And the Bible reads, after these things,
Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee,
which is the Sea of Tiberias.
And a great multitude followed him
because they saw his miracles, which he did on them
that were deceased.
And Jesus went up into a mountain,
and there he sat with his disciples.
And a Passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
When Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw a great company,
come on to him, he saith unto Philip,
when shall we buy bread that these may eat?
And this he said to prove him, for he himself knew what he would do.
Philip answered him, 200 penny worth of bread is not sufficient for them.
That every one of them may take a little.
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, sayeth unto him,
there is a lad here which have five barley loaves and two small fishes.
But what are they amongst so many?
And Jesus said, make the men sit down.
There was much grass in place, so the man sat down in number about 5,000.
And Jesus took the loaves when he had given things he distributed to the disciples and
the disciples to them that were sat down and likewise of the fishes as many as they would.
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that
nothing be lost.
Therefore they gathered them together and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five
barley loaves which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
Then those men one day had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of the truth
This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force to make him a king,
he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
And when evil was now come, his disciples went down onto the sea,
and entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum.
And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
So when they had rode about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking
on the sea and drawing nigh unto the ship, and they were afraid.
But he saith unto them, It is I, be not afraid.
Then they willingly received him into the ship, and immediately the ship was at the
land where they went.
The day following when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there
was none other boat there, save the one wherein two of his disciples were entered, and that
Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away
How be it there came other boats from Tiberias,
Thine under the place where they ate bread.
After that, the Lord had given thanks.
When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there,
neither his disciples, they also took shipping,
and came to Capernaum seeking for Jesus.
When that found him on the other side of the sea,
they said unto him, Rabbi, when came thou hither?
Jesus answered them and said, Verily, Verily, I say unto you, ye seek me, not because ye
saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled.
Labor not for the meat which perjured, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting
life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you, for him hath God the Father sealed.
Then said they unto him, What shall we do that we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God that ye believe on him whom
he hath sent.
They said there, for unto him, what sign shall thou then
that we may see and believe thee?
What doest thou work?
Excuse me, what dost thou work?
Our fathers did eat man in the desert, as it is written.
He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Then Jesus sent unto them, verily, verily, I say unto you,
Moses gave you not that bread from heaven,
but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he which comeeth down from heaven
and giveth life unto the world.
Then say they unto him, Lord, ever more give us this bread.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger,
and he that believeth all me shall never thirst.
But I say unto you that ye also have seen me,
and believe not, all that the Father giveth me shall come
to me, and him that cometh to me I will know why he's cast out.
For I came down from heaven not to do my own will,
but the will of him that sent me.
And this is the Father, and this is the Father's will
which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me,
I should lose nothing, should raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone would seeeth the Son and believeeth
on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day."
The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which cometh down from
heaven.
And I said, It's not this Jesus, the Son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know.
How is it then he saith, I came down from heaven?
Jesus therefore answered and sent out to them, murmur not amongst yourselves.
No man come unto me except the Father which hath sent me, draw him, and I will raise him
It is written in the prophets, and that she will be all taught of God.
Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, come with unto me.
Not that any men hath seen the Father, save he which is of God.
He hath seen the Father.
Barely, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
I have that bread of life.
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
This is the bread which comeeth down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not
I'm delivering bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread
He shall live forever and the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world
The Jews therefore strove among themselves saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat?
And Jesus said unto him verily, verily I say unto you,
except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man,
and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Whosoe, eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
hath it eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
dwelleth in me, and I in him.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father,
so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
This is that bread which came down from heaven.
Not as your fathers did eat man and are dead.
He that eateth of this bread shall live forever."
These things said he in the synagogue
as he taught in Capernaum.
Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this,
said, this is in heart saying, who can hear it?
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it,
he said unto them, that this offend you.
What on earth shall see the Son of man
ascend up where he was before?
It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh prophetheth nothing.
The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
There are some of you that believe not, for Jesus knew from the beginning who they were
that believed not, and who should betray him.
And he said, therefore said I unto you that no man come unto me, except that we are given
unto him of my Father.
From that time, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.
Then said Jesus unto the twelve, will ye also go away?
And Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go?
Thou hast the words of eternal life.
And we believe that thou, excuse me,
and we believe in our sure that thou art that Christ,
the Son of the living God.
Jesus answered them, have not I chosen you twelve
and one of you is a devil?
He spake of Judas Iscariot, the Son of Simon.
For he it was that should betray him.
Being one of 12. Let's pray. Father God, we thank you to your Lord for the King James Bible
Thank you for every single precious soul in our church to your Lord and thank you for our pastor
Please bless him as he preaches your word in Jesus name. We pray amen
Okay, we're in John chapter 6 this evening.
We're continuing with our Bible study in the book of John.
And chapter 6 is a great chapter because of the fact that it's where we find the teaching
of Jesus Christ being the bread of life.
And if you remember at the very beginning of our study of the book of John, I mentioned
how there are some of the stories in the book of John where a particular miracle is coupled
with a specific teaching that Jesus does, right?
Jesus Christ turning the water into wine and how that wine essentially pictures
or should I say the transition from water into wine pictures Jesus Christ
transitioning Old Testament
to New Testament. We also have later on Jesus Christ giving sight to the blind, right? And
then he talks about the fact that he is the light of the world. In this particular chapter
we have Jesus Christ feeding the 5,000 and then of course he couples it with the teaching
that he is the bread of life. And so this is a very pivotal chapter here with a lot
of great doctrine. And unfortunately, you know, Catholics have hijacked this particular
Eucharist, and I'll get into that in just a bit, but let's go on and get into the stories here with the miracle of the fish and the
Loaves and then of course we have the miracle of Jesus Christ walking on water
When the disciples are in the boat and there's a great tempest and if you think about it, you know John chapter 6 these
Do these two stories here really fulfill
Psalm 23
Psalm 23 talks about how the Lord is our shepherd, I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, which is exactly what he does to the 5,000.
He has them sit down in green pastures to be fed.
And then he says he leadeth me beside still waters.
And of course the disciples are in the boat.
He stills the water and then he delivers them into the other side.
So, it's a great fulfillment of the shepherd in Psalm 23, but look at verse number one
here.
We're going to see the miracles of the fish and the loaves.
It says here in verse number one, after these things, Jesus went over the sea of Galilee,
which is the sea of Tiberias, and a great multitude followed him because they saw his
miracles, which he did on them that were diseased.
Now, one thing I want you to notice, and one thing you'll see throughout...
Our study the book of John is that you know Jesus Christ is very famous. He's very popular and a lot of people are following him
There's always a great multitude that are attracted to him. They come and listen to him preach
But it's not necessarily out of sincerity
Why? It's because of the fact that they're seeing the miracles.
Jesus Christ is healing people. He is ridding them of their diseases.
As we're going to see here, He multiplies the fish in the bread.
And so it's not necessarily a following that's really sincere. It's more so because of what Jesus Christ
can do for them on an earthly level, a carnal level, the fact that He can feed them and heal them.
That's why they're there.
And so we see here that a great multitude begins to follow him.
They see his miracles, which he did.
Look at verse three and Jesus went up into a mountain
and there he sat with his disciples
and the Passover, a feast of the Jews was nine.
Now this could essentially account for
why there's a multitude in the first place.
There's already a multitude.
coming to essentially observe the Passover,
and obviously there's a double meaning here
because they're coming to observe the Passover,
but without knowing they're essentially learning
at the hand of the Passover, which is Jesus Christ, right?
Verse number five says,
when Jesus then lifted up his eyes,
he saw a great company come unto him,
and he saved them to Philip,
when shall we buy bread that these may eat?
and this he said to prove him,
for he himself knew what he would do.
