Taken, Blessed, Broken, Given | Ep. 151

In this transformative episode, we explore the profound teachings of Jesus surrounding the concept of bread and spiritual nourishment. The "Bread of Life"—is essential for our spiritual existence. As believers, we often find ourselves hungering for deeper truths; therefore, this episode becomes a clarion call to seek the nourishment that Jesus offers. 

The focal point of our discussion revolves around the phrase "He took, blessed, broke, and gave," a pattern evident in various biblical accounts relating to Jesus. As we dissect this phrase, we unveil a layered understanding of Jesus as both the giver and the gift. He reflects on the ways of the natural world, juxtaposing them with the spiritual truths encapsulated within. The sacramental nature of these actions embodies the essence of communion: a shared life among believers, thriving through faith in Christ. When Jesus spoke of providing eternal life, he was not referring to physical sustenance but an invitation to a deeper relationship with him. 

We delve into the discourse from John 6, where Jesus asserts, "I am the bread of life." It is critical to grasp that Jesus is not merely a provider of physical bread but the source of spiritual life. He elucidates that those who believe in Him will never face spiritual hunger again. However, in this teaching lies a stark contrast, as many fail to comprehend the spiritual implications of his statements. They seek material breadcrumbs instead of engaging in the profound spiritual conversations taking place. Through examining passages from the Gospels, we discuss how many misconstrue his teachings due to a natural understanding of the divine.
 
The episode culminates with an exploration of what it means to truly partake in Jesus’ body and blood. By referencing the Last Supper, we symbolize the act of receiving Jesus into our lives through faith and obedience to his word. We emphasize the need for spiritual understanding to grasp the full magnitude of His message. The implications of “eating” his flesh and “drinking” his blood call believers to embrace a life of devotion and trust in Him. Furthermore, we investigate how steadfast faith in Jesus leads to a transformed life, cultivating the fruit of the Spirit in those who believe. 
 

Chapters

• 0:03 The Bread of Life
• 10:50 The Spiritual Meaning of Bread
• 21:57 The Power of Spiritual Understanding
• 27:27 The Deeper Meaning of Jesus' Words
• 38:15 Understanding the Parable of the Sower
• 51:41 Revealing Jesus Through Breaking Bread
• 58:08 Continuous Revelation Through God's Word

Transcript

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 0:03

The vision received was that of blood cells traveling throughout the body, supplying the much-needed oxygen and other nutrients to the differing members of the body to fulfill their purpose. Once the blood cells are spent, they must return back to the heart to be refilled before being sent out again and fulfill their purpose.

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Bless the Lord. I want to thank everyone for coming today, not just for me. You didn't come for me. I'm sure you came to hear the word of the Lord and I thank you that you feel enough trust that you would come to this house and spend an hour, two hours, three hours to receive the Lord here in this place. I doubt that if you thought the Lord was not here, that you would continue coming here. That would just waste your time. So obviously you're here for a reason, with some sort of expectation, and I pray that I'm just simply a vessel to be a conduit, to administer what it is that God wants you to receive today.

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So we don't normally do this. We don't ever do this. I can't remember the last time we ever do this, but I'm going to ask everybody to stand for the reading of the word Matthew 14. And that's not all strange If you've ever read the scriptures in the old covenant. When the word was read, they all stood up. All the people stood up. So there is a reason for some of that. It's about a reverence for the word of the Lord. There isn't anything religious about it If your heart is right and you're reverencing God's word. That's what we stand here for.

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But we're going to read in Matthew 14, verse 19. It says Then he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass and he took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples. And the disciples gave to the multitudes.

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You may be seated.

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He took, he blessed, he broke and he gave. It's an interesting phrase that's found in the scriptures because it's not found there once. It's found there at least three times. I've known it for a while. There was something that came upon me a long time ago that really opened my eyes to some things about this little pattern he takes, he blesses, he breaks it and he gives it. And this is when he was about to feed the multitude 5,000. And I'm not really focusing that, but I'm focusing on the fact that he took, he blessed, he broke and he gave. And there's a pattern there because it happened two or three more times. I'm going to show you at least three more times.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 2:47

But it starts with there has to be an acknowledgement that there are certain levels of understanding, and I'm only going to base it to two. The levels of understanding natural/ natural carnal and spiritual. And so I want to turn to John 6, because there's some very wild things that Jesus said to the people that we should take note of. Very strange, very weird, very out of this world type of things that he said that if you just take them naturally, if you stay on a natural level of understanding. You think the man is nuts. He's crazy Because the things that he's saying are completely contrary to what the scriptures have taught us. And so it says in verse 31 of John, chapter 6,. It says Our fathers ate manna in the desert.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 3:41

The Jews were telling them, as it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. And Jesus responded to them. He said to them most assuredly I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but that's what they said, because they saw it in the scriptures, in Psalm 78. He gave them bread from heaven to eat. That's what they interpreted it as. But Jesus said Moses did not give you the bread from heaven. My father gives you the true bread from heaven. And he says for the bread of God is he?

