 Bless you, we give you, and glory for another time, Lord, to be taught by our Teacher. We thank you for this great opportunity, for us to be prepared for the assignment you have for us ahead. We come in this class onto your hands and we pray that through your ... your ... your servant, Lord, that the Holy Spirit would speak through her, to instruct us and to equip us, Lord, in the knowledge of your Word, concerning the things that John wrote years ago, bring it to our understanding, and help us, Lord, to be practitioners of your Truth, and to be communicators of your Truth, to those, O Lord, who, Lord, you will send us to, to teach and build them in the Word of your Truth. Thanks be to your name, O Lord, for in Jesus' name we have prayed. Amen. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you so much. Just give me a moment to get my settings right and we'll begin. We would today be covering John chapter 6 and 7. Yes. Yeah, so we'll start off with John chapter 6. You know, I will ask you to read a few verses and then we would try to reflect on what is mentioned in those verses and, you know, please just go ahead and immediately start to read instead of, you know, waiting a long while, so that hopefully we can fit in a few more details, you know, into the two hours that we have. There's a lot of things mentioned here in these two chapters and it will be impossible for us to, you know, cover it, all of it, but we will really try to fit in as much as possible. So we'll get started with John chapter 6 verses 1, 2, 3, maybe. Yeah. So if we could have one person, please read out verses 1, 2 and 3. Who were it for you? And Jesus went up on the mountain and there he sat with the disciples. Yes. Over here it talks about how there are large crowds following him and it also says that Jesus goes up on the mountain side and sits down there with his disciples. We don't get much background information from these verses, but then we have the parallel passage in Luke chapter 9 verses 10 to 11 and there we get a better idea of what exactly is the setting, what was the occasion and how were these, you know, large crowds being over here, how were they impacting the entire situation? So if we could have one person quickly go to Luke chapter 9 and if we could read out verses 10 and 11, please, that will help us gain a better background. Could someone read out from Luke chapter 9 verses 10 and 11, please. And the apostles, when they had returned, told him that they told him all that they had done. Then he took them and went to sit privately into the into a deserted place along into the city called Bethedah. So when the monks and kids knew it, they followed him and he received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God and healed those who had need of healing. Yeah, so here we get to know that this was the occasion when the apostles returned back after their first ministry trip. So they come back to Jesus very excited and they say, Lord, even the demons are submitting to your name and so they would have spent a long time, you know, moving from place to place. So they probably would have been tired, exhausted. So now Jesus wants to take them away so that just they, you know, as a small unit, they can spend some personal time together and maybe even reflect upon all the ministry experiences that the team has had. So Jesus takes them aside for some alone time and the crowd, which gets to know about where they are located, immediately follows. So this is the occasion that we are dealing with in John chapter six. So the crowds have followed them to this place where he, where Jesus had hoped to get some time with his disciples. But now the crowds have followed them there and Jesus graciously begins to minister to them. And there's a word of explanation given here in verse four. If we could have someone just read out that one little phrase in verse four, please. I'll read the time for the Passover festival was near. Exactly. So the Passover festival was very close. And so this is probably the large crowds which have come for the festival, you know, to Jerusalem. So probably there were larger numbers, you know, right now in this entire region, because people have come in from different places for the Passover feast. And so they would have heard about this Jesus and the extraordinary things that he is doing. And they would have heard rumors that he is the expected Messiah. So they come eagerly to him and Jesus does not turn them away. And so he ministers to them. And then, you know, as we know, it's kind of late in the day and the crowd would probably be hungry. And that is when we come to the next phase of this particular passage, which would be versus five to seven. If someone could read out, please. Then he lifted up his arms and seeing a great monster coming towards him. He said, where shall we buy bread that this may eat? But this he said to test him for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him. Two hundred January worth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one of them may have a little. It right. So now one explanation that we could give for this is that Jesus deliberately picks on Philip because Philip was from this region. We get this information from John chapter one verse forty four, where we learn that Philip, Andrew and Peter are from this town of Bethsaida. So right now they are somewhere on the outskirts of Bethsaida. Jesus had taken them over there, hoping to spend some time with them. So Philip and Andrew and Peter would be familiar with this area. And so in a way, we could say Jesus is asking for information as to where they can buy bread for these people. But of course, we learn from verse six that he has something more in mind. He is actually testing Philip. So why would he test Philip? Why is he very deliberately asking him this rather impossible question? Because obviously it would be impossible for Philip to produce that much food. Right. But why? Why does Jesus ask him this question? Again, going back to the context, you know, because now we know why these bicycles have come and gathered over here, why Jesus has taken them to