TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Date: Jan. 23, 2026. Lesson: 15-2026. Title: The Promise of the Bread of Life

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

In this Faith Friday edition of Morning Manna, the focus centers on John 6:34–37, where Jesus moves the crowd from desire for provision to revelation of His identity. When they ask for bread, He declares Himself to be the Bread of Life—the only source of lasting satisfaction. Those who come to Him will never hunger, and those who believe will never thirst. Even more, Jesus anchors salvation in the will of the Father, assuring that all who are given to Him will come, and none who come will ever be cast out. Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart explore the certainty, security, and sufficiency found in Christ alone, calling listeners to trust not in provision, but in the Person who gives eternal life. Lesson 15-2026 Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart You can partner with us by visiting MannaNation.com, calling 1-888-519-4935, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961. MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today! www.megafire.world Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves! www.AmericanReserves.com It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! www.Amazon.com/Final-Day Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! www.books.apple.com/final-day Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Welcome to morning, Madam. Today is Faith Friday, a day dedicated to learning more about faith in Jesus Christ and all that he did for us on the cross. I love Faith Friday because saints around the world gather with us to participate in the Lord's Supper. And you are invited to join thousands of saints worldwide in a global virtual Holy Communion meal. who may participate today anyone who is born again a born again believer in jesus christ and has been baptized into his church in water in the name of the father the son and the holy spirit if that describes you please join us all you need is bread and your choice of grape juice or red wine let us now enter into the presence of the Lord by praying the Lord's prayer together.

And now as our Savior Jesus Christ has taught us to pray, we are bold to pray, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our death. as we forgive our debtor and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom

the power and the glory forever amen whenever you prepare to eat a meal at home or in a restaurant or any gathering it is customary you wash your hands before sitting down at the table

Likewise, before we sit at the Lord's table for communion, we must wash our soul to remove the dirt, cumulated from our contact with the world. Now, we can't do the washing. We're incapable of it, but the Lord Jesus Christ will do it for us. I'm going to ask our pastor, Dr. Raymond Burkhard, to lead us in the prayer for purity

as we approach the Lord's table. Thank you, Rick. Let's pray. Almighty God, to you, all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid. Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit

that we may perfectly love you and worthily magnify your holy name through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Hear what our Lord Jesus Christ says. You shall love the Lord God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like it.

You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments, depend all the law and the prophets. Let us confess the symbol of our faith in the words of the Apostles' Creed. I believe even God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord. who is conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell.

The third day, he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits the right hand of God and the Father Almighty. From there, he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen. Let us humbly confess our sins, to Almighty God. Most merciful, God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, indeed,

by what we have done and by what we have left undone. have not loved you with our whole heart, and we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry, and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us, that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways to the glory of your name. Amen. Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, who in His great mercy has promised forgiveness of sins to all those who sincerely repent, and with true faith, turn to Him,

have mercy upon you, pardon, and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, and bring you to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Now, hear the Word of God, to all who truly turn to Him. This is found in 1, John, chapter 1, verse 9.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Yes. Almighty God, in your tender mercy, you gave your only begotten Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. He offered himself and made,

once for all time, a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. He instituted this remembrance of his passion, and death, which He commanded us to continue until he comes again. So, Father, we ask you to bless and sanctify with your Word and Holy Spirit these gifts of bread and wine that we may partake at his most blessed body and blood. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed once for all upon the cross. Therefore, let us keep the feast.

Alleluia. On the night that he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus, took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples saying, Take eat. This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. The body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. This is the bread of heaven. Take and eat in remembrance that Christ died for you. after supper Jesus took the cup

and when he had given thanks he gave it to them saying drink this all of you for this is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins

whenever you drink it do this and remember thank you Lord the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for you preserve your body and soul to everlasting life drink the cup of salvation

and remembrance of Christ's blood was shed for you and be thankful. Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him, who takes away the sins of the world, and blessed are those who are invited to the Married Supper of the Lamb. This sacrament is the gift of God

for the people of God. Feed on Him by faith with Thanksgiving that Christ died for you. Heavenly Father, we thank you for feeding us with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood of Jesus Christ, our Savior. And for assuring us in these holy mysteries

that we are living members of the body of Christ and heirs of your eternal kingdom. And now, Father, send us out into the world to do the work that you have given us to do, to love and to serve you as faithful witnesses of Christ our Lord, to Him, to you, and to the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory now and forever. Amen. Amen.

Well, Rick, today is Faith Friday. And what faith lessons can we take away from the Lord's supper? Well, Doc, in recent weeks, our Faith Friday lessons have been focused on Jesus's words in the sixth chapter of the gospel according to St. John, verses 22 to 40. Last week we discussed verses 32 and 33, and you may find those earlier lessons at manna nation.com. Let's look for those lessons for the last two Fridays. Understanding the significant and spiritual meaning of John, chapter 6, verses 22 to 57, is essential for comprehending the importance of the Lord's soul. supper that we just received. I would like to ask Dr. Burkhard to summarize what we discussed so far in the

previous two lessons from John 6. Yes. So let's kind of review here. Jesus had fed 5,000 with those five barley loaves and two small fish. When evening came, his disciples entered into the ship and began a journey across the Sea of Galilee over to Copernium. Now, Jesus did not go with them. While crossing the sea, a great storm arose. As the disciples rode against the wind, they saw Jesus walking on the water approaching the ship. They were terrified, but Jesus identified himself

and encouraged them to cheer up. Jesus entered the ship, and suddenly they arrived on the shore. Now the next day, the people on the other side of the sea where Jesus had performed the miracle of feeding thousands realized he had disappeared. They had seen his disciples departing a ship and they also saw that Jesus did not go with them. They also saw that no other ships or boats

were present when the disciples departed. Now, according to the text here, the people found some ships from Tiberius and sailed away to Copernium seeking Jesus and more miracles. When they found Jesus on the other side of the sea, they asked him how and when he arrived. Now, what's important to note here

is Jesus did not answer their question but replied that the reason they sought him was because they ate food more filled. They were not interested in divine miracles. They only desired more food. He told them to seek food that doesn't perish, food that endures under everlasting life. So the people ask Jesus, what shall we do that might work the works of God?

