WEBVTT 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:01.920 I'm going invite you to John chapter six. 00:00:02.440 --> 00:00:03.610 John six is we're going to be today. 00:00:03.940 --> 00:00:05.320 We're in the middle of John six. 00:00:05.340 --> 00:00:07.100 John six is a rather long chapter. 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:08.850 It's one of the longer chapters of John. 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:12.820 We're going to deal with the section that makes it so long. 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:19.920 What you're going to see in John chapter six, I'm not going to go through every detail of this section, I'm going to do the fly over and get to the conclusion here 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:20.510 at the end. 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:28.560 But the reason this section is so long is there's this dialogue that's happening between the people that are following Jesus and 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:29.000 Jesus. 00:00:29.080 --> 00:00:36.260 It's the crowds and Jesus and they asked Jesus six questions and Jesus ends with this passage by asking a couple of questions 00:00:36.260 --> 00:00:37.060 of his own. 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:40.420 In verse 62 and 67, he asked a couple of questions. 00:00:40.500 --> 00:00:47.580 So there is this longer dialogue of the crowd asking Jesus questions and Jesus responding to the crowd and Jesus says, I'll 00:00:47.580 --> 00:00:49.200 just being honest in this. 00:00:49.260 --> 00:00:56.640 If I had to deal with the passage this week, I would not necessarily have chosen this passage for this week because this week has had a lot in it for me, but 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:58.750 this is a difficult passage of scripture. 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:01.240 It's probably why the dialogue lasted so long. 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:08.820 I mean, you look in John chapter six, the kind of things Jesus, that we titled this Eat Jesus, but we'll look at these next verses that Jesus says in John 00:01:08.820 --> 00:01:11.080 chapter six, You can click for me there. 00:01:12.160 --> 00:01:14.700 John six, Let me read it here. 00:01:14.740 --> 00:01:15.960 Verse 56, listen to this. 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:23.460 "The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life." This is the conclusion Jesus is driving to in this passage to 00:01:23.460 --> 00:01:29.640 say this kind of statement, verse 56, eat my flesh, drink my blood, like who says that? 00:01:30.540 --> 00:01:32.740 Who's okay with someone saying that? 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:40.840 Are they thinking about Hannibal Lecter, maybe, or Jeffrey Dahmer or people that are weird and Twilight, 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:42.680 like vampires, I don't know. 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:44.180 Who says this kind of thing? 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:51.460 That's what we got to deal with today in this passage and then it goes on a little bit further than that in verse 66, "As a result 00:01:51.460 --> 00:01:58.660 of this, many of his disciples left and would no longer walk with him." So I guess in this passage, 00:01:58.780 --> 00:02:01.460 if we're not talking about eating and drinking blood, right? 00:02:01.500 --> 00:02:04.430 Eating flesh, drinking blood, and half of us don't get mad and quit. 00:02:04.600 --> 00:02:07.290 Am I really doing justice to this passage? 00:02:07.300 --> 00:02:10.220 That's what this passage is about today. 00:02:10.220 --> 00:02:17.660 So how do you deal with this section of scripture in a way that everyone's going to walk away and be like, "Yeah, let's follow Jesus," right? 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:20.460 It's the strange thing. 00:02:20.540 --> 00:02:26.760 In chapter six, when the crowd was interacting with Jesus over this, they felt the same way. 00:02:26.760 --> 00:02:32.820 So if you're reading this thinking, "What does this mean?" That's why this crowd asked six questions of Jesus, right? 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:35.800 Then Jesus gives a couple of questions himself. 00:02:36.600 --> 00:02:38.720 But here's where Jesus starts this discussion. 00:02:38.720 --> 00:02:39.920 I'm going to pick up in verse 24. 00:02:41.220 --> 00:02:43.910 The crowd is embracing Jesus. 00:02:44.860 --> 00:02:46.160 Typically you think, "That's great. 00:02:46.180 --> 00:02:52.470 They're embracing Jesus." But usually when you read the gospels and you read the word crowd, anything that follows after that, it's typically stupid. 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:58.340 That's kind of what happens when the big group got around Jesus, dumb things tended to happen. 00:02:59.160 --> 00:03:02.680 Here's the crowd around Jesus, the crowd is embracing Jesus. 00:03:03.340 --> 00:03:06.320 But what you find out is they're embracing Jesus for temporary pleasure. 00:03:07.320 --> 00:03:09.200 They want a temporary provisions of Jesus. 00:03:10.060 --> 00:03:12.300 It's not the same as wanting Jesus. 00:03:13.780 --> 00:03:16.010 They want what Jesus has giving them temporarily. 00:03:16.380 --> 00:03:17.680 They don't necessarily want him. 00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:21.400 They're following Jesus because it's convenient. 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:28.300 I mean, remember this story, that's how the chapter six starts, Jesus feeds 5,000 people or 5,000 men could have been more than that. 00:03:28.440 --> 00:03:33.630 If it's not including women and children in the number, it may have been 15, 20,000 people that Jesus fed. 00:03:33.740 --> 00:03:41.220 Pretty impressive thing, kind of convenient to follow Jesus, got all your meals taken care of and in a culture where there's no for refrigeration, that's an important thing. 00:03:41.220 --> 00:03:43.180 You wake up and let's just follow Jesus. 00:03:43.420 --> 00:03:44.340 Jesus will feed us. 00:03:44.340 --> 00:03:46.020 Now Jesus is telling us to eat him. 00:03:46.040 --> 00:03:47.200 This is weird. 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:54.120 Verse 24, "So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there nor his disciples." So you remember this story, he feeds the 5,000. 