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 4:22

I'm stopping right there because I want you to now understand that Jesus just said that the bread of God that comes from heaven is He, a person. It's not an it, it's not some sort of food particle. He said the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven. It's a person. And this person who comes down from heaven, the bread of God, gives life to the world. And then they said to him but Lord, give us this bread always. They're thinking give me that bread. What is it French bread? Is it Cuban bread? What kind of bread is that? Give me that bread, I want that bread. And Jesus said to them I am the bread of life.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 5:08

And just stop right there. What is he saying? Put yourself in their position. What is he saying? They're thinking natural bread to eat, that they'll have eternal life. They're going to eat something and he's saying I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never hunger and he who believes in me shall never thirst. Now, he didn't quote where that came from, but that actually came from a prophetic word given to Isaiah in chapter 69, verse 10, or 49.10. I may have typed that wrong. Can you check that Is? Or 49.10. I may have typed that wrong. Can you check that? Is that Isaiah 49.10? Yeah, it's 49.10.

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And it says they shall neither hunger nor thirst. He took that one bit of Scripture. And he took that one bit of Scripture and he applied it to himself. He said I am the bread of life, he who comes to me. See, when you read that, you don't get anything out of the Messiah. It says they shall neither hunger nor thirst, nor heat or sun shall strike them.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 6:17

For he who has mercy on them, will lead them, even by the springs of water. He will guide them. It's about a he doing something and now he's saying that he, I am, the bread of life, is me. He who comes to me, as Isaiah said, shall never hunger and shall never thirst. And then he says but I say to you, you have seen me and yet you do not believe I am the bread of life that you are asking for, that you want to eat of. But you see me and you don't believe. You don't receive me, you don't receive my words, you're not receiving what I'm saying because you don't understand.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 7:03

You're suddenly landing on a natural level. You're looking for some metaphysical bread out there that's going to bring you eternal life, and I'm telling you that I am the bread of life that gives life into the world. All that the Father gives me he continues will come to me. The one who comes to me I will abide and by no means cast out, he says, for I have come down from heaven. There's a certain unambiguity into what he's saying. There's a certain no mysteriousness about what he's saying. There is a bread of heaven that the Father gives, and that bread of heaven, or the bread of God, is he whom the Father has sent, and I'm telling you that I am the bread of heaven or the bread of God, is he whom the Father has sent and I'm telling you that I am the bread of life and I have come down from heaven, and I didn't come to do my own. I came to do the will of him that sent me this is the will of the.

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Father who sent me that, all that of all he has given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. What, what is he talking about? What does that mean?

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he goes on to say and this is the will of him.

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He repeats it. Who sent me that everyone who sees the son and believes in him may have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day.

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Very personal, I am the one that's fulfilling this scripture you come to me, you shall never hunger, you shall never thirst.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 8:31

I am the bread that gives eternal life. And the Jews complained about it because he said I am the bread. They don't get it. They're looking for some natural bread. They're looking for the manna that was natural brought by God to feed his people. They're looking for something like that to eat naturally. That's not what God is talking about. Jesus is speaking on a whole, entirely different level, and it's not carnal, it's not natural, it is not earthly, it is a spiritual level. He's giving a perspective, using natural terms to open up the eyes of the kingdom of God. And they said isn't that Jesus? Isn't that the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?

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We? Isn't that the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?

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He's the son of Mary. Who is he that he's saying? I'm the bread of God that comes down from heaven. I came down from heaven. What?

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is he?

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talking about the man is nuts, his father and mother, joseph and Mary. We know who they are. That makes sense that he came down from heaven. But Jesus therefore answered and said unto them do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to me. Unless the Father who sent me draws him, I will raise him up at the last day. He just said it three times. He's saying it again, over and over. He just keeps repeating the word.

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I will raise them up.

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The Father will draw men unto me. I, being the bread of life, will give them eternal life and I will raise them up at the last day. It is written in the prophets. He says they shall all be taught by God. He's going now back to the scriptures he's breaking.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 10:34

I don't know if you see that yet, but he's breaking. Remember, we started with he took, he blessed, he broke and he gave. He's breaking the old covenant here. Let me give it to you in a morsel that you can understand, in a morsel that you can receive, because you can't handle it all. I need to break it down for you.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 10:50

So he says therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. If you have an ear for the Father, then you're going to hear me. If you have an ear for the Father, you're going to come to me, because the Father draws all to him to come to his Son, jesus Christ. No man can come to me unless the Father draws him. And not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God. He has seen the Father Most assuredly. I say to you he who believes in me has everlasting life. And he says again I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness. They ate something natural in the wilderness. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that didn't happen, but they're dead.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 11:45

So what use was that man that you think is going to bring you eternal?

