John 6:30-36: I Am the Bread of Life

Isaiah 55:1-3 Come , everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Intro

Who is Jesus Christ?

One word could never capture it all.

Nothing can capture all the glory of all that Christ is.

And so the Bible gives us a myriad of titles, metaphors, and descriptions about Jesus Christ each one telling us something unique glorious about Him.

He is our Great God and Gracious Savior.

Lord.

Messiah.

Prophet, Priest, and King.

Deliverer.

Redeemer.

Lamb of God.

Our Great High Priest.

The Rock of our Salvation.

The Yes and Amen to all of God’s Promises.

We could go on and on and on.

In fact, we will spend all eternity exhausting the riches of all the glory that Christ is and we will never come to an end.

They are names and theological job descriptions.

Names to tell us the glory of who he is and theological job descriptions to tell us the glory of all that he has done.

God has given us these to help us know Christ and to worship Him for all that He’s worth.

In John 6:30-36 we come to another of these famous titles.

I am the bread of life.

Its so simple that even a child can grasp it, but so rich that we will spend eternity mining its depths.

What does it mean that Jesus is the Bread of Life?

That’s the question we are going to be answering today.

And the Big Idea I want us to take away...

Jesus is the Bread of Life who gave His life for the life of the world.

In this passage Christ give three different descriptions of Bread:

He is the True Bread.

The Bread of God.

And the Bread of Life.And all of these come together to show us the glory of Christ and His saving work as the Bread of life who gave his life for the life of the world.

We are going to have three points today and the headings of these main points are long.

I’ve got them Puritan titles going on with sub points to go with them.

All the bells and whistles to help us know Christ and love Him more.

Let’s start with point number 1 in John 6:30-32...

I. Jesus is the True Manna who God Gave to Save Us from the Wilderness of Sin and Death

John 6:30-32 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.”

The So connects this verse back to what Jesus had just said.

John 6:27-29: Don’t work for the food the perishes but for the food that endures to eternal life.

Well what works must we do?

This is the work of God. Not works of self-righteousness where you try to earn your salvation but that you believe in Him whom He has sent.

In other words, believe in me and I’ll give you eternal life.

And so the people ask Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work [or miracle] do you perform?

The you here is emphatic.

Its as if to say Prove it. Who are you to give us eternal life?

What miraculous evidence do you have to prove you are the Messiah?

Unbelief

Now ironically, Jesus had just done a great miracle that all these people saw and benefitted from the day before.

He fed the great multitude.

He took five small loaves and two small fish and fed upwards of 20,000 people.

5,000 men, not to mention women and children.

And yet, here all these people are saying What sign do you perform?

Now we can see the people’s question and think, what are you talking about?

Do you not remember what Jesus had done just the day before?

How you all ate your fill of the loaves and there will still 12 basketfuls left over?

What possible sign do you possibly need to believe?

But what this question does is reveal their hard hearts and unbelief.

They were spiritually dead. And that’s precisely the point.

They did not want to believe.

They loved Christ works. They loved eating their fill of the bread.

But when Christ called them to repent and believe…we need another sign.

And then, they tell Jesus what kind of sign they would like to see.

“ Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”

You want us to believe in you? Prove you’re greater than Moses.

The idea here is that the some of the Jews in Jesus’ day believed that when the Messiah came He would renew the Miracle of manna again.

He would be a greater Moses.

Remember how even after Jesus fed the multitude the people started to say, “This is indeed the Prophet [the one like Moses] who is to come into the world!”

And their thinking is Jesus, you’re asking us to believe in you.

And the miracle you did yesterday was pretty great.

But it was only one meal for a few thousand people.

Moses fed millions of people every day for forty years.

And the bread you gave us was normal everyday bread. The kind of bread we eat everyday.

Moses gave heavenly bread.

Tell us why we should believe in you?

You gave us bread, but can you give us manna from heaven?

And Jesus’ answer is in verse 32...

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.”

So first, Jesus makes a correction.

It was not Moses who gave you bread from heaven. It was God.

The people had misinterpreted Scripture.

The He who gave them bread from heaven was not Moses…it was God.

This is just another one of those examples that shows us how the Jews of Jesus day had set their hope on Moses.

Instead of trusting in God alone they tried to establish a righteousness of their own by works of the Law.

But here’s the other thing I want you to notice.

Notice Jesus moves from the past tense to the present tense.

It was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

This was Bread God was then currently giving.

Ironically the people asked for this bread…this heavenly man and Jesus changing the tense of the verb was saying God is giving this Bread right hear in front of you.

