Sermon in Longview 23.11.2018

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, dear brothers and sisters, we now pause for a moment and turn our thoughts and hearts toward our God in thanksgiving and prayer.

Our dear Heavenly Father, this Thanksgiving season we have many reasons to give you thanks. You give us everything. Everything we receive in this life is from your gracious hand. And we want to be thankful to you for that. You have given us plenty to eat. You have given us our family and friends, dear escorts, brothers and sisters in living faith. And with them it is nice to make this journey together. Father, we do not need to be alone.

Father, thank you for many temporal blessings that you continue to give us day by day. We have places to dwell and jobs to keep us busy and occupied. And you also provide us our sustenance. And Father, you give us everything we need in this life. And we want to thank you for that. Above all, thank you for your dear Son and the gift of faith that tonight we can have. And Father, thank you that through faith you also give an outlook of hope for a wonderful future in heaven's home. And thank you also that along this journey during difficulty you are yet with us and you uplift us. Thank you that from the gospel of your kingdom we are able to believe our sins forgiven.

Father, we are able to believe our sins forgiven. Ask, Father, that it could come to be so. Preserve us in this living faith. Give us strength to battle against the temptations and sin. And allow us to travel as brothers and sisters who desire to make this journey towards heaven's home, carrying a pure conscience. Father, you can help us in that and you can give your strength for this journey. And allow us together to make this journey to its successful end so that there in heaven's home, we can one day begin a Thanksgiving meal together with you. And together with those who by faith have made it there before us.

Dear Father, we ask that you bless the services this weekend so that your word could nourish our soul. So that it would be for the praise of your name and upbuilding of your congregation here on earth.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses. As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen. Amen. Amen.

Your brothers and sisters, I got a couple things that I need to remember. And I will begin with a really important one. Greetings from my wife. She sends her loving greetings of God's peace and love to you here in Longview. And also greetings from your brothers and sisters there in Longview. Quite a few people came and personally wanted the greetings to be sent. There is lots of family here also. Of course, friends and brothers and sisters, but also family that have family relations with believers there in our congregation. So, lots of greetings from them.

I have been able to stay at a place where it was really nice to come. And I brought with me three of our oldest sons. So, in a way, it's really nice to be here. You know, being able to come with some of my kids. And they, of course, are excited to be together with their cousins. And we stay in there at Rachel and Nolan's. And it's been wonderful to be there. I, you know, it's always nice to come to be with believers. And, of course, there's a special feeling when it happens to be also family. So, very, very happy about that as well.

So, on a temporal sense, the surroundings and everything, arrangements are very wonderful. And in that regard, I can be very excited. On account of coming to serve you here, I find myself not so fitting. And I find myself a sinner. And before we begin to read and study God's Holy Word, I want to ask that to brothers and sisters, can you forgive me all of my sins? I want to believe together with you.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, as I'm sure many of you have had. Lots of good American traditional Thanksgiving food. And if there is a little bit of a couple eyes that close during these services, we also think that Turkey has done its work. And also we can think that brothers and sisters are comfortable under the Word of God. And none of those, neither of those are bad things.

You boys and girls probably know very well that American tradition of Thanksgiving and where it came from. And it's got some very neat history to it. And I like the idea that in a country there's a day specifically for giving thanks. So often we are thinking of what we are lacking and what we are missing. How about one day when we say, let's be thankful. Let's think about all those things that we can be thankful for.

And of course this Thanksgiving has a spiritual aspect to it as well. And it is really nice to have bigger services at this time of the year. We can pause for a moment for reasons why we can be thankful. There's an English saying to count your blessings. And I think it's a little bit along the line what the Bible teaches. In so many places it exhorts us to thank God for all of those ways that he has blessed us with.

We will read the Word of God from the Gospel according to John. And it speaks of a meal. And it speaks of Thanksgiving. But the surroundings for that meal were a lot different from our meals that we prepare for in abundance. And we will read these words from chapter 6 of John in Jesus' name.

After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles, which he did on them that were deceased. And Jesus went up into a mountain. And there he sat with his disciples. And the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was nigh.

When Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw a great company come unto him, He said unto Philip, When shall we buy bread that these may eat? And this he said to prove him, for he himself knew what he would do.

Philip answered him, Two hundred penny worth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one of them may take a little.

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said unto him, There is a lad here which had five barley loaves and two small fishes. But what are they among so many?

And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now, there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down in number about five thousand.

And Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, He distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were sat down. And likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

When they were filled, He said unto His disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. Therefore they gathered them together, And filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, Which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.

Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, Said, this is of a truth, that prophet that should come into the world.

There is one miracle of Jesus, That all the gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Write about. And it happens to be this particular one. And we might wonder that how so? There must have been something about the magnitude of what happened there, That so many people would speak about. That it ended up coming to all of the gospels.

There could be other reasons too, But this is one where all the gospel writers write about. And as we often do when we read the Bible, We go back and forth between the gospels, And see that all the gospel writers, From their sources and with their gifts, Further paint that picture of that which happened there.

In this account of John, The story is put into a little different context. You know, when we read John, We see that John has taken from all of the miracles that Jesus did, Has chosen seven. And then he explains those miracles. And as is John's habit, He then goes and talks a little bit. And a lot of times he puts a little bit of interpretation, As the disciple of Jesus, Of why Jesus might have done the miracle, And what happened after that.

But when we go and read this portion of God's word, We see that the beginning to this Jesus was not happy at all. It begins in a way that the disciples were at the funeral. Jesus wasn't at the funeral, Due to circumstances. But he certainly had love for the man To whom whose funeral the disciples had been. That man was John the Baptist. He had been killed. He had been killed. And the disciples had gone to Herod's place And taken the killed body and buried him.

John the Baptist, The preparer of the way for Jesus. It was a sad time For the disciples and Jesus.

I believe that there This Thanksgiving Are people who Desire to be thankful to God For everything that God has given. But yet, In your heart, There is a sorrow. Sorrow for your own Life. Or sorrow for a dear one's life.

To brothers and sisters, Such is The life of a believer. As we read And our thing, It was a beautiful song. Where we, It spoke about The life Of a child of God. Is such One where we want to thank Our Heavenly Father. But yet, We experience sorrow.

Our desire is to take off The hand of our good And gracious God What he gives into our life. But God doesn't expect That we always Would just be Happy about everything That happens.

When we read Through the Psalms, We can see How Believing people Before us, They have poured out Their sorrow. And yet, In the end, We see us, If we read The Psalms, How time and time Again, God, The good Heavenly Father Can turn That sorrow Into joy.

In ways that he can. In ways that we Sometimes can't Even imagine. But, The Bible tells That God is there Where there is A broken heart.

And so, If there is one Here Is thanksgiving Who wants to be Thankful to God For everything That God has given But yet, Is having Such a hard time Due to that. Whatever sorrow There is In your life Know it That God Wants to be With you And he wants To be there Where there is A broken heart.

It's nice That you have Come to the Hearing of God's word And even Though all The life's Seats Ways And a Nod Do not Get resolved And the Sparrow Of many Kind Doesn't go Away Nevertheless When we Come to the Hearing of The word Of God We come With that Thought That Jesus We ask That he Would feed Us And he Can feed Even a Sorrowful Heart.

Disciples And Jesus Wanted to Go away Into the Wilderness Probably For the Reason that They were So sad About What That just Happened To John.

And furthermore And it Relates to This time Of Thanksgiving In some Way The Bible Tells that Jesus They were So busy With people Coming to Them That the Disciples Did not Even have Time to Eat.

And when They gather When Jesus And disciples Go out Into the Wilderness To be In peace And have Some rest What Happens They Have not Even Have time To eat And people Have heard That Jesus Has gone To the Other side Of the Lake People Follow By food.

And pretty Soon What happens There are Hundreds Of people And Thousands And Jesus Who Together With His Disciples Is there To rest And sorrow For John's Passing.

They see The people Coming And how Is Our Savior That he Say that Well I'm Busy It doesn't Work for me Right now No.

When Jesus Sees The Multitude He has Compassion For them And he Says to his Disciples That they Look like Sheep Without Shepard And they He Senses That they Have yearning For the Word of God They have Yearning For that Nourishment That God Can give And they Have yearning For the Bread of Life.

Later on Jesus speaks Of bread of Life And he Says that That bread Of life I am That bread Of life.

When Martin Luther speaks Of bread Of life He speaks That That eating Bread of Life Is Living Is Remaining In Living Faith.

When we Believe When we Are Believing We can Eat The bread Of life.

And now The Multitudes Come And Jesus Has Compassion And he Begins To Teach Them He Begins To preach Them The kingdom Of God He Begins To preach Them The word Of God And people Listen.

