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0:00John [music]
0:016:1 After these things, Jesus went away
0:04to the other side of the Sea of Galilee
0:06or Tiberias. A large [music] crowd
0:09followed him because they saw the signs
0:11which he was performing on those who
0:13were sick. Then Jesus went up on the
0:16mountain and there sat down with his
0:18disciples. Now the Passover, the feast
0:20of the Jews, was near. Therefore Jesus
0:23lifting up his eyes and seeing that a
0:26large crowd was coming to him said to
0:28[music] Philillip, "Where are we to buy
0:30bread so that these may eat?"
0:33This he was saying to test him, for he
0:36himself knew what he was [music]
0:38intending to do. Philip answered him,
0:41"200 dinari worth of bread is not
0:43sufficient for them for everyone to
0:45receive a little." One of his disciples,
0:48Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to
0:50him, "There is a lad here who has five
0:53barley loaves and two fish. But what are
0:56these for so many people?" It's
0:59interesting the [music] details that
1:00emerge in John's telling of this. He
1:03tells us that it's Philillip. He tells
1:05us that it's Andrew. He tells us [music]
1:06that it's a lad. He tells us that the
1:08loaves were barley loaves. None of these
1:11details emerge in the other gospels.
1:14Jesus said, "Have the people sit down."
1:18Now there was much grass in the place.
1:21So the men sat down in number about
1:245,000.
1:26Jesus took the loaves and having given
1:28thanks, he distributed to those who were
1:31seated. Likewise also the fish as much
1:34as they wanted. When they were filled,
1:37he said to his disciples, "Gather up the
1:40leftover fragments so that nothing will
1:42be lost.
1:43So they gathered them up and filled 12
1:47baskets with fragments from the five
1:49barley loaves which were left over by
1:52those who had eaten. Therefore, when the
1:55people saw the sign which he had
1:57performed, they said, "This is truly the
2:00prophet who is to come into the world."
2:05So Jesus perceiving that they were
2:07intending to come and take him by force
2:11to make him king withdrew again to the
2:14mountain by himself alone.
2:17So here we're going to have a theme in
2:19this chapter.
2:21Political expectations colliding [music]
2:24with spiritual fulfillment.
2:27Jesus is not coming to free them from
2:30the enemy of Rome. He is coming to free
2:33them from the enemy of fear and sin and
2:36death. But they want a political
2:39deliverance. So in this 15th verse, it
2:43says that Jesus perceived that they were
2:46intending to come and take him by force.
2:52They were going to grab him physically
2:56and force a crown upon his head.
3:00That's how frustrated they were that he
3:04wouldn't take the political role that he
3:08clearly had the support of the people to
3:11fulfill.
3:13But if he had taken that political role,
3:15he would have fulfilled the devil's
3:17invitation to become one of the rulers
3:21over the kingdoms of this world.
3:25Now when evening came, his disciples
3:27went down to the sea, and after getting
3:29into a boat, they started to cross the
3:32sea to Capernaum.
3:34It had already become dark, and Jesus
3:36had not yet come to them. The sea began
3:39to be stirred up because a strong wind
3:42was blowing.
3:43Then when they had rode about three or
3:47four miles, they saw Jesus walking on
3:50the sea and drawing near to the boat,
3:52and they were frightened. But he said to
3:55them, "It is I. Do not be afraid."
3:59So they were willing to receive him into
4:01the boat, and immediately the boat was
4:03at the land to which they were going.
4:06The next day, the crowd that stood on
4:07the other side of the sea saw that there
4:10was no other small boat there except
4:13one, and that Jesus had not entered with
4:15his disciples into the boat, but that
4:18his disciples had gone away alone.
4:21There came other small boats from
4:23Tiberias near the place where they ate
4:26the bread after the Lord had given
4:28thanks. So when the crowd saw that Jesus
4:30was not there nor his disciples, they
4:32themselves got into the small boats and
4:35came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.
4:39When they found him on the other side of
4:40the sea, they said they said to him,
4:43"Rabbi, when did you get here?"
