Thursday Night Worship, August 9th, 2018

This past Thursday night the sermon was over the verses found in the Gospel of John at John 6:35-51.  The final point that I chose to focus on had to do with verse 38: "38 for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me." Here we need to note that Jesus himself stated that He did not come into this world to do "His will", but rather to do "the Father's will".  Just like Jesus, we are called to do the Father's will in this world.  Too often, we forget this and go about trying to accomplish our own will but do it in the name of the Father (or Son, or Spirit) in order to give our will the credence that it so sorrily lacks.  We do this because of our ego, we all have this ego inside us that drives us to do things that build us up... but, it's not about us... this calling to follow Christ is about doing the Father's work.  It's about building up the Father's creation, we need to become less as the Father becomes more and more in our lives.

This week as you go about your days, try to remember that the life you were given in this world wasn't about you... it was about furthering God's work in this world.  Let us build up and not destroy, let us lend comfort and not administer distress, let us love and never hate.

Be a blessing to someone today!

In His Glory,
Roy

John 6:35-51 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 37 Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away; 38 for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. 40 This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life; and I will raise them up on the last day.”

41 Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43 Jesus answered them, “Do not complain among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets (a), ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

a) John 6:45 Isaiah 54:13