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life, if it fed your fathers. And they died anyway. Because, if you know anything about the story, they died in the wilderness. Their carcasses rotted there because of their unbelief, again because of their unbelief. And what is Jesus saying to them right now? He who believes in me has everlasting life. That manna, that natural manna, did not provide everlasting life. They died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven that one may eat of it and not die. Think about what he's saying. I am the bread of God. I am the bread of life.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 12:30

I came down from heaven. I am the bread. He said again, I am the bread of life.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 12:34

He said again, the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. He's saying, he that eats of me will not die, but you don't believe in me. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. So now I'm going to put these two ideas for you together. They are not eating the bread. Eating the bread is akin to. They were not believing in him. They were not believing in his words.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 13:04

He's speaking spiritually, using natural terms. What is it to eat of the bread? It is to believe in Him. It is to believe in His words. But he's saying to them you don't believe in me. You see me and you still won't believe in me. And you're asking for the bread, and yet I'm right here before you, but you won't receive of me, you won't believe in me, and so you're not eating the bread that will give you eternal life. He says if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread? Oh my gosh. And then he goes on to say he takes it up a notch.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 13:39

They're not getting it, so he takes it up a notch, he cranks up the electricity and he says the bread that I shall give is my flesh. Well, he just said the bread of God is he who the father has sent. He said I am that bread. He said I'm the one that came down from heaven. He said again I am the bread of life. I am the bread, the bread that comes down from heaven. You need to eat of it unless you die. And the bread that I shall give is my flesh.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 14:09

So what do you think? They thought he was saying Cannibalism.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 14:12

What are you talking about?

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Jesus, you want me to eat of your flesh. That's disgusting. Not only is that disgusting, that's contrary to the law. We're not supposed to eat and drink of the blood of other men. What are you talking about?

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 14:26

But they saw, naturally, he was speaking spiritually and they could not understand what he was meaning, what he was saying. He says the bread that I shall give is my flesh. And then he explains and they didn't get it which I shall give for the life of the world. You see, he's talking about his future sacrifice. He's talking about I'm going to sacrifice myself for the sins of all the world, but you don't believe in me. You see, it's about believing in that sacrifice, that it does take care of the sins of all the world, and personally yours. And the Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat, nasty, how can he give us his flesh to eat? But then Jesus said to them and he takes it even higher, he says, most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, not only are you supposed to eat the flesh, but you're supposed to drink the blood. He's become the Count of Nazareth, the Count of Galilee.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 15:40

Who is this guy? He must be nuts to think that I'm going to eat his flesh and now drink his blood. But he said eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood. Unless you do that, you have no life in you. What did he mean? What did he mean? He says whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 16:08

Anybody says to you that today you think he's nuts. You would that guy's nuts. He wants me to eat his flesh and drink his blood. That's what he said and that's what I have to do to have eternal life. Please get out of my face. You can't blame them. But at the same time you need to realize you're thinking carnally, because he is giving explanation as to what he would do. What was his flesh? The bread was his flesh that he would give for the sins of the world. He was talking about something. They had no idea what was going on For my flesh. He continues. He just keeps cranking it up. My flesh is food, indeed. My blood is drink, indeed, it really is. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him. And it reminded me as.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 17:05

I read this scripture In Leviticus 17, 11, just real quick, and we're going to come back to this John 6.

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It says the life of the flesh is the blood.

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For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that make an atonement for your soul. If you read that and you couple it with this, what's he talking about? He's talking about his sacrifice. He's talking about his blood being shed. For what An atonement for your souls. He's talking about his blood being shed for what Anatomy for your souls. He's talking about what was his destiny, what was his purpose? He destroyed the works of the devil through his death, but they didn't get it. And so Jesus doesn't lay back, but he cranks it up even further.

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He says as the living father has sent me.

