JESUS – MORE THAN A NAME

JESUS – MORE THAN A NAME Where do you go when God fails you? The sixth chapter of John’s Gospel begins with ________ following Jesus. It ends with _____. Why? They felt God didn’t fulfill His end of their ________. John 6:30-71 Coming to Christ so He will fix your earthly condition = _________________ “So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves…” John 6:53 Why eat? • What you eat and drink becomes ________________. • Eating is _______________. “Jesus preached this sermon in the synagogue in Capernaum. Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?” But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble? It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one embraces me unless the Father has given you to me.” And so from that time on many of the disciples turned their backs on Jesus and refused to be associated with him.” John 6:59-66 They were no longer willing to ____________ alongside Jesus and no longer _______________ to Him and His mission. At the first shadow of _______________, they left Him. “So Jesus said to his twelve, “And you—do you also want to leave?” John 6:67 “Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.” John 6:68 The best definition of a Believer is “someone who _______________”. “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.” John 6:44 “Our work as God’s servants gets validated—or not—in the details. People are watching us as we stay at our post, alertly, unswervingly . . . in hard times, tough times, bad times; when we’re beaten up, jailed, and mobbed; working hard, working late, working without eating;” 2 Corinthians 6:4 Our understanding of God and life is shaped by one of two points of view: ______ or ______. “Then Jesus shocked them with these words: “I have hand-picked you to be my twelve, knowing that one of you is the devil.” Jesus was referring to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, for he knew that Judas, one of his chosen disciples, was getting ready to betray him. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.” John 6:70-71 Our _______________ or His _______________ “No one kills me. I die only because I choose to die. I have power to die and I have power to live again. This is what my Father has told me to do.” John 10:18 https://www.cof.church https://www.instagram.com/cofhouston https://www.facebook.com/cofhouston