60\00:41:33.13
So Christ is of, no value to us
00:41:33.16\00:41:34.86
if we don't know His
as a personal Savior.
00:41:34.89\00:41:36.82
A theoretical
knowledge will do us no good."
00:41:36.85\00:41:38.85
I don't care how
many religious hours
00:41:38.88\00:41:40.18
you have to take in
order to get your degree.
00:41:40.21\00:41:42.02
Here in Andrews University
it will matter a hell of beans
00:41:42.05\00:41:46.25
unless you
personally encounter the Christ
00:41:46.28\00:41:48.79
that has been taught.
00:41:48.82\00:41:50.52
"We must feed upon Him,
00:41:50.55\00:41:52.04
we must receive
Him into the heart,
00:41:52.07\00:41:54.28
so that His life becomes ours.
00:41:54.31\00:41:56.49
His love," I love this.
00:41:56.52\00:41:57.85
"His love, His
grace, must be assimilated."
00:41:57.88\00:42:02.78
Take it in.
00:42:02.81\00:42:03.84
Take it in.
00:42:06.63\00:42:07.70
His love, and His
grace, must be assimilated.
00:42:07.73\00:42:10.37
You say now come on,
Dwight, give me some specific.
00:42:10.40\00:42:12.11
How can I eat the flesh
00:42:12.14\00:42:13.58
and drink the blood
of my Lord Jesus Christ?
00:42:13.61\00:42:15.69
Let me leave these
five with you here.
00:42:15.72\00:42:17.12
Jot this down. Would you please?
00:42:17.15\00:42:18.50
This is how.
00:42:18.53\00:42:19.57
Number one, Take time
alone with Jesus daily.
00:42:19.60\00:42:25.11
You said, I've
already heard this before.
00:42:25.14\00:42:26.43
You are hearing it again.
00:42:26.46\00:42:28.73
Take time alone
with Jesus daily.
00:42:28.76\00:42:31.24
Number two, One slice a day,
00:42:31.27\00:42:33.76
one Gospel story a day.
00:42:33.79\00:42:35.70
One slice a day.
00:42:35.73\00:42:38.13
Number three,
Chew, chew that slice.
00:42:38.16\00:42:42.36
Ruminate over it, brood
over it, wrestle with it,
00:42:42.39\00:42:45.95
meditate out, chew
the bread, chew it.
00:42:45.98\00:42:49.27
Number four, Respond
to the picture of Jesus
00:42:49.30\00:42:52.63
that the Spirit
will reveal to you.
00:42:52.66\00:42:54.75
You'll see a picture of
Him and respond to that.
00:42:54.78\00:42:57.29
We can say this is
how I respond, Lord.
00:42:57.32\00:42:59.68
And finally number five, Kneel,
00:42:59.71\00:43:02.57
kneel before the crucified
One and offer Him your day.
00:43:02.60\00:43:06.50
You say, Dwight, you
just say offer Him your life.
00:43:06.53\00:43:08.34
Of course, but
He needs your day,
00:43:08.37\00:43:10.79
today, and today,
and today until I come
00:43:10.82\00:43:12.89
give me your
day, just give today.
00:43:12.92\00:43:15.87
Offer to Him today.
00:43:15.90\00:43:18.49
Now is that rocket
science, ladies and gentlemen?
00:43:18.52\00:43:20.19
It is not rocket science.
00:43:20.22\00:43:21.31
Is that difficult?
It is not difficult.
00:43:21.34\00:43:25.00
The Desire of Ages put it.
00:43:25.03\00:43:26.43
His life, His love, His
grace must be assimilated.
00:43:26.46\00:43:30.47
So in a few moments when
the last time when I said,
00:43:30.50\00:43:34.52
if you would like
to tweet this message,
00:43:34.55\00:43:36.15
if you would like
to tweet this teaching
00:43:36.18\00:43:38.44
to your friends and family
in a 140 characters or less
00:43:38.47\00:43:42.14
I'm gonna give you the one line
would you please send this line.
00:43:42.17\00:43:45.43
Pass this line to your friends,
00:43:45.46\00:43:46.74
pass this line to your family,
00:43:46.77\00:43:48.23
get them to come to the website,
00:43:48.26\00:43:49.50
get them to go to that podcast.
00:43:49.53\00:43:51.80
Here's the line that
you tweet to them please.
00:43:51.83\00:43:54.73
Jesus is your soul food.