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I live because of the father, so he who feeds on me will live because of me. Feed on me Like a vulture on carcass feed on him. He says this is the bread which came down from heaven, Not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He's emphasizing it again they're dead. They had manna that you believe was from God, and they're dead. He who eats this bread will live forever. Now these things he said in the synagogue as he taught in Capernaum therefore many of his disciples.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 18:42

his disciples, when they heard this, said this is a hard saying. Who's going to understand this? And when Jesus knew in himself that his own disciples complained about what he was saying, he said to them does this offend you? Are you offended at my word? What then, if you should see the Son of man ascend where he was before? What was that speaking of when he ascended back to the Father after his resurrection? What if you see me ascend up into the ground? And he says this, and he always does this with his disciples. He gives hard sayings, no doubt about it. He gives sayings that are mysterious. He gives hard sayings, no doubt about it. He gives sayings that are mysterious. He gives sayings and parables that nobody gets to understand. But when he gets together with his disciples, he always gives them the revelation. And the revelation is the next few words. It is the Spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing, I know. I said eat of my flesh.

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I know.

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I said drink of my blood. But now I give you the revelation. The Spirit is who gives life. The flesh doesn't profit anything. The words, the words that I speak to you are Spirit. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life. What has he been talking about the whole time when he said I am the bread. I am the bread, I am that which comes down from heaven. I am the bread that gives eternal life.

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He's been talking about the words that he speaks are spirit and they give life.

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He's only giving that to the disciples, but there are some of you that who do not believe. See, he had more than just the 12. By the time the upper room came around, there were 120 disciples. There were more disciples than the 12.

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He had a gathering.

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He had a following and some of them did not believe, and he knew that. And so he continues on to say but there are some of you who do not believe, for Jesus knew from the beginning who they were, who did not believe and who would betray him. And he said therefore, I have said to you that no man or no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father. And it says that many of his disciples went back and walked with him. They could not embrace the word as it was given Now. His disciples still didn't understand. They were as confounded as the Jews. What is he talking about? Eat of his flesh? What is he talking about? Drink his blood? What is he really saying? To kill him and to drink? What is he saying? Then Jesus said to the twelve do you also want to go away? But Simon Peter answered him. Remember, he represents the disciples who didn't?

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understand themselves. But look at what Peter says, receiving what the Lord said.

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He said Lord to whom?

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shall we go? What Peter got out of that whole spiel about? I'm the bread of God, I'm the bread from heaven. I came down from heaven to give life. You need to eat my flesh, you need to drink my blood to have eternal life. This is what Peter got. You have the words of eternal life.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 22:12

Not a lot of understanding there, but that was profound nevertheless. In order for you to move on in your understanding, you must accept what's written. You must accept what's point blank. What he said, even though you may not understand it. Or what Peter understood is I don't understand, but you got the words of eternal life. He got a little bit of revelation Also. We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God, and so I give this to you, because this is a perfect example that many of the scriptures that we read not just in the Old Testament but also in the New Testament, that if you naturally understand them, you could be misled, you could be completely off what God had said In 1 Corinthians 2, verse 11,.

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Paul says what man knows, the things of man, except the spirit of man? Who knows what's going in your heart, what's going on there? But you?

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You're the only one I don't know, not unless God gives me a revelation, but nobody knows what's going in your heart but you, and the same way that nobody knows what's going in your heart but you, nobody knows what's in the heart of God, but the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God is the heart of God. So no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. And it says we have received. Now remember who's?

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 23:47

Corinthians, written to the saints, the believers those that were born again, according to the gospel that Paul preached in the city of Corinth and he raised up that church. Now he's speaking to them and saying you receive not the Spirit of the world, but you receive the Spirit who is from God that we might know. It is the spirit of God that reveals to you the deep things of the spirit so that you can have what the disciples did not have a spiritual understanding. They got the understanding when they received the spirit. And it says we receive the Spirit who is from God that we might know, the things that have been freely given to us by God, things we also speak. Who's we? Who's we here?

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 24:39

Not just the disciples, the apostles Paul was an apostle with the rest of the apostles the things that we also speak in words. Not that man's wisdom teaches, but who's teaching? What I'm teaching you, says the Holy Spirit teaches. He is the one that is giving these words of revelation to you and it's comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. When you read the scriptures, you can read it on a level of carnality and you will not get it. But what you don't realize? That even the black and white words are spiritual and they must be understood, discerned spiritually. That is the most important thing. Yes, you can know that in the past there was manna that came down from heaven that fed the Israelites, so what they died. We're not looking for that manna, we're looking for the spiritual equivalent of what was going on in the Old Covenant. It says the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They're foolishness, they are complete and utter foolishness to him and he cannot know the things of the Spirit of God because they are spiritually discerned. They don't have the Spirit to understand what the Spirit is saying. So if we turn to 2 Corinthians, 3, 6, just to make this point, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. The letter, what Kills? If all you know is this letter in this Bible, it doesn't matter, it kills. There must be a spiritual understanding of his words. In order to obtain and receive eternal life, it has to be spiritually discerned. The Spirit, again Paul says, is who gives life, and he says that in the second book to the Corinthians.

