Closed Captioned 8-23-2009 Message, Zion, Torrance, CA

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This Closed Captioned Message teaches us that the Bread that God gives enables us to do the IMPOSSIBLE. For contacting find: www.ziontorrance.info

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Text from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, used
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 41:
At this
the Jews began to grumble about him because
he said, "I AM THE BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN."
They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph,
whose father and mother we know?
How can he now say, 'I CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN'?"
"STOP GRUMBLING AMONG YOURSELVES," Jesus answered.
"NO ONE CAN COME TO ME UNLESS THE FATHER
WHO SENT ME DRAWS HIM, AND I WILL
RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY.
IT IS WRITTEN IN THE PROPHETS: 'THEY WILL BE TAUGHT BY GOD.'
EVERYONE WHO LISTENS TO THE FATHER AND LEARNS FROM HIM
COMES TO ME.
NO ONE HAS SEEN THE FATHER EXCEPT THE ONE
WHO IS FROM GOD; ONLY HE HAS SEEN THE FATHER.
I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, HE WHO BELIEVES
HAS EVERLASTING LIFE. I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE.
YOUR FOREFATHERS ATE THE MANNA IN THE DESERT,
YET THEY DIED. BUT HERE IS THE BREAD
THAT COMES DOWN FROM HEAVEN, WHICH A MAN
MAY EAT AND NOT DIE. 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 WILL GIVE FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD."
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.
The congregation
is seated
before Pastor Dave
begins the sermon.
Dear Followers of our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
How weak our human nature is.
How truly weak we are,
because even when we look
at the great heroes of faith in Scripture,
take for example the prophet Elijah.
I don't think we're going to argue that he is one
of those saints of the Old Testament who stands out
as someone who is powerful and
strong in the Word and in the presence of the Lord.
I mean we have that picture of
him standing before those hundreds of
prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel,
taunting them, mocking them,
laughing in their face
that all of their whining, yelling and hollering and
cutting themselves can't bring down the fire
from their gods to consume
their offering.
Yet after Elijah poured water upon water
on his altar and prays to God,
God ignites that and consumes his offering.
And in the strength and the power of God,
Elijah and his men go out and slay those prophets of Baal.
We see the mighty Elijah.
And yet immediately following that,
we hear what happened in our
Old Testament text.
He went out under a broom tree
and cried to God that he was the only one left.
All of Your other people ...
they've all fallen away.
They're all worshiping Baal. I'm the only one left.
God, I want to die.
How quickly the human spirit
can go from trust ...
to despair.
The same thing is true of
those thousands of people that Jesus fed
in that simple miracle with the loaves and the fish.
They followed after Him.
They wanted to spend time with Him. They sought
Him out for the miracles that they saw Him doing.
They came to Him and Jesus proclaimed that
He was the One who had come down from heaven.
And what does John record for us?
They began to grumble
among themselves. Who does HE think HE is anyway?
Isn't this Joseph's son? How can HE be the one
who's gonna stand up in front of us and claim
that HE came down from heaven?
How quickly and easily,
we as human beings, even after seeing
the WONDERFUL POWER and STRENGTH of GOD displayed,
can turn around
and focus only on us.
And only on
our own simple human reason
and only on our own selfish needs.
And get so turned around
that we can't listen
to what our Father has to say.
We cannot listen to what God the Father has in store
for us and has planned for us and all of the blessings
that He has given to us because we just
don't wanna hear it!
And Jesus is the One who stood in front of those people
and in history He stands before us
and points us to the Father,
directs us back to His Father.
Yes, He IS the Son of God who
left behind the glories of heaven
who was with God from the very beginning,
who with the Father and the Holy Spirit
came together and said: Let us create this world.
Let us do this in a miraculous
and special way, it was the Word
that God the Father used
to create the world. He said: Let there be light
and there was light!
That filled this planet with all sorts of wonderful and
marvelous animals and insects and birds and fish.
To show His creative power
is the One who took special care
in creating man
and creating woman.
And bringing them together
to support each other, to love each other,
