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The Gospel of John | John 6:22-71 · Bayside Davis Podcast

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Bayside Davis podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are now listening to our current teaching series in the Gospel of John.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: On May 7th, 2002, before some of you were born, the great Alan Iverson had one of the most iconic conversations in current modern history.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: You might say, who's Alan Iverson?
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Alan Iverson, also known as AI, was a great point guard.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's now a Hall of Famer.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: He played for the Philadelphia 76ers.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: And uh they had a playoff exit, an early playoff exit, and he was there with the reporters in a post-game news conference.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one reporter said, Tell us about your practice habits.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as many of you know, because this is pop culture still today, even after 24 years, Alan Iverson, frustrated with the reporter's question, went into a passionate rant where he said, We talking about practice 22 times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here is one of the greatest players in the NBA.
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  SPEAKER_00: He won the MVP and he ends early the playoffs and obviously he's discouraged and frustrated.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he goes into this diatribe 22 times.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says to this reporter, I'm the franchise player, and we talking about practice?
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: How many of you know that conversation?
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  SPEAKER_00: Raise your hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is iconic.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you don't, where have you been living?
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  SPEAKER_00: That moment instantly became legendary, and it became a pop culture staple.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know if you just don't know about pop culture, but you got to go on YouTube and watch that conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, another iconic conversation happens in John chapter 6.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus doesn't say we talking about practice 22 times, he says the word bread nine times.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's an interesting conversation because let me just draw you into the story.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you know anything that happened previously in chapter 6, verses 1 through 15, Jesus feeds 5,000 people miraculously that had been following him.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were hungry and tired, and Jesus had compassion on them and fed them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then Jesus and his disciples were tired from a long week of ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they the disciples get on a boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beginning in verse 16, the disciples get on a boat and they journey to Capernaum, which is on the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which really is a lake.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a big lake if you've been to Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then Jesus, in verse 16 through 24, Jesus then, instead of getting in a boat because he's God, he puts on his surf shoes and he walks on water.
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  SPEAKER_00: With no waves.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Jesus walks on water and he interacts with them and they all get on the boat and they go to the other side and all the crowds, because Jesus had just fed 5,000 people miraculously, all these crowds, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people, they are trying to find where Jesus went.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're asking around, they're asking people if they've seen the disciples or Jesus, and finally they figure out that they went to Capernaum, and so they all travel to Capernaum.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's not go through those verses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verses 16 through 21, the disciples' journey to Capernaum, verses 22 through 24, the crowd's journey to Capernaum.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's pick up in verse 25 so we can save you sometime today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is an amazing section of scripture.
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  SPEAKER_00: As Jesus and the crowds get to Capernaum, they begin this lengthy conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Questions, answers, responses.
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  SPEAKER_00: This lengthy conversation between the crowds and Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to strap on your seatbelt, take a sip of coffee, and let's walk through this long conversation together and notice all the nuances because this is one of the most declarative statements that Jesus makes about himself in all of the New Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 25, it begins with the crowd's question in verse 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the first question that the crowd asked.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice verse 25, when they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, Rabbi, when did you get here?
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  SPEAKER_00: When did you this starts out with just a casual, pragmatic conversation, like, wait, we don't know how you got here or when you got here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus, he responds to this question in verses 26 and 27.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus answered, Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He knows why they're looking for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He sees into the hearts of human beings.
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  SPEAKER_00: He sees into every single one of our hearts in this moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus answered, Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed, but because you ate the loaves and had your fills.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fill, pardon me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you.
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  SPEAKER_00: For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus' response to the crowds that have been following him focused on the fact that they're still thinking about the material miracle of eating the food rather than the spiritual reality behind the miracle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus, as one author said, Jesus is rebuking them for their materialistic motivation and their lack of spiritual perception.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we just are focused on the objective, the tangibles.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't see what God is actually trying to do in our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God, in the person of Jesus, is trying to teach them a lesson behind the miracle.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're focused on the bread and fish, and Jesus is focused on satisfying them on a level that food cannot provide.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, he constantly talks in this type of paradigm.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Matthew chapter 4, verse 4, Jesus answered, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not by your McDonald's, not by your Chick-fil-A, not by your steak.
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  SPEAKER_00: Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he uses a phrase here.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says something so interesting that some of us as Christians, we know this phrase, at least we can say it, but we don't quite understand it.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, He says, do not work for food that spoils, but food that endures to eternal life.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is eternal life?
