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CONT... Importance of getting to know the life in Christ. || Importancia de conocer la vida en Cristo. Podcast 23 Part 2
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And now let's continue with the second part of our podcast.
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Verse 27.
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Now for the third part of our master's introduction.
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Here we see some section,
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for that section to be drawn at the hand of the Lord Jesus.
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So, these are some sections,
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that will give us a reminds a
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particular point from verse 28 and
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would be to quote,
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for it is the hands Silva's father.
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from a position of garment of work. And Jesus wants to change their perspective. You don't
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have to do things to know me, because that's how religion is. You don't have to do a lot
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of prayers, although prayer is important. Okay, here we go. Here's the mess. Because
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religion tells you, you gotta pray eight hours or else God won't come. Jesus said you
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gotta pray. So the question is, are you praying because out of religion you have to pray eight
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hours? And if I don't pray the eight hours, then God won't come or am I praying because I want
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to be with him in his presence and I know he's gonna come. Is it from works or is it from
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relationship? Verse 28, they said to him, what must we do to be doing the works of God? Because
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that was all they knew. Religion, that was all they knew. They were bound to it.
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Verse 29, Jesus answered them, this is the work of God. What is the work of God? This is what I
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want you to work in. This is what I want you to work in. Not in vain practices, not in religion,
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but that you believe in him who he sent. Simple, just believe in him. I want you to work in your
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relationship with him. I don't want you to have to work to try to obtain his approval. I don't
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want you to work so that you can be more holy because the only one who makes you holy is
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Christ. And the more relationship you have with Christ, the holier you are. Religion teaches you
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that the more work I do, the more I pray, the more I fast, the more holy I am. That is not
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true because you confess and you can pray, but your heart is not there, then there's never real
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transformation because who's the person who transforms you, his name is Jesus Christ, and it's
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in relationship with him. It's not what you do or you cannot do. Jesus tells him, this is the work
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of God that you believe in him whom he has sent. So all I have to really do in my
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work is, my work is really just to know him. It's that simple. Religion puts burdens on us. Religion
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puts false expectations. There are more people that ran away from God because of religion,
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there are more people that ran away from God because of religion, verse 30, verse 30.
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They said, then, what sign do you make so that we can see and believe you? What do you do? Once again,
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going back to works, Jesus just fed five thousand men without counting women,
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without counting children, out of five loaves of bread, and two fish, and they're still asking for
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works because religion does not allow you to see Jesus correctly. Verse 31, verse 31, man,
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I feel the Lord is bringing in something so powerful. Verse 31, verse 31, our fathers ate
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the manna in the wilderness as it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. Jesus said,
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then, said to them, truly truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven,
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but my father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God,
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he is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. They said to him, sir,
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give us this bread always. Without understanding, they're just blurring stuff out.
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They're speaking things up. Verse 35, Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. I am the bread
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of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst,
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but I say to you that you have seen me, and yet you do not believe. Verse 41,
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so the Jews crumbled among about him. They were upset. They were talking about him.
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Because he said, I am the bread that comes from heaven. So I could imagine the Pharisees and all
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the scribes, I am the bread that comes from heaven. I'm going to be seen such a thing.
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Because you read scripture, but you don't read it in between the lines. See, a religious person
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has a hard time receiving truth. Sorry, I just dropped the microphone. Religion does not allow
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you to believe truth, because religion places blinders on you that you see
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obscurely how God really is. Where are we? Verse 41, you're here. Good. So the Jews grumbled about
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him, because he said, I am the bread that came down from heaven. They said, here we go, he's religion.
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He's religion with familiarity, because religion never lets you seize with honor.
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It never lets you see with honor. Religion does not allow you to see Korean clearly. Verse 42,
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all of a sudden these guys stood up. They ate of the bread. They had the benefits.
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They liked the crowds. They liked the miracles. But then they come out and they say,
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is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he says,
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I come down from heaven? Verse 43, Jesus answered to them, do not grumble among yourselves. No one can come
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to me unless the father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. Verse 45,
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it is written in the prophets, and they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has heard and
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learned from the father comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the father except who is from God.
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He has seen the father. This was confronting the religious system so much. Because the religious
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system does not allow them to see God. They had the Messiah. They had the promises. They had
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the answered prayer in front of them. They had the desire of their heart. They had the person
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that they've been waiting for all of their life. But religion did not allow them to see it. Religion
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was fighting against it. It was making resistance to him. Verse 47, truly, truly I say to you,
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whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. He repeats it for a second time.
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Verse 49, your father ate the man in the wilderness and they died.
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This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die.
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I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread,
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he will live forever. And the bread that I give for the life of the world is my flesh.
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Here religion was insulted even more. So you mean we got to eat of your flesh?
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You're saying that you're the bread of life. That's huge already.
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And now you're saying that we got to eat from you?
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Verse 53, it's read 51 again. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats
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of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my
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flesh. Verse 53, so Jesus said to them, truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the
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Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Do you know why we need life? Because we
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are dead without him. We don't need God because we're bad. We need God because we're dead.
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Okay, religion doesn't allow you to think that. You are dead to your works. That's what
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scripture says. You're dead to sin. That's what scripture says. So the Lord is telling them
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the reason why you need to eat of me is because it gives you life. I'm going to get
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in trouble. Religion tells you, don't be a fanatic. Religion tells you that if you
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give of your life to Christ, you have so much more you're going to lose. Keep reading.
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54. These are words that we are not even accustomed to. Verse 54, I've never, I've
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really heard a person actually pray this. Whoever feeds on my drink, whoever feeds on my
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flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day. When was the
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last time you said let's go to church so we can feast on the flesh of Jesus? Verse 55,
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for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my
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blood abides in me and I in him. Even that religion has made something that's called
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when we share the supper, the holy supper, we do it without revelation. We do it out of tradition
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and that tradition does not produce life. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood
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abides in me and I in him. As the living Father sent me, I live because of the Father and whoever
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feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is not a religious act. This is us coming
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continually to Christ, eating of him. He is the Word, eating of him, meditating, contemplating,
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allowing the Word and its nutrients changes from the inside out. We began with Ephesians 5,
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that the Lord will present to himself a bride and is going to cleanse her and wash her
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by the water of the Word. So the Lord is saying, you have to come back to my truth.
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The only thing that will prepare you for me or a big ingredient that will prepare you for me
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is my Word, is my truth, because I don't want a religious bride. I don't want a bride with filthy
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rags. I gave you my Word and I'm going to apply my Word in your heart, in your mind,
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in your body, in your soul, in your spirit. I'm going to change you through my Word. I want you
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to feed off of me. I don't want you to feed off of your thoughts. I'm going to get in trouble.
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I don't want you to feed off of the news. I don't want you to feed off of the opinions of others.
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I don't want you to feed off of your personal life from the report of the doctor. I don't want
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you to feed off of lies. I want you to feed out of truth, the truth of my Word,
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of what I've spoken for you, of what I have spoken over your life. I want you to feed,
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I want you to be nourished, I want you to be strengthened. That Word is going to wash you,
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it's going to cleanse you, it's going to remove every aspect of religion that you have,
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that has formed and conformed your life. That Word, the washing of the Word, the washing of
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the Word will set you free of all bindings that the man has put over you, or that religion
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has placed over you, which is not true. You are his bride. He paid for you with blood.
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You are cleansed by the blood. That sin was cut. Iniquity was removed. He washes you. He cleanses
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you.