00:43:54.76\00:44:00.62
Tweet it.
00:44:00.65\00:44:02.58
Jesus is your soul food.
00:44:02.61\00:44:05.95
And by the way, I don't care
00:44:05.98\00:44:07.42
if you misspell the word soul.
00:44:07.45\00:44:08.84
I don't care if you
spell it sole instead of soul,
00:44:12.09\00:44:15.47
because it's still true.
00:44:15.50\00:44:17.05
Mention I lived by bread alone,
00:44:17.08\00:44:18.29
but every word that proceeds
00:44:18.32\00:44:20.14
out of the mouth
of Christ our Lord.
00:44:20.17\00:44:22.28
Jesus is your soul food.
00:44:22.31\00:44:26.94
Have you had your bread today?
00:44:26.97\00:44:30.73
Jesus is your soul food.
00:44:30.76\00:44:32.64
You say, come on,
Dwight, that's too simple,
00:44:32.67\00:44:34.56
I need something
little more complicated.
00:44:34.59\00:44:36.19
I need to be really
stretching me intellectually.
00:44:36.22\00:44:38.88
My friend,
that's been the problem.
00:44:38.91\00:44:41.21
We have saw to
stretch each other
00:44:41.24\00:44:42.57
till we are stretched out.
00:44:42.60\00:44:45.21
We're living at
the edge of eternity,
00:44:45.24\00:44:46.99
we are at the end of
time and here is my concern.
00:44:47.02\00:44:49.34
I'll be just--this is
pastor to pastor time now.
00:44:49.37\00:44:51.71
No, no, here's my concern.
00:44:51.74\00:44:54.23
I'm concerned
that is the people,
00:44:54.26\00:44:57.88
because we have no assurance
if this really is the end
00:44:57.91\00:45:02.13
that we are treating
life now business as usual.
00:45:02.16\00:45:06.90
The problem with
our community of faith,
00:45:06.93\00:45:08.29
I don't want to
say this, gentlemen.
00:45:08.32\00:45:09.56
The problem with
our community of faith
00:45:09.59\00:45:11.10
it's a okay problem to have.
00:45:11.13\00:45:14.47
We tend to frontload everything
00:45:14.50\00:45:17.62
at the beginning of
the spiritual journey.
00:45:17.65\00:45:19.19
My friend Ron
Clouse I tell you what,
00:45:19.22\00:45:21.45
I've been just praising God
tonight is his last night and
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he has been
anointed by the Holy Spirit.
00:45:23.63\00:45:26.02
He want to catch those one areas
because he haven't gone to any,
00:45:26.05\00:45:28.11
the others
coming just pack it into
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the youth chapel
tonight his last lecture.
00:45:30.18\00:45:32.99
But my friend Ron
Clouse has been teaching,
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teaching for four weeks
now, but we tend to that,
00:45:35.39\00:45:38.65
we kind of frontload it at
the beginning of the journey
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and then most of
us come in that way,
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and then we spend
the rest of our lives
00:45:44.10\00:45:45.48
just kind of just
feeding off of the fumes.
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We miss the metaphor.
00:45:49.63\00:45:51.33
The point of the metaphor
is now let me show it to you.
00:45:51.36\00:45:54.04
The point of the
metaphor is here in verse 35
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we just swift
through it a moment ago.
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Now read this and
you are hearing verse 35.
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"And Jesus said to them,
'I am the bread of life.'
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" Now watch what happens
in the original language.
00:46:02.44\00:46:04.69
He who the Greek
reads keeps on coming to me.
00:46:04.72\00:46:10.88
"He who keeps on coming
to Me shall never hunger.
00:46:10.91\00:46:14.16
And she who keeps
on believing in Me
00:46:14.19\00:46:17.08
shall never thirst."
00:46:17.11\00:46:18.98
It's not front-end
loaded, it's frontloaded at all.
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It's day, after day, after day.
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You got to keep coming.
00:46:24.07\00:46:25.24
The story Jesus told
about the 10 virgins,
00:46:25.27\00:46:27.17
five of them
when the crisis hits
00:46:27.20\00:46:29.82
and the world is
falling apart five of them
00:46:29.85\00:46:31.99
have not been coming every day.
