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It is no coincidence that one of the most difficult versus in the bible to accept is John 6:66. I hope you have studied enough to know that 666 is the number of man, and 7 is perfection and/or God’s number. In fact 666 is as close as you can come to perfection without actually ever being it. It is pride, ego, and a host of dark side vices that encourages someone to believe that they can be like God, want the power of God, can challenge Him, dismiss Him, ignore Him, even try to convince others the He doesn’t exist, which of course is ridiculous. Man can become so drunk with power, wealth, position to think that he can own all there is on earth, or at least their own domain, control lives, a person’s will, make choices for them, even take away their freedom, and somehow justify it all. But this is all of the flesh, not of the spirit. And Jesus said, the flesh counts for nothing. Hence the significance of 666 being so close to perfection, own or control everything and everybody, and it counts for nothing to the Father, is meaningless in Heaven, and is a one way ticket guaranteed to being separated from the Father for eternity (longer than time), which is hell. John 6:66 reads, “From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.” So why did the thousands get up and leave all at once, based on His words to them at that moment. Let me explain. When pastors of churches preach, I’ve noticed that most base their messages on bible versus that are positive in nature and look to NOT offend. Then there are some that preach the message that the Father has inspired them to preach without regard for approval from those who will hear it, but seeking only to please Him with every word, believing that, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and not of themselves, speak the Word of God. Interestingly, I have never observed in person, heard by radio, on watched TV, or read this text (John 6:66) preached. But there it is. As clear as any other verse written in the 27 letters, which is commonly accepted as the Word of God, since it is Holy Spirit inspired. If we have ears to hear and eyes to see, and a heart that is one with the Father, we should NEVER cower or be afraid to read any word in the bible, or listen to any Word of God spoken or written. Our faith is strong enough to examine anything for its message to us, whether it compliments or offends. For if we look not to offend, if we look to avoid adversity, if we shy away from those less fortunate, if we by design take the easier path that wealth, position, or place in life affords, we avoid God, and look to avoid spiritual growth in ourselves and in our Relationship with the Father. If God chases us, how do we respond? Do we accept the challenge or work even harder to avoid it, do a work around it? Do we accept the call, or do we assume He will find someone else to do His will for that task? So John 6:66 is difficult. And then here it is. John 6: 35… Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?” “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.” From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.” Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.) This conversation happens just after Jesus feed the five thousand, and walked on water, crossing over the lake, and reaching the other side to Capernaum. Two amazing miracles still in their memories, fresh and astounding. It is not known how many disciples were there, but many left. Signs and wonders, how much do they really matter to convince someone to give their life to God, and receive eternal life with Him? Or is it teachings that draw men close to god? Or is the Holy Spirit? Let’s now look at what directly precedes John 6:66, John 6:60 … On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.” The men of Capernaum could not understand what Jesus was saying, and even more after hearing it, it offending them and they instantly rejected it. It illustrates that because of men’s egos, a man thinks he must understand God to accept that He exists and to place his trust and faith in Him? Is it so difficult to accept, that which we do not understand? It is one thing if we hear the words of a salesman, but from God we hesitate? We do not and cannot possibly comprehend all that is in and on the earth, and the universe. So why is it so difficult for us to simply accept the one that created it and us? And that at times our Father’s truth will be out of reach of our intellect and