4:48Jesus answered and said, "Truly, truly,
4:51I say to you, you seek me not because
4:54you saw the signs, but because you ate
4:57of the loaves and were filled."
5:00He's saying, "You want something natural
5:03from me." And he's going to use the
5:06metaphor of the feeding the 5000s. He's
5:09going to use that as a metaphor of them
5:12seeking a natural answer when God is
5:15providing a spiritual answer.
5:17So right here we have the framework of
5:21wanting natural bread,
5:23not the spiritual reality that Jesus is
5:26bringing. So he says, "You seek me
5:29because you ate of the loaves and were
5:31filled. Do not work for the food which
5:35perishes,
5:37but for the food which endures to
5:39eternal life, which the Son of Man will
5:41give to you. for on him the father God
5:45has set his seal.
5:48So he's saying you guys are working,
5:51you're endeavoring, you're laboring for
5:53the wrong food, and you should be
5:56seeking a different kind of food. The
5:58food he spoke of in chapter 4 of doing
6:01the will of God.
6:03Therefore, they said to him, "What shall
6:05we do so that we may work the works of
6:08God?" Like, okay, how do we do this?
6:12Jesus answered and said to them, "This
6:14is the work of God that you believe in
6:17him whom [clears throat] he has sent."
6:22You believe and act on and accept the
6:26anointing of Almighty Father in the life
6:30of this visible man that you know as
6:33Jesus. So they said to him, "What then
6:36do you do for a sign so that we may see
6:38and believe you? What work do you
6:40perform?
6:43It's just a ploy. They want him to do
6:45things for them.
6:48Our fathers ate mana in the wilderness.
6:50As it is written, he gave them bread out
6:52of heaven to eat. So, they're thinking
6:55about the natural bread again. They're
6:57thinking about the loaves and fishes
6:58again. Maybe their bellies are growling
7:00again.
7:01Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say
7:05to you, it is not Moses who has given
7:09you the bread out of heaven, but it is
7:11my father who gives you the true bread
7:15out of heaven." [clears throat]
7:17So, here we have a physical bread versus
7:21a true bread.
7:24We would think that the spiritual bread
7:26well was the spiritual bread, but the
7:29true bread was the barley stuff. It was
7:31the wheat stuff. But he says, you've got
7:35physical and then you've got true bread.
7:38For Jesus, the spiritual is more real
7:42than the natural. Truly, truly, I say to
7:45you, it is not Moses who has given you
7:47the bread out of heaven, but it is my
7:49father who gives you the true bread out
7:51of heaven. For the bread of God is that
7:55which comes down out of heaven and gives
7:57life to the world. It's the incarnated
8:01presence of God.
8:03Then they said to him, "Lord, always
8:06give us this bread."
8:09Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of
8:12life.
8:14He who comes to me will not hunger, and
8:17he who believes in me will never thirst.
8:21But I said to you that you have seen me
8:24and yet do not believe.
8:27They are able to visually see his
8:30physical form, but they don't believe
8:32the one who's living in him.
8:38All that the father gives me will come
8:41to me. And the one who comes to me, I
8:44will certainly not cast away.
8:48And the one who comes to me, I will
8:50certainly not cast out.
8:53For I have come down from heaven not to
8:56do my own will, but the will of him who
8:59sent me. This is tapping in to the
9:01conflict in the previous chapter 5 when
9:04he healed on the Sabbath and they
9:06accused him of doing the works and he's
9:09saying, "I'm still doing the will of him
9:11who sent me. This is the will of him who
9:14sent me.
9:17Here's his mission. This is the will of
9:19him who sent me that of all he has given
9:22me, I lose nothing but raise it up on
9:24the last day. For this is the will of my
9:27father that everyone who beholds the son
9:32and believes in him will have eternal
9:35life and I myself will raise him up on
9:38the last day. Now this is shockingly
9:42similar to the previous chapter when he
9:44tells them they will escape judgment and
9:47death if they can hear the son and
9:50believe the father. Here he's saying the
9:53exact same thing. This is the will of my
9:55father.
