WEBVTT 00:00.217 --> 00:07.271 [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning, everyone, how are you, how are you, good, good. 00:07.912 --> 00:12.722 [SPEAKER_00]: As I was driving in the car, if I haven't met my name's EG, I'm seeing a lot of new faces here. 00:13.484 --> 00:21.600 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm usually down at our Frankston location for the last little bit, she come visit some day, the Lord's doing awesome stuff down there. 00:21.952 --> 00:33.227 [SPEAKER_00]: But as we're in the car driving up today with the family, I was talking to my eldest son, Mac, I said, Mac, you know, if there's one thing you think God would want to say to this church today, what do you think you'd want to say? 00:34.228 --> 00:35.370 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said that he loves them. 00:40.757 --> 00:45.483 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Lord's been doing some work in my life for last probably three weeks. 00:46.545 --> 00:48.988 [SPEAKER_00]: And I feel this morning, 00:50.150 --> 00:53.816 [SPEAKER_00]: the spirit of the God once, spirit of God once, the lavish He's love on you. 00:55.077 --> 00:57.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Reminds you that your sons and daughters of the most high God. 00:59.264 --> 01:00.866 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's a lot of people in this room. 01:01.707 --> 01:03.290 [SPEAKER_00]: I know I've been in church for whole life. 01:03.310 --> 01:09.339 [SPEAKER_00]: You come to church, you do church, you're in a group, you serve on a team, like all of that stuff is awesome stuff. 01:10.381 --> 01:17.912 [SPEAKER_00]: But you're operating in your faith out of a works rather than who you are and who God created you to be, which is a son and daughter of the most high God. 01:20.238 --> 01:37.150 [SPEAKER_00]: And I had a word as a couple days ago as I was praying into this, and I'm going to get into the word in a second, but I had a word for someone in this room, I just got a sense that there's someone who came to church today, excuse me what I cry, I'm a cry, these are good tears, okay? 01:39.037 --> 01:50.997 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just got a sense that someone in this room today believe it's just one person could be more I'm not sure, but they're walking in the room today and they had a deal with God this morning and they said, I'm giving God one more shot today. 01:53.041 --> 01:58.049 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what's gone on your well brokenness hurt, sorrow, pain, maybe you've had a loss of a love one. 01:58.089 --> 02:05.061 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what the story is, but the pain that you're feeling is leading you to lose faith in God. 02:06.003 --> 02:11.836 [SPEAKER_00]: And I believe the Lord gave me this word because he wants you to know today that he sees you. 02:12.577 --> 02:17.368 [SPEAKER_00]: He knows you, he's with you, he's not as far away as what you think he is. 02:18.952 --> 02:20.535 [SPEAKER_00]: Spirit of God, come on this place. 02:22.962 --> 02:52.311 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the pains and the brokenness and the journey that this person's walking through Lord and what we pray right now, we speak the name of Jesus, one of his names of God, Elroy the God who sees, he sees your pain, he sees your struggle, he sees your restful with him and he knows and he loves you. 02:53.337 --> 02:54.579 [SPEAKER_00]: in their spirit and their soul. 02:56.483 --> 02:59.469 [SPEAKER_00]: We pray all these things in Jesus' name. 02:59.489 --> 03:04.459 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's said, hey, man, thank you Josh, thank you, legend. 03:06.382 --> 03:07.344 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh. 03:07.364 --> 03:08.747 [SPEAKER_00]: How are we all going this morning? 03:10.280 --> 03:15.471 [SPEAKER_00]: Good, I'm sorry I'm on this like emotional rollercoaster around's like, what is he doing this morning? 03:17.977 --> 03:19.440 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me give you an update on Frankston. 03:20.362 --> 03:23.268 [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's the church has been open for what? 03:23.689 --> 03:26.736 [SPEAKER_00]: 7-8 months now since relaunch. 03:26.716 --> 03:43.011 [SPEAKER_00]: which started originally as Frank Sinchurch of Christ with a bunch of, can I tell you just beautifully faithful followers of Jesus who'd followed them for a long time, but, you know, their own admission had lost the energy to keep doing it all the time. 03:44.212 --> 03:56.503 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we've come alongside and journeyed with and walking with these people and, you know, what was, you know, I think a community of like 40 to 50, you know, 03:57.007 --> 04:03.837 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, last Sunday we had 110 adults with 16 children at Frankston. 04:09.426 --> 04:11.169 [SPEAKER_00]: I believe there's a harvest coming at Frankston. 