Hey, brother, can you hear me? Yes, sir. Give me just a second. There he is. There we go. Well, hello. Good morning. It's so good to see y'all. Good morning. Y'all want to say a word of prayer? Yes, sir. All right. Well, let's pray. Thank you, Jesus, for this day. Thank you for these little ones. We pray that you bless them and bless Miss Janet and those that will work with them today, that you would help them. And we're just going to thank you and praise you and just give you the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Love y'all. Y'all have fun. Watch out. Look at that big passer right there. morning good morning oh boy it is good to see y'all up we just got a crowd coming here to say hey to y'all come here oh tell them hello Hello, little homie wanted to see y'all. Look, everybody's at the church. You know everybody, huh? Yeah, look, I think we got somebody else over here. Come see, Daisy. Oh, boy. She told us she loves Pawpaw's church. Oh, now she says she's nervous. She says she wants her mama. Yeah, she said she loves Pawpaw's church. They love you, too. You see them over there? Say, hey, Miss Pat and Brother Shannon and everybody. And guess who else we got? Oh, boy, looky here, looky here. Oh, we got little Marygold. She is mighty, mighty sweet. And I believe we got Honey behind me, too, here. Yes, look, we are having a blast with them. They work in Paw Paw and Honey though. I tell you what, we got the kid duty. So it has been wide open, wide open. But we appreciate you praying for them. And the Lord's just continue to bless and take care of them. They got a couple more appointments over the next couple of days. But all is going good. How's everybody there going? Everybody good? Wonderful, wonderful. Now she's going to have a hard time getting them out of here. They're behind me, now they'll want to stay. They'll want to stay. Well, to God be the glory. Is that old Rusty Calvert I see there? Y'all had a big time day yesterday, Rusty? Yes, sir. Ate it all. Ate it all. Well, good. I bet you the chapel's smelling pretty good this morning. What y'all think? Good deal. Well, Rusty, we're praying for you, brother. We're praying for a great day on Tuesday. And y'all keep us posted. I'll be watching WTOK at a distance to see how things are rolling on Tuesday. Amen? Amen. All right, well look, y'all take your word this morning and turn to John's gospel. Let's do that. Anybody have anything you need to give me before we get started? Thank you, Carolyn. Thank you, thank you, thank you. He sure is good. He sure is good. It's wonderful to be able to serve a God we know who's good, right? And always gracious and kind and we appreciate everybody stepping up and taking care of things. I should be making my way back here in the next several days if everything goes as planned. and there's a chance Stephanie may come back with me then again there's a chance she may stay so it's just kind of uh they're working those details out right now the best they can so we'll we'll go from there but i'm looking forward to getting back with y'all and uh in person i'm thankful for the technology and that we i could do this with you and be with you and celebrate with you i wish i could eat some of your good food today, but that won't be able to happen. But Stephanie's cooking some good food over here and taking care of everybody, so we're still eating pretty good. But in John's gospel, let's talk about it for a minute. I just want to give you a couple things to think about. We're up to what, chapter 5 today? Yes. Chapter five. And as we think about these, I just want to start, let's say, in chapter one. I'm going to give you just some things, the process, maybe over the next couple of days, even in our reading. just a little overview of some good news that John writes about and we'll look at it kind of an overview for the first few chapters that we've read thus far and then I may carry it over for you to think about that you're still going to read. So, chapter one, I would just say it's a chapter about He is. He is. He is God. Jesus is God. You don't have to wonder. You don't have to question that. You don't even have to Let anybody mislead you in thinking that he may be something else that he's not, for John started out with that word in the first few verses, what he say in the beginning was, The Word. That word there is the word Logos. It means the thoughts of one, the utterance of the thoughts of one being manifested. We see the heart of God declared in the Word. And the Word, as he says here, in the beginning was the Word. And that Word was who? was God. And the word, he was with God and the word was God. Verse two, he was in the beginning with God and all things that were made through him and without him, nothing was made that was made. So that is a revelation to tell us, one, because it's a complex thing when you think about a man being God. That's why he starts it out that way. He wants to make sure we understand that this word became flesh. but this word has always been. It's not that he's just started when he took upon flesh, but he was always been. He's always been God. There was never not a time that he wasn't God and that he is the creator of all things and the creator himself come and took upon flesh. to live among