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00:18 ♪[reflective music]♪ 00:19 >>John Bradshaw: People have been eating bread 00:21 for thousands of years. 00:23 Flour, water, and after that, well, the sky's the limit. 00:28 Bread shows up in the Bible again and again. 00:31 In fact, it's mentioned hundreds of times in Scripture. 00:35 Jesus is represented by bread. 00:38 Jesus Himself made that comparison. 00:41 And bread teaches us some excellent spiritual lessons. 00:46 Bread can look like this-- 00:48 or this. 00:50 Or it can look like this, this, this, this, or this. 00:56 The croutons in your soup started as bread, 01:00 and even breadcrumbs are used in all kinds of things. 01:04 Broil or grill bread and you have toast. 01:08 And on your toast, you might put honey or peanut butter 01:12 or avocado, 01:14 or if you're very wise, avocado and Marmite. 01:18 There's almost nothing better. 01:22 Bread is used to make sandwiches, 01:24 one of the most versatile food items there is, and sandwiches 01:29 can contain almost anything known to humanity. 01:33 When I was growing up, 01:33 we'd eat potato chip and Marmite sandwiches. 01:37 Ooh, don't knock it till you've tried it. 01:40 And then there's French toast and paninis 01:43 and club sandwiches and garlic bread. 01:46 Croissants and donuts are basically bread, 01:49 but with more fat and sugar. 01:51 There's focaccia bread and pretzels and tortillas. 01:56 And in Indian food, chapattis or roti 02:00 or naan or kulcha 02:02 or paratha. 02:03 Ooh, now we're talking. 02:06 Bread has found its way into the collective vocabulary 02:09 in numerous ways. 02:10 A person might be said to "earn a crust." 02:13 The principle wage-earner in a home might be the "breadwinner." 02:18 Money has been referred to as "dough" or "bread." 02:22 The main thing you do to earn a living might be 02:24 your "bread and butter." 02:26 July 7, 1928, the world of bread was irrevocably altered 02:31 when the first loaf of sliced bread was sold 02:34 in Chillicothe, Missouri. 02:37 And then in 1951, when comedian Red Skelton referred 02:41 to television as "the [best] thing since sliced bread," 02:45 a new phrase entered the lexicon. 02:48 When Abraham entertained angels, he served them bread. 02:52 Jacob gave Esau bread and lentils. 02:55 God says in Isaiah, chapter 33 02:57 that your bread and "water will be sure." 03:01 In John 21, after the Resurrection, 03:04 the disciples come back from fishing; 03:06 Jesus has provided them a meal, including bread. 03:10 You've got to wonder what that tasted like. 03:12 And one of Jesus' greatest miracles 03:15 included loaves of bread. 03:18 Bread is a metaphor for the divine Son of God. 03:21 There's a passage in the Bible 03:22 where Jesus really dwells on this. 03:24 It's found in John, chapter 6. 03:27 Verse 48 contains just six words. 03:30 Jesus says, "I am the bread of life." 03:34 Which isn't surprising. 03:36 In the Middle East bread is a big deal. It's a staple. 03:41 So Jesus saying that He is the Bread of Life, 03:45 that's Jesus saying that He ought to be 03:47 the staple of your life, a vital part of your life, 03:51 necessary for your survival, even. 03:55 Now, we're going to look at that. 03:56 We're going to look at how Jesus can be the Bread of Life 03:59 in your life. 04:00 But before we do, we're going to visit a friend of mine, 04:04 a man who makes bread-- exquisitely good bread. 04:09 ♪[soft instrumental music]♪ 04:17 One of my earliest childhood memories is of fresh bread, 04:20 still warm from the bakery. 04:23 So, I was excited to head to a bakery 04:25 south of Phoenix, Arizona, where Jim Torres and his team 04:29 make thousands of loaves of bread a day, 04:32 which is distributed all across the United States and abroad. 04:37 The bread they bake is unique. 04:39 The recipe is one of the oldest bread recipes 04:42 known to humankind. 04:44 And even though it's more than 2,500 years old, 04:46 you probably have the recipe in your own home. 04:51 So, tell me the recipe. 04:53 >>Jim Torres: The recipe consists of wheat, barley, 04:57 millet, lentils, spelt, and soybeans. 05:01 Those are the major ingredients, 05:03 and of course, there's water, you know. 05:05 We also add some malt. 05:07 We have to use yeast, of course, and, uh, a small amount of salt. 05:11 And we use some, some vital wheat gluten as well. 05:14 But, uh, that is the substance of it right there. 