04:11.209 --> 04:16.737 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not just like double what we're seeing right now, but threefold, 100 fold. 04:17.695 --> 04:25.348 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, I'm telling you, if you can pray and pray and pray for the region of Franks, then there are so many people looking for Jesus and so. 04:25.748 --> 04:28.473 [SPEAKER_00]: I know lots of you are praying for me and for staff. 04:28.613 --> 04:36.666 [SPEAKER_00]: Can we please just like, I don't know even enough steps in the room, but can we just honest staff who's been like supporting me and journeying with me? 04:39.194 --> 04:49.050 [SPEAKER_00]: And on that note, every mom and dad in the parents room right now, that is like, I know these times in church are so hard. 04:49.491 --> 04:59.667 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you got little ones and you're trying to figure it out and you're doing bottles and you're doing feeding and you're doing that piece and you know, like it's hard to keep the fire alive. 04:59.647 --> 05:01.430 [SPEAKER_00]: in your soul and your spirit, man. 05:01.971 --> 05:06.340 [SPEAKER_00]: Can I tell you the work that you were doing right now is so important to the kingdom of God. 05:06.420 --> 05:07.742 [SPEAKER_00]: God sees it, he knows it. 05:08.103 --> 05:09.065 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm believing right now. 05:09.105 --> 05:12.792 [SPEAKER_00]: Even as you're out there in that parent's room, the spirit of God's gonna come on that room, not now. 05:13.393 --> 05:14.635 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's gonna begin to fuel you. 05:14.755 --> 05:15.597 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 05:16.150 --> 05:17.051 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen and amen. 05:17.332 --> 05:17.632 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 05:18.173 --> 05:19.274 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's get into the Word of God. 05:19.314 --> 05:20.796 [SPEAKER_00]: Who's excited to open the Word of God? 05:21.938 --> 05:22.419 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's go. 05:22.459 --> 05:25.943 [SPEAKER_00]: We are going to open our scriptures to John 6. 05:27.165 --> 05:30.329 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse 53. 05:30.910 --> 05:35.657 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse 53. Who's loving this Jesus' Lord series in the life of our church? 05:36.097 --> 05:36.758 [SPEAKER_00]: I am. 05:37.801 --> 05:54.196 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, my eyes have been open to the gospel of John in a whole new way, in a whole brand-new sense, and as I was approaching this text today to bring you a word, I was so overcome with God and what he wanted to speak through this word. 05:54.356 --> 06:07.808 [SPEAKER_00]: And before we actually get to the text itself, I'd love to just unpack a bit of the context of where we enter into our text because it's quite a large chunk 06:07.788 --> 06:31.062 [SPEAKER_00]: And I must say, I've heard messages preach from many parts of this text, but I think when we understand the full context, I know sometimes we can read something and we can get a little jam and a bit of goal that helps us in our faith, but I think sometimes when we understand the full context, it gives us a larger picture of what God is doing and what Jesus is trying to teach his people. 06:31.801 --> 06:35.167 [SPEAKER_00]: And so before we get to our text, so I want to give us a bit of context, how much time we've got. 06:35.187 --> 06:36.910 [SPEAKER_00]: We're doing all right, okay. 06:36.930 --> 06:40.116 [SPEAKER_00]: But a context on what is happening here now. 06:40.176 --> 06:41.758 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to follow along. 06:41.778 --> 06:47.689 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to give you a couple of dot points to just frame your mind, give you a picture of where we're at, as we answer into the text. 06:47.729 --> 06:50.955 [SPEAKER_00]: Firstly, it is the time of Passover. 06:51.035 --> 06:56.965 [SPEAKER_00]: John wants to note at the start of this chapter that it is Passover. 06:57.704 --> 07:07.355 [SPEAKER_00]: So he is framing this in the context of probably Jewish believers who have a certain understanding and expectation of the time that they are in. 07:08.056 --> 07:10.999 [SPEAKER_00]: Passover reminds the people of God of the Exodus. 07:11.079 --> 07:16.446 [SPEAKER_00]: Passover reminds the people of Manor in the wilderness that reminds them of the Lamb. 07:16.486 --> 07:17.727 [SPEAKER_00]: It reminds them of blood. 07:17.787 --> 07:20.370 [SPEAKER_00]: It reminds them of deliverance. 07:21.380 --> 07:26.808 [SPEAKER_00]: So, Passover, that little, at you'll see at the start of the chapter as this was at the time of Passover. 07:26.828 --> 07:32.336 [SPEAKER_00]: That is not a insignificant detail, because John is trying to frame what people would have been thinking in this moment. 07:33.217 --> 07:44.653 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, this is at the time of Passover, and is at this moment that John gives an account of a story which is our first miracle we see in this passage, which is the feeding of the 5,000. 