Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will
speak, and hear, O earth, the words of
my mouth.
My doctrines shall drop as the rain, my
speech shall distill as the dew, as the
small rain upon the tender herb, and as
the showers upon the grass.
Because I will publish the name of the
Lord, ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
He is the rock, His work is perfect,
for all His ways are judgment, a God
of truth.
And without iniquity, just and right, is He.
Father, we thank you for your word, you're
a powerful God, we are to ascribe to
you greatness as our God.
And so we praise you and we thank
you, and Lord, you said, hear, O earth,
the words of my mouth.
May we hear the words of your mouth
this morning.
And as was mentioned, if there's someone here
that's not ready to die, that they would
prepare their heart right now to repent of
their sins and to receive Jesus into their
heart.
That they might be born again, that they
might live eternally in heaven with you and
other believers.
We praise you and commit this time to
you, ask that you teach our hearts about
the word of God, in Jesus' name, amen.
If you'll remember, a number of months back,
probably, I was going through the book of
John, and then I stopped.
That's my policy, is when I come up
to something that I don't understand and see
yet, I stop.
And so I've been in John 6, laid
aside books, and just went to the Lord
to teach me John 6.
I felt like we was going through and
learning things, and then when it came down
to about eating his flesh and eating his
blood, I wanted to know what the Spirit
of God really said about that.
And so in the last couple of weeks,
I really picked up my Bible and just
began to meditate as I had a little
bit more time, which is sort of a
rare thing nowadays, time.
There's so much to do.
But just to meditate on it, and every
time I did, it was usually in the
mornings, I was just blessed.
It just blessed my spirit, blessed my soul,
and I have not felt like I was
ready, and as we come up to today,
Lord, I'm still not ready, and the Lord
just said, go ahead and share what you
know.
And so I'm going to just share with
you about John 6, what the Spirit of
God has just taught me.
Nothing fancy, no razzle and no dazzle, and
I was going to have a Word picture,
but I forgot it.
It was a loaf of bread.
It's out there somewhere, because the Word of
God is compared to bread.
And if you remember how John started off,
the book of John was different in a
lot of ways.
No parables were really taught in John, a
lot of different things, but the Word is
really emphasized in John.
If you remember, even in John 1, in
the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him, and without
him was not anything made that was made.
In him was life, and the life was
the light of men.
In him was life.
He's the Word, and of course, verse 14,
and the Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us, and we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the
Father, full of grace and truth.
So Jesus was referred to as the Word.
Now thank you, somebody brought the loaf of
bread that was left back out there.
This is a loaf of bread.
This is going to belong to somebody.
Matter of fact, it's already somebody's, this loaf
of bread.
It's been given as a gift.
The bread is a gift to one family
here.
In thinking about Jesus as the Word, he's
also as the bread, we're going to get
over to John 6, he was the gift.
You are to take Jesus and receive him
just like the family that's going to take
this loaf of bread, and they're going to
receive it, and what are they going to
do with it?
They're going to eat it.
And if this bread comes out of the
oven hot, and you've got some butter and
honey, a loaf of bread can go just
like that.
If you've got a hot loaf of bread
and some butter and honey, around me it
can.
It's nothing to eat four or five slices,
it's just so good.
You just want it, keep eating it.
Now John, his name is called the Word
of God, it says in Revelation.
The name of Jesus, his name is called
the Word of God in Revelation 19, 13.
Now I'll go over to John 6, and
let's just see what the Spirit of God
will open up to us this morning.
John chapter 6.
If I was to give an illustration, and
this hasn't been planned out very well, I've
thought it through but I didn't make any
preparations ahead of time to do this, but
suppose I was to pick out somebody in
the congregation out here, just to pick somebody
out.
Paul, would you stand up please?
Would you turn around please?
Would you turn around again?
Would you raise your right hand?
High.
Higher.
Raise your right hand high.
I appreciate you saying high.
How?
Oh, we're going to be Indians and going
to speak.
Raise your left hand.
Okay.
Raise your right foot.
Raise your left foot.
Now we've got a problem.
Okay.
Put your right foot down.
Your left hand down.
Your right hand down.
Bow your head.
Sit down.
Please.
