August 22, 2024 • 27 mins
It is in our nature to seek to satisfy our hunger. We want for so many things, but ultimately, will we even find satisfaction there? Pastor Tim knows of the one thing that will truly and fully satisfy us today.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What a wonderful, undeniable, magnificent display of his power.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Jesus, the creator of the world, is able to supply
us with all that we need right.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And he feeds all of those people with the little
boy's lunch.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Good morning and welcome to peace. To you from Peace
Lutheran Church in our Vada, Colorado. In our human nature,
we hunger for significance. We desperately try to satisfy that
hunger to find meaning, inner peace and fulfillment. And we
try to satisfy our hunger by filling our lives with
the things of this world. But the things of this
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world can never satisfy, not for very long. Jesus tells
us our hunger can be satisfied through him. Jesus is
the bread of life, and he and he alone can
truly satisfy. Let's listen in as Pastor Tim Lindeman explores
Jesus's invitation to fill our lives with him and be satisfied.
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Now here's Pastor Tim.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Please pray with me, Dear Lord, heavenly Father. We pray
that you would send your spirit into our hearts and
minds today, that you would open our ears to hear
our minds to perceive and our hearts to believe. In
Jesus' name, we pray Amen. Have you ever noticed that
wherever you travel here in the United States, whether you
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get out the interstate in Chicago or Saint Louis, or Billings, Montana,
or Temechula, California, wherever it is that you go, when
you get out the interstate, you see the same thing,
the same gas stations, the same fast food restaurants. You
probably see a home Depot.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Or a Low's or a Minard's.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You probably see the local food chain right with if
you would walk the aisles, you'd see the very same
brands wherever you go. And then of course there's that
all you can eat buffet, right you know what I'm
talking about for fifteen ninety nine, you could eat to
your heart's contend. You go in, you pay the bill,
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you get your tray, and you turn around, and there
is a row of salads, and there's the lettuce and
the spinach and the greens and all the fixings you
can imagine. You go to another line and then there's
the potatoes and the rice and the vegetables and all
the side dishes that you can possibly want or need.
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There's the dessert aisle, right, You've got the pie squares
and the cake and the cookies and the soft served
ice cream. There's the beverage line where you can have
the soda and the tea and the water and the
coffee and the flavored lemonades, all that you want, right,
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And then of course there's that aisle where you get
your proteins. You've got the pork chops and the chick
and the roast beef, and the fish and the seafood,
and of course the crab legs. Right, you know what
I'm talking about. And when you walk in, you look
around and you think, what am I hungry for today?
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Because I can't possibly eat everything that's here?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
What are you hungry for today?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That's a question that I think Jesus is asking us
to ponder in the scripture reading today, that we're faced
with the question what are you hungry for?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Today?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And I think that's a good question for us to consider.
What are you hungry for today? What is it that
got you up out of bed today? Why are you
here here in this place worshiping and gathering together with
God's people?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
What are you hungry for today? Food? Isn't an unusual thing.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
If we start paging through the Book of John, we
see food chapter two right at the beginning for Jesus's
first miracle. He's a wedding feast right with the finest food, resplendent,
fine food everywhere, right, and then Jesus adds to it
by changing jars of water into the finest wines. You
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go to chapter four and you have Jesus sending his
disciples into town to get some food for dinner, for lunch, right,
and he encounters a woman and he has this conversation
while they're gone about water that satisfies, food that satisfies.
And then we get to chapter eleven, and in chapter
eleven we see Jesus dining with his friends Mary and
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Martha and Lazarus that he had risen from the race
from the dead. We have a chapter twelve and thirteen
where Jesus is spending his last evening before he died
with his disciples celebrating a feast, a celebratory feast, the
Passover feast, and he dips his bread in the same
bowl as the man who's going to betray him. And
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then even after reads the Resurrection, Jesus what does he do?
He invites his disciples to a breakfast of broiled fish
on the beach. Food is everywhere, but probably the one
that we think of and know the best is in
chapter six, where Jesus is preaching and teaching, and as
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the sun is starting to decline in the sky descend,
and the afternoon is waning on and the evening is coming,
he commands his disciples to find what food they can find.