00:03:54.300 --> 00:03:55.760 Jesus sends his disciples in a boat. 00:03:55.900 --> 00:04:03.320 Jesus leaves the crowd, goes up on a mountain to pray by himself and they never see Jesus do anything other than go up on this mountain to pray by himself. 00:04:03.880 --> 00:04:05.420 Now all of a sudden they can't find Jesus. 00:04:06.140 --> 00:04:09.970 So verse 24, " So the crowd saw the Jesus is not there nor his disciples. 00:04:10.060 --> 00:04:14.580 They themselves got into the small boats to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 00:04:15.160 --> 00:04:20.160 And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, rabbi, when did you get here?" Question one. 00:04:21.200 --> 00:04:24.200 Jesus answered them and said, "Truly, truly I say to you seek me. 00:04:24.200 --> 00:04:31.540 Not because you saw signs, but because you ate some of the loaves and were filled." This is what Jesus is saying, you know why you're following me? 00:04:31.820 --> 00:04:33.390 You're following me because you're shallow. 00:04:33.540 --> 00:04:34.220 That's what Jesus said. 00:04:34.280 --> 00:04:35.520 You're not following me because of me. 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:36.880 You don't really care about me. 00:04:36.880 --> 00:04:38.980 You're following me because of what you get from me. 00:04:39.440 --> 00:04:41.480 So Jesus has questioning their faith. 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:45.210 It's like this year, I don't know if you follow sports. 00:04:45.900 --> 00:04:50.360 I think sometimes it can be fun watching men get overpaid to bounce a ball and throw it in a hoop. 00:04:50.700 --> 00:04:51.920 I'm watching basketball this year. 00:04:51.980 --> 00:04:54.140 This might be the year that the jazz win the championship. 00:04:54.400 --> 00:04:58.930 But I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you, after this year, they're going to sell a lot of shirts and a lot of hats. 00:04:59.110 --> 00:05:00.810 This is the year they're going to win the championship. 00:05:01.400 --> 00:05:07.580 If you say that you're a jazz fan after this year, no one's counting that you fair weather fan. 00:05:07.760 --> 00:05:11.040 That is not genuine Utah jazz fan ship, right? 00:05:11.320 --> 00:05:15.940 That is not a fanatic that's just following it because it's convenient and you happen to live in the town. 00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:23.140 That's the same thing here with Jesus, they're in the area, it's convenient, they're saying they're followers of Jesus, but they're not really because they're not willing to follow 00:05:23.140 --> 00:05:24.340 Jesus when it's difficult. 00:05:24.340 --> 00:05:31.360 They're just following Jesus when it's convenient and Jesus is identifying for this, "Look, you need to question your faith for just a moment, 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:39.360 because it might seem just a little shallow." Verse 27, "Do not work for the food that perishes Jesus says, 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.660 but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the son of man will give you. 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:51.940 For on him, the father God has set his seal." Jesus is saying, "Look, I've got 00:05:51.940 --> 00:05:59.360 the approval of the father in this," but he's saying, "Look, you guys work so hard to come across the sea just 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:06.900 to get to me simply because I was convenient for you in that moment." Verse 28. 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:14.160 '"And therefore they said to him, what are we to do so that we may work the works of God?" So 00:06:14.220 --> 00:06:18.740 Jesus is saying, "Look, you're working really hard for this temporary stuff, but what about this eternal stuff? 00:06:19.980 --> 00:06:26.100 What about working for the that?" So they asked the question, "What must we do to work the works of God?" Now here's a trick question. 00:06:26.140 --> 00:06:27.280 I'm going to let you know it's a trick question. 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:28.730 So you can think about this for a minute. 00:06:29.740 --> 00:06:35.220 Will works save you? 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:37.710 Some of you may already... 00:06:37.980 --> 00:06:39.870 I thought you know the answer so I called it a trick question. 00:06:40.220 --> 00:06:46.170 Typically in Christianity, we will say no, but here's the rest of this that I'm not telling you fully. 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:51.300 Truth is works will save you, but not yours. 00:06:54.320 --> 00:06:55.430 Your works won't save you. 00:06:57.760 --> 00:07:03.160 His works on your behalf save you. 00:07:04.460 --> 00:07:09.940 What he did for you as your great rescuer, that's what saves you. 00:07:10.860 --> 00:07:13.780 So Jesus said this, look in verse 29. 00:07:13.820 --> 00:07:14.650 This is an important verse. 00:07:16.180 --> 00:07:18.420 "Jesus answered and said to them, this is the work of God. 00:07:18.520 --> 00:07:20.540 You want to know what you do must do to work the works of God. 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:21.770 You want to know how you earn your salvation. 00:07:22.440 --> 00:07:23.540 You want to know how you get to heaven? 00:07:24.280 --> 00:07:25.760 That you believe in him who sent you. 00:07:27.420 --> 00:07:28.560 It's not about what you do. 00:07:29.760 --> 00:07:35.820 It's about what he's done for you." Jesus says that it's because of his work for you. 00:07:35.860 --> 00:07:38.670 It's about your belief in his finished work for you. 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:43.840 That's so Ephesians 2:8-9, I had someone tell me once, "Well, Faith is a work, right? 00:07:44.380 --> 00:07:48.060 Well Ephesians 2:8-9, "For by grace, are you saved through faith. 00:07:49.540 --> 00:07:51.450 God's grace, saved through faith. 00:07:51.460 --> 00:07:58.920 Believing not of yourselves, it's a gift, not of works, lest anyone should boast." Faith is 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:03.540 an opposition to work and Ephesians 2:8-9, "Not of works lest anyone should vote by grace. 00:08:03.540 --> 00:08:04.220 Are you saved through faith? 00:08:04.460 --> 00:08:10.660 Not of works, lest anyone should boast." So faith is not a work, but what we put our faith in is the finished work of Christ. 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:12.720 It's his work that saves us. 00:08:14.440 --> 00:08:14.840 Verse 30. 00:08:15.020 --> 00:08:22.280 So they said to him, "What then are you doing as a sign so that we may see and believe." So, if you're counting this third 00:08:22.280 --> 00:08:22.630 question. 