You've been trained very well.
He did everything that I asked him to
do except raise that left foot at the
same time he had his right foot because
it was impossible.
Now there's an illustration to us of a
child obeying and doing what he was told
to do.
Now what would have happened if I would
have said, Paul, raise your right hand, and
he would have raised his right foot?
Suppose I said raise your left hand, and
he would have just turned around.
Suppose every time I gave him a command,
he did something different.
And suppose I needed him to do those
things in that order for a certain reason.
It would have sort of maybe frustrated me,
embarrassed his parents.
But is not this what God expects us
to do?
Is to do what he tells us to
do especially or expressly as he tells us
to do it.
And as we do it, we work with
him in being his hands and being his
feet and being his mouth and his eyes
and his ears where he can direct us
around to minister.
He went to heaven and gave us the
Holy Spirit.
Now if he is to direct us, how
is he going to talk to us?
Through the Word of God.
And as we meditate on the Scriptures, we
memorize the Scriptures, we read the Word of
God, it's actually like taking this loaf of
bread.
We eat this loaf of bread.
It assimilates into our body and gives us
strength.
We do the same thing with the Word
of God.
We eat the Word of God.
We take it in.
Digest it.
And as we do, it is something the
Spirit of God can use to direct us.
Now if we take in the Word of
God and we get a commandment but we
do not do what it says to do,
then we are disobedient to the Lord.
We do not glorify him.
We do not bring him honor and then
we are not as useful.
The more we obey the Word of God,
the more useful we will be.
And children, boys and girls, the reason mom
and dad is giving you commandments and things
to do, not just to get the things
done as much as we'd like to get
them done because many times some of the
things that are asked of you, it's just
easier for us to do them ourselves.
But it's a discipline, not only just to
get the dishes done and get the garbage
out and get the carpet vacuumed and get
the beds made and get everything, but also
it's a discipline of how obedient you will
be to God.
Or as your obedience is to mom and
dad, it will be to God.
The area that you're slack in, that you're
slothful, that they have to keep coming back
again and again and again, will be the
area that Satan will get into your life
and destroy your very life.
So there's a lot more to this about
obeying.
I was talking to a couple men the
other night.
One thing was mentioned maybe about one preacher
and preachers, we got hobby horses and things
and one preacher had a hobby horse.
And if I've got a hobby horse, and
if it's not good, you can talk to
me about it.
But if I've got one, I love the
Word of God.
I like to preach on the Word of
God.
And it wouldn't bother me to just preach
every week just on the Word of God.
And there's a reason.
Just, I mean, about the Word itself, like
we're going to do this morning.
Just about the Word itself.
There's so much there.
But then we go to other subjects and
things, but it all comes back to Christ.
It's because this subject is hated by Satan.
The subject is hated because the object of
our subject is hated.
The Word of God is hated because the
Word of God is Christ.
And Christ is hated.
The Word became flesh.
Now, I'm going to show you some things
this morning in this chapter.
If I can back you back up to
John chapter 5, just to bring you back
up.
In 524, Jesus said, Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that heareth my word, and
believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting
life, and shall not come into condemnation, but
is passed from death unto life.
Now, there's a distinction between you hearing the
Word of God, and having life, and not
having life.
And the distinction is, if you have the
Word of God in your heart, you have
Christ in your heart, you will obey.
But if you just get it in your
mind, your life is going to be my
choice, I do what I want to do,
I'll do that if I like to do
it, if it sounds good, or I'll do
that to impress others, or whatever.
But if you are really a Christian, you
will want to do what the Scripture says,
and you will be grieved when your life
does not measure up to the standard.
This is the standard.
And we are all falling short of the
standard, but our goal is to get there
and to obey the Word of God.
As for that, then, we're not perfect, but
we're striving to be holy, as He said
He is holy, to be obedient.
In 612, Jesus said this, Gather up the
fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Since the bread, the loaves, were going to
represent the Word of God, Jesus says, Gather
up the fragments.
He had taken those loaves and He passed
them out.
Then they come up with this big, huge
pile of leftovers, and Jesus said, Gather all
of the fragments.
And they put them in baskets, gave food
to the disciples later on.
That nothing be lost.