us. He is God. Look at verse 14. Just to reiterate it again, he says, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we, that would be them, John and the apostles and those in that day, we beheld his glory, the glory as the only begotten of the father, who was full of grace, and truth and the word only begotten we see that here we see it a couple of other places like in john 3 16 the only begotten son it's a word that means the unique Unlike any other son, there's nobody like Jesus. He's different than everybody in the way that he was conceived, born, lived, died, and was resurrected. That's what the word only begotten means. He's completely unique and stands alone above and beyond anyone else ever born. And therefore, this word, the only begotten, the unique son of God, the way he came about, unlike anybody else, this is God in flesh. And what a wonder, amen? Amen. So we can say he is God, the word, who became flesh to take away the sins of the world of believers. Because only believers have their sins forgiven. Only believers. Jesus' blood only covers the believer. So you have to be the believer who trusts Him, who takes His testimony as the Word, and that you can put all your confidence in Him. So chapter 1 is, He is. He's the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of a world of believers. Because he is God's what? Sacrifice and our substitute. So John came as a what? A witness to him. And he pointed people to him. And we even learn in John chapter 5 that Jesus said he doesn't receive testimony from men. That is, men do not give him his purpose. No matter what man it is, no matter how good that man could ever be, even in the will of God, like John himself, Jesus never received the testimony or needed the testimony of any man, you or me or anybody else, because he came to do one thing and that is the will of his Father. It didn't matter what men said about him, whether they praised him or they mocked him, that was regardless of how he lived and what he came to do. So he said he didn't receive honor from men and he doesn't receive testimony from men because he knows what is in every man's heart. He doesn't need it. And that's an important point for us because that same Jesus, what, lives in us. And therefore, the only thing that he follows is what? The voice of God, the will of God. And that's why it's so important for us to know Our God, He is the lamb that was slain for us. He is our shepherd who we can depend only upon and follow. He is the one who provided atonement, and that is a blood sacrifice on our behalf. So man, chapter one is all about He is, and we can celebrate Him and worship Him today knowing that He is everything, amen? Amen. Well, chapter two, look in chapter two. What we see in there is that not only is he is, but he is able. Just remember that he is able. What he's able to do? He's able to transform. He's able to transform. Remember that wedding that he went to in Canaan? What did he transform? What did he change? Water to wine. Now something you want to think about that water is that the water was not necessarily the problem. The water most likely came from a good source, but the water was put into something. What was it put in? It was put in water pots. What was those water pots used for? They were washing pots. That is, in that day, it was a requirement among the Jews in some of the laws they had that you had to have ceremonial washing water for the guests. So when the guests showed up for them to keep their hands and often even their feet or anything else clean, what they had to do was they used water out of these water pots to cleanse their hands for ceremonial purposes. Well, that would be very similar to our bath water. How many of y'all drink bath water? None. Bath water we would consider not potable or drinkable water, right? Wouldn't you think? Amen. Now, Danny Simon, did y'all ever fill your baths up down in Louisiana when hurricanes came through? Yes, sir. Well, we do that, and the reason we do it is not so that we could drink the water from the bath, but that you would have a source of water inside that you could then go boil your water. and clean it, and then drink it, and have it to cook with, or make coffee with, or whatever you need to do, or even a little sanitary washing, if that be. But you wasn't going to drink that water that was stagnant just sitting in your tub for a couple days out of a tub. Well, that's the idea of these pots. So we can say that this was undrinkable water. And that's the kind of things that Jesus does in our life. He is God, and because he is God, he is able to transform those things in life that are just undrinkable and make them into something that's the best you ever had in life. He can take the issues and the difficulties and the problems of the undrinkable things that are just not something you want to share with other people that they drink from, he's able to transform that and make it into that which, as they said at that wedding, that they brought out the best wine at the end, which was a highly unlikely thing. Once everybody gets a little tipsy and tooted up, why would you bring out the good wine? No, that don't matter. You give them the to give them a good mind up front. Well, that didn't happen because when Jesus touches