Jesus - I Am the bread of life | Pr Sandra Chin

You're listening to a message to go from X Church. We hope this message

will light up your tea today. I just want to bring God's word to

you. And John chapter six. You know, in the background of John

chapter six, you well, I am the bread of life, Jesus,

not me. He talks about Jesus saying to the people and the crowd saying,

I am the bread of life. So if you love sour dough,

Jesus is your sour dough, okay, all right? Or whatever bread you

like, Jesus saying I am the bread of life. The background of John

chapter six starts off with feeding of the five thousand men, only not only

five thousand men plus women plus children, with the five loaves and two fish.

That's the background of chapter six. So again bread, what's involved to

five loaves? Five loaves? Don't think of rotil away your loaves. They'll

probably flat breads roticha I okay. And and then he moves on to Jesus

walking on the water, crossing over to couple from where he was at the

feeding of the five thousand. So people had experienced the miracle of the bread

um, you know, being passed out through the handed out through the hands

of disciple, and it was just multiplying and fed everyone with twelve baskets of

remaining crumbs. Anyone feels like a crumb, no even crumbs. God wants

the crumbs of our lives, say many can really be a blessing. Every

crumb. God never wasts. He picks it up, right, do your

e crumbs? No, yeah, we do. Okay, crumbs are important.

Okay, So comes from that background. Then now he moves into caponium.

He's there, and then it starts in the background or in the verse

of chapter six, Book of John, chapter six, verse twenty five,

where we see it opening, where the people say to him, hey,

Rabbi, when did you come here, because they noticed that from the boat

that Jesus didn't they saw Jesus not getting on the boat when he when when

the disciples had moved over here told them, you know, go ahead,

go ahead of me. And then you and I know, because we're looking

backwards, that he actually walked on water. So yeah, Jesus was showing

off and okay, he was walking on water. And the only other person

recorded, the only other gospel, only one gospel records that Jesus that Peter

walked on water was Matthew. So the only one daring enough to say that

Jesus walked on water, and so you have not Jesus Peter walked on water

and the only human being probably they ever walked on water aside from Jesus himself.

So they're like, how did you get across to the other side?

And and then then they and then Jesus says to them in verse twenty six

and verse twenty seven, I'll just read it from mat from John six twenty

six twenty seven, he says, most assuredly, I say to you,

you seek me, not because you saw the signs, but you ate of

the loaves and were filled. Wow. Jesus gave them bread and they were

full. And so Jesus then says to them, do not labor. Okay,

there's a slight. Do not labor for the food which perishes, but

for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Men will

give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him. Amen,

hallelujah. Or just coming in from that verse that I am the first

slight, which says I am the bread of life. Amen. And I

love doing this. I know you hear me all the time. I always

say Jesus probably was black because he ain't gonna say I am. I ease,

all right, so I ease. Jesus said, I is. I'm

not. I was, I'm not, I will be, but I ease.

So he am the bread of life. He am the bread of life.

He is the bread of life. And he's bringing, you know,

he's bringing this whole picture of them having eaten the bread. And then now

they're they're like what he says, Hey, don't spend money, don't work

for food that will perish, but for what that will last for ever.

And he's saying that, hey, you know, I'll give you everlast.

This is the everlasting life which can be found in the Son of Men.

And the God the Father has said a seal. So God the Father gave

a chop, sirim, cho chop chop, a seal that says, this

is the real deal. This is approved of God the Father. And so

what do the people say? The people then go on to say, whoa,

So tell us what it is that we need to work the works of

God. What shall we do that we may work the works of God?

Amen? So they're interested to know. Now Wow, if you can multiply

the bread, so we two one Dad. So as I bring this across

on my first my approach, I mean my challenge or the encouragement to us.

Look at that verse in John six twenty seven that says, do not

labor for the food which parishes come on food bread in the natural We need

food. But are we just chasing after the natural food will perish the natural

things? What are we? What are we laboring for? But are we?

Are we, you know, wanting to receive the kind of food which

will endure to everlasting life. And most of us here would experience, would

have experienced the everlasting life of Jesus when we received him. Can you remember

the first day you received him? Amen? It's been forty years for me

following Jesus, and I'm still following. I'm still learning. I'm so grateful,

firstly for Jesus to find me in my lostness, and for Jesus to

put me in a church and in from the church that I grew and had

family in the church, my home church where people helped me to grow.

So really, the Lord is speaking to us today about him being that bread

of life in us. And if he is the real deal for us,

we have everlasting life. Amen. And then God's seal has already been upon

him. We are following the real deal. So again, friends, you

know the world and people who have not yet experienced the real deal, the

real bread of life. What are they laboring for? In Isaiah chapter fifty

five and verse two, you know, the Lord rights success to through Isaiah,

and he says that, hey, why do you spend money for what

is not bread? Friends? Some bakers you know who bake real bread,

They'll tell you. Why do you spend money on what is not bread?

Don't buy guardainium? Okay, all right? Ah, so real bread and

your wages for what does not satisfy. We spend on things that don't satisfy.

We need the real bread. Come on, those of you mama's and

brothers. We are making sour know the real deal? Are you know?

I used I made bread before game. My husband's what do the tastes like?

