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I Am The Bread of Life

INTRO INTO THE I AM’S

INTRO INTO THE I AM’S

While last week we looked at Father God telling us ‘I AM’, I also pointed out how all of the Word hinges on Christ, and it’s all about Jesus.

So, in the New Testament, Jesus also makes these ‘I AM’ claims.

Being that HE is God, and the claims are all tied together, we thought that we would spend the coming weeks going through the ‘I AM’s’ of Christ found in the book of John.

This week we will start with ‘I AM the bread of life’.1.

I am the bread of life - , , (He feeds us/is our sustenance/our truth)

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I am the bread of life - , , (He feeds us/is our sustenance/our truth)

2. I am the light of the world - ; (He lights our way)

3. I am the door of the sheep - (He makes a way where there is no way)

While last week we looked at Father God telling us ‘I AM’, I also pointed out how all of the Word hinges on Christ, and it’s all about Jesus.

So, in the New Testament, Jesus also makes these ‘I AM’ claims.

4. I am the good shepherd - (He protects us/guides us)

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I am the resurrection and the life - (He brings us life)

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I am the way, the truth, and the life - (He is all that we need)

7. I am the true vine - (He is our refuge/our hiding place)

While last week we looked at Father God telling us ‘I AM’, I also pointed out how all of the Word hinges on Christ, and it’s all about Jesus.

So, in the New Testament, Jesus also makes these ‘I AM’ claims.

Being that HE is God, and the claims are all tied together, we thought that we would spend the coming weeks going through the ‘I AM’s’ of Christ found in the book of John.

This week we will start with ‘I AM the bread of life’.

Here’s my question: why did Jesus pick these things?

There are many different illustrations He could’ve used.

I am the tree of life, eat from me and never die.

I am the river of life, in whom flows living water.

I am the strong tower, in whom you find refuge.

So why did He choose these illustrations?

While we can’t know that exactly, what we can do is dig in to each one and examine the implications of each, and at least get close as to why He chose them.

Bread.

- God tells Adam that his face will be full of sweat when he eats His bread.

(hypothesis about raw food)

- Melchizedek, priest of God Most High, brings out bread and wine.

Many times in the Bible when they talk about food they just say bread.

Bread is the most widely used word to represent food in the bible.

KJV - 360 times; 280 in O.T., 80 in N.T.

The word food is used 55 times in the whole Bible.

Exodus - They were to eat bread with no leaven for 7 days.

It is commonly said that this was so that their bread could be made quicker, since they were leaving Egypt.

But, if you read, they ate unleavened bread for 7 days before Passover.

They could’ve eaten leavened bread at least part of the time.....

Maybe, He wanted to prepare them for being in the wilderness and not being able to take the time to let the bread rise, and even preparing them for the manna, which was going to be basically an unleavened bread.

Then, we see bread in the Temple.

The Israelites were instructed to bring sacrifices of bread.

The grain offering looks like from reading it that it was the ingredients to make unleavened bread, regardless of whether or not it was actually baked bread.

Sometimes it refers to the Priests keeping the leftover bread, yet sometimes it refers to sprinkling the grain offering on the fire.

The grain offering was a sacrifice of their toil, an offering from the fruit of the sweat of their brow.

Then there was the Showbread, which was referred to as a cake of bread.

It was baked every week, set on the table of Shewbread, set in 2 stacks of 6, and used throughout the week by the Priests.

“Showbread” also was called “bread of the presence” because it was to be always in the Lord’s presence.

The table and the bread were a picture of God’s willingness to fellowship and communion (literally speaking, sharing something in common) with man.

It was like an invitation to share a meal, an extension of friendship.

Eating together often is an act of fellowship.

God was willing for man to enter into His presence to fellowship with Him, and this invitation was always open.

www.the-tabernacle-place.com

Many times in the Bible when they talk about food they just say bread.

Bread is the most widely used word to represent food in the bible.

KJV - 360 times; 280 in O.T., 80 in N.T.

The word food is used 55 times in the whole Bible.

Context is He just multiplied the loaves and bread.

Being that He is God, and the claims are all tied together, we thought that we would spend the coming weeks going through the ‘I AM’s’ of Christ found in the book of John.

This week we will start with ‘I AM the bread of life’.

Many times in the Bible when they talk about food they just say bread.

Bread is the most widely used word to represent food in the bible.

KJV - 360 times; 280 in O.T., 80 in N.T.

The word food is used 55 times in the whole Bible.

Then, we have the New Testament.

Jesus is tempted to turn the stone into bread in the wilderness.

Jesus multiplies the fish and the loaves.

Jesus breaks bread for communion and says this is my Body, take and eat; for unless you eat of my flesh and drink my blood you will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

The New Testament uses of ‘bread’ are split up among these: referring to the Feast of Unleavened Bread, talking about food, talking about communion, and then Jesus saying that He is the Bread of Life, which we will look at today.

I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE - So the Bread that we’re talking about today, the bread that Jesus is talking about, is not an earthly bread.

It is a deeper kind of bread.

It is food for the soul.

That is true of all humanity.

The thing that makes human beings different from the animals is that having a full belly and a comfortable place to rest does not satisfy us........Ray Stedman

Context is, He just multiplied the loaves and bread.

-I am the bread of life - , , (He feeds us/is our sustenance/our truth)

V. 26.

Didn’t see signs, but ate of the loaves?

Wasn’t that a sign?

They didn’t see it… They didn't see the sign in that all they saw was the sign.

The purpose of the sign was for them to see Christ as God.

But instead, they only saw the sign.

They saw His hand and not His face.

He had done signs, and they still didn’t believe.

Which is why earlier on he rebuked them for asking after a sign.

They had just seen one!

No matter what He would’ve done, they wouldn’t have believed. .

-I am the light of the world - , (He lights our way)

2. I am the light of the world - ;

So, We’re gonna go back and look at this story that they reference, about God giving their ancestors manna in the desert; because, we all have a little Israel in us.

W all have a tendency to respond the same way they did, when Jesus was right in front of them, offering them the way of life.

I am the light of the world - ; 9:53.

3. I am the door of the sheep -

I am the door of the sheep - , 94.

4. I am the good shepherd -

I am the good shepherd - , 145.

I am the resurrection and the life11:256.

I am the way, the truth, and the life14:67.

I am the true vine15:1