Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Loved when the kids were little and they would climb up a jungle gym at a playground and ask...Will you catch me?

I’d say “no”… No…I wouldn’t say that....maybe I said it a couple times.

But they’d say will you catch me.

I’d say “Yes” Then they’d say, “Are you sure?” I’d say, “Yes”.

They’d say, are you sure?

They’d say, “What if I fall?”

I’d say, “Have I ever let you fall?” They’d say “no”.

I’d say, “you know I’m going to catch you this time.”

Then they’d jump down and I’d catch them

At the heart of this question is this: Am I secure.

Am I going to be OK?

Even as adults we have this question.

Am I secure?

Is my job secure?

Are my investments secure?

Is our country secure?

Is my marriage secure?

Are my friendships secure?

Sometimes we don’t always know the answer to these questions.

Let me give you another questions that you may have considered: Is my relationship with Jesus secure?

Is my salvation secure?

It’s with this question in mind that I want you to approach our passage for this morning.

Context

Still part of the bread of life discourse.

Synagogue in Capernaum.

Started this last week.

6:22-34.

The Bread of Life…Jesus is the true bread of life that gives life to the world.

Outline

Title: Jesus Will Hold You Fast

Point 1: If you come to Jesus…you will not hunger or thirst.

(v.35-36)

Point 2: If you come to Jesus…the Father has given you to Him. (v.37a)

Point 3: If you come to Jesus…He will keep you secure to the end.

(v.37b-40)

Point 1: If you come to Jesus…you will not hunger or thirst.

(v.

35-36)

Jesus’ Declaration

1st of 7 “I am” + predicate statements.

The Gospel according to John (c.

Jesus the Bread of Life (6:35–48))—Don Carson

The expression I am the bread of life is the first of seven similar claims, each with egō eimi (‘I am’) and a predicate.

The other six (plus minor variations) are: I am the light of the world (8:12), the gate (10:7, 9), the good shepherd (10:11, 14), the resurrection and the life (11:25), the way and the truth and the life (14:6), the true vine (15:1, 5)

I Am: Ego Eimi.

-1) the bread of life

-2) the light of the world

-3) the gate

-4) the good shepherd

-5) the resurrection and the life

-6) the way the truth and the life

-7) the true vine

What does bread of life mean?

Parallel

manna: God sent down manna from heaven to sustain the life of his people in the wilderness.

Jesus is the true manna…the bread of life send down from heaven by God the Father to give life to the world.

Jesus is the life giver sent from God.

How does he provide this bread?

By coming in the flesh…then by going to the cross and being broken for us.

So, does everybody get this bread?

You have to do something

this is your responsibility...

Turn from your unbelief.

(v.36)

These people saw so much—Jesus feeding 20K

…yet their hearts remained hard.

God’s people in the wilderness.

The Gospel according to John (c.

Jesus the Bread of Life (6:35–48))

This crowd has witnessed the divine revealer at work, but only their curiosity, appetites and political ambitions have been aroused, not their faith.

Come to Jesus & Believe in him.

(v.35)

Your life is focussed on something.

Call here is to come to Jesus and make him the Lord of your life.

Put your faith and trust in him for salvation.

(Believe)

trust in, depend up, and set your allegiance upon Jesus.

What happens when you come to Jesus?

a) You will encounter the bread of life (v.35)

b) You will never hunger or thirst (v.35)

In what way?

Your life will be perfect?

You will always have enough food to eat?

You will always be happy and satisfied?

In this sense: Regarding Eternal Life

If you come to Jesus and put your faith in him.

You will never hunger or thirst again in regards to eternal life.

It’s provided for you.

It’s there…you have enough.

In v.34—they ask Jesus to give this bread to them always.

This implies that it would be a repeated gift like the manna in the wilderness

Isaiah 55:1 ““Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.”

Revelation 7:14-16 “I said to him, “Sir, you know.”

And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.

They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

“Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.

They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.”

In Temporal Sense: Contentment and Joy in This Life

knowing who you are: a child of the king.

knowing what awaits you: eternal life

knowing that you are loved