00:08:22.840 --> 00:08:24.000 What are we going to do? 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:24.860 The works of God. 00:08:25.280 --> 00:08:32.020 Then he says, "What are you going to do as a sign Lord so that we may see and believe you, what work are you performing? 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:35.140 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness as is written. 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:43.559 He gave them bread out of heaven to eat." Well when you read that, my 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:45.140 mind just becomes a little critical here. 00:08:45.740 --> 00:08:47.720 I read this and they asked Jesus, what work you want to do? 00:08:47.740 --> 00:08:49.250 I just look at this and think of what a joke. 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:53.020 Have you not read the first six chapters of John? 00:08:53.320 --> 00:09:01.380 I mean, these are the people just ate the bread that Jesus filled with just a few loaves, over 5,000 people. 00:09:01.580 --> 00:09:08.070 Now they're asking him, "What miracle are you going to do?" I mean, he went to the wedding at Canaan and he healed. 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:13.620 He display this love for the woman at the well, he healed the official son who was dying. 00:09:13.620 --> 00:09:15.650 He went to the Portico and he healed the lame man. 00:09:16.140 --> 00:09:23.180 He fed the crowd, 5,000 people, and now they're asking the question, what miracle are you going to do so that we 00:09:23.180 --> 00:09:24.700 believe in you, Jesus? 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:28.340 The reality is Jesus had already done enough. 00:09:30.400 --> 00:09:33.420 The question really for them, but it's just simply, what do you want to do with him? 00:09:33.420 --> 00:09:36.200 This is what they're asking is, "Jesus entertain us. 00:09:37.700 --> 00:09:38.900 Moses was pretty good. 00:09:39.900 --> 00:09:41.590 So why don't you try to be better than Moses? 00:09:41.820 --> 00:09:43.700 If you're better than Moses will believe in you. 00:09:43.980 --> 00:09:45.770 Moses gave us manna. 00:09:46.100 --> 00:09:53.120 In verse 32, then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, it is not Moses was given you the bread out of heaven, but it is my father 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:55.180 who gives you the true bread out of heaven. 00:09:55.680 --> 00:10:02.700 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world." Jesus corrects 00:10:02.700 --> 00:10:05.500 him he says, "Look, Moses wasn't the one that really gave you the manna. 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:11.520 Maybe Moses talked to the Lord and God sent the manna, but it wasn't Moses who gave you the manna. 00:10:12.820 --> 00:10:20.080 It was God who gave you the manna and the true manna comes straight from heaven." In verse 34, then they said to him, "Lord, 00:10:20.680 --> 00:10:27.720 always give us this bread." If it was God who really sent it and you're telling us that it will come from 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:30.620 heaven, then give us this bread. 00:10:32.040 --> 00:10:36.060 Then in verse 35, Jesus gives this very strong, bold statement. 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:44.660 So the crowds embracing Jesus for temporary pleasure, but Jesus here teaches us that we should simply embrace him because of who he 00:10:44.660 --> 00:10:46.860 is and he makes this declaration now, verse 35. 00:10:47.300 --> 00:10:51.380 "And Jesus said, I am the bread of life. 00:10:53.060 --> 00:11:00.200 The one who comes to me will not be hungry and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty." 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:04.080 Here's what Jesus is saying. 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:12.700 Jesus is about to put a big fork in the road in following him, not a Fairweather convenient following him anymore. 00:11:13.880 --> 00:11:17.280 It's about understanding who he is and making the decision to follow him. 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:21.740 If I were asking you the question this morning, why do you follow Jesus? 00:11:25.380 --> 00:11:26.160 Why are you even here? 00:11:29.300 --> 00:11:31.020 What's so important about him to you? 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:38.570 Jesus says in verse 35, "I am the bread of life." You'll recognize this. 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:45.560 This statement is very powerful statement because what Jesus is saying is echo, I, me, I am. 00:11:46.560 --> 00:11:50.980 Jesus is taking on the name of God in the old Testament in Exodus, chapter three. 00:11:52.580 --> 00:11:54.850 It's the name that God delivered to Moses. 00:11:55.680 --> 00:12:03.060 When Moses said, "When I go before Pharaoh, and I tell Pharaoh to let Israel go, they're slaves in this land and that 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:09.680 you call them to be free and you, and I'm saying this before Pharaoh and the people ask me who in the world told you to come before favor and say this? 00:12:09.880 --> 00:12:10.900 Who do you think you are? 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:18.400 What am I going to tell the people God?" And he says, "Tell them I am has sent you, the 00:12:18.540 --> 00:12:25.760 great one, God almighty." When Jesus is talking about this bread, this bread of eternal life, the reason why 00:12:25.760 --> 00:12:32.940 he knows that this bread can sustain him, not just this physical convenient bread that he delivered, but this actual bread of life forever, 00:12:32.940 --> 00:12:37.140 the reason he knows that he can provide this Is because he's the one for which the provision comes. 00:12:37.660 --> 00:12:38.280 He is God. 00:12:38.340 --> 00:12:40.060 So this is what they're saying about Moses. 00:12:40.460 --> 00:12:41.920 "Moses gave us bread. 00:12:42.040 --> 00:12:43.040 Moses was awesome. 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:47.700 Be better than Moses Jesus." And Jesus says to them, "Look it wasn't Moses that gave you bread. 00:12:47.700 --> 00:12:51.380 It was God that gave you bread." "Well, give us this bread then Jesus. 00:12:51.380 --> 00:12:52.220 Give us this bread. 00:12:52.220 --> 00:12:53.300 If it's God that gave us bread. 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:57.640 And you think that you can get this bread, give us this bread." And Jesus is saying, "I can give you this bread. 