The Gospel of the Water and the Spirit: The Gospel of John Volume 1

Preface

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:12:06 +0000

The first words of Jesus recorded in the Gospel of John are a question. To the two disciples who had heard the testimony of John the Baptist and followed after Him, the Lord turned and asked, “What do you seek?” (John 1:38). And at the end of the six chapters this book deals with, the Lord, seeing the crowd leaving, asks the twelve disciples again, “Do you also want to go away?” (John 6:67). Between these two questions, many people came to the Lord, each seeking something. Some sought signs, some sought something to eat, and some sought only that their own circumstances would improve. But the Lord came to seek them in order to give them something deeper than what they sought, namely the remission of sins and eternal life.

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Ch01_01_Sermon_The love of God， who came to seek us (John 1:1–18)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:12:03 +0000

Until we know for certain how God deals with us, we are apt to guess at His heart by looking at our own circumstances. When things go well, we feel loved by God, and when hardship strikes, it seems as if God is keeping away from us. This is all the more so when our own shortcomings are exposed. Even though we say we believe in God, we want first to hide ourselves rather than go before Him. But God did not leave us to our guesswork. He Himself revealed what kind of God He is and how much He loves us.

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Ch01_02_Sermon_The voice in the wilderness that leads to the Lord (John 1:19–28)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:11:58 +0000

The people who came from Jerusalem asked John the Baptist who he was. The priests and Levites came to him and asked, and asked again. They asked whether he was the Christ, whether he was Elijah, whether he was the Prophet. Having seen John the Baptist baptizing people, they demanded an answer as to by what right he was doing this at all. But John’s answer was different from the words of someone trying to make himself look great. He made it clear that he was not the Christ, and introduced himself as the voice crying out to make straight the way of the Lord.

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Ch01_03_Sermon_Who is Jesus？ (John 1:1–13)

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• Jesus is God. He is the God of creation. • Jesus is the Savior who saved mankind from sin. • For whom was the birth of Jesus?

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Ch01_04_Sermon_Do you know the work of God＇s two servants？ (John 1:30–36)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:11:37 +0000

Today we have looked at the word of John chapter 1. The servants of God who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit all know that Jesus is the Son of God and also the Savior of sinners. Likewise, those who truly and rightly know and believe in God can know that John the Baptist is a servant of God.

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Ch01_05_Sermon_The Lamb of God who bore all our sins (John 1:29–34)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:11:32 +0000

There are people who, even while hearing the word that Jesus took away the sin of the world, think that their own sins still remain with them. They acknowledge that Jesus is the Savior, but when they recall the sins they have committed in their lives, they cannot readily accept it in their hearts. They speak of salvation to others, while they themselves live without the assurance of the remission of sins. Why is that? It is because they see the sins that show up in themselves as greater than Jesus, who bore the sin of the world. Even though the Lord has taken away sin, if a person does not know that fact, then as far as he is concerned, sin is still there.

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Ch01_06_Sermon_Those who met the Savior and became the Lord＇s disciples (John 1:35–42)

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Dear fellow believers, when we say that we believe in Jesus, what is it that we know and believe? Knowing the name Jesus is different from knowing and believing how He saved me from sin. Many people have attended church for a long time and are familiar with the names of the people in the Bible, yet they cannot actually explain when and how their own sins were passed on to Jesus. If we say that we believe in the Savior but do not know the salvation He accomplished, sin still remains in our hearts.

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Ch01_07_Sermon_The Lord who knows us and calls us to the hope of heaven (John 1:43–51)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:11:23 +0000

John chapter 1 is connected as one continuous thread. God the Word, who made all things, came in the body of a man, and John the Baptist, whom God sent, baptized Him and passed the sin of the world on to Him. John the Baptist testified that the Lord, who bore that sin, went to the Cross, died, and rose again to save us, and those who heard that testimony came to Jesus one by one. Today’s passage is the story of Philip and Nathanael meeting the Lord at the end of that thread.

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Ch02_01_Sermon_The word of the Lord that gives new life and joy (John 2:1–11)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:11:12 +0000

A feast is a place where joy is shared. There are a bridegroom and a bride, there are people who have come to celebrate, and there is food shared together. But at the wedding feast in today’s passage, something came to be lacking. The wine ran short. The guests kept coming, but the wine to be set on the feast table had run out, and so the feast that had begun joyfully ran into serious trouble.