00:46:32.02\00:46:33.94
They have nothing,
00:46:33.97\00:46:35.00
there is nothing
they can scare up,
00:46:35.03\00:46:36.44
there is nothing-- you can't
borrow it from your friends,
00:46:36.47\00:46:38.35
you just give me
your spirituality,
00:46:38.38\00:46:40.05
give me bread of
life that you been eating.
00:46:40.08\00:46:41.66
You can't it's too
late, it's too late.
00:46:41.69\00:46:44.39
If you are waiting for
adrenaline to be your call
00:46:44.42\00:46:46.77
to draw near to
Jesus, can't be adrenaline.
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I am the bread of life.
00:46:49.47\00:46:52.54
You come back to Me
continues repetitive action,
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you come back to Me.
00:46:56.99\00:46:58.41
Blessed are those who hunger
and thirst after righteousness,
00:46:58.44\00:47:02.02
the Lord our righteousness
00:47:02.05\00:47:03.67
blessed are those who
hunger and thirst after me.
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Is what He is saying.
00:47:06.50\00:47:07.56
I am the bread of life.
00:47:07.59\00:47:10.55
I am your bread
today, I am your bread today,
00:47:10.58\00:47:13.26
I am your bread today.
00:47:13.29\00:47:14.32
There is no tomorrow with me.
00:47:14.35\00:47:15.55
I am your bread
today, I am your bread today.
00:47:15.58\00:47:17.77
I am what you are
hungry for, come to me.
00:47:17.80\00:47:23.55
Some of us are
thinking well, you know,
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I'm just-- this is so simple,
00:47:25.05\00:47:28.44
this devotional life business.
00:47:28.47\00:47:30.57
My friends, we will rise or fall
00:47:30.60\00:47:34.22
on the simplicity of
this truth the bread of life.
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If we don't get it
we starved to death
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and its curtains spiritually.
00:47:42.97\00:47:46.43
Eat, and eat, and eat.
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Oh, Dwight, can I
do it on my iPhone?
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I don't care where you do it.
00:47:52.06\00:47:54.11
Eat the Word, follow the gospel,
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one slice at a
time well over there.
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How much time?
Forget how much time.
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That's always a question
we ask and then we get--
00:48:00.77\00:48:02.73
we get rare road
side tracked, forget it.
00:48:02.76\00:48:06.11
Time, one slice,
chew it, respond to it,
00:48:06.14\00:48:12.41
kneel down and say God
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bread of life
let us go together.
00:48:14.10\00:48:16.51
Ladies and
gentlemen, that's what it means
00:48:16.54\00:48:18.64
to live on the edge of eternity.
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You are eating bread
today and today and today
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until Jesus comes.
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Otherwise you starved to death.
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You die.
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Why would you die
when the pantry is full?
00:48:34.68\00:48:39.73
I want to give you an
opportunity to respond today.
00:48:44.87\00:48:48.95
I'm going to
give a piece of bread.
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Like if you line up right here
00:48:52.05\00:48:53.29
I'll go through
this pretty quick.
00:48:53.32\00:48:56.19
I'm gonna give
you a piece of bread.
00:48:56.22\00:48:57.79
No it's not this right here.
00:48:57.82\00:49:00.30
Our ushers are ready
right now to come your way.
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I want everybody here to
receive a piece of bread.
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It's close enough to dinner
you can eat it without fallen up
00:49:04.33\00:49:06.41
your digestive
system, all right.
00:49:06.44\00:49:08.60
Ushers, let's
go, let's just come,
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in the balcony,
ushers, let's go,
00:49:10.65\00:49:12.02
half way back, ushers, let's go,
00:49:12.05\00:49:13.70
in the youth chapel let's go.
00:49:13.73\00:49:16.70
Take some bread if
you're really hungry
00:49:16.73\00:49:18.74
take two or
three pieces, its okay.
00:49:18.77\00:49:21.72
This is not communion,
this is not communion.
00:49:21.75\00:49:24.64
We're not having communion here.
00:49:24.67\00:49:25.88
This is a chance to
take the bread of life and
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symbolically say to
you and to say to Jesus.
00:49:28.74\00:49:30.74
You know what, Jesus,
You are my bread of life.
00:49:30.77\00:49:33.31
Jesus, I have not had the
time that I needed with You,
00:49:33.34\00:49:36.33
but Jesus, I am
eating this bread right now
00:49:36.36\00:49:39.00
as a commitment that starting
today, Jesus, starting today.
00:49:39.03\00:49:45.96
I will eat the bread.
