I am the Bread of Life

Exodus 16:9-end

Introduction: Shealys BBQ, Name all the things thatI got to eat. and talk about being hungry now.

Mp: Jesus offers himself to satisfy man’s spiritual hunger as the bread of Life

(22-34) Jesus comes from the Father to give life.

The Jews didnt see the difference between the Jesus they wanted and the Jesus whom confessed himself to be from God the Father.

The jews wanted a “work” asked jesus for a “work”

The word work isnt suggesting that we merit eternal life by works but enduring the crowd to apply themselves to works that matter.

What are the works that matters?

That you believe in him whom he has sent.

True belief goes father than easy belief. True belief applies all to the things that matter.

For the Christian, nothing else matters to them besides what matters to Jesus. The object and response to the Christians faith is a continuous life dedicated to Jesus their Lord.

Reflect on the things that you do weekly, do they eternally matter? For many years we have spent time as a culture endeavoring in sports culture, following an Idea of rest that separates us from the church, falling into materialism, and other things that do not matter eternally.

Who or what are you following and giving your time to? We are called to live eternally in following Jesus.

Jesus is the only one that is sealed as in relationship to the father.

Seal is a mark of ownership.

The Son of man just declared who he is and what he can do and all the crowd can do is think about themselves and what they can do.

Believing in Jesus is less of an act of faith and more a life of faith.

Faith is to trust in the work of God completed by His Son.

They challenge Jesus to verify his claimes by proforming a sign. A sign that consequentally why they followed Jesus to this place in the first place.

If God ordained Moses’s ministry with a sign, a prophet like moses would also need to be confirmed through a sign. They believed that Jesus did not bring bread from Heaven but brought bread from below.

JEsus corrects this by reminding them that it wasnt moses that brought bread from heaven but it was the FAther that brought the bread down. God did the sign that they are asking.

Jesus ultimatly says to the Jews that currently the Father is giving to them the bread from heaven that they are asking for.

The challenge of verse 34

(35-51) Jesus gives himself as true bread from heaven

Jesus offers himself as the true bread.

Those who are partakers of the true bread are those who comes and believes.

Not only does this bread cure the hunger but also the thirst. The crowd has seen and heard God in the flesh, yet this encounter has aroused curiosity, physical appetites, and political ambitions not their faith.

They are even challenging the very God in which they say they worship.

The will of the Father is seen in that those who he has given to Christ to have eternal life will never be cast out nor lost. Just as Jesus went and gathered all the bread so that It will not be cast out, likewise he will not lose any that are his that have been given by the father.

The promise: That everyone who looks on the Son and believes will be raised on the last day to eternal life. Blessed assurance. Our hope is not in our work, but in Christ who will bring us all unto salvation.

The Jews were grumbling just like thier forefathers in the Exodus

Jesus, as God, addresses the grumbiling directly.

Drawing of the Father, a person cannot come to the Son unless the Father grants him the ability to. Those who come, who’s eyes are open, will believe, and they will be raised on the last day.

Jesus is statting that God is the primary agent of salvation

Jesus then quotes Isaiah 54:13

Isaiah 54:13 ESV

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Jesus is showing that if one comes to Jesus he is one who has heard and learned fromt he Father.

God’s work is to draw and to teach.

Anything that opposes Christ or void of Christ is not from God.

Those who are children of God will be taught by the Lord in the things of the Lord concerning Christ and they will believe.

There is no learning, hearing and seeing apart from Christ.

Belief in God is belief in the one whom he has sent the Son of God. In real belief both God and Christ are being believed.

The bread of the Exodus and wilderness was not tryly life sustaining, Jesus is the true bread that brings eternail life sustaining life.

Their death shows that the manna wasnt life sustaining, Christ life shows us that his is.

(52-59) Jesus satisfies our spiritual hunger

Notice how those who are not found to be satisfied in partaking of belief in Christ, will continue to hunger.

We are pointed to the Cross by Jesus’s statement. His body being broken and his blood being shed.

We are satisfied in Christ, through the cross on our belhaf. not the work that the jews weere seeking but through our faith in Christ work.

Unbeliever- do you feel the continuous inability to become content? Do you continue to hunger, when you try to fill yourself with netflix, friends, family, shopping? Let Christ fill you. Come and eat from the bread of life.