John 6:16-29: Our Almigthy God and Gracious Savior

Titus 3:4-7 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Intro

What does Jesus walking on water tells us about who Christ is and what He came to do?

Like last week with the feeding of the great multitude, Jesus walking on water is one of the most famous miracles in the whole Bible.

But also like last week, usually our understanding of this great miracle barely skims the surface.

We don’t get much further than Jesus walking on water proves to us that He is God because He is sovereign over nature.

And that’s true.

But theologically is there something more and what would that mean for us and our life today?

That’s where we're going.

And the Big Idea I want us to take away from today…the one I want us having in the back of our mind every time we think of Jesus walking on water is this...

Jesus is the almighty Son of God who alone is able to deliver us from sin and give us eternal life.

We are going to have three points today so let’s jump in with the miracle itself and point number 1...

I. Jesus is Almighty God and Gracious Savior

Before we get into it, let me catch you up to where we are.

This is the fifth miraculous sign we see in John’s Gospel.

And here’s what’s curious...

If you’re just reading the Gospel, Jesus walking on water seems to be out of place.

Chapter 6 starts with the feeding of the multitude where Jesus took two small fish and five loaves and fed 15-20,000 people.

Jesus walks on water.

And then right after that we go back to the feeding of the multitude with the Bread of Life discourse where Jesus explains what that sign meant: I am the Bread of Life...whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst (John 6:35).

A miraculous meal…a Bible study explaining the miraculous meal, and right in the middle,Jesus walking on water…

Why is it here?

Yes…chronologically in Jesus’ life, Jesus walking on water happened right after He fed the great multitude but that doesn’t explain why John included it…Luke didn’t…he completely skips over it.

Matthew and Mark are the only other ones who talk about this great miracle.

So why does John?

Wouldn’t it have been cleaner for John to just go straight from the feeding of the multitude to the Bread of Life discourse to explain what the feeding of the multitude represented?

Why does he put this here?

Or rather, why did God put this here because John wrote the Gospel of John under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (2 Tim. 3:16).

That was the question I kept finding myself asking, and I will tell you it is no accident.

God put this here for a reason.

What was it? And what does it tell us about Jesus Christ - His person and work?

That’s the question we are going to answer as we look at this sign and how it fits in the overall Gospel of John between the feeding of the multitude and the Bread of Life discourse.

John 6:16-21 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.

So after feeding the great multitude, Mark 6:45-46 tells us Jesus sent His disciples a little ways up the shore to a place called Bethsaida while He stayed behind to dismiss the crowds and spend a little time to pray (Mark 6:45-46).

Evidently Jesus had told them to wait for Him there to go together across the sea to Capernaum, but that if He was late, they should go on without Him.

Well when Jesus didn’t show up, they got into the boat and started across the sea.

Along the way there came a storm.

The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing.

Storms were not uncommon on the Sea of Galilee.

The Sea was nearly 700 feet below sea level while the surrounding hills were about 2,000 feet above sea level.

The cooler air could come down off the slopes and crash with the warmer air on the surface of the lake to make violent storms with white caps and strong winds.

And apparently this storm was a bad one.

Matthew and Mark tell us that the disciples were in the middle of the sea a long distance from land battered by the waves (Matthew 14:24, Mark 6:47).

They they were straining at the oars making headway painfully because the wind was against them (Mark 6:48).

And the wind was so strong that even though they left early in the night, sometime between 6pm and 9pm, by the fourth watch of the night according to Matthew and Mark, sometime between 3 and 6am, so 6-12 hours after they left, they had only gone three or four miles (Matthew 14:25, Mark 6:48).

They had barely made any progress at all.

John 6:19...

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.

The reason they were frightened, the other Gospels say, is because they thought Jesus was a ghost.

I mean who would assume Jesus would be walking on water let alone walking in the midst of violent waves.

This was not an easy stroll on a calm lake…this was Jesus walking in the midst of a hurricane.

Verse 20...

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.

When you put all the gospel accounts together, there are actually four miracles that happened when Jesus walked on the water.

Obviously, Jesus walking on water is a pretty big one but this is also where Peter, at least for a little bit, walks on the water with Him…that’s miracle number 2.

We are also told when Jesus got into the boat, the storm immediately ceased.

And here John tells us that in addition to that the boat was miraculously transported the rest of the way to the western shore.

But the two things John highlights are Jesus walking on water, and Jesus immediately delivering the boat to safe harbor.

So what does this miracle tell us.

