Journey to the Source
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Introduction
Introduction
The Significance of Bread.
The Significance of Bread.
Two notable Miracles of bread in the life of Christ
++Feeding of 5000 plus women & children
++Feeding of 4000 plus women & children
5000 was fed with 5 loaves and 2 fish
4000 was fed with 7 loaves and a few fish
Foundational to each miracle
++A message
++A need
Could this be real?
Could this be real?
17 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
The Kingdom of Heaven
++Is here
++Is accessible
++Is for me
14 When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
15 Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”
16 But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.”
17 They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.”
18 And he said, “Bring them here to me.”
19 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
20 And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over.
21 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
26 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.
32 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.
33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Journey to the Source
Journey to the Source
There seem to always be a crowd around Jesus
1 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,
They were pressing in
They were pressing in
They
++Heard the Word
++They wanted more
What about us today?
What about us today?
Why are we here?
11 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.
Bread has always been significant
Bread has always been significant
Bread provided
++Sustenance
++Supply
++Substance
Bread provided sustenance
Bread provided sustenance
We see it
++In the wilderness
Exodus 16:15 (ESV)
15 When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.
We see it
In the wilderness
++In the holy place
6 So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.
Bread was a supply
Bread was a supply
35 The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
In the wilderness
++Six days they gathered
++Seven day supply
It was a staple in biblical life
++A physical staple
++A ceremonial staple
Bread was substance
Bread was substance
31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”
Substance is
++Visible
++Physical
This physical bread was limited
This physical bread was limited
49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Bread would
++Satisfy the belly
++Not bring life
Don’t get sidetracked by the substance.
Don’t get sidetracked by the substance.
The Substance
++Is the provision
++Is the supply
++Is being satisfied
We must go from substance to the source
We must go from substance to the source
32 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.
This bread
++Did not come from Moses
++Did not fall from the sky
++Came from the Father
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
11 “Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
12 lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,
13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,
14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,
Don’t Forget God
Don’t Forget God
17 Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’
18 You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Get to the Source
Get to the Source
Jesus is the Bread
Jesus is the Bread
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
The Bread of Life is a Person
++Is not a system
++Is not a denomination
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
There is Power in the Bread
There is Power in the Bread
He is Mighty
++To Save
++To Secure
++To Satisfy
Eternity in the Bread
Eternity in the Bread
27 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.”
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
That same seal
++That marked Christ
++That was at work in Him
++Is at work in us
39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
6 For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.