8-30-2009 Captioned Sermon, Zion, Torrance, CA

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Posted by: hischild on Sep 1, 2009

In this Captioned Message, we're reminded of the wisdom to daily nourish our souls by feeding on God's Word while on this temporal journey to our eternal home in heaven.

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Text taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL
VERSION by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
Let us rise for the reading of this morning's sermon text
recorded for us in John's Gospel where we read
from Chapter 6, beginning with verse 51:
I AM THE LIVING BREAD THAT CAME DOWN
FROM HEAVEN. IF ANYONE EATS OF THIS BREAD, HE WILL LIVE
FOREVER. THIS BREAD IS MY FLESH,
WHICH I GIVE FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD.
Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves,
"How can this man give us his flesh to eat."
Jesus said to them, I TELL YOU THE TRUTH,
UNLESS YOU EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN AND
DRINK HIS BLOOD, YOU HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU.
WHOEVER EATS MY FLESH AND DRINKS MY BLOOD
HAS ETERNAL LIFE, AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY.
FOR MY FLESH IS REAL FOOD AND
MY BLOOD IS REAL DRINK.
WHOEVER EATS MY FLESH AND DRINKS MY BLOOD
REMAINS IN ME, AND I IN HIM.
JUST AS THE LIVING FATHER SENT ME AND I LIVE BECAUSE OF
THE FATHER, SO THE ONE WHO FEEDS ON ME WILL LIVE
BECAUSE OF ME. THIS IS THE BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM
HEAVEN. YOUR FOREFATHERS ATE MANNA, AND DIED,
BUT HE WHO FEEDS ON THIS BREAD
WILL LIVE FOREVER.
This is the Word of our Lord. Let us pray:
Glorious and Gracious God, may the words of my mouth and
the meditation of each of our hearts be
acceptable in Your sight our only source of
Hope and Comfort. Amen.
After praying, Pastor Dave
motions for the congregation
to be seated. Dear Followers of our Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ.
Jesus is still dealing
with that group of people who have witnessed
the feeding of at least 5,000 people. Remember that
group of people that had come out
to witness Jesus working.
To see Him perform the miracles that He had
done previously. They wanted to know
more about Him. They wanted to hear His message.
They came out because they were interested in what He
had to say. It was those people
who witnessed that miraculous feeding
of the 5,000.
It touched them so much in their lives that
they had to scramble after Jesus. They wanted to be
where He was. They tracked Him down. They got in boats.
They walked on the shore. They came out because they
were so enthralled by what He had said, but more so by
what He had done.
They wanted to make Him an earthly king.
They wanted to get from Him all of the things that they
would need for their physical existence.
For their life in this world. And we see how hard it was
for Jesus to take their
attention off of
that bread and fish that they ate.
And to put their thoughts and minds to
their eternal life.
They wanted a miracle from Him.
They wanted to know by whose authority He had spoken.
Hadn't they seen that miracle? Hadn't they witnessed
and ate that miracle themselves?
But yet as Jesus tries to get their focus,
off of that bread and fish, and onto eternal life ...
... all of a sudden ...
they seem to lose interest.
All of a sudden they really begin to challenge Him.
All of a sudden they want to know certain things.
They point back to their forefathers who
had that great and special bread in the wilderness,
of manna that came down from heaven.
But Jesus tries to get them
back on point even in our Lesson for today
because what
does He say to them about that manna?
Your forefathers ate that manna
in the desert and ...
they ... died.
... Even we,
need to
have that reminder in our life
that some day
death is not going to come near to us.
Death is going to COME for EACH
and EVERY ONE
of us.
It's a reminder that we have to sometimes
take our focus off of all of the things
that we can see and hold in our life
and direct it toward heaven.
The fact that our goal in this life is
to REMAIN in Christ.
I don't think that's a lot of people's
top ten list of things
to accomplish as they go through life.
To remain in Christ, to be nourished on Him,
to remain in Christ for all eternity was what
Jesus was trying to get those
people to understand who had come to Him.
They wanted Him to be their king.
He WANTED to be their king, but not an EARTHLY king.
He wanted to be their
SPIRITUAL king, their SPIRITUAL ruler ...
not someone who sat on a fancy throne in Jerusalem
in a great palace, but
He wanted to sit on the thrones of their hearts,
to be the One who was the Lord of their life
and govern over each and every aspect of their life.
He said if that's what you WANT me to be,
the king of your life, you have to REMAIN in Me.
You have to go off on your own doing the things that
you want to do and doing the things that this life
are more important than your eternal life.
Do we even think of that when we go through our life and
the sins and opportunities of the sins
that are put in front of us? If I choose this,
