Lesson Time From Jesus John 6

I said, Lord, you might as well take me to heaven right now. I can't do this. There's no way I can live like a good Christian. I'll just make a mess of it. Do yourself a favor myself and kill me right now. I'm too weak. I'm too immature. Let's just take care of it right now. But this verse tells me a different story that Jesus is not gonna let that happen to any of us. Jesus said that he had come to do the will of the father. What was the will of the father that none of us who have come to him will be cast out or lost? And even better than that, that heaven and ever everlasting life is guaranteed. [01:25:20] (41 seconds)  #JesusSecuresUs

And Jesus explained that salvation involves both divine sovereignty and human responsibility. That the father will give men and women to the son, but this is a big but. These same men and women must come to Jesus, and they must believe in him and on his gift of salvation. But what such words of comfort that those of us who would make that choice and come to him, that we can never be lost even more that we will be raised up with him on that last day that even death cannot rob us of our salvation. I distinctly remember when I first became a Christian, came to faith in my lord, and I started reading the bible and what I'm supposed to be as a Christian, and I looked at that and said, no way. [01:24:21] (56 seconds)  #BelieveAndBeSaved

This world is dying. This world is dying. That second law of thermodynamics is rampant in the hearts, in our society, in our cultures. But he who comes from heaven has come to give life to this world. Bit by bit, Jesus is trying to get us to see beyond the physical, beyond bread that feeds our physical bodies. But he's saying there's a bread. There's food from the god that's not made for the stomach, but it's made for your souls. Not one that gives you temporary life to the human body, but one that will give you eternal life. He's trying to move them from the what to the he, to the who, the person. And he's speaking to them something that's infinitely greater than that manna that your fathers had. [01:17:56] (56 seconds)  #BreadOfLife

It says when everyone was filled, Jesus told the apostles, gather up all the fragments, all the crumbs. None was left to be wasted or thrown away. And I was like one of those crumbs and one of those fragments, one crummy little Christian. And God was not gonna throw me away even though I mess up and fall away at times, but he wants to gather me up. And I I love that second song we sang this morning. I probably sing it too much, but I love it. It says, oh, no. He'll never let go. Oh, no. He'll never let go. And that is the truth from the word of God. Amen? [01:27:01] (45 seconds)  #NeverLetGo

And Jesus' answer was always the same. It's not about doing. It's about being being a believer. Jesus answered and said, this is the work of God that you believe in him whom he sent. Jesus in every case was speaking to this very religious people bound by the laws, not only just the old testament, but the Pharisees had poured so much else upon them. The 613 dos and don'ts and this and that, and you gotta wear the right clothes. You gotta do you gotta get and you gotta and then they I'll never make it to heaven. There's too much dos and don'ts. It made it impossible to live a life ever pleasing to God. [01:02:52] (46 seconds)  #FaithNotRules

Well, that Greek word where we get our English word for believe is to stay on, and it means something more than just a strong hope or something. It's about knowing that we're completely persuaded and confident that something is true. We have a relative in our family, and I won't name him because I don't think I'm supposed to because of what he does for a living, but he's probably had over 200 jumps out of perfectly good airplanes. I don't know what's wrong with him, but he keeps doing it. But he would not even think about jumping out of the airplane if he had any doubt that that parachute would not open. [01:09:48] (38 seconds)  #BeliefLikeParachute

As a child, I loved it when our folks would take us to a a fair or we'd go to the state fair or maybe even at a ballgame, and there was that guy walking around with cotton candy. And, man, I love cotton candy. That that's so healthy for you. That big blue bit of cotton candy, and I'd always get some, and it tasted so good, so sweet. And as soon as I put it in my mouth, it disappeared. It just melted. There's no substance to it. Was gone in seconds. It was so sweet. It was so good. And it's so like what's in this world. Whatever we would find in this world, whoever we're chasing after for self satisfaction, whatever we're looking for to it's cotton candy. [00:57:06] (51 seconds)  #FleetingPleasures

And whenever someone would come to you and seeks and finds a Christian, someone who claims to be a believer, a follower, a a disciple of Jesus Christ, I think every time they should be able to find Jesus there with them, not physically, but Jesus in the way we comport ourselves or the way we talk, the way our speech and actions are. They were looking for Jesus, and they went to find the disciples because they knew Jesus would be with them. But when people come around us, will they find Jesus in us? [00:52:17] (41 seconds)  #LiveLikeJesus