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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Thank you for listening to your Daily Bible Verse,

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Speaker 1: the podcast that examines one verse each day to learn

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Speaker 1: more about God and as will for our lives. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Kyle Norman. After a brief message from one

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Speaker 1: of our sponsors, we will continue with today's verse. Today's

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Speaker 1: verse can be found in John chapter six, Verse twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Do not work for food that spoils, but for food

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Speaker 1: that endures to eternal life, which the son of Man

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Speaker 1: will give you. Picture the scene. It's the day after

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Speaker 1: Jesus reads five thousand people with miraculous provision of fish

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Speaker 1: and bread. As people wake up that morning, they notice

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Speaker 1: that Jesus and the disciples have begun to make their

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Speaker 1: way back across the lake, and so one by one

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Speaker 1: they begin to race around the water's edge. By the

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Speaker 1: time Jesus gets out of the boat on the other side,

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Speaker 1: a swarm of people come upon him, pressing in on him,

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Speaker 1: all looking for a repeat of the day before. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: they were given quote as much as they wanted, and

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Speaker 1: so now they look forward again. It's as if they

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Speaker 1: want Jesus to be the short order cook for their lives,

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Speaker 1: pumping out meals as per their request of course, Jesus

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Speaker 1: is not interested in that. Jesus bypasses what they ask

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Speaker 1: him and goes straight to the issue at hand. Jesus

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Speaker 1: says to them, you are looking for me not because

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Speaker 1: you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate the loaves

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Speaker 1: and had your fill. Jesus says, you're watching just another meal.

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Speaker 1: You're here not because you recognize this miraculous work and

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Speaker 1: so now have some understanding of what it all means

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Speaker 1: and who I can be for you. No, Jesus says,

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Speaker 1: it's because the power of God has touched your individual

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Speaker 1: life and you want to experience that again. But here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. Jesus doesn't want to be received simply as

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Speaker 1: a worker of miracles, one who doles out whatever condolence

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Speaker 1: we feel in the moment. No, Jesus longs to provide

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Speaker 1: that full satisfaction and that internal healing that so often

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Speaker 1: lies behind whatever we pray physically. So he says, do

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Speaker 1: not work for food that spoils, but for food that

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Speaker 1: endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will

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Speaker 1: give you. Making Jesus just to fill our hunger is

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Speaker 1: only a temporary solution, because we will be hungry again

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Speaker 1: a free lunch is great, but eventually we want another one,

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Speaker 1: And so we are invited to come to Jesus for

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Speaker 1: something deeper, something internals, something that inwardly satisfies, heals and

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Speaker 1: makes us whole, something that will endure. Jesus says, to

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Speaker 1: eternal life, and Jesus is clear, it is something that

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Speaker 1: only the son of man can give. Now Jesus changes

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Speaker 1: the entire course of the conversation with the crowd around him,

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Speaker 1: and what begins with the discussion of a free meal

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Speaker 1: and physical satisfaction ends with a declaration of the spiritual

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Speaker 1: satisfaction that Jesus can provide. The people ask Jesus, what

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Speaker 1: miracle will you do to prove that you can provide this?

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Speaker 1: They reference how Moses gave them mad and the desert

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Speaker 1: for their nourishment and sustenance. What will you provide, they

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Speaker 1: ask again. They're only thinking about temporal things, about physical satisfaction.

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Speaker 1: But the big message that Jesus gives is not that

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Speaker 1: he offers us spiritual food, but that he is the

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Speaker 1: spiritual food. The eternal food that Jesus offers is himself.

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Speaker 1: And so Jesus says a few verses later, I am

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Speaker 1: the bread of life. Jesus doesn't come to offer a

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Speaker 1: new experience of manna miraculous bread falling from the sky.

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Speaker 1: He's not just the worker of miracles. Jesus is the miracle.

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Speaker 1: Jesus is the bread for those who are searching for

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Speaker 1: nourishment and satisfaction, for those who want healing of any

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Speaker 1: kind in their lives, for those who look for direction

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Speaker 1: or guidance. Are just a sense of put togetherness, Jesus

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Speaker 1: is what we seek. The bread of God is the

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Speaker 1: one who comes down and gives his life for the world.

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Speaker 1: Those who come to Me, Jesus says, will never hunger,

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Speaker 1: and those who believe in Me will never thirst. So

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Speaker 1: with such wonderful declarations made to us, why would we

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Speaker 1: not want to stretch ourselves out and rest upon its promises?

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Speaker 1: Why do you seek after Jesus? What is in your

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Speaker 1: life that causes you to reach out to him, that

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Speaker 1: causes you to search for him? Do you want to

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Speaker 1: feel comforted? Are you stressed out or angry or physically exhausted? Now,

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Speaker 1: notice one thing. Jesus doesn't dismiss the people's reason for

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Speaker 1: searching for him. Jesus doesn't ask them to come back

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Speaker 1: once they get their theology right or know the definitive

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Speaker 1: answer to the questions that they ask. We are allowed

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Speaker 1: to search for Jesus for whatever reason that we need him,

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Speaker 1: but Jesus still points us to true satisfaction and to

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Speaker 1: the true nourishment that he provides, because ultimately, our full

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Speaker 1: redemption isn't found in our earthly comforts or reprieves. The

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Speaker 1: ultimate healing that we receive is from being united to Jesus.

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Speaker 1: And so if you want to know the fullness of

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Speaker 1: Christ in your life, then reach out to him not

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Speaker 1: for what he can give you, but for who he is,

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Speaker 1: because when we do so, we will find that our

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Speaker 1: lives are showered with an untold grace and mercy, for

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Speaker 1: He is the satisfaction that will never spoil, fade, or

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Speaker 1: drift away. Amen