Nothing is to be lost from the Word
of God, and God has given us His
complete Word.
And He doesn't want it to be lost.
Now, look at verse 26.
Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I
say unto you, You seek me not because
you saw the miracles, but because you did
eat of the loaves and were filled.
The loaves are mentioned there.
Look at verse 31.
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert,
as it is written, He gave them bread
from heaven to eat.
Bread is mentioned.
Look at verse 32.
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, I say
unto you, Moses gave you not that bread
from heaven, but my Father giveth you the
true bread from heaven.
Two different types of bread.
The true bread, which is Christ, and then
the bread that came down and they ate
it, the manna.
Look at verse 33.
For the bread of God is he which
cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto
the world.
Just as this loaf of bread gives life
to the body, Jesus gives spiritual life to
the person that receives Him.
Okay, 34.
Then said they unto Him, Lord evermore, give
us this bread.
This other bread you're talking about.
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.
Somebody says that they're hungry spiritually.
Spiritually hungry.
We should never be spiritually hungry if we're
a believer and we have Christ and the
Word of God.
We can feed on Him all the time,
which is usually what people say when they're
fixing to leave a church.
I'm not getting fed.
And that is true.
If Christ is not being presented to them
when they come, then they don't get fed.
And then your spirit knows that when you
go out of the church.
You should know whether you've been fed or
not.
And there's a difference between a T-bone
steak and bologna, too.
One, you'll die if you eat it and
eat it and eat it.
The other will give you nourishment.
Not to say that you'll die right away.
It'll be a slow death, probably.
I don't eat that.
Okay, 35.
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.
Then slip down to 41.
I'm giving you the bread passages.
The Jews then murmured at Him because He
said, I am the bread which came down
from heaven.
Then slip down to 48.
Most of the bread passages.
Jesus said, I am that bread of life.
I am that bread.
Then 50.
This is the bread which cometh down from
heaven that a man may eat thereof and
not die.
Okay, verse 51.
I am the living bread which came down
from heaven.
If any man eat of this bread, he
shall live forever.
And the bread that I will give is
my flesh, which I will give for the
life of the world.
Now, that's the bread passages.
Verse...
And then we get to the key part
of it.
There's another bread passage.
And that's also in verse 58.
The heart of the passage to me is
verses 53 through 58.
And let's read those verses.
Then we'll talk a little bit.
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I
say unto you.
Verse 53.
Except ye eat the flesh of the Son
of Man, and drink His blood, you have
no life in you.
Let me throw this out.
When He said, Except ye eat.
Except ye eat the flesh of the Son
of God.
What this is, this is a single act
of eating.
What they call in the Greek an aorist
tense.
It's a single act.
And the reason I'm bringing that out is
He uses the next tense in verse 54.
He uses what they call the perfect tense
or a continuous action.
In 54, Whoso eateth.
So the first eat.
Except ye eat.
Is a single act.
Meaning, unless you receive Christ as your Savior.
Except ye eat the flesh of the Son
of God, and drink His blood, you have
no life in you.
Except ye receive Christ as your Savior, you
have no life in you.
Then He goes in 54.
Whoso eateth My flesh.
That's continually eating.
My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal
life, and I will raise him up at
the last day.
Meaning, you receive Christ once, and then you
feed upon Him continually.
Now, this offended the Jews.
And the ritualists have taken this.
Some take it that when they take communion,
they are actually literally eating the body and
the flesh of Christ.
Cannibalism.
And it's not even what He's talking about
at all.
Communion was not even talked about until they
got to chapter 13.
So He's talking about living of Christ.
Just you would live off of bread.
Just you would live off of Christ.
He is your life.
Now, there is a key to this that
unlocks all of this.
To let you understand what He's talking about.
What does it mean to eat of Christ?
What does it mean?
Was He talking about eating His body?
Literally, no.
But He put out that to them to
see which way they would go.
And Peter's illustration of the one that understood
what He was talking about.
And those that got offended at Him and
they murmured and everything, they did not understand.
In other words, Jesus threw out something to
them.
It wasn't a curve.
Maybe it was a curveball.
But He threw something out.
How would they receive this?
Went right over their heads.
