Nerishment For Your Souls John 6:22-40

Intro: When I was growing up there was a restaurant that a hour or so after eating there me and my family would be hungry again. It didn’t matter how much you ate. That was us trying to fill our stomachs

? What do you fill your life with

Prop: We Need The true Filling power of Jesus

Trans: we will see this though 3 thing we can hunger for

Hunger For Food

John 6:22–26 ESV

22 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. 23 Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 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. 25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26 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.

1. I love that they realize the next day that Jesus Isn’t still around in that area

2. They knew Jesus didn’t go with the disciples. They properly figured Jesus was staying somewhere around there.

3. Why did you leave us?

John 6:26–29 ESV

26 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. 27 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.” 28 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

1. You don’t want me because I am the Messiah

2. You want Free Food

3. You focused on the temporary

4. Focus on the Eternal Ill give it to you.

5. God has his seal on me and you have seen It through the signs

The Bible Knowledge Commentary (6:28)

The people recognized that Jesus was saying God had a requirement for them. They would do God’s requirement if He would inform them what it was. They believed that they could please God and thus obtain eternal life by doing good works Rom. 10:2–4

Romans 10:2–4 ESV

2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Jesus’s response is simple Believe in the One God has sent.

Ephesians 2:8–9 ESV

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

there is nothing we can do exempt Believe in Jesus Christ

Ill: who likes cotton candy It melts in your mouth with no nutrition That is This life everything you strive for will melt away But we need to strive for the true Filling power of Jesus

Tran: After seeing that we can be hunger for food and realizing the need for the True filling power of Jesus

Hunger for signs

John 6:30–31 ESV

30 So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”

Have you ever been talking to someone or watching something and that person misses everything that Just happened. you cat help but chuckle that’s whats happening here. Except they are playing dime to see if they will get another meal

John 6:32–34 ESV

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. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”

It wasn’t Moses But God.

God Is now giving lasting Bread that brings life through Believing

The true bread is HE who come down to bring life

They say I want true Bread. (food)

Ill: Signs = Desperate negotiations with God “ If you then I will.”

Save me.

Get me out.

Get me this

All to often we forget shortly after we make these promises

Tran: After seeing that we can be hunger for food and signs and recognizing the need for the True filling power of Jesus

Hunger For Truth

John 6:35–36 ESV

35 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. 36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.

1. This is the First I AM statement in the Gospel of John

2. He challenges their thinking by changing bread from a commodity to a person

3 What do we need to survive Food. Jesus is the food that leads to eternal life

4 Your Life will Be sustained In Jesus so you will neater Hunger or thrust

5 But you don’t Believe even though you have

John 6:37–39 ESV

37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39 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.

assurance of salvation

God, Will is not just for you to believe in Jesus that you will remain in him and be raised in him

John 6:40 ESV

40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Numbers 21:8 ESV

And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”

Conclusion:

Valentines causes us to Show our love

Its Gods will that you recognize the love He has displayed for you. and turn from the path that your on that leads to destruction. And Turn to living in truth

those who have already turned we need to keep What God has done for us In mind.

and live in away that Reflects what God has done for us

Communion:

we practice open communion which means you are able to take as long as you believe, that Jesus Christ died for your sins, and rose again. but if you do not believe, ask you do not partake.

1 Corinthians 11:27–29 (ESV): 27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself

1 Corinthians 11:23–24 (ESV): 23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

Pray over the bread

shall we partake together

1 Corinthians 11:25 (ESV): In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

Pray over the cup

shall we partake together