This One Belief Changes Everything Series

to say, okay, let's go back to the beginning here. Let me explain the basics to you. I think every

once in a while, it's good for us to go back to the basics in our own Christian life to remember

where we are. Because sometimes, even as Christians, we can get so used to the blessings that

we come close to Jesus because of what He does for us. And He does a lot of things. But we

really need to come to that realization that it's all about Jesus. Then we get to know Jesus as God,

as He’s going to describe Himself here.

As you get to know Jesus as God, it changes everything. It changes the way we live. It

transforms our lives. It brings us to that place. We have to make a decision. Are we going to

partake? Are we going to believe and allow God to completely transform our lives? Or are we

going to stay where we are and just enjoy a lot of the blessings and benefits from hanging around

Jesus? There are a lot of blessings from hanging around Jesus. Same thing is true in our world

today. If you hire Christians, then those Christians have the blessing of God and they're likely to

produce more blessing in your business. If you hang around the church, you're going to

experience a lot of good things. But it's not about the results; it's about this personal relationship

with Jesus that we want to understand and appreciate. Let's go back to the basics.

I love this story of Vince Lombardi, a famous football coach of the Green Bay Packers many

years ago. They came off of a losing season. And they lost the championship game. As they get

back together for the new season, the players are all thinking, okay, we're going to build from

here and go forward. But Vince Lombardi, the coach, gets everybody together and he says,

“Okay, everybody.” He picks up a ball and he says, “This is a football.” In other words, we're

going back to the basics. And they started working on tackling, and they started working on

throwing and catching and positioning themselves well, and all of these things. They had a

winning season that year. They ended up beating the Giants 37-0 in that final championship

game. Vince Lombardi went on to win many, many championship games. Just an amazing

coach. But he got it right. Let's go back to the basics.

I think sometimes we need to go back to the basics. And Jesus is going to do this. Let's go there

together. I know you some of you've been Christians for years. But let's go back to the basics and

ask ourselves some important questions about why are we here? What are we doing? And Jesus

says to them in regards to their question – “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave

you the bread from heaven. Now the words from heaven are going to be used several times,

which are going to indicate Jesus is coming from heaven. We’ll see that, but here’s one of them.

But my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. In other words there’s a difference between

the bread and the true bread. Jesus is going to draw a distinction between our earthly lives and