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Today's reading will cover John Chapters 6:22-71 and 7:1, Matthew Chapter 15:1-20, and Mark Chapter 7:1-23.
Today we have a longer reading because there is SO MUCH meat in our reading! Today we will read and discuss what Jesus meant when He said that He is the bread of life. We will also learn that the work God has for us is to believe in Jesus because God sent Him. Doing so will give us eternal life and Jesus is like bread/food for our spirit since He was sent by God to feed our spirit, the same way that manna was sent from God to the Israelite people to provide food for their physical bodies. When we believe in Jesus and accept Him as our savior then He will live in us, we will live in Him, and we will receive God's Holy Spirit to live in us. Even though our physical bodies die, Jesus assures us that life is through the spirit and our spirit will live forever when we believe in Him and obey Him. Our reading today will conclude with Jesus teaching us that what comes out of our heart is what makes us unclean/dirty, not what we put INTO our bodies. Lying, hating, greed, stealing, killing, and bad thoughts that come from our heart are what make a person dirty.
In our discussion for daily application we will talk about guarding what we allow ourselves to hear, see, and think so that we do not begin to entertain thoughts of lying, greed, coveting what others have, stealing, killing, or any other bad thoughts, so that these things will not be in our heart or come out of our mouth and so that we do not act on/do these things we have been thinking about. Jesus taught us that when we think about doing these things we have already done them in our heart, so it is not enough to just "keep our thoughts to ourselves." We have God's Spirit inside us. Our thoughts are not only heard by us, they are heard by the One who lives inside us!
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