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John Bradshaw - The Bread of Life

December 8, 2024 | S24:E287

John Bradshaw - The Bread of Life
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It Is Written with John Bradshaw | John Bradshaw - The Bread of Life | December 8, 2024
  • ♪[dramatic, triumphant theme music]♪
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  • ♪[reflective music]♪
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  • >>john bradshaw: people have been eating bread
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  • For thousands of years.
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  • Flour, water, and after that, well, the sky's the limit.
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  • Bread shows up in the bible again and again.
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  • In fact, it's mentioned hundreds of times in scripture.
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  • Jesus is represented by bread.
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  • Jesus himself made that comparison.
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  • And bread teaches us some excellent spiritual lessons.
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  • Bread can look like this--
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  • Or this.
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  • Or it can look like this, this, this, this, or this.
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  • The croutons in your soup started as bread,
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  • And even breadcrumbs are used in all kinds of things.
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  • Broil or grill bread and you have toast.
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  • And on your toast, you might put honey or peanut butter
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  • Or avocado,
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  • Or if you're very wise, avocado and marmite.
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  • There's almost nothing better.
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  • Bread is used to make sandwiches,
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  • One of the most versatile food items there is, and sandwiches
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  • Can contain almost anything known to humanity.
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  • When i was growing up,
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  • We'd eat potato chip and marmite sandwiches.
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  • Ooh, don't knock it till you've tried it.
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  • And then there's french toast and paninis
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  • And club sandwiches and garlic bread.
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  • Croissants and donuts are basically bread,
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  • But with more fat and sugar.
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  • There's focaccia bread and pretzels and tortillas.
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  • And in indian food, chapattis or roti
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  • Or naan or kulcha
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  • Or paratha.
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  • Ooh, now we're talking.
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  • Bread has found its way into the collective vocabulary
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  • In numerous ways.
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  • A person might be said to "earn a crust."
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  • The principle wage-earner in a home might be the "breadwinner."
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  • Money has been referred to as "dough" or "bread."
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  • The main thing you do to earn a living might be
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  • Your "bread and butter."
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  • July 7, 1928, the world of bread was irrevocably altered
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  • When the first loaf of sliced bread was sold
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  • In chillicothe, missouri.
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  • And then in 1951, when comedian red skelton referred
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  • To television as "the [best] thing since sliced bread,"
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  • A new phrase entered the lexicon.
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  • When abraham entertained angels, he served them bread.
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  • Jacob gave esau bread and lentils.
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  • God says in isaiah, chapter 33
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  • That your bread and "water will be sure."
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  • In john 21, after the resurrection,
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  • The disciples come back from fishing;
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  • Jesus has provided them a meal, including bread.
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  • You've got to wonder what that tasted like.
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  • And one of jesus' greatest miracles
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  • Included loaves of bread.
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  • Bread is a metaphor for the divine son of god.
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  • There's a passage in the bible
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  • Where jesus really dwells on this.
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  • It's found in john, chapter 6.
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  • Verse 48 contains just six words.
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  • Jesus says, "i am the bread of life."
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  • Which isn't surprising.
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  • In the middle east bread is a big deal. it's a staple.
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  • So jesus saying that he is the bread of life,
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  • That's jesus saying that he ought to be
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  • The staple of your life, a vital part of your life,
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  • Necessary for your survival, even.
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  • Now, we're going to look at that.
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  • We're going to look at how jesus can be the bread of life
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  • In your life.
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  • But before we do, we're going to visit a friend of mine,
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  • A man who makes bread-- exquisitely good bread.
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  • ♪[soft instrumental music]♪
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  • One of my earliest childhood memories is of fresh bread,
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  • Still warm from the bakery.
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  • So, i was excited to head to a bakery
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  • South of phoenix, arizona, where jim torres and his team
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  • Make thousands of loaves of bread a day,
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  • Which is distributed all across the united states and abroad.
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  • The bread they bake is unique.
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  • The recipe is one of the oldest bread recipes
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  • Known to humankind.
