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Messages by Desiring God

It Is the Spirit That Gives Life

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2009

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

As once-adoring followers disappear, Jesus’s message becomes clearer and clearer: their resistance itself is in God’s hands.

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The following message is by pastor John Piper.

0:03.5

More information from Desiring God is available at

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W.W.

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D. Desiring God.

0:11.0

O. R. G. The sermon text for this evening's message is taken from the Gospel of John,

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Chapter 6, verses 52 through 71.

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The Jews then disputed amongst the verses 52 through 71.

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The Jews then disputed amongst themselves saying,

0:26.7

How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

0:29.7

So Jesus said to them, truly, I say to you,

0:34.0

unless you eat the flesh of the son of man

0:35.8

and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

0:39.8

Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood

0:42.4

has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

0:46.0

For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.

0:51.0

Whoever feeds on my flesh drinks my blood abides in me and I in him.

0:57.3

As the living father sent me and I live because of the father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

1:07.5

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the Father's ate and died.

1:13.5

Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.

1:17.4

Jesus said these things in the synagogue

1:19.6

as he taught at Capernanum. When many of his disciples heard it, they said, this is a hard saying.

1:27.3

Who can listen to it? But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them,

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