He’s giving it and He’s giving it now!

But you don’t believe.

That the manna in the wilderness was not the true bread they needed.

Jesus was.

He was the True Manna.

What this tells us is that when we read about God raining down Manna in the wilderness from Exodus 16, we should be seeing Christ.

He is the true bread.

This is a master class in Biblical Theology and biblically interpreting the Old Testament.

According to Christ, the Manna in the wilderness pointed to Him.

It was a type or a shadow and He was the body and fulfillment of it.

He was all the Manna was and more.

And the irony is, the Jews were asking for that Manna, but they were missing it.

So how do we not miss it?

What does Jesus as the True Manna tell us about Jesus Christ?

There are two things I want to highlight for your...

First, Jesus is God’s free and gracious gift.

And Second, Jesus is God’s wilderness provision.

Let’s look at Jesus is God’s free and gracious gift.

1. Jesus is God’s Free and Gracious Gift

Exodus 16

Let me remind you of the story of the Manna in the wilderness so that all of this will make sense.

You had the Exodus. God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt.

He brought them out of bondage and slavery, through the Red Sea and was leading them to the Promise Land.

Just two and a half months in, and they were in the wilderness. A desolate and barren place.

And while there the people grumbled against Moses and Aaron (Ex. 16:2).

Would that we had died in Egypt instead of coming all the way out here only to die from hunger.

Ultimately they were grumbling against the Lord (Ex. 16:8).

So what did God do? He poured out His grace: Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you. (Ex. 16:4).

He satisfies their hunger and need.

And the manna came with the dew of the morning. It was a white flakey bread that Exodus says tasted like wafers made with honey (Ex. 16:13, 31).

It was sweet to the mouth and filling to the stomach.

Each of them gathered as much as they could eat…and whoever gathered little had not lack (Ex. 16:18).

And this was the bread God fed the people of Israel with all forty years of their wandering in the wilderness (Ex. 16:35).

One of the things that obviously points to Christ was that the Manna was God’s free and gracious gift.

For one God rained the Manna down from heaven,

This pointed forward to the incarnation of Jesus Christ... we are going to look at that in little bit more detail here in a minute.

What the Manna also shows us is that the people of God had done nothing to deserve it.

In fact, they had done everything to not deserve it.

They grumbled against God. They longed to go back to Egypt.

They ignored God’s commands about gathering only enough manna for each day and double for the Sabbath day to remind Israel every day God provided for all their needs.

It was sin on top of sin.

But instead of God destroying them, He graciously provided them food.

The same is true with the gospel.

We have done nothing to deserve it.

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and each an every one of us each and every day builds a mountain out of our sin that reaches as high the heavens.

But God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

Jesus is God’s free and gracious gift to all who believe.

When we were still lost and dead in our sins, as lost and as dead as the people Jesus was talking to…God graciously loved us and sent His Son to die in our place for our sins.

He came from heaven to save us not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His own mercy (Titus 3:5).

All of our salvation is all of God’s grace.

And that grace freely and graciously given by God in Jesus Christ to all who believe.

He is God’s free and gracious gift.

Not only that, but the Manna God gave was as sweet as honey and always more than enough for everyone to eat their fill.

But only for that day. Everyday the people of Israel would wake up and be hungry again.

Well God’s grace in Christ is sweeter than honey.

Its the sweetest grace we could ever hope to taste.

Its Grace upon grace. The fullness of Grace.

And its grace that when we feed on Him by our starving souls are never hungry again (John 6:35).

He once and for all answers all the hunger of our starving souls.

He brings us to a great feast where the bread never runs out and the wine never runs dry.

Number 2, as the True Manna…Jesus is not only God’s free and gracious gift, He is also God’s Wilderness Provision who carries us to the Promise Land of Eternal Life.

2. Jesus is God’s True Wilderness Provision for All Our Sin

Theologically the wilderness is a symbol for sin and death.

Its the opposite of Eden.

Its a place of barrenness, curse and God’s judgment.

And food is one of the most essential and basic elements human life.

You can’t live long without it.

So in the wilderness God provided for Israel’s most basic and greatest physical need.

And He did so until they reached the Promised Land.

Exodus 16:35 The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

The border of God’s blessing and rest and promise for the people of God.

Well Jesus is the True Manna who answers our true and greatest spiritual need…a need greater than any physical hunger in a barren and desolate wilderness…

He is God’s provision, God’s answer, God’s salvation for all our sin.