07:45.578 --> 08:03.027 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I've heard a lot of messages on the 5000, but this Passover and this feeding of the 5000 is not a insignificant link, it's bread, it's like, it's almost like Jesus is feeding these people just like Moses fed God's people in the wilderness. 08:03.828 --> 08:07.013 [SPEAKER_00]: So John is drawing a parallel here who's trying to make people think. 08:08.410 --> 08:16.395 [SPEAKER_00]: and people are beginning to see and think after this first miracle that this Jesus person, he's like Movers Moses. 08:17.118 --> 08:29.417 [SPEAKER_00]: He's like him, and the response that they want to do is make him king in, I don't have this on the slides, but just quickly in John 6, 1, 15, they said, perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king. 08:29.658 --> 08:32.182 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the people of Israel. 08:32.582 --> 08:34.946 [SPEAKER_00]: They were going to come and take him and make him king. 08:35.006 --> 08:40.054 [SPEAKER_00]: They wanted to make him rule of, they wanted to make him king over them, why because he fed them. 08:41.300 --> 08:48.150 [SPEAKER_00]: This guy's just like Moses, and when he perceive that, he withdrew to the mountain by himself. 08:48.190 --> 08:52.276 [SPEAKER_00]: Then, we enter into our second miracle, which is Jesus walking on the water. 08:53.518 --> 08:59.026 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what I'd say is probably a private miracle just through the disciples. 09:00.208 --> 09:07.138 [SPEAKER_00]: And as he walks out onto the water, there is actually fear that comes upon the disciples. 09:08.587 --> 09:14.115 [SPEAKER_00]: And he responds by saying, it is I do not be afraid. 09:14.235 --> 09:19.423 [SPEAKER_00]: It is I is a reference to the language that we all know in the Old Testament, I am. 09:20.725 --> 09:27.675 [SPEAKER_00]: He is revealing himself as the eternal, all powerful, always in existence, God. 09:29.528 --> 09:35.859 [SPEAKER_00]: So when any person, atheist, Muslim, whoever says, Jesus never revealed himself, yes, he did. 09:36.480 --> 09:36.740 [SPEAKER_00]: I am. 09:37.281 --> 09:38.944 [SPEAKER_00]: He's referencing himself as God. 09:38.964 --> 09:42.790 [SPEAKER_00]: He's putting him on a level playing field with the person who created. 09:44.593 --> 09:55.772 [SPEAKER_00]: Then after the, of the walking of the water, he, they actually land back on shore to find who, the crowd of people who were just fed by him in that 5000. 09:57.440 --> 10:01.449 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a hunger and they're chasing him, but what are they chasing him for? 10:01.489 --> 10:09.306 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus answered them, truly, truly I say to you, you are seeking me not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of lobes. 10:10.518 --> 10:19.108 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that enjoys their internal life, which the Son of Man will give to you for on Him God the Father has set His seal. 10:19.148 --> 10:24.554 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a moment here where Jesus is sort of rebuking this crowd that are coming and following Him. 10:25.014 --> 10:28.578 [SPEAKER_00]: They want more meals, they want another food, they want Jesus to perform another miracle. 10:28.899 --> 10:32.983 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, it's not, they respond, what's the work of God versus what's the work of man? 10:33.084 --> 10:38.770 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus answers, this is the work of God that you believe in Him who has sent. 10:38.750 --> 10:41.855 [SPEAKER_00]: We can misunderstand and go, well, that's not really a big deal. 10:42.075 --> 10:43.157 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a really big deal. 10:44.940 --> 10:53.193 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a massive deal in the text, because they're thinking Moses, righteousness by law, righteousness by doing. 10:53.854 --> 10:54.856 [SPEAKER_00]: He will feed us. 10:56.158 --> 10:59.143 [SPEAKER_00]: He will, you know, Moses is this whole picture. 10:59.443 --> 11:03.610 [SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus says, the work of man is belief. 11:05.378 --> 11:10.006 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not adhering to a set of structures and rules that are made. 11:11.609 --> 11:13.513 [SPEAKER_00]: It's actually just by belief now. 11:13.533 --> 11:14.314 [SPEAKER_00]: That offends them. 11:16.678 --> 11:20.144 [SPEAKER_00]: That offends them and they say, well, Moses fed us for 40 years. 11:20.205 --> 11:23.090 [SPEAKER_00]: You're only really fed us once every day. 11:23.130 --> 11:24.973 [SPEAKER_00]: Moses fed us. 11:26.894 --> 11:33.447 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus rebukes them again, now he would seemingly be to the Jewish people he is like distancing Moses. 11:34.109 --> 11:37.015 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, it wasn't Moses that fed you. 11:38.838 --> 11:43.688 [SPEAKER_00]: Just remember that it was my father in heaven who fed you. 11:45.997 --> 11:51.304 [SPEAKER_00]: And also, you got to understand that the bread that Moses gave you actually didn't bring life. 11:51.384 --> 11:52.406 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't true bread. 