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  • And even though it's more than 2,500 years old,
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  • You probably have the recipe in your own home.
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  • So, tell me the recipe.
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  • >>jim torres: the recipe consists of wheat, barley,
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  • Millet, lentils, spelt, and soybeans.
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  • Those are the major ingredients,
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  • And of course, there's water, you know.
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  • We also add some malt.
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  • We have to use yeast, of course, and, uh, a small amount of salt.
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  • And we use some, some vital wheat gluten as well.
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  • But, uh, that is the substance of it right there.
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  • >>john: so where did you get this recipe from?
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  • >>jim: from the bible. >>john: from the bible?
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  • >>jim: i would have never thought to put spelt, lentils,
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  • And beans in bread.
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  • >>john: how did you come to be making this bread
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  • Whose recipe is in the bible?
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  • >>jim: i heard that somebody was making this bread,
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  • So we started toying with it,
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  • And the flavor, i could not believe the flavor.
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  • Oh my word! we were excited.
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  • Then we did a nutritional--we were excited about that as well
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  • Because the protein content, it was a complete protein,
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  • And that was really exciting.
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  • >>john: and this is from a, a recipe, basically,
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  • Given to you by god? >>jim: absolutely.
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  • >>john: in fact, given to the world.
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  • >>jim: i would have never thought of it.
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  • >>john: yeah. >>jim: and the person
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  • That thought of it got it from the bible, for sure.
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  • >>john: and where are we looking?
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  • Tell me where we're going to find that recipe?
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  • >>jim: ezekiel, chapter 4, verse 9, and that says,
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  • "also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet,
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  • "and spelt; put them into one vessel,
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  • "and make bread of them for yourself.
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  • "during the number of days that you lie on your side,
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  • Three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it."
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  • >>john: okay, so tell me what some of these things are?
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  • What's spelt? no one knows what that is.
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  • >>jim: spelt is something that looks like wheat,
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  • But it's not wheat.
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  • >>john: okay. now, the other things--
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  • Barley, we know what that is. millet, we've got that.
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  • Lentils, soybeans, red wheat--flax seeds?
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  • >>jim: well, we put flaxseed in some of the ezekiel bread.
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  • >>john: and, and what are, what is flaxseed?
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  • >>jim: flaxseed is a, um, a little seed that grows.
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  • It's very nutritious, has a lot of fiber.
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  • >>john: okay, so one, two, three, four, five--
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  • >>jim: six. >>john: ...six ingredients
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  • In the bread and an additional ingredient,
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  • The flaxseed in the flaxseed bread.
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  • >>jim: only in the ezekiel flax bread.
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  • >>john: okay, that's not many ingredients.
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  • I want to read something to you.
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  • I looked at the list of ingredients
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  • For a popular loaf of bread,
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  • Which i don't need to mention what it is.
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  • And here's the ingredients: whole wheat flour, water,
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  • Wheat gluten, high fructose corn syrup,
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  • Then two percent or less of soybean oil,
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  • Salt, molasses, yeast, mono- and diglycerides,
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  • Ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides,
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  • Dough conditioners, sodium stearoyl lactylate,
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  • Calcium iodate, calcium dioxide,
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  • Then datem--or maybe that's "dah-tem," i don't know--
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  • Calcium sulfate, vinegar, yeast nutrient,
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  • Which is ammonium sulfate,
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  • Extracts of malted barley and corn,
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  • Dicalcium phosphate, diammonium phosphate--
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  • I'm not finished yet--
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  • Calcium propionate, which is evidently to retain freshness--
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  • And now i think i am finished.
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  • Do you know what those things are?
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  • I guess you know what water is.
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  • >>jim: some of them, some of them.
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  • >>john: what about diammonium phosphate?
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  • Do you know what that is? >>jim: i have no idea.
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  • >>john: it's used as fertilizer and in fire retardant
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  • And as a nicotine enhancer.
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  • Now, we can't hold that against it.
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  • You use water, and water is used in beer;
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  • That doesn't make water bad.
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  • But that's some interesting uses
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  • For something that you're going to eat.
