WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.000 now in our bibles we will be in john chapter 6 so if you have a bible or a device you can turn 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:16.559 to john chapter 6 we're going to begin at verse 16 it will also be up on our screen 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:25.000 so we're reading the section in john 6 immediately after the feeding of the 5 000 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:34.280 and actually i'll read verse 14 and 15 our screen begins at 16 but let me read there after the people 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:41.039 saw the sign jesus performed they began to say surely this is the prophet who is to come into 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:48.200 the world jesus knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force withdrew again to a 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:54.980 mountain by himself when evening came his disciples went down to the lake where they got into a 00:00:54.979 --> 00:01:02.219 boat and set off across the lake for capernaum by now it was dark and jesus had not yet joined them 00:01:02.219 --> 00:01:08.439 a strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough when they had rowed about three or four miles 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:14.620 they saw jesus approaching the boat walking on the water and they were frightened but he said to them 00:01:14.620 --> 00:01:21.159 it is i don't be afraid then they were willing to take him into the boat and immediately the boat 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:26.739 reached the shore where they were heading the next day the crowd that stayed on the opposite shore of 00:01:26.739 --> 00:01:32.620 the lake realized that only one boat had been there and that jesus had not entered it with his disciples 00:01:32.620 --> 00:01:39.060 but that they had gone away alone then some boats from tiberias landed near the place where the people 00:01:39.060 --> 00:01:45.920 had eaten the bread after the lord had given thanks once the crowd realized that neither jesus nor his 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:51.799 disciples were there they got into the boats and went to capernaum in search of jesus when they found 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:58.960 him on the other side of the lake they asked him rabbi when did you get here jesus answered very truly i 00:01:58.960 --> 00:02:05.599 tell you you are looking for me not because you saw the signs i performed but because you ate the loaves 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:12.280 and had your fill do not work for food that spoils but for food that endures to eternal life 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:18.580 which the son of man will give you for on him god the father has placed his seal of approval 00:02:18.580 --> 00:02:27.560 then they asked him what must we do to do the works god requires jesus answered the work of god is this 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:34.300 to believe in the one he has sent so they asked him what sign then will you give that we may see it 00:02:34.300 --> 00:02:39.180 and believe you what will you do our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness as it is written 00:02:39.180 --> 00:02:47.000 he gave them bread from heaven to eat jesus said to them very truly i tell you it is not moses who 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:51.780 has given you the bread from heaven but it is my father who gives you the true bread from heaven 00:02:51.780 --> 00:02:57.680 for the bread of god is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:07.260 sir they said always give us this bread then jesus declared i am the bread of life whoever comes to me 00:03:07.259 --> 00:03:13.719 will never go hungry and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty but as i told you you have 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:20.719 seen me and still you do not believe all those the father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:27.299 me i will never drive away for i have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of 00:03:27.299 --> 00:03:33.500 him who sent me and this is the will of him who sent me that i shall lose none of all those he has 00:03:33.500 --> 00:03:41.099 given me but raise them up at the last day for my father's will is that everyone who looks to the son 00:03:41.099 --> 00:03:51.500 and believes in him shall have eternal life and i will raise them up at the last day amen this is god's 00:03:51.500 --> 00:04:01.699 word so i want us to begin for the next couple of months to think about the heart of jesus christ 00:04:01.699 --> 00:04:10.399 to see his heart in his public ministry as he faces the cross and after his resurrection to see his 00:04:10.399 --> 00:04:19.899 love in action to see the motivation of love um that leads him to serve and leads him to the cross 