If they're in darkness, they have not been
drawn by the Father, they have not heard
what God is saying, they are not on
the spiritual level.
They're in another world.
And they go away scratching their heads.
What's this mean?
Eat Him.
Eat His flesh and drink His blood.
Ah, that's gross.
They missed the whole point.
Peter got it.
The disciples got it.
Now, let's go on into the passage.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and
my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my
blood dwelleth in me, and I in him.
As, and that little word as, I believe
is a key word.
As the living Father has sent me, and
I live by the Father, so he that
eateth me, even he shall live by me.
This is that bread which came down from
heaven.
Not as your fathers did eat manna and
are dead.
He that eateth of this bread shall live
forever.
Now, he's just giving you the key to
the passage.
Ah, these murmurers are the type that take
away the word of God, that change the
word of God, just like Jesus accused the
Jews of doing.
They took away the word of God.
They were adding to it, making traditions and
whatever to stand up more than the word
of God.
They had the murmuring spirit.
The murmuring spirit does not receive of the
spirit of God.
Now, in, ah, going through this, I had
some lessons.
I'll just go through these quickly.
I want to come back over to my
concluding remarks.
One lesson is pride will keep you from
taking the word of God, receiving the word
of God, obeying the word of God.
It was their pride.
Ah, the fear of man, being the leaders,
would not come to Christ, receive Christ, partake
of him, obey his words, do what he
was saying, hear what he said, because of
the fear of man.
No hunger.
They had no hunger for God, really.
They had no spiritual hunger.
They had their little world going, their little
program, whatever, and many come along.
I don't want that.
I don't have that.
No desire.
I don't want that.
Another reason that some would not take of
Christ and receive from the word of God
is because of self-will.
Well, that sounds really good, but boy, that
conflicts with my plans.
I wanted to go this way.
I don't want to go to a cross.
I wanted to go down to the beach.
And that's just about how practical Jesus is.
He comes right into your life and he
knocks on your door and he says, will
you receive me as your Savior or reject
me?
Oh, I'd love to receive you just like
the young rich ruler.
Can I do it tomorrow?
Jesus says, now.
Well, I'd love to do it, Lord, but
I've got this thing I've got to do
this afternoon.
It's now.
Many are in hell because of later.
I'll do it later.
And then not only is it like that
for receiving Christ, but also it's for obeying
him by the Spirit day by day, moment
by moment.
When Johnny's told to take out the garbage
or Susie or whatever, later, Mom, I'm busy
right now.
They're saying that their will is more important
than Mom's will and this will carry over
in their relationship with God.
This is why I said to you, what
we do now will affect us later in
life.
It's a lot easier to learn to obey
now while you're a young twig.
You know, we could take a little oak
tree out here and go out there and
bend it over now real easy.
But you come back in 50 years from
now, 100 years from now, you try to
bend that thing over.
You won't budge it.
And that's the way a lot of older
people are.
They're just like an oak.
They are already set.
Bend the twig now.
Obey now.
Now, another thing, they have not heard.
There is pride, fear of man, no hunger,
self-will.
Have not heard.
That was on the negative side.
But on the positive side of this is
believing is receiving.
Or actually, let me put it like this.
This is what the Scripture says.
Believing is having.
If you believe in Christ, then you have
Christ.
When you believe, you have.
There's a miracle happens there.
Many say, I believe and I have.
But their life says, I don't believe and
I don't have.
Believing is having.
Look at John 3.36. What does it
say?
He that believeth on the Son hath what?
Everlasting life.
And he that believeth not the Son shall
not see life, but the wrath of God
abideth on him.
Another one is 5.24. We read that
one.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that
heareth my word and believeth on him that
sent me hath what?
Everlasting life.
Now, I'm going somewhere.
I'm not there yet.
We're on our way and we're picking up
some things as we go.
6.54 then.
We come to 6.54. And he says,
Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood
hath what?
Eternal life.
Now, wait a minute.
Didn't the other Scriptures said, if you believed,
you have eternal life?
And this comes back and Jesus says, If
you eat and you drink, you have eternal
life.
You see how many miss it?
They don't get it to come over here
that this eating and this drinking is the
same as believing and receiving.