And then Jesus responded to Him and said, this is the work of God that you believe on Him whom He hath sinned. Now, as a follow-up, the people ask, well, what sign do you show us that we may see it and believe you? What is your religious work for us to know and see? because the people reminded Jesus that their ancient fathers ate man in the wilderness for 40 years. And they cited the merits of Moses as the reason the manna appeared daily for those 40 years. Jesus replied to him that it was true that they had eaten manna, but Moses could not give them bread from heaven.

He told them that his heavenly father desired to feed them with the true bread from heaven. Jesus said, for the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world. And that brings us up to today's lesson, Rick. Amen. Thanks, top for the summary. We just the bread from heaven. This is why we're doing this lesson on Faith Friday. We just the bread from heaven.

We now arrive at the people's response to Jesus. Jesus' promise to feed them bread from heaven. So today we're going to look at John 6 verses 34 through 37. Again, I'm going to ask Dr. Burckhard to read the scriptures. John 6 versus 34 through 37. Yes, John chapter 6, it was 34 through 37. And it reads as follows. They said unto him, Lord, ever more Guinnesses this bread.

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto you that ye also have seen me and believe not. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. Amen. Okay, and what I say to, before we begin the lesson,

And I want to talk to the audience watching us on Faith TV. We're only on Faith TV 30 minutes every Monday through Friday, to be precise, 28 minutes and 30 seconds. So the lessons usually go 60 minutes, 70 minutes, sometimes 80, 90 minutes. And we desire that you're able to follow through on the entire lesson. So go to manna nation.com. and find this lesson, and you can watch the rest of it. We do not desire you to miss out on any of the valuable teaching that's going to come out in today's lesson.

So we'll start with verse 34. The King James says, Then they said unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. The modern English would say, Lord, always give us this bread. the way we do this we break down the verses into two or three segments so the first segment of this verse is then they said unto him lord they addressed jesus as lord it's respectful but it's not worshipful the use of lord was more like a title of honor such as sir or master rabbi teacher.

It was not a clear confession of Jesus' divinity. Doc, their response, they said, Lord, always ever more give us this bread. To me, it's very similar to the Samaritan woman's words to Jesus at the water well. Right. Would you, that story, that account is, it's in the book of John also.

in chapter six right now, it's in chapter four. Would you give us the verses for chapter four? So we're reading from John chapter four verses 10 through 15. John chapter four versus 10 through 15. And verse 10, Jesus answered her, if he knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. The woman said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw with in the well is deep. So where did you? Where do you? you get that living water? Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock? Jesus answered, everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again. Whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never thirst again, but the water

I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life. And then verse 15, The woman said to him, sir, give me this water so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw. Okay, so the Samaritan woman said to Jesus, sir, give me this water. The Galilean said to Jesus, Lord always give us this bread. Both responses had a similar mixture of spiritual interest. yet lingering religious misunderstanding. The Samaritan woman was interested in drinking water that would satisfy her physical thirst forever. And the Galilean's desire to avoid future hunger.

Both misunderstand Jesus' spiritual metaphor for a physical convenience. Yes. The tragedy in the story wreck is that the people, both the Samaritan woman and those that had been fed and were seeking Jesus, reached for the it instead of him. The it was the water or the bread. The hymn was Jesus. Both of them failed to see that the person standing before them was the provision that they had really requested. So Jesus' teaching here is drawing out everything.

a real longing in people, even though their hearts didn't fully understand who he is or what he was offering. And although their response shows a kind of awakening desire stirred by Christ's words, yet it was still bound by earthly category and expectations. It's a mix between the two. For those who are new to Morning Manum, you just got an example of our teaching style. we just spent a number of minutes talking about the first half of the first verse there's a lot inside those few words that's why we're not rushing through the Bible

we're not going to try to get the whole Bible done in one year we can't we've been in the book of proverbs since early 2025 and we're only to what chapter 20 now doc we've been got some quotations from some of the great theologians and pastors, commentators centuries ago. I'll let you start with Alexander McLaren.

Alexander McClureen had this to say on this particular passage here. They are still thinking of some magical kind of food. Their prayer is but the expression of the secular spirit, which wants religion only for the sake of the loves. If I could reflect on this just a moment, Rick, really that's what American Christianity is today. People follow Jesus for what they can get from him. They really do, whether it's political power or wealth or whatever it might be.

But it's really a testament, a judgment, really, on what's going on in the Christian world today. I reluctantly, Doc, I have to agree with you. It's sad. That's where a lot of people were at. It's a very superficial Christianity. Yes. But you quoted Alexander McLaur, a great leader of a Baptist church world back in the late 1990s, early 1900s. He was the first president of the World Baptist Association. I'm going to quote William or not, who, was a leader in the Free Church of Scotland. He said, they were asking for the shadow while the substance stood before them. Again, people don't change, Doc. They'd rather have the shadow than the real thing.

Yes. And that's where a lot of people were at today. Now, we're going to go to the second part of this verse. ever more give us this bread or always give us this bread the King James says ever more give us this bread modern English says always give us this bread

it means the same thing the request sounds on the surface it sounds pious and earnest they desire a constant supply of the bread that Jesus just offered

what they perceived to be the bread. They're saying, yes, give it to us. Oh, yeah. We desire it. Give us this bread. We'll fill us forever. We desire it. They're asking not for a single taste of this bread,

but they're saying to Jesus, we'll take you up on this offer for ongoing provision. See, their physical ears heard Jesus' words. Yes. But their spiritual ears did not perceive what he was saying. They perceived it as he just offered defeat us forever. Yeah. So they're sticking their hands out, saying, shape, it's a deal.

Okay, we're on, we'll take it. You got bread forever, we want it. Their request for a perpetual supply of bread was a desire for a magical supply of food. They desired a bakery that never closed. That required no work. And there was no cause for this bread. Their minds were on their stomachs.

