It is the Spirit that gives life.

Isn't your murmurings and ponderings and meditations and reflections and cogitations

and philosophical ruminations that gives you life?

The Spirit gives life. And when he does, the fence

sitting ceases to be an option anymore. Hi, I'm your host, Dan Kruver. When belief feels impossible,

what makes the difference? In this episode of light and truth, John Piper opens John 6, verses 60 to 71, to show how the

spirit, not the flesh, gives life through the words of Jesus, and why that changes everything.

This message was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on December 20th, 2009.

You recall, don't you, that in verse 51, we read this.

6.51, I am the living bread that came down from heaven.

That's Christmas.

I came down from heaven.

If anyone eats this bread, me, he will live forever.

And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. Now link that

with chapter 1 verse 14. And the word became flesh. Why? So that verse 51 could happen.

He came to give his flesh. He came to give his flesh for the life of the world. He came to

have flesh that could be pierced by nails. He came to have flesh that could be pierced by nails. He came to give his flesh for the life of the world. He came to have flesh that could be pierced by

nails. He came to have flesh that could be pierced with a sword and lacerated on his back

and a crown of thorns pressed somewhere in the universe, namely on the fleshy head of the son

of God and cheeks that could be slapped around and beard

that could be pulled and eyes that could be spit upon so that the saliva would drip down.

That's why he came.

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