John 6:27-29

He is talking to the multitude. He had just done the miracle of feeding the 5,000 and they were tramping behind Him because they wanted to see more miracles. They wanted to get fed again. "Hey, free food! Who's against that?" But He says, you did not really want to see the signs. You did not want to see what I was teaching. All you wanted was the free food, and He tells them,

He is saying, "I'm the priority here. You have to have faith in Me first." That is the greatest work you could do, is believe in Jesus Christ. And of course with that comes believing what He said. And with that also comes not only believing it, but doing it. So we have the two halves here. We have the inward and the outward as we think this through. Let us go down to verse 32.

John 6:27-29

Do you see how what He is saying is important? What is important to God are the values that He wants to be in us. And so He says "Don't expend your energy worrying about money, but expend your energy toward those things that are going to please God, and are going to write those values—Recapture True Values—making them a part of what you are.

Brethren, the work of God is not preaching the gospel to the world. The work of God has to do with faith. The preaching of the gospel is a work of the church. But God is working to produce faith in His people.