The Lord ministered to me through this sermon by Dr. John Piper given at Angola Maximum Security Prison in southern California. Watch this excellent video or download the audio version below. Thought you might really be encouraged by it.
“Jesus did not come to assist you [in achieving] the [temporal] desires you had before you were born again. He came [primarily] to change those desires radically and to be the main desire.” ~ Dr. John Piper
John chapter 6 is the sermon text. Here the crowds who followed Jesus so eagerly – finding Him useful for their well being do to His amazing miracles – dwindled away, became frustrated and stopped following Jesus. In fact, John tells us that only the 12 disciples stayed behind to follow Him. At the beginning of the story, there were over 5,000 people following Christ and within a day or two later, only 12. Why the turning away? It seems that the people could not accept Jesus’ explanation concerning “the Bread of Life” and eating “true bread.”
Jesus came to ...