When we were lost and dying in the wilderness of sin and death...Jesus gave us life.

Through His death and resurrection, He brought us out of sin and death into the Promise Land of eternal life and like the Manna, He will carry us by His power and grace all the way home.

And greater than the Manna, none who trust in Christ will ever be lost or fail to reach the heavenly Promise Land.

That Exodus generation died.

They were lost in the wilderness because of their sin and unbelief and only Joshua and Caleb made it to the Promise Land.

But everyone who trusts in Christ will never perish and never be lost.

Christ says John 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

And just a few verses later in John 6:37 and 39 All that the Father gives me will come to me…And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me but raise it up on the last day.

All those who trust in Christ are and will be eternally saved.

They will never be lost…they will never be forsaken.

Christ will carry them home to the end.

Jesus is the True and Greater Manna who God gives freely and graciously to all who believe to save us from the wilderness of sin and death and give us eternal life.

That’s the good news of the Manna in the wilderness.

Even in the Exodus we have a shadow of the gospel.

But Jesus doesn’t stop there.

He keeps hammering this bread theme...

And says that not only is He the true Manna, but point number two: He is...

II. Jesus is the Bread of God who Came Down from Heaven to Bring Us the Fullness of Salvation

John 6:33-34 “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.”

When Jesus says for the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven, the Greek itself is ambiguous.

The LSB and the NASB 95 translate this as for the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven.

This is probably closer to how Jesus said it because the people don’t look at Jesus and understand that He’s the bread although that’s obviously what Jesus has in mind given the very next verse.

But they say Sir, give us this bread always thinking He’s still talking about physical bread.

So not only are they spiritually dead because they ask what sign do you give…they are spiritually blind! because they don’t understand the spiritual truth Christ is saying.

He is the Bread of God who came down from heaven.

And that statement is jam packed with some crucial theology about Christ all focusing on the glory of Christ in His incarnation.

Incarnation

When we talk about the incarnation what we are talking about is Christ, the eternal Son of God taking on human flesh.

That the Eternal Son of God became a man to live a perfect and sinless life as a man, and as a man, offer His life as a substitutionary sacrifice to pay for all our sins.

Jesus is Truly and Fully God and Truly Fully Man.

That truth, is essential to the gospel itself.

Without the incarnation, none of us would be saved.

And so when we look at Jesus as the Bread of God who came down from heaven and particularly what it tells us about His incarnation, we see three things.

Three sub-points.

Number 1...

1. Jesus is Eternal God

Notice how the Bread of God is intimately connected to God Himself.

Its not just bread, its God’s Bread…Bread that is personally connected to and and comes directly from Him.

The Bread of God is also he who comes down from heaven.

And that’s huge.

The Bread of God is not earthly bread that comes from down here.

Its not bread that comes from this earth.

Its Heavenly Bread that comes down directly from heaven.

That’s the incarnation.

When you put all of this together it speaks to Christ’s glory as the Eternal Son of God.

He came down from heaven, and before He was ever born in a manger in the little town of Bethlehem which prophetically means House of Bread, He eternally existed in intimate, personal relationship and communion with God the Father.

We saw this all the way back in John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

In the beginning - Christ is eternal.

He is Creator and not created.

John 1:3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

The Word was with God.

The Greek is the idea of intimate, personal, face to face relationship with God.

So the Word is a distinct person distinguishable from God the Father.

He is God the Son.

And the Word was God.

Even though the Word is distinct from the Father He is One with the Father.

As the Bread of God who comes down from heaven Jesus is Eternal God.

Number 2…As the the Bread of God who came from Heaven...

2. Jesus is God’s Prophet of Eternal Life

Second, as the Bread of God who comes down from heaven, Jesus has the unique authority to reveal God and gives us the words of Eternal life.

We say this idea back in John 3.

Jesus said to Nicodemus John 3:11-13 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

Who has gone into heaven and brought back a Message from God?

A sure and true knowledge from God’s own mouth of how we can be saved?

The answer is no one.

No one’s gone to heaven and come back.

Because of sin, we are spiritually ignorant of God and His ways.

We’ve seen it in our passage. The people were spiritually blind, spiritually dead, hard-hearted in their unbelief.

Without a sure and true message from God Himself, God’s own revelation of Himself and salvation, we would never be saved.

Left to ourselves, we would never find our way to Him.

At best all of our life would be groping in the dark...

That is if we weren’t already so spiritually lost and dead in our sin that we don’t even searching for Him in the first place.

None is righteous no one seeks God (Rom. 3:10-11).