They find a little boy's lunch, five loaves and two fish,
and then we see Jesus bless it, and then we see.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Him break it and then share it.
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And five thousand and men plus all the women and
children that were there were fed to their full, complete
with twelve basket loads full of leftovers for the disciples,
a lunch for each one of them. Jesus, What a wonderful, undeniable, magnificent.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Display of his power.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Jesus, the creator of the world, is able to supply
us with all that we need.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Right and he feeds all of those people with a
little boy's lunch. What a sign. And the people wanted
to follow him can't blame him? Can you?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Who wouldn't want to follow a guy? We want a
president like that, don't we all right? Who will fix
our economy?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That will make everything good for us so we could
have what we want. They wanted to make him king.
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And the next morning, when they discovered that he wasn't
on the beach where they were, they went around the
lake to another shore line, to the town of Capernaum,
Jesus's kind of home base, and there they found him there,
and Jesus looked at him, and he said to them,
confronting them, he said, truly, I say to you, you
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are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because
you hate your fill of the lows. Do not work
for the food the perishes, but for the food that
endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will
give you. He's telling them that you're following me because
of what you want. You're following me because I give
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you what you want. You're not following me because of
who I am and what I have to offer you.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And the people brought it up first.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, our ancestors back in the day, when they were
wandering in the wilderness, Well, God gave them a sign.
He fed them. They were thirsty. He gave him some
to drink. They were hungry. He gave him some to eat.
And when they wanted bread, they gave him bread. When
he wanted meat, he gave him meat. What kind of
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sign are you going to give us? And Jesus using
that very same example, reminds them, you know that manna,
that bread, It's satisfied, but only for a time, only
for a day. And then the next day they needed
to gather more. They needed to gather that mana. Again
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and again and again and again. He said, set your
eyes on the bread that will satisfy, And I am
that bread. And then he says to them, I am
the bread. Whoever comes to me the bread of life.
Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes
that me shall never thirst.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And you know what the people did. They grumbled. Grumbling
seemed like a biblical thing to do, doesn't that.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
When we look back and the Exodus, the people grumbled
seven times. They were thirsty, they grumbled, and God gave
them water. They were hungry, they grumbled, and God gave
them bread from heaven.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
They were complaining because this was bread and they wanted meat.
God gave them bread. They grumbled.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
People of Israel grumbled a lot seven times in Exodus,
seven more times in numbers. They grumbled in Isaiah, they
grumbled in the Psalms. All the way through the Old Testament,
they grumbled, and we're still grumbling people of God, right
even in the buffet line.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
All this food here, and then what I want, what
I'm hungry for today? Isn't there those crab legs. Seems
like everybody else wants crab legs. Every time that came out,
they're gone. The pan's empty, doesn't matter, they've already had
three helpings. We grumble, right because we want what we want.
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Those people grumbled.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
First.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
They grumbled because Jesus didn't answer the question the way
they wanted it to be answered. We want bread, and
now I'm the bread of life. Wait, wait, wait, time out.
Isn't this Joseph's son, the carpenter's son. We know Joseph,
we know his mother Mary, we know his brothers and sisters.
They're not talking about being the bread of life. They're
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not talking to me of the bread sent from heaven.
They haven't even talked about him being.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
The bread sent from heaven. What is he talking about? Then?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
They grumbled when Jesus said, He said, I am the
bread that came down from heaven. And truly I say
to you, unless you eat the flesh of the mass
on the man and drink his blood, you shall have
no life in you. Ew eat his body, drink his blood.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
This is a hard teaching, kind of hard to swallow,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Right? See what I did there? And do you know
what they did? They grumbled.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And a lot of them walked away because what they wanted,
what they were hungry for, was what they wanted something
that would satisfy their desires. They didn't desire what God
had to offer. So what are you hungry for today?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Why are you here?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
What got you up out of bed today? What is
it that you spend your time striving for?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
What is it that you work for? What are you
teaching your children and your grandchildren and your great grandchildren?
What is it that we're feeding?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Because you know, there's a great, big buffet out there
right here in this country. There is so much at
our disposal, so many blessings, so many gifts. We turn
on the television, we open the mailbox and there's ads, electronics.