9:57Everyone who beholds the son
10:01and believes in him
10:04will have eternal life. and I myself
10:07will raise him up on the last day.
10:10Therefore, the Jews were grumbling about
10:12him because he said, "I am the bread
10:14that came down out of heaven." They were
10:17saying, "Is not this Jesus the son of
10:20Joseph?"
10:22They can only behold the son. They
10:25cannot believe in the voice that is in
10:27him.
10:29Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph,
10:32whose father and mother we know? How
10:36does he now say, "I have come down out
10:38of heaven."
10:40Jesus answered and said to them, "Do not
10:43grumble among yourselves.
10:45No one can come to me unless the Father
10:48who sent me draws him, and I will raise
10:51him up on the last day." If you don't
10:54love the voice of the Father, if you
10:57don't know the voice of the Father,
10:58you're not going to be drawn to Jesus
11:01because he is the voice of the father.
11:05So if you don't hear the father and
11:07believe the father when you hear
11:09Christ's voice then of course you don't
11:12get it.
11:14It is written in the prophets and they
11:17shall all be taught of God. Therefore
11:21who has heard and learned from the
11:23father comes to me.
11:26Those who love and have relationship
11:27with f with the father are going to
11:29recognize him in Jesus.
11:33Not that anyone has seen the Father
11:35except the one who is from God, he has
11:37seen the Father.
11:39Truly, truly, I say to you, he who
11:42believes has eternal life. I am the
11:45bread of life.
11:49You want life in you? You can't have
11:51life without eating, can you?
11:54But Jesus is saying that life is
11:56temporal.
11:58Food gives you nourishment to keep your
12:01physical body alive and active. But he's
12:04saying if you'll receive of me, you're
12:07going to have life also. But it's not
12:10temporal life to keep your physical body
12:12alive and active. It's eternal life. If
12:16you will receive of Jesus, you're going
12:18to have life inside of you. Eternal
12:21life.
12:23Just like a person is going to die
12:25without food, you're going to die if you
12:29don't accept the grace that is coming of
12:33the father in human form.
12:35He is the father's spiritual grace made
12:40audible, visible, tangible,
12:43receivable in human form.
12:48Your fathers ate mana in the wilderness
12:51and they died.
12:54So he's saying
12:56physical food didn't keep them alive
12:59forever.
13:01Your fathers ate mana in the wilderness
13:03and they died. Physical food didn't keep
13:05them alive forever. This is the bread
13:08which comes down out of heaven so that
13:10one may eat it and not die. I am the
13:14living bread that came down out of
13:17heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he
13:20will live forever. And the bread also
13:23which I will give for the life of the
13:25world is my flesh.
13:28So [snorts] that he's saying you can't
13:31have the father
13:33outside of the form that he has taken in
13:36Christ. If you're not going to accept
13:39the incarnated God, you're not going to
13:43get God at all. You're going to die in
13:46your sins.
13:48Then the Jews began to argue with one
13:50another, saying, "How can this man give
13:52us his flesh to eat?"
13:56But think about it, please.
13:59He's saying you can't internalize the
14:03spiritual grace of the father except in
14:07the form of a human flesh that he is
14:10coming in.
14:13You've got to accept that this is how
14:15you metabolize spiritually what you need
14:19from the father.
14:21You've got to accept the father in the
14:24flesh. All the fullness of the father
14:27dwelt in Jesus in bodily form.
14:30But even the body of Christ is an
14:33expression of this reality
14:36because he says whoever receives you
14:38receives me and him who sent me.
14:42Paul told tells the Galatians you
14:44received me as Christ Jesus himself.
14:47Jesus said whatever you do to the least
14:49of these my brethren you do to me.
14:52So Paul says to the church, we are that
14:58one bread, that one loaf.
15:03So we have got to partake of each
15:06other's lives as these small fragments
15:10of this composite loaf that is Christ.
15:14That is the invisible, spiritual God
15:19made audible, visible, tangible,
15:23receivable in our world. This is what it
15:26means to accept that Jesus Christ is
15:30coming in our human flesh. He continues
15:33to come in our human flesh.