00:04:19.899 --> 00:04:25.959 and that's why we're in john chapter 6 and what i want us to notice from the beginning 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:34.939 is that what we see in the crowds here is a reminder that as people we don't change and that 00:04:34.939 --> 00:04:43.000 as people we're still needing to find hope and we're looking for satisfaction so we have here 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:53.639 around jesus a crowd who have lived under roman rule for a number of years they have the hope that a 00:04:53.639 --> 00:05:00.039 messiah would come they have the promises of the old testament to give them support in that 00:05:00.039 --> 00:05:07.680 they had hope that a greater prophet than moses would come a greater king than david would come and for 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:17.699 them that prospect of salvation it would be a political freedom life in the land free again 00:05:17.699 --> 00:05:27.719 our setting here is that jesus has just performed this miraculous sign of feeding the 5 000 and in 00:05:27.719 --> 00:05:34.259 verse 14 we heard their response to this surely this is the prophet who's to come into the world 00:05:34.259 --> 00:05:41.279 and so they read the sign and they have this expectation here is this one like moses who god 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:49.219 has promised and their desire that follows from that verse 15 is that they want to make jesus king by force 00:05:49.219 --> 00:05:58.159 they want this political kingdom to come and then in verse 26 jesus also identifies another desire 00:05:58.159 --> 00:06:07.199 he says you're not looking for my signs you're coming because you ate the loaves and had your fill 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:14.740 their wanting to be well fed their hopes are on the political and the physical level 00:06:14.740 --> 00:06:20.719 and i think it's fair to say that that's something that we can recognize today that's something that we see 00:06:20.719 --> 00:06:27.539 today lots of us are probably more engaged and interested in what's going on in the world of politics 00:06:27.539 --> 00:06:34.159 than perhaps we ever have been and there is this increasing hope and expectation being placed on our 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:42.240 political leaders that that someone will be able to guide us through this pandemic and of course our 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:49.640 current situation has us at the same time crying out for physical well-being as people we don't change 00:06:49.640 --> 00:06:56.500 we want to know that we can have a job and a job that's secure we want to have money to pay the bills 00:06:56.500 --> 00:07:02.560 and have food on the table we want to be sure that we can have social connections with friends and family 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:08.259 and those won't be taken from us we want help for here and for now 00:07:08.259 --> 00:07:12.280 and so they're not so different from us 00:07:12.280 --> 00:07:17.720 and this is where the good news comes that the heart of jesus remains the same 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:25.060 jesus the same yesterday today and forever what does he say to this crowd who are confused about his identity 00:07:25.060 --> 00:07:33.459 who have a variety of hopes in their hearts jesus says time and again in verse 35 to 40 00:07:33.459 --> 00:07:39.959 come to me come to me as the one who can address your deepest longings 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:48.180 come to me as the one who can promise true salvation and security come to me as the one who invites you 00:07:48.180 --> 00:07:55.840 into eternal life and what jesus wants to show to this crowd and what jesus by extension wants to show to 00:07:55.840 --> 00:08:04.500 us is that sometimes our hopes are too small we find ourselves too easily satisfied 00:08:04.500 --> 00:08:13.220 when the loving heart of jesus wants to give us himself as the greatest gift he has to offer 00:08:13.220 --> 00:08:21.280 so we're going to be in verses 35 to 40 this morning the first thing i want to say is 00:08:21.280 --> 00:08:32.080 that here we find jesus saying come to me for lasting satisfaction in verses 35 and 36 jesus declared 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:38.600 i am the bread of life whoever comes to me will never grow hungry and whoever believes in me 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:45.700 will never be thirsty so he's in the middle of a conversation with this crowd that has gathered 00:08:45.700 --> 00:08:54.639 and he's has in verse 27 already been talking to them about food that endures to eternal life that the 00:08:54.639 --> 00:09:02.920 son of man will give you in verse 32 he talks about the true bread from heaven which comes as a gift 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:10.799 from the father in verse 33 it's bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world