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 Amen. Well, Happy New Year again. We've just come through a time of year of excess, haven't we?

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 of eating and of drinking. People fill their faces on Christmas Day and they kind of work it off in the month of January, don't they?

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 But even with all of the consumption over the Christmas period, it seems to me that people generally are still very hungry.

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 People are hungry for something that food and drink cannot satisfy. And if that's true, what is it that we are missing?

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 What is the superfood that is going to make us satisfied, that is going to make us fulfilled people?

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 My wife Emma, she's going to give birth in about three weeks, we hope, to our second child.

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 And my hope, kind of baby permitting, is to look at this chapter, John chapter 6 with you over the next three weeks.

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 It is a chapter where Jesus discusses all about how we eat and how we get real, lasting nourishment.

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 It is a chapter where Jesus explains to us how we should be filled.

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 Christians call it the bread of life discourse.

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 And it focuses on the central verse in verse 35 if you look to the bottom of your sheets.

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 Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life.

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 Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

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 You hear of people winning, don't you, a year's supply of shopping at a supermarket.

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 But what about a lifetime's supply of shopping at a supermarket?

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 What about an eternity's supply? Imagine that.

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 It's quite a claim to make.

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 Jesus says he is able to give you eternal fullness.

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 Eternal satisfaction.

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 No more hunger, no more thirst.

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 Ever. It's quite a claim.

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 But how do we do this?

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 How do we get this food that Jesus is claiming to be able to give us?

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 To do that, to get the satisfaction,

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 Jesus explains to us in this section of John that we need to go on a special diet.

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 This is your diet for January, he says, and for the whole year, and actually for the rest of your life.

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 These are Jesus' dietary requirements for you, his five a day for you,

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 for this eternal fullness and satisfaction from him.

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 We've got to get with the diet that he gives us.

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 Firstly, by eating food that lasts.

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 We need to seek food that lasts.

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 Just look at verse 27.

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 Do not labour for the food that perishes,

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 but for the food that endures to eternal life,

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 which the Son of Man will give to you.

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 I'm no expert in foods,

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 but they say that carbs, carbohydrates, last longer than sugar in keeping you full, don't they?

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 So if you have a Mars bar for breakfast,

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 you'll want something by nine o'clock, won't you?

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 But if you have whole grain porridge oats,

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 you might not get hungry until lunch.

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 Some foods last longer than others, don't they?

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 And you can see the contrast that he's making here.

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 He says, don't spend your time eating foods that will not keep you full.

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 Don't spend your time looking at eating foods that will last a little while, just for a bit.

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 But look for a type of food that will fill you up,

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 that endures not just to lunch, but to eternal life.

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 In this diet, Jesus says we need to think long-term food.

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 Jesus offers us carbs, if you like, not sugars.

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 But the problem of the people Jesus speaks to here,

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 is the problem that we have,

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 is that we are gripped by short-termism.

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 We've sort of jumped into John 6 a bit cold, haven't we?

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 Let me give you a bit of context.

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 If you look to the beginning of chapter 6,

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 Jesus famously and miraculously feeds 5,000 people,

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 that famous story,

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 with a few bits of fish and bread.

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 And the crowds that come to Jesus are satisfied.

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 They have their fill.

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 There were even 12 baskets of leftovers left behind.

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 And so the crowds follow Jesus around the Sea of Galilee,

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 and eventually they track him down here,

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 on the other side of the sea.

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 And you can understand that, can't you?

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 Food was much more scarce for them than it is for us now.

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 It wasn't easy in their agricultural society,

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 to just nip down the shops and get a thick sliced loaf.

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 And so they find the source of this food that they've just had from him.

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 But Jesus is quite negative about them, isn't he?

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 In verse 26, he says,

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 You're seeking me not because you saw the sign,

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 but because you had your fill of the loaves.

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 He's saying,

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 you guys are thinking about the wrong food groups.

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 And you are not going to enjoy the kind of food that I can give you,

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 unless you see that filling your tummy today

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 is less important than filling your soul for tomorrow

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 and filling it forever.

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 They see the amazing sign of who Jesus is

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 as the promised saviour to deal with their sin.

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 And yet all they see really,

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 and all they feel,

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 were their full tummies.

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 They were really enthusiastic, weren't they?

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 Jesus had their full attention.

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 They worked hard to try and follow him around.

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 And looking at them,

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 we think these guys look like really keen Christians.

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 But actually all they saw were the loaves.

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 A precious and valuable gift in that day and in that moment.

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 But all they wanted was an answer to their short-term problems.