15:37We want to receive a God we cannot see,
15:40but we are very reluctant to receive
15:42from people we can see. They couldn't
15:45receive from the perfect Christ in who
15:48dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead.
15:51How much harder is it for us to receive
15:53from imperfect people the portions, the
15:57small deposits of Christ's gift in
16:01composite form.
16:03Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly,
16:06I say to you, unless you eat the flesh
16:10of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
16:14you have no life in yourselves."
16:16He's saying, "Unless you completely
16:19accept
16:21God incarnate."
16:23The word incarnate has the same root as
16:26flesh.
16:28Carnal or carne meaning flesh. God
16:32incarnate.
16:35Unless you eat my flesh and drink my
16:37blood, you have no life in yourselves.
16:40Now, he's not speaking in a physical
16:42sense. He's speaking in a spiritual
16:45sense.
16:47He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood
16:49has eternal life, and I will raise him
16:51up on the last day. For my flesh is true
16:55food, and my blood is true drink.
16:59He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood
17:01abides in me and I in him. As the living
17:06Father sent me, and I live because of
17:09the Father, so he who eats me, he also
17:13will live because of me. This is the
17:16bread which comes down out of heaven.
17:18Not as the fathers ate and died. He who
17:22eats this bread will live forever. So
17:25he's saying the father is living and I
17:28am alive because his spirit is in me. I
17:31live because of him. But if you will
17:33receive him in this human form, you also
17:37will have life. But you can't receive or
17:41internalize the father except by
17:44receiving him in incarnate form from
17:48this point on. This is the way the
17:52father is coming to his people from this
17:54moment on. There's no other way. There's
17:57no other door. There's no other means.
18:00And he's using words that are
18:01purposefully distasteful, but they are
18:05shockingly vivid
18:07in terms of how we must metabolize
18:11the grace and presence of the invisible
18:14God. So that he does not become an idol
18:17of our own minds, an idol of our own
18:20making and remaking in our own little
18:23temples of religiosity, but instead he
18:27still continues to be real and present
18:30and visible and tangible in our world.
18:34These things he said in the synagogue as
18:37he taught in Capernaum. Therefore, many
18:41of his disciples when they heard this
18:43said, "This is a difficult statement.
18:47Who can listen to it?"
18:50But Jesus, conscious that his disciples
18:52grumbled at this, said to them, "Does
18:56this cause you to stumble?
18:59What then? If you see the Son of Man
19:01ascending to where he was before,
19:05it is the spirit who gives life.
19:08The flesh profits nothing.
19:12The words that I have spoken to you are
19:14spirit and are life.
19:17But there are some of you who do not
19:18believe.
19:21Okay, this is fascinating because he's
19:23just told them. [sighs and gasps]
19:26Okay, you got to get this.
19:29People hear him saying that you've got
19:31to eat my flesh and drink my blood and
19:33they freak out. They say this is a hard
19:35saying and who can stand it? And Jesus
19:39says, "Does this cause you to stumble?"
19:42The literal there is, "Does this offend
19:44you?"
19:45He says, "Well, then what are you going
19:47to do when you see the son of man
19:49ascending into heaven?"
19:51Now, some of his disciples were going to
19:53see him ascend into heaven
19:56as it describes in Acts 1. Correct? Why
20:00would they get offended at seeing him
20:02ascend into heaven?
20:06Because they want him to be their
20:08political hero. They have a natural
20:11kingdom in their minds. They have
20:14natural bread in their minds. They have
20:16a natural king in their minds. They've
20:19just tried to forcibly make him king.
20:21And he had to go he had to go hide
20:23himself to avoid it.
20:27So when the Son of Man ascends,
20:30he's ascending to glory.
20:33He's being exalted to the highest place.
20:36He's ascending to the the throne of the
20:38father where the lamb is going to sit on
20:40the throne of God, the one throne in
20:42heaven.