05:16 >>John: So where did you get this recipe from? 05:18 >>Jim: From the Bible. >>John: From the Bible? 05:20 >>Jim: I would have never thought to put spelt, lentils, 05:26 and beans in bread. 05:28 >>John: How did you come to be making this bread 05:31 whose recipe is in the Bible? 05:33 >>Jim: I heard that somebody was making this bread, 05:36 so we started toying with it, 05:39 and the flavor, I could not believe the flavor. 05:42 Oh my word! We were excited. 05:45 Then we did a nutritional--we were excited about that as well 05:49 because the protein content, it was a complete protein, 05:54 and that was really exciting. 05:57 >>John: And this is from a, a recipe, basically, 06:00 given to you by God? >>Jim: Absolutely. 06:02 >>John: In fact, given to the world. 06:03 >>Jim: I would have never thought of it. 06:04 >>John: Yeah. >>Jim: And the person 06:06 that thought of it got it from the Bible, for sure. 06:10 >>John: And where are we looking? 06:11 Tell me where we're going to find that recipe? 06:12 >>Jim: Ezekiel, chapter 4, verse 9, and that says, 06:17 "Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, 06:24 "and spelt; put them into one vessel, 06:27 "and make bread of them for yourself. 06:30 "During the number of days that you lie on your side, 06:32 three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it." 06:37 >>John: Okay, so tell me what some of these things are? 06:38 What's spelt? No one knows what that is. 06:40 >>Jim: Spelt is something that looks like wheat, 06:43 but it's not wheat. 06:44 >>John: Okay. Now, the other things-- 06:46 barley, we know what that is. Millet, we've got that. 06:48 Lentils, soybeans, red wheat--flax seeds? 06:52 >>Jim: Well, we put flaxseed in some of the Ezekiel bread. 06:55 >>John: And, and what are, what is flaxseed? 06:57 >>Jim: Flaxseed is a, um, a little seed that grows. 07:01 It's very nutritious, has a lot of fiber. 07:05 >>John: Okay, so one, two, three, four, five-- 07:07 >>Jim: Six. >>John: ...six ingredients 07:08 in the bread and an additional ingredient, 07:10 the flaxseed in the flaxseed bread. 07:11 >>Jim: Only in the Ezekiel flax bread. 07:13 >>John: Okay, that's not many ingredients. 07:16 I want to read something to you. 07:17 I looked at the list of ingredients 07:20 for a popular loaf of bread, 07:22 which I don't need to mention what it is. 07:24 And here's the ingredients: whole wheat flour, water, 07:29 wheat gluten, high fructose corn syrup, 07:33 then two percent or less of soybean oil, 07:37 salt, molasses, yeast, mono- and diglycerides, 07:42 ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides, 07:46 dough conditioners, sodium stearoyl lactylate, 07:51 calcium iodate, calcium dioxide, 07:55 then DATEM--or maybe that's "dah-tem," I don't know-- 07:58 calcium sulfate, vinegar, yeast nutrient, 08:01 which is ammonium sulfate, 08:03 extracts of malted barley and corn, 08:06 dicalcium phosphate, diammonium phosphate-- 08:10 I'm not finished yet-- 08:11 calcium propionate, which is evidently to retain freshness-- 08:16 and now I think I am finished. 08:17 Do you know what those things are? 08:19 I guess you know what water is. 08:20 >>Jim: Some of them, some of them. 08:21 >>John: What about diammonium phosphate? 08:23 Do you know what that is? >>Jim: I have no idea. 08:24 >>John: It's used as fertilizer and in fire retardant 08:28 and as a nicotine enhancer. 08:30 Now, we can't hold that against it. 08:33 You use water, and water is used in beer; 08:35 that doesn't make water bad. 08:36 But that's some interesting uses 08:38 for something that you're going to eat. 08:40 DATEM, "dah-tem"--someone's going to think I'm a Philistine 08:42 for not knowing how to say that. Do you know what that is? 08:44 >>Jim: I have no idea. 08:45 >>John: But you're a baker; you ought to know. 08:47 >>Jim: I've never seen it. 08:48 >>John: Uh, it says here it makes dough springy or chewy. 08:53 So, what we've discovered is that there are 08:55 about 7,000 ingredients in many loaves of bread, 09:00 except for the bread you make, the bread recipe from the Bible. 09:03 There's just a handful of ingredients. 09:05 Now, some bread makers will use enriched flour. 09:10 What's enriched flour? 09:11 >>Jim: You take a whole kernel of wheat. 09:13 >>John: Sounds good. 09:14 >>Jim: Remove the, uh, bran 09:16 and the germ. >>John: Oh. 09:18 >>Jim: You're left with white flour, basically. 