The Bread of Life Last week completed chapter 6 We looked at, what is typically called, The Bread of Life Discourse And in was in that Discourse That many disciples quit following Jesus So, let’s pick back up in Chapter 7 Where Jesus has left those people The scene changes He’s no longer talking to the…

Introduction Over the last two weeks we have been walking through the story of Gideon and we have been calling this series The Making of the Mighty. In Part 1, we found Gideon hiding in a winepress — afraid, weak, and surrounded by the enemy. And that's exactly where God showed up and called him a Mighty…

Introduction I felt led of the Lord to continue last weeks sermon We found Gideon hiding in a winepress, afraid, while Israel had been oppressed by the Midianites for seven years — and that's where God showed up and called Gideon a Mighty Man of Valor. Remember, God calls you what you will become, not…

The Feeding of the Five Thousand Last week we covered the end of John 5 , Where Jesus made it clear that he and the Father are not two separate persons of equal status But that he IS the Father — manifested in the flesh The Jews understood this and wanted to kill him And Jesus provided four witnesses…

Text Judges 6:11-16 Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you,…

We stopped last week on John 5:18 18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. This is huge. When Jesus claimed to be able to work on the Sabbath And that God was…

Text 20 Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. 21 So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23 And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come…

Ok, last week we finished the narrative about the Samaritan woman at the well. And after she went and brought a crowd to Jesus They asked Jesus to stay with them 2 days. Recall, that most Jews would not go through this land period Let alone, go through and stay 2 days. But Jesus said, I have to go through…

Text 1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is…