Well in the Gospel of Matthew Jesus walking on water ends with those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.” (Matthew 14:33).

It ends with worship and the acknowledgment that Jesus truly is the Son of God.

Now you might be tempted that’s just because Jesus just walked on water.

That it shows His divine sovereignty over nature and no one is sovereign over nature but God alone.

And I will tell you, you would not be wrong.

But here’s where this gets really cool, when you take in the Old Testament background of this miracle its not just some general idea that Jesus is God because He walks on water and controls nature.

Its richer than that.

Its a specific, theological identifier that Jesus truly is the Almighty Eternal Son of God and Savior of the World.

Lets look at Job 9:4-11

Job 9:4-11 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?— he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger, who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble; who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars; who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea...who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number. Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

Here’s what’s happening in this passage. Job is celebrating the almighty and overwhelming power of God.

And specifically says God alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea.

Theologically only God can walk on water, and here you have Jesus Christ trampling the waves of the sea.

He is almighty God!

Job might also help us understand what Mark when he said Jesus walked on the waves meaning to pass them by (Mark 6:48).

Why does Mark say that?

Because Job longed to see God but he says he passes by me and I see him not.

Not to mention, remember how Moses longed to see God. He said Show me your glory!.

But God said no man can see my face and live. Our sin keeps us far from God.

But God said I’ll put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with my hand and I will I pass you by and after I pass by, I’ll remove my hand and you can see my back (Ex. 33:22-23).

The longing of Moses and the longing of Job was to see the glory of God.

But sin made it impossible…until Christ.

Job longed for a Mediator who could stand between Him and God and make peace between them both.

Moses longed to see God and for an answer to all of his sin that kept him far from Him.

So when Christ comes, intending to pass the disciples by, only to turn and draw near to them instead, theologically what He was saying was: I am God and the answer to all your sins.

Like John said all the way back in chapter 1: We have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth…and from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace (John 1:14, 16).

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known (John 1:18).

What Moses and Job longed for...we have in Christ.

In Him we see the glory of God…we know God…all our sins are forgiven and we are reconciled to Him.

Instead of looking on Christ and dying in our sins, He gives us eternal life because He died in our place.

In Christ the glory of God does not pass us by, we see Him face to face because He has atoned once for all for all our sins.

So theologically, when we see Jesus walking on water we should see that Jesus He is almighty God who came to save us from all our sins.

We even see that in the passage. Jesus says It is I, do not be afraid.

It is I could literally be translated in the Greek as I AM, God’s Name in the Old Testament, and Jesus takes that Name and applies it to Himself.

And not only that, but repeatedly throughout the Old Testament, God commands His people Do not be afraid, Do not fear…and the reason why is I am with you.

Its actually one of the most common commands in the entire Bible.

Do not be afraid, I am with you.

I am your God and your Deliverer.

Your Mighty Fortress and Strong Tower.

Your Shield and Defender.

Your Great God and Savior.

And that’s exactly what Jesus is saying here.

Do not fear, I am with you.

Jesus walking on water is starting to get so much bigger than sovereign over nature isn’t it?

Let me show you one more passage. Psalm 107:29-32.

Psalm 107 is a Psalm of thanksgiving celebrating God’s steadfast love and power to save.

Psalm 107:29-32 He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

That’s exactly what Jesus did.

Then they were glad that the waters were quiet,

Didn’t John say they were glad to take him into the boat?

and he brought them to their desired haven.

Again Immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

Safe harbor.

Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

Those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.” (Matthew 14:33).

Jesus walking on water lived out God’s own steadfast love and power to save.

When you take the Old Testament background and tie it to the Gospel accounts of Jesus walking on water, you get something so much more than Jesus being sovereign over nature.

You get Jesus who is Almighty God and the Savior and deliverer from all our sins.

The One who stills the waters of God’s wrath and judgment and brings us to safe harbor.

Connecting John

That’s why John puts it in.

Its the bridge that connects and proves all everything John’s said chapters 5 and 6.

In Chapter 5, Jesus claimed to be the Son of God.

One with and equal to the Father in every way, even having life within himself and the authority to give that life to all who believe in Him.

John 5:21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

And then you had the feeding of the multitude at the beginning of chapter 6 which puts that truth into action.

Jesus is almighty God..He feeds 15-20,000 people with only five loaves of bread because He is True Bread who gives eternal life.

That’s what the Bread of Life discourse is all about.

Jesus is the one and only source of salvation and eternal life for all who believe in Him.