00:12:57.660 --> 00:13:00.040 The reason I can give you this bread is because I am. 00:13:02.180 --> 00:13:03.240 I am. 00:13:04.930 --> 00:13:11.940 I am the one who's coming from heaven to give that life to you." Look what the Jews do in verse 41. 00:13:15.040 --> 00:13:22.260 So then the Jews were complaining about him because he said, I am the bread that came down out of 00:13:22.260 --> 00:13:23.110 heaven. 00:13:24.140 --> 00:13:25.600 They Were doing and what good church people do. 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:27.680 They grumble when things don't go the way they want, I'm just kidding. 00:13:27.700 --> 00:13:28.680 You guys all do that at all. 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:29.840 Just kidding. 00:13:29.880 --> 00:13:36.180 But they start complaining and grumbling about the thought that Jesus has about himself. 00:13:36.180 --> 00:13:42.280 This was blasphemous to them to think that something could come from him, that God would come from him, that he has God come from heaven. 00:13:45.860 --> 00:13:52.880 The fact the Jews had never seen God. 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:59.130 In fact, I will tell you anyone that tells you they've ever seen God, the father, the scripture says that that's not even possible. 00:14:00.780 --> 00:14:03.100 John 6:46 in this passage says it. 00:14:05.560 --> 00:14:12.520 First book of John chapter one verse 18 says it, First Timothy chapter six verse 16 says it, Exodus chapter 33 verse 20 says it. 00:14:14.300 --> 00:14:19.120 But now God has become flesh and dwelt among them. 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:25.540 Verse 51, rather than back off of this statement. 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:27.290 Jesus digs in deeper. 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:30.600 "I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. 00:14:30.920 --> 00:14:33.960 If anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever. 00:14:34.180 --> 00:14:41.320 And the bread which I will give for the life of the world also is my flesh." As Jesus is saying, "All right, 00:14:41.760 --> 00:14:43.710 not only am I saying, I am the bread of life. 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:51.220 I'm telling you, drink my blood, eat my flesh." And then it says in the next verse 52, 00:14:51.300 --> 00:14:58.500 "Then the Jews began to argue with one another saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat?" And Jesus, 00:14:58.740 --> 00:15:01.320 rather than back off, He triples down. 00:15:02.820 --> 00:15:09.840 Verse 53, so Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:14.960 the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. 00:15:16.220 --> 00:15:23.700 The one who eats my flesh and drinks, my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day." 00:15:23.700 --> 00:15:31.240 As a result of this, many of his disciples left, in verse 60, and would no longer walk with him. 00:15:33.040 --> 00:15:40.620 That's a very challenging statement, especially a challenging statement for the Jews without proper understanding. 00:15:40.620 --> 00:15:41.800 I mean this will be offensive. 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:49.300 You think he's talking about people that have strict dietary laws, they don't eat pork, let alone people, and Jesus is 00:15:49.300 --> 00:15:52.460 coming to them and making this kind of a statement. 00:15:52.880 --> 00:15:59.980 When you understand the Israel's history is in regards to what Jesus is saying, this would have been the kind of statement that would have shocked 00:15:59.980 --> 00:16:03.360 them to consider the very words that Jesus is speaking here. 00:16:03.520 --> 00:16:07.600 Because the Jews, according to old Testament command, they weren't supposed to drink blood. 00:16:10.060 --> 00:16:13.900 In fact, Genesis chapter nine, first six verses of Genesis chapter nine. 00:16:14.260 --> 00:16:21.620 God gives the command not to drink of blood and Exodus chapter 17 verses 11 to 14, don't drink blood. 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:28.700 There was a common practice in pagan societies where they would drink blood. 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:38.040 In fact, Exodus chapter 17 highlights, really one of the reasons why, it tells you there is life in blood, there's life in the 00:16:38.040 --> 00:16:44.580 blood, not that they didn't understand the science to the degree that we have come to understand it today. 00:16:44.880 --> 00:16:52.000 Especially medically, all the details about blood that we know today, but they knew enough to know that if you don't have blood, 00:16:52.020 --> 00:16:52.940 you die, right? 00:16:53.080 --> 00:17:00.510 You lose blood, you die and there was this belief, because they recognize when blood drained enough from a body, the body would die, that in pagan societies, 00:17:00.700 --> 00:17:07.780 when they would worship pagan gods, they would drink blood because they believed that they would take from that the live source of 00:17:07.780 --> 00:17:12.300 whatever that blood was drained from the individual or the living being. 00:17:12.339 --> 00:17:17.460 They would drain his blood, drink the blood and this belief that they would gain life from it. 00:17:17.460 --> 00:17:24.099 It would be all about themselves and serving themselves and partaking of this pagan ritual. 00:17:24.099 --> 00:17:28.500 But God wanted to create this difference between his people and other people. 00:17:28.500 --> 00:17:35.500 Because other people, when you make your life about self, what you find is that you use other people as tools to their 00:17:35.500 --> 00:17:37.380 destruction in your game. 00:17:39.560 --> 00:17:47.820 Even in these pagan societies, these rituals, they would take life in order of what they believed, get 00:17:47.820 --> 00:17:48.720 life for themselves. 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:50.840 It was about self promotion. 00:17:52.500 --> 00:17:58.250 God wanted to make this distinguished between them and him. 00:18:00.840 --> 00:18:01.540 Don't drink blood Israel. 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:09.520 Don't drink blood because life is not about you. 00:18:09.840 --> 00:18:14.800 So God made laws against drinking blood to distinguish from these pagan groups. 00:18:18.140 --> 00:18:22.440 But Jesus, in this passage, he did something a little more here. 00:18:22.520 --> 00:18:27.580 I think he went further than just this idea of drinking blood and eating his flesh literally. 