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John chapter 6 · Scripture Unscripted

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  John chapter 6 let us pray. Heavenly Father, we love you.
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  Lord Jesus, we enter your gates with praise and Thanksgiving.
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  We thank you God for the abundant life.
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  We thank you, Father, for all the many blessings that you give
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  us. Thank you for waking us up.
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  Thank you for putting us on our feet.
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  Thank you God for helping us to charge the hill.
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  Father, we take back enemy territory.
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  Lord, we put on the full armor today.
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  God, we do war with the darkness.
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  God, we push against all of the spiritual malice.
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  Father, Lord, we pray against discord.
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  Lord, we pray against deceit. Father, we pray in the name of
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  Jesus, Lord, that you'll heal our broken bodies.
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  Lord, give us the sound mind. Father, help us to take every
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  thought captive. Help us to hide your word in our
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  heart so that we might not sin against you.
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  Lord, we love you. Lord Jesus, it's all about you,
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  King Jesus. Lord, we get out of the way.
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  I decrease as you increase. Holy Spirit.
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  You be our teacher. You be our God.
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  We love you. And it's in Jesus Christ, holy
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  and precious name that we pray, Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. After these things, Jesus went
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  over the Sea of Galilee, which is at the Sea of Tiberias.
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  So here we know that after these things, Jesus has just given a
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  long discourse to all those that were upset that he had healed
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  this man at the pool of Bethesda where the Angel would come and
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  stir the waters and then someone would get healed.
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  And here he's saying, after he gives this discourse and telling
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  them that they did not believe in the fourfold witness of
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  himself, then we see this next story unfold, verse 2.
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  And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his
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  miracles, which he did on them that were deceased.
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  So here you can see that Jesus was showing them that he was God
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  in the flesh. 3 And Jesus went up into the mountain, and there
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  he sat with his disciples. For in the Passover a feast of
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  the Jews was near. So you can see that John the
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  Gospel writer John is wanting his readers to understand some
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  of the context of the Jewish festivals.
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  So he's telling them that this Passover was near 5 When Jesus
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  then lifted up his eyes, he saw a great company come unto him.
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  He said unto Philip, Where shall we buy bread that these may eat?
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  6 And this he said to prove him, for he himself knew what he
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  would do. So he's asking Philip, how is it
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  that they're going to buy all of the food that this great
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  multitude would need? 6 Philip answered him, 200
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  Pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every
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  one of them may take up a little.
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  Eight. One of his disciples, Andrew,
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  Simon Peters brother, said unto him, Nine there is a lad here
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  which has five barley loaves and two small fish.
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  But what are they among so many? So he's saying that this young
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  little man, this little lad here, he has a lunch for
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  himself. It's not enough for the
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  multitude, but what is Jesus going to do?
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  10 And Jesus said, make the men sit down.
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  So we know they were in Rose Friends, these companies.
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  Now there was much grass in the place, so the men sat down in a
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  number about 5000. So it looked like at this time
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  that Jesus was trying to amass some kind of military might.
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  But what's he going to do? 11 And Jesus took the loaves,
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  and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples,
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  and the disciples to them that were set down, and likewise of
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  the fish as much as they would. 12 When they were filled, he
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  said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain,
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  that nothing be lost. 13 Therefore they gathered them
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  together, filled 12 baskets with the fragments of the five barley
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  loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
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  So this is what happens when we come unto the Lord.
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  Friends, it is an abundance. He takes the little, and He
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  multiplies it, and it is miraculous.
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  Trust that. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle
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  that Jesus did, said This is of a truth, that prophet that
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  should come into the world. So he was much more than a
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  prophet. He was the Son of God, and he is
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  God Incarnate. 15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they
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  would come and take him by force to make him a king, he departed
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  again into a mountain, himself alone.
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  You can see even here Jesus is not demanding any kind of
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  position, any kind of rule over the land.
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  He is over the whole universe. You cannot make him just a king
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  over one specific people group. He is the Creator of everything,
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  seen and unseen is by his breath alone.