So John uses Jesus walking on water as the theological proof that He truly is the Almighty, eternal Son of God who really does has life in Himself and the authority to give that life to all who believe.

Its the one thing John wants you to get out of His gospel.

All the way back in chapter 1 verse 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.

Jesus is Almighty God.

And then Verse 3: All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

He is Sovereign over all things including the wind and the waves.

Verse 4: In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

He is the Son of God and the source of eternal life for all who believe in Him.

That is what we are meant to see in Jesus walking on water.

Its not just a cool party trick or a sign that merely says Jesus is God because He sovereign over nature.

It is that, but it is so much more than that.

Theologically, given all the Old Testament background, its a sign that says Jesus Christ is Almighty God and Savior.

That as the True Son of God He really is the Bread of Life who gave His life for the life of the world and has the authority to give eternal life to everyone who believes (John 6:51).

God and Savior.

That’s what both the feeding of the multitude and Jesus walking on water mean.

So what does that mean for us?

When Jesus came into the boat, the disciples worshiped Him saying “Truly you are the Son of God.” (Matthew 14:33).

That is the only true and right response to Jesus walking on water.

Worshiping Christ and giving Him the glory He deserves.

And what does that look like?

Jesus tells us from His own mouth in John 6 verses 22-29.

Jesus walking on water gives us the theological principle: Jesus is Almighty God who alone has eternal life.

And in the rest of the passage Jesus applies that principle…what difference does that make in your life?

And we are going to have two things, you worship Christ with all of your life and you believe in Him with all of your heart.

And those are our next two points...

Jesus is worthy of all of our life...

And He is worthy of all of our faith.

Point number 2...

II. Jesus is Worthy of All Our Life

John 6:22-24 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.

Remember…these people are not seeking Jesus out of true saving faith.

They have a superficial faith

They aren’t coming to Christ out of repentance, humility, conviction of sin.

They are seeking Him because of the miracles…Jesus says because you ate your fill of the loaves.

They want Jesus to meet all of their physical needs - health, wealth, and a life of blessing - while ignoring their true spiritual need to be forgiven of their sin and justified before the Lord.

John 6:25-27 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”

Basically they were asking Him, How did you get here? because there was only one boat.

Ignoring their question...

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. 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.”

Jesus rebukes them.

Jesus says you aren’t seeking me because you saw something in the signs…because you saw that I am the Messiah and what the signs truly represent.

You are seeking me because you ate your fill of the loaves.

You’re seeking me for worldly things to fill your hungry bellies, not realizing I am the answer for your hungry soul.

Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life.

Here’s the gist of Jesus’ argument.

Don’t spend your life for things down here.

Don’t live your life for things that are just going to fade away.

You’re chasing me, seeking me, running after me across the sea for food that perishes.

That doesn’t last. That just leaves you hungry again, when I’m here to give you food that endures to eternal life.

Whoever comes to me shall not hunger and whoever believes in me shall never thirst (John 6:36).

By encouraging them to pursue the food that endures to eternal life, Jesus was really exhorting them to work for…live for…pursue…Himself the very Bread of Life.

The Big Idea: Don’t live for the things of this world…Live for Christ!

Non-Christian

For the non-Christian what Jesus is saying to you is why are you working so hard for things that will never satisfy?

Everybody is trying to find some kind of life, purpose, or meaning from this world, not realizing they are a dog chasing their tail trying to do it.

Nothing in this world can ever leave you satisfied.

Whatever it is…spouse, job, house, kids...

Money, power, respect or recognition, control, security...

Even good things God gives, can be twisted and turned into idols…ultimate things we look to to try to give our life joy, purpose, and meaning.

We turn them into ultimate things and look for life in them.

This is especially true of sin…sexual pleasure and lust, selfishness, pride, anger, drunkeness...

Even our sins can deceive us into thinking there is life in them.

But everything in this world, whether idols of our own making or sin of our own choosing, will always leave us hungry for more.

Its food that perishes. Look at your own life and you can see that it is true.

Honestly, what have you found that has satisfied the hunger of your soul?

To change the metaphor:

Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Here’s the idea:

All of our sins and the things of this world are broken cisterns we are constantly running to thinking to ourselves and believing the lie, this time this will finally quench my thirst.

Satisfy my hunger.

Give me the life I so desperately seek.

But they are all cracked. They can hold no water.

They never satisfy. Not in the long run. They will always leave us thirsty again.

Its a dry well. There’s no water there. Its a desert wasteland where every cistern will leave you bone dry.