00:49:45.99\00:49:48.51
I will drink the water.
00:49:48.54\00:49:51.46
I want to be
nearer and nearer to You.
00:49:51.49\00:49:54.20
I'd rather have You Jesus
00:49:54.23\00:49:55.61
in any thing in
the whole wide world.
00:49:55.64\00:49:57.62
I don't need
power, I don't need fame,
00:49:57.65\00:50:00.44
I don't need
riches, I don't need land,
00:50:00.47\00:50:06.10
I want you Jesus,
00:50:06.13\00:50:07.62
I don't need success, I
don't need the adrenaline
00:50:07.65\00:50:12.92
of a pumped up life
hunting and hurting for success.
00:50:12.95\00:50:18.05
I want you Jesus.
00:50:18.08\00:50:20.07
And when I eat this
Jesus, I am saying to you--
00:50:20.10\00:50:22.06
don't eat it yet.
00:50:22.09\00:50:23.74
Well, you already ate it, okay.
00:50:23.77\00:50:27.76
All right, well, just with
that I'm going to eat it too.
00:50:27.79\00:50:34.05
But, Jesus, when I eat
this, Jesus, what I'm saying is,
00:50:34.08\00:50:36.52
I want You in me, I
want Your nature in me,
00:50:36.55\00:50:38.92
I want what You
are to be Dwight.
00:50:38.95\00:50:42.55
I want Dwight to be You.
00:50:42.58\00:50:45.15
I'm such a mess Jesus,
I'll let you down so often,
00:50:45.18\00:50:49.31
but please every morning
feed me till I want no more.
00:50:49.34\00:50:54.43
You know, that old song, "
Feed me till I want no more."
00:50:54.46\00:50:56.29
I got to thank
you between services.
00:50:56.32\00:50:57.65
It really should say
feed me till I want some more,
00:50:57.68\00:51:01.63
because you never run
out of wanting this, guys,
00:51:01.66\00:51:03.49
you never have.
00:51:03.52\00:51:04.55
I had a great, I had
a great meal yesterday.
00:51:04.58\00:51:05.79
Do you ever do that?
00:51:05.82\00:51:06.85
I had a great
breakfast yesterday,
00:51:06.88\00:51:07.91
I'm dropping breakfasts
for the rest of my life.
00:51:07.94\00:51:10.05
No.
00:51:10.08\00:51:11.15
I want a great breakfast today
00:51:11.18\00:51:12.71
and I want a great
breakfast tomorrow.
00:51:12.74\00:51:14.64
You just keep coming
back, this is the bread.
00:51:14.67\00:51:18.39
We're gonna sing
that old gospel hymn
00:51:18.42\00:51:19.50
along we sing two stanzas of it.
00:51:19.53\00:51:21.32
I want to make sure
the ushers have time.
00:51:21.35\00:51:22.94
And those of you watching
on the screen right now,
00:51:22.97\00:51:25.97
I tell you what, you
go to your little pantry,
00:51:26.00\00:51:28.07
you got a loaf of bread and then
00:51:28.10\00:51:29.13
you put that loaf of bread out.
00:51:29.16\00:51:30.20
This is not special
bread, this is just bread.
00:51:30.23\00:51:33.14
Jesus says what
special is it's a symbol of Me.
00:51:33.17\00:51:36.11
You go pull the piece
of bread out, you eat it.
00:51:36.14\00:51:38.26
Well, eat it right now
00:51:38.29\00:51:39.77
and you make the same comment.
00:51:39.80\00:51:41.86
It's time for God's people.
00:51:41.89\00:51:43.89
It's time, guys, we
have fiddled dabbled around
00:51:43.92\00:51:48.27
for too long.
00:51:48.30\00:51:50.08
God is ready to
draw us deeper than
00:51:50.11\00:51:52.32
we have ever gone before.
00:51:52.35\00:51:55.08
I'd rather have
Jesus than silver or gold.
00:51:55.11\00:51:57.40
Let's sing that together.
00:51:57.43\00:51:58.46
All right, let's stand together.