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:37.670 God didn't literally mean eat and drink Jesus and he made it obvious when he drew this correlation. 00:18:38.260 --> 00:18:43.420 If you remember in the beginning of John chapter six, John chapter six is all about the feeding of the 5,000. 00:18:44.060 --> 00:18:51.140 The reason the crowd is following Jesus is because he fed the 5,000 and it's here then that Jesus in that illustration 00:18:51.140 --> 00:18:58.480 starts to make the bigger illustration of not just the physical of eating of the bread, but the spiritual contemplation 00:18:58.480 --> 00:18:59.940 that should come along with that. 00:19:00.180 --> 00:19:02.060 You can see it in verse 27, listen to this. 00:19:02.080 --> 00:19:09.360 I'll just read these words again, "Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which 00:19:09.360 --> 00:19:11.020 the son of man will give you. 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:18.400 For on him, the father, God has set his seal." Jesus is saying, "Look just as you took this physical food, I 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:24.180 don't want you to get just fixated on the temporal of following me, because it's about me. 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:27.240 I am. 00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:28.280 I am. 00:19:30.180 --> 00:19:31.880 It's not just about this physical world. 00:19:32.060 --> 00:19:39.380 It's about what I come to give spiritually." Which is why in verse 35, Jesus takes this perspective from the physical to the spiritual. 00:19:39.380 --> 00:19:46.380 He says verse 35, "The one who believes in me will never be thirsty." He's correlating the idea of physical thirst to the idea of spiritual 00:19:46.380 --> 00:19:51.480 thirst and he talks about believing as the source through which we no longer thirst spiritually. 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:58.880 Verse 40, "Everyone who sees the son and believes in him will have eternal life." The one who, verse 47, 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:00.720 believes has eternal life. 00:20:01.580 --> 00:20:05.080 Verse 63, it's the spirit that gives life, not the physical. 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:14.960 So Jesus is certainly taking this illustration, he is not saying, "Look, literally eat my blood and drink my flesh." You're 00:20:15.060 --> 00:20:16.520 different than the pagan societies. 00:20:19.020 --> 00:20:23.740 It's not about yourself, but himself. 00:20:25.540 --> 00:20:29.690 It's about trusting in him sufficiently. 00:20:33.040 --> 00:20:40.440 However, the Jews didn't want to follow the commitment Jesus was 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:41.960 asking in this passage. 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:51.700 So when they came to this point and Jesus started declaring himself the way that he did in this scripture, they started to realize 00:20:51.700 --> 00:20:54.600 the kind of commitment Jesus was asking people them. 00:20:57.160 --> 00:21:01.280 It's not about promoting yourself, in fact, it's about dying to self to embrace him. 00:21:02.560 --> 00:21:06.520 It's not selfishness, it's selflessness. 00:21:08.560 --> 00:21:15.800 They begin to realize that following Jesus was no longer convenient with the kind of sacrifice that Jesus was 00:21:15.800 --> 00:21:16.200 asking. 00:21:18.760 --> 00:21:20.960 So it tells us in this passage, what do the crowds do? 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:23.700 The crowds began to move away. 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:28.790 I mean, people could at this point begin to see the writing on the walls. 00:21:29.900 --> 00:21:36.920 The leaders in Israel didn't like Jesus, but the crowd's Fairweather fans were okay 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:41.630 just following him because in the temporary it was convenient to follow Jesus. 00:21:42.980 --> 00:21:50.080 But now as they listen to Jesus, they understand the kind of commitment that Jesus is asking of them as he gives his life with him, that they would give their 00:21:50.180 --> 00:21:51.010 life in return. 00:21:53.300 --> 00:21:54.200 They didn't want to go there. 00:21:56.620 --> 00:21:58.310 They didn't want to walk that kind of road. 00:21:58.620 --> 00:22:03.850 So rather than pursue this walk with Jesus, they hit the fork in the road and they went the other direction. 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:09.260 In fact, I would say the hang up in this passage, isn't actually for the Jews, it isn't drink my blood and eat my flesh. 00:22:09.380 --> 00:22:12.080 I think the Jews had a concept of this, that a Messiah would come. 00:22:12.080 --> 00:22:15.810 They had made sacrifices of a lamb who would ultimately be the Messiah. 00:22:16.620 --> 00:22:21.200 The hangup for them came, it says in verse 62, when Jesus finally asked his first question. 00:22:22.120 --> 00:22:26.240 Jesus, his first question to them deals with the idea that he says he came from heaven. 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:30.960 Did he really come from heaven for us? 00:22:33.460 --> 00:22:42.560 Too much of a sacrifice to lay our lives down for this and the crowd walked away, but not everyone, some stayed. 00:22:43.300 --> 00:22:50.600 In fact, when you study this passage historically, what's interesting about this passage of scripture is 00:22:50.600 --> 00:22:58.060 historically this section of scripture became a section of biblical literature that 00:22:58.060 --> 00:23:00.000 was used to persecute Christians. 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:09.060 In fact, there's a document historically called the Octavius of Marcus and Minucius Felix, right? 00:23:09.060 --> 00:23:16.280 So I think in case you want to know how to say that again, we have a slide that tells you this, you guys want to give me a click to the next slide for just a minute? 00:23:16.380 --> 00:23:16.660 There you go. 00:23:17.380 --> 00:23:19.520 Octavius of Marcus and Minucius Felix, there you go. 00:23:20.380 --> 00:23:27.420 It written at the end of the second century by this man named Felix, who writes about a guy named Octavius, who was a 00:23:27.420 --> 00:23:34.720 Christian and his interaction with a pagan guy and all of the maligning that's brought against Christianity. 