11:52.586 --> 11:57.032 [SPEAKER_00]: All of those people that you reflect on and you look at their miracle and you look at what the Lord did. 11:57.052 --> 11:59.375 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know where they are now? 11:59.816 --> 12:00.397 [SPEAKER_00]: The full died. 12:00.437 --> 12:08.528 [SPEAKER_00]: That blows up the situation right here and just before we get into our text. 12:09.976 --> 12:17.551 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to invite you all to just reflect, because some of us are still testifying about what God did back in a time before. 12:18.894 --> 12:23.183 [SPEAKER_00]: Relaying on the bread that you have fed years ago. 12:23.203 --> 12:31.039 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't mean to come, like I say this with all of them in the world, like, 12:31.947 --> 12:35.932 [SPEAKER_00]: I know this church has an amazing history and I'm not saying we don't honor that history. 12:35.972 --> 12:48.349 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying we don't, like thank the people we stand on the shoulders of people who've gone before us, but it's so easy for us to just want the bread that was given years ago and we live on it and live on it. 12:48.369 --> 12:54.457 [SPEAKER_00]: But you know something about the bread in the wilderness, they had to eat it that day and if they didn't eat it that day, it would rock. 12:55.418 --> 13:01.566 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's some followers of Jesus who were living on a testimony and something that happened 13:04.263 --> 13:06.426 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're saying, well, we just got to go back to revival. 13:06.486 --> 13:07.888 [SPEAKER_00]: It was revival in the 90s. 13:07.948 --> 13:09.330 [SPEAKER_00]: It was revival in the 80s. 13:09.390 --> 13:10.691 [SPEAKER_00]: It was revival in the 70s. 13:11.052 --> 13:15.157 [SPEAKER_00]: I was just at SE conference, which they've just had an outpouring of the spirit. 13:15.177 --> 13:16.719 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not even calling it revival. 13:17.060 --> 13:21.485 [SPEAKER_00]: But what I've realized about revival is that revival brings a certain fruit. 13:23.007 --> 13:24.509 [SPEAKER_00]: Revival brings something special. 13:24.629 --> 13:32.059 [SPEAKER_00]: And the thing about revival, which I understand, and I'm beginning to learn more about, revival does not make you want to go back to where it was. 13:33.642 --> 13:36.346 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the problem with believers. 13:36.546 --> 13:38.028 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to seek the miracle. 13:38.088 --> 13:39.590 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to seek the thing that happened. 13:39.610 --> 13:41.032 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to seek the healing. 13:41.052 --> 13:42.914 [SPEAKER_00]: We want to seek the move of God that happened. 13:43.415 --> 13:47.801 [SPEAKER_00]: Every true revival does not lead to wanting more miracles. 13:47.841 --> 13:49.203 [SPEAKER_00]: Can I tell you what it leads you to? 13:49.223 --> 13:51.966 [SPEAKER_00]: It leads you to wanting more of Jesus. 13:54.349 --> 14:00.157 [SPEAKER_00]: If you walk out of a miracle and you walk out of a move of God and your responses, I want to miracle. 14:00.197 --> 14:02.400 [SPEAKER_00]: Your heart is not in the right place. 14:02.752 --> 14:13.928 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're seeking another thing that God wants to manifest, if you're seeking bread, if you're seeking America, if you're seeking a healing, go, revival brings a hunger for the person of Jesus and Jesus alone. 14:13.968 --> 14:16.692 [SPEAKER_00]: Can I tell you, I saw Jesus move in a powerful way. 14:19.516 --> 14:24.663 [SPEAKER_00]: And I love being in this room, and I love being in Frankston, and I love preaching the word of God. 14:24.683 --> 14:27.527 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you that, but man, I want to taste them again. 14:28.807 --> 14:40.464 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray that a hunger in this church would begin to birth, a fire and a burning within our soul would begin to rise up, not for miracles, but for Jesus and Jesus alone. 14:41.726 --> 14:49.277 [SPEAKER_00]: And until we crucify our desire to see miracles in our own life, Jesus will not want to rest his presence on this place. 14:49.838 --> 14:54.124 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's not looking for people who seek his hand, but seek his face. 14:56.268 --> 14:57.970 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you seeking his hand today? 14:58.777 --> 15:00.701 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not saying don't bring your prayer request. 15:01.662 --> 15:04.147 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying don't bring the things that you're struggling with to God. 15:04.167 --> 15:12.302 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that at all, but what I'm telling you is that all of those signs that you are seeking point to someone. 