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Ch02_02_Sermon_In every life， the Lord is absolutely necessary (John 2:1–10)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:11:08 +0000

The word we read today goes like this: “On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, ‘They have no wine’” (John 2:1–3). So, having been invited to the wedding feast, Jesus, His mother, and also His disciples went to the house of the wedding, and it says that the wine ran short. This is a scene where, because the wine ran short, an incident now arose and the work of God was revealed. This word tells us that, because the wine ran short, Jesus’ mother asked Jesus, and Jesus made wine out of water and brightened that wedding feast. And so the master of the feast, who was in overall charge of the feast, called the bridegroom and praised him, saying, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!” (John 2:10).

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Ch02_03_Sermon_Faith that follows the Lord even in the steps of daily life (John 2:12)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:58 +0000

Today’s word is a single verse. It is a record that Jesus went down to Capernaum with His mother, His brothers, and His disciples, and that He did not stay there many days. Neither the amazing event of water becoming wine nor any long words exchanged with people are in this one verse. Only that He went on the way together with them and that He stayed for a while is written here.

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Ch02_04_Sermon_The Lord， who knew the hearts of men and fulfilled the Father＇s will (John 2:23–25)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:54 +0000

When we hear the news that many people believed in the name of Jesus, we are glad. If people gathered to the Lord after seeing the signs, we may also think that they will now be a great help to the Lord. But right after this, the Apostle John records something unexpected. Jesus did not commit Himself to those people. The people saw what Jesus had done, but Jesus was looking at what was inside those people.

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Ch02_05_Sermon_Jesus， who opened the way of salvation with His own body (John 2:13–22)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:50 +0000

When we call Jesus to mind, we think of Him as One who is gentle and longsuffering. Yet in today’s passage, Jesus made a whip of cords, drove out the sheep and the oxen, and overturned the tables of the money changers. Among the scenes of Jesus recorded in the Gospels, there are few in which He acted this forcefully. What was it that the Lord could not leave alone?

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Ch03_01_Sermon_Those who have been born again of water and the Spirit and obtained eternal life (John 3:1–15)

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Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews. He was a man who taught the law, so much so that Jesus called him “the teacher of Israel” (John 3:10). Such a man came to Jesus by night. Nicodemus had seen the signs Jesus was doing. So he said that these were things no one could do unless God was with him, and he exalted Jesus to the full, saying, “We know that You are a teacher come from God” (John 3:2). But instead of responding to that praise, Jesus spoke at once about being born again. Nicodemus had said that he “knew,” but the Lord said that unless one is born again, he cannot even see the kingdom of God. Recognizing Jesus as a great person after seeing signs, and being born again and seeing the kingdom of God, are two different things.

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Ch03_02_Sermon_For God so loved the world (John 3:16–21)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:41 +0000

There are times when we hear testimonies of salvation. I cannot know everything about the life of the one giving the testimony. But I know well that in this world, while people believe in the Lord, sometimes a husband goes before God first, and sometimes a sister goes first. If such a thing happens to us as well, through this very thing we can rather set our hearts and love God more deeply, and we can even become precious workers of God. Some of the things we go through look bad because we think of them in terms of relationships between people, but if we think of them spiritually, within the world of God, they are not necessarily such bad things. “You probably say that because you have never been through it and do not know.” In fact, the faith of those who have received the remission of sins grows stronger when they go through hardship or are lonely. It is also faith to be able to believe in God better and follow Him better when one is in hardship.

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Ch03_03_Sermon_Those who believe in the love that gave the only begotten Son and come to the light (John 3:16–21)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:36 +0000

With what heart does God look upon us? How we answer this question determines our faith and our lives. If a person thinks that God hates him and is only waiting for a chance to judge him, he hides for fear that his sins will be exposed. On the other hand, if he thinks that since God is love, neither sin nor judgment matters, he does not treasure the Savior whom God has sent.

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Ch03_04_Sermon_Why did God send the Son of God into this world？ (John 3:16–21)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:32 +0000

What does it mean for us to say that we believe in the love of God? Today’s word speaks concretely about that. God said, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). The question is what kind of faith it is to believe in the truth that God the Father and the Son of God, Jesus Christ, have saved us all from the sin of the world.