this place. So based on that, looking at that background, we could maybe try to guess why Jesus poses this question. So just going back very quickly once again to Luke chapter nine, if we could look at verses three to five, if we could have one person read out, please, Luke nine, three to five. Luke chapter nine verses three to five. I read. Yes. And he said to them, take nothing for your journey. No stuff, no bag, no bread, no money and do not have to tunics. And whatever house you enter, stay there and from there departs and wherever they do not receive you, do not leave that town. Shake off. Shake off the dust from your feet. As a testimony against them. So on this mission trip, which Jesus had sent them out on, we see that the instructions were, don't carry, you know, extra clothing with you and don't take money with you. Don't take bread with you, because this is going to be a literally a faith mission where they would be completely relying upon the Lord to provide people who will have open hearts, who will have generous hearts and would be willing to help them, accommodate them, provide for their needs. So they have just learned a lesson as you know, when they went out on this trip on how to look to the Lord for provision, for extraordinary provision, because they would probably have gone to places where the people would not have been very open to them because Jesus wants them of that. He says there would be places where people would not be willing to welcome them. And he says, that's totally all right if they don't accept you. Just shake off the dust from that place of your feet and move on to the next place because God knows, I mean, who will respond and who will not. So they are aware of these things. So there would have been occasions where God would have provided for them in an extraordinary manner. So with that background in mind, when we look at this passage where Jesus is now asking Philip, how are we going to feed these people? Philip probably should have spoken up with greater confidence and said, Lord, on the mission strip we had all these experiences God provided. So I'm sure even now the Lord would provide. You know, he probably should have said something like that. But Philip is still thinking in the natural. He has not quite absorbed the lessons learned in the recent mission strip. And so he replies as he does. He says that even a even half a year's wages would not be enough to buy bread for each person. And also there's another thing which probably these disciples should have kept in mind because now they have been spending time with Jesus. And he's probably been training them in the word of God because all of them might not have been very familiar with their Old Testament. But now under Jesus, you know, teaching, they I'm sure would have come up to speed. They would now know their Old Testament. And in the Old Testament, we have a parallel passage. We could call it where we have an almost similar incident taking place. That would be in our Second Kings chapter four versus forty two to forty four where you have Elisha taking twenty loaves of barley bread and he distributes it among a hundred persons and the food automatically multiplies. And it is those twenty loaves are sufficient for a hundred persons. So Jesus does not just randomly ask this question. He has given them examples from the word of God, probably, you know, regarding these things of what God can do. And he's also given them some experiential, you know, knowledge because now they have gone out on a mission trip without money or bread. And they have come back all alive and well and rejoicing, which means God has been providing for them in a very wonderful way. But they have not yet connected those things to this current situation. They have not yet made that connection of faith. And so we have Philip and also Andrew speaking in a rather negative manner because Andrew speaks up in the next verse. If we could have someone read out verses eight and nine, please. One of these disciples, Andrew Simon, Peter's brother, said to him, there is a life here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are they among so many? Then Jesus said, make the people sit down. Now, bear with me much practice. We'll get to that a little later over here. We have Andrew saying, how far will they go among so many? You know, I mean, there's just a few loaves of bread. It'll probably not, you know, be enough for everyone. And so both of them answer in the negative simply because they have not yet learned the lessons of faith, which Jesus has been conveying to them. So what can we learn for ourselves from this? First of all, God reveals to us from his word, what we can expect from him, what we can very trustingly go to him in prayer and ask for. So he has revealed that to us in the scriptures. And also we would have had one or two experiences or maybe, you know, far more in our own past where we have seen God providing, where we have seen him taking care and he expects us to apply these biblical examples and our own experiences to our current situation. So whenever we find ourselves in a kind of impossible situation, because of course, in the natural, just like Philip and Andrew were pointing out, in the natural, this was an impossible situation. There's no way that five loaves of bread would be enough for five thousand people. But they were expected to apply whatever they have learned from scripture to the current situation. They were also expected to apply whatever they have learned from their personal experience to this situation. And they failed to do that. So we can learn from their mistakes. And when we are faced with an impossibility, we can look back to scripture and ask ourselves in scripture, when impossible situations came up, how did the people of God handle them? And what did God do? What did he reveal about himself in those situations? It's one thing that we can ask ourselves and then looking back, you know, closer in time to our own lifetime and what we have experienced from the Lord in the past. We can ask ourselves, he did this for me on so and so occasion when things were looking rather