I am the Bread of Life
I AM: Sitting at the Feet of Jesus • Sermon • Submitted
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What do I believe God wants them to know? Jesus is the bread of life
Why? We are eternally hungry and Jesus satisfies our soul
What do I believe God wants us to do? Eat the bread
Why? It brings eternal life and ZOE life
ME/WE
Have you ever wondered how do I get to know someone? How do I get to know who they really are?
Some of us think, I can know them through social media.
You know what I will Facebook stalk them or become their friends on Facebook to get to know them a little
I see what they post
Who they are friends with
Where they are from
What are their likes
Am I not the only one who has done this?
Not everyone is no Facebook
1. Facebook is not 100% real
We don’t post the 100% of time about us or everything about us.
We present a pretty good image today
We don’t say today I lost it on my kids again, I cussed out my neighbor and I lied to my co-worker
2. We can assume things that are not true.
Oh they are a VEGAN…they must be one of those tree loving hippie type of people
Oh they are from Pittsburg…we don’t live
They are a democrat or republican....
They are a Christian
That can mean
Good
80% of America
Hell and fire messages
Loving and king
If social media is not a good place to know someone.
How do we come to know someone? Really know someone?
2. Maybe we get to know someone by asking someone about them
What do you think of Katie, Pete
What is the problem with that?
What if my opinion is skewed, I have had mostly bad interactions with Katie
By having unstructured or litely structured TIME with people
Margin
I don’t have time for that
You need it, your soul needs it
What does unstructured or litely structured time look like?
There are THREE archaic ways that are ways that existed since the beginning of time
Phone
2. Hang out…not agenda…what are we going to do? Hang out
Coffee
Ladies go for a walk
Golfing
Run with some of my friends ONCE a week…the goal isn’t primarly physical health
we call it therapy
3. Table
Coffee, tea
Dessert
Meal
It is in those spaces we get to know someone, get to know who they really are.
No only that those times are life GIVING, SOUL GIVING TIMES…not every single time...
But a lot of time I am new and revived person after Gathering with other people
Some of us are introverts (need
Some of us are extroverts
2 of the 4 things in Acts 2 that the early church does are about unstructured time
Fellowship
Breaking of bread
What about structured spaces? Why doesn’t that work
Sunday morning worship we start to know each a little bit, but it is when we hang out, gathering around a table after this that we get to know each other.
I encourage us to hang out and table gather with one another
We know this from working…highly structured space…you can know someone but how many times have you worked with someone and you discovered
they are like that !?!
they are like that :-)
STRUCTURED SPACE DOESN’T LEAD TO KNOWING SOMEONES’ REAL FACE
TENSION
WHERE ARE YOU GOING WITH THIS?
It is at this time in John 6 that people are starting to wonder who this Jesus person is
We heard His mom is Mary but His dad is God and Joseph is his dad but not his dad
He’s to be a Messiah
He went to Samaria, you know the place Jews don’t go, because Samaritans are half Jews and Jews don’t like them.
Not only that we met with a woman at the well, not just anyone, a woman who has had 5 husbands and the person who she is living with is not her husband....and after that meeting that woman’s whole life was changed
And then he went to a wedding feast, a seven day wedding feast and the family holding the party ran out of wine…this is a culture FOO-PAH…you don’t run out of wine at a wedding…then He tells people to fill up 6 water jars holding 30 gallons with water…do you know what he did next? He turned water into wine and not Bones Farm or that cheapy stuff…it was the best wine we have every tasted
Then you have seen and heard He has been healing people the sick
People have been WALKING WHO COULDN’T WALK
BLIND NOW SEE
TUMORS, HEALED…IT IS UNBELIEVABLE
WHO IS THIS JESUS? WE NEED UNINTERUPTED TIME WITH HIM
THIS A GOSPEL ACCOUNT IN ALL 4 GOSPELS
After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.
SHOW PICTURES
13 x 8 miles
And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.
Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?”
He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”
I love what Jesus’ does here to Philip…he asks Philip something impossible
How is this going to happen? FEED 20,000 people
Hey Mike how we going to feed the the Crowd from the Cavs game??
With all GOD all things are possible
When God calls us He will often ask us to do the impossible, which a correct response “I CAN’T BUT YOU CAN”
Reach CLEVELAND
Some of us have been trying to do it in our own strength
I CAN’T BUT HE CAN
GOD SAYS IT TO US THE SAME THING
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
MOVING ON
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”
Some one has #1 from Long John Silver
Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.