Grass I said, hello, brother, he's hollwd hollwit grass I can't

you give me guardaenian Gartinius? Why do you spend money for what it's not

bread? All right? So, so Jesus says, hey, why do

you spend money, but way's not bread and your wages or what does not

satisfy you know, we're spending week. Yes you are blessed, but what

are we spending on? And it's not satisfying. But Jesus, the Lord

God says, listen carefully to me, eat what is good, and let

your soul delight itself in abundance. Amen. I believe when you have the

bread of life, you are eating of the goodness and the fullness of the

Lord, and that you will not be empty. You will be satisfied,

and you will have that abundance in the Lord, which is not only physical

God needs or physical needs. But we are more than physical needs. We

are more than just buying that house, getting that car, getting the girl.

Huh, all right? They all right? It wo have more than

that. God's abundance is by having the Bread of life living in us.

Amen. And you just want to remind us God again wants to remind us

who is the Lord and how is he coming to you? Are you eating

the bread of life? Eating the bread of life? WHOA, Okay,

are we eating the bread of life? We'll find out. Amen. So

so here I give three points. I thought of three points. And again

you might know it. But let's search our hearts again on whether we are

really partaking of this bread of life. Number one, the bread of life.

Jesus says he is the bread of life. You read that in John

chapter six and verse forty eight. He says, I am the bread of

life. Is mentioned more than one time, at least three to four times.

I am the bread of life. Wow, saur Do is good,

but Jesus is better. Okay, all right, I am the bread of

life better than ROTI Jana. Maybe I don't know, all right. He

is our sustenance. Amen, he is our sustenance. And he brought so

the law was speaking to them because the people in that time, Bible times,

they would understand what bread is. Probably in Asia, I am the

rice of life. Okay, we don't eat bread. We eat rice.

So I am the rice of life. And because that's where we live by

we grew up eating rice. Maybe something we ate bread, But I grew

up eating rice. So I am the rise of life. But Jesus use

the bread. Because they understood the necessity. The food that they ate was

bread, and so Jesus was bringing that comparison or that analogy rather that if

you have bread in the natural, then what is it about in your spirit?

In your spiritual And he says, I am the bread of life.

Now, when you read John chapter six, and you you, as you

read through the whole chapter, I'm sure you've read it, you will you

will remember that Jesus when he said I am the bread of life. And

he started teaching them that you need to eat of my flesh and of my

blood. That's where we have the background of communion with we partake of communion

in remembrance of Christ. And was Jesus promoting human sacrifice to eat the flesh

and ring the blood like that's that's that's so unlike God. But to damn

they eat your fleship during your blood. That cannot cannot, we cannot take

it. I know. We asked what must we do to do the works

of God? And Jesus said, well, this is who, this is

it. If you would believe in me that I am the Son of God

and have come, you already can start the work going. But they had

as he continued to talk, and he said, you need to partake of

me, you need to partake of me. They couldn't accept that Jesus,

Joseph's son, Mary's son, was going to save the world. That was

not in their mind. No, you're just a nobody, right, So

they couldn't accept that, and as he continued teaching, they just went,

whoa, sorry, we cannot we cannot get what you're saying. And we

will never partake of your body, will not partake of your blood. This

is not right, this is this is out of the question. And on

that day Jesus lost all these church members because in verse sixty six they said,

goodbye, we're in following you anymore, change membership of church. And

so they left and then these twelthfulest standing their life, and Jesus said to

them, so you want to follow them? Also? Sorry, Jesus didn't

speak like that, but Hebrew and uh and uh. He said, do

you want to follow them? Do you want to leave? As well?

You can read that in uh John six sixty six. They left Jesus and

followed him no more. And then in sixty seven Jesus said, do you

also want to go away? And that's when we get this brilliant answer from

this glob off look called Peter, because he's always saying funny things right,

And so then Peter says, oh Lord, He says, Lord to whom

shall we go? You have the words of eternal life? Whoa brilliant answer,

A plus student, other times a bit boo. But today he answered

the right answer, A plus for you. You get to get the price.

Okay. Other days he's saying all kinds of silities. What about John?

Is he gonna? I do? Is here? Like none of your

business? But today he said, Lord, to whom shall we go?

You have the words of eternal life. And then Jesus said, whoa you

know this has only been revealed to you by God yet a revelation. So

sustenance? What sustain us? So are you asking me to eat bread?

No, I'm asking to eat I'm asking us to partake of Jesus, the

living Word. He is the living word in our lives. If we look

at John one one, John one one says, in the beginning was the

word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.