09:20 >>John: Right. >>Jim: However, 09:22 it doesn't have some of the vitamins that it needs 09:26 to help people grow. So they have to enrich it back. 09:30 >>John: So that sounds like you have 100 dollars. 09:33 I take it off you, and I give you a few quarters 09:36 and maybe a couple of dollar bills, and I've enriched you. 09:39 Is that the same sort of idea? 09:41 >>Jim: [laughs] I've never heard it put that way, 09:44 but possibly. 09:45 >>John: That's what it sounds like to me. 09:46 >>Jim: Yes. 09:47 >>John: There's Someone who will enrich 09:49 your life without taking anything away. 09:52 Jesus came to this world to give you life more abundantly. 09:56 He came as a Lamb, as the Good Shepherd, 09:59 and He came to this world as bread. 10:03 Bread as a metaphor for Jesus is interesting. 10:07 Bread has been called "the staff of life," 10:10 the point being, without bread--that is, without food-- 10:13 you can't live. 10:15 You don't eat and you'll get hungry, 10:17 and then you'll get weak, and then you'll get sick, 10:20 and then you become diseased. 10:23 And then... 10:24 you die. 10:25 Jesus is saying He's the most important thing. 10:28 He is essential for life. 10:32 But how is it with most people? 10:34 According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in 2017, 10:39 69 percent of Americans say family gives them 10:43 a sense of meaning; 10:44 34 percent say career; 10:47 23 percent say money. 10:49 Remember, these are things that give people a sense of meaning. 10:53 Twenty percent say spirituality and faith. 10:57 In the 2021 survey, that number fell to 15 percent. 11:02 Around the world? 11:04 New Zealanders, five percent say faith or religion gives them 11:07 a sense of meaning. 11:09 That's second highest out of 17 countries surveyed. 11:13 Only one percent in France, Sweden, Belgium, and South Korea 11:18 reference religion when defining meaning in life. 11:21 In each country survey, hobbies are mentioned 11:25 as giving life meaning more frequently than faith in God. 11:30 In fact, the median percentage of people who mention faith 11:33 or religion as making life meaningful? 11:36 Two percent. 11:38 If you're not experiencing peace in your life, 11:40 if you're struggling to find a sense of purpose, 11:43 if you're battling to figure out your place in the world, 11:47 it might just be because Jesus is not 11:50 the bread of life for you. 11:52 Maybe He's the artichoke or the arugula of life-- 11:56 perfectly good things, but not something you have 11:59 incredibly often, not something you have regularly, 12:03 maybe occasionally or, or only at a certain season. 12:07 But Jesus said in His own words 12:10 that He is to be the bread of life for you. 12:14 Let's look at that. 12:15 In John, chapter 6, Jesus feeds a crowd of thousands of people. 12:21 He starts with five loaves and two fish, blesses them, 12:24 they multiply, and the people eat well. 12:27 In fact, there are baskets full of food left over. 12:32 The people were so impressed 12:34 they attempted to take Jesus and make Him king by force. 12:39 But Jesus didn't come to the world to be an earthly king. 12:42 He came to this world to change the human heart 12:45 and to bring that human heart into connection, into oneness 12:50 with the heart of God. 12:52 So Jesus left. 12:53 That night He walked on water. 12:55 Then the next day a large crowd came to Jesus on the other side 13:00 of the lake, on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. 13:03 But Jesus knew that they had materialistic motives, 13:06 and so He said, "Do not labor for the food which perishes, 13:10 but for the food which endures to everlasting life." 13:14 Even though Jesus had only just miraculously fed 13:18 thousands of people in a desert, 13:21 they asked Jesus to perform a sign. 13:24 They referenced the miracle of the manna in the desert, 13:28 the, the bread according to the book of Psalms. 13:31 So Jesus tells them about the true bread: 13:35 "The bread of God is He who comes down from heaven 13:39 and gives life to the world." 13:41 He was speaking of Himself, 13:42 except the people, obviously, didn't understand that. 13:45 And so "they said to Him, 'Lord, give us this bread always.' 13:50 "And Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life. 13:54 "'He who comes to me shall never hunger, 13:57 and he who believes in me shall never thirst.'" 