from 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:17.419 the father a gift that gives life he's talking about himself but there's misunderstanding at every point 00:09:17.419 --> 00:09:26.219 they see jesus but they don't see and understand his identity clearly and so they find themselves saying to 00:09:26.220 --> 00:09:31.580 jesus well moses we know moses he was the great prophet and he gave us manna in the wilderness 00:09:31.580 --> 00:09:40.180 to our ancestors what great miracle are you going to do to prove yourself they interpret his offer 00:09:40.180 --> 00:09:49.800 in physical terms when jesus is presenting spiritual reality to them jesus has come saying i am the son of man 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:58.259 the father's father's seal of approval is on me i am the gift from god to sustain life but they don't see it 00:09:58.259 --> 00:10:09.359 so jesus in verse 35 begins to speak still more plainly with this great statement i am the bread of life 00:10:09.359 --> 00:10:18.299 i am one of the old testament titles names of god here is jesus making a claim to lordship 00:10:18.299 --> 00:10:26.979 jesus the bread of life for the people in jesus day bread was staple it was necessary an essential part 00:10:26.979 --> 00:10:33.639 of the diet jesus saying you cannot know god you cannot enjoy life with god without me without faith 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:43.419 in me and notice he says not i will give bread it's not something outside of myself i am the bread 00:10:43.419 --> 00:10:50.019 they're confused and they're looking for a meal jesus is giving the promise of himself 00:10:50.019 --> 00:11:00.459 giving the reality of god to those who will receive what is he saying jesus is saying that to come to him 00:11:00.459 --> 00:11:08.939 it is to meet the core emptiness and hunger that we can find in our hearts that god-shaped hole 00:11:08.940 --> 00:11:16.780 that augustine spoke of so long ago and we hear it in different forms and we experience it in different 00:11:16.780 --> 00:11:23.640 ways sometimes that that simply comes as a sense of emptiness in our lives perhaps asking is this all 00:11:23.640 --> 00:11:33.340 there is i was reminded last week of the the autobiography of andre agassi a tennis player from a 00:11:33.340 --> 00:11:39.660 previous generation a very honest and candid autobiography and he said at one point he said 00:11:39.660 --> 00:11:46.740 this he said i marvel at how unexciting it is to be famous how mundane famous people are they're confused 00:11:46.740 --> 00:11:54.300 uncertain insecure and often hate what they do it's something we always hear like that old adage that 00:11:54.300 --> 00:12:02.460 money can't buy happiness but we never believe it until we see it ourselves super successful wealthy 00:12:02.460 --> 00:12:13.440 and unhappy is this all there is that's one way that that our longings find themselves in our hearts 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:20.280 sometimes differently it's to do with a guilty conscience and a longing to find inner peace 00:12:20.280 --> 00:12:26.600 i was watching a little bit of the the netflix documentary the american gospel yesterday which a very 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:33.940 helpful explanation of the true gospel over against the prosperity gospel and and on that section i was 00:12:33.940 --> 00:12:39.340 watching there was a former atheist who was very honest he was saying you know i had the american dream 00:12:39.340 --> 00:12:47.680 i had like beautiful house wife and the kids and the car and the holidays but i was crushed by a sense of guilt 00:12:47.680 --> 00:12:53.300 and i had nowhere to go with that until a crisis in their family 00:12:53.299 --> 00:12:58.620 turned him to the church and to the hope of the bible and to jesus 00:12:58.620 --> 00:13:04.179 so it might be a guilty conscience of wanting freedom and peace 00:13:04.179 --> 00:13:10.959 a deeper longing wondering why why do i yearn for something more have you ever had that even at that 00:13:10.959 --> 00:13:18.719 point where everything seems to be so good still that restlessness longing for something more 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:26.399 to all of these and in that quest for satisfaction that we all experience in different ways jesus is 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:34.920 saying come to me he is presenting himself as the end of the search as the goal of all our hearts desires 00:13:34.920 --> 00:13:41.680 jesus would say of the growing spiritual interest that we've seen in our country during lockdown 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:49.239 i am the answer to that longing find me and find life and find satisfaction because in jesus as we 00:13:49.239 --> 00:13:55.419 discovered in the bible that's where we find forgiveness and freedom from guilt it's in jesus that 00:13:55.419 --> 00:14:01.039 we find reconciliation with the god we were made for made by and made for 