They desired a Messiah who would be a bread king. A bread king, a bread Messiah who would solve their economic problem. That's where we're at today. People are looking for a financial savior, a political savior. Yes. They asked for bread always. They were looking for a perpetual physical miracle. Yeah, they said, sure, we believe that you can do the bread.

We know you did it. We did it in the wilderness. Okay, do it again and make it just keep happening like Moses. Moses did it for 40 years. Can you do 40 years, Jesus? This is the way they were thinking. Jesus was offering them an eternal spiritual supply. They wanted a standing order of bread.

He offered them a standing status of citizenship in the kingdom. But they missed it, Doc. Yes. And as you mentioned, Rick, on the surface, their request sounded religious and pious and sincere, oh, we want that bread. They desired that constant supply of bread and Jesus described. Moses did 40 years.

You're talking about always. They didn't ask for a single servant. They wanted an ongoing supply. So the crowd was still thinking in largely material terms. They were imagining a continual miraculous supply like the man that would free them from their day, labor. Bread was essential to life. Okay? And so basically what they were hearing was, I don't have to work anymore. I can get bread every day. So they weren't thinking about spiritual

matters. And it's interesting that the words ever more and always imply that the crowd wanted a settled condition of physical ease. Isn't that the case? In their minds, Jesus of the bread would be a permanent solution to their physical need for bread. so they were thinking what if I didn't ever have to work for my daily bread so they selfishly desired the benefit of Jesus' gift

basically they heard no more hunger a secure supply of food yet their kernel lines Rick couldn't grasp the understanding that the true gift is Christ himself the bread of life now

I think that we can both agree in observation that nothing is changed in the hearts of men and women over the course of thousands of years. People desire God's gifts of comfort and security and provision and satisfaction without paying the cost of discipleship, obedience, and faith. And although people ask for the wrong thing, Jesus did recognize their inner desire for something enduring, something that didn't perish. He offered a solution. Now, you're going to see in the Gospels here, and this is a perfect example here in John 6, that Jesus often patiently used our imperfect desires, our imperfect request, and even our imperfect prayers,

as a starting point to lead us from these lower desire for his gifts to the higher desire for the giver himself. Before we go to the quotations, I want to make a comment. So the people were, they were looking for a savior, a Messiah, a political king that would feed them forever. Take care of their food issue. And if you take care of the food issue, you also say, hey, you don't have to work. True. I mean, what's the main reason people go to work? So they have food.

Well, especially in those days, too. I mean, that was the reason you worked. It wasn't to further your career. It wasn't to, you know, explore new knowledge. it was of Hungary. Right. So, now,

today, millions of people are losing their jobs because of artificial intelligence. Right. And over the next five years, worldwide,

probably hundreds of millions of people will lose their jobs because of AI. And there's talk of UBI payment, universal basic income. Unlimited bread.

That's where I'm going. Will the AI God promise people unlimited bread? You don't have to work. The AI God will give you unlimited food. Universal basic income. Might be, might not be. I'm just putting that out there for people to think about it. Okay, let's go to the quotations from the commentators from centuries ago.

Well, I'll start with Matthew Henry here on this. And he had this commentary on this particular part of the passage. He said, they desire this bread as the woman of Samaria desired the water, yet still with two coronal and I. They would have their bellies filled without labor rather than their souls fed unto eternal life. William or not of Scotland said they stretch out their hands for the gift and see not that the giver himself is the gift. They would gladly receive bread from his hand, but are not prepared to take himself as the bread

that must be eaten by faith. Wow. Preach, brother, are not. Now, I love him. Doc, again, we just participated minutes ago in the Lord's Supper. Did you eat a cracker, or did you eat the flesh of heart? Jesus Christ by faith. I eat the flesh of Christ. This is the question.

We eat Christ by faith. Communion is not a religious ritual with crackers and juice. We eat the flesh, we drank the blood of Jesus Christ by faith. By faith. That's how we, that's how we consume him in the Lord's supper. Okay, let's move on to

verse 35. John 6, verse 35. Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger. And he that believeth on me shall never first. So this is the first of the seven great I am statements in John's gospel. Jesus drops the third person references the bread of God as he and now he speaks directly

I am he identifies himself as the very God who provided the manna the same God who revealed himself to Moses in the burning bush and said I am he is a person not a commodity

he does not say I have bread or I can give you bread. He says, I am the bread. I am. Salvation is not a commodity that Jesus dispenses. Thank you. Salvation is Jesus himself. Yes.

To possess the bread, you must possess the person. If you eat the bread by faith, you are saved. Yes. He offered water to the Samaritan woman, promising she would never thirst again. He offered bread to the Galileans promised that they would never hunger again. He bridges the bread in the water

because he is the complete satisfaction for every longing of human souls. Right. And as we look at this passage here, understand that the crowd wanted Jesus to give them bread, like in their minds that might, Moses gave manna. So Jesus is correcting them here. He is not merely the dispenser of the bread. He's not the bread basket. He is the bread in the basket. He is the bread. He calls himself the bread of life.

Now, as we mentioned before, the only reason why people worked was for bread. Normal bread sustains biological existence. You need bread to live. But that bread eventually runs out, it eventually ends. Jesus sustains eternal spiritual life. Okay, so bread is a staple, not a luxury. All right? By using this metaphor, Jesus is teaching that he's not an option. He's like an optional dessert for the religious life. He's not a donut or a pastry that you get, you know, extra. He's the essential staple for survival. Without him, The soul starves. And it's interesting, you've got to every culture in the world.

Just every culture all over the world, they have some form of bread. Bread is probably the most common food of mankind. It's found on tables of kings and beggars alike. So Jesus, in the same way, is that universal need, and he's also the universal supply. for all of humanity, Rick? For those who are watching, do you get the impression that Doc and I love Jesus?

We love Jesus. He is everything, and I know many of you already know that, but for those of you who've just stumbled upon us on faith TV or on social media, and maybe you've really never known Jesus as everything, that's our desire for you, that you come to a need. knowledge that Jesus Christ is everything. Everything. He's everything you need is in Christ.

