02-18-24 You Are What You Eat John 6:41-59
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Intro: I remember being a kid and being told you are what you eat: It originally appeared in 1826 when , a French lawyer, politician, and famous gastronome, wrote ''Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es'', which translates to 'Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are' [1,2].
? Are you focused on spiritual food or physical
Prop: We need to be filled with Jesus
Trans: we will see this in 3 Ds
Drawing People
Drawing People
41 So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43 Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
Draw = Woman at the well draw water from the well
draw Mr Wiersbe “one of the ways that we see God draws the sinner is through His Word. through the teaching of the word.
Romans 10:14–15 “14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!””
Another way that God could know who to draw is in His omnipotence. He knew what you where going to do before you where born.
Jeremiah 1:5 “5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.””
Because of this John 6:44 some churches don’t believe in Evangelism but I see that the bible teaches both Gods Sovereignty and our work to accomplish His plan
45 It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— 46 not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Hebrews 8:10–11 “10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.”
The reason Y Jesus quotes Isaiah, or Jeremiah is this in one of the ways that
God Draws people.
Ill: I remember this pastor explaining Something like what we are talking about
Imagine A door you can come up and inspect the door and on the door. a sign says Choose Jesus come in. and when you decide to put your Faith In Jesus you walk through. the Inside sign says you were chosen from the beginning
Tran: before we can be filled with Jesus we saw that we need to be drawn now lets look at
Divine Vs Physical
Divine Vs Physical
47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
v47 I feel like this is Jesus pleading with them to believe
Not all of the Israelite that came out of the lad of Egypt will be in heaven.
they ate something that God gave them and they didn't now.
Manna = What is this
“Eating” the living Bread is a figure of speech meaning to believe on Him, like the figures of coming to Him (v. 35), listening to Him, (v. 45), and seeing Him (v. 40). To eat of this Bread is to live forever
Ezekiel 3:1–3 “1 And he said to me, “Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” 2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat. 3 And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.”
He is speaking in spiritual not literal
Ill: Hear the the saying you are what you eat
you eat the things of this world you will produce the things of this world which is Vanity and Death.
If you eat of Jesus you will produce the thing of Jesus one of which is Life
Tran: We just saw that we need to be filled by Jesus both by being drawn and seeing the difference and need for the divine and the physical
Descucted And Puzzled
Descucted And Puzzled
52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59 Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.
there is Churches that believe when you take communion the bread turns into the literal flesh of Jesus and the wine or juice turns into Jesus’ Blood.
Lev 3:17 you must not eat Blood
Lev 17: 10-14 the blood is the atonement ( payment ) for ones life
That is how these people took it that It was Literal
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
we feed the body we take care of the body but that in only 1/3 of makes us, us.
Make sure you are taking care of all of you by being filled With Jesus
If you are what you eat what are you spiritually.