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Rejecting the Word of God
the Word of God
Crisis of Belief: and encounter with God that requires faith and action.
Your words are crusty!
We cannot pick up what you’re putting down.
This gospel started with the statement: in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God and the Word was with God… All things were created through Him...
Jesus lowered Himself and offered His life as the flesh and blood sacrifice described last week.
“Does this offend you?”
What if you see me elevated back to my rightful glory (ascending back to heaven), will that offend you too?
The flesh I’ve been talking about is not where the life is.
It is in the Spirit!
(I wasn’t speaking literally).
The flesh cant give life, only receive it.
In the physical sense, the flesh can preserve life, duplicate life, destroy life.
The Spirit is the one who GIVES life.
MY WORDS ARE SPIRIT AND LIFE!
Flesh: NT has nothing good to say about it.
There is nothing good in it and we must not put our confidence in it.
The 12 understood eating His flesh and drinking His blood would be done through the Word.
Jeremiah ‘I will write it on their hearts’ and Ezekiel ‘eat this scroll.
It was sweet like honey’.
Why was it so important for Jesus to use the language of flesh and blood?
He is the unique one in whom the invisible has become visible, the heavenly has become earthly, the infinite has become finite.
Only when we accept Him as a flesh and blood Savior, sacrificed for the sin of man, can we partake in the life of God!
So Jesus says: I’ve come to give my body and shed my blood.
I will die the death you deserve.
I will take the payment for your sin.
And in dying for you, provide salvation.
In v.64b the point is made that He would do so for many who would reject Him.
The 12 understood eating His flesh and drinking His blood would be done through the Word.
Jeremiah ‘I will write it on their hearts’ and Ezekiel ‘eat this scroll.
It was sweet like honey’.
Word
nourish your dry soul.
strengthen your weary bones.
redirect your wayward gaze.
Come, let it redirect your wayward gaze.
“Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things, and give me life in your ways” ().
Come, let it soothe your discouraged heart.
“I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words” ().
soothe your discouraged heart.
Come, let it grant you peace.
“Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble” ().
grant you peace.
Come, let it fill you with hope.
“Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope” ().
fill you with hope.
feed your hungry spirit.
Come, let it feed your hungry spirit.
“How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” ().
grant you deep wisdom.
Come, let it grant you deep wisdom.
“I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts” ().
reassure you during pain.
Come, let it reassure you during pain.
“I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me” ()
Come, let it echo your glad praises.
“At midnight I rise to praise you because of your righteous rules” ().
echo your glad praises.
“At midnight I rise to praise you because of your righteous rules” ().
keep you from falling into temptation.
Come, let it keep you from falling into temptation.
“Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God” ().
point out your wrong beliefs and actions.
Come, let it point out your wrong beliefs and actions.
“Put false ways far from me and graciously teach me your law!” ().
assure you of your eternal inheritance.
Come, let it assure you of your eternal inheritance.
“My eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise” (Psalm 199:123).
comfort you in your time of trouble.
Come, let it comfort you in your time of trouble.
“This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life” ().
lead you to the Word of Life, Jesus Christ.
In all times, come, and let it lead you to the Word of Life, Jesus Christ.
Remember last week how we talked about our cravings sometimes leading us to sin? How the Creator is the only one who can satisfy those cravings?
In death, He provides salvation.
In His resurrection He overcame sin.
It was sin that caused the need for His death.
Coming back to life, resurrecting, He defeated sin.
And brother, if He left the grave behind, one day, SO WILL I!
We must get to the point where we ACCEPT that the promise of sin can only give momentary pleasure.
Saying that thing you really want to say because “they just really need a good tongue lashing”, only feels good for a second.
Then there is remorse.
And a need for reconciliation.
But Jesus gives everlasting pleasure.
He ultimately satisfies.
And when we latch on to the this truth, that only Jesus satisfies, we stop trying to satisfy ourselves with anything less than Him.
Accepting the Word of God
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The finality of this statement is damning.
Young’s Literal: went away backward
V.66 the finality of this statement is damning.
Jesus always illuminates scripture.
Think about the walking away of all those ‘disciples’.
They were not longer willing to (peripatein- the word used to epitomize discipleship) disciple with Him.
They had seen and begun to believe.
They had participated in the miracles.
But the cares of the world choked them out.
Or their roots were scorched by such a difficult concept.
Or Satan stole the seed scattered.
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