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Ch03_05_Sermon_The faith of a witness who shares in the bridegroom＇s joy (John 3:22–36)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:27 +0000

How do you feel when you see the people who used to come to you moving over to someone else? When it seems that the work entrusted to us is growing smaller and someone else’s work is growing larger, we easily compare ourselves with others and feel hurt. Yet when John the Baptist heard that everyone was going to Jesus, he said instead that his joy was full. Hearing the same news, John’s disciples became jealous, but John rejoiced.

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Ch03_06_Sermon_God gave His only begotten Son！ (John 3:16–21)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:22 +0000

God is the Creator who made the universe and all things in it, and He is the Mighty One who holds absolute authority. The whole universe and everything in it lives and is run by the grace of God. The sun, the moon, and the stars, animals and plants—everything was made by the providence of God. But man alone God made as a being with free will, and He also made him a being of precious worth, able to receive the love of God.

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Ch04_01_Sermon_The Lord who gives us the fountain of everlasting life within (John 4:1–21)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:17 +0000

A woman came to a well to draw water. There sat Jesus, wearied from walking the road. The woman had come intending to draw water and go, but Jesus spoke to her of a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. What the woman was looking at was the deep well and a vessel to draw water with; what the Lord wanted to give her was the gift of God that gives life to her soul.

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Ch04_02_Sermon_Who are those who worship in spirit and truth？ (John 4:1–24)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:13 +0000

What is it to worship in spirit and truth? I will first tell you what it is to worship in spirit and truth, and then go into the word as a whole. The Lord said, “Those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:24), and this is a word telling us to worship before God with a true heart, together with the Holy Spirit. Worship offered in spirit and truth is as follows. It is the worship offered by a person who believes that the Lord received baptism from John at the Jordan River and thereby had all the sin of mankind, that is, all the sins we humans commit in the flesh, transferred to Him through that baptism, who believes that He was nailed to the Cross, received all the judgment for us, and rose again from death, and who has thus received the remission of sins and, as a result, has received the Holy Spirit from God as a gift and worships with the true faith that says, “God is my Lord.” Worship offered in the state where there is true faith in the heart and the Holy Spirit dwells there is worship offered in spirit and truth.

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Ch04_03_Sermon_A fountain of water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:3–26)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:10:07 +0000

Some people may have heard the word of John chapter 4 more than five hundred times. I have told this story a great many times. Jesus came to pass through the region called Samaria, and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus was weary and sat down, and when a Samaritan woman came to draw water, He asked her to give Him a drink. Then the woman said, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (John 4:9) and at the end of that conversation Jesus said, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water” (John 4:10). Here living water appears, and the water of everlasting life appears.

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Ch04_04_Sermon_The Samaritan woman who had five husbands (John 4:6–26)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:58 +0000

I studied theology. In Protestant discussions of salvation, Calvinism and Arminianism are often contrasted with one another. But when both of these theologies are examined in the light of the Bible, they have contradictions. One side insists too much on the sovereignty of God alone, and the other side insists on a faith into which much human thinking has entered—to put it simply, a faith to which much more of the human will has been added. But both of these theologies are nothing before God. For scholarship has always been made out of the self-centered thinking of man.

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Ch04_05_Sermon_Jesus Christ， who gave us life (John 4:13–42)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:53 +0000

You have worked hard this past week. I do not know how the week went by. It passed so quickly that I do not know where it went. Holding meetings is hard, and all sorts of other things are hard too, and I cannot tell you how weary I am; I truly wish the Lord would come quickly. When I think of myself, I wish He would come quickly, but when I think of those who have not yet been born again, my heart wishes He would come after a long, long while. The Bible says, “All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it” (Ecclesiastes 1:8), and it is truly wearisome. The world is weary, and the hearts of us the righteous are weary too. So many things have happened that, although the year is not even over, it feels as if we have already lived a whole year. I truly want our Lord to come to this earth as soon as possible, so that we may go to a beautiful place where there is no imperfection and live there resting at ease, lacking nothing. Truly, that is how it is. That is why I want to preach the gospel more quickly, so that our Lord may come quickly.

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Ch04_06_Sermon_A life of worshiping God and reaping the fruit of eternal life (John 4:22–38)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:48 +0000

What kind of worship does God receive? There are many people who worship, and there are many works that are said to be serving God. But today the Lord says that there are particular worshipers whom the Father seeks. This is the answer He gave to the Samaritan woman who asked where to worship. That word reveals who the Messiah was that the woman had been waiting for, and it changes the woman into one who leads the people of her town to Jesus.

