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Published: June 8, 2023, 7 a.m.

Welcome to Day 2148 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom The Gospel of John \u2013 16 \u2013 The Great Desertion \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 05/22/2022 The Gospel of John \u2013 Part 3 Authentication Of The Word \u2013 The Great Desertion Today we continue our Good News series according to John the Apostle. \xa0Last week Jesus explained how he was The Bread Delivered from Heaven as He was the spiritual food that provided eternal life. Today, our scripture is John 6:58-71, on page 1656 in the Pew Bible. Follow along with me as I read. I include two verses from last week to put this message into context. 58\xa0I am the true bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will not die as your ancestors did (even though they ate the manna) but will live forever.\u201d 59\xa0He said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

• Many Disciples Desert Jesus

60\xa0On hearing it, many of his disciples\xa0said, \u201cThis is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?\u201d 61\xa0Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them,\xa0\u201cDoes this offend you?\xa062\xa0Then what if you see the Son of Man\xa0ascend to where he was before!\xa063\xa0The Spirit gives life;/\xa0the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you\u2014they are full of the Spirit[a]\xa0and life.\xa064\xa0Yet there are some of you who do not believe.\u201d\xa0For Jesus had known\xa0from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.\xa065\xa0He went on to say,\xa0\u201cThis is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.\u201d 66\xa0From this time, many of his disciples\xa0turned back and no longer followed him. 67\xa0\u201cYou do not want to leave too, do you?\u201d\xa0Jesus asked the Twelve. 68\xa0Simon Peter answered him,\xa0\u201cLord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.\xa069\xa0We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.\u201d 70\xa0Then Jesus replied,\xa0\u201cHave I not chosen you,\xa0the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!\u201d\xa071\xa0(He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot,\xa0who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.) \xa0 \u20146:59\u201365\u2014 By this time in His ministry, Jesus\u2019 disciples numbered in the tens of thousands with varying degrees of devotion. At least hundreds were serious enough to consider Him their rabbi and would have actively supported a movement to make Him king. But Jesus knew theirs was the kind of fickle devotion that sprouts quickly and withers suddenly in the heat. This situation reminds me of the passage in Jonah 4:6-8, where a plant grew rapidly and shaded Jonah from the hot sun, but then he...