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Show and tell
Ever play show and tell before?
If we are honest we still do.
We want people to show us something before we believe, but God calls us to believe then will show us.
(Insert Show and tell picture here)
What is something that you have shown and then told about?
The Jews were demanding another sign, proof so that they would believe (Jn6:30)
Jn6:30 “30 So they said to Him, “What then do You do for a sign, so that we may see, and believe You?
What work do You perform?”
This started the bread of life discourse (Jn6:31-51) tonight we are focusing on (vv.40-51)
Previously we have seen:
They related signs to the manna given by Moses (v.31)
Jesus related it to God gave what was needed, that was temporal bread, he gives true bread (vv.32-35)
Jesus calls for belief and to come to Him and you will not be cast out (vv.36-40)
Here is how we will approach this tonight:
Our passage (Jn6:40-51)
The bread of heaven (Jn6:33, 38, 41, 50-51, 58)
The drawing by the Father (Jn6:44-46)
The true bread from heaven (Jn6:47-50)
Our Passage
Open your bibles, your heart, your eyes and your intellect to glean from our passage.
What general observations do you make of this passage?
What is the theme of the passage?
That which came down from heaven
Bread of life
Who is the main person in this passage?
Jesus and the Jews
What is the Father will (v.40)?
Belief in the Son, have eternal life and resurrection on that last day
Why were the Jews grumbling (v.41)?
He said He came down from heaven!
Jesus makes a very bold statement in (v.44), what is it?
No one comes to Me unless drawn by the Father.
The statement (v.44) is backed up by facts (v.45), what facts?
Drawn by the word of the prophets
By what they have been taught, by what they have heard.
There is a promise (v.47), can you see it?
Those who believe have eternal life
What is the contrast that Jesus says in (vv.49-50)?
Those who ate manna died; those who eat the bread from heaven will have eternal life
What does Jesus say is the bread that gives life (v.51)?
It is My flesh.
The bread of Heaven
Jesus uses the term “came down from heaven” six times in the context of the passage.
It is a major theme of the words to the Jews.
and finally
I think it was important that we see this key phrase used over and over again “came down from heaven.”
sometimes called The bread, the living bread
Some versions say the bread of God that came down from heaven.
While you may notice that Jesus identifies Himself as the one who came down (41, 51)
This raised the cackles of those who were listening in unbelief in the synagogue where this was transpiring (41, 59)
Jews were grumbling, complaining, disputing because of their expectation of prophesy of Daniel (Jn6:41, 51, 59; Dan7:13)
They were expecting the Messiah to come in the clouds (Dan7:13)
They knew Jesus, they knew where he was raised, and by whom, in Nazareth as the son of Joseph.
He came from among them, they did not consider born in Bethlehem and born of a virgin (Lk1:34-38).
Had they truly known the scriptures and investigated they would have seen, known.
But they had preconceived ideas.
The argument, the murmuring the complaining was now they wanted to know where He came from, even though he has said time and time again in the passage He came from heaven.
He already claimed God as His Father and equality with God as the Son.
(Transition) - now this leads to our next thing to look at the “drawing” by the Father
The Drawing by the Father
Have you ever been drawn by something?
What would be an example of something you have been drawn to?
Jews thought they were chosen by birth, by heritage.
Jesus claim was they had to be drawn by the Father.
Jesus makes it clear that if one is drawn by the Father he will come to the Son.
Something to consider, to think about, how does the Father draw?
They are taught by God (v.45), but how does God teach (consider Jer31:3, 33-34; Isa54:13; Jn5:24; Rom10:17)
According to (Jer31:3) how does the Father draw?
According to (Jer31:33-34) He draws by the law, in other words by the word God makes himself known.
Not just to their intellect, but to their heart.
Now when it comes to drawing, some have taken this to be irresistible grace, and Alford said this about that.
“That this ‘drawing’ is not irresistible grace, is confessed even by Augustine himself, the great upholder of the doctrines of grace.
‘If a man is drawn, says an objector, he comes against his will.
(We answer) if he comes unwillingly, he does not believe: If he does not believe, he does not come.
For we do not run to Christ on our feet, but by faith; not with the movement of the body, but with the free will of the heart. . .
think not that thou are drawn against they will; they mind can be drawn by love.”
Crysostom says “This expression does not remove our part in the coming, but rather shews that we want help to come.”
The response to the drawing and to the coming is the resurrection on the last day (v.44),
oh, wait, how raises those who come to Him?
How does one come?
by belief, by faith
Not enough to be taught, they have to have learned (v.45), must believe (v.47); which means they have to go beyond hearing, they must go to application, faith!
Do something with what they have been taught.
One more point in these verses, another claim of equality with the Father, again look at (v.46)
The True Bread from Heaven
Who likes a good illustration and teaching?
Jesus is illustrating to the theologians of the day.
Jesus uses the illustration of the manna, they previously used (v.31), that he is not like the manna that He is better.
They ate the manna and still died
The bread He offers gives life, and life eternal.
No one before ever claimed believe in me and have eternal life.
Jesus and Jesus alone did!
For we know
While physical bread is needed for physical life, spiritual bread is needed for spiritual life.
Spurgeon says this:
“Every man feeds on something or other.
You see, one man getting his Sunday newspaper; how he will feed on that!
Another goes to frivolous amusements, and he feeds on them.
Another man feeds upon his business, and upon the thought of his many cares!
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