THURSDAY, June 12th, 2008

Well teenagers, today we are going camping at Myakka State Park. We will be leaving around 1:45 so get your devos finished before you come up to the church! If you have any questions about this outstanding campout just give pastor Lee a call.

A Few Thoughts From Yesterday:
Kacey: That was pretty funny when you said: "I only got 7 hours of sleep last night"
Jessica B: I hope your headache is better! I am thankful that your Mom changed her mind and is now letting you come!
McCue: We miss you man! You qualified for the Reward Trip so if you want to fly back and hang out with is in two weekends that would be awesome! I am so thankful for you and proud of you for being faithful in spite of so many obstacles!! Keep up the Great Work!
Brooke: I love the way you said: "We have the truth of God right at our Grasp" also... I thought it was funny how your "Deviled" eggs made you lose track of your devotions... it that just a coincidence?
Phil: I hope that you are reading this before anyone else so that you can be the first to comment ON YOUR BIRTHDAY!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAN!! (Happy Birthday to Jake as well)
Gaby: Will told me to tell you that He had fun hanging out with you before the service tonight, and I am glad that Wednesday nights are your favorite time of the week! :)
Jessica Massey: To bad you cant sleep in, can you? Because you have volley ball practice dont you?

John 6:41-60

41 The Jews then complained about Him, because He said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.”
42 And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
43 Jesus therefore answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves.
44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.
47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
52 The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?”
53 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.
54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.
56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
58 This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
59 These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.
60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?”

Wow... It is sad to see how ignorant man can be. Think about this: Jesus is still trying to explain to these men how they can have eternal life, but they are taking everything He is saying out of context or misunderstanding Him. Verse 60 really makes it clear what this whole section was about: They admit that they do not understand what God is talking about in this passage! Lets quickly go back to the beginning.

Once again, this passage continues the conversation between Jesus and all of these followers. They are more skeptical than ever. They try to put everything that Jesus is saying together... so they think that They must eat a certain kind of bread to have eternal life... Then they hear that Jesus Christ is that bread... So they figure that (GET THIS) they must eat Jesus to be able to go to heaven.

Wow... that just shows how confusing we can make things when we try to explain the wisdom of God to the simplicity of man. God says that His ways are High above our ways.

Obviously Christ did not mean to eat his flesh, he meant that we should be so consumed with Jesus that He is the source and the substance of our life!

Is Jesus the main part of your life? Do you know who He is?

The Bible tells us that we are to "Taste and See that the Lord is Good" Are you consumed with the Lord? HAve you tasted him? NOT LITERALLY! But have you experienced the great satisfaction of a wonderful close relationship with Jesus Christ?

Do It Today!