But the good news of the gospel is the Son of Man came [from Heaven] to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10).

Jesus is our Prophet.

He came from heaven to reveal God so that we could know who He is and worship Him.

And He came from heaven to tell us how we might be saved.

John 6:38 I have come down from heaven.

And John 15:15 All that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Jesus came from heaven in His incarnation to bring us the good news of Salvation, to give us the words of Eternal Life from God’s own mouth - sure and true word from heaven itself.

But more than that, Jesus didn’t just come down from heaven to tell us about salvation, He came to actually accomplish our salvation by offering His life as a sacrifice on the cross.

And that’s number three...

3. Jesus is Our Substitutionary Sacrifice

This is why I said the incarnation is essential to the gospel itself.

Jesus came from Heaven and took on human flesh to die in our place as our substitute and to once and for all offer His life as a sacrifice for all our sins.

To bring us and give us the fullness of salvation.

Look at...

Hebrews 2:14-15, 17 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery...Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

A sacrifice of propitiation is a substitutionary sacrifice that satisfies the wrath of God against a sinner, and turns that wrath into love, favor, mercy, and grace.

The Eternal Son of God became a man to die in our place for our sins.

The point I’m emphasizing here is that the incarnation was essential for the gospel because without it Christ could not have died as our substitute.

Hebrews 10:4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Animal sacrifices, the blood of bulls and goats could never do it because it was man who sinned against God (Heb. 10:4).

But the very next verse: Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me (Hebrews 10:5).

The incarnation was a body prepared by God for the Son to be the True, Once-True, Once-For-All sacrifice for all who believe in Him.

That’s why Jesus said the Bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.

Now that does not mean every person universally will be saved.

All throughout the gospel of John, the Bible is clear only those who believe will be saved.

The world here refers to lost and fallen humanity in open rebellion against God.

The idea is that Christ gives life to the world in the sense that He is the only source of salvation for the world.

I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6).

He is the God and Savior of every tribe, tongue, and nation and there is no other.

Jesus gives life to the world because there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).

This emphasizes God’s great love and grace.

God sent His Son to die for sinners.

God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).

And God prepared a body for Him…the Bread of God come down from heaven to die in our place as our substitute.

1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Jesus is the Bread of God who Came Down from Heaven...

He is eternal Son of God who left heaven took on human flesh.

He is the Prophet of Eternal Life who brought from heaven to earth the sure and good news of our salvation.

And in His incarnation He is our substitutionary sacrifice who once and for all fully accomplish that salvation, on our behalf.

He lived, suffered, and died as a man, bearing our sins in His body on the tree, that we might have eternal life.

And that takes us to point number 3...

Jesus is the True Manna who God Gave to Save Us from the Wilderness of Sin and Death.

He is the Bread of God who Came Down from Heaven to Bring Us the Fullness of Salvation.

And He is...

III. Jesus is the Bread of Life Who Gives Eternal Life to All Who Believe

John 6:35-36 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. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.”

This is the crescendo of the whole passage.

Everything has been leading up to this.

What does it mean that Jesus is the True Manna and the Bread of God?

That He is the Bread of Life!

I Am

This is the first of 7 famous “I Am” sayings in the gospel of John.

I am the Bread of Life (John 6:35).

The Light of the World (John 8:12).

The Door of the Sheep (John 10:7,9).

The Good Shepherd (John 10:11, 14).

The Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25).

The Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6).

The True Vine (John 15:1, 5).

And what’s significant about all these I am statements is that each of them gives us a picture of Christ and His saving work.

But here is why they are also significant.

I Am is the Divine Name - the Old Testament Name of God.

When Moses asked who should I say has sent me? God said I Am (Exodus 3:14).

The eternally self-existent One True God...the One True Being and Sovereign of all the universe who gives life and existence to all things.

Yahweh God.

So when Jesus says I Am He is clearly saying He is God.

And in Exodus God’s Name reveals that He is the Covenant Lord who saves His people from slavery and bondage Egypt by His great and powerful hand and delivers Him into the Promise Land.

So when Jesus uses the Divine Name, He’s saying all the same things.

I Am the Covenant Keeping Lord.

I’m the one that’s come to lead God’s people in greater Exodus…not from slavery in Egypt but from slavery to Sin, Satan, and Death.

And I’m the Deliverer who will take you out of spiritual bondage into the heavenly Promise Land of eternal life.

So the I Am statements say Jesus is the God of our Salvation and then the Metaphor connected to that I Am statement tells us how He is the God of our salvation and what that salvation is like.

