The Bread of Life

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The Bread of Life

• John 6

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Little Boys

• A little boy was in a relative's wedding.
• As he was coming down the aisle, he would take
  two steps, stop, and turn to the crowd.
• While facing the crowd, he would put his hands up
  like claws and roar.
• So it went, step, step, ROAR, step, step, ROAR,
  all the way down the aisle.
• As you can imagine, the crowd was near tears from
  laughing so hard by the time he reached the
  pulpit.
• When asked what he was doing, the child sniffed
  and said, "I was being the Ring Bear."

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The Three Fold Function of the Atonement.
the Spirit..has wrought a mighty change in
usthat we have no more disposition to do evil
Transforming
the Lord did strengthen them that they could
bear up their burdens with ease
Empowering
his blood atoneth for the sins of those who have
fallen
Redeeming
Question How would you know the transformation
has happened?
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President Eyring

• It seems to me most
  important and persistent is
  that
  charity is at the heart of the Relief society
  and is to come into the heart, to be part of the
  very nature, of every member.
• Charity meant to early members far more than a
  feeling of benevolence. Charity is born of faith
  in the Lord Jesus Christ and is an effect of His
  Atonement working in the hearts of the members
• feelings of charity spring from hearts changed
  by qualifying for and by keeping covenants
  offered only in the Lords true Church. Their
  feelings of charity come from Him through His
  Atonement. Oct Womens Conference

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Transformation and Feeding of the 5000

• John 6 1-6
• John 6 7-9
• Why a lad?
• Do we know other lads?
• John 6 10-13
• 23rd Psalm
• The Lord is my shepherd
• He maketh me to lie down in green pastures

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Important Question

• At the end of the chapter, we are about to read
  about the Savior turning down another feeding.
• Why did He choose to feed them this time?
• Matt 16 5-16

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Layered Meanings of John 6
Top Layer He can do miracles
Deeper Layer His Apostles could do
miracles under his direction
Deepest Layer We can do miracles under his
direction
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Question

• What does it mean to magnify the priesthood or
  a calling?

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Philippians 120

• According to my earnest expectation and my hope,
  that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with
  all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall
  be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by
  death.
• Alma 519
• can you look up, having the image of God
  engraven upon your countenances?

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The Apostle Peter

• And Jesus constrained his disciples to get
  into a ship, andhe went up into a
  mountain, apart, to pray.
• And the ship was tossed with the
  waves for the wind was contrary.
• And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus
  went unto them, walking on the sea.
• And when the disciples saw him walking
  on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It
  is a spirit and they cried out for fear.
• But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be
  of good cheer it is I be not afraid.
• And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be
  thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
• And he said, Come.
• And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he
  walked on the water
• But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was
  afraid and, beginning to sink, he cried, saying,
  Lord, save me.
• And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand,
  and caught him
• And when they were come into the ship, the wind
  ceased.

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Finally, the 2nd Request

• When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not
  therethey also took shipping, and came to
  Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.
• And when they had found him on the other side of
  the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, how camest
  thou hither?
• Jesus answered them and said, Ye seek me, not
  because ye desire to keep my sayings, neither
  because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did
  eat of the loaves and were filled.
• They answered Our fathers did eat manna in the
  desert as it is written, He gave them bread from
  heaven to eat.
• Then Jesus said unto them Moses gave you not
  that bread from heaven but my Father giveth you
  the true bread from heaven.
• And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life
  he that cometh to me shall never hunger and he
  that believeth on me shall never thirst.
• The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I
  am the bread which came down from heaven.
• From this time many of his disciples went back
  and walked no more with him.
• Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go
  away?
• Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom
  shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life

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Elder Holland

• To those who may feel they have somehow forfeited
  their place at the table of the Lord, we say
  again with the Prophet Joseph Smith that God has
  a forgiving disposition, that Christ is
  merciful and gracious, slow to anger, is
  long-suffering and full of goodness.
• I have always loved that when Matthew records
  Jesus great injunction, Be ye therefore
  perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven
  is perfect, 
• Luke adds the Saviors additional commentary Be
  ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is
  mercifulas if to suggest that mercy is at least
  a beginning synonym for the perfection God has
  and for which all of us must strive.
• Mercy, with its sister virtue forgiveness, is at
  the very heart of the Atonement of Jesus Christ
  and the eternal plan of salvation.
• Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can
  change if we need to, that we can be helped if we
  truly want it, that we can be made whole,
  whatever the problems of the past.
• Oct Conference 1997

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President George Q. Cannon

• No matter how serious the trial, how deep the
  distress, how great the affliction, God will
  never desert us. He never has, and He never will.
  He cannot do it. It is against His character
  to do so. He is an unchangeable being.
• He will stand by us. We may pass through the
  fiery furnace we may pass through deep waters
  but we shall not be consumed nor overwhelmed.
• We shall emerge from all these trials and
  difficulties the better and the purer for them,
  if we only trust in our God and keep His
  commandments.

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C.S. Lewis Last Page, Last Book, The Last
Battle, Chronicles of Narnia

• And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like
  a lion but the things that began to happen after
  that were so great and beautiful that I cannot
  write them. And for us this is the end of all the
  stories, and we can most truly say that they all
  lived happily ever after.
• But for them it was only the beginning of the
  real story. All their life in this world and all
  their adventures in Narnia had only been the
  cover and the title page
• now at last they were beginning Chapter One of
  the Great Story which no one on Earth has read
  which goes on forever in which every chapter is
  better than the one before."