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encounter with Christ and his church.

The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's word where it is most needed.

Today we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Peace be with you.

Friends, we come now to the close of this great discourse of Jesus in the sixth chapter of

John.

The church has been drawing us through this pivotal text and we come to the conclusion.

I mentioned last week was sort of the climax of the discourse when Jesus

talks about what we call the real presence but in a way this is as interesting

because we see the after effects of it we We see, okay, having laid this out, what happens? Well, listen now as the

passage for today commences, many of Jesus disciples who were listening said,

this saying is hard, who can accept it?

Mind you, he's not talking to his enemies here.

Jesus had plenty of enemies, people that were just really out to get

him. These weren't his enemies. He's talking to his disciples. I don't mean the inner band of the 12,

but I mean this wider band of people that they were with him. of the

people that they were with him watching his miracles listening to his teaching

you know basking in the glow of his presence these are his friends

but they've they've heard this discourse now about the real

presence. They've heard the objectors. Remember last week we said, well, wait a minute, how can this man give us his flesh to eat?

And they were hoping he would say, oh look, I'm just speaking metaphorically here.

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