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:44.460 The church was persecuted for the first 300 plus years of its existence and they were accused of all sorts of things, being grossly 00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:51.460 immoral, being poor and lower class people, being atheist believe it or not because they only worship one God and 00:23:51.460 --> 00:23:58.760 not the plethora of gods that people in Rome did, that they were self-righteous, that they were foolish, that they lacked patriotism and 00:23:58.760 --> 00:24:00.540 they were the cause of God's anger. 00:24:00.540 --> 00:24:07.680 I mean, if you read this document, it's a very short document, but at the very beginning the pagans tells the Christian that he's worthless 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:14.780 and all the reasons he thinks is worthless and the document ends with the man saying, we can't wait to find a reason to get angry at you so we could feed you to the lions. 00:24:16.760 --> 00:24:21.740 Out of all of the charges that this pagan brings against this Christian, that Felix writes about. 00:24:22.820 --> 00:24:27.300 By the way, no one knows if this story is true, or just the story that Felix may have heard and wrote down. 00:24:28.660 --> 00:24:35.860 But one of the charges against Christians and his day, Felix, is definitely writing against charges, brought against 00:24:35.860 --> 00:24:36.400 Christians. 00:24:38.120 --> 00:24:42.540 Historically speaking, one of the accusations is cannibalism. 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:52.980 He attacks this Christian because of this passage, Jesus said, "Eat, eat 00:24:52.980 --> 00:24:54.280 my flesh and drink my blood. 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:59.100 You guys are cannibals." Listen to what he says, you, Christians are the worst breed ever to affect the world. 00:24:59.120 --> 00:25:01.320 You deserve every punishment you can get. 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:02.180 Nobody likes you. 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:05.000 It would be better if you and your Jesus had never been born. 00:25:05.300 --> 00:25:06.710 We hear that you are all cannibals. 00:25:06.860 --> 00:25:09.740 You eat the flesh of your children and your sacred meetings. 00:25:09.840 --> 00:25:16.840 Octavius responds, "That story is probably based on reports that we share together, a meal of the body and the blood of Christ that 00:25:16.840 --> 00:25:19.040 we do, but it is not human flesh. 00:25:19.100 --> 00:25:20.840 We eat it's the bread and the wine. 00:25:20.900 --> 00:25:23.280 We concentrate to commemorate our Lord's death. 00:25:23.740 --> 00:25:26.790 It amazes me you give credibility to these rumors of cannibalism. 00:25:27.460 --> 00:25:34.500 You know, what we're like, keep in mind that if you have children and it's a girl, but you wanted a boy, or if the child has something wrong, or 00:25:34.500 --> 00:25:36.870 if you simply don't want it, what has done? 00:25:36.900 --> 00:25:44.000 You leave the child outside exposed to die and the pagan responds, "You know, that is far more merciful to let the baby die than to 00:25:44.020 --> 00:25:48.780 bring it up in a home where it's not wanted." And Octavius says we do not expose our children. 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:56.740 And you're well aware how so many of the little ones that you have left out to die have been rescued by Christians and given a home. 00:25:57.100 --> 00:25:59.340 So it's just the opposite of what you accuse us of. 00:25:59.840 --> 00:26:01.480 We don't consume human life. 00:26:02.100 --> 00:26:05.780 We rather protect it and defended it. 00:26:07.040 --> 00:26:08.290 Let me tell you why I saw this guys. 00:26:11.060 --> 00:26:16.820 In the early church being persecuted over a passage like this, that wasn't even true. 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:19.920 That's what Octavia says here. 00:26:19.940 --> 00:26:22.400 It's not even an accurate representation of us. 00:26:22.420 --> 00:26:23.880 You're just maligning us. 00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:31.100 When the early church was persecuted, they weren't persecuted simply because they loved Jesus. 00:26:34.100 --> 00:26:37.920 The society around them align them for far worse things. 00:26:40.340 --> 00:26:47.540 They would take this character of Christianity and blow it way out of proportion because of the hatred they had 00:26:47.540 --> 00:26:48.540 for those people. 00:26:48.540 --> 00:26:52.520 If all they were attacked for simply because they love Jesus. 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:54.550 People probably would've left them alone. 00:26:56.460 --> 00:27:01.950 But what they did is they started to inflate what it meant to follow Jesus in ways that weren't true. 00:27:03.360 --> 00:27:05.420 And the church found themselves persecuted. 00:27:08.380 --> 00:27:16.860 That's what makes this passage so important because what Jesus is driving at in this story is guys, "Guys 00:27:16.860 --> 00:27:19.700 crowd insta, crowd Israel, You're following me because it's convenient? 00:27:21.660 --> 00:27:25.470 But one day it's not going to be convenient. 00:27:28.080 --> 00:27:36.900 At the end of the day, the reason why you follow me matters because 00:27:36.900 --> 00:27:38.480 it might be all that you have. 00:27:41.380 --> 00:27:42.540 Why do you follow Jesus? 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:46.260 Why follow Jesus? 00:27:46.360 --> 00:27:52.460 This is why Jesus gave the statement in verse 35, that he was building too, you need to understand I am the great I am. 00:27:54.440 --> 00:27:57.220 Don't follow me simply because of what you get. 00:27:57.220 --> 00:28:05.220 Follow me because of who I am, why you follow Jesus matters. 00:28:06.780 --> 00:28:13.900 If you follow Jesus, simply because it's convenient, the moment something difficult happens, what happens? 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:15.820 You stop following Jesus. 00:28:16.840 --> 00:28:18.610 That's what the Jews did in this passage. 00:28:19.620 --> 00:28:26.660 And that's why it became so important in the first century to have this true understanding of who Christ was and be confident in that understanding because the 00:28:26.660 --> 00:28:33.960 world was going to persecute you and God doesn't call us to persecute the world back, but rather love our enemies, do good, pray for those who 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:34.900 persecute us. 00:28:35.140 --> 00:28:41.520 The only way you can ever stand on such a position is to have incredible confidence in exactly who Jesus is. 00:28:43.740 --> 00:28:45.040 Because guys this is what I fear. 