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 Their physical stomachs growled for Jesus,

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 but spiritually they had no appetite for him.

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 They were thinking about the short-term provisions that he might give them.

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 They weren't thinking about anything that would last into eternity with him.

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 Maybe they thought,

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 if we could just kind of follow Jesus around all the time,

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 he could just repeat the feeding of the 5,000 every day.

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 Wouldn't that be great?

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 But even people who have plenty of food will die eventually.

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 Many are interested in Jesus, aren't they,

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 for the gifts that he might give in this life.

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 And he does give us many good things.

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 I'm afraid it is what certain branches of Christianity base their preaching around,

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 on material blessing.

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 But that is sugar Christianity.

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 It's not long-lasting carb Christianity.

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 And we want to bury the future, don't we,

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 in the pleasures of today.

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 We are so gripped by short-termism.

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 But Jesus says,

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 you've got to think long-term.

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 You've got to think about the future.

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 Not just the future when you leave work and when you retire.

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 Not even the future of when you die.

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 But way in the distant future.

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 The very distant future of eternity.

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 And the food that Jesus offers, he says,

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 endures on even into that endless time.

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 It gives life like a loaf of bread does for a few days,

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 but forever into eternity.

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 And so he says, get with this diet.

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 Seek the food that lasts.

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 Seek lasting food.

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 Secondly, he said,

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 eat food that is not only long-lasting,

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 but that is substantial.

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 Seek the food that is substantial.

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 Growing up, there was a phrase that my mum used to use when we were kids.

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 And I think it might be a northern thing,

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 because I've never heard anyone else use it.

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 Maybe it was just her.

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 If food was a bit insubstantial,

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 it was a bit of a waste of time,

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 she would say it's a bit waff.

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 It's a bit waff.

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 You know those puff pastry cakes you get?

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 They're all air, aren't they?

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 And for a northerner,

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 food like that is just a waste of time.

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 The kind of rule is,

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 if it isn't heavy enough to have its own gravitational force field,

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 it isn't worth eating.

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 It's just a bit waff.

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 It's just not heavy enough.

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 It's not weighty enough.

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 It's not substantial enough to satisfy you.

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 And in this passage,

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 it is clear that Jesus is talking about a food

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 that is of an altogether different kind of substantiality.

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 The crowds want him to fill their tummies, don't they?

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 But not only do certain foods not last long enough,

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 they are not substantial enough for a human being.

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 Verse 27, he says,

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 don't labour for the food that perishes.

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 He's talking about something else there,

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 as well as longevity.

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 He's talking about the substance of the food.

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 He's talking about a food that is different from the food that they seek.

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 Because the food that he gives comes from a different place.

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 And it has different ingredients.

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 And a different substantiality.

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 He says of himself in verse 33,

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 the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven

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 and gives life to the world.

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 I am the bread of life, he says.

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 Jesus gives food from heaven

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 as he is sent from heaven to human beings.

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 And it's a different kind of food from ordinary food that we eat on earth.

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 He serves spiritual food as the main course.

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 To bring us eternal satisfaction,

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 rather than physical food.

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 But if you think about what is most substantial,

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 that is completely upside down to how we normally think.

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 We normally think, don't we,

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 that the physical things of the world

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 are the substantial things.

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 And the spiritual things of our lives

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 are the kind of light,

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 floaty froth on the top of our lives.

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 We think satisfaction comes in mainly the physical realm.

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 And that is because just the air we breathe

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 as a culture is fundamentally materialistic.

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 I'm not just talking about our obsession with buying stuff.

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 But it's the fundamental belief that what we touch,

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 and what we see, and what we feel,

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 is seen as the most substantial thing there is.

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 That there is nothing more real than the material.

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 And so our spiritual life is just not as important as our physical life.

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 Your body, people would say,

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 is more important than your soul.

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 And our physical health is more important than our spiritual health.

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 But really, the Bible doesn't see it that way at all.

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 The Bible doesn't say that the body is not important.

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 That is a mistake that other people have fallen into as well.

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 But rather that Jesus teaches here

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 that the spiritual is the substance that gives the physical its value.

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 If you've kind of lost me at this point,

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 let me try and simplify it.

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 What Jesus is saying here

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 is even the best and most substantial foods

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 that we can get in this world,

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 if they aren't the food that Jesus gives from heaven,

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 honestly, they are just waft.

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 Those foods are just light.

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 They're like puff pastry.

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 They are perishable.

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 And those foods will eventually rot.

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 And if that is all we eat in our lives,

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 we will rot along with those foods.