ability to understand. There it is! The very definition of faith and the basis of our Relationship with Him. That which we cannot understand, we accept, trusting, completely, because it comes from Him directly, and that He ordained it. Jesus gave them a truth from the Father, about having a Relationship with Him, about His relationship with the Father that they could not grasp. So they left Him. What is your Relationship with Him based on? If He gives you something to accept about yourself that is too difficult, do you walk away too? Is their a truth within your Relationship with Him that is a deal breaker. Simply too tough to take or live with? When we come to the thing about our Relationship that we don’t understand or disagree with, do we just walk away? Do we expect the Truth of life and of eternity to fit our expectations and perceptions? When we don’t understand something, we pray. Or do we? Or do we get frustrated, or just walk away and get busy doing something else, avoiding growth in our Relationship with Him. Are we afraid to pray because He might reveal something about us that has to change to fit His Truth about life and/or about ourselves? I think that is the case most of the time. And who wants to pray to find out yet another thing that is wrong and must change, which requires effort, discipline, and work? Perhaps prayer will reveal a sin in us we do not want to face, accept, or repent of? When what He asks of us is difficult, do we simply ignore it, because we can, or just end the conversation, end the prayer, and walk away (because we can) ? Do we attend a church with a message that we agree with, songs we are familiar with, social programs we like, because we have a similar understanding, it does not takes us out of our comfort zone, and does not challenge us to grow in Him? Is there a hell? Yes. Should I mention it, yes! Is there a heaven? Yes! Should I mention it, yes! Should I preach a select Word of God to please men, No! The Word of God is that which the Holy Spirit enables. Let the man that hears it proclaim it without respect to a man’s wealth, position, status, or religion. Let him proclaim it without design for it’s harvest or fruit, because only God has that design in mind and will use the Word as it is spoken for His purpose. Then all men who God is drawing near, will draw near to it. Then all men who do NOT preach this way will draw men to them that seek the word of a man, not of God. Let the blind lead the blind. Let those who seek the Lord, seek the Father, seek eternal life with Him, and draw near to the Word of God where it is, how it is, and the truth to be accepted as it is stated clearly, piercing the heart, the mind, the soul to a Relationship or more perfect Relationship with the Father. So, in John 6:65 Jesus encourages us by giving us a most important and difficult truth… He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.” He wanted us to know the deeper truth, that the Father loves us, and desires to chase us to draw near to Him. He did not say this to mean that we cannot all come to know Him. But that we must submit to Him, and know that when we choose to seek Him the enabling that occurs will be by His design, His Truth, His Way, not ours. He will enable us according to His time, not ours. Seek first the kingdom of God and all else will be given to you. First things first, know that He is God. Humble yourself, submit to the Father your life, in all things, nothing holding back, give it all. So it the will of a man that He seeks first, not his mind, not to be convinced in thought or by debate, but by heart. When you decide to give your will to Him, even your life, without understanding, but with a simple and complete Trust, as you have never trusted anything or anyone before, He will ENABLE you to know Him, through Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. He enables us to find Him. Luke 11:9… 9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” We have a loving Father, who seeks to draw everyone to Him. But we have free will, and we have to seek, with effort that is earnest and complete, even unto ourselves. When we read all of the bible, and not just the popular versus, we see the truth deeper, and as a challenge to a closer Relationship with Him. We should not shrink from reading every Word written, and listening to every Word spoken. The Word is alive, just as Jesus is alive, just as the Holy Spirit is alive and gives the Father’s Word to those today who are one with Him. We should