More Bread, Please! (2)

Psalm 78:23-29 / John 6:22-40

What are you seeking? - v22-27

They sought Jesus-ish

They didn’t know who they were seeking

I could never believe in a God who...

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” - C.S. Lewis

John 6:27 ESV

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.”

They sought His hands, not His face

The trappings of Christianity can never satisfy or save - Judas

What you win people with is what you win them to - food

Counterfeits and One-Ups

Pharaoh’s magicians

Golden calf

False Christianity

They sought to save themselves

This is totally logical, but completely impossible and empty

Ephesians 2:8–9 ESV

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Acts 4:12 ESV

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.”

The thing is, if you save yourself it would only be from punishment, not from sin itself. Most people seek salvation apart from a Lord. Jesus can not be taken in part; all or nothing.

What must you do? - v 28-29

God did / does the work

Psalm 78:25 ESV

25 Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.

God split the Red Sea - salvation

Exodus 14:21–22 ESV

21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

God sent the manna - provision

Exodus 16:14–15 ESV

14 And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 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.

Ours is just to believe

Faith is a duty

Faith is a gift

Faith is the conduit; not the substance

Manna (Ex 16)

Manna is provided (the need is met)

God distributes as He sees fit

There are instructions

Jesus Is: v30-40

Bread - the sustenance to be consumed

Life - the result / benefit of consuming the bread

Certainty - He loses none!

Church Family, Jesus is much more than the one to show us the way; He IS the way. He is the object of our faith. Let us accept no substitutes or lesser fulfillments; let us seek Christ Jesus above all else!