Let's go to the second part of this verse. Jesus said, He that cometh to me shall never hunger. Jesus defines faith. Remember, this is Faith Friday. We're teaching about faith. Jesus defines faith with two verbs. Coming and believing. Coming and believing. Coming involves movement of the will. James said faith without works is dead. Faith requires action.

Believing involves trust and reliance. In Mark 16, verse 16, Jesus said, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned. Very strong words. Yes. We see the same principle in March 16, 16, to be saved according to Jesus. You must believe and you must come to baptism. Right.

Believing and coming. Jesus says, he that cometh to me shall never hunger. The verbs for, I'll just say, coming and believing in this in John 635. These two words are synonymous. You cannot come without believing. And you cannot truly believe without coming. The verbs for cometh and believeth are present participos.

They imply a continuous action. He that is coming, He that is believing. The satisfaction is maintained by constant abiding in Christ. Comeeth to me in John is a very rich phrase that's roughly parallel to believeeth on me. It includes movement of the whole person, mind, heart, will, towards Christ. as the one sufficient savior for your soul. And this parallelism,

parallelism, clarifies the meaning. Coming is explained as believing. Faith is the soul's movement towards Christ, resting on him, receiving him, entrusting your soul to him. Now here's another aspect

of this, coming and believing component that we see in verse 35. The promise is attached to a present, ongoing coming. As believers continue to turn to Christ, they find their deepest needs continually met in Christ. Charles Spurgeon, the great Reformed Baptist pastor, England in the 1800 said, you have not to get the bread, but to come to him for it.

To come is the very simplest act of the mind. Yes. Very people would purchase it. You have not to get the bread, but to come to him for it. To come is the very simplest act of the mind. Yes. And it's interesting, that phrase there, shall never hunger. English doesn't do it.

justice there because in the Greek it's an emphatic double negative. A better way to say it would be shall by no means ever hunger. In other words, it's eliminating any possibility of hunger ever happening ever, ever again. So the promise shall never hunger does not deny ongoing longings for deeper fellowship but assures that the soul's fundamental need to be pardoned, to be accepted and to have eternal life is once for all satisfied in Christ. And it's not that the believer never desires God again, but that the pain of unsatisfied longing is gone forever. That aching void that every human has is filled. So this isn't a promise of freedom from trials or even feelings of weakness, but of an end to the desperate godless hunger that drives.

men from one false idol to another false idol. And so this negative form of Jesus' promise that never hunger part powerfully asserts the complete sufficiency of God. There is no other bread. No other bread required alongside Christ. There is no alternative bread. All competing saviors and satisfactions are exposed as falling woefully short and end.

inadequate. So implied in this is the eternal security of those who truly come. Having received Christ, they will never be sent away empty, nor left to starve spiritually because the Father has pledged to sustain them in the Son in Jesus Christ. Amen. So we've discussed the coming to Christ. in this verse you have coming and believing the third part of this verse says and he that believeth on me shall never thirst Jesus broadens thee

the promise not only will his disciples never hunger but they will also never thirst right the never thirst complements the never hunger he is bread and water for your soul bread for nourishment and water for refreshment. All of our needs are met when we are in Christ

and when we depend on Him for our daily living. This is essential that you understand that we must be in Christ, not in church, in Christ. We go to church, but we are in Christ. You are to be in Christ 24 hours a day. Jesus offers us fullness in our satisfaction. Yes. Let me explain this.

In justification, the thirst for peace with God is met. In adoption, the thirst for belonging is met. In sanctification, the thirst for holiness is met. Believe is ongoing. As believers keep trusting and looking to Christ, he, continues quenching our thirst with fresh supplies grace. That's what we're drinking down, grace. It satisfies our thirst.

One final word. The world offers water that makes you thirst again. That's what John, that's what Jesus said in John 4, 13. Water that makes you thirst again. Jesus offers a satisfaction that is final, complete. The one who has Jesus may seek more of him, but he never seeks another than him. Right.

Do you understand what I just said? The person who has Jesus may seek more of Jesus, but that person never has to seek somebody else besides Jesus. Amen. Because there's no. nobody else. There's nobody else who's complete. Nobody else who can supply everything. No other person, thing, or being in the universe can provide the food and water indefinitely to nourish your soul. It's in Christ alone that you will be satisfied.

And it's interesting that that language that's used here, never, ever thirst, is meant to encourage trembling hearts. There is no risk that Christ will run dry or withdraw his supply from those who trust him. In other words, it's not going to end 40 years on the bread. It's eternal. The water is not going to run dry in the well. And it's never going to end. The promise really exposes the futility of trying to seek satisfaction in sin or in the world.

Rick, every other fountain runs dry. Every fountain will warm dry. But Christ remains a full, accessible, and inexhaustible spring. So we find comfort in Christ's words. In seasons of dryness, the believer is to come again to Christ, not to self-generated feeling, but for the renewing of an inner life. St. Augustine had this to say about this portion of the past, He said not, I am the bread of nourishment, but I am the bread of life.

In other words, this isn't just a temporary satisfaction. This is an eternal satisfaction for eternal life. As John Calvin said, Christ, by calling himself the bread of life, teaches that he alone suffices for our spiritual life. Wherefore, when men seek life anywhere else, they wander miseries. those who by faith come to him are filled in such a manner that they need not go elsewhere. Yes, evangelist John Wesley at the Methodist Church said, I am the bread of life. There is a twofold hunger and thirst of the soul.

He that cometh to me shall find such a satisfying fullness in me, speaking on behalf of Christ. And Alexander McGlaren said, the crowd asked for bread. Christ gives them himself. He claims to be for the spirit what bread is for the body, the staple, indispensable food. Once he is truly received by faith, the gnawing emptiness of life is gone. Okay, let's go to verse 36. John 6, verse 36.

But I said unto you that ye also have seen me and believe not. the world english bible says but i said to you that you have seen me and yet you don't believe we'll take the first part of the verse but i said unto you can we teach something from the first part i said to you i think so yeah i already told you that's exactly you got it down he used the word but anytime he used the but you're about to set something to somebody straight. He used it as a conjunction to introduce a clause that contrasts with the rich promises he made in verse 35.