And you Can picture That in Your Mind And maybe To help To picture That of How much Is 5,000 People Well that's When we Have big Summer services Here where a lot Of people Come I think That's about 5,000 People That's a lot Of people.

And that Was the Men They were Like I'm Happy to See Today At services There are A couple Other people Here too Than just Men We got Children And we Got Women And I'm Sure that Was the Case also When Jesus Was holding Services In According to The way That they Count people Then they Just counted Men.

And I Think As far As I Know Of how We count From summer Services I think We include Our dear Sisters And our Children As well.

But it Was a Big Crowd Of people 5,000 People.

And Jesus Speaks to Them Today There are Many People Here at Church Here And I Think Our Prayer Has Been That Jesus Feed Us.

Jesus Spoke In the Wilderness And he He spoke For a Long Time So long That it Was beginning To be Night.

And the Disciples Noticed That it Started To be Late And these People Are not Going to Handle It Because They Are Going To Get Hungry.

It's Surprising That people Just Stayed Right There And did Not Start Leaving To go Get Food They Wanted To hear What Jesus Is Speaking.

But the Disciples Notice Is that These people Need Need Need Something To eat And They Begin To tell Jesus What to Do.

And Sometimes It is For us Disciples In That We Know What Jesus Should Do But Dear Brothers And Sisters Jesus Knows What He Is Doing.

We Don't Desire To See What He Is Doing But We Firmly Trust That Jesus Knows How To Lead And Guide The Work Of His Kingdom And He Does And We Can Be Happy About That.

They Tell Jesus that These People Are Going To Be Tired And Hungry And The Shops And The Village Is Far Away.

And Jesus Tells Them That You Feed Them.

And One Of I Don't Know If This Bible Text Told That That He Did That To Try The Disciples.

And We Can Read Here That This He Said To Jesus Lifted Up His Eyes And Saw A Great Company Come Unto Him.

He Said Unto Philip When Shall We Buy Bread That This May Eat.

The Other Gospel Writers Tell How The Disciples First Came To Jesus And Jesus Asked That Well Here According To John That When Shall We Buy Bread That These May Eat.

And This He Said To Prove Him For He Himself Knew What He Would Do The Whole Time Jesus Knew What He Would Do But Yet He Asks Philip This Question.

And Philip Goes Around And Looks At What Available And Finds 200 Pennies.

I Don't Know How Much That It Is But Probably Not Much Because Philip Comes Back And Tells Jesus That That 200 Pennies Is Not Sufficient For Them That Every One Of Them May Take A Little.

When We Do This Work Of God's Kingdom And We Look At Our Resources We Find That Well It's Not Always Much.

It Is A Comfort For Us That The Savior Of The World When He Was With The Disciples Did Not Give Them Abundancy Of Everything 200 Pennies That The Disciples Could Find.

That There Was I Think We Have Experienced The Same In God's Congregation Still Today.

God Blesses And We Are Thankful But There Isn't So Much That We Just That We Won't Be Prudent With That.

But We Know Whatever Has Been Given Has Yet Been Enough.

And Then The Bible Speaks About Another Disciple Andrew.

So Philip Goes And Looks Just The Money And Andrew Goes And Looks Around Seeing That What Is There That Together We Could Come Up With.

Isn't That Yet Today So When In The Work Of God's Congregation That We Something Needs To Happen And I Don't Have It I Go Around And Ask Around.

And The Desire Of A Child Of God Is To Do This Work Together Nobody Needs To Have It All Everyone Can Pitch In.

There Was A Little Lad And Little Boy Who Had Five Barley Loaves And Two Small Fishes.

You Boys And Girls Have Probably Gone Somewhere And Carrying A Lunch Bag With You.

I Remember When I Was A Little Boy And I Went To A I Think We Called It The Lake I Don't Know How To Even Translate Anyways It Was A Place Where Kids Could Go And Play Together And They Were Organizing Different Kinds Of Things That We Could Play Together.

It Was Really Nice Back Home In Finland.

We Did Not Carry A Lunch Back To School It Works A Little Different There They You Go To School And They Provide You The Food.

But I Remember That My Mom Had Prepared Food There Was Some Not A Barley Loaf But Rye Bread A Little Bit Of Butter And Meat And Cheese And For A Drink Some Blueberry Juice.

And I Think You Boys And Girls Have Experienced That When You Know That Your Mom Or Dad Has Prepared Your Lunch With Love It Is A Good Lunch.