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  And look how he goes up into the mountain alone. 16 And when
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  evening was now come, his disciples went down unto the
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  sea, 17 and entered into a ship, and went over the sea towards
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  Capernaum, and it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
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  So we know here that Jesus has told his disciples to go to the
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  other side. And we see here that Jesus is up
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  on the mountain, He's receiving from the Lord, from God
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  Almighty. And we see the disciples are out
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  on the water. And it was dark, and Jesus
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  hadn't come to him. 18 And the sea arose by reason of a great
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  wind that blew. 19 So when they had rowed about 5 and 20 or 30
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  furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near unto
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  the ship, and they were afraid. 20 But he said unto them, It is
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  I do not be afraid. 21 And they willingly received him into the
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  ship, and immediately the ship was at the land where they went.
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  So miracle after miracle, friends, Jesus walking on the
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  water, Peter being beckoned out to him, Peter walking for a
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  minute and losing heart and falling into the sea, Jesus is,
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  is rescuing him. And then immediately the wind in
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  the waves died down and immediately they're on the other
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  side, miracle after miracle. And this is reality.
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  This is not some fable. This isn't just some feel good
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  story, friends, this is what happened.
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  And we would do well to make sure that we don't try to
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  discount the miraculous. God is still doing miracles
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  today. 22 The day following, when the people which stood on
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  the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat
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  there except the one where the disciples were entered, and that
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  Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but
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  that the disciples were gone away alone. 23 Howbeit there
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  came other boats from Tiberius near unto the place where they
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  did eat bread. After that the Lord had given
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  thanks. 24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not
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  there, neither his disciples, they also took ship and came to
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  Capernaum seeking for Jesus. They just wanted to be fed, they
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  wanted another meal, and they didn't care that Jesus Christ
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  actually was the Messiah. They just were after getting
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  fed. 25 And when they had found him on the other side of the
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  sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when did you come here?
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  26 And Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly I say unto you, you
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  seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you ate of
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  the loaves and were filled. 27 Labor not for the meat which
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  perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting
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  life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for Him has God
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  the Father sealed. So we know that Jesus is talking
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  about the food, that you know nothing about the food to do the
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  will of the Father. We know that it does not perish.
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  It is the manna from heaven, and it is abundant, and it is
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  available, and we should not be so preoccupied with the things
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  of the flesh and with the filling of our bellies.
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  We can't make our bellies our God, friends.
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  We must fast and get broke free from all of the things, all of
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  the desires, all of our hunger pangs.
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  We must fast and break free from that, friends.
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  And then watch how he gives you even more intimacy with him. 28
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  Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work
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  the works of God? So they're wanting to know, How
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  is it that we can get this food that you talk about?
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  29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God,
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  that you believe on him whom he has sent. 30 They said,
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  Therefore unto him, What sign do you show then, that we may see
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  and believe you? What do you work So here he just
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  got done doing a miraculous and feeding 5000 from a little boy's
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  lunch and they're asking him what kind of sign will he do
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  that they may believe 31 our fathers did eat mana in the
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  desert as it is written he gave them bread from heaven to eat so
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  they're saying, are you going to give us mana?
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  Are you going to show us that you're God by giving us mana?
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  So they were still stuck in the natural, and it's no different
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  for us today. We refuse to believe in the
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  miraculous. We don't increase our faith.
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  We don't have faith. Like little children, we've been
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  steeped in the natural, we've been steeped in the culture.
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  And we refuse Jesus, we refuse God, we refuse the fellowship
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  that he offers to us because we trust in money and we trust in
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  self-reliance, and we trust in all the systems of the world,
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  and we trust in medicine and healthcare, and we are not
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  desperate for God. 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly I
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  say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my
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  Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
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  He is the bread of life. Jesus is the bread of life. 33
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  For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven and gives
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  life unto the world. Man shall not live by bread
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  alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God's mouth. 34
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  Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35
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  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life.
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  He that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on
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  me shall never thirst. We know that He is the living
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  water and the bread of life, and we must feast on Him daily. 36
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  But I say unto you, that you also have seen me, and believe
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  not. 37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me, and
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  him that comes to me I will in no way cast out.
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  Remember that. Highlight it, mark it down,
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  friends, Jesus will no way cast you out when you come unto Him
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  authentically. 38 For I came down from heaven not to do my
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  own will, but the will of him that sent me.
