04/21/2024 Midtown Church Elk Grove
Series- Matters of the Heart: God’s Love for the Church and the World
How Did I Get Here?
Pastor Otis Amey
Reverse Engineering Our Lives
Reverse engineering is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning HOW & WHY a previously made decision was made.
Biblical Background: We Are Always Being Formed
- What We Are Taught
- What We Practice
- Our Community
- The Holy Spirit
John 6:25
When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 6:26
Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.
John 6:32-34
Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”
John 6:35
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 6:48
I am the bread of life.
How Did I Get Here?
1.) There’s Nowhere Else to Go!
John 6:66-68
From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
2.) There’s Somewhere Else to Go!
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that appears to be right,
but in the end it leads to death.
Psalm 90:12
Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
3.) There’s a Process to Being Formed
John 6:69
We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”John 6:63
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.
“We don’t have to choose to be formed by the world, but we do have to choose to be formed by Jesus Christ.”
How We’re Formed:
The Stories We Believe
Our Habits
Our Relationships
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