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:08.000 it's in and through jesus that we enjoy this living relationship with a god of love 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:15.659 that we have a relationship and a love that can never be broken it's through jesus we have the hope 00:14:15.659 --> 00:14:22.500 of eternity it's through jesus we have the hope that everyday life has meaning and purpose because 00:14:22.500 --> 00:14:30.379 everything we do we can do to the glory of god to love him to serve him and so there's this wonderful 00:14:30.379 --> 00:14:38.980 invitation from jesus to satisfaction and notice in verse 5 it's an open invitation whoever comes to me 00:14:38.980 --> 00:14:48.080 will never go hungry whoever believes in me will never be thirsty this is an invitation that's regardless of age 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:55.799 and culture and background it's regardless of our our past sin or our present doubt and confusion 00:14:55.799 --> 00:15:06.579 it's an invitation to all of us the one condition on us is that we come and believe to use the language 00:15:06.579 --> 00:15:14.899 of verse 35 unlike the crowd in jesus day we need to recognize his identity this isn't just a medical 00:15:14.899 --> 00:15:20.879 worker this isn't just another great teacher this is none other than jesus the son of god who's become 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:31.740 flesh to be our savior we need to recognize our needs of him to recognize our sin and our guilt and our 00:15:31.740 --> 00:15:39.460 inability to do anything of ourselves to fix that great problem and to respond to jesus in faith 00:15:39.460 --> 00:15:46.399 and that's where we find that satisfaction that our hearts are looking for 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:56.299 now jesus goes on from there the second thing to notice is jesus says come to me for a secure 00:15:56.299 --> 00:16:09.279 salvation so here in bucclue we have a system of security with a couple of different safes through the back 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:17.159 we have a big heavy thick metal one for the valuables and then we have the electronic key safe 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:24.519 that gives you access so you need to have two combination codes to have access it's a wonderfully 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:30.199 secure system until it all starts to go wrong which it has been doing for the last week or so but the 00:16:30.199 --> 00:16:36.519 principle is good that double security gives you peace of mind 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:45.679 and here in the teaching of jesus he is presenting us with the security of salvation because he is 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:51.819 saying to us look at the heart of god the father look at the heart of jesus the son and recognize that 00:16:51.819 --> 00:17:01.079 they are united in their determination to save sinners that commitment is where our sense of security 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:10.120 and assurance comes from for lots of us this our prolonged lockdown and restrictions has probably 00:17:10.120 --> 00:17:16.660 probably been a time when spiritually it's been a struggle for us it's hard without that routine 00:17:16.660 --> 00:17:23.160 of church church we understand now is so important for keeping us and setting us back on track but it's 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:30.460 been hard to read our bibles probably hard to pray missing a sense of fellowship and so maybe we feel 00:17:30.460 --> 00:17:40.200 our faith is weak at this point jesus would say to us in our weak faith remember it's the father's 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:48.120 grip on you it's jesus grip on you that gives you security that's your hope for salvation so look with 00:17:48.120 --> 00:17:58.220 me at verses 37 to 39 first of all see jesus confidence in verse 37 when he says all those the father gives me 00:17:58.220 --> 00:18:06.700 will come to me his confidence there is that the father's saving purpose is unstoppable 00:18:06.700 --> 00:18:17.900 he says all all who the father gives me will come to me when god sets his love on an unbeliever 00:18:17.900 --> 00:18:26.539 rescue and salvation is certain as john calvin put it long ago grace is irresistible 00:18:26.539 --> 00:18:36.279 and jesus is pointing us to that for our assurance what's jesus confidence that god's saving plan will 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:43.259 come to fruition his confidence isn't on human response his confidence rests in the father's 00:18:43.259 --> 00:18:50.779 redeeming love and power his hope rests in god's electing love we also see jesus heart 00:18:50.779 --> 00:19:03.180 verse 37 whoever comes to me i will never drive away notice jesus isn't inviting us to an institution 00:19:03.180 --> 00:19:10.279 he's not inviting us to a set of doctrines he's