to BE together
in God's love.
Jesus came from His Father and He showed
what His Father was to the world. There was no one else
who had ever seen God except the One who came from God.
Jesus told that to the group of Jews
that were there. Understand if you want to
see God and know what God is,
then you look at Me. Look at Me
and see 'cuz I was WITH God;
I AM God and I am here among you.
IMMANUEL.
GOD WITH US. And Jesus
wanted those people to STOP grumbling amongst themselves, to
STOP and put aside what they thought
they knew to truly HEAR
what God had to say.
That they wouldn't get past
the fact that they saw Jesus as the son of Joseph.
But He was the son of man.
Yes, born of Mary, but also
the Son of God. He had to be
both true God and true man to come
into this world and accomplish
the plan of salvation that the Lord had put in place
because human beings had brought sin into the world.
Adam and Eve in the
perfection of the garden,
STILL looked on the fruit that God had told them
NOT to eat of and thought it was better for them
to eat it. They thought that they knew better.
They thought that they wanted something more.
They took that fruit and ate it and brought sin
into the world. They conceived children that were
born in sin, with original sin.
And they passed that down from generation
to generation, to us
which we will pass on to the next generation.
The corruption of sin ...
it's punishment by death ...
that there is no escape for humanity
other than
the salvation that Jesus brought to this world.
Other than His own flesh ...
the very flesh that He would sacrifice
for the forgiveness of all sins.
The very flesh that
would be ripped apart
with the tortuous whipping that He endured.
The burden and the punishment
that should have been placed on you and on me
and on every person He
carried in His body.
The pains that He suffered
was your pain and my pain.
His flesh was torn apart
by those nails that placed Him on the cross.
His side was split open by that spear.
That came to show
that He was truly dead.
He offered Himself and His body as the
sacrifice for sin.
And the Father has brought
that information to us.
What a glorious and wonderful news
has come to us by the power of God.
We weren't looking for it. We didn't want it.
We were those enemies of God born in that original sin
running away from God and trying to do everything
that opposed Him. But God in His love
sent us His Holy Spirit,
gave us His Word.
Maybe it was through loving
parents who brought us to the fount ... font
to have ourselves baptized
using that sacrament of God,
having the Word applied with water.
Maybe it was a friend who shared with us
the truth of God's Word.
But it was God using those people
to give us
His gift of faith by the power
and the strength of His Holy Spirit.
And without that, we would be lost eternally.
Forever.
We would be condemned
to hell and all of its torments
eternally.
But yet we have heard what the Father has done.
We have listened to His Word.
We have looked to His Son.
We have been encouraged by the Holy Spirit
to BE one of His children. And as the Apostle Paul
reminds us: It's time for us to be
an imitator of God. To put into practice
the things that we know.
To stop being so consumed on ourselves
and to look outward to others.
To be kind and compassionate.
To get rid of all of the malice, the anger,
the bitterness, the rage and the brawling.
To love each other
and be compassionate
so that others will see Christ in us.
So that we, too, will point others
to God, with that one key thought ...
forgiving ....
the sins of each other
as Christ has forgiven us.
And we do need to remind ourselves of that fact daily.
How often we take pleasure
in the fact that daily that old Adam
within us is drowning our
baptismal waters.
To rise with Christ in His resurrection and
strength and power and commitment. To go out and
live the life of faith.
Daily we need that reminder.
To listen to our heavenly Father. To hear
what He has to say and to put that into practice
in our lives.
Otherwise we're gonna be like Elijah
who sat under the tree and wanted to die.
But yet God came to him with these words.
In that gentle whisper
He said: Elijah, get up.
Go back and do the work
that I have for you to do.
Jesus came to those people who were gathered together
in front of Him and said stop grumbling,
look to God,
see in Me the Bread of Life
that will give you eternal life.
Live in that joy. Live in that
presence. God comes to us in His Word
with the encouragement that we need to
sustain us to lead this life
into our life eternal.
Therefore I encourage each of us
to listen to the Father.
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.

Closed Captioned 8-23-2009 Message, Zion, Torrance, CA

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