The only life, the only water, the only bread, the only thing that can satisfy our hungry and thirsty souls is Christ who is himself the fountain of living waters.

A never-ending stream who never runs dry.

Like Jesus said to the Samaritan woman John 4:13-14 Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

Its the same idea here.

Jesus is the only bread that endures to eternal life.

He’s the only bread - the only joy, life, blessing, and salvation - that can once for all satisfy your hungry soul.

But only if you seek Him with saving faith.

If you come to Him with humility and conviction of sin and say Jesus, you’re my only life.

Everything else always leaves me thirsty.

Will you forgive my sin and will you satisfy my soul with you and the grace only you can give?

And look at the promise: 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.

Christian

And for the Christian, what are you living for?

And I mean what are you really living for?

What’s the aim of your life? What do you work for?

Are you working for bread that perishes?

Now Jesus obviously is not saying you shouldn’t work for physical food or physical needs.

Paul himself says if a man does not work he does not eat.

What Jesus is saying don’t spend your life, waste your life, for bread that perishes.

Don’t live for down here.

Live for Christ and His glory.

Matthew 6:33 Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things [food, clothes, physical needs] will be added to you.

Worldliness and spiritual laziness is an all too common problem in the American church today.

We are just like the people in John 6, consumed with materialism and the things of this world spending our lives for food that perishes instead of pursuing Christ and laying up for ourselves treasures in heaven (Matthew 6:19-21).

Here’s the idea. Follow Christ with all of your life. Don’t work for food that perishes.

It is so easy with all the busyness and distractions in our world today to just coast.

To completely check out spiritual without even realizing we even did it.

We just fall into the grind and start living for the things in this world things that don’t matter and are about to fade way.

Let me put it this way.

If all of our time is spent in scrolling our phones, watching TV, or recreation, with little to no spiritual efforts at all, we have a problem.

What your living for can really be seen in what your working for.

What are you pursuing…seeking…spending your time, effort, energy, money, and resources towards.

What’s important to you and your putting your time into.

And if none of those are spiritual efforts or spiritual disciplines we are living for food that perishes.

Here’s the idea behind what Christ is saying: Don’t waste your life! Don’t let it coast by.

There should be a spiritual earnestness, a holy earnestness in a Christian’s life for a life of godliness.

And when we are really living for Christ, we will work for it.

Labor for it. Godliness and nearness to Christ will be our greatest treasure and the aim of our life.

Instead of checking out and watching TV we will read the Word.

Pray. Read some spiritual book that lifts our eyes to the glory of Christ.

We won’t let sin go unchecked. But we will guard the borders of our godliness and strive to put it to death.

We will start to look at our whole life and say where am I falling short and how can I bring all of my life into submission to Christ.

That’s working for the food that endures.

We invest in spiritual things, spiritual efforts, spiritual aims instead of just coasting satisfied with the things of the world.

Don’t waste your life. Don’t work for the food that perishes.

Invest in your spiritual life.

Strive to live a life marked by spiritual earnestness and take pains make sacrifices to grow in Christ and live all of your life for Him.

Now I’m not saying you need to be a monk and all of your free time needs to be given over to spiritual disciplines

Sabbath rest and recreation to the glory of God is a spiritual discipline to.

What I’m saying is Don’t waste your life.

Don’t coast in your godliness.

Strive to make the whole course of your life one of laying up treasure for yourself in heaven not just on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal (Matthew 6:19-21).

Make godliness and Christ a priority in your life and let your time effort and energy reflect that in what you do, what you think, and how you live.

Live for Christ with all of your life.

Remember what John the Baptist said in John 3.

John 3:30 He must increase, I must decrease.

A life for Christ is a life of always shrinking.

Of an ever decreasing of ourselves and an ever increasing of Christ.

True joy is only found when we live for Christ and die to ourselves.

Only then will our joy and life be full.

Resolve to live a life where you decrease and Christ increases more and more in all your life.

To live the life Spurgeon said, “I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, that one prayer into this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to him…to have no wish, no thought, no desire but Christ” (Beeke, Reformed Preaching, 89).

Live for Christ and live for Christ with all of your life.

Finally, number 3, not only is Jesus worthy of all our life, He is worthy of all our faith.

III. Jesus Worthy of All Our Faith

John 6:28-29 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.”

So Jesus had just said don’t work for the food that perishes, but work for the food that endures to eternal life, and the people heard that and immediately started thinking works of the Law.

What must we do, to be doing the works of God?