And they're off in another world thinking about
eating Christ literally.
Showing that they are in darkness.
Do you eat of Christ?
Do you?
How do you eat of Christ?
Now, let's keep going and see if we
can get into that a little bit.
Eating is having eternal life.
Okay.
Look at verse 56.
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my
blood dwelleth in me and I in him.
Not only is it having eternal life, but
it is having communion with the Lord because
that word dwelling, that's the word for abiding.
He that dwelleth abideth.
Eating is communion with the Lord.
Eating is communion with the Lord in your
spirit.
Not talking about eating his body at all.
63 through 68.
The Lord then tied this thing together like
this.
He said, It is the spirit that quickeneth,
the flesh profiteth nothing.
The words that I speak unto you, they
are spirit and they are life.
What do you eat?
You eat bread for your body.
You eat the words of God.
The words of God.
This is why the enemy wants to take
away the word of God out of men's
hearts because they are spirit and they are
life.
Jesus said, It is the spirit that quickeneth,
the flesh profiteth nothing.
Nothing.
The words that I speak unto you, they
are spirit and they are life.
And now, slip down to 68.
When Jesus, when the crowds are peeling off,
Jesus turned to Peter because in 66 it
said, From that time many of his disciples
went back and walked no more with him.
Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will you
also go away?
Peter was lit up like a light bulb.
He understood this.
He caught it.
Have you caught it?
He understood this.
And Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom
shall we go?
Thou hast the words of eternal life.
Peter had caught it that every word that
Jesus gave gave life.
Isn't there a proverb that says we speak
words of life when we speak words of
death?
Peter caught it that Jesus, everything he said,
it brought life.
He began to see the Pharisees, they were
speaking things and it brought death.
Now out of your life, we will speak
life, we will live life before others or
we will speak death or we will have
a testimony of death.
But Peter saw that Jesus, His words brought
life.
Somebody came to him and said, Would you
heal?
And Jesus said, I'm going to go.
And he said, No, just speak the word.
That man had ears to hear.
He was up on the higher level.
Just speak the word.
And Jesus, Ah, that's wonderful.
He liked that because this man had risen
up to the level of the Spirit.
The word of God.
Jesus said, The flesh profits nothing.
The words that I speak unto you, they
are spirit and they are life.
Just read the word.
Meditate on the word.
And it gives you life.
Dwelling, abiding, eating.
One more thing.
I call this the wonderful words of life.
We've got that song.
The wonderful words of life.
Do you have a situation that is death
to your soul, to your spirit?
Something that you know is not right.
Or maybe, ah, maybe it's a habit, maybe
it's a work situation or whatever.
Go to God's word and ask Him to
put life into that area that's dead.
I don't know if you follow what I'm
saying.
But if Jesus came in to the disciples,
remember when they were there in the room
under the cloud of gloom?
The Lord had been crucified.
As far as you know, He was dead.
And somebody come busting in there and said,
He's alive!
That was words of life.
They perked up a little bit.
Alive?
What do you mean?
He's alive.
Then Jesus came Himself and spoke peace unto
them.
What happened to their lives?
Their lives were changed.
They were never the same again.
The word of God will bring life into
dead areas, into dead hearts.
That's why when we're witnessing to somebody, give
them the word.
Always try to at least give them a
word or a rhema from God, a word
from God.
Because the Spirit of God will take that.
Because the Spirit works with the word.
Let me conclude by asking you a question.
Do you love God?
Do I love God?
Do you love God?
Jesus said, John 14, verse 14, 15, If
ye love me, keep my commandments.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Verse 21, He that hath my commandments and
keepeth them, he it is that loveth me,
and he that loveth me shall be loved
of my Father, and I will love him
and manifest myself to him.
Loving God is not some gushy, mushy feeling.
It is obeying Him.
Loving God is obeying His word.
The reason many of our churches are becoming
uncomfortable for a lot of people, is because
the churches are not loving God too much.
They're loving the world.
The ways of the world.
And that's why they're not obeying the word
of God.
Because they don't love God that much.
15, verse 14, Ye are my friends, if
ye do whatsoever I command you.
John 17, 7, 8, and 14, Now they
have known Him, known that all things whatsoever
thou hast given me are of thee, for
I have given unto them, What?