In verse 35, he made the promises. Now we get to verse 36 and he says, but. He used the word but to indicate the impossibility of anything other than what is being said. Yes. The Lord turned from the offer to the diagnosis, from invitation to solemn exposure of unbelief. Remember today's Faith Friday. We're talking about faith.

The opposite of faith is unbelief. When Jesus said, but I said unto you, he is likely referring back to verse 26, where he said, ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat. He rebuked them.

That they sought him not because they saw the signs, but because they ate of the loaves and were filled. He reminded them that their interest in him was superficial. So now we'll go to the next part of this verse,

verse 36, that you have seen me and yet you do not believe. He read their hearts in light of both the response and his divine knowledge he diagnosed their condition they are not seekers

struggling with their doubts they are rebels struggling with their demands they do not believe because they will not come yes do you get this you understand the reason they did not believe is because their rebellious hearts would not come to Christ.

They weren't struggling with unbelief. They weren't struggling with lingering doubts. They believed he could breath. Yes. That was not an issue, Doc. They did not believe he could give eternal life. They trusted him as a baker, but they were. rejected him as a Savior.

Yeah. You got it. To see Jesus and reject him is worse than never seeing him at all. Every exposure to the truth that does not result in faith in Christ hardens the conscience of the person. They were becoming immune to God's prison. Yes, Rick. And Jesus confronts that hardness here. So these Galileans, you know, when you think about it, Rick, they experienced the ultimate privilege.

They witnessed what prophets and kings had longed for and prophesied for the sight of the incarnate Word of God in the flesh. They literally saw the smile of God on a human face. They saw the hands that multiplied the loaves of bread. they saw the incarnate son of God with their own physical eyes, and yet Rick, they missed him. They had the highest level of evidence ever granted to humanity. Think about this, yet failed to recognize that God had come to earth and human flesh. Remember back in verse 30, they asked,

What sign showest thou? Well, Jesus is answering that question right here. He says, in effect, you're looking at the sign. I'm the sign. And it hasn't changed you one bit. So understand this. I believe in miracles. Absolutely believe in God working miracles in people's lives.

But these Galileans saw miracles. And miracles may arrest the attention of people, but they can't regenerate the heart. Let me say that again. Miracles may get your attention, but they can't regenerate the heart. So verse 36 here dismantles the skeptics' argument. If I could just see a miracle, I would believe.

No, you wouldn't. These people ate miracle bread. They saw the miracle worker. They heard the miracle voice, and yet remained an unbelief. they remained spiritually dead. Faith comes by hearing the word of God, not just seeing the wonder.

They saw a carpenter, but they missed Christ. They saw a miracle worker, but they missed the Messiah. The eye can only see what the heart is prepared to receive, Rick. They said that ye also, Jesus said,

Jesus said, that ye also have seen me and believe not. He points to the tragedy. They've seen him, like Doc just pointed out. They saw his person. They saw his works. They saw his miracles. They saw his signs. And yet they remained in unbelief.

So outward exposure to Christ does not produce inward faith in Christ, seen me. That phrase includes more than physical sight. They had witnessed his miracles. They heard his teachings. They enjoyed his kindness. And yet their hearts were not persuaded. Yes.

Let's consider the contrast with Thomas. After the resurrection, the disciples said, we have seen the Lord. But Thomas said, unless I see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. Is that the same as the reaction of these people? No.

It's different. Eight days later, Jesus walked into a room without using the door. He said to Thomas, reach here your finger and say, see my hands. Reach here your hand and put it into my side. Don't be unbelieving, but believing. And Jesus said,

My Lord, my God. He saw the Lord, and he believed. Yes. What's the lesson? Seeing can accompany believing. Right. However, we see that mere external revelation cannot

of itself over-com. the resistance of the natural heart without the father's drawing grace to the light of revelation. God gives us grace to have faith in him, but that does not mean people will accept his grace. That's right. And it's interesting that Jesus inserted the word also in here. Did you catch that? That he also have seen me and believe not. clearly the implication is that other people have seen Christ and as miracles.

Many of them believed how this group of people has seen and heard the Messiah with their own eyes and ears, and yet they continue and they persist in their unbelief. Therefore, their guilt is heightened. So this verse explains why in the next few lines here that Jesus is going to speak of the Father, giving people to the sun and drawing them. Their unbelief raises the question of why some believe in others do not.

The Galileans desired sign faith instead of saving faith. They admired the miracle, but they did not embrace the worship and the miracle maker who would later give his life on the cross for their souls. Now, the danger here for today, for some church members today, is they have faith in their church, maybe in their pastor, their doctrines, the Bible, their belief systems. They believe in everything, except for the most important thing.

They don't truly have faith in Jesus Christ and possess an intimate relationship with it. Amen. Some people have faith in their doctrines. They have faith in a self. system of beliefs in their denomination. Right. These aren't bad things.

But they don't have faith in Christ himself. Right. They can rattle off their denominations doctrine. They can quote scriptures, but they don't have faith in Christ himself. Yes. Jesus's word here is both judicial and pastoral. He pronounced a sober verdict on those who had heard much yet remained in unbelief.

He had already given them sufficient light and appeal. His, I said unto you, underscored the responsibility that they bore for rejecting what they had heard. Right. He said, I said unto you

and you didn't believe it. So it's on you for rejecting. It's on you for having unbelief, for not walking in faith. How many of the people, Doc, I think about this from time to time. Only God knows how many human being physically saw and heard Jesus Christ during those years that he walked on earth and ministered. Only God knows how many.

In the thousands, thousands and thousands of people. Right. Many of them became the first Christians. The early church in Jerusalem, composed of Jews who believed on the name of Jesus. But not all. And then later the gospel was taken out to the Gentiles. Right.

So the early church was made up of the Jews who heard Jesus, believed him, and when after the resurrection were born again. But what I wonder about Doc, what about all the other people, the thousands of tens of thousands of people of, of Israel who heard Jesus, saw him, saw the miracles, and did not believe. How many of them went to their graves years later, decades later, still in a state of unbelief? And if Jesus' name came up and said, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that guy. I saw that guy.