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  • Datem, "dah-tem"--someone's going to think i'm a philistine
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  • For not knowing how to say that. do you know what that is?
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  • >>jim: i have no idea.
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  • >>john: but you're a baker; you ought to know.
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  • >>jim: i've never seen it.
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  • >>john: uh, it says here it makes dough springy or chewy.
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  • So, what we've discovered is that there are
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  • About 7,000 ingredients in many loaves of bread,
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  • Except for the bread you make, the bread recipe from the bible.
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  • There's just a handful of ingredients.
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  • Now, some bread makers will use enriched flour.
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  • What's enriched flour?
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  • >>jim: you take a whole kernel of wheat.
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  • >>john: sounds good.
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  • >>jim: remove the, uh, bran
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  • And the germ. >>john: oh.
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  • >>jim: you're left with white flour, basically.
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  • >>john: right. >>jim: however,
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  • It doesn't have some of the vitamins that it needs
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  • To help people grow. so they have to enrich it back.
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  • >>john: so that sounds like you have 100 dollars.
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  • I take it off you, and i give you a few quarters
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  • And maybe a couple of dollar bills, and i've enriched you.
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  • Is that the same sort of idea?
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  • >>jim: [laughs] i've never heard it put that way,
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  • But possibly.
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  • >>john: that's what it sounds like to me.
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  • >>jim: yes.
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  • >>john: there's someone who will enrich
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  • Your life without taking anything away.
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  • Jesus came to this world to give you life more abundantly.
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  • He came as a lamb, as the good shepherd,
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  • And he came to this world as bread.
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  • Bread as a metaphor for jesus is interesting.
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  • Bread has been called "the staff of life,"
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  • The point being, without bread--that is, without food--
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  • You can't live.
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  • You don't eat and you'll get hungry,
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  • And then you'll get weak, and then you'll get sick,
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  • And then you become diseased.
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  • And then...
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  • You die.
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  • Jesus is saying he's the most important thing.
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  • He is essential for life.
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  • But how is it with most people?
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  • According to a pew research center survey conducted in 2017,
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  • 69 percent of americans say family gives them
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  • A sense of meaning;
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  • 34 percent say career;
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  • 23 percent say money.
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  • Remember, these are things that give people a sense of meaning.
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  • Twenty percent say spirituality and faith.
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  • In the 2021 survey, that number fell to 15 percent.
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  • Around the world?
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  • New zealanders, five percent say faith or religion gives them
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  • A sense of meaning.
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  • That's second highest out of 17 countries surveyed.
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  • Only one percent in france, sweden, belgium, and south korea
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  • Reference religion when defining meaning in life.
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  • In each country survey, hobbies are mentioned
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  • As giving life meaning more frequently than faith in god.
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  • In fact, the median percentage of people who mention faith
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  • Or religion as making life meaningful?
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  • Two percent.
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  • If you're not experiencing peace in your life,
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  • If you're struggling to find a sense of purpose,
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  • If you're battling to figure out your place in the world,
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  • It might just be because jesus is not
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  • The bread of life for you.
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  • Maybe he's the artichoke or the arugula of life--
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  • Perfectly good things, but not something you have
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  • Incredibly often, not something you have regularly,
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  • Maybe occasionally or, or only at a certain season.
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  • But jesus said in his own words
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  • That he is to be the bread of life for you.
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  • Let's look at that.
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  • In john, chapter 6, jesus feeds a crowd of thousands of people.
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  • He starts with five loaves and two fish, blesses them,
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  • They multiply, and the people eat well.
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  • In fact, there are baskets full of food left over.
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  • The people were so impressed
  • 00:12:32.875 --> 00:12:34.877
  • They attempted to take jesus and make him king by force.
  • 00:12:34.877 --> 00:12:39.849
  • But jesus didn't come to the world to be an earthly king.
  • 00:12:39.849 --> 00:12:42.852
  • He came to this world to change the human heart
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  • And to bring that human heart into connection, into oneness
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  • With the heart of god.