Did Jesus give the disciples?
I have given unto them the words which
thou gavest me.
Think about it.
Those disciples received the words of God through
Jesus Christ.
He was the avenue.
Pharisees said, We love God!
Jesus said, No you don't.
If you love God, you love me.
Also, he said in one more verse, also
in verse 14, I have given them thy
word and what happens to disciples that get
the word of God?
And the world hath hated them because they
are not of the world even as I
am not of the world.
That's why the Lord says, Think it not
strange considering the fiery trial that's contrary, because
when you begin to eat of the bread
of life, it's going to put life into
you and Satan does not like life.
He does not like Christ.
It's actually the life of Christ in you.
I want to read these statements.
A person eats Christ's flesh, drinks his blood,
he is a partaker of Christ by receiving
the word the Holy Spirit teaches you.
A person eats Christ's flesh, drinks his blood,
then you become a partaker of Christ by
receiving the word as the Holy Spirit teaches
you.
You're taught by the Spirit of God.
Have you ever noticed this?
Whatever the Bible says about itself, this is
a good study for you.
Whatever the Bible says about itself, it says
about Christ also.
Did you know that?
I'll just give you a couple of illustrations.
This would be fun to go off and
do about a couple of dozen of them.
But listen, in John 14, 6, Jesus said
that He's the truth.
I am the truth.
In John 17, 17, what is the truth?
Sanctify them through thy truth.
Thy word is truth.
Jesus is truth.
The word is truth.
Whatever the Bible says about itself, it also
says about Christ.
You want another one?
One more.
You can see these are the easy ones.
What about light?
Christ is light.
That's in John 8, 12.
Go back to John 8, 12.
Let me just read it to you.
You know it.
He says, I am the light of the
world.
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I
am the light of the world.
He that follows me shall not walk in
darkness.
Does the Scripture say anything else about light?
Job.
I'll tell you about Job in a minute.
But Psalms 119, 105, Thy word is a
lamp unto my feet, and a what?
And a light unto my path.
Jesus, and the word was made flesh and
dwelt among us.
So the word is lamp.
Peter saw it.
Do you see it?
Does the word offend you?
Does the word comfort you?
Does the word confront you?
Does the word correct you?
Does the word feed you?
You say, yes.
It feeds me.
It comforts me.
It corrects me.
But it does not offend me.
Great peace have they which love thy law,
and nothing shall offend them.
What did Job say when he was in
his trial?
And I'll close down on this.
It's getting late.
In Job, in chapter 23, 12, he said,
I have esteemed the words of his mouth
more than my necessary food.
Jesus said, Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceeds out
of the mouth of God.
Every word.
I have in my hand the Bible that
has the word of God.
I'm to live by it.
If I pick and choose, just like you
kids, I don't want my spinach.
I don't want to eat this and this
and this.
You know, we pick and choose with other
things, and then we think we can pick
and choose with God's word.
It really will conflict with our wills.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but
by every word that proceeded out of the
mouth of God.
Let's pray.
Lord, this is a simple truth that our
spirits would receive.
And I just pray that you challenge us
to realize that your word, we cannot separate
your word from you.
And this is the way it is in
our lives also.
We cannot separate our word from us.
Help us to be more careful about what
we say, even from this.
And also to recognize that we will speak
words of life or words of death.
Peter realized, Lord, that you were speaking words
of life.
Thou hast the words of life.
And he caught it.
And thus, the principles taught us that we
will live as we partake of the living
word, the living bread.
Lord, thank you for this lesson.
Thank you for your word.
We just want to thank you this morning
for your word.
What a wonderful thing that we have the
word of God in print.
No wonder Satan hates this Bible so much.
This word.
No wonder there's such an attack on believers
that hold to the word of God.
Thank you for your word, Lord.
Just thank you for yourself for coming down
to feed us.
Oh, we just deserve nothing from you, deserve
to go to hell for all eternity, be
separated from you.
But you love us so much.
You didn't leave us.
You came down and you spoke to us.
And then you gave us the written word.
We have used the living word and your
written word.
We just want to thank you for giving
us these wonderful words of life.
In Jesus' name, amen.