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:52.240 We're at a place in our history where it's not convenient to follow Jesus anymore. 00:28:55.420 --> 00:29:00.880 Who he is matters. 00:29:02.040 --> 00:29:09.380 In fact, if you look back at the examples from the pagans who worshiped in idolatry, drinking blood to the Jews, can 00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:13.820 I tell you what motivated both forms of whatever path they took? 00:29:14.260 --> 00:29:17.140 The reason they went that route, the pagans, it was all about self. 00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:18.140 It was all about self. 00:29:19.780 --> 00:29:24.670 I want to drink that blood in order to get the power from that living being because it's about hating me. 00:29:25.220 --> 00:29:28.710 And the Jews, looking at Jesus in this moment and looking whether or not they want to pursue Jesus. 00:29:29.300 --> 00:29:32.810 The reason they chose not to pursue Jesus is this idea of self-preservation. 00:29:34.320 --> 00:29:40.340 It's all about health and in America today, do you know who our number one God is? 00:29:43.140 --> 00:29:46.120 It's elf. 00:29:46.220 --> 00:29:53.280 It's the worship of self, the idolatry of self, 00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:56.640 the convenience of self, the pleasure of self. 00:29:57.520 --> 00:29:59.900 We wake up in the morning and what is our life about? 00:29:59.900 --> 00:30:00.780 Whatever makes us happy. 00:30:01.580 --> 00:30:05.800 It's all about self. 00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:08.640 The God of America is self. 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:13.420 And if you proclaim another God, you run the risk of being maligned. 00:30:13.700 --> 00:30:16.600 If you say, it's not about you, it's not about what your wants. 00:30:16.780 --> 00:30:19.590 The primary primarily leads the day, but it's about Jesus. 00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:21.740 You can be Maligned. 00:30:21.740 --> 00:30:26.120 And when people malign you, they're not going to malign you simply because you love Jesus. 00:30:27.660 --> 00:30:32.940 I want to go back to the first century of all the things they threw against Christianity and it's going to come after you. 00:30:35.560 --> 00:30:42.960 Who Jesus is matters without God we become self-focused. 00:30:43.320 --> 00:30:43.890 We become selfish. 00:30:44.700 --> 00:30:50.440 We become in that selfishness greedy, and we use the things of life for ourselves. 00:30:52.660 --> 00:30:58.540 When you make life all about yourself, you will abuse and use and destroy other things to get what you want. 00:30:59.760 --> 00:31:01.620 We'll do it in every area of life. 00:31:01.800 --> 00:31:06.360 If we see ourselves as God, possessions, power, beauty. 00:31:06.380 --> 00:31:09.680 As well, it was, I can look prettier than them, as long as I can have more stuff than them. 00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:12.860 As long as they have more power than them, even in our culture, today's sexuality. 00:31:15.040 --> 00:31:22.440 We think the form of sexuality was created for and my pleasure, because we think life is all about self. 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:27.790 I mean, you try to talk to a young person today about the purpose of their existence and their identity. 00:31:27.800 --> 00:31:32.120 And the minute you impose anything other than self, like you can get maligned for that. 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:38.440 But the point of your existence has nothing to do with yourself, and if you pursue life that way you will end up bankrupt. 00:31:38.540 --> 00:31:40.290 That's what Jesus was saying to his people. 00:31:40.760 --> 00:31:41.480 I am the bread. 00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:42.760 I am the manna from heaven. 00:31:42.800 --> 00:31:44.680 I am the way the truth and the life. 00:31:47.600 --> 00:31:49.130 It's not about you. 00:31:51.520 --> 00:31:52.400 It's about him. 00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:55.260 In fact, look at, look at this quote on the Screen. 00:31:55.420 --> 00:31:57.980 This is just kind of a indicative of where we are today. 00:31:59.740 --> 00:32:06.200 First we overlook evil, then we permit evil, then we legal has evil. 00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:14.240 Then we promote evil, then we celebrate evil and then we persecute those who still call 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:14.960 it evil. 00:32:16.620 --> 00:32:21.230 If you think about your country, where would you say you fall right about now? 00:32:21.380 --> 00:32:22.760 In that projection of the statement. 00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:25.540 We're somewhere at the bottom, weren't we? 00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:28.400 I mean, the writing's on the wall, isn't it? 00:32:30.020 --> 00:32:37.220 What's next and which is that place to say that you follow Jesus, it will cost 00:32:37.220 --> 00:32:37.460 you. 00:32:38.940 --> 00:32:39.620 So why followed Jesus? 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:42.680 Why followed Jesus? 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:46.520 It's because he's worthy. 00:32:49.080 --> 00:32:50.820 It's because he's the great I am. 00:32:52.840 --> 00:33:00.040 So the question it comes for our souls, do we really believe this because you might be in a place where you're going to have to put your faith 00:33:00.040 --> 00:33:03.840 down on that kind of a thought because of where things are going. 00:33:05.700 --> 00:33:09.080 It is Jesus who he says he is or not. 00:33:09.320 --> 00:33:09.910 Now look at this. 00:33:10.020 --> 00:33:13.840 I want to just say this for our health as a church when we walk out of here. 00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:21.200 Any anyone that ever disagrees with you, our goal is not to hate them. 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:23.740 Our goal, not to be unloving with him. 00:33:23.780 --> 00:33:27.600 In fact, we can read a quote like that and we can hit a panic button and you say, oh, you're right. 00:33:27.940 --> 00:33:29.640 We Better start screaming from the mountain tops. 00:33:29.840 --> 00:33:31.390 We better start forcing morality. 00:33:32.040 --> 00:33:35.540 When one group pushes one way, we better push the other way or it's over. 00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:42.740 I want you to know this morning, what I'm telling you is the objective goal of us as a church, is not to 00:33:42.740 --> 00:33:44.200 walk out of here and proclaim morality. 