Can you even think about all the electronics that are
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at our disposal, those tablets, those cell phones, those computers,
those televisions that can do magnificent things, right, And the
minute we get one thing.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
We want another one satisfied.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
The grocery stores, ile after aisle after aisle, everything we want,
and not just one kind of bread, but all kinds
of bread, not one kind of meat, but all kinds
of meat, all there right there for us. There's so much.
And sporting events. I was thinking about sporting events last night.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You know, if we.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Can't make it to the stadium or the ball field,
no problem. We sit back in our easy chair, right
and we could watch any game. The other night I
saw television with four screens on it. There were four
ball games going on at one time. And then with
our kids, man, we get them involved in sports, and
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we go to the practices. We take them to the practices,
we've watched the games, and then we hire those personalized coaches,
send them to sports camps. We strive for all kinds
of things, and think about it. Does that ever satisfy
the Nuggets? They won the national championship. Are we satisfied
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with the national championship?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
No? We want them to repeat right, and so today
we're never satisfied. What are you striving for?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Trying to rack up the good grades to please your employer.
It's a fatten your bank account to keep up with
the joneses. Are you grumbling? You might be grumbling right now, saying, well, Tim,
we've heard this sermon before. We've heard it from you,
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and we've heard it from Pastor Guy. We've heard it
from other people, probably every pastor that's ever graced this
pulpit up here.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
We've heard this message.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
But let me remind you that I'm not the only
one repeating myself. And Jesus repeated himself. He says, I
am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall
not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
And then he says again, I am the bread that
has come down from heaven. He says that yet again.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh I
am the living bread. Unless you eat the flesh of
the Son of Man and drink his blood, you shall
have no life in you.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Jesus repeated himself, because he knows that he is that
bread that came down from heaven. He's the one who
came and allowed his flesh to be broken and his
blood to be shared. He came to walk with us
and to talk with us, and then to reveal God
to us, to be getting close down and personal with us,
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that we might know Him, that we might know God.
He came to share the love of God with us us,
and the grace of God and the forgiveness. He came
to suffer and to die on the cross, and to
rise again so that we might live with him.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And he desires nothing more.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Than to have a personal, deep down, deep and personal
relationship with us. And he comes to us, and in
the waters of baptism he gives us this Holy Spirit.
In his word, he speaks into our heart his love
and his forgiveness. In the Lord's Supper, he offers his
body of blood to us so that we might be forgiven,
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that we might become intimately close to Him. What did
the disciples do? They walked away? Do we walk away
from him?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Why are we here today? Lord? To whom shall we go?
You have the words of Him Eternal Life.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Amen, Good morning, pastor tim, Good morning Love the message?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
And what are you hungry for today?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I'm always hungry? Me too?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Me too, you know, and we were talking about that
off air a little bit. And when you look at
the feeding of the five thousand, which you know we
recognize and you mentioned here just a little while ago,
it is probably the feeding of the fifteen thousand when
you consider they only counted the men, right, so probably
fifteen thousand and a lot of a lot of those
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are probably teenagers that eat a lot. But the point is,
what you're trying to make is that that God provides.
God provides all they had, Like you said, they had
a child's lunch and that was it. But they've had
fifteen thousand people.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's an amazing miracle, and it is an amazing display
of the fact that Jesus was truly God, that he
has control over nature, that he is the creator.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Right here he is feeding with a.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Little boy's lunch, five lows and two little fish. He
feeds thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of people, and
they're all satisfied for a while. The next morning they
wake up and he's not there with them, and so
they go and search for him, and Jesus says, you're
following me, not because you believe in me as God,
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but because you want your stomach's filled again. It just
doesn't satisfy the things of this world. And you know
what's crazy. Then they ask him, well, you know, back
in our father's day, in our ancestors day, God did
this great sign by feeding them manna every day. And
what kind of great sign are you going to give me?
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And you know you read that and you think, what
weren't you there yesterday when God did this a mighty sign.
So from our human perspective, we are never satisfied. The
things of this world will never satisfy.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
That's right. And just like you said, the illustration of
being at the buffet, and you have all this, and
God provides all those things, you know, And in your
illustration it was the food at the buffet. But when
I thought about it, and I'm listening intently, I'm thinking
to myself, well, yeah, he provides me with my home,
He provides me with you know, when you look at
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the most wonderful things in my life you provided me
with and gave me were children and grandchildren, and it's
just amazing. And you know, but all those things, especially
when it comes to like my home and my car
to get around in and all that kind it's all temporary.