  • 00:12:50.860 --> 00:12:52.795
  • So jesus left.
  • 00:12:52.795 --> 00:12:54.129
  • That night he walked on water.
  • 00:12:54.129 --> 00:12:56.065
  • Then the next day a large crowd came to jesus on the other side
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  • Of the lake, on the eastern shore of the sea of galilee.
  • 00:13:00.803 --> 00:13:04.406
  • But jesus knew that they had materialistic motives,
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  • And so he said, "do not labor for the food which perishes,
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  • But for the food which endures to everlasting life."
  • 00:13:11.113 --> 00:13:14.817
  • Even though jesus had only just miraculously fed
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  • Thousands of people in a desert,
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  • They asked jesus to perform a sign.
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  • They referenced the miracle of the manna in the desert,
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  • The, the bread according to the book of psalms.
  • 00:13:29.131 --> 00:13:32.534
  • So jesus tells them about the true bread:
  • 00:13:32.534 --> 00:13:36.171
  • "the bread of god is he who comes down from heaven
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  • And gives life to the world."
  • 00:13:40.142 --> 00:13:42.044
  • He was speaking of himself,
  • 00:13:42.044 --> 00:13:43.312
  • Except the people, obviously, didn't understand that.
  • 00:13:43.312 --> 00:13:46.649
  • And so "they said to him, 'lord, give us this bread always.'
  • 00:13:46.649 --> 00:13:51.587
  • "and jesus said to them, 'i am the bread of life.
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  • "'he who comes to me shall never hunger,
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  • And he who believes in me shall never thirst.'"
  • 00:13:58.260 --> 00:14:01.830
  • Now, that's a huge claim.
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  • And it's a huge solution for whatever challenges
  • 00:14:04.700 --> 00:14:08.304
  • You might be facing right now.
  • 00:14:08.304 --> 00:14:10.306
  • Jesus says, "i am the solution for all your problems."
  • 00:14:10.306 --> 00:14:14.743
  • Grief? he's the "god of all comfort."
  • 00:14:14.743 --> 00:14:17.212
  • Uncertainty?
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  • He says he will "direct your paths."
  • 00:14:18.547 --> 00:14:20.716
  • Marriage failing?
  • 00:14:20.716 --> 00:14:22.451
  • Jesus is the "prince of peace."
  • 00:14:22.451 --> 00:14:25.387
  • Desperate?
  • 00:14:25.387 --> 00:14:26.522
  • And jesus says, "come to me, all [ye that] labor
  • 00:14:26.522 --> 00:14:29.358
  • And are heavy laden, and i will give you rest."
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  • There isn't a situation you face,
  • 00:14:32.761 --> 00:14:35.564
  • There isn't a single problem pressing down on you
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  • That jesus isn't the solution for.
  • 00:14:38.867 --> 00:14:42.071
  • He walked this earth,
  • 00:14:42.071 --> 00:14:43.405
  • He understands what you're going through,
  • 00:14:43.405 --> 00:14:46.008
  • And he looks from heaven to you with love.
  • 00:14:46.008 --> 00:14:50.412
  • But far too often, people come to jesus
  • 00:14:50.412 --> 00:14:53.115
  • Just for the loaves and the fishes.
  • 00:14:53.115 --> 00:14:56.385
  • They come to jesus for the blessing and the prosperity.
  • 00:14:56.385 --> 00:14:59.655
  • And that's simply not a great motivation.
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  • We come to jesus primarily because jesus is life.
  • 00:15:03.459 --> 00:15:09.765
  • John 17, verse 3:
  • 00:15:09.765 --> 00:15:11.767
  • "this is [life eternal], that they might know you,
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  • The only true god, and jesus christ whom you have sent."
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  • John 1, verse 4: "in him was life."
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  • Jesus died for your sins.
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  • He is the creator and the re-creator.
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  • And he's the only viable alternative
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  • To the problems caused by sin.
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  • Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
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  • And he's the bread of life.
  • 00:15:40.496 --> 00:15:43.132
  • Now, notice, "the jews then complained about him, because
  • 00:15:43.132 --> 00:15:47.036
  • "he said, 'i am the bread which came down from heaven.'