tight and on this other occasion. This is how he came through for me. So based on that, what should be my response to this current situation? So these are some lessons of faith that we can learn for our own lives, you know, based on this first portion of the story. Now we would go into versus 12 and 13. If we could have maybe someone read out 12 and 13. I'll read. Yes, please. When they were all full, he said to his disciples, gather the pieces of left of us that has not waste any. So they gather them all up and fill 12 baskets with the pieces of left of us from the five ballet loves which the people had eaten. Thank you. Yes, thank you. So we see that there's not only enough for the people to eat, but they still have a lot of extra food still left. So even as they placed this bread in front of each group, you know, because people sat down in groups and they, you know, set food in front of them, the people ate all that they wanted. And there's still a lot of food which is left over. Why? Where was the need for the surplus? It says in verse 13 that they filled up 12 baskets. You know, so you have still 12 baskets filled with food which they have not yet consumed. So why this huge surplus? I think God was just trying to show his character when he provides, how does he provide? He provides generously. It's never in a miserly way. It's never grudgingly. So when God works in an impossible situation, it will not be just enough for us to survive and scrape through. When he works in our impossibilities, he will work in our impossibilities in a lavish way, in a very generous way. We see that over here. And another thing that maybe we could, you know, learn from this provost 1124 where it says there is one who scatters yet increases more and there is one who withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty. So here we have an example of a child who was willing to, you know, forgo his five loaves and he gave his all, whatever little bit he had with him. He gave it all and it led to a very great increase. So maybe one thing that we can learn from this is that whatever we are doing for the Lord, whether you know, it is in our office place or whether it is among our relatives and friends, whatever little that we are trying to do for the Lord in these circles, maybe if we are very generous with our efforts, the results that we see, the divine results that we see would be very large and great in number, you know, rather than if we were to just put in a little bit of effort, just sparingly just do a little bit of something and leave it at that. Then maybe the results that we see would not be as grand and as big. So that maybe that could be another lesson that we could draw from this particular passage. Moving on, if someone could read out for us. Was 14. Yes, please, 14. I will read. Seeing this miracle that Jesus had performed, the people there said, surely this is the prophet who has come into this, into the world. Why would these people connect what has just happened now with the prophet that Moses talked about? There seems to be no immediate connection when we just think about it. So that is because of Deuteronomy 18, 15 to 18, which we have already read in one of our previous classes, where Moses makes the promise that I will raise up a prophet like me from your midst and you must listen to him. That's what Moses advises them regarding this prophet who will come in the future. And then the connection over here is that Moses was the person who was providing them mana in the wilderness. And now here we seem to be having another prophet like Moses and he is also providing bread. So most probably when after seeing this particular sign, because it says so in this verse, it says, after the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they make the connection. They think about it. Moses, our prophet, provided mana in the wilderness. And now here is another prophet who is also providing bread. So is this also a direct sign, a direct indicator that this is the Messiah that we have all been waiting for? So in fact, one of the signs, one of the indicators of the Messiah having arrived is demonstrated through this particular miracle that God performs over here. And yes, there was a hand that was raised just now and I could not catch the name if that person can present their question. No, all right, we'll move on. Let's get into verse 15. Yeah, if one of us could read out verse 15, please. Therefore, when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and they came by force to make him king, he departed again to the mountain by himself and left. Yes, Jesus perceived that they wanted to make him king by force. At the moment, Jesus has not come to become king. Rather, he has come to become a sacrifice. He's come to become a lamb, the lamb of God. So right now in God's timeline, he is meant to be fulfilling certain other tasks. Kingship, of course, will be coming later. But right now, this is not the timing for this. So Jesus withdraws from them because he notices that they are determined to literally forcibly put him on a throne so that he can liberate them from Roman oppression. So again and again, even as we are looking at all the four gospels, we see that the people really thought the time had arrived for political deliverance. Not many were keen on spiritual matters, spiritual deliverance, spiritual rebirth. Their interest was not so much along those lines. And in fact, even here in this chapter, if we even as we go further, we will see that their primary interest was in bread, blessings, material things. And it's only a handful who were really showing a deeper interest in spiritual things. So they wanted a different kind of messiah. But then Jesus was presenting himself as a savior who wanted to give them something else. And so we must always be aware and conscious of the fact that this is God that we are dealing with on a daily basis that we are interacting with on a daily basis. He is God and he has his own plans, his own purposes. We must be willing to accept whatever he is giving from his hand rather than make our own demands and say, No, this is how I wanted