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of us think eternal life is a secondary thing that I'm gonna mention, but it's not what we normally think it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eternal life, first and foremost, is a quality of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you believe in Jesus Christ, you immediately receive eternal life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what is that quality of life?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the life of the Son of God in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's what Colossians says, Christ in me, the hope of glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: The minute you believe in Jesus, you receive God's life in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: In other words, your soul is resurrected to spiritual life because God now dwells in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's eternal life.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not something far-reaching, down the road, you know, after I die.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, eternal life is here and now when you receive Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eternal life is also a quantity of life, secondary.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a quality of life primary, it's a quantity of life secondary, and that means that when you receive this life, the life of the Son of God in you, you receive the life of the Son of God within you forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: It never ends.
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  SPEAKER_00: The duration is eternal, it doesn't have an ending.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will be with God forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what Jesus is trying to teach them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not the temporary.
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  SPEAKER_00: The food was great, I'm sure, but the eternal, something that will last forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what Jesus is likely trying to teach us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We so focus on the temporary things of life, and we don't focus enough on the eternal things of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice what happens next.
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  SPEAKER_00: They ask another question, verse 28.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they asked him, What must we do to do the works God requires?
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  SPEAKER_00: They're like, okay, great, what do we need to do, Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: But notice Jesus' response, what must we do to do the works that God requires?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus responds in verse 29.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus answered, the work of God is this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here it is: to believe in the one he has sent.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is Jesus saying here?
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  SPEAKER_00: He is making clear that you cannot please God or earn God's favor by good works.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christianity does not teach you climb the ladder up to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christianity teaches God came down for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The one work, according to Jesus in verse 25, verse 29, pardon me, and this is such a definitive statement of Jesus, the one work that God requires of them and everyone else was to believe in Jesus as Messiah and Savior.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, what must I do to gain eternal life?
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  SPEAKER_00: What must I do to be in a relationship with God?
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  SPEAKER_00: Believe in Jesus as your Savior.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, Ephesians 2, 8 and 9 definitively declare this, saying, For it is by grace you have been saved through faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember, it's grace through faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is not from yourselves, it is a gift from God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not like, oh yeah, one day God was like, you're doing pretty good, Wesley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm gonna give you this gift.
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  SPEAKER_00: You didn't earn it.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, not by works, so that no person can boast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, look at me, like God, I'm so good.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been good for a month, or I've been good for a week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now you must love me.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not how God works.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is not God's relational orientation to human beings.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's relational orientation to human beings is that guy, Wesley, he is bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a bad man.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's sinned, he's failed, he's done wrong, he's imperfect, he's broken, he's a mess, and without me, he cannot save himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't save yourself, you can't bridge the gap between you and God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter how much you try or how many good works that you try, you are still imperfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only Jesus can do this for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus did this for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of you are in here and you still have a religious mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, what can I do?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you require, God?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are my activities so that you'll love me, so that I'll be accepted by you?
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  SPEAKER_00: And God would tell you this morning, you can do nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have done everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why it's grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you came in here discouraged this morning because you're like, I failed this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Guess what?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's all of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God would remind you this morning, it's all grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't enter into a relationship with me by works.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't enter into my presence by works, you don't come into church feeling good by works.
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  SPEAKER_00: You come receiving the goodness and grace of God, knowing He loves you despite your imperfections and humanity and brokenness.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what Jesus declares.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they ask another question.
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  SPEAKER_00: They still don't get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verses 30 and 31.
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  SPEAKER_00: The crowd's third question.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they asked him, What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you?
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  SPEAKER_00: What will you do, Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: Our ancestors ate manna in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had bread from heaven, as it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus, give us a sign as though feeding 5,000 wasn't good enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some dude comes along and feeds 20,000, only 5,000 men, that means 20,000 kids, women, everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: 20,000 people, that's not good enough for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if Jesus came in here today and he just fed us, a couple hundred people, would that be good enough?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not good enough for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice Jesus' response, verse 32, Jesus said to them, Very, verily, truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you bread from heaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: This miracle was not from Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was just a conduit.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it is my father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love Jesus' response.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, okay, crowds, you're connecting and comparing Jesus' miracle of feeding the 5,000 to Moses' miracle of feeding a million or two million people, an entire nation in the wilderness, Exodus 17, if you want to read about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both of these miracles, Jesus says, point to a deeper spiritual reality.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, what's that, Wesley?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Jesus says that the bread from heaven in the Exodus story points to God the Father as the great provider of his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: The bread from heaven in John's story, the Gospel of John here in John chapter 6 points to Jesus himself, who came down from heaven to give spiritual life to the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: The bread from heaven in Exodus was literal manna, bread from heaven, providing food for the people of God as they're traveling through the wilderness into the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the bread from heaven here is Jesus who came down from heaven to give life to the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's the reality that Jesus surfaces about the bread in the Exodus story.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Israelites who witness the miracle in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine two million people?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're hungry.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's hot.