  • 00:15:47.036 --> 00:15:50.572
  • "and they said, 'is [this not] jesus, the son of joseph,
  • 00:15:50.572 --> 00:15:54.576
  • "'whose father and mother we know?
  • 00:15:54.576 --> 00:15:56.945
  • How is it then that he says, "i have come down from heaven"?'"
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  • Jesus said to them, "i am the bread of life.
  • 00:16:00.849 --> 00:16:04.653
  • "your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
  • 00:16:04.653 --> 00:16:08.590
  • "this is the bread which comes down from heaven,
  • 00:16:08.590 --> 00:16:11.160
  • "that one may eat of it and not die.
  • 00:16:11.160 --> 00:16:14.196
  • "i am the living bread which came down from heaven.
  • 00:16:14.196 --> 00:16:18.000
  • "if anyone eats...this bread, he will live forever;
  • 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.937
  • "and the bread that i shall give is my flesh,
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  • Which i shall give for the life of the world."
  • 00:16:25.340 --> 00:16:28.444
  • Now, look at what jesus says.
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  • Jesus says, "if you have me, you have life."
  • 00:16:29.711 --> 00:16:33.515
  • The insurmountable problem facing our world today is death.
  • 00:16:33.515 --> 00:16:38.053
  • You're born--you're going to die.
  • 00:16:38.053 --> 00:16:41.356
  • And sometimes life is cut pitifully short.
  • 00:16:41.356 --> 00:16:45.194
  • But jesus says if you invite him into your life,
  • 00:16:45.194 --> 00:16:48.597
  • If you internalize him, make him the foundation of your life,
  • 00:16:48.597 --> 00:16:52.768
  • You won't die, but you'll live forever.
  • 00:16:52.768 --> 00:16:55.537
  • Now, clearly, jesus is not talking about
  • 00:16:55.537 --> 00:16:58.107
  • Death from a heart attack.
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  • Jesus is saying, if you accept him,
  • 00:17:00.142 --> 00:17:02.077
  • If he's the bread of life in your life,
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  • You won't experience eternal death.
  • 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.349
  • You won't experience the second death
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  • Spoken of in the book of revelation.
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  • Instead, if jesus is the bread of life for you,
  • 00:17:12.921 --> 00:17:16.992
  • You'll live forever.
  • 00:17:16.992 --> 00:17:19.728
  • Jesus even said that he came into the world to give you life
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  • And to give it to you "more abundantly."
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  • If bread represents jesus, i'd like you to think for a second
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  • About the different kinds of bread that there are.
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  • Some people have a white-bread jesus.
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  • You've seen this white bread.
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  • You put it on your plate--you'd better get some peanut butter
  • 00:17:39.348 --> 00:17:42.551
  • Or something on it real quick
  • 00:17:42.551 --> 00:17:44.253
  • Before it levitates right up off your plate.
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  • It's that light.
  • 00:17:46.788 --> 00:17:48.524
  • They've taken out all the good stuff and given you white bread.
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  • It's really not very good for you.
  • 00:17:52.928 --> 00:17:56.565
  • Now, uh, one slice occasionally isn't going to do you
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  • A whole lot of harm.
  • 00:18:00.269 --> 00:18:01.937
  • But that's how people like their jesus somehow.
  • 00:18:01.937 --> 00:18:05.040
  • White bread--they take out all the good stuff and leave
  • 00:18:05.040 --> 00:18:08.410
  • The, the light stuff that doesn't challenge you at all,
  • 00:18:08.410 --> 00:18:11.747
  • Doesn't give you any roughage.
  • 00:18:11.747 --> 00:18:14.783
  • There's some bread that's too syrupy, too sweet,
  • 00:18:14.783 --> 00:18:18.587
  • And some people's jesus is like that,
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  • All syrupy and sweet.
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  • They're happy to hear about the love of god.
  • 00:18:23.592 --> 00:18:25.761
  • They're happy to hear about the blessings.