to work in my life. This is the way I want you to provide. The Lord always knows better and we would probably have to submit to him. Let him be the messiah that he wishes to be in our lives. You know, he will want to save in a particular way. He will want to provide in a particular way. He will guide and direct us to do certain things according to his will. Let him be what he wants to be in our lives because that is submission. So submission basically would be when he is doing certain things that are not really in line with what we would want. We would still very trustingly submit and say, Lord, I know that there is good in this. You are permitting this with your own greater plans in mind. And so we would need to have that attitude of trust. Yeah, so maybe that's one takeaway that we can draw from this. And now we will very quickly move into the other passage, which talks about Jesus, who comes to them on the water. If we could maybe read out verses 16, 17, 18 and 19, yeah, 16 to 19, if someone could read out, please. Why read, madam? When Jesus came, when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat and started across the sea to Cape Mu. It was now dark and Jesus had not yet come to them. The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rode about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near to the boats and they were fighting. OK, the winds have now picked up and because of that, the waters are getting churned. So the whole situation is kind of serious because this probably is a smaller boat and would not have the stability required to be able to handle waters which are like churning to that level. And so in the midst of that, they see something walking on the water. So which is why they assume that it probably is some kind of a spirit or a ghost and they are very afraid and then immediately after that, Jesus speaks to them and in verses 20 and 21 and he says, it is I, so do not be afraid. And then they are willing to take him into the boat. And then we have this very interesting verse. Now, so maybe if we could read out verses 20 and 21. I'll read. Yes, don't be afraid. I'll read. Don't be afraid. Jesus told them it is I. Then they willingly took him into the boat and they immediately and immediately the boat reached land at the place where they were heading for. Thank you. Yes. So here Jesus deals with this particular storm in a way that is different from the previous storm, you know, I mean, the other story, if we remember, there Jesus speaks to the winds and the waves and asks them to be still and they obey him. Here he does not speak to the winds or the waves. Here something else happens in one or one moment they are out there in the middle of the waters and in the next moment they are at the land. So they're literally like, you know, using Star Trek terminology, they're beamed up from there and they're beamed down to the shore in a sense. So we see Jesus dealing with an impossible situation in one particular way on one occasion and on the other occasion, this current occasion, he deals with it in a completely different way. So the one thing that maybe we can remember when we are in the middle of a really impossible situation is for us, it looks impossible. There isn't even one way of dealing with it. But God, who is looking at it, has multiple options to work through. You know, he is beyond us, his power is infinite, his wisdom is infinite. So when he looks at our impossibility, he's not looking at, you know, maybe he's not struggling to come up with one option of, you know, getting us out of that situation. He has got multiple choices lined up. So what looks so impossible to us, where not even one option is showing up to him, you know, because of his infinite ability to him, the options are multiple. So what seems impossible to us need not frighten us because for him there are multiple options open on dealing with the situation that we are in. So I think all these things were placed here in scripture for us to trust him, for us to learn something about his character, for us to learn more about his ability so that we can have this assurance, this deep assurance that we will be taken care of because only when we absorb these things into our heart and we start applying them to our own lives, then we can talk about these things to others and say, hey, you know, I wasn't this impossibility and this is how God took care of me. This is what he revealed about himself in that situation. So you can also trust him in the same manner. So what we have learned not just from scripture, but through our own personal experiences, we will then be able to share with others. So I think all of these things are learnings that the Lord wants us to absorb into our spirit, you know, even as we meditate on these passages. So now we are moving into the passage which talks about Jesus as the bread of life. So if maybe we could read out verses 25, 26, 27. Yes, those three verses, please. So they asked the question. There was no other boat. So how did you get across? You know, they're curious about that. They know that the disciples left without Jesus. And now here he is. So they raised that question. Jesus does not even answer that question. He addresses the other issue. He says, you people are following me, not because you really care about what I have to offer, you only want material benefits. So he points out this thing, you know, this lack which is there in their hearts, the wrong motive which is there in their hearts. And so then they ask him and say, what must we do to do the works God requires? So if we could maybe read out verses 28 and 29, please read it. So what can we do in order to do what God wants us to do? Jesus answered, what God wants you to do is to believe in the one who sends who he sends. Yes. So in verse 27, you know, Jesus says, do not work for food that spoils but for food that endures to eternal life. So you people have set your eyes on limited, you know, material things. But there's something greater. There are things of far greater value. So set your eyes on those things and work towards those things. So which is why they ask