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We are in John 6 this morning.
Please turn in your bibles with me to John 6:30-35.
While you are turning to the passage in your bibles, let’s remember the background.
Jesus and his disciples had been ministering, doing healings, and preaching throughout Galilee and Judea.
They crossed the sea of Galilee to get away together.
The people followed on land, and found them.
Jesus tested his disciples, knowing what he was going to do, and told them to feed all of the people.
The disciples noted there was not earthly way they could.
Jesus then fed all 5000 men, plus the women and children from just 5 barley loaves and two fish.
A miracle!
A sign that pointed to Jesus being the same God who delivered the Israelites centuries before by providing manna when they were in the wilderness.
Jesus sent his disciples to cross the sea back to Capernaum, while He dismissed the crowd, and prayed on the mountain.
Jesus’ disciples were caught in a storm on the sea all night.
Jesus saw them, and went walking out to them on the water.
Another miracle!
Another sign!
When they left Him in the boat, they arrived at their destination!
A third miracle!
Another sign.
In the morning, the people, still on the other side of the lake looked for Jesus and could not find him.
They knew he did not get in the boat with the disciples.
When some boats came, they got in and went to Capernaum.
When they arrived, Jesus was already there!
Jesus confronted them because they were only there for food.
He challenged them to work for the food that endures to eternal life.
They asked what work to do, and Jesus said, “The work of God is this, to believe in the one He sent.”
And that is where we are picking up the account in verse 30 today.
Pray
Give us a sign!
This looks like an odd request.
The reason they went around the lake after Jesus is because they had seen other signs when they saw Jesus healing the sick and had come to seek Him out for more.
When they caught up to Jesus, in an area where they could not get food, He miraculously fed them enough that they were all satisfied, and had 12 baskets of leftovers, from 5 loaves and two fish!
They just found Jesus back in Capernaum when they know he didn’t come by boat, and should never have gotten there before them.
They should have seen all of these signs, and never have asked for another.
But they did.
They were still thinking of the common thought that the Messiah would feed them manna everyday.
They were still looking for food for their bellies, and not for their souls.
They were worried about the physical instead of the righteousness and relationship with God that Jesus, the Messiah was coming to bring them.
Since they were thinking only of being continually fed physically, they were still asking for a sign.
They were specifically asking for this sign of being fed everyday with bread from heaven.
Let’s look at Jesus’ reply.
Not Moses,but my Father
Not bread, true bread from Heaven
The true bread gives life
The true bread, the bread of God, is the one that gives life to the world!
We want it!
Who wouldn’t?
How does this relate to us?
First, after all they had seen, these people still expected more signs before they would believe Jesus.
This actually goes along with
Do I seek signs or wisdom?
God did give signs to show them that Jesus was the Messiah.
But they were more interested in the material benefits, than recognizing the signs which would lead to spiritual benefit.
My question is, am I ever like that?
After all God has done, do I expect to see some material benefit in life before I will trust Him?
Or, do I ever expect everything to work out the way I think they should before I will trust Him?
Let’s ask the Lord to give us a heart to see what He has done, to hear His wisdom which is wiser than any plan we would ever devise, and trust Him, the One who sees all, and knows all, and has all power and wisdom.
Do I fail to give Him credit?
These people were giving Moses credit for God’s work of sustaining their ancestors.
Do I ever fail to give God credit for sustaining me?
Do I credit myself and my efforts when I should be thanking Him for providing for me?
James speaks to that…
Let’s remember to give Him proper credit for the blessings in our lives.
Am I hungry or thirsty?
Now, in one sense, we should always seek after His kingdom and His righteousness.
That would be a good hunger, a longing after what God is going to do.
But, for many Christians, we are hungry and thirsty.
We are not satisfied.
Not because His kingdom has not yet come.
No, we hunger and thirst because we are not satisfied.
We feel like something is missing.
Somehow this Christianity thing just isn’t satisfying us.
That is a major reason I believe that many are falling away.
They just are not attending church like they used to.
There are so many other things going on in our lives that we find ourselves not having the time to attend church, or bible study, or be involved in Christian ministries.
And, those activities just didn’t seem to bring satisfaction anyway…
But, then we just join in with the rest of the world who are so busy.
They are caught up in work, or other activities, always running, always busy, always getting, always reaching but never finding satisfaction.
Money
Power
Respect
Acceptance
Control
Revenge
Justification
Love
Peace
Comfort
Satisfaction
We want money, but it is never enough when we do get it.
We want power, but even when we have power or authority, it isn’t enough.
We want respect, but now matter how many people give us respect, it isn’t enough.
We want acceptance, but that also fails to satisfy.
What do I have to keep doing to continue being accepted?
We want control, but we constantly find areas of life where we do not have control.
We want revenge, but even if we get it, we still have the emptiness.
We want justification, but even if we justify our actions, we still feel empty because some will never accept it.
We want to be loved, but we still feel like we are not.
We want peace, but all around and within us there is strife.
We want comfort, but where can we find it when around each corner more suffering and death seems to come.
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