Ok Jesus. What must we do to earn this eternal life?

Just like most of the Jews of Jesus’ day they put their hope in works of the Law.

Obeying God enough to earn forgiveness and eternal life.

That is a very man focused understanding of religion.

Every false religion in the world says you can earn your way to salvation.

But Jesus’ response is...astonishing.

This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.

Here’s what I want you to notice.

The people asked what are the works of God.

And Jesus’ answer to them is singular. This is the work.

This is what God requires for someone to be saved. Faith in a Savior, not in works of the Law.

In other words, you can’t earn your salvation.

We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

That is the great promise of the gospel.

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

And Galatians 2:16 Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ...because by works of the law no one will be justified.

So Jesus’ answer to the people is your works can never save you.

The only thing that can save you is believing in the one whom God has sent.

Trusting in Christ and Christ alone.

Trusting in His finished work on your behalf.

Because your works can never save you, they can never make you righteous before God.

Righteousness

Let’s talk about righteousness.

Usually we just assume righteousness means basically the same thing as holiness.

But righteousness is so much more than that.

Righteousness implies a divine and holy standard.

So righteousness is not just holiness, its holiness that rises and measures up to some objective holy standard, and that objective holy standard is God’s Law.

That’s why the Jews relied on the Law.

God’s Law is the only standard of righteousness so how else can you make yourself righteous?

But that was just the problem. The Law can’t make anyone righteous.

The Law can only condemn.

Show us where we fall short of God’s perfect and holy standard with the knowledge that the soul who sins shall die (Ezek 18:20).

That poses a problem: Everyone who sins is unrighteous before the Law of God.

They are condemned.

No amount of keeping the Law no matter how perfect, could ever wash away even that one sin.

In fact, because we are so polluted and corrupted with our sin, even our good works are filthy rags before the Law.

So even keeping the Law outside of Christ however much that is possible doesn’t do anything to take away our sin, but only compounds it.

Do you see the horrible plight we were in.

The only people who will be accepted by God are people who are wholly and perfectly righteous before the Law.

The only problem is all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

Because of sin it was impossible for us to save ourselves.

No amount of keeping the Law could ever make us righteous before God.

Our only hope is God’s grace and power to save.

But when Jesus walked on water didn’t He show us He is almighty God who is mighty and gracious to save?

As a Man, Christ lived the perfect and sinless life we failed to live and He died the death we deserved to die for our sin on the cross?

He fulfilled all the righteous requirements of the Law on our behalf.

He offered to God a life of perfect and sinless righteousness.

And His own life as a sacrifice to pay for all the unrighteousness of all our sin.

This is the good news of the gospel: Through faith we are justified in His sight, not by works.

Justification is an important word.

I means to be declared not guilty, righteous before the Law.

So you see, we are not saved by merits of our works.

We are saved through faith in the merits of Christ’s work on our behalf.

On the cross Jesus said It is finished!

All the righteous requirements of the Law were fulfilled and full payment of sin was made.

So that anyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

God will take all your sin and unrighteousness and lay it on Christ.

And in exchange He will give you Christ’s own perfect righteousness.

Perfect grace, perfect love, the fullness of forgiveness.

What is the work that God requires? What is the only way to be saved?

Simple faith in the perfect work of His Son Jesus Christ.

Salvation is a gift…Its all God’s of grace.

That’s why Jesus is worthy of all of our faith.

There is no other name under heaven...by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).

So when we talk about justification and righteousness before the Law those big theology words need to be brought down and treasured on a personal level.

I am justified in Christ.

Washed. Cleansed. Accepted.

I have the fullness of forgiveness and the fullness of love.

Not because of anything I did or anything I deserved.

But because of God’s kind, merciful, and unmerited grace.

Grace alone. Faith alone. Christ alone.

That is the hope of the gospel because our salvation does not rest in our good works, in our ability to keep God’s Law.

It rests entirely on Christ’s grace and almighty power to save.

Conclusion

Jesus is the almighty Son of God who alone is able to deliver us from our sin and give us eternal life.

That is the good news from Jesus walking on water.

Remember how Jesus said in verse 27 The Son of Man will give you eternal life For on Him God the Father has set His seal.

A seal was a mark of authority…a sign that something was true genuine and real.

And with Jesus’ miracles God the Father set His seal on Him.

The feeding of the multitude and walking on water proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Christ is almighty God come to save us from our sins.

And as our Great God and Gracious Savior:

He is worthy of all of our life.

He’s the only one that can give us life.