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 27:03

So I want to talk about what did Jesus say concerning his own words, my words. Jesus said concerning his words, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words, what Will by no means pass away? He said my words. Jesus said again my words will never pass away.

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In John 5, 46, he said if you believe Moses, you would believe me. Did they know the story of Moses? Did they know the account of Moses? Did they put their pride and all of their faith in being of the seed of Moses and of Abraham? They knew it all. But look at what Jesus said if you believe Moses, you would believe me. Does that mean that they didn't believe Moses? There was unbelief. They didn't even believe the words that they had and it says, for he wrote about me. If you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words? The father draws men to Jesus. They hear his voice, not knowing it's his voice. But when they do hear his voice, they end up doing exactly what Jesus said, because they hear his voice. They hear the voice of the Father. No mystery. Jesus is the.

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Father come in the flesh. He is the Word which brings to light what Peter said regarding the prophets. It says the Spirit of Christ was in the prophets and the Spirit of Christ was testifying. He was giving witness of himself. He was testifying beforehand of his own sufferings and the glories that would follow. It says, even the angels desired to look into it. They didn't understand either. Don't you think that they were ready to rescue Jesus? Just give us a word.

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Lord, Give us a word.

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Lord and they never got the word, they never rescued him from the cross. They didn't understand what was going on, they didn't get it themselves. But I want to read verse 13 of 1st Peter, 1, 10 to 13. Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is brought to you. How is the grace brought to you? By the revelation of Jesus Christ. It is the revelation of Jesus Christ that imparts to you the grace that you need. That imparts to you the grace that you need. Jesus said if anyone talking about my words, if anyone hears my words now, this is after. This is John, chapter 12.

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We read John, chapter 6, all those 30 verses.

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We're now in John chapter 12, and he is still breaking his word now for his disciples. And he says if anyone hears my word and does not believe, I'm not going to judge them. I did not come to judge the world. I came to save the world. He who rejects me does not receive my words. Notice the tying of these synonyms If you hear my word and you do not believe, it's akin to rejecting me. You don't receive my words. And what is going to judge him is the word that I have spoken. It will judge him in the last day. I go two chapters later. He's still on this topic and in John he's on the topic of the Holy Ghost. But I'm not covering that right now.

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But in John 14, 9 through 21,. Jesus said to him oh gosh, who asked Show us the Father? Who asked that? Was that Thomas? It was Thomas. Okay, who was Thomas?

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He says have I been with you so long? Oh no, it was Philip. Have I been with you so long? And yet you have not known me, philip. He who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say show us the Father, philip?

j - Jesus M. Ruiz: 31:25

Do you not believe? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, the words he says, the words that I speak to you. I don't speak of my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does the works is speaking. What do you mean? Show me the Father who dwells in me does the works is speaking. What do you mean? Show me the Father. I'm speaking, the words of the Father to you. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves. But most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in me, the work that I do, he will do also, and greater works than these will he do, because I go to my Father.

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We know what happened. He ascended to the Father and he poured out his Holy Spirit upon all the world, and he does so to this day. And he began on the day of Pentecost. But it was not loosed in that respect until he ascended to the Father. He says in verse 15, if you love me he's breaking the word If you love me, keep my commandments. I'm telling you what love is. Yes, you know. Deuteronomy 6.4.

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Love the Lord your.

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God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and strength.

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If you love me, keep my commandments.

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And Jesus says if you do that, I will pray that the Father will give you another helper, that he may abide with you forever. The Spirit of Truth is a title for him. Whom the world? The world cannot receive the Spirit of Truth because it neither sees him nor knows him, but it says you know him.

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It also says he dwells with you. Who's he talking to? He's talking to the disciples. You know him. It also says he dwells with you. Who's he talking to? He's talking to the disciples. You know him. He's dwelling with you presently, right now, in the body of Jesus Christ, and then he prophesies and will be in you.

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He's not in you now but he'll be in you, I will not leave you, orphans. Oh, very interesting. He's talking about the Father will send the Spirit of Truth and he says but I will not leave you, orphans, I will come to you. He was talking about himself the whole time, using different terms that apply to him Son of man, son of God, spirit of truth. He says a little while longer you will not see me anymore, but you will see me because I live and you will live also. And on that day you will know that I am in the Father and you are in me and I am in you. And he who has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me. Going back to what it is to love him, he who loves me, keeps my commandments, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father and I will love him and manifest myself unto him by my Father and I will love him and manifest myself unto him.