It's just and we always want to fill it up again.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
It will never satisfy. I was putting in a new
lighting on our patio and I put in the first
light and everything worked out just fine. I put in
the second one and it doesn't work, and I'm not satisfied. Well,
you know what, to be honest with you, the original
lights worked just fine. I didn't need to change them.
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But we're never satisfied. We always strive for more. We
want more. The problem is that sometimes we try to
find our meaning, our significance in the things of this world.
And all of those things are blessings from God. There's
nothing wrong with them, their gifts from God. It's a
buffet that He lays out before us. But we can't
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build our lives on that. We can't find significance and
meaning in life through that.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
And you even use the analogy of you know, winning
the game and then that type of thing, the athletics
and all that, and like you said, nothing wrong with that,
you know, watching football and basketball and all this stuff,
and athletics and playing in these different games. There's nothing
wrong with being rich. There really isn't. But you have
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to remember who's in charge, right, and who gave us
all of these things, and that all these things are
really just temporary and what we're really striving for. And
we mentioned it before, that empty tray that you talked about,
that empty tray that we want to fill, we want
to feel it, we want to fill it. We need
to fill it with the word of God. We need
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to fill it with Jesus.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
If I'm looking for the crab legs in the buffet
and that tray is empty, I'm looking for the crab
legs to satisfy me, but they're not going to. Well,
the only thing that satisfies is the true bread of life,
and that's Jesus. And that was his point. And you
know he says, you know, unless you eat of this
of my body and then you drink of my blood.
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What he was saying what was and what he was
saying was, I want you to have an intimate relationship
with me. If we have an intimate relationship, then you
will be fulfilled because only Jesus can fill us.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yes, And that you know that we've talked about, you know,
my family situation where my son realized that the most
that until he opened up his heart and said Jesus,
come into my life. Jesus, I need you, Jesus, I
have to have you. Not until then did he break
away from the bondage that he had with alcohol and
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things like that. It wasn't until he said, Jesus, please
in my life, take my life.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It's a wonderful example, a very apt example of how
someone tries to fill their lives with something else other
than God, and with alcohol, with drugs, with with food, relationships,
you know, and you know, even the good things of life,
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you know, family, friends, you know, the stuff that we have,
the cars, the homes, the clothing, they're all gifts from God.
But they don't satisfy, not for very long.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
No, And really, like you said many times, you know,
it's all his. All the stuff that we think that
we did, that we have, that we buy, that's all
about I. I I we we did all this. No,
it all belongs to God. And I know when I'm
teaching Sunday School, we mentioned that just this past week
in Sunday School, we're talking about what is his? What
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is his?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
That?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
You know, it's it's all his. We make it ours,
And I think He wants us to be happy. He
does He wants us to enjoy our life. He wants
us to have fun and enjoy this life. But he
also wants us to remember it's all his, that's because
of what he has done.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And it's all a gift from him to sustain this
body of life. He gives that all to us. But
the fact of the matter is as much of a
gift as it is. Again, it doesn't satisfy.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
The creation.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
The creatures that are a part of this world can
never satisfy. The only thing that can satisfy is relationship
with the Creator. What Jesus was asking his disciples is twelve.
He said, are you going to leave me to Are
you going to go search after all these things out there?
And Peter, what a wonderful statement of faith. Yes where
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else can we go to be satisfied? You have the
words of eternal life. Yeah, these things are wonderful for
this earth and this life on this earth. But where
else are we going to find eternal life? And that's
the message of Jesus.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I love it, love it, you know, And I know
there's a lot of folks out there that are unchurched,
they don't have a church home, and we'd love to
see them right here at Peace Lutheran Church, fifty seventh
in Field in Arvada. Love to have you here, folks,
So Pastor Tim, thank you for that message again and
have a blessed week.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You all have a blessed week too.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
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Lord you with you today and always
What a wonderful, undeniable, magnificent display of his power.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Jesus, the creator of the world, is able to supply
us with all that we need right.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And he feeds all of those people with the little
boy's lunch.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Good morning and welcome to peace. To you from Peace
Lutheran Church in our Vada, Colorado. In our human nature,
we hunger for significance. We desperately try to satisfy that
hunger to find meaning, inner peace and fulfillment. And we
try to satisfy our hunger by filling our lives with
the things of this world. But the things of this
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world can never satisfy, not for very long. Jesus tells
us our hunger can be satisfied through him. Jesus is
the bread of life, and he and he alone can
truly satisfy. Let's listen in as Pastor Tim Lindeman explores
Jesus's invitation to fill our lives with him and be satisfied.