it, he transforms it. When he transforms it, it's going to be something good. Amen? Amen. Amen. And that's what he does. He is able. So we see that there are things in life that are somewhat untouchable, that we just don't want to put our hands on that Jesus is able to take in our life and the circumstances. Like for an example, How many of you would say you had the perfect marriage? Raise your hand. How many of you say you have the perfect relationship with your family? not everybody does and there's some undrinkable things about our relationships and about even with life and our marriages and circumstances from finances and all that kind of stuff in everyday life that there may be some schisms there. There may be some just some undrinkable things that you don't want people drinking from out of your life. Well, I want to tell you, you put them in the master's hand and he's able to do something with them and change them and make them into something that you can celebrate with other people and that they can drink from your life and what God's doing in your life because he took that which is undrinkable and made it into something that is joyous and worth celebrating. And we just give it to him. What did his mama tell the servants? Just do whatever he says. That's the key, isn't it? Knowing somebody. How many of you ever got a ticket before on the highway? Some of y'all lying in there. I don't see you raising your hand. How many of you had a ticket taken care of because you knew somebody? Yes. Back when we were young and courting, back in them days, Stephanie would come hang out with me from time to time at the house and my dad knew most everybody in those days. Now, our place where we grew up is a lot different now than it used to be, like a lot of places. Well, he pretty much knew most everybody, knew everybody in law enforcement. He was in a people business where they would know people and they serviced in a service business, so they took care of a lot of folks and he would always tell us, look, if somebody stops you or whatever, you just be kind, do exactly what they tell you to do. If they tell you to get out of the vehicle, get out. If they tell you to stay in it, stay in it. If they tell you to put your hands out the window, put your hands out the window. Whatever they tell you to do, you do it, and you be honorable and respectable. And when they ask you who you are, they're going to know because of your driver's license. They're going to ask who you belong to. You just tell them, but you don't ever ask for anything. You just let them decide what they're going to do. You be courteous and kind. Well, Unfortunately, I didn't get pulled over, but Stephanie did one day. And Stephanie had it in her spirit. She didn't like that Bubby Holden had told her that he knew a lot of them and just tell them who you're connected to, that you're dating Nick. And back then, everybody knew me as Nicky. So date Nicky Holden and that's Bubby Holden's son. Well, sure enough, one day she gets pulled over. And she pulls out a license and gives it to the sheriff's deputy. And he said, ma'am, where are you coming from? Where are you going in such a hurry? And she told him where she was going, where she came from. He said, you dating Nikki Holden? And she said, yes. Bobby Holden's son? Yes. And he gave her a driver's license back and just told her to ease on that road and slow it down a little bit. Well, as much as she appreciated not getting the ticket, more unappreciative of the fact that it happened just like Bubby told her it would happen. And that if she told her, it got to her. Pride got to her is what it is. But she knew somebody. Well, you see, Jesus's mama knew somebody. And she just told him, hey, whatever he says, do, just do it. And follow it, and that's the key for all of us, right? You see, when we're out and about, we come across people with some issues in their life, because I know you do every day, and you're hearing from things every day, like we're praying for little Owen, and we're praying for Tammy, and we come across the little Allen boy, and all the folks that we come across on a regular basis, and they got stuff, Just remember, say, look, man, that's a very difficult, challenging thing that they're facing or going through. It's an undrinkable, untouchable thing, but I know somebody. I know somebody. And I know what somebody's doing. I encourage you to trust him. Take what he says, believe him, honor him, and he'll do what nobody else can do in your life. Amen? Amen. He is able. Chapter three. You can simply say he loves. He loves. For God so loved the world that he did what? He gave his unique and one of a kind son that those that believe in him shall not what? perish, but shall have everlasting life, eternal life. And John 3 teaches us that, hey, we must be born again. And because he loves us, the only way we can be born again is that through the grace of God that he gave. God loves. but he loves uniquely. Just like we see in John 5, Jesus said, my father loves me, and because he loves me, he shows me things. He shows me what he's doing. And God doesn't show everybody everything. You've got to be in a relationship with him. You've got to know him. And the only way to have a relationship with him is through Jesus. So