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Now we're almost in the middle or the end of John in John 14. But there was something that was said of Jesus way back in John, chapter 3, verse 34. And it's what he was saying to Philip. Philip, how can you ask me to show you the Father? He's speaking through me, he's giving you these words, and in John 3, 34, it says For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God.

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Now I go back to John 15, because he's talking about being in the vine. The Father is the vine dresser, I am the true vine and he says you are already clean because of the word that I've spoken to you, the word that I've spoken to you.

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Now he's speaking to his disciples.

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Did this apply to the Jews that were around, that were listening, that did not understand? Were they cleaned by the word spoken to them? They did not receive it, they did not believe in it, they did not believe in his word, but the disciples did, even though they did not understand, and just because they received the word, they were clean Through the word that was spoken unto them. He says in verse 7, if you abide in me, how do you abide in Jesus and my words abide in you? There's a simultaneous abiding of one another and you abide in him by having his words abide in you, which goes back to what he's been saying constantly If you love me keep my commandments.

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He who has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me. And he says in verse 9, In my words abide in you, you abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, Just as I have been an example to you, as I have abided in my Father's commandments, and I abide in his love if you do the same thing with me.

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And the words that I give to you if you abide in them, my love will be abided with you. Jesus spoke on the night of the last supper. Matthew 26, 26,. And then, as they were eating, it says again Jesus took the bread, he blessed it, he broke it and he gave it to the disciples and said take, eat. This is the same.

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Jesus that spoke in John about eating his flesh and eating his blood, and he followed the trail. Now comes the last supper, and Matthew gives this perspective Take, eat of this body, this broken bread. I'm only using it as a natural example to take heed of this body. In Mark, chapter 4, we have an account of the parable of the sower, and it's a completely natural account If we turn to Mark 4, verse 3. He's just teaching parables, he's just giving teachings, and he gives this particular parable, hearken.

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Behold, there went out a sower to sow and it came to pass. As he sowed, some fell by the wayside and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up, and some fell on the stony ground where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up it was scorched and because it had no root it withered away. And some fell among the thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it and yielded no fruit. And other fell on good ground and did yield fruit. That sprang up and increased and brought forth some thirty and some sixty and some a hundred.

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And he said unto them he that hath ears to hear, let him hear Completely natural account Talking about a farmer. He's sowing seed and some of it's falling by the wayside. Look what happens. Some falls upon the stony ground. Look at what happens. Some falls into thorns. Look at what happens. And some falls in good ground. Look at what happens, and that's it. He's done. He's doing a lot of teaching, but he gave that one. Now what are you supposed to get out of that? Our farmer farms? What's the point of that? He goes on to elaborate on that. He's taking. He's blessed, it's already blessed. You are clean through the word that I've spoken to. It's already blessed, and now he's breaking it. So, in Mark 4, 13, he said to them do you not understand the parable? How then will you?

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understand all parables.

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So let me break it down for you. The sower sows the word. He sows it by the wayside, he sows it by the thorn in the ground, he sows it by the thorns and he sows it by the good ground. I'm only going to focus on the good ground because it says the good ground hears the word, accepts it and bears fruit. I'm giving you the revelation. I'm not talking about farming. I'm talking about people that hear the word of God and what they do with it, and the one that's sown in good ground hears and accepts it and bears fruit. If anyone has ear to hear, let him hear. We say that a lot.

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And whenever that's said in the scriptures. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear. It's talking about hearing the spirit of God.

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It's about talking about hearing the Spirit of God. It's talking about hearing the voice of God.

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And then he says, then he said to them take heed what you hear.

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I'm going to come back to that. Take heed what it is that you're hearing. Be careful what you're listening to. Now I'm going to go to the parallel passage of the same thing, where he's giving revelation, but now it's through Matthew's account, through Matthew's perspective, and he says blessed are your eyes talking to the disciples, for they see. Blessed are your ears, for they hear what is it that they see? Tell me what is it that they see? Any guesses? Blessed are your eyes, for they see what are they looking at? Who's talking to them? Jesus? You guys see the promised one, the Messiah, the Christ, the one that was prophesied. Blessed are you, for you've seen, and blessed are your ears, for you hear. Now, what were they hearing? His words.

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They were hearing his words, they received his words, they were accepting it and they were beginning the process of bearing forth fruit, which doesn't happen overnight. So he says in this account anyone who hears the word of the kingdom, see the previous one, just says so. Or who hears the word of the kingdom, see the previous one, just says the sober so is the word, that was what, maybe what marks perspective on it, but Matthews perspective. It says anyone who hears the word of the kingdom and doesn't understand it, that's the wayside, man, and then you have the stony places, man, and then you have the thorns, man. The good ground is described this way.

