Pastor is gone. He will be here next week, and he will be finishing up John chapter six. We've been in John six for quite a while, and it is such a great passage, and it's very paramount to our faith. And so we're going to be diving into some deep stuff this morning. Not sure if I'm the guy qualified to do this, but the lectionary fell on this week, so here we are.
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So we will be wading through together as a church. All right? So turn with me to John chapter six. And when you get there, please stand for the gospel reading. We're gonna be going through 51 through 58.
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Get there myself here. This is the word of God, Jesus speaking. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
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The Jews then dispute it among themselves, saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? So Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him, as the living father sent me.
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And I live because of the father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word.
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Some of the passages are pretty tough. It was pretty tough for the Jews back then, and it's tough for us today. Some of your passages, Lord. So I pray that you would give us ears to hear, eyes to see, Lord, and that then we would leave this place ready to act on your behalf. We ask this in the name of Jesus.
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Amen. You may be seated. Whew, man, did any that sort of rub you the wrong way a little bit? I mean, that's some strong language. What if somebody that we know said, hey, if you don't eat my flesh and drink my blood, you ain't got no part of it.
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You don't have life in you. You're like, that guy's crazy. And so let's dive into this. Now, the Bible talks a lot about bread, and we're going to sort of go through this a little insight into the dag family. We always like to play dag trivia at the house, where I'll bring up some historical thing and ask the kids, hey, what is this?
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Or whatever. Well, they all know that casts rates restaurants based off their bread. So it's not the quality of the steak. It doesn't matter the steak. It doesn't matter the salmon or the pork chop.
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She doesn't care about that. That isn't dessert we leave there. And she's like, man, that was a great restaurant. Was it? That bread was so good.
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And you're just like, I mean, the bread was free, you know, that steak was a lot of money, dude. And, like, you're focusing on that bread, like, wow. But that's just some insight into the dag family. So y'all get a part of dag trivia, and she rates restaurants by bread. Well, the Bible thinks a lot about bread as well.
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And so if you remember a youth in the nineties or you remember that, you remember these Bible drills. Does anybody remember this? The Bible drills? Yeah. Where you have a competition, they would say Ephesians, chapter four, verse one.
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And you'd have to. Or you had to go, you know, Hosea? And you're like, oh, boy, that was a tough one, you know? And so we're gonna do a little bit of a Bible drill this morning. So if you have your Bible and you want to follow along, let's do it.
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