therefore, you have to be born again. But we can say with all honesty that God loves. And he loves his enemy because I was an enemy at one time. I was rebellious to his ways, but he loved me. But you see, just because he loves me doesn't mean that I'm gonna be saved. I've got to come through the grace gift of that love, which is centered in Jesus. And if I can't see his love for Jesus and that love being manifested through Jesus unto me, I'll miss out on his love. I won't see it. So therefore, that's why it says, they that believe on him will not perish, will never perish. but will have everlasting or eternal life. So we can say He loves, He gave His all, His best for His bride. Because remember, only the believer, the bride, the church, those that trust Him are going to live for everlasting life. Amen. Therefore you have to put your confidence in Jesus. Well, chapter four, chapter four, we can say that he knows, he knows. What does he know? Everything. He knows everything. And number one, what does Jesus know? The Father's will. That's what he taught us in chapter four. He said his meat was to do what? My Father's will. Remember when the disciples got back and they asked him if he wanted food or he needed food, he said that food wasn't his primary purpose. His purpose was what? To do the will of his father. He knew that woman was gonna be at that well that day. He knew everything about her. And you know what? He still loved her, amen? What were some of the issues with the woman at the well? How many husbands has she had? Five. Sounds like she was shacked up with another one, right? Yeah. Amen. I mean, that's what he said. She said, I don't have a husband. And Jesus said, you're exactly right. And the man that you're with now is not your husband. And he knew she had had five previous husbands. So obviously, there were some issues whether that be with the men she had married or that was with her. But nonetheless, those men and her, just like you and me, we needed Jesus to do something in us, right? Because that's where she was at. And you see, he knew, he knew the thoughts He knew the trust of people. He knew the testimonies of people. He knew what was right. He knows what is wrong. He knows everything and he knows everyone. There is no need to hide anything before Jesus. You can lay it before him and give it to him. Why? Because he's the solution for everything. He knows everything and he is the solution for everything. So we give it to him. We turn it over to him. Think about that woman. What was she out there, what was she at that well going to get? Water. Water. Water. And then she encounters a guy that would spend a little time with her. And she was shocked that he, not that what he said, but the fact that how could he possibly be willing to talk with her? If you pay attention to the wording, that's how she says it. How can it be, you being a Jew and me being a Samaritan, that you would even engage me and talk to me? Why? Because Jews traditionally, and I imagine even the Samaritans, did not jeehaw with one another. They were at conflict with one another and they avoided one another at all costs. So she knew that something was obviously different about this man, that how could he engage her the way he did. Well, when they communicate, she continued to bring up things about the past and about religious type things, about the well, about Jacob's well, what was there. She kept trying to divert the conversation, but what did Jesus keep making a beeline to? That she had a need. and that need was more than the water she came for. He had living water for her and that she needed it more than she ever needed that water she was coming out to get. And then when he got down to the bottom of it that he revealed what he knew about her and he was still willing to talk with her, still willing to help her because she's talking about you know we know a Messiah's coming and he's going to reveal truth to us. See how she kept She kept trying in the flesh to divert the conversation. But Jesus, who is a wise soul winner, the one who wins all souls that are ever won, got to the root of the issue. And that was she needed him. And he got her to that place and revealed that to her. And the first thing she does, she forgets that she's there to get water. And what does she do? She leaves her water pot at the well that runs back to town to tell everybody that she just met the Messiah, that he is here. And then all the people come out. Why? Because Jesus not only did he know her, not only did he know what she needed, not only does he know everything, but he also knew those people in Samaria needed him too. And therefore he used her to go get them and they came back to him and the scripture says he stayed and then many believed on him, not just because of her testimony, but they heard it from the master themselves and put their confidence in him. Just a great picture of how he changes our priorities and purpose when he interrupts our life. He puts us on a whole other course. You were doing one thing when you encountered Jesus. And He does a work in your heart and changes who you are. He's going to change what you come with a priority and purpose in life. And you're going to lead those things that really don't matter. and go do those things