They killed him. They killed him. He was executed. Only God himself knows how not. many of them later came to faith in Christ. But there were many people there, and the Son of God was in front of them. They could touch him, and they didn't believe he was God. Right.

What does this teach us? It teaches us there is danger in becoming custom to the words of Christ. He may one day remind us. a soul of repeated warnings, repeated invitations to come to him that were ignored. Yes. He would say to the on Judgment Day, I said unto you. What fierce of words on Judgment Day. To say to somebody in unbelief, I said unto you.

I'm going to tell you how many times in your life I said unto you. I'm going to tell you how many times I spoke to you. I'm going to tell you how many times I did a work in your life and you did not believe. That is a fearsome thought to me. And so the tragedy of unbelief sets the stage for the comfort that's now found in verse 37. If it were up to human will, no one would believe. Therefore, salvation must depend on the Father giving it. Yes.

We'll look at the quotations from the great church leaders of the past Baptist Pastor Alexander McLaren said, They had seen him, his miracles, his sweet gentleness, his authoritative teaching, and had it all been in vain, seeing is not believing, the eye may be open and the heart shut. I have another quote from Alexander McLaren as well, Rick. said that here's the sadness of rejected love and wasted light. They had Christ before their eyes, yet perverted their own thoughts and desires, and so remained hungry while the bread of life stood within their reach. Another of my favorite church leaders of past G. Campbell-Morgan, congregationalists.

They had seen him, but they had not seen him. They saw the outward form, but they did not see the essential glory. They saw the instrument, but not the energy. Yes. And Charles Spurgeon, he said this, To see Christ and yet not believe is the crowning sin of hearers of the gospel. Some of you have had Christ set before you in sermon after sermon, and yet remain unmoved.

He might say to you as to then, ye have seen me and believe not. You know Charles Spurgeon was looking at somebody in the congregation when he said those words that day. You know it, Doc. He fixed his eyes with somebody. That's right. If I could share a personal testimony here, Rick,

I have seen God open blind eyes. I have seen God make the lame walk again. I've seen it. I've seen it with my eyes. Both of those things. And I've seen other miracles in people's lives. God healing people of cancer, but that was in, I mean, you can't deny these, the lame walking again and blind eyes open.

I saw it. And yet there were other people that saw those same things with me that are already, probably an internal torment right now or are bound to be there. And so, Rick, it's not just the seeing. It's the believing. Who is the miracle worker? Christ. It's not the miracles that save. It's the miracle worker. The miracles that he does on earth are for evidence. Yes.

Evidence of what? Evidence of what he accomplished on the cross. Yes. It's evidence that will be used against the unbeliever on judgment day. You saw me work. You heard me. You know that I did these things and yet you did not believe. We have one more verse. Verse 37, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. And him that comeeth to me, I will in no wise cast out. We'll divide this into several parts.

The first part is all that the Father giveth me shall come to me. What does this mean? In verse 36, Jesus faced the tragedy of unbelief. He said, ye believe not. In this verse, he finds comfort in the sovereignty of his Heavenly Father. Even if these crowds, he's talking to, even if these specific people he was addressing at that moment, even if they rejected him, Christ will not be a king without citizens.

His father guarantees him a people. We find great comfort in these words. The Greek word for all is a neuter singular. Jesus views the church as a single harvest, a single unified harvest. He sees the whole company of the redeemed across history as one bride, one church presented to him. Yes. Believers in Christ are viewed here. not as choosers of him, but as a gift from the Father to the Son.

This is really important that you understand this. You did not choose Jesus. You were given to Jesus by your Heavenly Father. Okay? That may rattle some people's religious cages. But you and I are a gift to Jesus from His Heavenly Father. The church is the father's love gift to his son, to reward him for his suffering. We are saved not just for our sake, but for his sake.

We are the inheritance promised by the Father. Amen. Do you understand this? You and I, the entire church, the worldwide church, all the denominations, everybody, one church. We are the inheritance. that God Almighty promised his son. Yes. Given by the Father.

Given by the Father. Glory. It says, shall come to me. This is not a probability. This is a, it might happen. It's a divine promise. Grace is effectual. If they are given by the Father,

the Holy Spirit will ensure that they arrive. The Holy Spirit will deliver. you to Christ on judgment day. The Holy Spirit will see to it that you are raised from the dead on resurrection day. No sheep given to the shepherd will be

lost in the transfer when Christ comes back. You have this promise from the Father. You are his gift to his son and he's not going to lose you. The verb come in John, which as we saw

in verse 35. is equivalent to believing. Right. So the verse is teaching us that saving faith is both a real human act and the fruit of the father's prior work. What is our responsibility? Believe. That's our responsibility.

Believe. The verse removes the burden of manufacturing results. It is not our responsibility as Christians to make sure that somebody gets saved for Jesus' kingdom. Yes. That is not our responsibility. You can't save anybody. You can't make anybody get saved. All you can do is share the gospel.

It is the father's responsibility to deliver the gift to his son. And he will get. that work done. Our job is to preach the gospel. The father's work is to give the harvest to his son. The spirit's responsibility is to draw lost souls to Jesus. Yes. I hope everyone is seeing the work of the Godhead and all three persons of Godhead in this verse. It's all working in conjunction with one another. And so this verse answers the unbelief back in verse 36 by unveiling the secret of true faith. Listen, behind every genuine coming to Christ stands the Father's prior gracious giving. All the Father hath giveth me. All that the Father giveth me.

once again as Rick pointed out here is a collective language for the church for the people of the father in his sovereign love and is entrusting to the son the elector of the son's sure possession of his own people and notice that in the other part of this segment here says shall come to me looking to the future is a strong unconditional promise those that have been given by the Father will most certainly come. Their faith, though freely and consciously exercised, is infallibly secured by divine grace. And so this is where we see that delicate balance between election and free will. They're not in opposition to each other. The giving is the Father's Act. The coming is the sinners act. Yet the One is the root and the Giver

guarantee the other, grace doesn't cancel responsibility by any means, but makes coming certain. So this giving from the Father to the Son took place in the eternal counsel of God, yet is implied in our time, in time, by that effectual calling, that drawing grace that makes Christ spiritually attractive to the heart. So we can understand the giving in terms of God's foreknowledge and his gracious initiative, those who yield to his drawings are in that very response to ones whom the Father gives to the Son. There's no conflict here. We see the comfort that this gives to Christ himself. Listen, look in the face of visible rejection, Christ himself rest in the Father's gift and knows that his mission cannot fail regarding those given to him.

