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24 - JOHN 6:1-71 - JESUS: THE TRUE MANNA!</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>1.
6:11 (6:1-13) JESUS: FEEDS THE 5000. :Jesus therefore took the
loaves, and having given thanks, he distributed to th<i>os</i><span style="font-style: normal;">e
sitting down; likewise also of the fishes as much as they would”
(NNT). </span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">O
the order of Your Kingdom, Father! The multitude were seated in 50's
and 100's; all were fed, with food left over. When Your King of the
Jews is in charge, </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">all
things are possible</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">!
</span></span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Hallowed
be your name!</span></i></b></p>
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<b><span style="text-decoration: none;">2. 6:19-20 (6:14-21) JESUS:
WALKS ON THE SEA. “When therefore they had rowed about five and
twenty or thirty furlongs, they behold :Jesus walking on the sea, and
drawing near the boat: and they were afraid. </span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">20</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
But he said to them, It is I (E-G</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>O</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
ei-mi); be not afraid.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">You,
Father Jehovah, were in Christ manifesting Yourself by signs and
wonders and mighty deeds. Greater things You would do through us!
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">3.
6:32-33 (6:22-40) JESUS: TRUE BREAD FROM HEAVEN. “:Jesus
therefore said to them, Amen, Amen, I say unto you, Not Moses gave
you the bread out of :heaven; but my :Father gives you the true
:bread out of :heaven. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">33</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
For the bread of :God is he that comes down out of :heaven, and gives
life to the world.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">It
was </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">You</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Father, Who fed Israel for 40 years in the wilderness. It was </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">You</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
who gave us </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">Jesus</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
as our Living Bread. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Your :will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">4.
6:43-44 (6:41-51) JESUS: CAUSES JEWS TO MURMUR. “Jesus answered
and said to them, Murmur not among yourselves. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">44</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
No one can come unto me, </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>except</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
the Father that sent me </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>draw
him</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
and I will raise him up in the last day.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
Jewish leaders did not want to accept Your Son Father, as Your
Messiah, Your Servant, this Son of David, to reign over them. They
did not like His claims of His relationship to You. O forgive us that
so often we too have an inadequate revelation and understanding of
Your Son! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">5.
6:53-54 (6:52-59) JESUS: PRESSES HOME HARD TEACHING. “:Jesus
therefore said to them, Amen, Amen, I say unto you, Except you eat
the flesh of the Son of :man and drink his :blood, you have not life
in yourselves. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">54</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Who feeds on my :flesh and drinks my :blood has eternal life; and I
will raise him up at the last day.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">What
a hard saying for even His disciples! Yet by submission and
revelation we can see it and </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">perceive</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
it! Father, uphold us from having low concepts of Your Son! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">6.
6:63 (6:60-65) JESUS: CAUSES DISCIPLES TO MURMUR. “It is the
Spirit that makes alive; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I
have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">We
receive these living words from Your Son, Father. We believe He </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">is</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
the Son of God, and that He is in You and You in Him. To see </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">Jesus</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
is to </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">know
You</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
(14:9). </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">7.
6:66-67 (6:66-71) JESUS: SEES MANY DISCIPLES GO BACK! “Upon this
many of his :disciples went :back, and walked no more with him. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> 67</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
:Jesus said therefore to the twelve, Would you also go away?”
</span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Father,
even many of the disciples of Your only begotten Son went back on
Him! If they forsook Him, they will forsake us also! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">one!</span></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>NOTE</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
6:68-69 (6:66-71) JESUS: SOLE POSSESSOR OF WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE!
“Simon Peter answered him, Lord, unto whom shall we go? </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>you</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
have </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
words of eternal life. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">69</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
And WE have believed and know that YOU are the Holy One of :God.”
</span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">O
Holy Father, there are those truly Yours, who forsook </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">not</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Your Son. And </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">there
will be</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
the true remnant faithful to You through us! Amen!</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">John
6 sets Jesus forth as God's true Manna, and whose shed blood
effectively makes the basis for our Redemption and the coming of the
Holy Spirit - </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>true
drink</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
- and the very “heritage” of our Lord Jesus entering into our
lives!</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Our
first responsibility is </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>always</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
to make and maintain a vital relationship with our Triune God:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The need of mankind is secondary. If we
put that first, we will burn out and be unfruitful. If we put God
first - </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>He</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
will lead us into fruitful pastures. Remember Elijah - he had the
widow and her son make </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>him</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
first some bread - and then prophesied that the meal and oil would
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fail till rain came! God first - mankind second!</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">See
again John 15:16 (1-16) - </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>You
did not choose me, but </b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><b>I
chose you</b></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>,
and appointed you, that you go and bear fruit, and </b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>that</b></span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>
your :fruit abide: that </b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><b>whatever</b></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>
you shall ask of the Father </b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><b>in
my :name</b></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>,
he may give it you.” </b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">But
first - we must be in the relationship of the branch to the vine.
Then fruit-bearing becomes effortless on our part - for the sap of
the vine causes the branch to be fruitful. The great temptation for
us - is to look at the human needs, and put them first in priority;
and we then neglect that intimate relationship and fellowship of the
branch to the vine. E. Stanley Jones well understood this principle.
Just before preaching any one of his sermons, he </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>always</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
quoted and prayed over the above verse. The fruitfulness of his life
is easily understood in this light!</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">J.
Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, for the first 20
years or so of his Chinese service, saw little fruit with much labor.
Then God showed him where his first priority must be - through
opening up John 15:1-16 to him. From then on, with one third less
toil and labor, he became fruitful in a multiplied manner! From then
on in every letter he sent out, he exhorted his readers to have a
John 15:1-16 experience! </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>Then</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
they would be like Jesus - and through Him - become broken bread and
poured out wine to others!</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">John
6 was a hard message for Jesus' disciples - and </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>many</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
turned back and walked no more with Him. They were not of Soil Four!
But his 12 disciples saw the necessity of a true relationship with
Jesus - and 11 of them stuck with Him! How about you and me?
J.A.Watt</span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
our Psalm for the day! </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>84:1-2
(84:1-12) MY SOUL LONGS FOR THE COURTS OF THE LORD! “How lovely
is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! </b></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>2</b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>
My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and
flesh sing for joy to the living God” (ESV). </b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Father,
David was a man after Your own heart, himself a true and amiable
tabernacle of God! O that we each one might have such a heart after
You, and thereby </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Hallow
your :name!</b></span></i></font></p>
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