20:44This is the most powerful, glorious
20:47crowning moment in all of history when
20:51Jesus ascended. But if you have your
20:55affections on what is natural and
20:57physical and temporal,
21:00you're going to be disappointed,
21:02offended, let down as he's let up into
21:06heaven.
21:09So he says, "What are you going to do
21:10when you see that happen?" This is not
21:13random. He's pointing to the fact that
21:15they have the wrong desire and
21:18expectation.
21:19And then he makes this statement. He
21:21says, "It is the spirit who gives life.
21:23The flesh profits nothing." You're like,
21:26"Well, that makes sense if he's talking
21:30about why they're going to be offended
21:32at his ascension instead of going to
21:34Jerusalem to create a political
21:36kingdom." But I thought he was just
21:38saying that they needed to eat his
21:39flesh. So why is he saying the flesh
21:42profits nothing? Well, he's saying the
21:45reason you need to accept the flesh is
21:48not for the flesh. It's not the point,
21:51but it's for what the flesh delivers,
21:55and that is the spirit. The flesh is the
21:58conduit. It's the the spirit made
22:01visible.
22:03Do you get it? And he's saying, you are
22:05actually infatuated with my flesh. You
22:08want me to be your physical king, but I
22:11want you to understand
22:13that if you'll receive who I am, it's
22:16not about my flesh. It's about God in
22:19me. It's about the spirit in me. And
22:22that's what this is all about. The flesh
22:24profits nothing. It is the spirit who
22:26gives life. The words that I have spoken
22:28to you are spirit. You can't even
22:31interpret what I've said fleshly.
22:34You can't even interpret what I've said
22:36through a fleshly framework. It doesn't
22:38make sense.
22:40It makes you turn up your nose and walk
22:42away. But if you see it spiritually
22:46speaking, it makes perfect sense. So,
22:48we're supposed to eat his flesh in a
22:51spiritual way,
22:54but his flesh is a physical thing.
22:58We're supposed to know him, not
23:00according to our flesh, but according to
23:03the spirit that is coming through him to
23:05us.
23:07There are some of you who do not
23:09believe, for Jesus knew from the
23:11beginning who they were who did not
23:13believe, and who it was who would betray
23:16him. And he said, I don't think it's a
23:18coincidence here that he brings in
23:20betrayal in this chapter where he makes
23:23it clear that he's coming to bring a
23:26spiritual reality, not the political
23:29kingdom. That's why Judas is going to
23:32betray him because he doesn't want what
23:34Jesus is bringing. He wants him to be
23:36somebody else. And he was saying for
23:38this reason I have said to you that no
23:41one can come to me unless [music] it has
23:43been granted him from the father.
23:47You don't make the connection with me.
23:49You don't covenant with me. You don't
23:51accept me. You don't [music] see me. You
23:53don't appreciate me unless you first
23:55know the voice of the father and
23:57recognize his voice in me.
24:01As a result of this, many of his
24:03disciples withdrew and were not walking
24:06with him anymore.
24:11Jesus said to the twel,
24:13"You do not want to go away also, do
24:15you?"
24:18Simon Peter answered him, "Lord,
24:21to whom shall we go? You have the
24:25[music] words of eternal life.
24:29We have believed and have come to know
24:32that you are the holy one of God.
24:34Jesus answered them,
24:37"Did I myself not choose you, the twel?"
24:41And yet one of you is a devil.
24:45Now he meant [music] Judas the son of
24:46Simon a scariot. For he, one of the
24:49twel, was going to betray him.
24:54There are some people like Peter
24:58who know the voice of the father and
25:01they are drawn to him because of the
25:05voice of the father. We have come to
25:07[music] know and believe that you are
25:10the holy one of God because you have the
25:13words of eternal life. Peter gets it.
25:18The father is life. You are [music]
25:20speaking his words. We are eating those
25:23words as true mana. And now the life is
25:25inside of us. Judas didn't get it
25:29because Judas didn't love the voice of
25:31the father. And so he's going to be
25:34disappointed. He's going to be offended
25:36at these words at the ascension. It's
25:38[music] not what he wants.

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