inviting us to himself he's inviting us to relationship 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:18.460 with god the savior and what he promises that all those who have been gifted to him by his father 00:19:18.460 --> 00:19:28.960 will be kept safe jesus will lose none of his own he won't drive them away rather he will hold his church 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:37.500 close and to give us further confidence he then draws attention to the will of the father 00:19:37.500 --> 00:19:45.559 so notice verse 38 i've come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:51.639 and then he explains here's what the father's will is this is the will of him who sent me that i shall 00:19:51.639 --> 00:19:58.079 lose none of all those he has given me but raise them up at the last day what's the father's will 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:06.839 that jesus will not lose any of his own that jesus will certainly save his own the puritan 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:13.039 thomas goodwin who wrote a book called the heart of christ which is an excellent read he says of this 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:20.680 god has given jesus a perpetual command to save sinners therefore his heart continues the same 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:27.500 forever and we see it as jesus talks about the father's will he also talks about his own will 00:20:27.500 --> 00:20:31.539 and jesus says my will is to do the will of him who sent me 00:20:31.539 --> 00:20:39.680 so here we have this wonderful situation where we have the loving heart of the lord jesus 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:46.880 in his determination to do his father's will that takes him from the glory of heaven to become one of 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:57.360 us and ultimately to go to the cross to die to save his people so when we think about christian assurance 00:20:57.360 --> 00:21:05.039 this is where we find it it's in the reality that god saves sinners by grace 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:14.920 through faith alone here is this double security that we find in the gospel it's the double security 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:23.759 of god the father and god the son being united together in one will committed to love and to save their own 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:37.519 last thing to see from this little section jesus says come to me to enjoy eternal life 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:47.240 in verse 40 for my father's will is that everyone who looks to the son and believes in him 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:56.700 shall have eternal life and i will raise them up at the last day now you've maybe noticed as jesus has 00:21:56.700 --> 00:22:05.620 been speaking to the crowd that he's brought two themes of salvation together so he has spoken of our human 00:22:05.620 --> 00:22:14.620 responsibility in a variety of ways come to me believe in me verse 40 look to me but he's also at the 00:22:14.619 --> 00:22:23.299 same time spoken of god's sovereignty in salvation he's spoken of the father's will the reality that 00:22:23.299 --> 00:22:32.119 it's the father who plans initiates carries out and guarantees salvation jesus has no problem with 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:39.419 holding these intention because they both hold true god is sovereign in saving sinners and we have a 00:22:39.420 --> 00:22:49.840 responsibility to respond to the offer of the gospel that we find in jesus so god's sovereign role here in 00:22:49.840 --> 00:22:57.300 verse 40 the father's will here in verse 40 is that everyone who looks to the son and believes in him shall 00:22:57.300 --> 00:23:06.960 have eternal life and it shall be raised up at the last day so that's the father's will that's the father's 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:16.620 plan and we need to recognize that this requires the obedience of jesus the son that the father's will and the father's plan 00:23:16.620 --> 00:23:25.779 hinges on jesus being obedient jesus living a perfect life of sinless obedience and then dying on the cross 00:23:25.779 --> 00:23:32.100 in obedience as a sacrifice on behalf of sinful people 00:23:32.099 --> 00:23:42.019 and what's our responsibility as jesus puts it in verse 40 we are to look to the son and believe 00:23:42.019 --> 00:23:51.059 in him it's an interesting phrase look to the son and believe what does jesus have in mind in that phrase 00:23:51.059 --> 00:23:59.639 well i wonder if it's not the same idea the same picture that he has in john chapter 3 and verse 14 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:06.400 so when jesus is speaking to nicodemus and just before we get to the most famous verse in the bible 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:13.620 in john chapter 3 verse 14 jesus says this just as moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness 00:24:13.620 --> 00:24:23.860 so the son of man must be lifted up that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him so jesus uses 00:24:23.860 --> 00:24:29.460 that picture from the old testament so there's a time where israel was in the the wilderness and they 00:24:29.460 --> 00:24:35.900 were grumbling against god and as a response judgment came poisonous snakes came into the camp but then 00:24:35.900 --> 00:24:42.640 god by his grace made provision he told moses to make a bronze serpent and to put it on a pole 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:52.860 and everyone who looked to the snake found healing and they lived and now here is jesus in john chapter 3 00:24:52.859 --> 00:24:58.339 saying that that bronze serpent raised in the pole that's a pointer to what i've come to do 00:24:58.339 --> 00:25:05.379 and i think we could argue that it's the same in john chapter 6 jesus saying look to me and live look to 00:25:05.379 --> 00:25:11.619 me as the cure to the the poison of sin leading to death that you find in your hearts and lives 00:25:11.619 --> 00:25:20.899 so here is jesus inviting us to life because he and he alone can deal with the poison of of sin 00:25:20.899 --> 00:25:32.339 that will destroy us if left unchecked how does sin work in our lives romans 1 is very helpful for 00:25:32.339 --> 00:25:41.439 laying it laying out for us sin works on our minds causing us to reject or suppress the truth about god 00:25:41.439 --> 00:25:48.179 it works in our hearts it works in our worship so that instead of worshiping god alone we choose 00:25:48.179 --> 00:25:56.639 to worship and live for created things rather than the creator sin affects our actions so that we can find 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:04.580 ourselves in spirals of sinful rebellion against god and his law we reject his love to go our own way 00:26:04.580 --> 00:26:14.420 and the result of that sin left unchecked is death and not life is eternal condemnation and not the 00:26:14.420 --> 00:26:22.680 freedom that jesus offers so jesus here is offering hope he's offering the answer to the great problem that 00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:32.600 we all face he's extending an invitation to eternal life so here in john 6 to the crowd who are confused 00:26:32.600 --> 00:26:39.500 who have longings but they're physical and not spiritual jesus says i and i alone can give you the 00:26:39.500 --> 00:26:46.779 gift of eternal life and later on jesus would explain eternal life is something that begins now it's about 00:26:46.779 --> 00:26:54.720 life enjoying god knowing god knowing god the father and jesus the son but it's not just for now it also 00:26:54.720 --> 00:27:01.680 points us to the future to the great hope that we find in the bible of a perfect life in a perfect world 00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:09.660 filled with perfect relationships and as christians we need to use our imagination and we need to be 00:27:09.660 --> 00:27:16.840 future-orientated to recognize that yes there is suffering and struggle now but we are promised 00:27:16.840 --> 00:27:28.740 great hope imagine a world free of sickness and pandemic imagine a world without sadness 00:27:28.740 --> 00:27:36.620 and separation caused by death imagine a world of perfect peace and not division 00:27:36.619 --> 00:27:47.459 of absolute love and not hate of a life and a love that goes on forever where everything sad comes 00:27:47.459 --> 00:27:59.139 untrue and at the heart of that the joy of seeing jesus of having been made like jesus of enjoying his 00:27:59.139 --> 00:28:05.259 presence his beauty his life his truth his love forever and always 00:28:05.259 --> 00:28:18.960 jesus is offering himself as the answer to the longings of all our hearts and it's jesus promise if we come 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:28.579 that we shall be satisfied and we will find security and we will have eternal life to look forward to 00:28:28.579 --> 00:28:39.619 some of us were at a funeral here yesterday our oldest church member died and so we were mourning 00:28:39.619 --> 00:28:45.379 together and we were remembering her life and and one of those passages that was a precious to really 00:28:45.379 --> 00:28:54.599 that we read yesterday was from romans chapter 8 and that great hope that nothing and no one shall 00:28:54.599 --> 00:29:03.439 separate and the believer from the love of god that is in christ jesus that god's plan of salvation 00:29:03.439 --> 00:29:12.839 is to bring his people to enjoy life with himself jesus says that's his will and he will be faithful to it 00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:23.099 so we have this invitation all of us come by faith to jesus as lord and savior to find satisfaction 00:29:23.099 --> 00:29:25.039 salvation and true life 00:29:36.159 --> 00:29:44.599 you 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:45.159 you 00:29:45.159 --> 00:29:45.619 you