Look at that in the beginning was Jesus, and Jesus was with God,

and Jesus was God. To replace the word word, this word was with

God, the Father. His name is Jesus. In John one fourteen,

and the word became the flesh. He became flesh. He left his kingdom,

he left heaven, and he came to a world that was filled with

sin. Some people were saying, well, Jesus even want to be with

me. I'm so, I'm so backs leaden, I'm such a sinner,

I'm dirty. But God is not afraid of our sin, nor our filth,

nor any of that. He walked into our world, became a man,

and to experience everything that you and I would ever experience. So the

world became flesh. Dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the

glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

A man full of Jesus is full of grace and truth. I know,

none of us. I know some people are so full of grace that

I we're like, wow, you're so full of grace. You know,

look at doctor Jills face, like you are the face of mercy. All

right, it's true, right, just grace yea. And I oh,

I'm a man holy and holy. Okay, But but this is Jesus,

full of grace and truth. He walked among us. This word became living,

not just siting in heaven. God didn't ask us to do something without

himself coming down to earth. So the bread of life is among us and

is living in us today. And that's why when I say sustenance, I

look at Joshua chapter one and verse eight, and we know it. But

friends, we need to pursue this on a regular basis. The Book of

the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it

day and night, that you may observe to do according all that it is

that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous,

and then you will have good success. Amen the Book of the Law in

Moses time. But today we have the living Word. This name is Jesus,

and God has given us his blueprint in his beautiful love letter with sixty

six letters that you and I have the time to read, sixty six love

letters for us that God is giving us. He is what we call the

written word of God, the logos word of God. When you read the

logos, the written word, we then will have the revealed word of God

that will speaks personally to you at different times, called the rama word is

the Greek word for the revealed word. Of God for you and I at

specific times of our lives. But all of us can receive the written word

of God, the Logos, and so this is our Jesus. He is

the word of life to us, and the living bread. I just implore

you that we would remember again as we live today. The days are are

not getting easier, friends, Jesus said here in verse thirty five, again

the whole days. On chapter six, in verse thirty five, Jesus said

to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me

shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never. Are you

hungry? What are you hungry for? What's your hunger? Are you thirsty?

What are you thirsting for? May we be hungry for the Lord,

hungry after righteousness? Because Matthew chapter five. If you look at the beatitudes

in Matthew chapter five, you will see that Jesus would say the inverse sorry

verse six. Yeah, blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

for they shall be filled. Judge, we have been saved those of us

who know Christ. Again, it's a good reminder. What do you and

I hunger for? Because if we hunger for Jesus, you will be filled.

If Jesus is our righteousness. Praise God. When we received this living

bread, he came into our lives, and he clothes with his robe of

righteousness. He removed our sin. He took away our sin, and he

clothes with his robe of righteousness, so that you and I never have to

work for it, but we have received it by grace. Amen, By

grace, friends, you are walking in the grace of God, clothed in

his righteousness. So here you know when you are hungry, what may we

be hungry for God's righteousness? Amen, hungry The sustenance that we want is

really the Lord. Now what are we there for? A reminder? What

are we laboring for? What are we working so hard for? Is it

for what that will last? Or is it things that won't last. There's

internal things of our lives. God will meet all your physical needs. There

are things that we need day to day. We need to provide for our

families, for ourselves. But there is something deeper in our spirit. Today

I ask you, let the Holy Spirit speak to you. If you are

hungering after the Lord, you will be filled. You are thirsting after the

Lord, you will be filled. And so we want to be reminded,

friends, what are we hungry? Daily? We take our food, we

eat dinner, we eat breakfast, dinner, breakfast, lunch, dinner,

or we have tea, we have supper. I don't know. Now you're

very healthy. Everybody going dinner, Tina means you're not eating like you're eating

something. Love, but one day, one meal a day. But we

all getting smaller and smaller. So but still food is what sustain us,

right, and so we're eating in the physical we need to have some daily

food. But in the spiritual what are you hungering for? What are you

feeling your hunger with? I pay that. It's the word of the Lord,

God's word, God's now written word for us. You know it.

I know it. But do we do we eat? Jesus? Do we?

We love the sour door? This is the sour door. It turns

us our? Do okay? You can deep in your Oh no, no,

all right, I don't know. Okay, we make two things that

and need started all right. So the sustenance of us, how can we

sustain? Some people ask me, Passa, how can you sustain walking in

your faith? Why would you tell yourself ten years from now? I hope

I'll be walking with Jesus. Oh hallelujah. I hope I'll be walking with

Jesus. Night. We had our session, our Thanksgiving night with our teenagers.

I don't know if there are any teens from thirteen thirty, maybe not

yet have teens yet. Soon you will have teens, and soon we'll have

some kids. Okay, all right? So the teens came together to share

Thanksgiving night about the three four months of Bible study on their identity? What

is identity? Are you be so proud to hear our teens who were on

the panel sharing, And they I thought were book answers, But as we

proke deeper, it was true the Bible's study that they gave us such raw

answers as they studied the Word of God. We asked, We asked them,

if everything was stripped away from you, we took everything away from you,

who are you tod? They thought very hard. I can't repeat the

answers that they were row, you know. And then what they end up

saying is that I'm a child of God. I'm a child of God.

Whatever you can say, I'm a child of God. And then they gave

all these answers power one very small small boy and I then it was just

a really really young kid. I think it was nine, but he was

so cute the way he answered. I can't remember all the answers. I

think Godi on video, but where I was interviewing them, like WHOA,

that's awesome. They I'm a child of God and they knew who they was.

Are you sure? So I dig for them just to make sure,

even the one that's not a book answer, because that's what you expect to

answer, Well, why do you say you're a child of God? And

through their Bibles study on identity over the last four months, they were giving

their sharings and their findings and what they felt they needed to you know what

they Who am I? So? Who are you? And who? Who's

your Who's your sustenance? The Lord? I cannot emphasize more than giving your

early mornings or I mean every day you wake up, you have breakfast.

So every day you wake up, I hope the first thing you want to

do is HI, God, what you know? I want to read your

love letter to me? Um. Most of the time, y'all, I

will go to my handful love and see what message I always looking. Somebody

died or something like that. You know, I need to take care of

them. Do that. That's my job. Every time you see a funeral

and you see it runs, because I have to look into that, make

sure everybody goes home to glory. Well, right, but that's why anybody

seeing somebody so worry. Somebody's trying to call me, and it has happened

before. So I always checked my phone early morning when I wake up because

he's always on silence made me sure. But yeah, but besides that,

what else do I reply that first? Or do I speak to the Lord

first? Can I encourage us? The one who sustains you on a day

to day, the one who sustains your work for the next ten years from

now, is Jesus. And if without the bread of life, you and

I cannot be sustained, it cannot be sustained by somebody just preaching here.