So obviously the Lord views the great multitudes before him.
And he recognizes that these people are following him and although some of them are insincere they're there for the wrong reasons
He's not just gonna let him starve
You know he wants to feed them and the Bible obviously refers to 5,000 being present, but it's referring to 5,000 men
So, you know the women and children not being mentioned here
So it's it's possible that it's up to if not more than 15,000 people who are currently there
Okay, it's not just 5,000 men, it's women and children.
The Bible's simply mentioning the men here.
And so this is a lot of mouths to feed, right?
And he goes to his disciples, he goes to Philip
and he's like, where are we gonna get bread
to feed all these people?
And obviously it's not because Jesus Christ
did not have the foreign knowledge
of what he was gonna do.
He's doing this to test Philip.
He's doing this to test the disciples
because he wants to see what they're gonna answer,
what they're gonna do.
Verse seven, Philip answered him,
200 penny worth of bread is not sufficient.
for them that every one of them may take a little now.
Obviously it's not 100% clear how much 200 penny worth is.
Some would say it's like six months worth of wages.
If we're to go with that interpretation,
it's like, man, that's still a lot of people.
It's a lot of money,
but still it's not enough to feed 15,000 people.
And so he says there, you know, it's not enough that people can just break off a little piece of fish and bread or just whatever we can buy to give to them is just insufficient.
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, say it's him, there is a lad here which has five barley loaves and two small fishes.
But what are they among so many?
So obviously, Andrew, he's thinking on a practical level,
look, we do have food here.
This guy, the only one who's prepared is this little kid.
He brought his Happy Meal with him or whatever,
and he's here to hear the preaching of God's word,
to see the miracles taking place.
But even if we're to take this kid's lunch,
it's just not enough to feed everyone, right?
What is this among so many?
And here is where we find the great principle
that little as much when God is in it, right?
That's where we get the song from.
Little as much when God is in it.
And often what this passage is teaching us is that,
you know, sometimes we feel like we're insufficient
or we have insufficient funds, our resources are insufficient,
our talents are insufficient.
Whatever we possess is just not enough
to make a difference, right?
But what we have to realize is that all we have to do is do what we can with what we have and God ends up making the difference
So even though there's only you know
Some fish too small fish five barley loaves enough to feed the lad and maybe a couple people
It's not enough for 15,000
You just got to be willing to give up those five loaves and the two small fish and God can multiply that he can make up the difference
And this is exactly what it's teaching here.
We'll get into more of the teaching here, the fulfillment of that, or how that applies to us.
Look at verse 10.
And Jesus said, make the men sit down.
Now, there is much grass in the place, so the men sat down in number about...
And Jesus took the loaves and when He had given things He distributed to the disciples
and the disciples to them that were set down and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
So obviously we see here that Jesus Christ ends up multiplying the loaves.
He multiplies the fish enough to be able to suffice the hunger of close to 15,000 people.
It's a great miracle that's accomplished here, right?
And even later on we see that there's so much bread left in fish
that everyone's filled up to the brim, they get their hunger satiated
but they're still even left over, right? Showing us the generosity of God.
And the principle that we can learn here is that God often simply requires
what we have, even if what we have in our eyes
is not enough, right?
And you think to yourself, man, you know,
how can I make a difference in this world?
How can I like help someone financially?
How can I help someone with my resources?
I don't have enough for this particular project.
I don't have enough of this particular need.
Well, give what you can
and God ends up making a difference.
He ends up multiplying the fish and the loaves.
But if we're to go delve a little deeper into this,
we can essentially picture this as being
soul owners, for example, right?
You know, the vast majority of churches in America
are not mega churches.
They're smaller churches.
The average church size in America
is about 60 to 70 people.
And although 60 to 70 people is enough,
we would think like, hey, that's a pretty good size.
Well, think about the work that needs to be done, though.
you know, and compared to 15,000 people,
so to speak, that need to be reached.
You know, 70 just doesn't seem enough,
but if those 70 are willing to put in the work,
put themselves out there, use the five loaves
and the two small fishes, God can multiply the efforts
and we can end up getting a lot of people saved.
Now, obviously our church is larger than 70 people.
We have a membership of about 200 or so.
But hold on a second, you say, well, 200 is a lot.
Yeah, but how about comparison to the United States of America,
How about in comparison to the world?
How about in comparison to Judea, Samaria, the uttermost
parts of the world, the responsibility
that we had to fulfill the Great Commission?
Excuse me, it may seem like it's not enough.
Not enough soul winners not enough laborers we need more laborers for the harvest
But really what we need is not to wait for more laborers
We just need to give the five loaves and the two small fishes and allow God to make up the difference, right?
And what we see here is that although God provided a miracle
He still needed the participation of the disciples to distribute the bread and the fish, right?
This is showing us that God can work supernatural miracles in our lives, but he does require our participation.
It's like, oh man, God can use our church to get so many people saved and see so many people come to church.
But if you're sitting on your rear end doing nothing, God's not going to provide that.
If you're not willing to, first and foremost, give up the five loaves and the two small fishes, for sure nothing's going to be multiplied.
But even if the five loaves and the two small fishes are willing to be offered if the disciples aren't willing to distribute it
Nothing's gonna take place right even if there is a miracle because think about this
You know Jesus Christ could have easily placed the loaves and the fishes into the pockets of the people
Right just as easy as he multiplied the food he could easily there's just like hey
I'm hungry. We'll eat the food you got there. What food? Oh, man
You know who's just like right there. It's just like just appears right in their hands or sitting their mouths or whatever, right?
But he did it he multiplied it and then he told his disciples now you go and distribute it to everyone else
And this is showing us that God requires our participation when it comes to the preaching
of the Gospel.
The Bible says that the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation, to everyone that believeth.
And we know that the Gospel is probably, not probably, it is the most miraculous thing
that this world will ever see, right?
The salvation of a lost person, the fact that they get their sins forgiven, they get eternal
life.
the salvation is at the end of the day it requires the participation of the
disciples to go out and actually preach it right and you may think to yourself
well you know someone else can do it though you know this this church is
just filled with soul owners they don't really need me I'm not that talented I
don't have it I only have two loaves I only have half a fish there's only so
much that I can do well just give what you can and God can multiply your
We should never have this attitude of well, I'm just not as eloquent as other people in this church
I don't know all the illustrations. I don't know enough verses. I'm just not as intelligent. I'm not a smart
I'm not a people person. I'm more of an introvert
I'm just not really good in public settings. Well, great. You're you're a perfect candidate
Forgot to multiply the fish and the loaves, right?
Because look, we don't even have the name of the lad.
Bro's name is lad in the Bible.
I had 15,000 people, and of course,
I'm kind of throwing that number out there.
The Bible says 5,000, and I'm just
kind of adding the women and the children.
But let's just say approximately 15,000 people,
the lad was among them, and we don't know who he is,
but I promise you, he probably was able to take
some of those baskets home though, right?
And the point that I'm making here is that God needs you.
Yes, God is all-powerful, he's omniscient, he's almighty.
Yes, he is essentially the one who saves,
but he can't do it without you.
Now, some people think that's blasphemous,
it's sacrilegious to say something like that,
but folks, the Bible requires a human vessel
to go out, open their mouths boldly
to make known the mysteries of the gospel.
That's a fact.
Because if that weren't the case then we could just sit down and let God just do all the work
But it won't happen, which is why he's commanding us to distribute the bread and the fish, right?
You know he could he could God could easily just save everyone if that's what he wanted to do
But that's not what he wants
He wants us to go out there and actually preach the gospel be filled with the spirit
Distribute the resources and actually do the work, right?