That Particle One Happened To Be My Favorite And I Really Enjoy That.

Sometimes You Boys And Girls Might Find That Well It Is Not Exactly Your Favorite But When Mom Or Dad Has Prepared For It Doesn't Make Me Something That They Must Love Me And Care For Me.

When You Get A Little Older Even Young One Can Prepare Your Own School Lunch And That's Good Doesn't Mean That Your Mom Or Dad Doesn't Love You It Just Works That Way That You Can You Are Maybe Big Enough Or Capable Enough That You Do Your Own Ones.

This Boy Was Here At Services And He Had Some Ones With Him.

In That 5,000 Men And Women And Children Maybe We Could Probably Say It Was Probably About 10,000 People Double The Size Of Summer Services.

And There's A Little Boy Who Comes Forward And Says That I Have Five Loaves Of Barley And Two Fishes.

In The Work Of God's Kingdom Brothers Brothers And Sisters Does It Feel Sometimes That I Have Nothing To Give You Know There Are Others Who Have Maybe Gifts Or Ability To Do Things But Me Is There Even Need For Me.

Maybe It's Better That The Other Brothers And Sisters Just Do It I'm Going To Do It Wrong Anyway And I Don't Quite Know How To Do It.

What Happens When We Bring Our Loaves Of Bread And Fish To Jesus What Happens When Brothers And Sisters Still Take Part In The Mutual Work Because God Has Called Us All To The Work.

A Miracle Happens When We Bring Our Gifts Of What We Have And We Bring Them To Jesus Jesus Can Multiply It And He Can Bless It.

So There's No One Here Tonight Gathered Who Would Need To Say That I Have No Gifts I Have Nothing To Offer Or That I So Old That I Can't Even Help Anyone.

You Know It Says In The Bible That The Prayers Of The Righteous Are Gathered Before God In A Vessel Even If I'm Not Physically Able To Do Anything I Can Yet Pray And I Can Visit And I Can Speak About Marvelous Works Of God.

And Even If There Is Just Someone Who Feels That I Just Don't Know How To Bake I Don't Know How To Do This Or That We Find In Ourselves Many Reasons Why We Shouldn't But We Can Be Like This Little Child.

When You Ask And Sometimes If Not Even Asked But We See A Need For The Sake Of The Work Of God's Kingdom We Can Volunteer Whichever Way Seems Good That Would Help.

And When We Humbly Bring Our Gifts To Jesus Jesus Can Feed And Jesus Can Multiply.

You Know It Happens There That That It Is Like All Of The Summer Services Guests Are Lining Up To The Lunch Line.

And You Can Picture That You Have Been To Those Burger Lines And Whatever They Serve And Right There At The Line There Is Someone With Five Loaves Of Fish Bread And Two Fishes.

It's Impossible But Yet It Happens That When Jesus Then Takes The Bread He Tells His Disciples That Go And Put These People In Groups In Groups Of Fifty And Some Groups In Hundred.

And We Can Just Picture It The Field Full Of People And Jesus Takes The Little Boys Food And He Thanks His Father Blesses The Food And He Gives To His Disciples And He Gives Again And He Gives Again And He Gives Again.

The Disciples Will Go From Jesus To The People And Back To Jesus And To The People Back There And Again So Much So That That Little Boy's Gifts Could Feed Our People.

That's What Happens When Jesus Blesses Jesus Can Work Miracles.

And The Work That God Does In Us Is Not Only Even Constrained To The Work That We Do Here In The Congregation For As We Understand The Congregation Life.

When Luther Speaks On This And Using Our Own Abilities And Gifts He Quickly Reminds Us Of That Truth That The Bible Speaks About All Of The Work That We Do In Faith All Of That We Do To Serve God.

So There Are Many Of Us Who Are Now Enjoying The Thanksgiving Vacation But We Know That We Need To Go Back To Work.

Brothers and Sisters In Your Calling Where You Are Called Whatever It May Be You Might Be Working Outside You Might Be Working Inside You Might Be Dealing In Business You Might Be Working On Something With Your Hands You Might Be Baking Whatever It Is It Is We Do It As The Bible Tells Us As If We Were Doing It For God.

All Of The Work That You Do In A Way Is Work Through Which God Wants Us To Help Our Neighbor Help Ourselves Help Our Families And So It Is That When We Can Do It In Faith There Will Be Blessing There Will Be Blessing.