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He who hears the word, understands it, indeed, bears fruit and produces. Now go to the last one. Luke also has his perspective of the same revelation that Jesus was giving when he was breaking the bread. Now the parable is this the seed is not only the word of God, it is the word excuse me not only the word of the kingdom, it is the word of God. In Luke, the seed is the word of God. It is sown by the wayside, it is sown by the rock, it is sown by the thorns and it's sown by the good ground. But watch the description of those in the good ground. It is those that have heard the word with a noble and good heart. They keep it, keep what His words, the word of God, and they bear fruit with patience.

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And he says now in verse 18, take heed how you hear. Before it was take heed what you hear. Here it says take heed how you hear. Taking heed to what you hear and how you hear can make the word of God of no effect. How you hear, it is how you respond to the word.

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What you hear can be misleading if it's not really the word of God. If that's what you're putting your faith and your trust in, take heed to what and how you hear, because you can make the real word of God of no effect in your life Through your own traditions, through your own paradigm, through your own thoughts. You can make the word of God of none effect, even though it's the same word that he spoke to the disciples and you're reading it yourself. But you come to completely different conclusions than all of the apostles, than all of the prophets, and it's pride because you think you're above them. You think you're above their revelation. He says in Luke more than that. Jesus says more than that blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it. It's a repetitive message of what to do with His Word. But it's not just His words. In John 1 it says In the beginning was the what Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. And if I skip to verse 14, it says and the Word became flesh.

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That's Jesus the word is Jesus.

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It says in Revelation 19 that he saw heaven open. He saw a white horse and he saw him who sat on the horse, was called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and he makes war Revelation 19, 11. And his eyes were like a flame of fire and his head were many crowns and he had a name written on him that no one except himself knew. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood and his name was called the Word of God. Jesus is equals, as I say in math, is means equals, the word of God. He himself is the word of God. I'm not looking for a bread of life that I'm going to eat naturally. I'm looking for Jesus. He is the word of God that gives eternal life to those who believe, to those who receive His words and keep them. It says in Ephesians 6, 17,.

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And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God we just said. Word of God equals Jesus. Well, take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is Jesus, it makes it more personal. It makes it more real. It's not some abstract thought. In Hebrews 4.12, it says for the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing into the division of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and the discernment of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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That's abstract, but if I take it spiritually, for Jesus is living, jesus is powerful, jesus, he's sharper than any two-edged sword. He pierces between your soul and your spirit, just like he can pierce between your bones and your joints, and he is the discerner of the thoughts and intents of your heart.

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That's a spiritual understanding. That's a totally different plane than just some wielding sword over here and we sometimes take this book and wield it, and we just wield it like we're going to wield the body. It's Jesus, the word of God is Jesus. We present Jesus. We are fighting with Jesus when we take the sword of the spirit. It is Jesus that is defeating the enemies before us. It is not the letter of the Spirit. It is Jesus that is defeating the enemies before us. It is not the letter that we know. It is Jesus that is doing it by His grace, by His anointing, by His power. It is Jesus that is the Word of God. And Jesus is so awesome that he has to take Himself, having already blessed Himself, and break himself and give himself to us. There's no way to receive him and understand him if he doesn't do that. And so I read for you now the third time about being taken, about being blessed, about being broken, about being given, in Luke 24,.

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We're going to read this together, starting at verse 13. It was the day of his resurrection. It was the day where the women had gone to the tomb and they did not see the body and they met with an angel who said to them go tell the other disciples. Then I believe it was Peter and John that ran back to see for themselves that he was not in the tomb. And there were some disciples two of them and they were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem, and they walked together and they were talking about all the things that just happened that day. His body wasn't in the grave.

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So it was while they conversed and reasoned that Jesus himself drew near and went with them, but their eyes were restrained, meaning he closed them off from recognizing who he was, and it says so. They did not know him and he said to them what kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad? What's the matter with you guys? Then one of those that name was Cleopas answered and said to him are you the only stranger in Jerusalem and you have not known the things which have happened these days? Haven't you been around lately? Don't you know what happened the last three days? He died, they crucified him and he said to them what are you talking about? And so they said to him the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a mighty prophet in deed and in word before God and all the people Now listen to what they're describing in this Jesus the mighty prophet.

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He was a whole lot more than that, a whole lot more than that, but that's how they knew him, that's what they understand, because they still see carnally, even though it's true he was a prophet. And how the chief priests and the rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him. Well, we were hoping, yeah, we were hoping.

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We were hoping that he was going to redeem Israel. That's what our hope was in. And he died. They killed him and all our hope was that he was going to redeem us and save us and deliver us from Rome. And besides all this, today is the third day that these things have happened and certain women of our company- who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us when they did not find his body.