him, OK, those are the kind of works that we should do exactly what does that mean? How what kind of works are we supposed to do? And Jesus does not immediately go and give a long list of things that they should do. Rather, he says, the first work that you should be doing is to believe in the one who sent, you know, the one that that God has sent. So over here, Jesus is placing belief, trust, faith. He's placing that even before any actions that, you know, that we would start doing later. So the first step, the main work which God wants us believers to do is this, to have a complete total trust in the Lord, because out of that trust will come obedience, you know, because we trust him so much, now we will be willing to submit and obey even when he asks us difficult things. So out of that trust and faith will come the, you know, the miracle, the miraculous extraordinary things that we will achieve in our personal lives, in our ministry, in helping people out of that faith and trust which we have built out of that will come the prayers of power where we would, you know, claim the scriptures and stand in faith and know that those things will really be accomplished for us. So all of these things actually emerge out of that faith, that trust relationship which we have built out. So even before we do anything else, the very first work that God wants each believer to be doing is this, establish that trust relationship, build up that personal trust relationship. And that only happens with time in the sense the more time we spend with him, you know, digging into the scriptures, meditating on his word, allowing him to just speak into our hearts and minister to us and build up our inner man, because that is where the faith gets built right in our inner man, not just in our mind, which can reason and think and logically come to conclusions. That is good. We need the mind. But the inner man is where the actual faith building process takes place. So we need to create time where the Lord can speak into our into our lives from his scriptures. So that is for something very important as we spend more time with him and start getting to know him even as he starts opening up all these scriptures to us, that faith gets built, that relationship gets established. And then out of that relationship will come all the other works. So the first work for any of us would be to build up a strong faith relationship with him, where we just trust him a lot. Now, even as I'm saying these words, you know, I'm just thinking in my mind, I have not reached there because I'm still in the learning process. And we all are still in the learning process. But day by day, the amount that we trust him should go on increasing. Because the more we are secure in him and we just trust him completely, the more we will obey, the more we will do mighty works, the more we will be strong in our prayers, the more we will be able to go out and help people. So the first work, something very important for us to remember, the very first work that God requires of us is to build our faith relationship with God, to believe in him completely and totally. Moving on very quickly to the next few verses. Maybe we could if we could have someone read out verses 30 to 35, please. Therefore, they said to him, what son really perform then that we may see it and believe you, what work will you do? Our father eat the manna in the desert as it is written. He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said to them, most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven. But my father gives you the bread from heaven for the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Then they say to him, Lord, give us this bread always. 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. So here the people are still very set upon getting their bread supply. And so they ask him, what sign then will you give that we may believe in you? And in fact, they go further and they say, you see, we were given bread from heaven in the Old Testament. So now something along those lines, it would be in order. You should also be starting to provide us bread in miraculous ways, continue to do that for us. So they're continuing to manipulate him and try to pressurize him into being this Santa Claus who will be taking care of all their material needs. And then Jesus says, he says, for the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. And so he says, I am that bread of life in verse 35. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry. So Jesus is trying to shift their focus from off material things on to him. So he says, you know, again and again going on, focusing on your material needs. Those will be taken care of. But you should be focusing more on your spiritual needs because he says, I have come over here primarily not just to provide material things, but to give life to the world. He says, whoever comes to me will never go hungry and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. So all their spiritual needs will be met. All the needs which know they have for eternity to prepare themselves for eternity. Those needs can be taken care of by me because bread and these material things are something that can maybe provide us with comfort and sustenance for let us say the next 90 years or 100 years depending on how long we live. But what after that? There are things that you're going to be needing for the rest of the thousands of years that you're going to be alive. So Jesus is saying, look, I can't take care of your physical needs, which know which are which are required for you for this particular age while you're on this earth. But what about eternity when you're still going to be alive? I mean, you're not going to cease to exist. You'll continue to exist. You'll continue to be there. And so I can provide you with things that you require to prepare yourself for all of those thousands of years, which you will still be spending. You know, and you would need to be prepared for that. And I can prepare you for that. I can provide you what you need. You will never be hungry. You will never be thirsty. You will never lack. I can take care of