  • 00:18:25.761 --> 00:18:27.763
  • They're happy to hear about heaven and all of its glory.
  • 00:18:27.763 --> 00:18:30.933
  • But they want to avoid the roughage.
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  • What you want is a whole-wheat jesus,
  • 00:18:33.602 --> 00:18:36.471
  • That is, a jesus who offers you a faith
  • 00:18:36.471 --> 00:18:39.908
  • Based on all of his word.
  • 00:18:39.908 --> 00:18:42.678
  • What do we say on it is written again and again?
  • 00:18:42.678 --> 00:18:44.413
  • In fact, every week for decades and decades:
  • 00:18:44.413 --> 00:18:47.616
  • We ought to live "by every word
  • 00:18:47.616 --> 00:18:50.252
  • That proceeds from the mouth of god."
  • 00:18:50.252 --> 00:18:53.088
  • So you want to get some fiber in your jesus,
  • 00:18:53.088 --> 00:18:56.325
  • Some roughage in your faith,
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  • The whole-wheat word of god.
  • 00:18:58.760 --> 00:19:01.597
  • The bible ought to expand you.
  • 00:19:01.597 --> 00:19:03.565
  • Jesus came to challenge you a little bit,
  • 00:19:03.565 --> 00:19:06.068
  • But in a way that lifts you up.
  • 00:19:06.068 --> 00:19:07.603
  • You don't want to gloss over the parts of the bible
  • 00:19:07.603 --> 00:19:09.905
  • That rub your fur the wrong way.
  • 00:19:09.905 --> 00:19:11.607
  • Instead, you want to come to christ and receive jesus
  • 00:19:11.607 --> 00:19:14.676
  • As truly the bread of life.
  • 00:19:14.676 --> 00:19:17.479
  • You want everything he offers you.
  • 00:19:17.479 --> 00:19:19.881
  • You don't want to cut corners.
  • 00:19:19.881 --> 00:19:21.617
  • You don't want to be shortchanged,
  • 00:19:21.617 --> 00:19:23.252
  • And you don't want to shortchange god.
  • 00:19:23.252 --> 00:19:25.988
  • You want to make sure that your faith in jesus
  • 00:19:25.988 --> 00:19:29.224
  • Is a faith in jesus who offers you everything the bible has.
  • 00:19:29.224 --> 00:19:33.629
  • Remember, he's the bread of life.
  • 00:19:33.629 --> 00:19:36.898
  • And he's the good bread of life.
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  • Faith in jesus is going to result in a radical change
  • 00:19:40.669 --> 00:19:44.840
  • In your being through the power of the whole-wheat word of god.
  • 00:19:44.840 --> 00:19:50.178
  • This is 1 peter 1, verse 23:
  • 00:19:50.178 --> 00:19:52.681
  • "having been born again,
  • 00:19:52.681 --> 00:19:54.483
  • "not of corruptible seed but incorruptible,
  • 00:19:54.483 --> 00:19:57.886
  • Through the word of god which lives and abides forever."
  • 00:19:57.886 --> 00:20:02.791
  • Faith in jesus will impact your life in such a powerful way
  • 00:20:02.791 --> 00:20:08.430
  • That you'll be born again.
  • 00:20:08.430 --> 00:20:11.767
  • So what do you do with jesus?
  • 00:20:11.767 --> 00:20:13.135
  • You depend on him. you lean on him.
  • 00:20:13.135 --> 00:20:15.537
  • You make him central to your life.
  • 00:20:15.537 --> 00:20:17.372
  • You make him the bread of life.
  • 00:20:17.372 --> 00:20:19.875
  • Here's jesus again, john 6, verse 57:
  • 00:20:19.875 --> 00:20:22.711
  • "as the living father sent me,
  • 00:20:22.711 --> 00:20:24.513
  • "and i live because of the father,
  • 00:20:24.513 --> 00:20:26.648
  • "so he who feeds on me will live because of me.
  • 00:20:26.648 --> 00:20:30.485
  • "this is the bread which came down from heaven--
  • 00:20:30.485 --> 00:20:33.088
  • "not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead.
