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When Faith is Hard



John 6 (NKJV)
35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.



Jesus is talking spiritually to physically thinking people. 




38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.






This is big in doing things through God's Spirit.  




It is being fully surrendered to God's Holy Spirit. 






51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”






Jesus is not talking about physical bread.  



He is giving an illustration about how  accepting His crucifixion personally for you satisfies God's anger.  




It satisfies the hungering of your spirit like bread satisfies your body.




63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.






Anything that you can do in your body cannot save you.  Only God's Spirit working within you can.   





64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” 


You don't have to understand to trust.   






66 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. 



This is a test that some fail. 



When they left, it proved that they didn't really believe in Him.






67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”



68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? (Only) You have the words of eternal life. 



69 Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”






John 3:16 (NKJV)

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son (Jesus), that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.



Keith Moore, Faith Life Church
https://flcmedia.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/productvideo/1015-InTheSpirit-01-SpiritOrFlesh-HD.mp4 
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