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And they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said he was alive. And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it, just as the women had said, but him they did not see. And then he said to them O foolish ones and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken, you don't believe in anything that the prophets have spoken. You don't believe in anything that the prophets have spoken. You're so slow to get there. You don't get it yet. So ought not Christ to have suffered these things and enter into his glory? And it says and beginning with Moses and all of the prophets, he expounded, he began to break it up. He began to break it up. He began to break it up and serve it to them In little, bite-sized morsels so they could see and understand what All the scriptures concerning himself. We say that the word of God is this Bible. The word of God is Jesus. They speak of him, they reveal him, the first verse in.

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Revelation says the revelation of Jesus Christ, and that's what we don't get. This is about Jesus Christ, and so he's revealing things concerning himself. And they drew near to a village where they were going and he indicated well, I've got to go some farther. But no, no, no. They constrained him. They said no, no, no, no. You need to stay with us. Abide with us. It's late, it's dark, the day is already done. Come on, stay with us. So he stays. And he sat at the table with them in verse 30. And he took the bread. And he took the bread and he blessed it and he broke it and he gave it to them and what happened their?

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eyes were opened and they knew him. And he vanished out of sight. And they said to one another did not our heart burn within us? While he talked with us on the road, while he opened the scriptures to us, oh my gosh, there was something going on. There was a fire brewing. He was expounding to us this word concerning himself and all the things that would come to pass, and there was a fire Woo. That's the excitement that the word of God brings. When he's breaking the word and giving it to us. He's revealing himself in a way that we can handle, and some at this measure and some at that measure, but the feeling is the same. Oh wow, this is great. Oh wow, this is awesome. Almighty Jesus, causing us to praise Him, causing us to be in awe of Him and all of His majesty and all of His glory. And they rose up that very hour.

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They didn't stay that night they went and returned to Jerusalem. They found the eleven and those that were with them gathered together and they said the Lord is risen. Indeed, he has appeared to.

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Jerusalem. They found the eleven and those that were with them gathered together and they said the Lord is risen. Indeed, he has appeared to Simon and they told him about the things that had happened on the road and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread. He gave them bread to eat. It was not natural manner. The bread is Him, it is His words and it is expounding and clarifying and revealing the true nature and understanding of His words to you To you Remember the spirit of truth Whom the world cannot receive.

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And I speak to those that have received the promise of the father. You know him, he dwells with you and he is.

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In you and he is waiting For you To abide in you and he is waiting for you to abide in him. What was the word that the disciples of Emmaus wrote said to him Abide with us. It is then that he took the bread he blessed and broken and gave it to them, and their eyes were opened and they knew him. He was expounding the scriptures. But even then their eyes were not open because they didn't recognize him. They didn't see him. But when he broke the bread, when he gave the revelation, then they knew him. And God is waiting for people saying Jesus, abide with me, come to me right now, come to me tonight, come to me in my car, come to me while I'm at home alone. God, I'm giving you the time now. Abide with me, I want to know you. I want to know you, jesus, because Paul said from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh, even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet we don't know him any longer.

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How do we know?

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him by his spirit. His words are spirit. His words are life. It is his word being that. He is the Word of God that we need to know, Paul said to the Philippians. Yet indeed, I also count all things lost for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord. Jesus, my Lord, whom I suffered the loss of all things, and I count everything that I lost as rubbish that I may gain Christ. I want Christ, I want to be found in Him, Not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God. By faith that I may know Him. I want to know Him, the Word of God, Not what he said. I want to know Him. I want to know the power of His resurrection, the fellowship of his sufferings being conformed to his death, so that by any means, I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

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The Apostle John said now this we know, or by this we know that we know him. It's about knowing him right. It's by this we know that we know him if we keep his commandments. Knowing him right, it's by this we know that we know him if we keep his commandments. Apostle John says that in 1 John, 2, 3, and 4, and he goes on to say he who says that I know him and does not keep his commandments is nothing but a liar. And we know he continues in John, chapter 5, verse 20,. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that we know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. So I challenge you today to not rest on whatever present revelation you have of him. Press in press on seeking him continually, according to his word.

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Because when he reveals, himself.

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It's not going to be, contrary to his word.

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It's going to be according to his word. He is his word. He's doing nothing but revealing himself. Just like you have a conversation with a particular person who's telling you about himself and his life, he's revealing himself to you through his words, and that's all that Jesus is doing. He's revealing himself through his words. He's sharing his heart with you by the spirit of God that is indwelling in you. Take him at his word. The word is blessed. The word is broken. The word is given so that you would have more of the revelation of him. The more revelation of him that you have, the more like him you are to me Amen.

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