It has to be sustained by the everyday bread that you and I will partake

off in Christ his living word. Amen, How to anchoring and not fall

away? Because a lot of things are going to be said in this world

today, A lot of challenges are going to be faced by us. Things

that you were to make a stand for, things that your own life will

be challenged. You have child when to take care of this? You take

care that. It's the popular um, it's the popular stand for the day.

What you should follow? Everybody is doing this, everybody's going there.

Are you also going to follow? Are you a follower of the Word of

life? You've got to establish who you are in and believe in, and

who's your living bread, who's your living world? Otherwise you and I will

compromise. And ten years from now, will you still be serving the Lord?

Will you still be following Christ? I cannot. I mean I'm saying

not like I'm actually not. I also am saying, it's forty years since

I follow Jesus. Will I give him my other? Not of forty years?

Will I be faithful to the Lord? Will I remain steadfast in the

narrow road and not be distracted by all that things? Will I go into

bitterness? Because I can also go into bitterness and really lose it all.

I have to guard my heart how because of the living bread that I have

to partake of daily to sustain me. It's my sustenance. What please don't

tell me you eat sustagen? Noah, Okay, doing that that particular supplement

male sastagen. No more than that is Jesus your sustenance. Friends, reflect

on that. You know, are we giving? Some of us are very

busy people here. You are working, you're doing your master's, your PhD.

Maybe I don't know. You're so brilliant people. You are, your

mom, you're dad. You have more than one child. You're one child

already, canna do quiet time? Two children gone? Brain's gone? Really

all right? We're hard. We're hard, right, We're hard? Yeah,

and and and it's hard. So how do I eat the bread?

O God? You have to find a way to eat so that you can

give that same bread to your child? Come on you, you were so

proud of this and that. But I'm gonna ask you. Are you gonna

be able to say, my son, my daughter has in his life the

Word of God. It doesn't matter whether it's one year old, two years

old, five months, six months. Are you feeding a child the word

of God? Are you feeding you the word of God? It is challenging

by you're trying your best. That's what God just needs to know. You're

trying your best to feed yourself with the word. Whether you're listening because you

can't read or you know, whether you're just bathing and put very loud,

least hear the word of God. Life. You cannot read the word of

God, at least here lie here for the later either Mama. All right,

Bread, the living bread, and that will sustain you, your children,

Amen, to your next generation, yourself? How how do we sustain?

Amen? And so Jesus is coming to us and reminding us he is

the bread of life. Oh, I tell you he's so Asian. Right,

we're talking about food all the time. That's easy to remember, Jesus,

we're talking about food all the time. Amen, So sustenance for you

and me. Secondly, he's also our power source or source of power.

I just wanted s all right, sustenance sorts, powers are so okay?

All right? Pardon me? So why do I say that? Because I

said it, I read it earlier to you. John six twenty eight.

John chapter six was twenty eight when they heard Jesus say that, hey,

don't labor for the food that will perish, but you know, labor for

what will give you everlasting life. And then they all say, the crowd,

say, Jesus, what must we do? What shall we do that

we may work the works of God? What shall we do that we may

work the works of God? Is that your question? Is that what you're

asking the Lord? What shall I do to work the works of God?

Number one, Have Jesus in your life. He's your power source? Amen.

Amen, Jesus is our power source. If we don't have that power

source, if you're not plugged in to the Lord. If you're not,

you know, your a handful also needs to be what you call a charge.

We also need to be charged. And he's our power source. So

when they say what shall we do? So that was a desire to work

the works of God? Amen. And then Jesus reminds and then tell us

his disciples before he ascends. In x chapter one, verse eight, he

says that, hey, hey, hey, hang in there, stay in

Jerusalem, cause you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,

and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judaea, in Samaria,

and to the end of the earth. This is the call of for all

believers. For everyone who calls on the name of Jesus and are saved.

You immediately have got this promise that the Holy Spirit will come and live in

you. He gives us the Holy Spirit, friends, the dynamite power.

Power. The word power in the Greek is called douna miss. You know

this is many of you heard this douna miss from the word dynamite. Whoa,

You're not just a firework? All right? No? No, I

can't think the baby a boom boom boom. Okay and after the boom boom

boom, danddridia are you okay? So no baby or firework. But we

want to really have the dynamite power of God that is growing, it's stirring,

its living in us. Because the Holy Spirit. What must we do

to do the works of God? Here? Jesus says, I am that

that's what you need me. And when you have Christ, you also automatically

have now the Holy Spirit living in you. Amen. And and then this

power source allows you to do what verse John chapter fourteen and verse twelve.

John chapter fourteen and verse This is what you and I have read this so

many times. And this is why it says most assuredly, I say to

you, he who believes in me, Okay, the works that I do,

he will do also, and greater works than these he will do.

Friends, have you done the greater works, greater works. Jesus raised the

dead, You raised, tended, tend greater works. Here the say speak

and you know all of the mouth of the fish. You get a coin,

a gold coin. I don't know, we haven't if you haven't,

or maybe it's in a different form. But we are supposed to have the

greater works. We know it, but how many of us are experiencing it?

Come on sustaining. He's our sustaining strength, and then God is our

power source. A man, I tell you, I'm quite embarrassed sometimes when

I go to someone's funeral, especially young person, not not so old,

like sometimes it's our parents they're older than get but sometimes they're young. Right,

And then when we're going say bye bye to auntie, auntie, uncle,

say bye bye to that person. And my husband will always do this.