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Ch04_07_Sermon_The Savior of the world， made known through the word (John 4:39–42)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:43 +0000

In a town of Samaria, people who believed in Jesus came into being. At the beginning of it was the testimony of one woman. The woman told people about the Jesus she had met, and those who heard her words came to the Lord. But the text does not end with the woman’s testimony. The people asked Jesus to stay with them, and they heard the Lord’s word directly. And they confessed that they knew Jesus was indeed the Savior of the world.

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Ch04_08_Sermon_The faith that receives the Lord who saved us (John 4:43–45)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:39 +0000

After staying two days in Samaria, Jesus went to Galilee. The Samaritans heard the Lord’s word for themselves and confessed that Jesus is truly the Savior of the world. After that precious event, the Lord set out on the road again. On that road the Lord said that a prophet has no honor in his own country. And when He came to Galilee, the people there welcomed the Lord. Within these three short verses, His hometown, which did not honor the Lord, and the Galileans, who received the Lord, appear together.

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Ch04_09_Sermon_Faith that believes the word of the Lord that gives life (John 4:46–54)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:35 +0000

There was a nobleman who had a son. That son was sick at Capernaum and was at the point of death. When the father heard the news that Jesus had come into Galilee, he went to Him. He hoped that Jesus would come down to his house and heal his son. But instead of going down with him, the Lord gave him one word: “Go your way; your son lives” (John 4:50).

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Ch05_01_Sermon_The Lord who came to seek us， who were unable to rise on our own (John 5:1–9)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:31 +0000

By the pool of Bethesda, many sick people were gathered. Hoping to be healed, they waited for the water to move. Among them was a man who had been sick for thirty-eight years. He said that even when the water moved, he had no one to put him into the pool. He had the desire to be healed, but by his own strength he could not take even a single step forward. It was to that very man that Jesus came.

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Ch05_02_Sermon_Jesus Christ， who is equal with God (John 5:12–30)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:27 +0000

When I see people who leave the Church of God or do not come to the place of worship, my heart aches. The thought comes to me, “Ah, they have left the blessed place. Yet again they are leaving.” If there are unavoidable circumstances, that would be all right, but if not, the thought comes to me, “They do not know how admirable and desirable a place this place, this church, is on this earth.”

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Ch05_03_Sermon_The Son of God， who gives true rest (John 5:10–18)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:22 +0000

The man who had lain sick for thirty-eight years was made well. When Jesus told him to rise, take up his bed, and walk, he was made well at once and walked. A man who had spent all those long years only lying down came to walk—how amazing a grace this is! The people around him ought to have clapped their hands and rejoiced with him, asked who had healed him, and given thanks to Him. Yet among those who saw him, there were some who took issue not with the fact that he had been made well, but with the fact that he was carrying his bed. For that day was the Sabbath.

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Ch05_04_Sermon_The Son of God， who gives life and judges (John 5:19–29)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:18 +0000

The man who had been sick for thirty-eight years rose up and walked at the word of Jesus. But not all who saw that work gave glory to God. They persecuted Jesus, saying that He had healed a sick man on the Sabbath, and when the Lord said that He also worked because the Father was working, they sought all the more to kill Him, saying that He called God His own Father and made Himself equal with God. Even in the face of such attacks, the Lord did not retreat in the slightest.

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Ch05_05_Sermon_The resurrection of Jesus is for the completion of our salvation (John 5:19–29)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:14 +0000

Today we have read the word of John chapter 5. Since today is Easter Sunday, you may wonder why we have read this word instead of speaking about the resurrection. Our Lord rose again from death, ascended into heaven, and is coming again. As we consider together the word we have read today, I intend to look at the meaning of the resurrection as well. In John chapter 5, among the sick people lying by the pool of Bethesda, the man who had been sick for thirty-eight years was healed.

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Ch05_06_Sermon_Eternal life gained by coming to the Savior of whom the Scriptures testify (John 5:30–47)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:09 +0000

People can read the Scriptures and say that they know God, and yet fail to accept the very Savior whom God sent. Those who opposed Jesus in today’s passage were like this. They searched the Scriptures and set their hope on Moses. But when He of whom the Scriptures testify stood before them, they did not receive Him. The Lord revealed not so much what they knew as whom their hearts were turned toward and what they were seeking.