00:52:02.04\00:52:03.23
I'd rather have Jesus
00:52:06.94\00:52:11.45
than silver or gold
00:52:11.48\00:52:15.99
I'd rather be His
00:52:16.02\00:52:19.89
than have riches untold
00:52:19.92\00:52:24.36
I'd rather have Jesus
00:52:24.39\00:52:28.96
than houses or lands
00:52:28.99\00:52:33.15
I'd rather be led
00:52:33.18\00:52:37.36
by His nail-pierced hand
00:52:37.39\00:52:42.13
Than to be the king
00:52:42.16\00:52:46.76
of a vast domain
00:52:46.79\00:52:51.48
Or be held in sin's
00:52:51.51\00:52:55.98
dread sway
00:52:56.01\00:53:00.74
I'd rather have Jesus
00:53:00.77\00:53:05.35
than anything
00:53:05.38\00:53:10.32
This world affords today
00:53:10.35\00:53:17.32
I'd rather have Jesus
00:53:21.02\00:53:25.99
than men's applause
00:53:26.02\00:53:30.78
I'd rather be faithful
00:53:30.81\00:53:35.32
to His dear cause
00:53:35.35\00:53:40.24
I'd rather have Jesus
00:53:40.27\00:53:45.24
than worldwide fame
00:53:45.27\00:53:49.81
I'd rather be true
00:53:49.84\00:53:54.70
to His holy name
00:53:54.73\00:54:00.01
Than to be the king
00:54:00.04\00:54:04.77
of a vast domain
00:54:04.80\00:54:09.85
Or be held in sin's
00:54:09.88\00:54:14.59
dread sway
00:54:14.62\00:54:19.97
I'd rather have Jesus
00:54:20.00\00:54:25.46
than anything
00:54:25.49\00:54:30.87
This world affords today
00:54:30.90\00:54:38.87
And so every morning
an answer to that desire
00:54:43.06\00:54:45.42
that you just
sang what do we do,
00:54:45.45\00:54:47.68
go down in that little corner
00:54:47.71\00:54:49.19
and we break bread
00:54:49.22\00:54:52.22
and we put the bread
in us inside ourselves
00:54:52.25\00:54:55.58
and we feed on that bread
for the journey of that day.
00:54:55.61\00:54:59.67
Next morning we're back down.
00:54:59.70\00:55:01.21
We break bread again.
00:55:01.24\00:55:03.57
And some of you have
been saving your piece.
00:55:03.60\00:55:06.33
You and me right
now and by this symbol
00:55:06.36\00:55:10.19
we are assimilating.
00:55:10.22\00:55:12.45
You do it all the time.
00:55:12.48\00:55:13.53
It nourishes, it satisfies.
00:55:20.71\00:55:26.22
I know you're not supposed
to talk with your mouthful.
00:55:26.25\00:55:29.21
My mother said.
00:55:29.24\00:55:31.29
It energies, fills you,
00:55:31.32\00:55:38.04
keeps you alive.
00:55:38.07\00:55:41.21
I am the bread of life.
00:55:41.24\00:55:44.03
Come to me,
00:55:44.06\00:55:45.98
she he who eats
will live forever.
00:55:46.01\00:55:50.73
Amen.
00:55:50.76\00:55:52.61
O God, such a simple metaphor
00:55:52.64\00:55:57.36
radical in the
expression of eating His flesh
00:55:57.39\00:56:00.06
and drinking His blood,
00:56:00.09\00:56:01.41
but at the foot of the
cross we do the radical,
00:56:01.44\00:56:05.29
we break bread alone
with our bread of life,
00:56:05.32\00:56:09.78
Savior and
companion we assimilate,
00:56:09.81\00:56:13.26
we chew, we swallow, we go forth
00:56:13.29\00:56:17.96
for this people, Holy Father,
00:56:17.99\00:56:20.12
please at this time take
us into Your heart today,
00:56:20.15\00:56:27.01
and today, and
today until Jesus comes.
00:56:27.04\00:56:31.06
Let all the people say.
00:56:31.09\00:56:33.30
Amen.
00:56:33.33\00:56:35.30
Before you go I'd
like to take a moment
00:56:49.75\00:56:51.17
and talk to you about
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00:56:51.20\00:56:54.31
So often we go to
church, we listen to a sermon
00:56:54.34\00:56:56.42
about the things that Jesus
said or that which Jesus did.
00:56:56.45\00:56:59.77
We learn all
these facts about Him.
00:56:59.80\00:57:01.30
Yeah, but when it comes
down to it we sometimes realize
00:57:01.33\00:57:03.49
we have an actually come to
know Him personally ourselves.
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Now perhaps you've only recently
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