The Bread of Life (Part 5 of 5)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Have you ever been in fog so dense you can’t see? Then the fog lifts—and you can see for miles! It’s similarly possible to attend church weekly without understanding the good news—until you do! On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explains how this happens.

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0:00.0	Thank you. Have you ever experienced a fog that was so dense you couldn't see beyond a few feet?
0:30.9	And then the sun breaks through and the fog lifts and now you can see for miles.
0:35.8	Well, it's possible in the same way to attend church Sunday after Sunday
0:39.9	and not really understand the good news
0:41.9	until suddenly one day you get it.
0:45.4	Today on Truth for Life,
0:46.6	Alastur Begg explains how this happens
0:48.7	and how it changes us.
0:51.7	He's teaching from John Chapter 6.
0:59.5	Music changes us. He's teaching from John chapter 6. The opposition is understandable and the explanation is necessary. Look at verse 44.
1:06.3	Having told them, don't grumble among yourselves. Incidentally, that's what their forefathers did.
1:28.7	The whole manate thing in the wilderness, you remember, for 40 years, and they grumbled in the wilderness. They got fed up with it. They disdained the bread that God had sent to them. And now he's looking at these people, he's going, you're doing it again. Here I'm offering you the bread that comes from heaven, and you're not interested in it either. So let me explain to you. Verse 44, no one can come to me
1:35.1	unless the Father who sent me draws him. In other words, our stubborn will, the heart, our resistant heart, has to be overcome by the love of God,
1:57.1	which is displayed fully in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the love of God which comes to overwhelm the human heart,
2:08.1	presenting to as Jesus, not as simply someone who existed or did amazing things, but as someone I need,
2:22.8	just like I need my breakfast. How is that ever going to happen? Well, only, he says, as the Father draws us. After a lifetime of preaching,
2:32.2	J. C. Ryle, the Bishop of Liverpool, wrote this.
2:35.9	The longer I live, the more it is apparent that there is something to be done in every heart
2:42.6	which neither preaching, arguing, exhorting, nor means of grace can do.
2:56.6	Preaching, preaching, preaching, opening up the scriptures, sharing in the sacraments. And he says, as I look at it all, and as I survey it, I realize that there is something else
3:03.6	in it, through it, beyond it.
3:05.6	It's a mystery, isn't it? I mean, if we were all to have an
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