And so, you know, one principle that we can learn here
is that if you're praying for a miracle,
you better make sure you get up and do something
about it too though, right?
You're like, oh, I've just been praying for so long.
And let me use two extremes here, okay?
Like, oh man, I've been praying so long for a job
but I haven't even been looking for a job though, right?
That's, this is always in season
to preach something like this too, by the way.
You know, it's just like, oh man, I know God can provide a perfect job. I know he can provide for my needs
I know he can do it, but like have you filled out an application though?
Have you actually gone out there to look for work like no, I'm just praying
I'm just praying for for a you know a Christian boss
Nah, you're probably gonna get like a heathen boss and it's still God's will for your life
You know, it's just like oh man, I'm just looking for this unicorn job
You know where it's just the you know, he's a fundamental Baptist
The you know, he lets me go soul-inning at any time of the day
Any time of the week any day of the week everything's you know
I he could be in IV but as long as he's just using the Bible of some sort
You know, I'll make that exception or something that doesn't exist unless you're working for this church
You know what I mean, and then you have me as your boss or whatever. I'm not using the NFA, but you know
I'm your boss, you know, you're not gonna find a job like that
Okay
You're looking for a miracle actually look for the miracle
You know pray for the miracle and actually go do something about it. You know, it's important for us to have
Works with our faith, right?
And obviously we know that coupling works with our faith helps others to come to the saving
knowledge of Jesus Christ and also to provide for their needs.
But in certain instances, it also helps us to provide for our own needs as well.
Because God doesn't want lazy Christians.
He want, you know, an act of faith is not just praying, it's actually going out there
and doing it as well.
Faith is saying I'm gonna pray that you do this and because I believe you're gonna do it
I'm actually gonna go and go get the job that I know that you're gonna provide for me because I know what's out there somewhere
Hey, this works for finding a wife too, right?
Pray for a wife, but look for a wife
you know pray for whatever it is that you may need in your Christian life pray
for it but actually go out there and do something about it as well be the
distributor make sure you put in the work to fulfill the responsibility of
seeing the miracle come to life and so this is a great story here that
You know, God is not for excuses.
It doesn't matter if, you know,
only a little amount of resources is available.
God can multiply it.
He can make up the difference.
He can use it in a great way and accomplish great things.
It says in verse number 12, when they were filled,
he said into his disciples, gather up the fragments
that remain that nothing be lost.
So he's not only generous,
but he's also not wasteful as well.
You know, obviously this is on a practical level,
but you know, we should not be wasteful either.
You know, if the church provides food, eat it.
Don't throw away good food, amen.
I don't have an issue with this,
because my issues, I eat too much.
It's just like the plate is just cleaned or whatever.
But you know teacher children and we need to teach the church to make sure they're not wasteful and just throwing stuff away and all that
We need to make sure that we gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost
verse 13 says therefore they gather them together and filled 12 baskets
With the fragments of the five barley loaves which remained over and above unto them that had eaten now
It's obviously possible that one of these baskets was allocated to the lad. We don't know
But it's interesting that it's 12 baskets and it's possible that maybe some of those baskets were distributed to the 12 disciples and
This is a good application because of the fact that although you're distributing the gospel
You know what God will bless you for that as well in the long run
Don't think that your sacrifice is just like meaningless in the eyes of God if you are investing your time
Talents and treasure, you know
You're taking time out of your Sunday afternoon to go and preach the gospel out of your Tuesday or Thursday or Saturday
And you're like I could be doing something else, you know, obviously you're gonna be recompense what they basket
right
Providing for your needs and if you say well, how do you know that because the Bible says seeky first the kingdom of God in his righteousness
And these things shall be added unto you
So obviously as we serve the Lord as we preach the gospel if you want God's good graces
Yes, you heard right if you want God to bless you you want God to provide for you you want God to protect you serve him
You want yourself a basket full of loaves and fishes you got to make sure that you're one of the guys who is
Distributing those baskets and loaves right because men shall give into your bosom
you know, and overflowing with blessings and provisions.
And so one sure way to know, be on the shout of it out,
like I know God's gonna provide for me no matter what,
is just keep serving God.
You see, people will often get this attitude,
oh man, I'm behind all my bills,
I'm behind all my resources,
I need a mis-church to work more
in order to provide for my bills.
That's backwards.
You need to be in church keep serving God so that God can bless you and make up the difference
Like yeah, but if I miss church though, I can put in more hours
Well, just be reminded of the five barley loaves into two fishes and you know what God can do more with the little that you have
You know and obviously, you know you work Thursdays, whatever that's obviously up for grabs
But you know Sunday should be a non-negotiable. Amen
And I believe that from the top of my head to the bottom of my, the soles of my feet,
that Christians should be in the house of God on Sundays, no exceptions.
You know, obviously there's instances where maybe, you know, you get called in or whatever
and there's always those situations, but in general you should be in the house of God.
That's, you know, baseline will of God for your life.
It's for you to be in the house of God.
And look, folks, if you want God to continue to bless your paycheck,
and give you favor, I would give God Sundays.
And just say, you know what, Lord,
I know that I could be making way more money on Sundays,
but I'm not going to because, you know,
I want to be a doorkeeper in the house of my God.
I want to be serving God because of the fact
that you can provide so much more, you know,
by me missing this one day than me working five days
or something and missing church completely.
Point that I'm making here is that you have to understand it's not really about the five loaves or the two small fishes
Because some of you might even have just one loaf in one fish
Maybe you have half a loaf and half a fish. God doesn't really care what you have
He just cares that you use whatever you have
Okay, and don't compare your loaves and your fishes to someone else's loaves and fishes. Oh, yeah, of course
God's using this person. They got 10 loaves. They got 10 pieces of fish. They got bass. They got salmon
They got homemade bread. They got all this, you know, they got sourdough. Who cares what they have?
What do you have?
It is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not the Bible says
And so it's important for us to just use what we have.
Hey, how about the talents that you have?
Start using your talents for the Lord.
We need more orchestra players here.
And I'm not saying that, and by the way,
we are a little picky when it comes to the loaves
and the fishes in this area.
I'm not looking for a jug player here,
or someone who knows how to play the spoons
or something like that, okay?
Leave that for the South.
But hey, if you have some talents, you know how to read music.
You can play piano.
We need more extra piano players.
That's a fact.
You say, well, how do you know?
Well, because my wife, she plays once a month, but she's not going to be playing once a month
for a while.
You say, why?
Because there's a baby coming.
You know and she needs to take care of that baby, so you know we need more piano players
And you know some of you can read music you know how to play and you know you have the loaves
You got the fish. Can you give it up?
you know, give it up, start using it for the Lord.
You're like, well, you know, okay, there's enough piano players.
The reason I don't play in the orchestra is because, you know,
I feel like there's enough there.
Yeah, but hold on a second.
You know, maybe we do need a French horn, though.
Maybe we do need another violinist.
Is that what you call a violinist?
You know, we need another instrument in the pit here.
And you know what?
You may think, well, what good will my instrument do
in the orchestra?
Well, little as much when God is in it, though.