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 John opens his gospel,

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 and he speaks of Jesus before he comes in the incarnation.

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 And he says, chapter 1, verse 4,

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 In him was life,

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 and the life was the light of men.

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 He's saying something amazing there

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 about the second person of the Trinity,

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 the son of the word, Jesus.

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 He is saying that universally,

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 Jesus is the food that all people need.

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 Whether you recognize that or not,

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 all life, physical life, depends on him.

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 I am the bread for every woman and man and child

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 of every living thing.

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 Because Jesus is the bread from heaven.

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 And so his food is no sugary puff pastry treat,

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 but a spiritually substantial,

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 weighty,

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 carby,

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 eternal food from heaven.

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 It is a food that is so weighty

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 that when you have it in you,

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 it will last you even beyond the grave

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 and into eternity.

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 Seek the food that lasts.

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 Seek the substantial food,

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 the spiritual food that Jesus gives.

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 And thirdly, he says,

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 get with the diet

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 and labor for this food by faith.

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 Labor for this food by faith.

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 It's true, isn't it,

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 that throughout the ages,

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 the biggest and greatest challenge

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 of the human race is finding food.

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 God said to Adam,

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 in Genesis 3,

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 by the sweat of your face,

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 you will eat bread.

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 And there is grace there,

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 isn't there,

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 in the curse.

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 There will be bread.

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 God is going to provide bread.

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 But it's going to be really,

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 really hard.

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 Food has always meant one thing for us,

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 work.

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 Bread is back-breaking.

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 And as Jesus describes the diet

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 that they need,

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 Jesus uses words like labor.

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 Labor.

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 In verse 27,

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 doesn't he?

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 Don't labor for this food,

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 but another food.

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 Verse 29,

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 this is the work of God

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 in order that you get this food.

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 And so we think,

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 don't we,

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 here we go again.

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 Like any diet,

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 there is no pain,

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 no gain.

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 And it's another hard

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 and brutal

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 and harsh regime

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 of spiritual nitpicking,

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 of counting the calories

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 of prayers

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 and of good deeds

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 and of Sundays in church

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 and so on.

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 You are what you eat

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 and all of that.

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 And imagine then,

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 the crowds,

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 they are hungry,

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 they've travelled across

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 the Sea of Galilee

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 to get some more bread.

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 And it's as if,

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 maybe Jesus,

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 we think,

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 at first glance,

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 is like some sort of

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 divine version

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 of Mr. Motivator.

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 But he shocks us,

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 doesn't he?

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 Because the diet,

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 the work,

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 how do you get this food,

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 the work God wants you to do

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 to labor for this food

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 is there in verse 29.

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 He says,

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 this is the work

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 that you believe.

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 That you believe

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 in the one he has sent.

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 Jesus echoes that

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 a couple of verses later.

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 I am the bread of life.

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 Whoever comes to me,

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 whoever believes in me,

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 will never thirst,

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 he will never hunger.

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 The work,

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 the labor of this food,

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 it is not a work

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 of striving

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 and of jumping on the scales

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 of spiritual performance

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 every month.

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 But it's a work of trust

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 and a work of faith

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 in Jesus

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 to give you life.

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 The work is being open

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 to, isn't it,

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 what God gives

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 and what God does

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 in Jesus.

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 It is seeing

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 with the eyes of faith

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 that he doesn't merely

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 give this bread

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 from heaven,

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 but Jesus is

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 the bread from heaven.

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 That he doesn't merely

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 give life,

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 but he is the life.

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 It's seeing

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 and receiving him

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 by faith.

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 It is to kind of

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 roll up your sleeves,

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 to get out in the fields,

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 to get in the dirt

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 and to humble yourself.

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 That is the work

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 you need to do.

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 And that might feel

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 pretty uncomfortable

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 for many of us

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 at times.

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 But really,

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 it's like no other work

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 that you'll ever

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 be asked to do.

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 It's actually

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 a work

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 that we do

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 to let him

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 do the work,

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 isn't it,

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 of feeding us.

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 It is letting Jesus

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 be the breadwinner

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 of our lives.

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 To work,

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 to be fed by him,

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 to look to him,

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 to feed us.

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 And for some of us,

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 that is a really

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 hard thing to do,

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 isn't it?

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 We want to be

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 the main man

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 or the main woman

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 in our lives.

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 But we must work

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 to let him feed us

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 and stop pretending

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 we can be

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 the breadwinners

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 of our lives.

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 Let me go from

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 the sublime

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 to the ridiculous.