And so when we preach the gospel, the gospel can be preached with extreme confidence to everybody, to all the world. Why? Because he has a people through that message that will surely be brought to Christ by the Father. Amen. That gives us great confidence and comfort. Amen. It's not our responsibility to get people saved.

It's our responsibility to share the gospel. The Holy Spirit will get them saved. And the Father will deliver them to the Son on Resurrection Day. The next part of this verse says, And Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. Now, there's great comfort in these words. The second part of this verse moves from the corporate statement,

all that the father gives, it is now to the individual statement, Him that cometh. The first part says to all, all the people of the world whom the father gives to the son. And now he switches, he changes, transitions over,

to the individual person, to you, to me, as individual. And he says, to him that cometh, him that cometh to me, I will in no way cast out. It assures every single person who comes to Christ that he will never reject him. This should give great comfort to those of you who are being tormented by Satan. Right. That you've lost your salvation or you're on the verge of losing your salvation. or God is angry at you and he's going to kick you out of his kick.

It's contrary to what Jesus said. He said, I will in no way cast you out. When you are delivered to him, you're his. In no wise, by no means, in no way. However you want to say it, it's a strong double negative in the Greek language. It is piled up for emphasis. there is absolutely no circumstance anywhere in the universe where a true comer to Christ will ever be turned away this is a promise from Jesus Christ so his words allow us to delight in the tender universality in Jesus's words

whoever comes, whatever his or her past sins are, whatever his or her background is, whatever weaknesses they have, they have Jesus' royal words that he or she will be received, he or she will be pardoned, and he or she will be kept forever. You have the promise of a king.

believers should see their own coming to Christ as evidence of their Heavenly Father's love their faith is not an accident it is part of a gracious gift to the Son and so we see here Doc a delicate balance between the doctrine of election and the doctrine of free will Yes.

I don't have a conflict with it. I don't either. I don't believe that if you believe in election, you reject free will. And I don't believe if you believe in free will, you reject election. No, this verse does both. The promise shows the harmony of the election and free will. The same verse that speaks of the Father's giving flings the door wide open to any who will come. Yes.

And so what that leads us to, Rick, is that no sinner should fear that Christ has some secret decree that might bar him. If a person, if he or she comes in faith, this promise guarantees that there will be welcomed and they won't be rejected. Now, Jesus first explains why some do not believe. Okay? The father is not given them. but he immediately guards against despair by assuring that any who come will find an open-heart nerves. So the imagery of being cast out suggests both a refusal at the door and an expulsion from the house.

Christ is denying both. If the father has given, then he will neither refuse at first nor later throw away those who truly come to him. So if you take this passage here and link it up with Jesus's other statements in John 10 and in John chapter 17 about him keeping and losing, none of those given to him. Makes a lot more sense now, doesn't it? It underscores the security and perseverance of his true sheep. What does that mean for us?

Well, that means we can find comfort in Christ's words, knowing that all souls who fear they are too sinful or too late will not be dismissed or cast out. This is the word. The only condition mentioned is coming to Christ. Not prior worthiness,

not prior preparation. He will never cast out the one who comes and the one who comes is the one the father has given. Let's review the full statement in verse 37. All that the father gives

me shall come to me and him that comes to me, I will in no way by any means cast out. Jesus moves from the collective all to the personal hymn, the individual. The doctrine of election is for the Father's secret book, but the invitation to come is for the public proclamation that there is an open door to salvation. It requires the whole, Holy Spirit's grace to help you understand these concepts. Coming is the movement of the soul away from self and sin and toward Christ for salvation. How do you know if you were given by the Father? You come. Yes. You come to Christ. That's how you know. That's it. How do you know if you were given by God, the Father, to Christ the Son? Did you come to Christ? Did you come to Christ?

Get it. Have you made mistakes? Have you bachelored? Have you failed to... Yes. But by no way, by no means, where he cast you out. That's right.

Because you came to him. You were a gift. You were a gift of the father to his son. You are his inheritance on resurrection day. The phrase in no wise, you know, means by no means, by no way, okay? It's translating the strongest negative possible in the Greek language. Here's what it means.

It means Jesus saying, I will never, no, never, ever cast you out. You can't say it stronger than that. Jesus saying, I will never, never, never, never, cast you out. He will not cast you out for the worst of your past sins. He will not

cast you out for the weakness of your present faith. He will not cast you out for the frequency of your failures in life. Never. Never, never, never, never. Rest in Christ. Cast out means

it implies rejection, impulsion, expulsion. It's like what you do to a leper or a false teacher. Jesus promises that no refugee from sin who falls at his feet will ever be deported. Praise God. Doc, he doesn't round up immigrants. He welcomes immigrants into his kingdom. Yes.

The only immigrants who get deported are the ill. illegal immigrants who show up wearing false clothing as on the wedding in the wedding parable. His heart is a harbor. It's a harbor that welcomes all ships. The love of Christ is greater than any of us can comprehend. If he will not cast us out when we come, he will not cast us out when we're in. Do you understand?

is if he will not cast you out when you come to him. He doesn't say when you're a sinner and you come to, go away. I don't want any sinners here. He accepts you in. And when he accepts you in, he will not cast you out after you're already in. This is the bedrock of eternal security. Our acceptance depends on his promise, not our performance. It takes all of the burden off you and me.

Yes. We are the father's gift to the son. All right. Let's look at our quotations, Doc. All right. I'll start off our commentary here from these pastors of the past with Adam Clark. He said that the gift of the father does not exclude any who are willing. Whoever truly comes shall be received.