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Ch06_01_Sermon_Let us eat and drink the food of life by faith (John 6:31–59)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:04 +0000

To the great crowd that was following Him, Jesus took five barley loaves and two fish—about the amount of a single lunch box—and, giving thanks over them, fed people numbering about five thousand men alone. If the women and children are counted as well, He blessed that one lunch box and fed far more people with it.

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Ch06_02_Sermon_The Lord who knows our circumstances and gives life (John 6:1–15)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:08:59 +0000

A great multitude followed Jesus. It was because they had seen the signs He performed on the sick. Even when Jesus went over to the other side of the Sea of Tiberias and went up on the mountain and sat with His disciples, the people gathered around the Lord. It was just when the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near. The gaze of the Lord, as He looked at that great crowd, took in even their hunger.

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Ch06_03_Sermon_The Lord who comes to us in the storm (John 6:16–21)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:08:50 +0000

Only a short while before, the disciples had seen the power of Jesus, who fed a great multitude until they were full. With five barley loaves and two fish, about five thousand people ate, and there was still some left over. When the multitude tried to make Jesus king by force, the Lord departed alone to the mountain, and when evening came, the disciples got into a boat and headed for Capernaum. It was already dark, and a great wind blew and the waves rose. Jesus had not yet come to them. The disciples who had seen the Lord’s marvelous work were now rowing hard on the dark sea.

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Ch06_04_Sermon_The bread of life that makes us live forever (John 6:22–40)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:08:46 +0000

It is the day after the five thousand ate the loaves. The crowd remembered that the evening before there had been only one boat on the shore, and that only the disciples had boarded it and left. But when morning came and they looked around, Jesus was not there. They got on boats that had come over from Tiberias, went all the way to Capernaum, and at last found the Lord. Then they asked, “Rabbi, when did You come here?” That the Lord had walked on the sea that night and gone to His disciples was something they did not know.

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Ch06_05_Sermon_The Lord who gave His own body and made us live (John 6:41–51)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:08:41 +0000

John chapter 6 begins with the story of bread and continues with the story of bread. At first it was the bread for the body, when He fed five thousand people with five barley loaves. Next, the Lord said that He was the bread which came down from heaven, and then He said that He was the bread of life. In today’s passage He says that He is the living bread which came down from heaven, and finally He says that this bread is His flesh. The word deepens step by step, and when it reaches today’s passage, what that bread is becomes clear.

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Ch06_06_Sermon_I am the bread of life (John 6:47–58)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:08:38 +0000

John chapter 6 has seventy-one verses. At the beginning of chapter 6, the miracle of the five loaves and two fish appears. There were many people following Jesus around, but there was nothing to eat. Then Jesus asked Philip, “Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?” (John 6:5).

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Ch06_07_Sermon_Eternal life received through the Lord＇s flesh and blood (John 6:52–59)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:08:33 +0000

When we read today’s passage, the word “eat” keeps coming up. Eat the flesh, drink the blood, the one who eats Me, he who eats this bread. Within eight verses the Lord speaks again and again of eating and drinking. To a hungry person, what word could be more welcome than the word to eat? From the fact that the Lord repeated it so many times, we can see how much He wanted us to eat.

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Ch06_08_Sermon_The Lord＇s word that gives life to our souls (John 6:60–65)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:08:29 +0000

John chapter 6 begins with a scene in which many people follow the Lord. A great multitude followed Him after seeing the signs of His healing the sick, and the people who had eaten their fill from five barley loaves tried to take Him by force and make Him king. There were also many who called themselves the Lord’s disciples. But when the Lord told them to eat His flesh and drink His blood, complaining arose among those very disciples. Today’s passage begins at that point.

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Ch06_09_Sermon_Faith that follows the Lord， who has the words of eternal life (John 6:66–71)

The New Life Mission — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:08:23 +0000

If we follow John chapter 6 from beginning to end, the number of people changes noticeably. When the chapter begins, there was a crowd of about five thousand, counting men alone, beside the Lord. But when the chapter ends, the only ones left beside the Lord are the twelve disciples. In between, the Lord said to eat His flesh and drink His blood, and He said that it is the Spirit who gives life and that the flesh profits nothing.

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