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 Do you remember

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 the cartoon Scooby-Doo?

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 Maybe you do.

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 The dog Scooby-Doo.

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 Scooby is obsessed

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 with food,

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 isn't he?

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 You watch Scooby

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 as he downs

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 a giant oversized

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 baguette

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 and swallows it

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 in one mouthful.

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 And he would look,

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 wouldn't he,

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 and he was obsessed

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 with food.

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 He would look

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 at inanimate objects

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 and his imagination

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 would run wild.

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 It's like the kind

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 of mind of a dog,

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 I suppose.

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 So he'd look

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 at a lampshade

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 and it would

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 transform into

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 a sort of

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 juicy drumstick

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 or something.

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 He'd look at anything

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 and imagine it

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 as food.

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 He'd lick his lips

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 and in a cartoon style

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 his eyes would

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 sort of pop out

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 and he'd imagine

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 all sorts of food

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 all around him.

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 I want to say

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 that Christians

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 are like that

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 with Jesus.

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 They're like Scooby.

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 Christians look

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 at Jesus

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 and when everyone

00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:52.559
 else sees just

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 a man

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 who could be

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 all sorts of

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 things to them

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 what Christians

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 see in Jesus

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 is food.

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 They see Jesus

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 as unctuous,

00:20:04.579 --> 00:20:05.179
 nourishing,

00:20:05.679 --> 00:20:06.059
 wholesome

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 bread.

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 Christians look

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 at Jesus

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 and they lick

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 their lips

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 seeing that he's

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 not just a man

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 he's not even

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 just a very

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 very good man

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 but he is

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 food from heaven

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 and our eyes

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 pop out

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 and we desire

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 Jesus

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 not in a

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 carnal

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 flesh way

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 but in a

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 spiritual way

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 by faith

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 and we receive

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 him

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 and we are

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 satisfied

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 forever.

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 and that is

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 what God

00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:40.339
 calls you

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 to do

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 today

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 this work

00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:42.339
 that he

00:20:42.339 --> 00:20:42.759
 calls you

00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:43.139
 to do

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 this is

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 the work

00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:44.440
 of God

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 it is simply

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 to have an

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 appetite for

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 him

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 and to

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 believe in

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 the one

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 that God

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 has sent

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 to you

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 to feed

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 you

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 and to

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 look to

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 the long

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 term

00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:56.099
 to look

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 to the

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 substantial

00:20:57.019 --> 00:20:58.879
 by faith

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 and to

00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:00.940
 open your

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 mouth

00:21:01.339 --> 00:21:01.879
 and to

00:21:01.879 --> 00:21:02.579
 take him

00:21:02.579 --> 00:21:03.000
 into your

00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:03.420
 life

00:21:03.420 --> 00:21:05.259
 and if

00:21:05.259 --> 00:21:05.740
 you do

00:21:05.740 --> 00:21:06.000
 that

00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:06.500
 the Lord

00:21:06.500 --> 00:21:06.880
 Jesus

00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:07.480
 promises

00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:07.800
 here

00:21:07.800 --> 00:21:08.039
 doesn't

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 he

00:21:08.180 --> 00:21:08.500
 he

00:21:08.500 --> 00:21:08.920
 promises

00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:09.460
 you

00:21:09.460 --> 00:21:10.460
 that

00:21:10.460 --> 00:21:10.660
 you

00:21:10.660 --> 00:21:10.840
 will

00:21:10.840 --> 00:21:11.180
 never

00:21:11.180 --> 00:21:11.420
 be

00:21:11.420 --> 00:21:11.740
 hungry

00:21:11.740 --> 00:21:12.240
 again

00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:13.519
 and you

00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:13.660
 will

00:21:13.660 --> 00:21:13.820
 never

00:21:13.820 --> 00:21:14.039
 be

00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:14.500
 thirsty

00:21:14.500 --> 00:21:16.740
 so

00:21:16.740 --> 00:21:17.680
 join me

00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:18.440
 this January

00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:19.560
 in this

00:21:19.560 --> 00:21:19.900
 diet

00:21:19.900 --> 00:21:20.440
 join me

00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:21.080
 this year

00:21:21.080 --> 00:21:21.640
 and for

00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:21.960
 the rest

00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:22.240
 of your

00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:22.600
 life

00:21:22.600 --> 00:21:23.759
 in feasting

00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:24.400
 on Jesus

00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:26.300
 and being

00:21:26.300 --> 00:21:26.900
 filled by

00:21:26.900 --> 00:21:27.240
 him

00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:28.039
 let us

00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:28.360
 pray