SIT AT JESUS FEET
Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted.
And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.”
So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.
When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”
1 BASKET FOR EACH DISCIPLE
10,000 TIMES OF FISH
4,000 TIMES OF BREAD
LEFTOVERS
MORE THAN ENOUGH
This is a big deal to them because 85% of their income went to food.
Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
IT WAS NOT HIS TIME
THEN WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Jesus does what Jesus does
When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing.
When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened.
But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”
Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.
What happens next?
-If you were the 20,000 who was just feed yesterday by Jesus? What did you do yesterday after the miracle and are still doing today?
They are trying to find Jesus, where’s Jesus
But Jesus isn’t in Tiberias
Let’s READ
On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.
Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
How does Jesus respond?
Long story but I walked on WATER
No, Jesus cuts to the chase
He knows their hearts
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.
YOU ARE SEEKING ME BECAUSE I FULFILLED A PHYSICAL NEED
It is a pressing need…a need where you spend most of you money
THIS IS WHAT MANY PEOPLE WANT FROM JESUS…THEY THINGS HE CAN GIVE
A PHYSICAL THING…THOSE ARE IMPORTANT BUT NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
you are not after JESUS but the thing He can give you
Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
Do not give your WORK, ALL YOUR EFFORT to the things that PERISH, PHYSICAL THINGS THAT PERISH earthly, physcial food perishes
Matt 6 shows us God know what we need for our PHYSICAL LIFE
ETERNAL LIFE
ZOE LIFE
FULLNESS OF LIFE
FULLY ALIVE LIFE
JESUS IS SAYING YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE BIOS LIFE I AM MORE CONCERNED ABOUT YOU FINDING ZOE FOOD THAT LEADS TO ZOE LIFE
I WILL GIVE IT TO YOU
HOW DO THEY RESPOND?
How do we get this life that you will give?
What must we do!?!
Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?”
Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
You get it be believing
Believing I am the Messiah
It is not about what you must do....it is about what you must believe to eat the eternal bread
How do they respond?
So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”
Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
How can we believe you?....(THEY JUST SAW A MIRACLE, BUT ISN’T THIS HOW WE RESPOND…JESUS WE SAW YOU DO THIS.....BUT HOW CAN WE KNOW YOUR GOING TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE...
Give us a sign
They just saw
How does Jesus give LIFE to the world?
IT WAS NOT MOSES!
YOU NEED BREAD FROM HEAVEN
They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
COME AND BELIEVE
It is not to just COME, many people CAME to Jesus but did not believe
If we just come to Jesus our physical need may be met but not our SOUL need
WHEN YOU COME AND BELIEVE
Then you get eternal life
BUT SOME OF US WE HAVE BELIEVED JESUS FOR ETERNAL LIFE, but we don’t really have ZOE life now, fullness of life
How do we get fullness of life now? Come to Jesus and BELIEVE
TO get life we go to life
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Sitting at His feet UNSTRUCTURED TIME OR LITELY STRUCTURED TIME WITH JESUS
Praising and Praying
Reading the WORD of GOD
But he answered, “It is written, “ ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
Believe I am the one who brings RESTORATION
BELIEVE I AM THE ONE WHO BRINGS REVIVAL
BELIEVE I AM CAN AND WILL LEAD YOUR FAMILY MEMBER BACK TO GOD
BELIEVE THAT I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOUR FINANCAL SITUATION
BELIEVE I am the one who will provide a SPOUSE for you
BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY…YOUR A ROYAL PRIEST, YOU ARE FORGIVEN, YOU ARE A WORK OF ART
THINK THAT BREAD WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE? IT CHANGED MINE BECAUSE FOR TOO LONG I ATE THE BREAD OF YOUR JUNK
ANXOUS TOIL
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE COME AND BELIEVE AND DO NOT DOUBT?
WE HAVE LIFE
WE ARE COMING TO SOMETHING AND BELIEVING SOMETHING
Jesus is the only thing to give us ZOE life
COMMUNION
I like what D.A. Carson says
look at real bread or most of the food we eat
For you to live that food must die for us to live
Either it dies or you die
In a similar way, either the BREAD of LIFE Jesus dies for our sins or we die.
This God man born in Bethelhem meaning the house of BREAD
BETHELHEM: House of BREAD
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”
Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.