  • 00:20:33.088 --> 00:20:36.892
  • He who eats this bread will live forever."
  • 00:20:36.892 --> 00:20:40.395
  • Notice the response:
  • 00:20:40.395 --> 00:20:41.530
  • "therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this,
  • 00:20:41.530 --> 00:20:44.833
  • Said, 'this is a hard saying; who can understand it?'"
  • 00:20:44.833 --> 00:20:49.671
  • Jesus said, "it is the spirit who gives life;
  • 00:20:49.671 --> 00:20:53.008
  • "the flesh profits nothing.
  • 00:20:53.008 --> 00:20:55.344
  • The words that i speak to you are spirit, and they are life."
  • 00:20:55.344 --> 00:21:00.082
  • And that was more than many of jesus' disciples could take.
  • 00:21:00.082 --> 00:21:02.751
  • John 6, verse 66:
  • 00:21:02.751 --> 00:21:04.920
  • "from that time many of his disciples went back
  • 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:09.091
  • And walked with him no more."
  • 00:21:09.091 --> 00:21:12.427
  • As long as it could be jesus-plus,
  • 00:21:12.427 --> 00:21:15.397
  • As long as they could hang around with jesus
  • 00:21:15.397 --> 00:21:18.133
  • But not surrender their lives to him,
  • 00:21:18.133 --> 00:21:20.435
  • As long as they could be seen with jesus
  • 00:21:20.435 --> 00:21:23.105
  • But not make jesus central to their existence,
  • 00:21:23.105 --> 00:21:26.742
  • Oh, they were happy to be with jesus.
  • 00:21:26.742 --> 00:21:29.578
  • But jesus said, "i am to be the bread of life.
  • 00:21:29.578 --> 00:21:34.049
  • "i am to be the foundation for your life.
  • 00:21:34.049 --> 00:21:37.252
  • That means i want you to live according to my word."
  • 00:21:37.252 --> 00:21:42.557
  • And that was too much for many of them,
  • 00:21:42.557 --> 00:21:43.925
  • For most of them, and they abandoned jesus.
  • 00:21:43.925 --> 00:21:47.262
  • They'd seen him work miracles,
  • 00:21:47.262 --> 00:21:49.231
  • Not just the miracle of the loaves and fishes.
  • 00:21:49.231 --> 00:21:52.367
  • They knew that jesus hadn't traveled by boat,
  • 00:21:52.367 --> 00:21:55.170
  • Yet here he is on the other side of the lake--another miracle.
  • 00:21:55.170 --> 00:21:59.875
  • And somehow, they were happy to put that out of their mind.
  • 00:21:59.875 --> 00:22:02.644
  • You know their problem, right?
  • 00:22:02.644 --> 00:22:04.146
  • Earlier in the chapter they refer to jesus
  • 00:22:04.146 --> 00:22:06.314
  • As "rabbi," teacher.
  • 00:22:06.314 --> 00:22:08.717
  • Oh, they were happy for him to be a teacher.
  • 00:22:08.717 --> 00:22:11.052
  • And they were happy for him to be their messiah,
  • 00:22:11.052 --> 00:22:14.489
  • As long as they didn't have to live by his word.
  • 00:22:14.489 --> 00:22:19.661
  • As long as it didn't involve them
  • 00:22:19.661 --> 00:22:22.898
  • Surrendering their heart to jesus.
  • 00:22:22.898 --> 00:22:26.735
  • "then jesus said to the twelve, 'do you also want to go away?'
  • 00:22:26.735 --> 00:22:31.072
  • "but simon peter answered him, 'lord, to whom shall we go?
  • 00:22:31.072 --> 00:22:34.843
  • "'you have the words of eternal life.
  • 00:22:34.843 --> 00:22:37.546
  • "'also we have come to believe and know
  • 00:22:37.546 --> 00:22:40.382
  • That you are the christ, the son of the living god.'"
  • 00:22:40.382 --> 00:22:44.619
  • So what is jesus to you?
