And now let's continue with the second part of our podcast.
Verse 27.
Here we go.
Now for the third part of our master's introduction.
Here we see some section,
for that section to be drawn at the hand of the Lord Jesus.
So, these are some sections,
that will give us a reminds a
particular point from verse 28 and
would be to quote,
for it is the hands Silva's father.
from a position of garment of work. And Jesus wants to change their perspective. You don't
have to do things to know me, because that's how religion is. You don't have to do a lot
of prayers, although prayer is important. Okay, here we go. Here's the mess. Because
religion tells you, you gotta pray eight hours or else God won't come. Jesus said you
gotta pray. So the question is, are you praying because out of religion you have to pray eight
hours? And if I don't pray the eight hours, then God won't come or am I praying because I want
to be with him in his presence and I know he's gonna come. Is it from works or is it from
relationship? Verse 28, they said to him, what must we do to be doing the works of God? Because
that was all they knew. Religion, that was all they knew. They were bound to it.
Verse 29, Jesus answered them, this is the work of God. What is the work of God? This is what I
want you to work in. This is what I want you to work in. Not in vain practices, not in religion,
but that you believe in him who he sent. Simple, just believe in him. I want you to work in your
relationship with him. I don't want you to have to work to try to obtain his approval. I don't
want you to work so that you can be more holy because the only one who makes you holy is
Christ. And the more relationship you have with Christ, the holier you are. Religion teaches you
that the more work I do, the more I pray, the more I fast, the more holy I am. That is not
true because you confess and you can pray, but your heart is not there, then there's never real
transformation because who's the person who transforms you, his name is Jesus Christ, and it's
in relationship with him. It's not what you do or you cannot do. Jesus tells him, this is the work
of God that you believe in him whom he has sent. So all I have to really do in my
work is, my work is really just to know him. It's that simple. Religion puts burdens on us. Religion
puts false expectations. There are more people that ran away from God because of religion,
there are more people that ran away from God because of religion, verse 30, verse 30.
They said, then, what sign do you make so that we can see and believe you? What do you do? Once again,
going back to works, Jesus just fed five thousand men without counting women,
without counting children, out of five loaves of bread, and two fish, and they're still asking for
works because religion does not allow you to see Jesus correctly. Verse 31, verse 31, man,
I feel the Lord is bringing in something so powerful. Verse 31, verse 31, our fathers ate
the manna in the wilderness as it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. Jesus said,
then, said to them, truly truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven,
but my father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God,
he is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. They said to him, sir,
give us this bread always. Without understanding, they're just blurring stuff out.
They're speaking things up. Verse 35, Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. I am the bread
of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst,
but I say to you that you have seen me, and yet you do not believe. Verse 41,
so the Jews crumbled among about him. They were upset. They were talking about him.
Because he said, I am the bread that comes from heaven. So I could imagine the Pharisees and all
the scribes, I am the bread that comes from heaven. I'm going to be seen such a thing.
Because you read scripture, but you don't read it in between the lines. See, a religious person
has a hard time receiving truth. Sorry, I just dropped the microphone. Religion does not allow
you to believe truth, because religion places blinders on you that you see
obscurely how God really is. Where are we? Verse 41, you're here. Good. So the Jews grumbled about
him, because he said, I am the bread that came down from heaven. They said, here we go, he's religion.
He's religion with familiarity, because religion never lets you seize with honor.
It never lets you see with honor. Religion does not allow you to see Korean clearly. Verse 42,
all of a sudden these guys stood up. They ate of the bread. They had the benefits.
They liked the crowds. They liked the miracles. But then they come out and they say,
is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he says,
I come down from heaven? Verse 43, Jesus answered to them, do not grumble among yourselves. No one can come
to me unless the father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. Verse 45,
it is written in the prophets, and they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has heard and
learned from the father comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the father except who is from God.
He has seen the father. This was confronting the religious system so much. Because the religious
system does not allow them to see God. They had the Messiah. They had the promises. They had
the answered prayer in front of them. They had the desire of their heart. They had the person
that they've been waiting for all of their life. But religion did not allow them to see it. Religion
was fighting against it. It was making resistance to him. Verse 47, truly, truly I say to you,
whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. He repeats it for a second time.
Verse 49, your father ate the man in the wilderness and they died.
This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread,
he will live forever. And the bread that I give for the life of the world is my flesh.
Here religion was insulted even more. So you mean we got to eat of your flesh?
You're saying that you're the bread of life. That's huge already.
And now you're saying that we got to eat from you?
Verse 53, it's read 51 again. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats
of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my
flesh. Verse 53, so Jesus said to them, truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the
Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Do you know why we need life? Because we
are dead without him. We don't need God because we're bad. We need God because we're dead.
Okay, religion doesn't allow you to think that. You are dead to your works. That's what
scripture says. You're dead to sin. That's what scripture says. So the Lord is telling them
the reason why you need to eat of me is because it gives you life. I'm going to get
in trouble. Religion tells you, don't be a fanatic. Religion tells you that if you
give of your life to Christ, you have so much more you're going to lose. Keep reading.
54. These are words that we are not even accustomed to. Verse 54, I've never, I've
really heard a person actually pray this. Whoever feeds on my drink, whoever feeds on my
flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day. When was the
last time you said let's go to church so we can feast on the flesh of Jesus? Verse 55,
for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my
blood abides in me and I in him. Even that religion has made something that's called
when we share the supper, the holy supper, we do it without revelation. We do it out of tradition
and that tradition does not produce life. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood
abides in me and I in him. As the living Father sent me, I live because of the Father and whoever
feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is not a religious act. This is us coming
continually to Christ, eating of him. He is the Word, eating of him, meditating, contemplating,
allowing the Word and its nutrients changes from the inside out. We began with Ephesians 5,
that the Lord will present to himself a bride and is going to cleanse her and wash her
by the water of the Word. So the Lord is saying, you have to come back to my truth.
The only thing that will prepare you for me or a big ingredient that will prepare you for me
is my Word, is my truth, because I don't want a religious bride. I don't want a bride with filthy
rags. I gave you my Word and I'm going to apply my Word in your heart, in your mind,
in your body, in your soul, in your spirit. I'm going to change you through my Word. I want you
to feed off of me. I don't want you to feed off of your thoughts. I'm going to get in trouble.
I don't want you to feed off of the news. I don't want you to feed off of the opinions of others.
I don't want you to feed off of your personal life from the report of the doctor. I don't want
you to feed off of lies. I want you to feed out of truth, the truth of my Word,
of what I've spoken for you, of what I have spoken over your life. I want you to feed,
I want you to be nourished, I want you to be strengthened. That Word is going to wash you,
it's going to cleanse you, it's going to remove every aspect of religion that you have,
that has formed and conformed your life. That Word, the washing of the Word, the washing of
the Word will set you free of all bindings that the man has put over you, or that religion
has placed over you, which is not true. You are his bride. He paid for you with blood.
You are cleansed by the blood. That sin was cut. Iniquity was removed. He washes you. He cleanses
you.