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  SPEAKER_00: We wish we were back in Egypt because at least we had food and water there and plentiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all of a sudden God provides for them miraculously, day after day after day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, check this out.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Israelites who witnessed the miracle in the wilderness still did not believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, miracles 101, miracles do not save.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether performed through Moses in the desert or Jesus feeding the 5,000, miracles don't save you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then what's the purpose of miracles?
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  SPEAKER_00: Miracles validate spiritual truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't look to the miracle, look to what God is doing and who God is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Miracles validate spiritual truth, and miracles in the story of the gospels, miracles validate the identity of Jesus, that he was God in the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the Exodus story, it wasn't Moses, it was God that provided.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the gospel story, it is Jesus who provides.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because John is saying he's God.
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  SPEAKER_00: The same God that fed the Israelites in the wilderness is the same God that fed the 5,000 in John chapter 6, and that is talking to you here.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the reality: when it comes to miracles, whether performed by Moses or Jesus, people respond differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people believe and some people do not believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Jesus understands and he replies to them because he knows why they're saying what they're saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then they request something of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: They still don't get what he's teaching them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 34, sir, sir.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very respectful, sir, they said, always give us this bread.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine being Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: How patient he has to be?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's like with us, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, you still don't get it, Wesley.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're still focused on food.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're like, we want in and out today after church.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the heavenly food.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give us those in and out fries and that in and out double, double, triple, double burger with the special sauce.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're still focused on food.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're requesting that Jesus feed them food continually.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, after you done after you're done this morning listening me preach you know 60 verses, you're gonna want food too.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the crowd still did not understand what he was teaching.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever had a conversation with somebody that you thought they understood what you were saying, but at the end of the conversation they had no idea what you were saying?
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  SPEAKER_00: You guys ever experienced that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Raise your hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: That happened to me this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: My mom calls me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ring ring, hey mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she's like, What are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I said, I'm watching the World Cup.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I start going into like these two teams who are the World Cup is incredible this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who's watching the World Cup?
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  SPEAKER_00: Raise your hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bernice, your country's still in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're really good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Best team in Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I'm watching the World Cup and two great teams.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it was like France versus somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm why that's pretty much it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like France versus somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't even have to say their name because France is gonna win.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's like that's like Argentina versus somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna win until they meet France, and then you don't know who's gonna win.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so so France is playing somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm telling my mom about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh yeah, France is playing this team, and this, you know, it's incredible, it's a World Cup.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then at the end of the conversation, my mom said, What's the World Cup?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I almost fainted.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: She said, You know, I'm not a sports girl, only when you played sports.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Mom, call your sister, ask her if she knows what the World Cup is.
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  SPEAKER_00: So she called my aunt and she said, What is the World Cup?
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  SPEAKER_00: She's like, It's soccer, it's like the biggest thing in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I got on AI and I said, Is the World Cup bigger than the Olympics?
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  SPEAKER_00: And guess what?
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  SPEAKER_00: The World Cup is bigger than the Olympics.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, they're playing right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to watch, Wesley.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: Hurry up.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, but by the way, my mom said, Don't tell that story, it's gonna be so embarrassing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I said, Mom, it's gonna be such a great story, trust me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So she's watching right now, clap for her, tell her it's a good story.
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  SPEAKER_00: They still don't get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here Jesus responds, verse 35.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: But as I told you, you have seen and still you do not believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me, I will never drive away.
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  SPEAKER_00: For I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but to do the will of him who sent me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
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  SPEAKER_00: For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son of God and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have a Bible and you can mark it, underline it, highlight it, highlight these words.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the bread of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the way, this whole chapter is about food.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: But this whole chapter is not about food.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you get that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Bread is used as a metaphor throughout chapter six to point people to Jesus himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: The food that Jesus is talking about in this entire passage refers to a person, not a substance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not in and out.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And notice what he says.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, I am the bread of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: Bread of life.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Here's what it means.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: You can write this down.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: It means bread that provides life.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: Or you could say, bread that provides eternal life.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: I, Jesus said, am the bread that provides eternal life for you.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: Think about bread.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like there's something so satisfying.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: Not bread in America.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: We all get sick and bloated and all the things eating bread in America.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: But if you go and eat bread in any other country where they don't allow all the bad ingredients like we allow in our food supply system, like let's say you go to Europe or you go to Israel and you eat bread, it's so good.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: You won't have any weird reactions, you won't get bloated, you won't feel bad, it doesn't have stripped, bleached, refined grains, like it doesn't have chemicals put in it.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's just like real bread.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have a truckload of gluten, it's like real bread.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's so good.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: Think about food.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's there's something so satisfying about eating a good, healthy, life-giving meal.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: What did Jesus is saying when he says bread of life?
