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Introduction
Last week we covered verses 22-40.
We saw that the crowds looked for Jesus and they found Him in Capernaum.
Jesus and His disciples had already crossed the sea to the other side.
And they did so at around 3:00AM to 6:00AM when the walking on water took place.
They did this at this time most likely to get away from the crowds so that they wouldn’t be followed.
When they found Him they said to Him,
And Jesus responds by exposing their reason for finding Him.
We discovered that the crowds that followed Jesus only had a profession of faith without a possession of faith.
We recited .
They had the right information about God and they professed it but they never had possession of it.
Jesus charged them not to work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures to eternal life.
Which is the food that He gives to those who have been drawn by the Father.
The food being the bread of life which was Himself.
And belief in Him being the work of God alone according to verse 29.
Jesus finally gives them the answer to their problem which was that they were seeking bread that perishes in verse 35.
We concluded that those who come to Christ do so only by the Father’s drawing.
This is clear in what Jesus said to the crowds and in our text today this is continued in what Jesus says, not only to the crowds that sought Jesus, but also to the Jews.
Which we again will see that those apart from understanding and faith show disapproval and discontentment in what Jesus says about Himself.
Outline
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The Grumbling (v.41-42)
2. The Response (v.43-47)
3. The Admission (v.48-51)
First, The Grumbling (v.41-42)
Verse 41 So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
In verse 41, we see the Jews as being there for the first time in this chapter.
One of the things that we need to know about Jesus being in Capernaum is that He was saying these things in the Synagogue there.
We see this in verse 59,
So chapter 6 all takes place in this synagogue in Capernaum.
We often bring to mind this chapter and forget that He was saying these things in a synagogue.
A Synagogue was an assembly or a congregation of Jews that met for the purpose of worship and study.
They met in a building that they would use where the Scriptures were opened and a Rabbi (a teacher) would teach.
So here we have the crowds that looked for Him, who saw and ate of the bread and fish that He miraculously multiplied in Tiberias, and we have the Jews who were there in the synagogue.
And we see that they were grumbling.
In the next part of the verse we see why they grumbled.
They grumbled because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
To grumble meant to to express one’s discontent.
To complain about what someone said or did.
Both the ESV and the NASB use the term grumble.
In the NRSV, KJV and the NLT we see complain, murmuring and murmuring in disagreement.
They complained, disagreed and murmured over what Jesus said about Himself.
Prior to our passage, Jesus said,
ESV33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
Then in verse 34 and 35,
This is why they grumbled.
Jesus said,
the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world
I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst
I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
They grumbled, complained, murmured and disagreed with Jesus saying these things.
Question: So what does this reveal to us about them?
I believe verse 42 answers this for us.
Read Verse 42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
At the core of their grumbling was the lack of understanding and belief in what Jesus had already said about Himself.
Let’s look at what Jesus said previously.
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.”
ESV27 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.”
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.
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
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.”
Jesus consistently spoke of the Father as His Father and as Himself the Son.
But what they could only see was Jesus as the Son of Joseph.
Which was a refusal to believe in what Jesus had spoken earlier.
Remember what it meant when Jesus called God His Father.
This was not only offensive but it was blasphemous to them.
They grumbled, complained, murmured and disagreed with Jesus saying these things because in doing so He was making Himself equal with God.
This is very much the case today.
There are people who grumble, complain, murmur and disagree with what the Scriptures say about Jesus.
Examples:
There are people who disagree with the sovereignty of God in salvation
There are people who disagree with the inability of man in salvation
There are people who disagree with the work of salvation only being a work of God that independent of human will
There are people who disagree with election
There are people who disagree with how Christ centric we must be
In my experience I have seen people look like the people here.
Grumbling and complaining with what is clear in Scripture.
Our response should be the same as Jesus when dealing with people discontented with what the Scriptures say about Him which we can find in verses 43-47.
2. The Response (v.43-47)
Read Verse 43 Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.
Read Verse 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.
And I will raise him up on the last day.
Do not grumble among yourselves.
Question: Why?
Answer: Because this is the truth!
No one can come to Christ unless the Father who sent Him draws him
No one can come!
Question: Why?
Well, even as believers we do not have by ourselves the ability to do good!
And I will raise him up on the last day.
Good does not come from us.
Every good gift comes from God.
We need God.
Question: If we who have come to saving faith still need God to do good, how much more those apart from saving faith?
No one has the ability to come to Christ without the Father drawing them.
Jesus makes this very clear in verse 44.
echoes this where He also said,
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