The I AM statements are given to us to reveal Christ’s glory as our God and Savior and to invite us into deep and abiding faith in Him.

Well with all that in mind, what does it mean when Christ says I am the Bread of Life?

Bread

What is Bread?

It is food. Sustenance. Nourishment.

The very foundation of life itself.

Without food, you will not live long. You will waste away and perish.

And Christ says, “Exactly. I am the Bread of Life. True, Spiritual, Eternal Life for all who believe.

Without Christ we will starve and die in our sins.

Just as physical food gives you physical life…Christ gives you eternal life.

He is the all-nourishing Bread.

He answers all the hunger and hunger of our famished souls.

Our sin has turned to dust in our mouth.

It promised life and satisfaction, but it only brought death.

But Jesus is the Bread who gives life.

And Jesus says whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

The English isn’t actually strong enough here.

In the Greek the idea is whoever comes to me shall never, ever hunger and never, ever thirst.

It is an absolute impossibility.

Christ gives us grace upon grace upon grace…the full forgiveness of sins and eternal life.

He is Bread that answers our deepest need, forgiveness of sins, and satisfies.

But only if we repent and believe.

Bread does no good sitting on the table.

You have to take and eat.

And the only way to eat this Bread of Life is by coming to Christ with saving faith.

Faith

Jesus gives us a picture of that faith.

Whoever comes to me shall never hunger, whoever believes shall never thirst.

Come

Coming to Christ is leaving everything behind.

Its repenting of your sin, dying to your self and following Him.

Its a complete abandonment and forsaking of the old life to follow Christ in the New.

You cannot eat the Bread of Life while still feasting on your sin.

Repentance is turning from sin to follow Christ.

Its leaving everything behind and to follow Christ and worship Christ as Lord.

Believe

Faith also believes.

They are two sides of the same coin.

Repentance is turning from sin…believing is turning to Christ.

Its trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

Its looking to His death on the cross to say “There hangs all my sin.”

He is my propitiation. He is the One who satisfies the wrath of God on my behalf.

And all of my forgiveness is only found in Him.

So saving faith is trusting in Christ as Lord and Savior.

Worshiping Him as the Son of God and trusting in Him as the sacrifice for all your sins.

And if you believe you will never, ever hunger, and never, ever thirst.

Jesus said it is finished.

There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.

And the Salvation Christ gives is an eternal, everlasting, never ending...

Cannot be lost, cannot be taken, cannot be broken salvation fro all who believe.

Tragedy of Unbelief

That is tragedy of unbelief. Verse 36...

But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.

The irony is the people asked what sign that you give that we may see and believe.

And Jesus’s answer is the bread is right in front of you.

It is hard-hearted, stubborn unbelief that keeps people from believing in Christ.

From feasting on the bread of life.

Maybe that’s you today.

You want another sign, another proof just one more thing and then you will believe in Christ.

When what you really need is simple, humble faith.

The Bread of Life is here.

Its on the table for you, if you would repent and believe.

If you’re hungry come to Christ.

He said...

John 6:51 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.

Jesus gave His life that you might be saved.

He was crushed and broken for us.

Pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities (Isaiah 53:5).

He bore the wrath of God on our behalf, and rose again three days later.

And today He lives saying Take and eat.

Why will you perish? Why will you starve to death?

Believe in me. Eat my flesh and drink my blood, and I will give you eternal life.

Whoever comes to me will never hunger. Whoever believes in me will never thirst.

Pray a prayer of simple faith.

Jesus I am a sinner.

Will you forgive me. Will you make me clean?

Will you give me the Bread of Life? All of my life is yours.

And you will be saved.

Conclusion

And for the Christian, Jesus is our Bread of Life.

He is the Bread of Life who gave His life for the life of the world.

That means two things.

One: We have the joy of salvation.

When we were hungry and starving in our sin, God gave His Son to give us eternal life.

That’s good news.

News that should lead us to rejoice in, worship, and glorify God our Savior.

Bless the Lord and sing the praises of His Name.

And that leads to the second application.

Live for Christ with all of your life.

The Righteous shall live by faith.

Strive to live out that simple, saving faith everyday.

Worship Christ as Savior.

Treasure Him.Rejoice in Him.

Strive to worship Christ with all that you are and do.

Love Him with all of your heart, all of your soul, all of your mind, and all of your strength.

And Follow Christ as Lord.

Obey Him in all things and live for Him with all of your life.

Turn from sin and follow Christ.