You know you can encourage others serve God with your talents use it be generous and God will be generous with you
Okay, you know we as Christians should look to get rid of our resources not in a wasteful manner
Obviously we should look to be generous with what we have
Not because of the fact that you know
We just want to get rid of everything that we have and just be wasteful
But because we know that God will recompense us in the future for it
Okay, and so Jesus Christ is generous. He's not wasteful. We see 12 baskets full and I'm sure the disciples got some of that
Look at verse 14
Then those men referring to the 5,000
When they had seen the miracle that Jesus did said this is of a truth that
Prophet that should come into the world and of course
He's referring to they're referring to the prophecy in Deuteronomy regarding the prophet who shall be the Christ
They're viewing him as an earthly ruler who's a king when Jesus therefore
Perceived that they would come and take him by force to make him a king
He departed again into a mountain himself alone. So Jesus Christ obviously knows, you know if
They think oh man, I am the prophet and of course he is that prophet
They want to make him an earthly king
And you think there's a what's wrong with that? Well, they don't really they're not really following him
Because of the fact that he's the son of God
They're more there because they're like, oh, he's able to perform these miracles. He's that prophet
He's able to perform these supernatural feats. Let's make them the king of Israel
And let's just take this back from the Romans is what it is
understand and so you know they could be sincere in wanting to make them a king
But they're sincerely wrong because they're missing the whole picture because keep in mind. Yeah, Jesus Christ is king
However, his kingdom is not of this world
He's preaching the kingdom of God, he's coming lowly and he's trying to convert people, get people saved, not create an earthly kingdom.
And what they want is that earthly kingdom, you understand?
They want to take their land back from the Romans, they want a ruler, you know, this is what they want.
And you know what this reminds me of?
Because we're going to see this throughout the life of Jesus, the ministry of Jesus.
is that when he does these great accomplishments,
he performs these great miracles,
he attracts a multitude of people who like him.
They actually like him.
You know, they like him, they're following him.
They're crossing the sea here
to try to get to him later on.
They're willing to fast a little bit
just so they can hear his teaching and preaching.
But Jesus Christ is not committing himself unto them
because he knows that they're not really sincere.
He knows that they don't really love the truth.
Right you said how do you know because these are the same people they're gonna say later on crucify him
They're only there because of the miracles and he tells them that later on and you know what this reminds me of a lot is social media
You know, it's easy for people who are on social media who have a large following
You know to often get caught up in that and think oh man, you know hundred thousand followers. This is man
I'm just so popular or something. Yeah, but you know, I'll be honest with you like
95 of those thousand followers if not more really just don't like you at all they
just like that one thing that you said they like that one viral video that you
made right they like what you say about the Jews
And look, you know, my account is growing
and praise God for that
because more people are hearing the truth,
but I'm not committing myself to any of those people
other than you guys who follow me
and I'm sure there's people here that don't follow me
and that's okay, you know, I'm not offended.
You come to hear me preaching in person, amen.
But you know, I guarantee you the vast majority of those people
they're there because they like what I said about the Jews.
They like how I rebuke Ted Cruz and I'm correcting this guy and this and the other
And I'm not saying that all of them are bad because I'm sure there's people there who are saved
You know, I've even had people contact me say, you know, I got a King James Bible because of you
I'm using the King James Bible from here on out and thank God for that
But let me just tell you there's a lot of Catholics on there, too
And we do not see eye to eye with them at all, right?
You know and
They praise me all the day long. I mean I've received more praise from Catholics in the last three months than I've ever have
It's like a complete 180 from last year if you guys remember last year
Last year I was getting on the Catholics and they hated my guts now. They're just like I love you
I've literally had people message me like I love you so much
You said what do you tell them? I don't tell them anything. I leave them. I leave them on red
How am I gonna answer that?
Weirdo, what do you mean you love me? You don't know me
You know, there's just like bro. I love your content. You're the best. This is the best stuff
I've ever heard. I just I'm just like, you know just consuming your content and I'm thinking to myself
You're just here for the loaves and the fishes
You're just here for the Jews
You're just here for that. You know what Jesus Christ didn't shun them for wanting the loaves and the fishes
Because obviously through that there's a couple people within those 5,000 they're gonna get it
But let's just be honest the vast majority of them didn't but that didn't impede him from performing the miracle though
And you know what that's not gonna impede me from still putting out videos against Jews
You know I had somebody like hey, I just want to ask you something
Why is everything you say about the Jews?
You know it seems like you're really obsessed with the Jews and I'm not gonna answer them because he's not gonna get it
And for me it's just like, well the reason I'm doing this is because people are hungry for the loaves and the fishes.
People are hungry about this and quite frankly, here's my answer, it's because a lot of people are deceived about the Jews
and there's just not enough content out there online talking about it.
You know, everyone's just buying into dispensationalism or they have this other weird view, this extreme opposite view
and it's just like both of you are wrong, this is what the Bible says.
So people are hungry for the truth. I'm gonna give them what they want, right?
Tell them what the Bible says. Oh, you want to know what the Bible says about this?
This is what the Bible says and that's that's it
But let me just say this as many praises as I receive from people these same people would crucify me though
Fact
As much as like, oh man, let's make him king.
I promise you, they would crucify me
at a drop of a hat if I go against
and start speaking out against whatever it is
that they believe, because I'm telling you right now,
you know, even some of these people,
they're just like, man, you're great,
but you know, you're wrong on the book of Enoch.
How do you even believe in the book of Enoch?
You retard?
Are you that retarded?
That's, it's just crazy to me.
They're like, hey, I love this guy's stuff,
but he's so wrong on this.
The book of Enoch, you know because I'm because I'm touching their golden calf of
Their their fantasy of giants or whatever
Gulliver's travel
They you know their their their anime cartoon of those giants running around they want that to be real or whatever
What's that Titan cartoon right? Isn't that what you former anime lovers? What's it called? What's it called former anime lovers?
Thank you John Michael for being so bold
I know they know what it was,
and you're the only one bold enough to speak out.
Stop watching that, by the way.
I'm just kidding.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
You know, at the end of the day,
but these are the same people like,
man, we love you, but then it's just like,
oh, you are so wrong on this.
You're just 100% wrong.
But what is it?
It's the 5,000.
And you know what?
Jesus understood this.
He understood that numbers doesn't mean sincerity.
Numbers doesn't mean that people are getting converted,
but again, it wasn't holding them back
from still performing the miracles,
because he understood that within those 5,000,
there's a little lad there, you know what I mean?
Who's gonna believe?
There's a couple of people who are gonna believe.
And by the way, within those 5,000, as we're gonna see,
it's not just your run of the mill Jew,
it's the Pharisees as well,
who he goes back and forth with in John chapter six here.
So just as you know, there's 60,000 people following me. I promise you there's a ton of false prophets within those 60,000 a
bunch of them and
So, you know, he knew oh man, they're gonna try to make me king. He's gonna go into a mountain alone
He's not interested in that. He knows what their motives are. He had he wants nothing to do with it
Look at verse 16
So the first thing we learn from this first story is that God can multiply
What you have never think that you don't you have insufficient funds insufficient talents insufficient fill in the blank?
God can make up the difference as your as long as you're willing to give up and
Distribute the bread and the fish look at verse 16 and when even was now come his disciples went down into the sea and entered into a ship
and went over the sea toward Capernaum,
and it was now dark and Jesus was not come to them.
So here we find the story that we also see
in Mark chapter six.
The difference is that in Mark 6 that actually tells us that Jesus told his disciples to get into the ship
So keep in mind, you know at this point
He goes up into the mountain and then John 6 tells us that the disciples go into the ship
Well mark 6 gives us a little more details and tells us that Jesus
Told them to go into the ship and obviously the reason why is because he's also going to perform another miracle
For the disciples on the sea as well
It says in verse 18 and the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew
So when they had rode about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking
on the sea and drawing nine to the ship and they were afraid.
So obviously what we have here is the disciples are in this boat and these are expert sailors
so to speak, right?
These are fishermen.
So the tempest is arising, the sea is getting tempestuous,
obviously a great wind is blowing here
and they're not anywhere near close to the other side of the sea.
And, you know, when they're towards essentially the middle,
the midpoint of this particular sea,
they see Jesus walking on water.
But obviously they don't know it's Jesus at first.
They're afraid.