14:01 Now, that's a huge claim. 14:04 And it's a huge solution for whatever challenges 14:07 you might be facing right now. 14:09 Jesus says, "I am the solution for all your problems." 14:14 Grief? He's the "God of all comfort." 14:16 Uncertainty? 14:17 He says He will "direct your paths." 14:20 Marriage failing? 14:21 Jesus is the "Prince of Peace." 14:24 Desperate? 14:25 And Jesus says, "Come to me, all [ye that] labor 14:28 and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 14:32 There isn't a situation you face, 14:34 there isn't a single problem pressing down on you 14:38 that Jesus isn't the solution for. 14:41 He walked this earth, 14:42 He understands what you're going through, 14:45 and He looks from heaven to you with love. 14:49 But far too often, people come to Jesus 14:52 just for the loaves and the fishes. 14:55 They come to Jesus for the blessing and the prosperity. 14:58 And that's simply not a great motivation. 15:02 We come to Jesus primarily because Jesus is life. 15:09 John 17, verse 3: 15:11 "This is [life eternal], that they might know You, 15:14 the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent." 15:18 John 1, verse 4: "In Him was life." 15:23 Jesus died for your sins. 15:25 He is the Creator and the Re-Creator. 15:29 And He's the only viable alternative 15:32 to the problems caused by sin. 15:35 Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. 15:39 And He's the Bread of Life. 15:42 Now, notice, "The Jews then complained about Him, because 15:46 "He said, 'I am the bread which came down from heaven.' 15:49 "And they said, 'Is [this not] Jesus, the son of Joseph, 15:53 "'whose father and mother we know? 15:56 How is it then that He says, "I have come down from heaven"?'" 16:00 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. 16:04 "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 16:07 "This is the bread which comes down from heaven, 16:10 "that one may eat of it and not die. 16:13 "I am the living bread which came down from heaven. 16:17 "If anyone eats...this bread, he will live forever; 16:21 "and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, 16:24 which I shall give for the life of the world." 16:27 Now, look at what Jesus says. 16:29 Jesus says, "If you have me, you have life." 16:32 The insurmountable problem facing our world today is death. 16:37 You're born--you're going to die. 16:40 And sometimes life is cut pitifully short. 16:44 But Jesus says if you invite Him into your life, 16:47 if you internalize Him, make Him the foundation of your life, 16:52 you won't die, but you'll live forever. 16:54 Now, clearly, Jesus is not talking about 16:57 death from a heart attack. 16:59 Jesus is saying, if you accept Him, 17:01 if He's the Bread of Life in your life, 17:04 you won't experience eternal death. 17:06 You won't experience the second death 17:09 spoken of in the book of Revelation. 17:12 Instead, if Jesus is the Bread of Life for you, 17:16 you'll live forever. 17:19 Jesus even said that He came into the world to give you life 17:23 and to give it to you "more abundantly." 17:26 If bread represents Jesus, I'd like you to think for a second 17:30 about the different kinds of bread that there are. 17:34 Some people have a white-bread Jesus. 17:36 You've seen this white bread. 17:38 You put it on your plate--you'd better get some peanut butter 17:41 or something on it real quick 17:43 before it levitates right up off your plate. 17:46 It's that light. 17:47 They've taken out all the good stuff and given you white bread. 17:52 It's really not very good for you. 17:55 Now, uh, one slice occasionally isn't going to do you 17:59 a whole lot of harm. 18:01 But that's how people like their Jesus somehow. 18:04 White bread--they take out all the good stuff and leave 18:07 the, the light stuff that doesn't challenge you at all, 18:11 doesn't give you any roughage. 18:14 There's some bread that's too syrupy, too sweet, 18:17 and some people's Jesus is like that, 18:20 all syrupy and sweet. 18:22 They're happy to hear about the love of God. 18:25 They're happy to hear about the blessings. 18:27 They're happy to hear about heaven and all of its glory. 18:30 But they want to avoid the roughage. 18:32 What you want is a whole-wheat Jesus, 18:35 that is, a Jesus who offers you a faith 18:39 based on all of His Word. 18:42 What do we say on It Is Written again and again? 