210627 Communion: Bread of Life
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As we come to our time of Communion I invite you to turn to John chapter 6. In John 6, Jesus took 5 barley loaves and 2 fish and fed 5,000 men with them. Once they were finished eating then Jesus dismissed the people and crossing to the other side of the Sea of Galilee and the people chased after Him. Their meal ticket had arrived and they were not about to let Him get away. But it seems that is all that He was to them… Just a meal ticket. Just a free lunch and He is so much more than that. He is the Bread of Life. We are going to pick up at verse 26.
John 6:26–40 | Jesus answered them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. “Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”
Therefore they said to Him, “What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.”
So they said to Him, “What then do You do for a sign, so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform? “Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’ ” Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven. “For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”
Then they said to Him, “Lord, always give us this bread.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst. “But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe. “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
“This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. “For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
Their is such great hope in this passage. Jesus is not just the blessing of a full belly. He is so much more than that. He is the Bread of Life. The one that comes to Him will not hunger and the one who believes in Him will never thirst… He satisfies in ways that a meal cannot. The one that comes to him will certainly not be cast out, they won’t be rejected… So, let us come to Him in prayer at this time.
It is our custom to take a full minute to consider our life and allow the Holy Spirit to spotlight sin in our life. Let us take this minute and see if there is anything unwholesome within us that we need to turn from - knowing that our Lord will never reject us when we repent of sin....
ONE MINUTE PAUSE
Close in prayer
Everett___ will you ask the blessing on the bread?
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;
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.”
Dan Brown__ will you ask the blessing on the cup?
In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
PAUSE
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
LETS PRAY