One Of The Psalms Speaks Of This Psalm 128 I Can Find It Here It Says That Blessed Is Everyone That Feareth The Lord That Walketh In His Ways For Thou Shalt Eat The Labor Of Thine Hands Happy Shalt Thou Be And It Shall Be Well With Thee.

On This Thanksgiving Time Dear Brothers And Sisters When We Pause To Think Of The Ways Through Which God Has Blessed Us And How We Can Be Thankful To Him We Find That Even Through Our Work That We Do God Has Blessed Us We Can Be Happy About That.

And Martin Luther Speaks When He Speaks On This He Says That The World Would Make Us Want To Think That Labor And Toiling In Work Is The Burden It Almost Like Something A Punishment.

But For A Child Of God It Is A Happy Thing Because So We Are Called Into Our Duties Whatever It Is Our Stage Of Life We Can Do It As If We Can Do It For God.

There Are Young People Here Who Are Studying And Working Hard And Children When You Are Asked To Do This At Home Or You Want To Serve Your Mom And Dad You Want To Serve Your Brothers And Sisters.

Did You Know That With Honest Labor And Work You Are Also Serving God.

The Word Of God Teaches Us In Diligence In Using Our Gifts That God Does Give There Is No One Here Who Has No Gifts.

And When We Bring Our Gifts To Jesus He Can Bless And Jesus Here Speaks Of The Bread Of Life.

And When Luther Speaks About That He Speaks Of That Taking Part In The Bread Of Life Is That We Believe When We Have Living Faith.

And Throughout Our Life When We Are Here Together With Our Brothers And Sisters We Can Experience This That Jesus Is The Bread Of Life He Nourishes Us He Gives Food To Our Soul.

When I Came Here I Have Had Many Visits A Few Visits Already And I Have To Say That When We Experience The Fellowship Of God's Children We Can Experience There That Jesus Is With Us.

Such Is Living Faith That When One Who Is Believing Finds Another Believer And They Begin To Visit They Find Out That God's Holy Spirit Speaks In Us Through Us And Is With Us.

And We Can Be In This Unity Of Faith Where Two Are Gathered In My Name Jesus Says I'm There With You.

Jesus Gives Of Himself When We Hear The Word Of God But Not Only At Services.

I Think You Boys And Girls Have Been There At Home And In Those Ways That Might Not Be So Deep And What Not Your Mom And Dad Have Taught Us And In Ways That Maybe Appear Not To Be So Deep But Can Be More Deep Than We Could Ever Think.

You Little Boys And Girls You Have Taught Your Mom And Dad About Living Faith And The Word Of God.

I Remember My Mom When She Spoke To Us Children About Faith She Did Not Often Refer To I Don't Know If She Ever Had He He About Confessional Books Or Anything Like That But She Fed Us With The Milk Of The Word.

Confessional Books By the Way Are Very Needful When We Do Think About And Discuss Matters Of Doctrine And There Is Place For It And May We Have The Full Appreciation For That Which Believers Before Us Have Written And Thought About.

But There At Home Often Times Jesus Gives Of Himself The Bread Of Life In The Word Of God It Comes In Those Little Bite Size Pieces From Which We Can Learn And Be Comforted.

And Jesus Is The Bread Of Life Of Course In The Communion In The Sacrament.

And When Later on We don't Get into It Tonight But When John Continues The Discussion On Bread Of Life That Happens To Be The Way That Some Other Churches Based Their Sacrament Theology On Or The Communion.

Well That's Not What We Believe Where The Eating Of Bread And Eating Of His Body And Blood In That portion Of John 6 Would Be About Communion.

There Are Other Places When Jesus Specifically Introduced The Communion That Speak Of.

And Then In Prayer We Have An Access To Our Heavenly Father We Have Access To Pray To Jesus.

Have You Boys And Girls Have You Remember To Pray.

It Is Often Said Of Prayer That For A Child Of God Luther Spoke About It That Prayer Is As If Breathing.

And I Have To Say Compared To That Picture I Been Suffocating Myself A Lot Because I Have To Say That I Am Slow To Pray.

But Dear Brothers And Sisters Anytime We Have A Need We Have Access To Pray To Our Heavenly Father.

Those Are The Ways By Which We Care For Our Faith And Through Which Jesus Cares For Us In The Word Of God In The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Through The Sacraments And Through Prayer.

Is There Something Else?