18:43 In fact, every week for decades and decades: 18:46 We ought to live "by every word 18:49 that proceeds from the mouth of God." 18:52 So you want to get some fiber in your Jesus, 18:55 some roughage in your faith, 18:58 the whole-wheat Word of God. 19:00 The Bible ought to expand you. 19:02 Jesus came to challenge you a little bit, 19:05 but in a way that lifts you up. 19:06 You don't want to gloss over the parts of the Bible 19:09 that rub your fur the wrong way. 19:10 Instead, you want to come to Christ and receive Jesus 19:14 as truly the Bread of Life. 19:16 You want everything He offers you. 19:19 You don't want to cut corners. 19:20 You don't want to be shortchanged, 19:22 and you don't want to shortchange God. 19:25 You want to make sure that your faith in Jesus 19:28 is a faith in Jesus who offers you everything the Bible has. 19:32 Remember, He's the Bread of Life. 19:36 And He's the good Bread of Life. 19:40 Faith in Jesus is going to result in a radical change 19:44 in your being through the power of the whole-wheat Word of God. 19:49 This is 1 Peter 1, verse 23: 19:52 "Having been born again, 19:53 "not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, 19:57 through the word of God which lives and abides forever." 20:02 Faith in Jesus will impact your life in such a powerful way 20:07 that you'll be born again. 20:11 So what do you do with Jesus? 20:12 You depend on Him. You lean on Him. 20:14 You make Him central to your life. 20:16 You make Him the Bread of Life. 20:19 Here's Jesus again, John 6, verse 57: 20:22 "As the living Father sent me, 20:23 "and I live because of the Father, 20:25 "so he who feeds on me will live because of me. 20:29 "This is the bread which came down from heaven-- 20:32 "not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. 20:36 He who eats this bread will live forever." 20:39 Notice the response: 20:40 "Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, 20:44 said, 'This is a hard saying; who can understand it?'" 20:48 Jesus said, "It is the Spirit who gives life; 20:52 "the flesh profits nothing. 20:54 The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." 20:59 And that was more than many of Jesus' disciples could take. 21:02 John 6, verse 66: 21:04 "From that time many of His disciples went back 21:08 and walked with Him no more." 21:11 As long as it could be Jesus-plus, 21:14 as long as they could hang around with Jesus 21:17 but not surrender their lives to Him, 21:19 as long as they could be seen with Jesus 21:22 but not make Jesus central to their existence, 21:26 oh, they were happy to be with Jesus. 21:28 But Jesus said, "I am to be the bread of life. 21:33 "I am to be the foundation for your life. 21:36 That means I want you to live according to my word." 21:41 And that was too much for many of them, 21:43 for most of them, and they abandoned Jesus. 21:46 They'd seen Him work miracles, 21:48 not just the miracle of the loaves and fishes. 21:51 They knew that Jesus hadn't traveled by boat, 21:54 yet here He is on the other side of the lake--another miracle. 21:59 And somehow, they were happy to put that out of their mind. 22:01 You know their problem, right? 22:03 Earlier in the chapter they refer to Jesus 22:05 as "Rabbi," teacher. 22:08 Oh, they were happy for Him to be a teacher. 22:10 And they were happy for Him to be their Messiah, 22:13 as long as they didn't have to live by His word. 22:18 As long as it didn't involve them 22:22 surrendering their heart to Jesus. 22:26 "Then Jesus said to the twelve, 'Do you also want to go away?' 22:30 "But Simon Peter answered Him, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? 22:34 "'You have the words of eternal life. 22:36 "'Also we have come to believe and know 22:39 that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.'" 22:43 So what is Jesus to you? 22:46 To the 12--well, to 11 of them, at least-- 22:51 He was the Bread of Life. And that carried them through-- 22:55 through the challenges of the final days of Jesus' life 22:59 to the challenges of the establishment 23:00 of the early church and, for many of them, 23:03 through to the challenges of the end of their own life. 23:05 Many of them, their lives ended in martyrdom. 