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I am the Dough of Life!
Jesus did not come to fill stomachs with food, but to fill lives with the very presence of God,
Whitacre, R. A. (1999).
John (Vol.
4, p. 152).
IVP Academic.
Their focus is on physical food, which is temporal.
Like the manna in the wilderness, it does not last long.
But more profoundly, the life it nourishes is also all too brief.
Whitacre, R. A. (1999).
John (Vol.
4, pp.
152–153).
IVP Academic.
Our physical lives of flesh and blood are given by God, and they are significant, but they are not the whole story; this life is transitory.
There is a food that endures to eternal life
They appear to be trying to get on board with Jesus’ teaching, for they are talking about the work of God.
But they are still missing the main point: they do not pick up on Jesus’ revelation of himself and of his role in giving them the food that endures to eternal life.
Instead of looking to the giver and the gift, they look to their own role.
Somewhere in the midst of trying to please God it is easy to lose sight of, and lose trust in, God’s own sovereign graciousness.
John (Jesus Teaches About the Work of God (6:25–29))
Jesus’ work is to reveal the Father (cf.
4:34), and our work is to receive that revelation and align our lives with it.
John (Jesus Teaches About the Work of God (6:25–29))
Many Christians, as John Wesley said, have just enough religion to be miserable.
They are like this crowd, missing God’s gift of life in his Son.
The scope of God’s concern is not just Israel, as it was in the wilderness, but the whole of the world (cf.
3:16).
And the need is not just for sustenance, but for life itself.
The world, apart from God, is dead.
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