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Now here's Pastor Tim.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Please pray with me, Dear Lord, heavenly Father. We pray
that you would send your spirit into our hearts and
minds today, that you would open our ears to hear
our minds to perceive and our hearts to believe. In
Jesus' name, we pray Amen. Have you ever noticed that
wherever you travel here in the United States, whether you
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get out the interstate in Chicago or Saint Louis, or Billings, Montana,
or Temechula, California, wherever it is that you go, when
you get out the interstate, you see the same thing,
the same gas stations, the same fast food restaurants. You
probably see a home Depot.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Or a Low's or a Minard's.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You probably see the local food chain right with if
you would walk the aisles, you'd see the very same
brands wherever you go. And then of course there's that
all you can eat buffet, right you know what I'm
talking about for fifteen ninety nine, you could eat to
your heart's contend. You go in, you pay the bill,
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you get your tray, and you turn around, and there
is a row of salads, and there's the lettuce and
the spinach and the greens and all the fixings you
can imagine. You go to another line and then there's
the potatoes and the rice and the vegetables and all
the side dishes that you can possibly want or need.
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There's the dessert aisle, right, You've got the pie squares
and the cake and the cookies and the soft served
ice cream. There's the beverage line where you can have
the soda and the tea and the water and the
coffee and the flavored lemonades, all that you want, right,
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And then of course there's that aisle where you get
your proteins. You've got the pork chops and the chick
and the roast beef, and the fish and the seafood,
and of course the crab legs. Right, you know what
I'm talking about. And when you walk in, you look
around and you think, what am I hungry for today?
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Because I can't possibly eat everything that's here?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
What are you hungry for today?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That's a question that I think Jesus is asking us
to ponder in the scripture reading today, that we're faced
with the question what are you hungry for?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Today?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And I think that's a good question for us to consider.
What are you hungry for today? What is it that
got you up out of bed today? Why are you
here here in this place worshiping and gathering together with
God's people?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
What are you hungry for today? Food? Isn't an unusual thing.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
If we start paging through the Book of John, we
see food chapter two right at the beginning for Jesus's
first miracle. He's a wedding feast right with the finest food, resplendent,
fine food everywhere, right, and then Jesus adds to it
by changing jars of water into the finest wines. You
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go to chapter four and you have Jesus sending his
disciples into town to get some food for dinner, for lunch, right,
and he encounters a woman and he has this conversation
while they're gone about water that satisfies, food that satisfies.
And then we get to chapter eleven, and in chapter
eleven we see Jesus dining with his friends Mary and
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Martha and Lazarus that he had risen from the race
from the dead. We have a chapter twelve and thirteen
where Jesus is spending his last evening before he died
with his disciples celebrating a feast, a celebratory feast, the
Passover feast, and he dips his bread in the same
bowl as the man who's going to betray him. And
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then even after reads the Resurrection, Jesus what does he do?
He invites his disciples to a breakfast of broiled fish
on the beach. Food is everywhere, but probably the one
that we think of and know the best is in
chapter six, where Jesus is preaching and teaching, and as
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the sun is starting to decline in the sky descend,
and the afternoon is waning on and the evening is coming,
he commands his disciples to find what food they can find.