your next 10,000 years. So most of us tend to get into the strap where we are only making preparations for the next 90 years, for the next hundred years. But what about the 10,000 years which are going to come after that? What preparations are we doing for that? Because that's a much longer period of time. In fact, that's an infinite period of time. And what preparations are we making for that? This Jesus, this Lord, He is promising that He can provide us and with what we need and prepare us for those thousands of years, not just for these 90 or 100 years, but also for all of eternity. The preparation for that would have to be done now. So Jesus is trying very hard to to prepare them for that. And so He continues to speak along those lines in the next few verses. So if someone could just quickly read out that verses 36 to 40, let's see what Jesus says over here. 36 to 40, please. But I say to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe me. All that the Father gives me will come to me. And the one who comes to me, I will by no means cast out. For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of Him who sent me. This is the will of the Father who sent me. But of all He has given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. And this is the will of Him who sent me that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day. OK, so Jesus is talking about future things, eternal things. So He says, you see, if you people believe in me and you're willing to submit to me, then I can keep you safe. He says, this is the inverse. He says in verse 37, whoever comes to me, I will never drive away. And then in verse 39, He says, this is the will of Him who sent me. What is God's will that I shall lose none of all those He has given me. But I will raise them up at the last day. He says, and what is He raising them up for? In verse 40, He says so that, you know, they will have eternal life. And again, He repeats, He says, I will raise them up at the last day. They will be safe in me. Everyone who trusts and submits to me, to my Lordship, I will keep them secure. I will keep them safe until the last day. And on that last day, I will raise them up once again. So which means, you know, even though the word last day is being used over here, it is the last day of this phase of what we know. And there's another entirely new phase that is going to begin, a new phase of existence that's going to begin. So He says, on that last day of this phase, I will raise them up for new things, an entirely new chapter of their lives. And they would be walking into things that we don't yet know about. So God is not. I think many of us believers are not very excited about the future because we don't really know what is there in that eternal future. And it doesn't really help that we have all these silly images which are portrayed by the secular world, about people sitting on clouds and playing harps and pointless, I mean, after creating us and giving us this life that we have on this earth, where we are engaged in so many activities and our mind absorbs so much and uses our mind is used for so many different things. And we have put on this earth with all these talents and we have this very busy, lavish, extensive life. You think at the end of it all, as we go into the next phase, the Lord would just say, sit on a harp and have this halo kind of floating over your head and sit over there and play a harp. How ridiculous is that? He has something equally exciting or something even more exciting and even grander for the next phase, the next chapter. And so there are amazing things awaiting us in the future, these ninety hundred years, just years of preparation. So Jesus is saying, submit to me, place your trust in me, be willing to listen to my word and hear me because I am the prophet who has come and Moses said, you shall hear him when he comes, you must hear him. So do that so that on that last day, last day of this current phase, once that is done, I will raise up these people who have made a commitment to him and I will lead them into a whole new chapter, which is still very top secret. It has not been revealed to us in the details of what that would involve. But we are all going to be walking into greater things, amazing things. So now is the time for us to build our relationship of trust with this Jesus, to really get to know him, to really learn how to submit to him. Because I think all of these lessons that we are learning now will somehow have some kind of implications in that new chapter, because now he's establishing the strong relationship. And I think that will carry over and really help us in this next thing that he has lined up for us in our eternal future. So the humans in this passage are focusing on very limited little material things. And Jesus, on the other hand, is looking into the very distant future into the millions of years which are there ahead. And he's talking about eternal things and he's trying to convey those things to these very small minded people and is not giving any details. He's just saying, trust in me. That's a step one. Step one, the work that God requires of you right now is trust in me, follow me, live for me, lift up your cross and carry it each day for me. Because you're all getting prepared for that last day of this current phase when I will raise you up for a whole new era in your lives. So these are the some of the things that God is trying to convey in this passage and he makes it very, very clear in verse 44. He says, no one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws them. And he assures that whoever is willing to respond, whoever has a submissive heart, whoever has a heart that wants to believe in him and trust him. He says that they will be part of his kingdom because he says everyone who has heard the father and learned from him comes to me and he says, I will receive them. OK, so these are just some things that we could cover in our first section. So we will now go for a break and we will come back at nine fifty. All right, so we'll continue chapter six and then we'll start off chapter seven. All right, thank you so much.