And he says in verse 20, he saved them to him.
It is I, be not afraid.
So this is a great miracle, right?
This is the first miracle is the fact
that he's walking on the sea.
Here's the second miracle, look at verse 21.
Then they willingly receive them into the ship
And immediately the ship was at the land, whether they went.
So we have, you know, they're in the ship,
they're halfway there, it's tempestuous,
it's getting hard, tumultuous winds and water,
and then they see Jesus walking on water
and then he comes into the ship
and then just immediately they find themselves
on the other side, even though they're only midway there,
right, halfway there.
That's the miracle.
He transports them supernaturally to the other side.
It's powerful, right, and obviously we see symbolic a symbolic representation of the rapture here
Okay, because of the fact that they're halfway through the tempestuous sea
what we would call what the Bible refers to as great tribulation and
Jesus shows up at the midpoint towards the midpoint we should say and then what does he do?
He transports them to the other side
And this is exactly what happens in the rapture, you know, believers go through great tribulation,
75 days of great tribulation, and it's tempestuous, people are allowed to kill them, the Antichrist
is making war with the saints and overcoming them, but then what happens is Jesus Christ
appears and what does he do?
He raptures us, we are transported in the twinkling of an eye to heaven, right?
But you know we could also apply this just in a very practical manner, too
And this is why it's important that you don't jump ship
in the Christian life
And let me just say this, you know, sometimes Jesus is gonna make you get in the ship
To cross over to the other side in your Christian life
And you know the waves are gonna get kind of crazy
Water's gonna get in the ship the winds are gonna be blowing you think you're gonna drown
You're going to go through a hard time.
You're going to go through financial struggles,
health struggles, relationship struggles.
There's going to be a major problem.
And the problem is that either one, Christians,
turn the boat back, right?
And they go back to the world or back to where they came from
or they literally just jump ship
thinking that it's safer out there than it is in here.
What do I mean by that?
You know, they get out of church.
They jump out of the boat of church.
They jump out of the boat of the Bible.
They jump out of the boat of soul winning.
But guess what?
You end up drowning when that happens.
What you gotta do is stay in the ship.
You say, but it's getting too crazy.
I'm not even halfway there yet.
Yeah, but you know what?
Jesus ends up kind of like showing up
towards the midpoint though, right?
He ends up showing up in the furnace of fire
when you're tossed in.
And, you know what, I don't know about you, but you just have to kind of determine, I've
kind of determined that I'm just going to stay in the ship and if the ship goes down
then I'm going down with the ship.
You know, I'd rather just die in the will of God than die out of the will of God.
You know, if I'm in the ship and everyone's jumping ship and there's just like water, you know
It's rising up to my shins and my knees. I'm still not jumping over. I'm just gonna go
I guess this is it here. At least I'm dying serving God
At least I died obeying the Lord at least I'm just gonna drown doing the will of God
But you know what I I just I'm not gonna jump ship. I'm not gonna get out of church
I'm not gonna get out of the Bible. I rather meet the Lord knowing that I did right
And you know what, may that motivate you as well.
I'm telling you, you are gonna go through hard times.
You're gonna go through some extremely difficult waves,
tumultuous winds and storms,
and it's tempting to either head back or jump ship.
Both of them are not a good idea.
Just wait it out, just wait it out.
And you know, take it from me,
and I know that I don't have a whole lot of experience,
I just have about 18 years.
And, you know, but in those 18 years,
I've experienced a lot of trials.
And I've experienced trials individually,
but also with my family, with my wife,
where I can see why people jump ship.
I can never see why.
I don't think it's right.
I can see why people turn the boat around.
I can see why people do the things that they do.
But I've been in those situations where I felt like the boat was already inside the I mean
It's already like taking on too much water, and I'm just like I'm just sinking with them
I'm just like there's no hope or we're done
You know and then you said what happens, you know in a moment's notice is like I'm on the other side
That's what happens
And you know sometimes people quit at the very last moment when you're about to get delivered
That's one thing I've noticed about the about Christians is that you know, there's circumstances around them like the ship is sinking
It's like you're it's like, you know, the water is like even getting up to like their faces. It's like, oh, I'm done
I'm jumping ship. Why jump ship you're already gonna get you're already in there
You know just stay in the boat. You might as well just stay in the boat
And you know what happens is like God just last minute comes through he always comes through at the last minute
You're like, I don't know. I'm like here to my nose. Well, that's not the last minute
It's not the last minute I'm just gonna tell you yeah, but it's just like it's like up to my not last minute though
Until you're fully and by the time by the time you're fully in you you're already dead at that point
But if the water's like here that it's still night. It's still not time yet. Just go like this go
Just take a couple breaths just do it
And I'm telling you, time and time again,
God always comes through.
You know what happens when you actually wait it out
and God comes through and delivers you?
Your faith has increased.
Then you realize like, oh man, the Bible is true.
He does deliver at the very last minute.
He did come through.
I'm on the other side.
I remember this one trial that we had
and I thought, man, I'm gonna be in this thing forever.
This is never gonna end.
I don't think I can do this anymore.
And then here I am on the other side.
And it's almost as if God just transported us
to the other side.
It's just, it's over with.
But it seemed like forever.
And then, you know, I remember going through that trial
and you know, someone telling me like,
oh, you know, it'll be over one day.
One day you'll look back and I'm thinking to myself,
I'm not even halfway through.
Like there's there's no like lied at the end of the I don't even see light at the end of the tunnel
How can this even be true?
But I already determined like I don't care
I'm just gonna whine about it the whole time, but I'm not jumping ship
Let me just say this if life is hard, you know, and you're just having a hard time just whine about it
Man, but just as long as you don't jump shit
You know, I recommend if that's what you got to do then do it find someone in our church
You can confine and say hey, can I just like you know?
You know whine about this to you real quick
Can I just can I just like say stuff to you that I wouldn't say to anybody else?
Can I just need to get this off my chest?
And you don't have anybody come tell me
You know
I'll listen to you because I know what it's like
Just tell me
You cannot surprise me you're not gonna shock me. I'm not gonna be like I
Don't know you knew those words
You know, I probably like yeah, I've been there probably not in that exact same situation, but with the same results though
What am I saying just stay in the boat
Just stay in the boat if it's getting crazy, you know, and and you're afraid and
You're just tired because you've been rowing all the night and you don't seem to be making any progress
You know, God can multiply the fish and the loaves, but he could also get you to the other side and like an instant
You have to understand like, you know, what it why did Jesus do this to prove them?
right
He asked Philip, why, to prove him, to test them.
Why did he do this to the disciples?
To test them, to prove them,
to show himself strong on their behalf.
And you know what?
Yeah, the 5,000 saw the miracle of the loaves and the fishes,
but they didn't see the miracle of Jesus walking on water
and being transported to the other side,
because that was only designated for people
who were willing to get into the boat
and listen to Jesus to go to the other side.
So you know what if you're an obedient Christian? Yeah, you are gonna be placed in some precarious situations
Where danger, you know is present where you know
You're going through hard times if you're obedient to the word of the Lord, but you also have access to greater supernatural occurrences
To greater miracles. They didn't see Jesus walking on water. They didn't they don't know what it's like to just be transported to the other side
They didn't get to see that
But the disciples did because they listen to Jesus and they went to the other side and
So just know this you know if you're going through a hard time and you're in church
It's because you obey the Lord and yeah, that's true. Yes, it's fact
Yeah, but you know what you also will have access to a greater faith a deeper faith
More blessings being a stronger Christian having more access to the blessings of God because you did it
The five thousand they don't know they didn't you know, they didn't see all that
I don't know what that's like.
They have to roll themselves to the other side in the story.