I'm so embarrassed, you know, I'm so bad, no faith woman.

Then like he always raised, try raised the dead. I don't like,

why are you doing so he's gone, But he says, in Jesus

name raised, He really exercises that, Like, maybe this person is young,

what if you know there's a chance to raise him out? He keeps

speaking. Treated I'm like working for the way. I don't know you.

Oh my goodness, o you faithless woman. And uh and uh you know,

he just he just takes God's word as it is, so the sustenance

for just for you to know your senior how a person really does it's quiet

time. He doesn't tell you to do, but he really does it.

It really sometimes irritates me because it's forever. I can't see person. Sorry,

he's still talking to Jesus. Since what time? For? Am now

already eight? He's still talking to Jesus. I'm like, oh, can

you faster? I cannot tell her my husband's cannot disturbed? Not not open

door. You won't even turn to look at me. Why because I'm talking

to Jesus. So he's really seeking the Lord and that's his sustenance, right

and or he should be if he's going to lead a church. He cannot

be playing a fool. So that he is that. I cannot say good?

Why cannot he? Can we go for breakfast? Not like what time?

Cannot plan? I have to wait for him to finish talking to Jesus.

Jesus talking to you. He talked to Jesus. This is talk to

you, faithless woman. Sorry, I'm your pastor. I finished my quiet

time ready, so I'm waiting. But um, but but that's the sustenance,

right, that's any us. We're gonna go the long. We're gonna

hear from the lot. We're gonna give direction, you're gonna see the vision

and whatever whatever we're doing for our work, for our family, a man

people for that day, who knows. And at nighttime, also, you

don't talk to me because he's talking to Jesus again, he's just eating the

bread of life. What does he do? Memorizing scripture? So I cannot

disturb him. We're on top it memorizing scripture. So I'm like, okay,

what am I doing? I'm looking at recipes to cook for tomorrow.

I have to I don't know how to do. Especially pandemic was terrible.

Every day I have to cook. I was so pleasure for me because I

never cook. Right, we didn't look while look at recipe. He's look

at scripture. As you know, who is most spiritual? Yes, thank

you Jesus. Husband is at least praying cover me, cover me, yo.

I'm just riding on his fame, cannoda. I have to find my

own fame though, and and so he really the power saw us that that

I'm just seeing in my husband. He walks the talk he does. He

doesn't just say say whatever, He really does it. So I scared on

Now you were talking to Jesus so much? Can you talk to me?

And then when he does talk to me, because he tells me what Jesus

tells you, and I'm gonna, I'm so bad. I'm so bad because

he's telling me all these dreams and visions and one God's telling him, I'm

like, not again. So after he sees the boring face, he just

shuts down, shuts, then no one go already now I'm gonna talk to

other people. Means so bad because I live in him for how many years?

Married already like another vision? That means I got to work faithless woman

sometimes. But I chose to marry a man of God. I said,

please give me a man that can hear you, so that he can lead

me. All the women or said, at least lead me and leading don't

complain, right, it's good. Right when you're young and foolish, that's

what you are. And past my boyfriend cannot lead me. I know,

I know, maybe you'll be thankful for him, But you really want then

you have to follow. I have to follow. Follow. I prayed and

I got it. He really is leading me always, always got Jesus talking

to him. Praise the Lord and listen. You know that your pastor talks

to Jesus. Jesus talk to him. Yeah, and he's listening. That's

why it takes so long. Uh. But yes, friends, greater works,

greater works, then this should you and I be doing. God's transforming

us. God is transforming as this works, even even as he sustains,

as he feeds us his word so that we get fat. No, so

that we can become become practitioners, so that we can practice. We allow

God to mature us to his word. We go through times of testing,

We go to times of challenge. You this one never expected? Are you

this one and that one? And then would do you crumble? No?

The bread of life sustains you. As he sustains you, he also empowers

you and and friends, we need to take that step and see if the

Lord is the power of my life. Then this question I ask myself on

a daily basis. Some of you are I wish I was in your position,

but I'm not I'm full time. Everybody in my office is saved.

Maybe they all haven't. Even the one that wasn't safe, God saved,

Praise the Lord. Even the one that we hired who is not a Christian,

God saved. In two months, she got saved. That's powerful.

That is how powerful God's presence is. WHOA So I ask myself, Lord,

you know, is there someone I can pray for? Someone I can

go to? You know who is that person? Please show me every day,

asking the Lord, because who can I share the good news to?

I don't want to be fifty two weeks listening to messages and do nothing.

Cannot be God's word going forth and it does nothing for us. And it

does something for us, But what does it? What do you take after

that and pass it on to somebody else. You're in the marketplace. You

are in the best positions that you can be in where so many sit lost.

They need the bread of life. Wow, you go up to them

and say, I have the showdo of life for you? Slowdo what's his

name? Jesus? Okay, okay, all right, you have a way

to share. But the bread of life, the bread of life, and

and and and that's the work we can do. What are you and I

able to carry? And some of us I think as we experience God's power,

God's power works in us, heals us. Sometimes it's just us.

If you're if you're still sick in your head, in your heart, it's

because we are not allowing ourselves to be must and just trust God. Because

I can be like that too, constantly thinking am I good enough? Am

I good enough? I've reached this age in my life? Whatever I achieve,

I will tell you what if I achieve, should should I go and

do my Master's? I don't be age. So I'm trying to achieve my

significance and my worth. But God, what is he working in me?