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: He's saying this.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: I alone can satisfy the deepest longings of the human soul.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: Will you listen to that this morning?
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: For you when Jesus said bread that provides eternal life, I alone can satisfy the deepest longings of the human soul.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: The great theologian Augustine said, You have made us for yourself, O Lord.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: And our heart is restless until it finds its rest in you.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: They're focused on the food.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is focused on the deeper longings of the human soul and things he could do for them that they could not do for themselves.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: And that's a beautiful statement, bread of life, but a more impacting statement is the first part of that clause, that phrase.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: I am.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, what does that mean, Wesley?
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: Why is that so significant?
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad you asked.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: Let me explain.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: In the original language, it's ego, I me.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: You don't need I, ego, in the statement there, because I mean, embedded in that statement is the subject already, which would mean I am.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, Jesus says, I, I am.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's the most emphatic way to tell people something so definitively declarative about his identity.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: When Jesus says, he just could have said, I mean, which is a state of being verb, it means I am.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: First person, I am.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, he says, Ego I mean, I am.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: What does that hearken back to?
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: It harkens back to Exodus chapter 3, verse 14.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: When Moses was called by God to return to Egypt out of the desert of Midian, and God said, I'm going to use you to redeem my people, my two million people, from oppression in Egypt.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: And Moses asked God a question that has reverberated through history.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, What is his name?
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: Then what shall I tell them?
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: God said to Moses, I am who I am.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: I am, I am.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: Exodus 3.14.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's not Greek.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's Hebrew.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: Hayah.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's great, right?
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: Karate.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: But it's Hebrew.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: I am who I am.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: That is what you say to the Israelites.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: I am, Hayah has sent me to you.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: God also said to Moses, say to the Israelites, the Lord, the Lord.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: Capital L-O-R-D, Yahweh, Y-H-W-H, a word directly connected to the Hebrew verb Hayah, same thing.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: The God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob has sent me to you.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: This is my name forever.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: The name you shall call me from generation to generation.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: Who is saying that?
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: God.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: This is my name forever.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's so interesting when God says, I am the Lord, both of those are connected terms in the Hebrew language.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have time to get into that, nor do you want to get into that nuance.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a Bible nerd.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: I studied six years of biblical languages, but we won't get into that.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: It was such an honorable name that the Hebrew people wouldn't even say it.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, they substituted, instead of saying Y-H-W-H, Yahweh, instead of saying that, because they honored the name of God, they would say Adonai, capital L, lowercase O R D.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: Or they would say Hashem, the name.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: Hashem, the name.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: They wouldn't even say the name Yahweh.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's how important this name is.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: So Jesus comes on the scene.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: Check this out.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: Stay with me, you guys with me?
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus comes on the scene.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: A Jewish audience, and he says to them, for the first time, he says, I am the bread of life.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: This was shocking to them.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: This is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew name of God that they wouldn't even say because they so honored and respected it.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: Anybody who would say that they are the I am was either God or a blasphemer that they would throw rocks at and try to kill.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus says, I am God.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, some people say, well, never in the New Testament does Jesus say, I am God, or does it say Jesus is God?
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, that's not true.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: Many times it says Jesus is God, and it uses the term Elohim, God.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: But that term God in the ancient world to the people of God was not the most important name for God.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: The most important name for God.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: If you were good really to declare that you were deity in the ancient world, you would use this name.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: And this is the name that Jesus uses.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: And after he uses this name, he's saying, I am the bread, I am God, and I am the one who provides eternal life for you.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: Then he makes three definitive promises to all who believe in him as the great I am, as God in the flesh, in verses 35 through 40.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: Check this out.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: He says, He who comes to me will never hunger.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: You ever hunger?
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's one of the core needs of human beings, right?