15:15.207 --> 15:21.679 [SPEAKER_00]: So as we enter our text, first 53. 15:24.528 --> 15:32.850 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said to them, truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. 15:33.758 --> 15:47.434 [SPEAKER_00]: 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 for my flesh, my flesh is true, food and my blood is true, drink. 15:47.454 --> 15:54.563 [SPEAKER_00]: Whoever feeds on the flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him as the living father sent me, I live because of the father. 15:54.963 --> 15:58.528 [SPEAKER_00]: So whoever feeds on me, he will also live because of me. 15:58.588 --> 16:02.112 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the bread that came down from heaven. 16:02.092 --> 16:05.176 [SPEAKER_00]: not like the bread that your father's ate and died. 16:06.497 --> 16:09.100 [SPEAKER_00]: Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever. 16:09.221 --> 16:12.204 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said these things in the synagogue. 16:14.167 --> 16:15.969 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not a small detail there. 16:17.871 --> 16:19.473 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not speaking to unbelievers. 16:21.255 --> 16:26.842 [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't it funny when there's unbelievers in Scripture in the gospels when they cry out for God to move in their life? 16:26.862 --> 16:28.504 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus responds so quickly. 16:29.581 --> 16:36.552 [SPEAKER_00]: And then when it's the church crying out for a miracle, he rebuked some. 16:36.572 --> 16:38.155 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh. 16:38.175 --> 16:39.657 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there something we can learn in that today? 16:42.322 --> 16:43.423 [SPEAKER_00]: I just find that interesting. 16:46.608 --> 16:53.800 [SPEAKER_00]: When many of these disciples heard this first 60, they said, this is a hard saying, who can listen to it? 16:54.421 --> 17:01.813 [SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, do you take a fence at this? 17:01.853 --> 17:08.905 [SPEAKER_00]: The what if you were to see the Son of Man a sin to where He was before? 17:08.965 --> 17:19.483 [SPEAKER_00]: It is the Spirit who gives life, and the flesh is no help at all, but the words that I have spoken to you are Spirit and life, but there are some of you who do not believe. 17:20.543 --> 17:34.022 [SPEAKER_00]: For Jesus' new, from the beginning, who those were who did not believe and who it was that who would betray him and he said, this is why I've told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted to him by the Father. 17:37.167 --> 17:50.145 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse 66, after this, many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 17:53.095 --> 17:56.541 [SPEAKER_00]: Starts this whole dialogue and section by saying truly, truly. 17:56.602 --> 17:59.467 [SPEAKER_00]: Greek word, amen, amen. 18:00.108 --> 18:10.227 [SPEAKER_00]: Imperative, you can't get past this, you can't get around this, you can't circumvent this part, this is, you have to, this is a command, you have to take this as what I'm saying. 18:11.810 --> 18:15.998 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, he repeats this term and I know it makes us feel uncomfortable. 18:16.585 --> 18:19.569 [SPEAKER_00]: But you need to understand, this is why we need to understand the context of the pastor's. 18:19.589 --> 18:22.412 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, he, my flesh and drink my blood. 18:22.473 --> 18:24.175 [SPEAKER_00]: He repeats it three times. 18:26.498 --> 18:31.304 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, can I just, for the people, maybe in the room who are like, well, the idea is weird. 18:31.424 --> 18:35.730 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 18:35.750 --> 18:39.194 [SPEAKER_00]: What he's actually saying is not, like, be accountable. 18:39.334 --> 18:40.956 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not what he's saying, okay? 18:40.976 --> 18:42.198 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not saying that at all. 18:42.218 --> 18:44.601 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not trying to get people to, 18:46.859 --> 19:12.546 [SPEAKER_00]: They're in Passover time, and up Passover, what you understand is that there was a day of the year where they shed the blood of a lamb, and then they would take the blood of that lamb and they would put it on their door process as the judgment would pass over them that they would be free from judgment of their sins and then they would, and the meal, take part and take in the lamb and eat it. 19:13.522 --> 19:22.699 [SPEAKER_00]: So there was the sacrifice that protected them and then there was the partaking and intaking of the sacrifice. 19:24.763 --> 19:30.153 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is trying to point and say, what do you think Passover was all about? 19:30.193 --> 19:35.243 [SPEAKER_00]: Now this is a good Bible study tool. 19:36.134 --> 19:38.277 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why we can't do away with the Old Testament. 