Is he turning my life to where he wants me to be? If he

wants me to the masters? He opened that door. I can't keep comparing

to the other person because he's sustainers and then he empowers us. When he

empowers you, he wants to use you and speak through you. Amen.

Amen, he wants to speak to you. So when I I'm thinking God,

I'm working on these four walls. I mean I go out to visit

our church members. I do try to visit La La lad and then I

said, daa, can I have some new people to visit? And so

I prayed there, say God, can give me some new people, people

that I've never met before you and then guess what, one door opens.

We are now partners with sun Met and some of you who may have heard

that sun Met and for palliative care. So every time someone has twenty four

hours to live, they need a chaplain. Who is the Christian family?

So I will go. I will go not to minister to the one who's

in coma, but to the one who is living, to the child,

to the wife, the husband, who's who's who's mourning or who's they haven't

more not mourning, but who is broken because they cannot see their family member,

you know, come out of this sickness. And I have this opportunity

to bring a little bit of heaven to that person. Every one of us

needs a little bit of heaven, and we have it because we've got the

bread in the morning and so we can pass it down to someone for the

day. I haven't raised anyone from the dead. I haven't raised anyone out

of coma. I haven't, but I try, right, I go and

pray for that sick family member. I pray for their children. Sometimes some

of them are in such regret, such because they're living away from their parents.

We have a lot of overseas people who have taking medical care from in

Malaysia, especially Indonesia, and I got the chance of minister to the Indonesian

family. All the siblings, they all live in all parts of the world

except where their mom's living. And when they came back, obviously the heart

of not having seen mom or so long except for the nearest sibling. Wow,

just an opportunity to pray with them. It made me nothing to anyone

else, but to them that was their comfort. And you know, in

the I think twenty four forty eight hours month passed on through cancer. Again

cancer, such a sickening sickness which my dad also had. But the time

spended, the encouragement and just to bring this to someone. Continue to practice

on your own. If you're sick, pray for yourself to get you so

that you can also offer prayer for someone who's not well in your office,

in your university of school. Pray and practice it so that you learn to

hear the voice of the Lord and prompting the Holy Spirit. How to how

to work the works of God. Stop asking your pastor to come and pray,

because he's not the only one who can. You can. That's what

we teach, right, every one of us can come out and do the

work of the Lord works of God. So it's not just for the full

timer, but for all of us. We are equipped to do so.

And then we account back and we share together. We bring testimonies. Amen,

So I really ask for them, and in just these few months,

that's what I do, and God somehow opens the door for me because I

am busy, but when they call, I can actually go. You know,

what's the best testimony I get out of this. The last reason when

I went two weeks ago was that the doctor was so busy. She said,

I can't walk you through about the history of this patient, but I'll

give nurse and nurse will bring you through. And nurses is a malay.

But she seen me before, and she seen me pray for people, and

now she became the assistant to help me understand the diagnosis of the patient and

the family member. And then I asked her some questions. I said,

is this person local? She said yeah. I said, does she have

a pastor here? Does she have a church here, and she could articulate

like, yeah, this lady works full time in her church. I said,

oh, why does she need me? I don't need to do this

right, She got a pastor, don't know, but they need help.

Okay, I will come. And she gave me a rundown, she very

putting dissent des and I went. I ministered to this lady because her husband

very young, still in the thirties, but he couldn't come out of the

of this coma. And I minister too. And when I was done,

I called the nurse back because I don't know where they were hospitals. I

just called and just to report back this. I'm going. I've done what

I came to do. The first thing she said, did you bring any

change to her? I said, I am what changed I brought Jesus I

prayed for her. He said yeah, yeah. It's also why why you

come and not her pastor? Pastor? And she thinks my name is pasta,

Hello, pastor? No, no, Sandra, basta, when are

you calling me past My name is Sandra, And but you know, pastor,

can I help you? Pasta? But maybe she thinks my name is

pasta? Yeah, And she said so how and and and she she expected

the non believer expected the change more than you and I. Because what you

might think is that are you're just going to pray for somebody, right man?

Her expectation? Okay, and this is the wife, not not the

I cannot enter because a very very delicate situation. I cannot enter the room.

We prayed on the outside. I pray for the wife. Wow.

Can we bring a little heaven sometimes to somebody? That's why your sustenance,

the bread of life that you partake on each day, will give you the

power that is needed for the rest of the day, not only for yourself.

God gives us a double portion. Remember pass this before. One portion

for you, another portion for what you need to do to sustain you.

Amen. Wow, friends, I times running. I really want to encourage

us. It's not just yes, I know Jesus a bread of life?

Is he your bread of life? Is He your bread of life? And

are you partaking of it? Are you? You see? We're all a

work in progress. Amen? Thank God? Right, we are working progress.