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: You wake up, you're hungry.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: You do a workout, you're hungry.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: You go to work all day and you come home, you're hungry.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: You're always feeling that hunger.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's one of the most important core needs of human life.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: Whoever comes to me shall never hunger.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: Then, second, he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: Thirst, one of the core needs of human life.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: You go outside in the city of Davis for 10 minutes in the summer, you're thirsty.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: You want some water, hopefully, water.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: Some of my friends they just drink diet coke, Coke Zero, Diet Pepsi.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, this is gonna kill you someday, but nevertheless, water's better for you.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: Then, number three, he who comes to me, I will never drive away.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: Hunger, thirst, security.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: One of the core needs of human life, security, relational security.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: I will never drive away.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: You will have eternal life with me forever.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_00: This is pretty amazing, isn't it?
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: Notice how they respond.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: Verse 41.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna cruise in a minute.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: Verse 41.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like we're doing good already.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: Verse 41.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: At this, the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, I am the bread.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_00: See, that was important.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: I am the bread that came down from heaven.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: He's claiming to be divinity, divine origin.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: They said to him, Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: How can he now say, I came down from heaven?
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: The crowds begin to grumble about Jesus' claim that he came down from heaven and also that he said, Ago I mean, I am.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: This is a big, big deal.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_00: You'll see later in the Gospel of John when the religious leaders are before Jesus and he used this statement.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, this is one of seven I am statements, the first of seven I am statements in the Gospel of John.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: When he uses it another time, in chapter seven, they want to kill him because they know what he's saying.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: But he says all this, amazing words, and they grumble.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_00: They complain.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: They grumble.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: Humans like to grumble, don't we?
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: Can I give us a kind reminder that your grumbling is a product of the fall, not the way of Jesus?
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, let me just read you a few verses.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: 1 Corinthians 10, verse 10.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: Do not grumble.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, that's pretty clear to me.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_00: Lord, forgive me for my grumbling.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: And then notice what Jesus said in John 6, verse 43, as he responds to this.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: Look what he says.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: Stop grumbling amongst yourselves.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_00: When you're in a group of people, Christians, and everybody's grumbling, just quote what Jesus says.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: Memorize this verse.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: John 6.43.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: You're around a group.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: Grumble, grumble, grumble, grumble, complain, complain, grumble, grumble.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: Just say, hey, let's open up to John 6.43.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: Stop grumbling amongst yourselves.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's not the way of Jesus.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: Has anything good in your soul or in the souls of other people?
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: Has anything good resulted from your grumbling?
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_00: Ever.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: But we do it.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: It becomes a habit in our life.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: We think it's gonna help us.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna grumble all day long about this situation.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna grumble about Wesley.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna grumble about that dinner.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna grumble about my kids.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever it may be.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: It is producing nothing good in your soul or the souls of people around you.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: Can I get an amen?
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_00: So Jesus says, stop grumbling.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: Then he replies to them.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_00: Verses 43 through 51, another response.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's almost over, but not quite.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus answered, No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: This is divine illumination.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: It is the Father who draws people to Jesus.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I will raise them up at the last day.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: It is written in the prophets, they will be taught by God.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: Only he has seen the Father.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: Divine origin.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus was with the Father in heaven, right?
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: And only He can speak in a definitive way because He's from heaven.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_00: Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: I am the bread of life.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: Circle that.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: Highlight that again.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's a great line.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: This is awesome, Jesus.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: Your ancestors ate the manna, the bread in the wilderness, yet they died.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: Divine descent, I'm the living bread, come down from heaven.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: Divine life, he who eats this bread will live forever.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: And then he says, I'm the living bread that came down from heaven.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: Whoever eats this bread will live forever.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_00: The bread is my flesh, which I give for the life of the world.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: Divine death.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: This bread is my flesh.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: Now, that's gonna bring some controversy.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just preparing you.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_00: Look at verse 52.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: The Jews start debating after that.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus like divine illumination, origin, descent, life, death.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: Verse 52.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: It gets a little hostile here.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_00: The conversation goes from casual, how did you get here?
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: When did you get here?
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: To now, like, oh, he just said what?
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: And there's an intensity, a bitterness, a clash, a severity to what they just heard Jesus say.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: And then Jesus says these words.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: Are you are you with me?
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_00: Listen to these words.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus said to them, Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will have no life in you.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: What did you say, Jesus?
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood is eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_00: For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_00: Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them, just as the living Father sent me, I live because of the Father.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_00: So the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_00: This is the bread that came down from heaven.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_00: Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_00: He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: What in the world does all that mean?