You Know When I Was A Little Boy We Had Those I Don't Know What's A Carrot Tortu In English Those Like A Sheet Of It's Like A Roll That's A Long Roll That Had Fruit Filling.

And There Was A Little Piece Left And There Were Four Of Us Brothers And I Was The Youngest Of Us Brothers.

I Went There And I Cut It Into Four Pieces Surprise Surprise There Was One Piece That Was A Little Bit Bigger.

My Brothers Caught Me Of Course As You Probably Experience In Your Life That Whoever Cuts That Person Is The Last One To Pick I Think That's Only Fair.

When We Speak Of Jesus As The Bread Of Life We Speak Of Our Savior Who Carried The Cross To Golgotha In Markery In Pain Suffering.

He Was Beat Up And Then When He Was There On The Cross An Innocent Man Who Had Never Ever Sinned Was Falsely Accused To Be A Great Sinner.

And Yet Jesus Submitted Unto That Why? Because He Loved You And Because He Loves Me Because He Loves Our People.

He Set His Blood Innocent Blood And When He Finally Cried Out It Is Finished It Is Fulfilled The Atonement For Our Sin Was Complete For God.

And That's Why He Sent His Own To Go to All The World And Proclaim The Good News That People Who Want To Repent They Can Repent Of Their Sins And Believe Their Sins Forgiven.

Now Is It So That Now That Jesus Has Prepared This Atonement For Our Sins That I Should Think Now That Well There Is Only So Much There Because It's So Scarce That I Cannot Go And Divide It Up Because It Might Be Consumed.

That's How It Was With This Earthly Bread But Now That Jesus Has Prepared Atonement For Our Sins Is It So That Only One Time We Can Believe It?

If Brothers And Sisters Maybe Remember That When Jesus Says That He Is The Bread Of Life He Is That Bread That Keeps On Giving.

And Why Is It So It Is For That Reason That There Are Probably Here Together With Me Many Who Feel That Yes I Believe In Jesus And I Want To Walk Together With Other Children Of God.

But I Desire To Hear That Can I Believe My Sins Forgiven Because Those Sins Of A Believer Are Still Real And They Can Father There In The Conscience.

And So It Is Also This That When Jesus Is The Bread Of Life And We Can Take Part In Him In Living Faith It Is Also So As The Writer To The Hebrews Says That Whenever There Is Need.

And Dear Brothers And Sisters Such A Moment We Have Here And Right Now If There Is One Who Yearns For His Own Soul To Hear Forgiveness Of All Sins Well You Can Hear It And You Can Believe It.

My Brother And Sister You Can Uplift Your Heart And You Can Believe That All Of Your Sins Are Forgiven In Jesus Name And Blood And You Can Be Of Good Cheer.

Jesus Prepared That Atonement Once And For All And It Was Good And Yet That Bread Keeps On Giving Unto Us.

And Dear Brothers And Sisters When We Are In The Fellowship Of God's Congregation We Are Fortunate People Because We Are In The Fellowship Of Jesus.

And In This Fellowship No One Needs To Feel That I Didn't Get Anything There Was Nothing For Me But We Can Receive.

Let Us Remember What Jesus Can Do And When He Works Yet Today Through His Holy Spirit In His Congregation This Bread Of Life Jesus Christ Keeps On Giving.

We Can Be Comforted And You Can Be Comforted With This And Look Forward To Traveling Together With Brothers And Sisters In Living Faith Helping Each Other Along The Way.

And When We Continue To Travel In This Way Well One Day By God's Grace We Are Able To Make It To Heaven's Hope.

That's Our Hope And That's Why We Decided To Travel Here As People With Good Conscience They're Old Believers.

And Many Often Times We Have Heard Of This That When It Comes To These Matters Of Sin And So On That Instruction Has Been That Which The Bible Talks About That You Know Anything That Becomes A Hindrance Something That Becomes A Barrier For Freely Believing And Freely Traveling Well You Can Put That Away.

If It's A Sin That Seems To Bother And Make Things Difficult Even Though We Are At The Same Time Just We Are Always As Long As We Believe It Remains To Be So We Are Just And Sinner.

But This Gift Of Christ In Being The Bread Of Life Is That We Can Keep On Eating It He Keeps On Nourishing Us And That We Can Believe Even Tonight.

And My Brother And Sister You Can Be Comforted With That And Happily Look Forward To Days To Come When Jesus Is With Us Or We Are In Good Company And He Knows How To Lead Us All Way To Heaven's Home.

In Jesus Name Amen.