They find a little boy's lunch, five loaves and two fish,
and then we see Jesus bless it, and then we see.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Him break it and then share it.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And five thousand and men plus all the women and
children that were there were fed to their full, complete
with twelve basket loads full of leftovers for the disciples,
a lunch for each one of them. Jesus, What a wonderful, undeniable, magnificent.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Display of his power.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Jesus, the creator of the world, is able to supply
us with all that we need.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Right and he feeds all of those people with a
little boy's lunch. What a sign. And the people wanted
to follow him can't blame him? Can you?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Who wouldn't want to follow a guy? We want a
president like that, don't we all right? Who will fix
our economy?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That will make everything good for us so we could
have what we want. They wanted to make him king.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
And the next morning, when they discovered that he wasn't
on the beach where they were, they went around the
lake to another shore line, to the town of Capernaum,
Jesus's kind of home base, and there they found him there,
and Jesus looked at him, and he said to them,
confronting them, he said, truly, I say to you, you
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are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because
you hate your fill of the lows. Do not work
for the food the perishes, but for the food that
endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will
give you. He's telling them that you're following me because
of what you want. You're following me because I give
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you what you want. You're not following me because of
who I am and what I have to offer you.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And the people brought it up first.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, our ancestors back in the day, when they were
wandering in the wilderness, Well, God gave them a sign.
He fed them. They were thirsty. He gave him some
to drink. They were hungry. He gave him some to eat.
And when they wanted bread, they gave him bread. When
he wanted meat, he gave him meat. What kind of
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sign are you going to give us? And Jesus using
that very same example, reminds them, you know that manna,
that bread, It's satisfied, but only for a time, only
for a day. And then the next day they needed
to gather more. They needed to gather that mana. Again
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and again and again and again. He said, set your
eyes on the bread that will satisfy, And I am
that bread. And then he says to them, I am
the bread. Whoever comes to me the bread of life.
Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes
that me shall never thirst.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And you know what the people did. They grumbled. Grumbling
seemed like a biblical thing to do, doesn't that.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
When we look back and the Exodus, the people grumbled
seven times. They were thirsty, they grumbled, and God gave
them water. They were hungry, they grumbled, and God gave
them bread from heaven.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
They were complaining because this was bread and they wanted meat.
God gave them bread. They grumbled.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
People of Israel grumbled a lot seven times in Exodus,
seven more times in numbers. They grumbled in Isaiah, they
grumbled in the Psalms. All the way through the Old Testament,
they grumbled, and we're still grumbling people of God, right
even in the buffet line.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
All this food here, and then what I want, what
I'm hungry for today? Isn't there those crab legs. Seems
like everybody else wants crab legs. Every time that came out,
they're gone. The pan's empty, doesn't matter, they've already had
three helpings. We grumble, right because we want what we want.
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Those people grumbled.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
First.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
They grumbled because Jesus didn't answer the question the way
they wanted it to be answered. We want bread, and
now I'm the bread of life. Wait, wait, wait, time out.
Isn't this Joseph's son, the carpenter's son. We know Joseph,
we know his mother Mary, we know his brothers and sisters.
They're not talking about being the bread of life. They're
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not talking to me of the bread sent from heaven.
They haven't even talked about him being.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
The bread sent from heaven. What is he talking about? Then?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
They grumbled when Jesus said, He said, I am the
bread that came down from heaven. And truly I say
to you, unless you eat the flesh of the mass
on the man and drink his blood, you shall have
no life in you. Ew eat his body, drink his blood.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
This is a hard teaching, kind of hard to swallow,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Right? See what I did there? And do you know
what they did? They grumbled.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And a lot of them walked away because what they wanted,
what they were hungry for, was what they wanted something
that would satisfy their desires. They didn't desire what God
had to offer. So what are you hungry for today?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Why are you here?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
What got you up out of bed today? What is
it that you spend your time striving for?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
What is it that you work for? What are you
teaching your children and your grandchildren and your great grandchildren?
What is it that we're feeding?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Because you know, there's a great, big buffet out there
right here in this country. There is so much at
our disposal, so many blessings, so many gifts. We turn
on the television, we open the mailbox and there's ads, electronics.
Can you even think about all the electronics that are
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at our disposal, those tablets, those cell phones, those computers,
those televisions that can do magnificent things, right, And the
minute we get one thing.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
We want another one satisfied.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
The grocery stores, ile after aisle after aisle, everything we want,
and not just one kind of bread, but all kinds
of bread, not one kind of meat, but all kinds
of meat, all there right there for us. There's so much.