Jesus wasn't transporting any of them.
I want to be transported.
I want God to take me from point A to point C
and just skip point B. I want to struggle to point B
and then Jesus just take me to point C.
I want to see God show himself strong on my behalf.
And so it's a great story, amen.
Look at verse 22.
The point that I'm making is don't jump ship,
stay in church, stay in the boat, stay in the Bible,
stay in prayer, keep winning souls to Christ,
keep working on your marriage.
Hey, don't jump the boat of marriage.
Don't quit.
You know, even if you're drowning,
even if your spouse jumps ship, you stay in there.
You stick it out.
And you're like, yeah, but what if they never jump back
in the boat, didn't drown in the boat?
That's better.
It's a better option to just drown while you're in the boat
than to jump ship and drown.
I rather meet the Lord in a good conscience saying,
I died doing the will of God.
Right?
You know, and you know,
cause I know I will be recompense in the resurrection
rather than meeting the Lord like Saul or something,
I was embarrassing just like you being in heaven like I know how I got here and
then it's just like you know bodies decapitated and they're like I want to
do it don't even look just hey brother you're saved yet so as my fire you know
I'd rather meet the Lord just you know even if I die being wronged isn't that
You know isn't that better that is better?
It's better dying being wrong, but being right with God
It's better to die being wronged by others, but being right with God
It's the best way to meet the Lord
Because you know what if he allows you to drown in that boat
You're worthy
You're a worthy man, you're a worthy woman to do so.
He found you worthy to do so and man, great is your recompense on the other side.
That's a fact.
Look at verse 22 the day following when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there
Save that one where into his disciples were entered and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat
But that his disciples were gone away alone
How be it there came other boats from Tiberius nine to the place where they did eat bread after the Lord had given thanks
When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there
Neither his disciples, they also took shipping and came to Capernaum seeking for Jesus.
Now, this is an interesting couple of verses here, because what it's saying is that the
multitude was there to see the feeding of the 5,000.
They're still on the other side, right?
And they saw the disciples get into the boat and go to the other side.
They know Jesus was not there, so they're wondering, where's Jesus?
And they didn't see any of the boats there, but then they see the boat in which the disciples
So you know somehow across whatever, you know, maybe the Lord allowed to come and other boats came with it
So when these other boats are coming empty, they get on those boats and then they use that to cross over
As saying there when the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there and others disciples
They also took shipping and came to Capernaum seeking for Jesus now
This must have been a lot of boats because again, it's 5,000 men
We don't know if some some went on foot, but it seems to indicate that they all went on ships to head to the other side
Look at verse 25. Oh, by the way, you know a good a good principle there is that you know
Make sure you get the first train not the second train
Right. I rather get on the boat when Jesus told me to
Then wait for the second round, but I have to make myself get all the way across
Right, it's better to just obey God the first time and see God show himself strong on your behalf rather than
Heading back not hitting in the heading in the boat or jumping out and guess what now you got to get in the boat and roll
You're you got to build up your life again. You got to start from ground zero once again
You know what that happens to Christians a lot they get out of church
They backslide and you know what by the grace of God they're able to come back, but then they have to rebuild again
They have to read, they have to roll the boat all the way on the other side.
They miss out on all the supernatural miracles.
They miss out on, you know, God showing himself strong because they decided to quit.
Look at verse 25.
And when they had found him on the other side of the sea,
they said unto him, Rabbi, when came it stopped hither?
Hither, what did he say?
Like, how'd you get over here?
Because remember, he went into the mountain,
the disciples got on the boat and went on the other side.
So when they finally rode on the other side,
they're just like, how'd you even get here?
And obviously he's God.
You know, he's just walked on the water.
Verse 26 Jesus answered them and said barely barely I say to you you seek me not because you saw the miracles
But because he did it the eat of the loaves and were filled. So what is he saying?
You know, they're asking him how'd you get here and he responds by well, I know why you're here
Right, that's what he's saying. He doesn't even answer. He's like I just I'm not gonna tell you how I got here
But I know why you are here
And he says it's because you ate right you ate of the loaves you were filled you want more food
Verse 27,
labor not for the meat which perisheth,
but for that meat which endureth into everlasting life,
which the Son of Man shall give unto you,
for him hath God the Father sealed,
then said they unto him,
what shall we do that we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto him,
this is the work of a God that you believe on him,
whom he hath sent.
So, you know, he tells him, look,
you know, you shouldn't be,
you're rolling across the ocean or the sea here.
So you can eat. You're laboring to get to food, but what you should be doing is laboring to find the truth
You should cross land and sea for the truth not so you can find a meal, right?
labor not for that which
Paraschists but for that meat which endured them to everlasting life and the point here is that you know God
rewards the person
Who is looking for the truth with more truth?
Every single person in this room
labored to find the truth now your labor would not get you saved
But your labor positioned you so you can hear the truth so you can be saved, right?
And I think many of you could attest to the fact that maybe you, you know, you were looking
for the truth.
Maybe you bought a Bible.
Maybe you just listened to sermons.
You were looking for the truth.
You're like, I need to know about salvation.
And you were laboring, but all that labor was in vain because it couldn't get you saved,
but it did get you to the point where you would listen to the gospel that would eventually
get you saved, right?
And so this is what he's telling them, labor for that meat.
That endureth into everlasting life verse 30 says they said it therefore and Tim
What signs show us now then that we may see and believe the what does that work? So they're not getting it
They're like well just do a miracle. Let's see what you got
Our fathers did he man in the desert as it is written he gave them bread from heaven to eat
So this is kind of disrespectful
Because what they're doing is like can you can you one up this one?
You know our fathers a manna
Bread from heaven. Let's see what you can do
And he's just like, bro, I am manna.
I'm the manna.
It's funny, they're looking for the miracle.
He's like, he is the miracle.
The word of God was made flesh.
He's Jesus Christ.
He's like, he's God.
He's right here.
Verse 32.
Then Jesus said to him,
barely, barely, I say to you,
Moses gave you not that bread from heaven,
but my father gave you the true bread from heaven.
Now, it's funny, he's like,
oh, Moses gave us his bread.
He's like, no, he didn't.
Moses ate of the manna.
God gave the manna just like it's God who gave me to you. It's what he's saying. They don't they don't know their doctrine
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and give it life into the world
They said unto him Lord evermore give us this bread
So they're still not getting it and let me just say this this is what happens when unsafe people try to interpret the Bible
They just don't get it and the natural man received it's not the things of the spirit of God
You know, they're foolishness that to him now. They're kidding know them for their spiritually discern
You know, this is the same thing that Jesus told Nicodemus. He's like I told you of earthy things
You don't understand how you're gonna understand if I told you of heavenly things
And they're just like oh great
Give us whatever bread you're talking about. You know, we're hungry ready to eat
Verse 35 and Jesus said unto them I am the bread of life he that cometh to me shall never hunger hunger
And he that believe it on me shall never thirst
But I say unto you that ye also have seen me and believe not
So this from here on out is where we find the concept of Jesus Christ being the bread of life
Now from verse 35 and on is where the Catholics will often twist in order to teach the false doctrine of trans
the belief that the bread and the wine, which they use alcoholic wine,
literally becomes the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
And this is their text verse.
If you're ever challenged by a Catholic, they will go to John chapter 6 in order to prove their doctrine.
Okay?
But there's a lot of holes within this argument though.
Namely, let me just name off one of them, and that is that the Lord's Supper, what they call the Eucharist,
was not instituted until Matthew 26, right?
Matthew 26, the night before Jesus Christ was crucified, he instituted the Lord's Supper.
It was not in John chapter 6 that it was instituted.
So how do you know? Because they didn't observe the Lord's Supper from here until then.