19:38.297 --> 19:43.825 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why we can't say, well, God's different in the Old Testament and the New Testament is like this better version that's much more easier to take. 19:44.146 --> 19:46.349 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, they're connected. 19:46.970 --> 19:51.657 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about your Bible, but my Old Testament and New Testament are like linked in the bond, and they're bond together. 19:53.119 --> 20:02.293 [SPEAKER_00]: But every time you see something in the Old Testament, you've got to ask yourself, is God really just trying to teach them how to sacrifice a land. 20:04.079 --> 20:08.764 [SPEAKER_00]: When he asks Noah to build a arc, is he really just trying to get people to learn how to make a boat? 20:10.886 --> 20:18.213 [SPEAKER_00]: When he gets them to camp in the wilderness and walk through the water, is he really just trying to give them instructions on camping? 20:18.293 --> 20:18.693 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 20:19.374 --> 20:22.497 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a bigger picture here that God is trying to reveal. 20:23.318 --> 20:31.065 [SPEAKER_00]: And if we're not careful as follow as of Jesus, we can miss the very clear thing that God is doing in our midst. 20:31.653 --> 20:32.073 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 20:32.374 --> 20:40.002 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we're so concerned with what happened in the past that we missed what God is doing right in front of our eyes. 20:42.805 --> 20:46.148 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you are praying for revival to come. 20:46.429 --> 20:48.471 [SPEAKER_00]: Can I tell you, it is here. 20:50.373 --> 20:52.155 [SPEAKER_00]: Why is revival here? 20:52.175 --> 20:56.039 [SPEAKER_00]: Can we stop talking about revival and start talking about Jesus? 20:56.900 --> 21:00.023 [SPEAKER_00]: Because where Jesus is, revival follows. 21:01.572 --> 21:04.317 [SPEAKER_00]: We can get so concerned with the move of God. 21:04.578 --> 21:06.462 [SPEAKER_00]: We miss the moment we're in right now. 21:06.782 --> 21:08.285 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is standing in front of us. 21:08.446 --> 21:16.341 [SPEAKER_00]: He's calling you and He's saying, the way you receive what you are looking for is if you hunger and thirst after me. 21:18.970 --> 21:32.693 [SPEAKER_00]: As Christians, as far as of Jesus, the people in this text, Passover became a ritual that they did, that they didn't even recognize when true bread and true drink and true living water was standing in front of them, they missed it. 21:36.198 --> 21:37.460 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the plight of the church. 21:39.965 --> 21:45.113 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, like I want God to move powerfully in our midst. 21:46.342 --> 21:53.902 [SPEAKER_00]: But if we don't have a change of mind that we need to pray God, pray to Him, pray that He will send revival. 21:54.203 --> 21:56.088 [SPEAKER_00]: He can send it right now. 21:57.412 --> 21:58.615 [SPEAKER_00]: Can I tell you what He's waiting on? 21:59.177 --> 22:02.325 [SPEAKER_00]: Your hunger and your thirst for Him. 22:04.364 --> 22:06.387 [SPEAKER_00]: He's saying, eat my flesh and drink my blood. 22:06.567 --> 22:08.269 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not saying, eat me and drink me. 22:08.309 --> 22:10.212 [SPEAKER_00]: He's saying, be hungry for me. 22:10.793 --> 22:12.095 [SPEAKER_00]: Be thirsty for me. 22:12.475 --> 22:17.542 [SPEAKER_00]: Chase after me because I and the only thing that can truly satisfy. 22:17.822 --> 22:28.397 [SPEAKER_00]: The miracle that happened in the past, it will rot and die and you won't be able to live on that and it will not sustain your face, but the person of Jesus will. 22:35.228 --> 22:52.759 [SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing, and I'm not unaware, but when that is the message that has preached, hunger for Jesus, thirst for Jesus, stop worrying about miracles. 22:54.822 --> 22:56.826 [SPEAKER_00]: The wrong response sometimes is what? 22:58.309 --> 22:59.110 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to follow him. 23:01.165 --> 23:03.489 [SPEAKER_00]: many disciples turned away. 23:03.810 --> 23:07.716 [SPEAKER_00]: You may be sitting in this room right now and you're going, Zik, you're offending me. 23:08.978 --> 23:11.302 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just teaching what the scripture teaches. 23:12.625 --> 23:17.613 [SPEAKER_00]: And your response is what the disciples, some of his disciples responded like. 23:18.996 --> 23:26.228 [SPEAKER_00]: If it's just about chasing after Jesus and hungry and thirsting after Him and there's no promise of America and there's no promise of this, 23:27.575 --> 23:35.522 [SPEAKER_00]: thing that I've been struggling with disappearing, there's no promise of the healing that I've been seeking more going away than you know, I actually, I don't want this anymore. 