And sporting events. I was thinking about sporting events last night.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You know, if we.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Can't make it to the stadium or the ball field,
no problem. We sit back in our easy chair, right
and we could watch any game. The other night I
saw television with four screens on it. There were four
ball games going on at one time. And then with
our kids, man, we get them involved in sports, and
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we go to the practices. We take them to the practices,
we've watched the games, and then we hire those personalized coaches,
send them to sports camps. We strive for all kinds
of things, and think about it. Does that ever satisfy
the Nuggets? They won the national championship. Are we satisfied
(14:06):
with the national championship?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
No? We want them to repeat right, and so today
we're never satisfied. What are you striving for?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Trying to rack up the good grades to please your employer.
It's a fatten your bank account to keep up with
the joneses. Are you grumbling? You might be grumbling right now, saying, well, Tim,
we've heard this sermon before. We've heard it from you,
(14:47):
and we've heard it from Pastor Guy. We've heard it
from other people, probably every pastor that's ever graced this
pulpit up here.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
We've heard this message.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
But let me remind you that I'm not the only
one repeating myself. And Jesus repeated himself. He says, I
am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall
not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
And then he says again, I am the bread that
has come down from heaven. He says that yet again.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh I
am the living bread. Unless you eat the flesh of
the Son of Man and drink his blood, you shall
have no life in you.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Jesus repeated himself, because he knows that he is that
bread that came down from heaven. He's the one who
came and allowed his flesh to be broken and his
blood to be shared. He came to walk with us
and to talk with us, and then to reveal God
to us, to be getting close down and personal with us,
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that we might know Him, that we might know God.
He came to share the love of God with us us,
and the grace of God and the forgiveness. He came
to suffer and to die on the cross, and to
rise again so that we might live with him.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And he desires nothing more.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Than to have a personal, deep down, deep and personal
relationship with us. And he comes to us, and in
the waters of baptism he gives us this Holy Spirit.
In his word, he speaks into our heart his love
and his forgiveness. In the Lord's Supper, he offers his
body of blood to us so that we might be forgiven,
(16:35):
that we might become intimately close to Him. What did
the disciples do? They walked away? Do we walk away
from him?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Why are we here today? Lord? To whom shall we go?
You have the words of Him Eternal Life.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Amen, Good morning, pastor tim, Good morning Love the message?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
And what are you hungry for today?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I'm always hungry? Me too?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Me too, you know, and we were talking about that
off air a little bit. And when you look at
the feeding of the five thousand, which you know we
recognize and you mentioned here just a little while ago,
it is probably the feeding of the fifteen thousand when
you consider they only counted the men, right, so probably
fifteen thousand and a lot of a lot of those
(17:45):
are probably teenagers that eat a lot. But the point is,
what you're trying to make is that that God provides.
God provides all they had, Like you said, they had
a child's lunch and that was it. But they've had
fifteen thousand people.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's an amazing miracle, and it is an amazing display
of the fact that Jesus was truly God, that he
has control over nature, that he is the creator.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Right here he is feeding with a.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Little boy's lunch, five lows and two little fish. He
feeds thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of people, and
they're all satisfied for a while. The next morning they
wake up and he's not there with them, and so
they go and search for him, and Jesus says, you're
following me, not because you believe in me as God,
(18:39):
but because you want your stomach's filled again. It just
doesn't satisfy the things of this world. And you know
what's crazy. Then they ask him, well, you know, back
in our father's day, in our ancestors day, God did
this great sign by feeding them manna every day. And
what kind of great sign are you going to give me?
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And you know you read that and you think, what
weren't you there yesterday when God did this a mighty sign.
So from our human perspective, we are never satisfied. The
things of this world will never satisfy.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
That's right. And just like you said, the illustration of
being at the buffet, and you have all this, and
God provides all those things, you know, And in your
illustration it was the food at the buffet. But when
I thought about it, and I'm listening intently, I'm thinking
to myself, well, yeah, he provides me with my home,
He provides me with you know, when you look at
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the most wonderful things in my life you provided me
with and gave me were children and grandchildren, and it's
just amazing. And you know, but all those things, especially
when it comes to like my home and my car
to get around in and all that kind it's all temporary.