Whereas Catholics will observe mass the Eucharist every single Sunday
Why because it's necessary for their salvation according to what they believe
Okay, they believe that in order for you to be saved you have to participate in the mass
And what is the mass the Eucharist?
eating the bread and the wine that they believe is the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Well, we have a problem here because if that is what John chapter 6 is teaching,
they didn't observe it until the night before Jesus Christ was crucified.
Okay?
What is he saying here? He's saying, you know, just as Moses gave you or God gave you that manna from heaven,
Your fathers gave you that you know that they did eat that manna so they can physically live in like manner on the bread of life
And guess what once you eat of this body?
spiritually through belief in Jesus Christ
Then you have everlasting life, and here's the thing he says you'll never hunger or you'll never thirst
Well, if that's the case then why do you keep having to take the Eucharist every single Sunday?
If you'll never, how do you interpret?
You'll never hunger and you'll never thirst
if you're literally doing it every single Sunday.
It sounds like it's just, you know,
you're just constantly after eating that bread
and drink of that cup in order to be saved.
Whereas according to Jesus' words,
you'll never hunger and you'll never thirst.
And obviously he equates it.
What is he equating the bread with believing?
How do you know?
Look at verse 36, but I say unto you
that you have seen me and believed not.
He didn't say you see me. You're not eating me. What are you doing standing there? Come come take a bite
Come drink come take a bite come come take a nibble
No, he says you've seen me the man that came down from heaven
The true bread the bread of life and yet you don't believe which is equated with you're not eating it, right?
Verse 37, all that the Father giveth me shall come to me. This is a great verse on eternal security, by the way
And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out
So when he says believe not the antithesis of that is that you do believe and what happens when you believe
Well, God basically tells you that he will never cast you out
Because it says there, I will and no why's.
Now, no why's is not a phrase and idiom
that we would use today in modern English,
but it simply means for any reason whatsoever.
Oh, what if, no why's.
Yeah, but what if someone commits suicide?
No why's.
Cast out.
No why's means for any reason whatsoever,
he's not gonna throw you out of the book of life.
Because once you're permanently embedded
within this registry, you're there forever.
It's permanent.
He says in verse 28,
And this is the will of him that sent me
that everyone would see at the Son and believe it on him,
may have everlasting life,
and I will raise him up in the last day.
Not it's important for us to interpret John chapter 6,
based off of verse 40.
Based off of verse 27 through verse 40 that is clearly telling us that we're to believe on Jesus Christ, right?
Could say you've seen me you believe me you have everlasting life, and I will raise you up in the last day
I'm not gonna cast you out. I'm gonna give you everlasting life
I'm gonna raise you up. You're gonna participate in the resurrection. This is referring to salvation
verse 41
the Jews
Then murmured at him because he said I am the bread which came down from heaven and they said is not this Jesus
The son of Joseph whose father and mother we know how was it then he say it?
I came down from heaven Jesus therefore answered and said it to them murmur not among yourselves
So you know the Jews are like how's he gonna call himself the bread of life? He's Jesus. We know this guy
He grew up in Nazareth. We know Joseph. We know Mary
He's not divine
Verse 44 no man can come to me except the father which has sent me draw him and I will raise him up into the last day
Now, what does this mean because you know, let's take a break from the Catholics real quick and just get on the Calvinist
Which is Catholic light?
Diet Catholic. It's Catholic zero, right?
It's Catholic with it with some stevia
Splendor or whatever
Because they'll often say oh, you know, this is you know irresistible grace. God has to draw you
He has to woo you, you know
The elect are drawn to salvation and they can't choose whether they want to be saved or not
It's just already selected for that. They're elected to be saved eternally and then God reels them in he draws them
He woos them all this is gay stuff
What does this mean exactly when he says that no man can come to me except the father which has sent me draw him?
Well, keep in mind that he's stating this right after
They begin to reject what he's saying
Because what he's saying is scripture
What he's saying is the Word of God, he's teaching them scripture by saying I am that bread of life
I'm the fulfillment of that man of the Old Testament. I am the New Testament bread of life
That's gonna give everlasting life and then they're scoffing at it
Which is an indication that they are rejecting what he's saying, right?
And he says well the reason they're not coming to me is because
You can't come to me except the father draw him now. What does that mean when he says draw? Well look at verse 45
It is written in the prophets and they shall be all taught of God every man
therefore that heard and have learned of the Father comeeth unto me. So how are
people drawn to Jesus Christ through the Word of God? Through the truth. How is it
that God draws people with the Bible? That's how. Right? Can't get saved without the Bible.
So if a person tells me oh, I believe in Jesus, but they're rejecting what the Bible says about salvation
They don't really believe in Jesus
And they're not coming to Jesus because they were not drawn of the father through the word of God
Because he he responds by saying it's written in the prophets
They shall be all taught of God, which is Jesus
Every man therefore that hath heard and that learned of the father comeeth unto me
So if they're learning the Old Testament scriptures about Jesus Christ and they're believing him guess what they're gonna come to Jesus
And they're gonna accept. Oh, yeah, he is the bread of life
You know, he is the door. He is the vine. He is the lamb
He is I was gonna say that he is that he is but the I am that I am
And this is still true today, my friends.
In order for people to come to Jesus Christ,
it's not through a dream, it's not through a devotional,
it's not through some lifestyle evangelism,
it's through the word of God.
Cause faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the word of God.
And if someone claims to believe in the truth,
but they reject what the Bible actually says,
then guess what, they're lying.
Well, I believe in Jesus, but I just also believe that the book of Enoch is also the word of God by by claiming to believe in the book of
Enoch, you're rejecting the word of God
Because you're upholding the book of Enoch as being superior to the word of God because the word of God literally contradicts with the book of Enoch says
and
So scoffing at what Jesus is saying is an indication that they're not being drawn of God through the Bible because they're rejecting Jesus Christ
He says in verse 46 not that any man had seen the father save he which is of God
He had seen the father barely barely. I say to you he that believe it on me hath everlasting life
I am the bread of life
Equating believing with the illustration of eating the man up. I know you get this
My five-year-old can get this
You know God's revealed them unto babes
But it's people who reject the word of God who do not get it right like the Catholics
Your fathers did eat man in the wilderness and are dead
This is the bread which comes down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die
I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread
He shall live forever and the bread that I will give is my flesh
Which I will give for the life of the world now. I think at this point Jesus Christ. He's he's being nice
Okay, I do think that because he's giving a very clear illustration
He's like, you know the bread that I'm gonna give us my flesh and of course his blood because what is he referring to?
He's referring to the fact that he's gonna sacrifice his body on the cross in order for people to have everlasting life
Because without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin
It doesn't say without the eating of his flesh. There's no remission of sins
It says without the shedding of blood, right? Well that the Bible condemns consuming blood
Condemns cannibalism
Okay, so he's just saying you know
I'm gonna I'm giving my flesh for the life of the world and he's being in my opinion very kind and gracious
Okay, and look folks the Bible says that meet commendeth us not to
Commendeth us not to God for neither if we eat are we the better?
Neither if we not are we the worse?
He's like you know eating food doesn't make you a good Christian doesn't make you a bad Christian. It's just it's kind of like a
No brainer, right?
Food is not a spiritual thing
So I think he's being kind and gracious here, but then look at verse 52 the Jews therefore strove among themselves saying how can this man give us this flesh to eat
So now they're kind of scoffing
Because it's obvious what he's talking about
He's saying like believing is the same thing as eating the manna. I'm the manna
You guys aren't getting that I'm giving my flesh for the life of the world because I'm gonna be killed
That's what happens to the Christ
That's what the Old Testament scripture said and then there's just like how are you gonna give us your flesh to eat?