No one's perfected yet if you are sun seen okay, alright, angel,

all right, but but we are all the work in progress and that's

why in our weakness, God is made strong in what we feel we can't

the greater works He will do. But would you allow yourself to let the

Bread of life work in us, the world of life, to transform us,

to mature us, to change the way we were thinking about something,

our fears. Maybe we all have certain patterns of thinking. Hey, friends,

only Jesus can give you everlasting life. Only Jesus can make your path

right and straight, which is eternal. All of our own plans, all

of our own ideas, is good, but it is not eternal. And

that's why we need the Bread of life, the living water, to be

in us to change us so to that. That's why God talk about the

Is that why the fruit of the spirit. I'm thinking, how it is

true the reading of God's words to the challenges that comes through the connection with

people and something begin into each other's hair. But you know, have those

conversations and then breathe again, live again, learn again, and get better

at how we manage different things. Because He is our sustenance. He's also

the power source for us to experience God's power of transformation and to bring that

to the people around us. Amen, I pray that you never look down

on the little, small starts, that you have the small beginnings. Friends,

I'm only praying for that. I haven't raised anybody, I haven't seen

anyone come up. But can I still do? Yes, I can,

because it may make a difference for that one person. You may think it's

so small nothing. What don't say that that one can make another door open

for bigger things? Amen. And thirdly, because of who crises as our

bread of life, bread of life in us, I have to say that

he's also your Sureshua promise. I just say that, Shua, okay,

sure Shua promise? Is he's your sure promise? Why do I say that?

John six forty? John six forty says, and this is the will

of him Father, God who sent me. Jesus says that everyone who sees

the sun and believes in him may have everlasting life, and I will raise

him up at the last day. What is the sure promise? Hey,

When you have the everlasting life in you Jesus, the bread of life,

he will raise you up at the last day. Amen, he will raise

you. What's your hope? Your hope is that you will not die.

Your body may go, but not your soul, your spirit. You are

alive in God. You will be raised up, meaning you won't die.

You will have an eternity with Christ. That's so important to finish. So

I'll tie our team Heaven rules towards the finishing line. We have a finishing

line. We have to run this raise, our faith raise, because the

devil's gonna rob you. Try to steal it from you, try to tell

lies. That's what he told to Adam and Eve, and they fell for

a fruit because there's a fruitcake. Hey, no, you're not a fruitcake.

You are a person empowered by the Lord. You have a sure,

sure promise Amen, that you will have everlasting life. And what is it

that that that that Second Peter three nine says. Second Peter three nine says

the Lord is not slack concerning is promise. What is God's promise that you

have ever lasting life, that you will come back for you as some count

slack? Are you Jesus very slack? Lad? And from two thousand over

years ago say coming? Heaven't come yet, But it is long suffering.

God is long suffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but

it all should come to repentance. That every person who has not known Him

would come to repentance to ask for forgiveness of our sin, that they may

experience the power of God to resurrect them from our deadness in our spirit to

come a life in Him. He is our sure sure promise. Friends,

No other thing in this world is sure sure promise except Jesus. Come on,

So what are you hungry and thirsting for? Okay? Recently, you

know, people have put in money. I don't know what it was that

they put in, and then they had some some like a bitcoin, bitcoin

be something, some some investment is something. And then the whole thing dropped.

Oh my goodness. Some people put so much money and it dropped,

the value drop. It turned into a big coin. I don't know what

is it. I'm very bad with all the terms, friends, retirement,

money on God. No, you don't know, honey. So did we

put our We want got some money? Want more money? More more money?

More money? Huh? How lah? Where was our eyes? Do

we seek the Lord's wisdom on this? I think in these days we need

the wisdom. Should we invest in this? Should we not? Should we

put days? Or should we do that? Yeah? We need God's wisdom

law. Even if the door is opened on Lae, every door open means

it's God's will to day. The door is opened to the lions, then

walk into it. No, Lad, the door open the lions, then

for crying out loud your wisdom line, Then no, Lad, don't want

to say. You know. You gotta know the wisdom, the wisdom of

the Holy Spirit, not our wisdom, not the wisdom of this world,

not the wisdom of this kingdom. The friends, seeky first, Kingdom of

God. John Matthews six thirty three. Seek you first the Kingdom of God.

As I speak with you, I'm telling myself also every day, seek

first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. Amen. Remember, if your

hunger and thirst for righteousness, you will be filed. So we seek after

God's righteousness. You're gonna be failed. You seek first His Kingdom, and

then all these things things that you need, things that sustains you. All

the physical things that you need. God will provide for you, including not

only the physical, but the spiritual, that which will strengthen your spirit.

Man. Amen. Every one of us need an encounter with the Lord,

not twenty years ago on a regular basis, friends, but at least have

an encounter Law Moses had encountered in the burning bush. He could then stand

into Pharaoh and say, let God's people go so brave, so daring.

But he could only do that because he an encounter with God Abraham and had

an encounter with God that he will have a son, and that he will

have many many. You know, the sands of the seashore was the population,

including us. We get the blessing as well. Paul, who was

Sall, had an encounter with the Lord. While he was persecuting the Christians.

He had an encounter with the Lord on the road to the Muscus.

With that encounter, he was there was no turning back. He went to

preach the Gospel to the Gentiles, to those who are not Jews. There

are people in the Bible who had encounter with God. What about you?

And I don't sit then and say that's for her to encounter. No,

it's for you. It's for me encounter the Lord personally. Not tomorrow,

not mom's testimony, not dead testimony, your testimony. Amen. I want

to say to us, I'm minister to a whole group of East Malaysians,

and I ask them, any one of you, our first generation nobody East

Malaysians none. They were all third generation Christians and about to wild away.