It's just and we always want to fill it up again.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
It will never satisfy. I was putting in a new
lighting on our patio and I put in the first
light and everything worked out just fine. I put in
the second one and it doesn't work, and I'm not satisfied. Well,
you know what, to be honest with you, the original
lights worked just fine. I didn't need to change them.
(20:24):
But we're never satisfied. We always strive for more. We
want more. The problem is that sometimes we try to
find our meaning, our significance in the things of this world.
And all of those things are blessings from God. There's
nothing wrong with them, their gifts from God. It's a
buffet that He lays out before us. But we can't
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build our lives on that. We can't find significance and
meaning in life through that.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
And you even use the analogy of you know, winning
the game and then that type of thing, the athletics
and all that, and like you said, nothing wrong with that,
you know, watching football and basketball and all this stuff,
and athletics and playing in these different games. There's nothing
wrong with being rich. There really isn't. But you have
(21:11):
to remember who's in charge, right, and who gave us
all of these things, and that all these things are
really just temporary and what we're really striving for. And
we mentioned it before, that empty tray that you talked about,
that empty tray that we want to fill, we want
to feel it, we want to fill it. We need
to fill it with the word of God. We need
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to fill it with Jesus.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
If I'm looking for the crab legs in the buffet
and that tray is empty, I'm looking for the crab
legs to satisfy me, but they're not going to. Well,
the only thing that satisfies is the true bread of life,
and that's Jesus. And that was his point. And you
know he says, you know, unless you eat of this
of my body and then you drink of my blood.
(21:58):
What he was saying what was and what he was
saying was, I want you to have an intimate relationship
with me. If we have an intimate relationship, then you
will be fulfilled because only Jesus can fill us.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yes, And that you know that we've talked about, you know,
my family situation where my son realized that the most
that until he opened up his heart and said Jesus,
come into my life. Jesus, I need you, Jesus, I
have to have you. Not until then did he break
away from the bondage that he had with alcohol and
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things like that. It wasn't until he said, Jesus, please
in my life, take my life.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It's a wonderful example, a very apt example of how
someone tries to fill their lives with something else other
than God, and with alcohol, with drugs, with with food, relationships,
you know, and you know, even the good things of life,
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you know, family, friends, you know, the stuff that we have,
the cars, the homes, the clothing, they're all gifts from God.
But they don't satisfy, not for very long.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
No, And really, like you said many times, you know,
it's all his. All the stuff that we think that
we did, that we have, that we buy, that's all
about I. I I we we did all this. No,
it all belongs to God. And I know when I'm
teaching Sunday School, we mentioned that just this past week
in Sunday School, we're talking about what is his? What
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is his?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
That?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
You know, it's it's all his. We make it ours,
And I think He wants us to be happy. He
does He wants us to enjoy our life. He wants
us to have fun and enjoy this life. But he
also wants us to remember it's all his, that's because
of what he has done.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And it's all a gift from him to sustain this
body of life. He gives that all to us. But
the fact of the matter is as much of a
gift as it is. Again, it doesn't satisfy.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
The creation.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
The creatures that are a part of this world can
never satisfy. The only thing that can satisfy is relationship
with the Creator. What Jesus was asking his disciples is twelve.
He said, are you going to leave me to Are
you going to go search after all these things out there?
And Peter, what a wonderful statement of faith. Yes where
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else can we go to be satisfied? You have the
words of eternal life. Yeah, these things are wonderful for
this earth and this life on this earth. But where
else are we going to find eternal life? And that's
the message of Jesus.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I love it, love it, you know, And I know
there's a lot of folks out there that are unchurched,
they don't have a church home, and we'd love to
see them right here at Peace Lutheran Church, fifty seventh
in Field in Arvada. Love to have you here, folks,
So Pastor Tim, thank you for that message again and
have a blessed week.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You all have a blessed week too.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Thank you, Thank you for joining us for Peace to
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you from Peace Church in our Bada, Colorado. If you
have no church home, we would be delighted for you
to join us on any Sunday. Our address is five
six seven five Field Street in Arvada, Colorado. Our services
are at eight and ten thirty am. Bible classes for
all ages are at nine to fifteen am. You can
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Now from the entire broadcast team at Peace Lupmchurch and Arbada.
I am Reuben Holiday and may the peace of our
Lord you with you today and always
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