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  God and Jesus are the same, and then they are congruent. 39 And
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  this is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which
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  he has given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up
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  again at the last day. So we know that Jesus has set
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  his face like a Flint towards Jerusalem.
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  He was on the divine timeline and He knew what was at stake.
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  It was the salvation of the world, where he takes away the
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  sin of the world. 40 And this is the will of him that sent me,
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  that everyone which sees the Son and believes on Him may have
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  everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the
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  last day. So we know that we will have
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  resurrected bodies, and we will be with Him forevermore in
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  eternity. 41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he
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  said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
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  They're still looking for a material blessing, and they had
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  missed that He is the blessing, and believing upon Him they will
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  have eternal life, and they will have no need and no lack in
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  their house, even unto death. 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus
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  the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
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  How is it then that he says, I came down from heaven?
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  They're murmuring, and we murmur too, and whenever we murmur, we
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  lose so many rewards. 43 Jesus therefore it answered and said
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  unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. 44 No man can come
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  to me except the Father which has sent me.
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  Draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
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  So you can see here that the Spirit of God, God the Father,
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  He is drawing us to Himself, and we cannot blasphemy and stiff
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  arm and refuse that drawing. And if you die in that refusal,
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  you will be eternally separated from God. 45 It is written in
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  the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God.
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  Every man, therefore, that has heard and has learned of the
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  Father comes unto me. So you can see here that the
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  gospel goes out to the whole world.
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  We know that it first started there with the Jews. 46 Not that
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  any man has seen the Father, which he which is of God, he has
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  seen the Father. So he's talking about that Jesus
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  Christ has seen the Father because he is God, and he's
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  telling us that he's trustworthy, and that they can
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  believe on him because he is Co equal with God. 47 Truly, truly
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  I say unto you, he that believes on me has everlasting life. 48 I
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  am that bread of life. 49 Your Father's did eat manna in the
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  wilderness, and they are dead. 50 This is the bread which comes
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  down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. 51 I am
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  the living bread which came down from heaven, and if any man eats
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  of this bread, he shall live forever.
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  And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give
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  for the life of the world. He's talking about his
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  crucifixion here, friends. 52 The Jews therefore strove among
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  themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
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  So here they're thinking that he's talking about cannibalism.
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  And how many times do we try to discount the simplicity of his
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  words whenever we try to Add all of our own thoughts and ideas
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  onto the plain meaning of Scripture?
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  We sure can err grievously, friends.
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  And here they needed to lock in. They needed to know that Jesus
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  Christ is going to expound upon these things and all they must
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  do is believe on him and they can eat of the flesh that he's
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  about to go and OfferUp on the cross.
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  And he's talking about communion.
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  He's talking about the breaking of his body.
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  He's talking about eating and the remembrance of it all right
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  here. 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto
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  you, except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his
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  blood, you have no life in you. He's talking about the wine,
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  He's talking about the bread. He's talking about his body
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  being broken and his blood poured out.
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  He's talking about the remembrance of the cross.
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  He's talking about our salvation here. 54 Whosoever eats my flesh
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  and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at
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  the last day. 55 For my flesh is me indeed, and my blood is drink
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  indeed. 56 He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in
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  me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father has sent me, and I
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  live by the Father, so he that eats me even he shall live by
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  me. 58 This is that bread which came down from heaven, not as
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  your father's did eat manna and are dead.
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  He that eats of this bread shall live forever. 59 These things
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  said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
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  So you can see that Jesus had amassed A multitude, and they're
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  following them around. They want to be fed.
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  And Jesus draws the line in the sand and he says a very hard
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  saying, and many fall away. And we can see here what it all
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  meant. It pointed to the cross.
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  It pointed to our ability to go and remember it with communion.
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  And he's telling us that through that we can have eternal life.
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  Friends. 60 Many, therefore, of his disciples, when they had
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  heard this, said, This is a hard saying, who can hear it?
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  61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at
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  it, he said unto them, Does this offend you, unless it is the man
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  who is not offended by him? Friends, we cannot change our
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  theology when we're offended by God's silence over the prayers
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  that we cry out every day and that don't get answered in the
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  ways or in the time that we want them to.