Then then Jesus sent him. So now he doubles down
Barely very saying to you except he eat my flesh of the Son of Man eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood
You have no life in you. So I think he's just kind of doubling down just to get on them even more
He's just like yeah, you know you have to eat my flesh and drink my blood in order for you to have life in you
Just to kind of hang them a little more
Who so eat of my flesh and drink of my blood hath eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day
Now if we compare it to the previous statement, he says if you believe on him
You'll have everlasting life, and God will raise him up at the last day.
Well, if we compare that to verse 54, where he says,
Who so eateth my flesh, drinketh my blood, hath he turned our life,
and I will raise him up at the last day,
raising up at the last day has to do with believing on him,
which he illustrates by the eating of his flesh and drinking of his blood,
because his blood, his blood, and his flesh are being sacrificed on the cross in order to save us.
Because he was delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification.
But this is the willing ignorance of the Jews and of the Catholics my friends
Okay, the difference is the Jews are rejecting this they're scoffing at it
The Catholics on the other hand are just saying no no we do have to eat his flesh
It's true. We do and
So obviously he's using this as a metaphor in order to teach what salvation is now look, you know Catholics will state that
This is why they practice this matter of the Eucharist and think about how ridiculous this is okay, and I've mentioned this in previous sermons
When you go to a Catholic mass the priest when they're performing the Eucharist, you know
This is why you see them holding up the the you know a little cracker or whatever and
They'll do what's called an epiclesis
Which in you know, it's also referred to as an incantation throughout how they call it in Latin
But what it is is that they're asking the Holy Spirit from above
to come and transform
The bread and blood or the bread and wine into the literal body and blood of Jesus Christ
You know, and then they're like a number of potty who's beautiful
I'm too and they think like the Holy Spirit's coming down from heaven and you know
You know and it makes it into the body and blood and then people eat it so they say you know by accident
It doesn't change the flavor. It doesn't change the actual physical substance. They call it the accident
But you know in but supernaturally it is the body and blood of Jesus Christ
But this is important because they say you know they they practice this epic leases. They're they're
Invoking it's not the Holy Spirit by the way
They're invoking some some godless demon
It's a lying spirit is what it is.
That's exactly what they're invoking.
There's some lying spirit up in heaven,
and the Lord's like,
who will go for me to just be a lying spirit
in the mouth of these priests
to deceive people who are just completely rejecting the word of God,
and then you have some pedophile demon who's just like,
I'll do it.
So again, they're calling down the Holy Spirit, but is that what the Bible says? How we receive salvation. It's literally the opposite
Because the righteousness, which is a faith speaketh on this wise say not in thine heart
Who shall you know how who shall go reach up into heaven to bring Christ down from above?
Who shall descend into the deep to bring up Christ again from the dead?
But what sayeth it the word is nigh thee even in my mouth and in my heart
That is the word of faith which we preach unto you
Then if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart
They got to raise them for then it thou shalt be saved. So it's just like why are you trying to bring someone down from above?
The word is night thee even in my mouth
Stupid oh, that's so like disrespectful. Yeah, I know it is of course
What do you think I'm saying it like that?
You're gonna lose so many followers be gone. Just go
I don't care
That doesn't you know doesn't really affect me
Verse 55, for my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even
he shall live by me.
This is that bread which came down from heaven, not as your fathers did eat, manna.
And are dead, he that eateth of this bread shall live forever.
These things said he in the synagogue, by the way.
It's hardcore, right?
As he taught in Capernaum. So he's saying this in the synagogues. He's just you know getting on them now
Obviously, I'm not gonna go through all these verses because I'm completely out of time
We see that a lot of his disciples get offended they walk no more with him, but I want you to skip down to
verse number
67
It says then said Jesus unto the 12 will ye also go away? So a lot of people get offended at what he says here
You know about eating his flesh drinking his blood it's a hardcore sermon
But then there's guys who actually stick around
They agree with him right because they accept the word of God
So he says you know to the 12 are you guys gonna leave to you guys gonna ditch me too
And look what Peter says then Simon Peter answered and said Lord to whom shall we go?
Thou has the words of eternal life, and we believe that if we eat of the flesh we drink your blood
We do the Eucharist will have everlasting life
No, he says we believe in our shirt that thou art the Christ the son of the living God
To confession of the mouth why because the word is neither even in my mouth
Peter you screwed up
First pope and you're messing it up, man
You're supposed to say that if you participate in the Eucharist
No, cuz Peter understood he got it. He's just like oh we get it. It's an illustration
Right, and it's so crazy. He's just like no he literally said
his flesh and the blood.
Yeah, he also literally said that he has brothers and sisters,
but somehow that's symbolic, huh?
How about that?
Well, no, that's not like literally his brothers and sisters.
He says, James the Lord's brother.
Well, not like literally though.
It's just like a figurative.
No, John 6 is figurative.
The other stuff is not hard to understand
Point that I'm making here is it's like, you know, they interpret what's convenient to their false doctrine
You know, oh, yeah, we'll just show me in the Bible
Where you know, why don't you go ahead and show me Baptist in the box show me Baptist throughout history, right?
Show me the first Baptist church throughout history. Oh, okay. Let's I see your little game there go ahead and show me Catholic in the Bible
Why don't you literally show me where purgatory is in the Bible?
Why don't you literally show me where it literally shows people worshiping saints in the Bible?
Well, you have to look at the traditions
No, I don't
Traditions are inferior to the Bible and all you need is the Bible
You've made the commandments of God void by your traditions
So that when clear statements are stated in the Word of God your traditions make them null and void based upon the heretical
Interpretation of the so-called Church Fathers
I don't I'd hear to the Church Fathers I
Adhere to God the Father I
Adhere to the Son of God. I have the Holy Spirit of God dwelling within me that where I can prove all things and hold fast that which is good
Oh, yeah, your little church that just existed a little bit ago.
You're just going to go against thousands of years of history?
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
And here's the thing, all of that
is inferior to what the Word of God says.
This is the ultimate authority right here.
Yeah, but we gave you the Bible.
Then why do you just not believe it?
You know, oh, you mean the Bible we gave you?
Oh, you mean the Bible where you just
forgot to put every damnable heresy that you believe in it?
Like you guys suck
You guys suck that right in the Bible because you literally forgot to put everything you put the Lord's brother
You created your own destruction in demise and obviously I don't believe they gave us the Bible. They're just lying
Verse 70 says Jesus answered them have not I chosen you 12 and one of you is the devil
He spake of Judas is scared the son of Simon for he it is
He it was that should betray him being one of the 12th
I love how it ends because it's like, you know Peter's like, you know, we believe the dark the Christ the son of the living God
You know, he's just getting all sentimental with Jesus like didn't I choose you guys and one of you guys is devil
He's just completely just regardless what Peter said, you know, he's just he's just all about the business, you know
Great chapter here, and you know we need to interpret it correctly because there's a lot of
False doctrine that's being spread out that regarding John chapter 6. Let's pray father. We thank you so much for your word
Thank you for the bread of life and the fact that once we believed on Jesus Christ
We don't have to keep believing again and again and again and again
We don't have to participate in the Lord's suffer to be saved. We don't have to do works to maintain our salvation
We are already saved. We have eternal life forever
And I'm thankful for salvation that it's a done deal. My soul is eternally satiated
through the blood and body of Jesus Christ when I believed on him
18 years ago and many for people in our church. Maybe it was this year
Maybe it was a couple years ago Lord, but it's all said and done once we place our faith in Christ
I pray you bless us as we go on our way Lord. We love you. We thank you. Pray the things in Jesus name. Amen
All right we have one last