00:33:45.120 --> 00:33:46.060 That's not what we're about. 00:33:47.140 --> 00:33:50.440 Morality is not the solution to the problem of our country. 00:33:50.740 --> 00:33:53.140 Morality is not what we need. 00:33:53.320 --> 00:33:55.720 I like if we can get along with people, that's great. 00:33:55.780 --> 00:33:57.090 But at the answer is not morality. 00:33:57.300 --> 00:34:02.300 In fact, if you think about what morality is, you can live morality without God. 00:34:03.020 --> 00:34:06.920 You can be "Good without God." There's no purpose behind the good. 00:34:07.040 --> 00:34:10.580 There's no ultimate reason behind the good, but you can be moral without God. 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:17.960 In fact, if I give the most extreme example, do you know Adolf Hitler, the reason he rose to power is because the conservatives and yes, the Christians in 00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:21.380 his country saw him as the most conservative candidate that they could vote for. 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:23.440 Look where that got him. 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:26.100 Morality is not the answer. 00:34:28.179 --> 00:34:28.980 Morality is not the answer. 00:34:29.179 --> 00:34:29.739 Can I tell you what it is? 00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:32.080 It's worship. 00:34:36.409 --> 00:34:41.159 You want things to change, you want it to be different. 00:34:43.020 --> 00:34:44.280 It's not calling people to morality. 00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:47.760 It's calling people to worship. 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:57.460 The reason I say that is because you'll never live what Jesus calls you to live until 00:34:57.460 --> 00:35:01.480 you're willing to die to self and say, he's worthy. 00:35:03.200 --> 00:35:03.620 He's worthy. 00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:06.380 He's worthy. 00:35:06.380 --> 00:35:06.920 It's worship. 00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:10.620 I'm tired of being in control. 00:35:12.640 --> 00:35:14.300 I don't want to make life about me. 00:35:14.600 --> 00:35:17.840 It wasn't created to make life about me. 00:35:18.140 --> 00:35:19.340 I want to make it about you. 00:35:19.700 --> 00:35:22.540 You are the manna, you are the bread of life. 00:35:22.560 --> 00:35:24.140 I surrender to that. 00:35:24.140 --> 00:35:25.280 Jesus lead me. 00:35:25.500 --> 00:35:31.000 So when you read a passage like this, the reason that Jews walked away is because they understood to pursue Jesus. 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:35.580 The way Jesus calls them to pursue them was going to have to require their lives, to surrender to him in some way. 00:35:35.600 --> 00:35:37.140 There was going to have to be a dying to self. 00:35:39.040 --> 00:35:44.130 Let's say maybe the question for us is that if there's areas of our life, we're looking at, we're like, I'm still living for me. 00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:51.420 I mean, it's where in following Jesus, there should be a challenge net where you have to lay yourself down in order to make 00:35:51.420 --> 00:35:52.980 him Lord of your life. 00:35:53.160 --> 00:35:54.340 Where is that place? 00:35:58.540 --> 00:36:05.560 I love what Peter says here at the end, "The crowd leaves and do not want to stay and Jesus 00:36:05.560 --> 00:36:08.360 asked this question, six 67." So Jesus said of the 12. 00:36:09.020 --> 00:36:10.960 You do not want to leave also, do you?. 00:36:12.020 --> 00:36:15.020 Simon Peter answered him,"Lord to whom shall we go? 00:36:16.100 --> 00:36:23.860 You have the words of life." Following Jesus isn't necessarily easy but 00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:26.400 what Peter's saying, it's worth it. 00:36:28.300 --> 00:36:29.820 Now that I see who you are. 00:36:31.560 --> 00:36:38.480 God, if I just walk away from that, anything else I do will be less than the greatness that it could be in you. 00:36:40.240 --> 00:36:43.280 How could you know if Jesus is life transforming for all of eternity? 00:36:43.680 --> 00:36:48.050 How in knowing that could you do anything else other than your soul would never be satisfied? 00:36:48.140 --> 00:36:53.340 The rest Of your life, you're just living for some secondary cause that at the end of the day, really doesn't make a difference. 00:36:54.660 --> 00:36:55.220 That's what Peter saying. 00:36:56.420 --> 00:37:00.480 "Yeah, Jesus, that is hard." It could be hard and it may cost. 00:37:02.780 --> 00:37:04.140 But why would I do anything else? 00:37:06.340 --> 00:37:07.120 Why do anything else? 00:37:09.240 --> 00:37:13.840 When you think about you and your position, where you sit today in your relationship with Jesus. 00:37:14.420 --> 00:37:21.040 Of all the places in this world that you could live, Utah is an incredible place to make a difference for Christ. 00:37:22.340 --> 00:37:25.530 How important your walk with Jesus matters. 00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:33.400 Now you may walk out of here and see thousands of people come to know Christ, and you may only ever see one person come to Christ and that's you. 00:37:35.260 --> 00:37:36.400 But let me just ask you this. 00:37:38.860 --> 00:37:47.980 If no one ever knew your name, if you never received any glory for following after Christ, is 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:49.160 he worthy enough to follow? 00:37:51.940 --> 00:37:56.120 Can the delight of just following him be enough for you to lay your life down? 00:37:58.220 --> 00:38:00.420 That's the question Jesus asks us this morning. 00:38:02.580 --> 00:38:09.980 God, any area in my life that I struggle to surrender, Jesus help me, help 00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:11.620 me not make it about me. 00:38:13.660 --> 00:38:20.720 Help me see the goodness of who you are to taste and eat and see that you are the manna 00:38:20.720 --> 00:38:28.440 from heaven sent to me and Lord, let me have that life and let my life be content there. 00:38:29.560 --> 00:38:32.390 God may I laid down my sexuality to you. 00:38:33.680 --> 00:38:37.300 God, may I law down the pleasures of life for you. 00:38:37.620 --> 00:38:44.640 Lord, may I lay down my power and my fame and my possessions that your great name 00:38:44.640 --> 00:38:50.360 could be made, known above it all and may you use my life forever?