  • 00:22:44.619 --> 00:22:47.155
  • To the 12--well, to 11 of them, at least--
  • 00:22:47.155 --> 00:22:52.060
  • He was the bread of life. and that carried them through--
  • 00:22:52.060 --> 00:22:56.465
  • Through the challenges of the final days of jesus' life
  • 00:22:56.465 --> 00:22:59.968
  • To the challenges of the establishment
  • 00:22:59.968 --> 00:23:01.603
  • Of the early church and, for many of them,
  • 00:23:01.603 --> 00:23:03.839
  • Through to the challenges of the end of their own life.
  • 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:06.575
  • Many of them, their lives ended in martyrdom.
  • 00:23:06.575 --> 00:23:09.611
  • Now, jesus isn't asking that for you or from you right now.
  • 00:23:09.611 --> 00:23:13.114
  • He's not asking you to die for him.
  • 00:23:13.114 --> 00:23:14.583
  • He's asking you to live for him.
  • 00:23:14.583 --> 00:23:16.117
  • And if we understand that correctly,
  • 00:23:16.117 --> 00:23:18.019
  • What that means is that jesus is asking you
  • 00:23:18.019 --> 00:23:20.222
  • For permission to live his life in you.
  • 00:23:20.222 --> 00:23:23.225
  • That's all it is:
  • 00:23:23.225 --> 00:23:24.593
  • For jesus to be the bread of life,
  • 00:23:24.593 --> 00:23:27.329
  • The central part of your life, the foundation of your life.
  • 00:23:27.329 --> 00:23:30.499
  • And you're going to say to him,
  • 00:23:30.499 --> 00:23:32.033
  • "i want to accept your word, all of it.
  • 00:23:32.033 --> 00:23:34.970
  • "i want to accept your promises to me, all of them.
  • 00:23:34.970 --> 00:23:38.106
  • "i want to receive your righteousness, all of it.
  • 00:23:38.106 --> 00:23:41.176
  • "and i want to lean my entire life, all of my life,
  • 00:23:41.176 --> 00:23:44.913
  • On your life."
  • 00:23:44.913 --> 00:23:46.681
  • Would you accept what jesus has done for you at the cross?
  • 00:23:46.681 --> 00:23:50.585
  • Would you accept his death and accept his life?
  • 00:23:50.585 --> 00:23:53.588
  • We, all of us, sinful people with no righteousness,
  • 00:23:53.588 --> 00:23:57.959
  • But if you'll accept jesus right now,
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  • If you'll welcome the bread of life into your life,
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  • You'll receive his righteousness.
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  • God will accept you as his child, and you'll look forward,
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  • With confidence, to everlasting life through faith in jesus,
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  • Who is the bread of life.
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  • >>male announcer: the bible, the word of god--or is it?
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  • In the bible a man spent three days in the belly of a fish.
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  • God created the world out of nothing at all.
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  • People died and rose again, walked on water,
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  • Interpreted dreams, and predicted the future.
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  • Or did they?
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  • And why should anyone believe what it says?
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  • >>john: let me pray for you now.
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  • Father in heaven, we thank you that jesus is the bread of life,
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  • That he came to this world to give us life more abundantly.
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  • And i pray right now for that man, that woman,
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  • That young person who is claiming jesus
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  • As the bread of life right now.
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  • We're asking that jesus would indeed be essential to life now,
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  • The foundation of life now.
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  • We trust you; we trust that you can iron out the difficulties
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  • In our lives and sustain us through good times
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  • And through challenges.
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  • Heavenly father, we look to you now and pray
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  • That we can begin again with jesus, the bread of life,
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  • Living our lives based on the principles of your word.
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  • Keep us, we pray, and we thank you,
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  • In jesus' name, amen.
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  • Thanks so much for joining me.
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  • I'm looking forward to seeing you again next time.
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  • Until then, remember:
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  • "it is written, 'man shall not live by bread alone,
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  • But by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god.'"
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  • ♪[dramatic, triumphant theme music]♪
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  • ♪[music ends]♪♪
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