I choose death. If I choose this,
I choose remaining in Christ.
How often we just ignore that and happily go
down the road of sin and life be damned.
Because sometimes I think we don't even realize
that WE'LL be damned.
We think: Oh, I can come to church on Sunday.
I can talk about Jesus as my Lord and Savior
I can go home and do whatever I want.
I don't have to live that life of faith.
I can just ignore God,
I can misuse His name, I can mistreat my parents,
I can covet other people, I can steal what I want,
I can hate other people. We can do the whole thing!
Doesn't really matter ...
I'll go to church next Sunday and God'll be happy with me.
But have we REMAINED in Christ?
Have we NOURISHED and FED ourselves
on His Word?
On what It says to us.
Or do we just hear It and It passes through
and It has no effect. Think of that with the
nourishment that we put into our mouths,
if it just passed through and had no effect.
We'd be dead. We'd be
walking skeletons to say the least, with organs
that didn't function properly.
God says: Remain in Me.
Be nourished and fed on Me. Have your faith
and trust in Me.
So that we have HEALTHY spiritual lives.
So that we're ACTIVE in our faith.
So that the Word that comes in, we hear and we understand
... and we're not always challenging God and screaming
at Him and saying: This isn't right or we want outta here or
we wanna do this. Instead we come to Him
and say: What do You want from me?
What do You want from us?
And that we willingly let Him rule in our hearts.
Not just today,
but for all eternity.
Do we want to spend eternity
in the presence of God ... What does that mean to us?
I think that's something we really need to ask ourselves.
Because it really isn't any different
than the life that we have in this world.
Yes, it's gonna be perfect.
There isn't going to be any sin and woe.
But it's gonna be time spent with God.
Praising God.
Doing the work of God. Being WITH God, worshiping God,
spending time with God.
So shouldn't our temporal lives
reflect that?
Shouldn't our temporal lives be a foretaste of
what's to come!
Or do we let the things of this world distract us and
detract us so much from
our eternal glory.
But then all of a sudden when we get hit
with the death of someone, we can't cope.
How could God do this to us?
How could God bring this into our life?
He's going to do that to you and to me some day.
Are we ready for that if it's today?
What if it's God's great plan
in the universe that today is the day
that we all leave this world
for our eternal glory?
Are we ready to stand up and rejoice?
Are we ready to greet our heavenly Father and
our Savior in the love that
He has showered upon us. Or are we so fixated on what's
here that that is too far down the road
for us to comprehend.
Those people came
to Jesus because they wanted to hear Him.
And when He spoke, they didn't really like
the message.
They were missing the fact that HE ... was ...
the central part of their faith.
He said: I'm the Living Bread that came down from heaven.
Not the bread like the manna that came down
that your forefathers ate and died.
If you trust and you believe in Me; you WILL live.
You will live for all of eternity and
that is the simple Truth of the Gospel of our Lord
and Savior. God gave us His Son,
sacrificed Him on the cross of Calvary, so that
you and I could live forever.
Live eternally in the presence of our God ... and each
and every day we remind ourselves of that fact,
we get centered back on what is important.
Remaining in Christ.
And anything that's not in Christ, then leaves our life.
Anything that is unhealthy for us,
any poison of sin, we're not gonna take
into our lives. Anything that is
going to detract from the
nourishment of God, should not be a part of our lives.
And we all know how difficult that is to do
even with our own food.
How much more difficult it is for us who sometimes
who have difficult, who have difficulty understanding the
importance of the spiritual.
To rethink how our life goes ...
to live differently.
To put into practice the things of Christ
that we remain in Him and worship Him
is our goal.
And the only place we're gonna find strength for that
is in Jesus Christ Himself.
We have opened our hearts to Him.
We have received Him as our Lord and Savior.
He sits on the throne of our hearts. He is there to
rule and to guide our life.
Today we come back to Him and say: You are my Lord.
You are my God. You are my Savior.
Today I remain in You.
And tomorrow morning when I get up, I say
the same thing. And I pray that the Holy Spirit
will be with me to keep me in the faith. To keep me
fighting the good fight, to keep me running the race.
Because I know that the day that my Lord and Savior
calls me out of this world,
that I will be with Him forever in heaven.
And I look for that day and I long for that day.
And I hope
that it will be soon.
Amen.
Let us rise.
Now may the peace of God which goes beyond
all of our understanding keep your hearts
and your minds and especially your lives
in the one true faith unto life everlasting. Amen.

8-30-2009 Captioned Sermon, Zion, Torrance, CA

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