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: There's a book, Hard Sayings in the Bible.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's like this thick.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: I would say at the top of the list of hard sayings in the Bible is this saying of Jesus.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't make it any easier for them, he made it a little harder.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_00: What does it mean to eat Jesus' flesh and drink Jesus' blood and whoever feeds on this bread will live forever?
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to remember something.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_00: This is so important as a student of the Bible, or maybe you're not a student of the Bible, but listen to this carefully.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_00: Remember that Jesus has been speaking in metaphor.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_00: And he continues to use figures of speech to teach spiritual truth in this conversation.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_00: That is really important.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_00: To take these statements in verses 53 through 59 literally is a major, what we would call in the biblical scholarship world, a major hermeneutical error that disregards the literary genre and the linguistic elements of this passage.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, what does all that mean?
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_00: It means he is not talking about literal body and blood here.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is talking about his death on the cross.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I want to help you to understand this because some people read this passage and take this to mean communion, the Lord's Supper.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: I want to give you six reasons why this is not referring to communion.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: I think this is really, really important.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: This is a reference to the death of Jesus on the cross, where his literal body and his literal blood would be pinned to the tree of Calvary and poured out for the forgiveness of sins.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: Six reasons why this is referring to the cross and not communion.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, this is really important.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: Six reasons why.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, the Lord's Supper, when Jesus instituted communion, took place one year after this conversation.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't even in the vicinity of that moment that Jesus said these words.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_00: It was a long time after that Jesus would talk about communion far later than this conversation.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, in the preceding chapters, including chapter six, Jesus has been using food and water, eating and drinking as figures of speech, not literal instructions.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_00: That is so important.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: When you read the Bible, take the Bible literally, but remember it's written in literature.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_00: There are metaphors and similes and images and figures of speech, and all of those are conveying truth.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: All of us speak in that type of language.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_00: You don't say everything you say literally.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: When you go up to somebody and you say, hello, that's literal.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_00: When you go up to somebody and say, what's up, like you're not really saying what's up, you're like saying hello.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like all of us speak in this type of language every day.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: But when it comes to the Bible, somehow we're like, wait, we don't see the Bible that way.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_00: But that is missing real human communication, which is full of genre and nuance, of which Jesus is using to teach spiritual truth.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_00: Number three, eating and drinking refer to faith in Jesus as a means of return receiving eternal life, not taking communion.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_00: If the opposite were true, if it was communion here, one would need to partake in communion to receive eternal life.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_00: Which would directly contradict verse 29 of this passage, which says, here's one thing you need to do.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_00: Believe in Jesus to receive eternal life.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_00: And it would contradict the gospel of grace itself.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_00: There is no activity we need to do to receive eternal life.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, are you guys paying attention?
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_00: This is a big deal.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_00: So eating and drinking at the end of this section refer to believing in Jesus' death on the cross for the forgiveness of sin to receive eternal life.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_00: Fourth, this is really significant.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe the most definitive reason why this is not literal.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_00: Fourth, drinking blood was explicitly forbidden in the Old Testament.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_00: Explicitly, Genesis 9.4, Leviticus 3.17, Deuteronomy 12 verse 23.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_00: This is explicitly forbidden in the Old Testament.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_00: So there's no way that Jesus, the God, who came down from heaven, the I am, is contradicting himself between the Old Testament statement that this is forbidden for very important reasons, and then he's saying, I literally want you to drink my blood.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_00: There's no way that he's saying that.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_00: Number five, eating someone's flesh in the Old Testament was a common expression of hostility.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: This would be something that people would say as an expression of hostility in the Old Testament.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_00: You can see it in Psalm 27 and Zechariah chapter 1.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so Jesus is not saying that you're going to literally eat my flesh or literally drink my blood, because these would be a contradiction to Old Testament text.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_00: And then finally, and I think most definitively, amongst all those other things, the term flesh is never used in the New Testament to refer to communion.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_00: The term that Jesus used here, the term flesh, never used in the New Testament to refer to communion.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I would argue and humbly submit to you that Jesus is not talking about literally drinking his blood and eating his flesh or talking about communion.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: He's talking about the cross.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_00: He's using language and genre and metaphor and figures of speech to teach spiritual truth to us to say, believe in Jesus and your soul will be satisfied.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_00: And believe in Jesus, and you will receive eternal life.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_00: Because I, my flesh, my body, my blood was sacrificed for you on the cross.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_00: I am the bread that brings eternal life.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_00: It was my body and my blood that provides for you the opportunity to have eternal life.