that really make a difference. Now, that means in our homes and on our jobs and our churches and our communities, we all got things to do that are within the will of God, but we just do them with a different priority now. And that is where, like Jesus said, when you go, you're already going. Go make disciples of all the nations. Let that be a priority. Leave the water pot at the well and go do what I've come to do, and that is to rescue men and women to the glory of God. Amen? So it's just a great picture. A great picture of He knows what we need and what everybody else needs because He knows everything. and praise God for it. Amen. Now in chapter five, chapter five, you can put above it his will. His, he will, or excuse me, he will, he will. What will he do? What chapter five tells us, he's going to raise the dead one day. And he's doing it now, and he will do it then. His plan for all mankind is a resurrection, a future resurrection. But judgment must happen in the here and now to avoid the judgment of the merciless wrath of God in a future day. And that's what Jesus is saying to us, that His will is, He's raising the living and the dead in a future day. Some will live forever with Him, and some will live separated from Him for all eternity. But everybody is going to come out the grave one day or be transformed prior to going to the grave. But as he said in John chapter 5, that even right now, he is giving life to the dead. What dead? People like you and me who are dead in our sins and trespasses that hear his voice, heed him, honor him. He changes us. And we go from being dead men to living men. And now we go forth with his message to help other people see what he's done. So to him be the glory. Amen. Amen. So we know somebody give me the time real quick. I can get carried away. Y'all know that. I'm coming. is it? Oh man, we got plenty of time brother Shannon. So just when you're talking with people, talking with your kids or family or friends, you can honestly tell them that Jesus has a plan for every man. Amen. And John chapter five, I believe is a very key fundamental chapter in all the book of John. And one of the reasons it is, is because it tells us the fact in it of how important it is to believe and to trust, that is you gotta hear Remember, hearing is seeing. Look in John 5 in verse number 19. This is how Jesus lived. This is how he will live his life in us. Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do, for whatever he does, the Father, the Son also does in like manner. Well, how do we see? We see by what? Hear it. You got to hear just like Jesus was hearing from his father. That's how he would see. Isaiah 50 would be a great passage to write down beside that that tells us how Jesus saw things, how he could hear things. It just reminds us of how the father woke him up from day to day and showed him what to do, spoke to his heart, and he did what the father gave him to do. He stayed on course with that. So verse 20 says, for the father does what? Loves the son. The father loves the son and the manifestation of that, what does he do? He shows him all things that he himself does. So what Jesus does is what the father does. Well, he couldn't see what the father was doing unless the father was showing it to him. How does he show it to him? He speaks to him. He speaks to him like he would speak and guide us in the same manner. How does the just live? How do the righteous live? The righteous live by what? Faith. Faith comes by what? Hearing. Hearing and hearing by what? The Word of God. God speaks, and when God speaks, He shows. That's a manifestation of the love of God, that He's showing us stuff. Now, over in later in the book, He's going to tell them that the love of God was not in these people that were questioning Jesus. That's if you look in verse 16, we'll see the audience that He was talking to. Verse 16 says, For this reason the Jews did what? persecuted. Jesus. You know, we're talking about the same kind of Jews that are living today. Those that don't love and trust and believe Jesus, what are they doing? They are persecuting Jesus and his people in the fact that they don't trust him. They say he's not worth trusting, that you can't honor him because he's not worth believing. So he says here, the Jews, for this reason, the Jews persecuted Jesus and they sought to what? heal him because he had done these things on the Sabbath. Remember, he's the Lord of the Sabbath, and Jesus can do what he wants when he wants, right? Amen. But because they didn't trust him, they questioned everything that he did. Verse 17, but Jesus answered them and said, my father has been working until now and I have been working. Therefore, the Jews sought all the more to kill him because he not only broke in their idea of the Sabbath, but he also said that God was his father, therefore making himself equal with God. That's what drove them to that madness that Jesus considered himself as God, that he considered himself as equal of God, and that's why people today around the world don't worship Jesus because they can't see him as God. That's why the Jews today that don't worship Jesus because you can't have Jesus without having the Father. And have the Father God without having Jesus, amen? Amen. And he's gonna say