God has no grandchildren, so our children we need to disciple them. The

best gift you can give our children is not they're born a Christian families to

the Christians. No, they're born a Christian family. They're gonna have a

heritage of righteousness. Let's disciple our children to know Christ, finally, to

know Christ, that they may know Christ. Be vigilant to do to encounter

your children, those of you have children. God has no grandchildren. He

only has sons and daughters, and he longs for the sons and daughters,

even from within our own families. Amen. This is the sure, sure

promise of the Lord. What he gives to us is everlasting life, eternal

life, and even eternal life. But as we receive it, maybe be

able to share. So many sit in darkness still, and our opportunity or

our privilege is to really bring this good news to of Jesus to them,

Tell them this is the bread of life. Share your bread. I mean,

is so happy to talk about our sour door, isn't it? Come

law? Let us share our spirituals our door with our friends. I don't

know how that conversation will come about. But allow God something I mean,

I'm not saying door wherever that istates in your hands. It could be your

business, it could be your I don't know, your work. Something that's

exciting and from there, where do you see Jesus in that form that you're

working? And how can you bring it to that person? Because he also

should be enjoyed by others. The wonderful taste of fresh bread, not gardenia.

You see, there's always a counterfeit to the real thing. Are you

going to feed your child with gardenia forever? No, you need to give

them the real bread, the real whole white bread, the real flour door,

not the bluff one with the empty ones, no light one. No,

you need the real right right right? Someone who bakes all right?

You need to itherwise is gardenia. That's why this baker in England she wrote

a book and she said why do you why do you pay for what it

is? Not bread? And she said terrible. All these other bread people

are getting stomach ousel, stomach cancer by eating all these breads that are put

a lot of presentative and whatever. It's not real bread. Quoting Bible baker,

then we all who have the real bread of life, we can quote

it and live it and feed it. I don't know how, because the

counterfeit will come by the devil. He will counterfeit everything that is of God.

He does that all the time. He will counterfeit, whether it's supernatural

healing, he will counterfeit everything. But God is the real deal. Jesus

is the real deal. So if you and I don't encounter God for the

real deal experiences power of healing of um, you know his word, his

life, how how will you be able to discern that which is counterfeit?

So so so so many of us will be eating gardens or live. I

think that's that's bread, but she's not. He's guarding you. There's some

quote about him. But I don't eat so much. You know, I

try to eat real bread. So let's not tell people Guardiania. Let's give

them the bread of life. Let's bring a little bit of heaven into their

lives. If you happen to be serving, it's okay. Amen. God

is not slacking in coming back. He wants to come. He wants to

bring that promise for you. But there are many more who need to experience

God's sustenance, God's source. He's the source of power or the power source.

And also to experience the promise of God is for all of us.

I pray if you forget rodi Chanai and whatever you want to remember the bread

of life, the bread of life. Jesus is his name. Amen.

For don't please, don't limit God and say he can only take care of

this problem. No, he he can't take care of a lord a lot

of things. But you must at least come to him. Lah, have

a conversation with him, Talk to him about it, even if you have

to grumble, Let him grumble, Let the Lord ask him the questions,

and then experience this life giving word of life coming into your life. Amen.

Remember, remember Jesus said man cannot live by He said, man cannot

live by bread alone, like the physical bread, but by every word that

comes from the mouth of God. So so the two things right. There's

real bread, I mean physical bread, but there's also this bread that comes

from the mouth of God, which is God's living word. So we want

to live by the living word of God that will sustain you. You ask

yourself, five years from now, will you be still following Jesus five years

from now, ten years from now, will you still be serving him,

playing drums, leading worship, doing ex kids or you know, doing community?

What is it that you will still be doing? Because your faith is

being strengthened. So tell yourself ten years from now, if you want to

be looking the way you wish to, then you gotta seious. What do

you need to sustain now? God sustaining strength? Amen? Wow, It's

it's exciting when we when we talk about sour dough, Let's talk about the

sour dough of Jesus, Bread of life, amen, because that's going to

bring life to us Already when I talk about all right, excited already?

You know how much more if I talk about Jesus the bread of life.

Amen. Come on, We're so exciting to talk about everything, like I'm

telling you, I'm sure anything, the latest games, the latest fashion,

the latest pot. If you're cook, you're like cooking, and we are

talking about let us say pot. Okay, I can tell you a lot

about let us say pot. But he's not going to bring salvation to my

friend. Law Okay, it's not gonna bring a little bit of heaven because

I give you a pot You'll be happy for one moment and after that you're

still back in the same situation. Although you cook a nice stew in the

pot, but it hasn't brought any eternal happenings for the person. So so

while I'm excited to talk about my ma luquency and talk about my job,

but my season by the new plane we bought or did you buy a pay

plane? Okay, whatever I look at waiting, did you buy a plane?

All right? Um, it will not bring eternal life. I'm sorry.

I hate to say that. It will not bring eternal life whenever for

you are thinking this is gonna make me happy, I'm sorry it won't.

It will be a firework, it will. That's it done. Where you

want the bread of life that will go feeding your spirit man to be strengthened

and be strong, not just for yourself, dear friends, your family,

for others. You can bring a bit of heaven to somebody else, because

sometimes people just need it. Sometimes even to our own bodying, our own

family in a body of Christ. We can share that because we know Jessica

needs God saying Jessica needs a encouragement, so we go and say, hey,

Jazz here just the lot wants to say this to you. Yeah,

that's how we minister to one another, and then minister to them who are

outside of the family because they don't know Christ yet. Just emphasizing on this

cannot be Jesus say he's the bread of life and then with the land and

that's it. Come on, it cannot be That bread of life is so

sustaining that it wants to push us forward to share it with somebody else.

And we do that with sour dough. So let's if we can share sourdough,

we're going to be able to share the bread of life. Amen.

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