23:39.646 --> 23:43.089 [SPEAKER_00]: You know Paul speaks about a thorn and he's sired that he can't get rid of. 23:46.152 --> 23:54.460 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think because we think that, you know, healing is available that we think that it's always God's will for that to happen. 23:56.245 --> 23:58.829 [SPEAKER_00]: Can I tell you, I've had a shift in my heart? 24:01.393 --> 24:10.667 [SPEAKER_00]: I think the pain and the sorrow and the hurt that we feel points us to a greater reality that maybe we will never feel on this earth. 24:13.872 --> 24:14.913 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a life beyond this. 24:14.953 --> 24:20.582 [SPEAKER_00]: We need to stop looking at our worldly things and have eternal eyes for what Jesus is trying to do in your life. 24:23.937 --> 24:28.664 [SPEAKER_00]: And this may offend you, but one thing I do love about this passages, there's groups of disciples. 24:28.724 --> 24:30.587 [SPEAKER_00]: Now this is a great thing to remember. 24:30.607 --> 24:35.254 [SPEAKER_00]: There's the 12 that he chose, that he followed, and they were close proximity to him. 24:35.274 --> 24:39.600 [SPEAKER_00]: But there was also many other disciples that were around him following him. 24:41.002 --> 24:46.570 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes Jesus is trying to sift the people who are hungry, sift the people who are thirsty. 24:47.410 --> 24:47.931 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what? 24:48.231 --> 24:56.482 [SPEAKER_00]: This is why this church has stood the test of time for so long because it didn't matter if there was 10 people in the room or 600 people in the room. 24:56.502 --> 25:02.129 [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't matter if there was like the best preacher in the world or just someone humbly giving their life to Jesus. 25:02.469 --> 25:03.330 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter. 25:04.111 --> 25:07.175 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter because God doesn't move where people gather. 25:07.195 --> 25:09.138 [SPEAKER_00]: He moves where people are hungry. 25:09.318 --> 25:12.422 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter if there's two or three or four or five. 25:14.174 --> 25:18.698 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's get over these church grotesque and comparing who's church is bigger than the other who cares. 25:22.562 --> 25:23.803 [SPEAKER_00]: Who's hungry in this room? 25:23.823 --> 25:25.305 [SPEAKER_00]: Who wants to see God in this room? 25:25.325 --> 25:28.688 [SPEAKER_00]: Who wants to go after him and chase after him in this room? 25:28.708 --> 25:32.892 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're here to just come and receive some sermons and you're on a journey, great, no problem. 25:32.912 --> 25:37.897 [SPEAKER_00]: But in this room, we go after the person of Jesus where hungry and thirsty for him. 25:37.917 --> 25:39.979 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's why we linger in worship. 25:40.415 --> 25:42.578 [SPEAKER_00]: Because at any moment, Jesus can reveal Himself. 25:43.500 --> 25:50.089 [SPEAKER_00]: And there might be a day in this room where the Spirit of God breaks out and because of your perception of how God moves, you miss it. 25:55.036 --> 25:58.301 [SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus then turns to His 12th. 25:58.321 --> 26:01.005 [SPEAKER_00]: And I love this question. 26:03.228 --> 26:03.989 [SPEAKER_00]: May I see 67? 26:05.732 --> 26:07.114 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to go away as well? 26:09.068 --> 26:12.412 [SPEAKER_00]: So speaking to these disciples over here, big crown. 26:12.852 --> 26:15.495 [SPEAKER_00]: And he tells him, is like, do you, are you offended by this teaching? 26:16.737 --> 26:18.058 [SPEAKER_00]: Because these are the words of eternal life. 26:18.078 --> 26:20.821 [SPEAKER_00]: If you can't get past this truly, truly amen, amen. 26:20.841 --> 26:24.586 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the pathway to seeing your life changed. 26:25.046 --> 26:28.030 [SPEAKER_00]: And receiving the gift that I have for you, many turn away. 26:28.310 --> 26:35.278 [SPEAKER_00]: He then turns to his disciples, just love that picture. 26:37.688 --> 26:40.232 [SPEAKER_00]: And he goes, do you want to go as well? 26:43.917 --> 26:53.071 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is probably, in my time reading the scriptures, you know, Peter often is a very speaks, very stupidly, and says very silly things. 26:53.151 --> 26:56.556 [SPEAKER_00]: But this is a moment where Peter says something amazing. 26:58.719 --> 27:04.067 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, long, Lord, to whom shall we go? 27:05.178 --> 27:16.970 [SPEAKER_00]: You have the words of eternal life and we have believed and come to know that you are the holy one of God. 27:21.174 --> 27:26.960 [SPEAKER_00]: Two miracles, two different groups of people, two different responses. 27:28.421 --> 27:34.948 [SPEAKER_00]: My invitation to you today is what's your response to Jesus. 27:39.535 --> 27:53.953 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you just stand with me this morning, what's your response today? 