this in a moment. Verse 19, then Jesus answered and said to them, Moshe, surely I say to you, the Son of man can do nothing. Verse 20, for the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that he himself does. And he shows him greater works than these that you may marvel, that you may marvel. Verse 21, for as the father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the son gives life to whom he was. whom he wills, not apart from the work of the Father, but in line with. John 17, he's going to say, as many as you have given me, I have given them life. It's part of the will of God. Verse 22, for the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son. That is, the Son's going to be the standard by which all people will be judged by. Everything will be tested by the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why you have to be covered in His blood so that His faithfulness is accredited to your account. Now this is what we want to help people see when we're out there and about doing God's work. Verse 23, that all should honor the Son just as they honor who? Father. He who does not honor Jesus does not honor the Father who sent him. That's so important. And all God's people said? Amen. Because if Jesus is not center and central and exclusive of who we are serving and surrender to, you don't have a relationship with his Father. And therefore, those around the world and those we work with who say, well, man, I serve God, but that Jesus is just a little bit too much for me. We know what we're dealing with, right? We're still dealing with somebody that, what, still needs Jesus. Because I want to tell you, Jesus is much. He's everything, amen? And he will demand and require everything out of our life. Verse 24. Verily, verily, or truly, truly, or most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has what? everlasting life. Doesn't say he will have it, doesn't say he might have it, but the fact that you hear and believe this manifestation that you already what? Have everlasting life. You can't hear or believe without having it already. That's where John 3 was saying that men don't come to the light because they love what? their darkness, but those that come to the light, come to the light because God has already done something in them so that their life can be manifested that God has already done this work in their heart. And that's what he's going to go on to say in verse 25. Most assuredly, I'll say to you, the hour is coming. It will continue to come and is happening now when the dead, that is sinners, lost sinners, the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will what? Live. You see, dead men have to be brought to life by a living God so that dead men can hear the voice of the living God and have what? Everlasting Man, this is salvation. This is what we in the work are doing right here. Amen? Amen. So when you go forth proclaiming the gospel of Jesus and Jesus is preaching through us. This is what he's going to be doing, bringing dead men to life. When Kate was talking with Mize, and I got to talk with Mize last week on the phone last Saturday night, God had been at work and made Mize alive so that Mize could hear and then call out on the name of Jesus and confess him before men, women, boys, and girls. Why? Because Mize was dead, but he was brought to life by the voice of God. And therefore, he could hear now this call to Jesus on his life, and now the salvation was manifested to him that his Savior was Jesus. And as Kate has already testified, he prayed a big person prayer. He prayed an adult prayer, didn't he? He asked God to do a work that only Jesus can do. Why? He couldn't see that unless he could hear. The only way he can hear is that he was enabled to hear by the Son of God, amen? Now that takes the spirit at work, that took the gospel at work, but praise God for it. Verse 26, for as the father has life in himself, so also he has granted the son to have life in himself and has given him authority to execute judgment also because he's the son of man. And he says, look, don't let this throw you off. Do not marvel at this for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves, who are all in the graves, We'll hear his voice one day. and they will come forth, those who have done good, that is, they trusted God, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, those who have operated in unbelief and didn't trust Him, to the resurrection of condemnation. I can of myself do nothing as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me. Praise God, amen. So the evidence of a believer is they hear, They heed, they honor, and now they hold forth as a way of life the glorious good news of the Lord Jesus Christ. You keep reading all the way through, look in verse number 32. There is another who bears witness of me, and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. You have sent the John, and he has borne witness to the truth. Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved." See, that's the heart of being saved is hearing what Jesus says. Not what somebody testifies, but what Jesus says is what saves men. That's why you heard me say before, prayers don't save, plans don't save, coming down the aisle don't save, a person saves, and his name is Jesus. He delivers men and women, boys and girls to follow him. Verse 35, he was the burning and shining lamp and you were willing for time. to rejoice in his light. Notice that. You were willing for what? A season, for a little while, to rejoice in his light. Not that you had light. You rejoiced in his light, but you would only bear with it for just a little while because the light continued to expose the darkness and you wouldn't put up with it no more. So what did they do with John? They put him in prison and then they did what? They killed it. You see they rejoiced for a season, for a little time. But it wasn't in the light, they rejoiced in John's light. You follow with me? There's a world of difference there. He said, verse 36, but I have a greater witness than John for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the very works that I do bear witness of me that the Father has sent me. And the father himself who sent me has testified of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form. You see, you can't, if you believe in Jesus, you've heard from the father. But if you don't believe in Jesus with all your heart and life, you haven't heard from him. Verse 38, but you do not have his word abiding in you because whom he sent, you do not believe. You search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life. And these, the scriptures, are they which testify to me." How did they think they had eternal life in the scriptures? Because they were descendants of who? Abraham. They believed that they were descendants of Abraham, they had eternal life. But Jesus said, a man must what? Trust him to have eternal life. It's not because of a lineage. You're not you're not Born because of a bloodline from our parents no matter who our parents are you have to be what born again? Through the blood of Jesus and he says those truths that were preached in the scriptures were all about who? Jesus That's right. He says in verse 40, but you are not willing to come to me that you may have a life. I do not receive honor from men, but I know you that you do not have the love of God. What? in you, for if you had it in you, what would you do? You would honor me. The evidence of the love of God in a person is they trust and honor Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Amen? So look, I'm just going to give you a few little headlines for tomorrow and the next couple of days. Chapter six, What does he do? He feeds us. He's the bread of life. He is the bread of life, and we can forever rejoice in that. He is the bread of life. Chapter seven, he waters. He's the supplier of the river of life through the Holy Spirit. He says, when we believe upon him, out of our bellies will flow rivers of living water. He supplies water to us. Chapter 8, He frees us. He is truth and His disciples know it and follow Him and His teachings continue to set His disciples free from the lies and falsehoods of a lifeless society. He frees His people and all God's people say, Chapter 9, he opens up. He opens eyes and he hardens those who only want to see what they want to see. He opens up. Chapter 10, he shepherds. He shepherds us. He loves us. He lives. He laid his life down. He lifts us up and he leads us as his sheep. So those are just a couple of things over the next couple of days for you to be thinking on as you read. He shepherds, he opens, he frees, he waters, man, he feeds us, and we can just continue to celebrate in his presence. Amen? Amen. Well, look, I'm gonna go ahead and close it out, wrap it up. I'm sure y'all hungry and ready to get to eating. I imagine Miss Janet and them at the back are ready for y'all too. You coming to Jackson? I ain't in Jackson. Who's over in Jackson? Oh, I'm over. I'm in Texas, Carolyn. All right. Well, that sounds good. Sounds good. Well, look, y'all look good today. I can't smell you, but y'all look good. Amen. Well, let me pray with you and we'll turn things over to Brother Greg and him and look, y'all have a great fellowship. Enjoy some good eats around the table. Brother Shannon will be sharing the word tonight as y'all pray for him and be back around five o'clock, I believe it is. and y'all can celebrate again over the word and we just want to thank Jesus, love y'all, look forward to being back and celebrating over the next several days and we'll just keep looking up to him. Amen. Well, let me pray with you. Father, we love you and thank you and praise you. And I ask you to be with the brother in the day. I ask you to look over them. I ask your protection upon them. I ask you to bless them as they fellowship around the table, that Lord, you'll use that great food to nourish their body and keep it from hurting them any kind of way. And we just thank you for life. We thank you for Jesus. We thank you for your solutions. We don't always get it right, but we know you never get it wrong. So therefore, we throw our imperfections upon you and ask you to guide us, to help us, to cleanse us, and use us, and that we go forth and let everybody in the world know that we're all going to come to a resurrection one day and we want your judgment, your righteousness to be ours when we got to face you. And we're going to praise you in Jesus name. Amen. Love y'all. Look, y'all be blessed. Talk to you soon. Yes, sir.