seek it, embrace it, long to meditate on it, pray about it, and ask the Holy Spirit to help us apply it to our Relationship. It is the reading and knowing, whether by just by faith or by faith and understanding, of the most difficult verse, the most difficult teaching of the Holy Spirit, that will return the greatest Love from Him and create the greatest acknowledgement in heaven. And, soon, the meaning of this number will become increasingly more significant. Yes it is also the number of the spirit of the antichrist. There is no other chapter and verse in the 27 letters with the numbers 6:66. There is no other verse in the 27 letters where they ALL left Him, except the twelve of course. And what does it mean, in relation to the Book of Revelation and prophesy? It is not as complicated as most have made of it. Those that call themselves Christians will be challenged, just as his disciples were challenged the night He was taken before the rulers of the society then. They were challenged to say publicly that they knew Him, and they denied knowing Him. Now it is still popular and accepted by society to be Christian. But there will come a time when it is not, and soon. And the spirit of the antichrist will be popular, and strong. As it grows in strength, it will become clear who has a true Relationship with the Father, and who does not. Many will fall away, but the few will remain in the faith. Praise God.
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ŽUPNI OGLASI ŽUPE BL. IVANA MERZA – SLATINA - NEDJELJA KROZ GODINU Glas Koncila, Zahvaljujem obiteljima koje su doprinijele za uređenje crkve. Dežurni Ministranti: Rakitovac Hodočašće u Pleternicu: 31.8. 2018. Prijava što prije, cijena 50,00 kn Susret hrvatskih katoličkih obitelji u Solinu: Polazak 14.9. 2018. U 22,00 sata: Sarajevo, Mostar, Međugorje, Solin. Povratak 16.9.Cijena 420,00 Hodočašće u Mariju Bistricu 6. listopada 2018. cijena 100 kn Prvo čitanje: Jedite od mojega kruha i pijte vina koje sam pomiješala! Čitanje Knjige mudrih izreka Mudrost je sazidala sebi kuću i otesala sedam stupova. Poklala je svoje klanice, pomiješala svoje vino i postavila svoj stol. Poslala je svoje djevojke da objave svrh gradskih visina: »Tko je još dijete, neka se svrati ovamo!« A nerazumnome govori: »Hodite, jedite od mojega kruha i pijte vina koje sam pomiješala. Ostavite djetinjarije, da biste živjeli, i hodite putem razboritosti.« Riječ Gospodnja. Otpjevni psalam: Pripjev: Kušajte i vidite kako je dobar Gospodin! Blagoslivljat ću Gospodina u svako doba, njegova će mi hvala biti svagda na ustima! Nek se Gospodinom duša moja hvali, nek čuju ponizni i nek se raduju! Bojte se Gospodina, vi sveti njegovi: ne trpe oskudice koji ga se boje. Osiromašiše mogućnici i gladuju, a koji traže Gospodina ne trpe oskudice. Dođite, djeco, i poslušajte me, učit ću vas strahu Gospodnjem. O čovječe, ljubiš li život? Želiš li se dana naužiti sretnih? Jezik svoj oda zla suspreži i usne od riječi prijevarnih! Zla se kloni, a čini dobro, traži mir i za njim idi! Drugo čitanje: Shvatite što je volja Gospodnja! Čitanje Poslanice svetoga Pavla apostola Efežanima Braćo: Razmotrite pomno kako živite! Ne kao ludi, nego kao mudri! Iskupljujte vrijeme jer dani su zli! Zato ne budite nerazumni, nego shvatite što je volja Gospodnja! I ne opijajte se vinom u kojem je razuzdanost, nego – punite se Duhom! Razgovarajte među sobom psalmima, hvalospjevima i duhovnim pjesmama! Pjevajte i slavite Gospodina u svom srcu! Svagda i za sve zahvaljujte Bogu i Ocu u imenu Gospodina našega Isusa Krista! Riječ Gospodnja. Evanđelje: Tijelo je moje jelo istinsko, krv je moja piće istinsko. Čitanje svetog Evanđelja po Ivanu U ono vrijeme: Reče Isus mnoštvu: »Ja sam kruh živi koji je s neba sišao. Tko bude jeo od ovoga kruha, živjet će uvijeke. Kruh koji ću ja dati tijelo je moje – za život svijeta.« Židovi se nato među sobom prepirahu: »Kako nam ovaj može dati tijelo svoje za jelo?« Reče im stoga Isus: »Zaista, zaista, kažem vam: ako ne jedete tijela Sina Čovječjega i ne pijete krvi njegove, nemate života u sebi! Tko blaguje tijelo moje i pije krv moju, ima život vječni; i ja ću ga uskrisiti u posljednji dan. Tijelo je moje jelo istinsko, krv je moja piće istinsko. Tko jede moje tijelo i pije moju krv, u meni ostaje i ja u njemu. Kao što je mene poslao živi Otac i ja živim po Ocu, tako i onaj koji mene blaguje živjet će po meni. Ovo je kruh koji je s neba sišao, ne kao onaj koji jedoše očevi i pomriješe. Tko jede ovaj kruh, živjet će uvijeke.« Riječ Gospodnja.