23:08 Now, Jesus isn't asking that for you or from you right now. 23:12 He's not asking you to die for Him. 23:13 He's asking you to live for Him. 23:15 And if we understand that correctly, 23:17 what that means is that Jesus is asking you 23:19 for permission to live His life in you. 23:22 That's all it is: 23:23 for Jesus to be the Bread of Life, 23:26 the central part of your life, the foundation of your life. 23:29 And you're going to say to Him, 23:31 "I want to accept Your Word, all of it. 23:34 "I want to accept Your promises to me, all of them. 23:37 "I want to receive Your righteousness, all of it. 23:40 "And I want to lean my entire life, all of my life, 23:44 on Your life." 23:45 Would you accept what Jesus has done for you at the cross? 23:49 Would you accept His death and accept His life? 23:52 We, all of us, sinful people with no righteousness, 23:57 but if you'll accept Jesus right now, 23:59 if you'll welcome the Bread of Life into your life, 24:02 you'll receive His righteousness. 24:05 God will accept you as His child, and you'll look forward, 24:10 with confidence, to everlasting life through faith in Jesus, 24:15 who is the Bread of Life. 24:20 >>male announcer: The Bible, the Word of God--or is it? 24:24 In the Bible a man spent three days in the belly of a fish. 24:28 God created the world out of nothing at all. 24:31 People died and rose again, walked on water, 24:36 interpreted dreams, and predicted the future. 24:39 Or did they? 24:41 Get your free copy of 24:42 "The Bible: Fact or Fiction?" right now. 24:45 Call 800-253-3000. 24:48 That's 800-253-3000. 24:51 Or text "freefact" to 71392. 24:55 Text "freefact" to 71392. 24:59 You can write to the address on your screen 25:01 or visit iiwoffer.com. 25:05 Where did the Bible come from, 25:06 and why should anyone believe what it says? 25:10 Find out if the Bible is fact or fiction. 25:12 Call 800-253-3000 25:15 or text "freefact" to 71392. 25:20 >>John: Captive in a foreign land, 25:22 faithful to the God of heaven, 25:25 four young men find themselves facing death 25:28 through no fault of their own. 25:30 What they did in the face of crisis 25:32 not only demonstrated bravery but revealed the faithfulness 25:36 of the God who is with you in times of need. 25:40 Join me as we look at Daniel, chapter 2 25:43 in our continuing series on the book of Daniel. 25:46 "Unfolding the Future" reveals the master key 25:49 to Bible prophecy, the great prophecy on which Daniel 25:53 and the book of Revelation stand. 25:57 Understanding this powerful chapter opens up a treasury 26:00 of prophetic wisdom and insight as God reveals, in great detail, 26:05 major developments on Planet Earth 26:07 over the next 2,500 years and beyond. 26:10 Don't miss "Unfolding the Future," 26:13 Daniel, chapter 2, 26:15 brought to you by It Is Written TV. 26:20 >>John: Thank you for remembering that It Is Written 26:22 exists because of the kindness of people just like you. 26:25 To support this international life-changing ministry, 26:28 please call us now at 800-253-3000. 26:32 You can send your tax-deductible gift 26:34 to the address on your screen, 26:35 or you can visit us online at itiswritten.com. 26:39 Thank you for your prayers and your financial support. 26:42 Our number again is 800-253-3000, 26:45 or you can visit us online at itiswritten.com. 26:50 >>John: Let me pray for you now. 26:52 Father in heaven, we thank You that Jesus is the Bread of Life, 26:57 that He came to this world to give us life more abundantly. 27:02 And I pray right now for that man, that woman, 27:04 that young person who is claiming Jesus 27:06 as the Bread of Life right now. 27:09 We're asking that Jesus would indeed be essential to life now, 27:12 the foundation of life now. 27:14 We trust You; we trust that You can iron out the difficulties 27:18 in our lives and sustain us through good times 27:21 and through challenges. 27:23 Heavenly Father, we look to You now and pray 27:25 that we can begin again with Jesus, the Bread of Life, 27:31 living our lives based on the principles of Your Word. 27:36 Keep us, we pray, and we thank You, 27:39 in Jesus' name, amen. 27:42 Thanks so much for joining me. 27:43 I'm looking forward to seeing you again next time. 27:45 Until then, remember: 27:47 "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, 27:51 but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'" 27:55 ♪[dramatic, triumphant theme music]♪ 28:26 ♪[music ends]♪♪ |
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