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  We cannot get offended and fall away when Jesus and doesn't act
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  in the way that we want them to. We cannot get offended, friends,
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  whenever scriptures highlight things in our lives that don't
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  belong. We cannot get offended at the
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  gravity of scripture and what it demands of us, Friends who are
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  blood bought, born again believers, We cannot get
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  offended by it. We cannot look at the Bible as
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  if it's an arcade barbaric book. We must look at it as his flesh
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  and blood, as the bread of life and the living water, friends,
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  and have eternal life. And when you come to him in
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  faith, he reveals to you His love that is written on every
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  page. It is love and it is love, and
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  it is only love, but it is wrapped in very hard discipline.
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  That is the root of a disciple. You must discipline yourself to
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  find this abundant life that He is offering to you.
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  And it is a simple gospel, and we come to it by faith.
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  But He loves you too much to leave you in that sin.
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  Friends, does this offend you? 62 What?
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  And if you shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was
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  before, talking about his ascension here, friends?
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  63 It is the spirit that quickens.
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  The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak unto you,
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  they are spirit, and they are life.
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  This word that you hold in your hand is alive and active and
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  sharper than any 2 edged sword. And you don't read it, it reads
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  you. You don't discern it, it
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  discerns you. And it's not about the
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  interpretation of scripture, it is about the obedience to it.
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  And don't be offended by it. You need to develop an
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  unoffendable spirit, Friend. 64 But there are some of you that
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  believe not. Jesus knew from the beginning
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  who they were that believe not, and who should betray him.
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  He's talking about Judas. 65 And he said, Therefore said I unto
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  you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto
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  him of my Father. 66 From that time many of his disciples went
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  back and walked no more with him.
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  This was a hard saying, eating his flesh, drinking his blood.
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  They were steeped in the natural and they could not see past it
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  that it was spiritual application that was profitable.
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  And what did he say? He said that the Spirit quickens
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  and that it is flesh that profits nothing.
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  And we can see here that he was talking about the cross, He was
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  talking about communion, but they missed it, and they walked
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  with him no more. 67 And then said, Jesus unto the 12 Will you
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  also go away? 68 Then Simon Peter answered
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  him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal
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  life. That's where we have to get 2
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  friends. We've got to get to the same
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  place. And Jesus asks us the same
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  question. When hard times come, are you
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  going to fall away? And we've got to get to the
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  place where Peter is at here where we say, I don't understand
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  it all and I don't have to understand it all.
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  And this life is hard. And I don't know why you
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  wouldn't just cause 8 billion souls to be sold out to you
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  today. I know that your ways are not my
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  ways, and I know that your thoughts are not my thoughts.
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  And I know that everything you do is good and you're working it
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  all out and this is just a snapshot for what is to come.
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  We've got to get to this place where we believe every syllable.
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  We believe every jot and every title.
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  We don't call it any of it into question.
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  We believe every bit of it because it is eternal life.
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  It has the power to save Friends, There is nothing that
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  we need to add or subtract to the Word of God for people to be
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  saved. It is all authority right here
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  that you hold in your hands. How amazing is our God?
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  69 And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the
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  Son of the living God. Can you say that today that
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  Jesus Christ is your salvation? Can you say today that Jesus
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  Christ is eternal life? Can you say today that this word
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  of God that became flesh is your salvation?
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  Can you say today, and Are you sure that Christ is the Son of
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  the living God? 70 Jesus answered them, Have not
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  I chosen you? 12 And one of you is the devil.
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  He chose the 12 by this point and he already knew that Judas
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  would betray him, and Judas had free will and Judas could have
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  chose not to, but he was deceived.
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  There are many ravenous wolves in sheep clothing that we need
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  to be on guard against. 71 He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son
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  of Simon, for he it was that should betray him being one of
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  the 12. And Jesus washed Judas's feet
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  too, and Judas got to eat and dip in the same cup that Jesus
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  drank out of. How amazing and how
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  long-suffering is our God? All power wrapped up in a little
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  baby. Hope you've been blessed by this
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  chapter. There's a lot more we could
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  expound upon, but suffice to say, Jesus is our everything.
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  I'm praying for you, I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.