27:56.957 --> 27:57.558 [SPEAKER_00]: You want Jesus? 27:58.599 --> 27:58.919 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 28:02.504 --> 28:08.952 [SPEAKER_00]: I know the camp I'm standing in. 28:09.607 --> 28:17.498 [SPEAKER_00]: up and no eye closed, you got how I want Jesus to say. 28:17.538 --> 28:20.542 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's actually to be fair, there's no judgment if you're not in that spot yet. 28:23.285 --> 28:37.825 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying you all need to be like crazy about it all, but like, hey, if you want Jesus today, think the Lord's trying to redirect and just maybe there's some things that have to die within you so that 28:40.505 --> 28:44.812 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want the Lord to birth a hunger and a thirst for Jesus, just lift your hand today. 28:51.963 --> 28:56.089 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on. 28:56.109 --> 28:56.810 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what that means? 28:59.014 --> 29:00.797 [SPEAKER_00]: It means every Sunday we gather. 29:01.798 --> 29:03.361 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not just the routine. 29:04.643 --> 29:07.407 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not just the service we attend. 29:09.715 --> 29:11.196 [SPEAKER_00]: break that over your mind right now. 29:12.397 --> 29:14.159 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not just a good opportunity now. 29:14.219 --> 29:17.983 [SPEAKER_00]: I know we've got awesome kids programs and I know your kids got a lot of friends. 29:18.263 --> 29:23.268 [SPEAKER_00]: But this is not just for your kids to have a nice community to grow up with. 29:23.288 --> 29:35.319 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if your kids grow up in church and have a good environment that they're a part of, but don't meet the person of Jesus, I want Jesus. 29:37.100 --> 29:38.862 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to hunger and thirst, 29:40.343 --> 29:42.746 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want one people walk into this room. 29:43.888 --> 29:56.785 [SPEAKER_00]: Every Sunday, not for us to be complacent, coming in the spirit of religion and trying to just like make it all work and just we'll do our thing and then we'll go and we'll have coffee and then we'll go home, never changed. 29:56.845 --> 30:03.995 [SPEAKER_00]: Hungering and thirsting after Jesus. 30:04.015 --> 30:08.140 [SPEAKER_00]: So Lord, see your people responding to, 30:08.761 --> 30:10.764 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, would you break any complacency? 30:11.726 --> 30:15.251 [SPEAKER_00]: Any... Sethered things to the past, Lord. 30:15.311 --> 30:17.174 [SPEAKER_00]: We know you can move. 30:17.194 --> 30:19.397 [SPEAKER_00]: We know you can do powerful things, Lord. 30:19.457 --> 30:28.651 [SPEAKER_00]: We know you have moved in the past, and we thank you, and we honor you, and we bless you for what you've done in this church, but we have a simple cry today. 30:28.712 --> 30:30.454 [SPEAKER_00]: It is, do it again, Lord. 30:31.195 --> 30:32.818 [SPEAKER_00]: We wanna see you again, Lord. 30:33.198 --> 30:35.101 [SPEAKER_00]: We wanna experience you again, Lord. 30:35.121 --> 30:37.485 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you come and fill this place? 30:37.465 --> 30:39.472 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you come and feel each heart Lord? 30:39.874 --> 30:41.881 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you come and feel each soul Lord? 30:42.162 --> 30:46.497 [SPEAKER_00]: Would she begins a birth of hunger and a thirst for the things of God? 30:47.253 --> 30:58.024 [SPEAKER_00]: the Spirit and the Brides say, come, and so all who are thirsty come, and so all who desire to drink of the water of life, we say, come, it doesn't matter where you are on your journey. 30:58.284 --> 31:04.311 [SPEAKER_00]: We never graduate from hunger and thirst, and so Lord, we pray, would you burst something in this room this morning? 31:04.571 --> 31:06.593 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you light a fire in this room? 31:06.613 --> 31:09.035 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you light us a flame with your spirit? 31:09.055 --> 31:13.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Because we know when your spirit falls, our hunger and our thirst for Jesus grows. 31:13.900 --> 31:16.483 [SPEAKER_00]: So Lord, would you do something in our midst this morning? 31:20.615 --> 31:25.844 [SPEAKER_00]: And Lord this morning, we lift up a joyful noise and praise because you want us to worship you. 31:25.864 --> 31:30.872 [SPEAKER_00]: You desire us to lift our voice so Lord, rid us of all our shame that would hold us back, Lord. 31:31.152 --> 31:36.020 [SPEAKER_00]: Reduce of all the things that would stop us from being able to step fully into what you have for us and Lord. 31:36.321 --> 31:40.247 [SPEAKER_00]: We pray your spirit would fall in this place right now, for it's hunger and thirst. 31:40.608 --> 31:41.830 [SPEAKER_00]: In Jesus' name.