No one need perplex himself about decrees. His business is to come, and Christ has engaged that such a one shall in no case be rejected. Alexander McLaurin. The first half looks up to the eternal counsels of God. The second bends down to the trembling soul. Behind the man who comes stands the Father's gift, but before the man who would come stands the Savior's promise that no comer is cast out. I like that.

Charles Spurgeon said, I delight to ring this verse like a silver bell. Him that cometh to me, I will let no wise cast doubt. Though he come late, though he come laden with sin, though he come with many fears. Yet if he comes to Christ, Christ has pledged his royal word to receive him. Doc, I can just imagine Spurgeon's eyes lighting up,

which a light and joy, when he quotes these verses. Come. Come. Come, and you will not be cast out. Gee Campbell Morgan, the mystery of divine giving and human coming is here

most perfectly stated. But for the seeking soul, the vital word is not the mystery, but the promise. If you come to him, you will certainly not be rejected. Praise God. And William Arnod,

the two sides of salvation shine together a people secured to Christ by the Father's hand and an open gate for every weary one who would enter none who attempt that gate in earnest will find it shut in their face God what a lesson today Rick I just have a prompting in my Holy Spirit that there are two groups of people

that have watched this lesson all the way to the end. One group includes people who are saved, yet have lingering doubts about their salvation. They don't think they're good enough. They think they've made too many mistakes. They backslid. They made mistakes. They failed.

And they're just wondering what's going to happen to them on Resurrection Day. on Judgment Day, when Christ comes back, what's going to happen to them? I'll tell you what's going to happen to you. You're in the kingdom. If you came to Christ, there is no way he's going to cast you out. Relax. Rest. Rest in the shepherd's promise.

He is not going to lose one sheep. The second group, I think that there are people here, Doc, that the Holy Spirit has drawn to this Bible study, maybe on YouTube or Rumble or any of the other social media platforms. And you've surprised yourself. You have stayed for maybe 90 minutes for a Bible study, something you've never done before. And you know why you did it?

The Father's calling you. Yes. And the Lord is saying to you, come, come. The door is open. And all you have to do is walk in that door. Praise God. Just repent of your sins, believe on the name of Jesus Christ, and promise him you will be baptized in water in the name of the Father,

the Son of the Holy Spirit. You will be brought into His kingdom, and you will be part of the inheritance that the Father gives the Son on Judgment Day, on Resurrection Day. There's somebody here who, who's not a Christian yet, but you're becoming one right now. Because the Holy Spirit is drawing you, and he's saying to you come. It's your turn to come.

And I'm just feeling along those same lines, Rick, that there might be individuals here today that you've sought Jesus for the bread that he offers. But that there's more to it than that daily bread. There's a lot more to it. He offers eternal life. If you've come to the Lord looking for what you can get out of it, looking for bread that stales, bread that fails, I would encourage you, consider the bread from heaven that was given,

that manna from heaven here on this morning manna today. You may belong to a church or a denomination that focuses your attention on the church, perhaps implying that is the church that saves you. Your membership in the church stage you and the church that you belong to does not emphasize a personal relationship with the Messiah. If that's you,

then accept that open hand that's reaching out to you right now from the Messiah saying, come. It's more than about going to church. It's more than about belonging to a denomination, a global church organization. It's about you.

believing in me and having a relationship one-on-one, an intimate personal relationship. I'm not telling you to leave your church. I'm just telling you to go through that door. Church membership is not going to save you.

That's right. Participation in rituals will not save you. Are we to do the rituals? Yes. But they will save you. It's only faith in the Messiah. Jesus.

It's belief in the Messiah that will save your soul. All right, that's it for today. Thank you so much. I know there's a long lesson, but those of you who state, you're blessed. That's right. And I'll just tell you, Doc and I gave you the shorter version of this lesson.

That's right. I had to edit it down because we'd be here another hour. there was so much I desired to impart about these verses but I had to I had to edit out a lot of things because I knew it was going to be a long lesson you know one of the questions I get asked a lot Rick you know I encourage people to ask me questions keeping me on my toes but I people have genuine questions about the gospel and one of the biggest troubles that a lot of believers have is that what appears to be a conflict between election and grace. This passage today should clear that up completely.

There should be no misunderstanding about how this works. The Father gives, that the Father has given come. That's it. It doesn't require volumes of theological text to understand that. the father gives we come and we don't have to and we don't have to split up into

competing denominations right we don't have to have this tent over here and this tent over here and then shooting arrows at each other there's no conflict here we're given and we come I don't understand

it all I don't get it all but I believe his word his word makes it clear the Father has given and I come and Christ receives me and he will in no wise cast me out Doc I don't understand we we participated in the Lord's supper I don't understand how bread and wine or Jews become flesh and blood I just know that Jesus on the night of Passover said to his disciples, this is my body. This is my blood. He can go, this represents my body and this represents my blood. He said, this is, this is my body. This is my blood. I can't figure it out. I can't explain it. I just

go along with the Orthodox, Greek Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox Christians who say, you can't explain it. It's a mystery. Just believe it by faith. It's like the old African American farmer that was good friends my grandpa used to say, I don't know how it work, but it do. That's right. And that's what it is. You start with believing the Word of God. The Word of God solves a lot of doctrinal opposition. If you would just read the Word, it would solve so much conflict in the church today.

You have to be willing to be changed by the Word. Like Rick said, we had a number. another hour of content we could have gone end on this. And I don't certainly want to start another hour yet. And we're getting ready to right now. That's right. We're getting ready. But we love the word.

We love the word and there's so much in it. That's why we get excited about teaching and excited that we could go on and on because there's so much in the word. And there's so much that I need. Amen? Yes. Invite your friends to Manna Nation or over YouTube. It's Rick Wiles today.

Get them introduced to this Bible study. Just you do your part and invite others. See, that's all we're supposed to do. That's what God requires us to do. Tell people the gospel. Just share the gospel with people. Invite them in. And let the Holy Spirit work in our lives.

All right, we got to go. Love you.