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Jesus Is the Bread of Life
John 6:30-51
Sermon by Rick Crandall
Grayson Baptist Church - Sept. 23, 2012
BACKGROUND:
*Next Sunday is a fifth Sunday and we will worship the Lord through the Lord’s Supper.
Our focus next week will be the power of the blood of Jesus Christ.
*Today we focus on the bread.
In John 6:35, Jesus said, "I am the bread of life.
He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.”
*This was the first of the Lord’s famous “I AM” statements in the Gospel of John.
And in order to understand what Jesus said, we need to go over two important background topics.
[1] First, we go back to Exodus 3, where the Lord appeared to Moses in the burning bush.
It was at this time that the Lord first revealed that He is the great I AM.
*Starting in Exodus 3:10 the Lord said to Moses:
10. “Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.''
11.
But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?''
12.
So He said, "I will certainly be with you.
And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.''
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Then Moses said to God, "Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, `The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they say to me, `What is His name?' what shall I say to them?''
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And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM.''
And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.' ''
*In Hebrew this name “I AM” was “Jehovah” or “Yahweh.”
This great name for God shows up 6,823 times in the Old Testament.
The exact pronunciation and spelling has been lost, because this name was considered so holy that scribes and teachers would not even pronounce it or completely write it out.
Instead, they would write the Hebrew letters equal to our letters YHWH.
In many of our English Bibles it shows up as LORD written with all capital letters.
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*And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”
And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”'
*Jerry Shirley asks: “Have you ever stopped to think why God did not finish that phrase in Exodus 3:14?
-- Why did He just say, “I AM has sent me to you?”
-Because there is no beginning and no ending to God.
-There are no boundaries.
-There are no limitations.
*Jesus Christ the great “I AM” is whatever we need!
-If you need a Comforter, He is a comforter.
-If you need a Provider, He is a provider.
-If you need a Savior, He is a Savior.
-If you need an understanding Listener, He is just that.
*God is the great I AM!
-There is no limit to what He is! (2)
*Jennifer Mears writes: No matter what you are facing, look to the great I AM!
I need help.
-God says “I AM.”
I need hope, peace, and love.
-God says “I AM.”
I need a fresh start.
-God says “I AM.”
I can’t hold on.
-God says “I AM.”
I’m not sure why I am here.
-God says “I AM.”
I’m not strong enough --
-God says, “I AM.” (3)
*The crucial truth that Jesus wanted to communicate to the people of Israel (and to us) is that He IS the Lord God Almighty, the great I AM of the Old Testament.
So in John 6, Jesus made His first I AM statement, Jesus said, “I AM the Bread of life.”
[2] Now, the immediate background to our Scripture today is Jesus taking a little boy’s lunch and miraculously feeding 5,000 men, plus women and children.
*Please look at John 6:13-15.
13.
They gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.
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Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, "This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.''
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Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to a mountain by Himself alone.
*In vs. 16-19, the disciples got into the boat to head back to Capernaum.
They were 3 or 4 miles from shore, when Jesus came to them walking on the water!
*Then in vs. 20-21.
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He said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid.''
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Then they willingly received Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
*What a miracle!
-- Jesus is Lord over all time and space!
Then the next day in vs. 25-29:
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When they (i.e. the other people) found Him (i.e.
Jesus) on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, "Rabbi, when did You come here?''
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Jesus answered them and said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.
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"Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.''
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Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?''
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Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.''
*With all of this background in mind, let’s read vs. 30-40.
INTRODUCTION:
*Jesus Christ is the great I AM of the Old Testament, so here He says: “I AM the Bread of life.”
-- And this truth is packed with meaning for us.
1. First: As the Bread of Life, Jesus is our only resource for life.
*As Jesus said in vs. 32&33.
32. . .
“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.”
*Jesus Christ is the most wonderful, amazing Bread the world will ever see.
*Back in vs. 30&31, the people wanted Jesus to give them manna.
That was the miraculous bread from Heaven that God gave the Children of Israel when they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years.
Manna was amazing bread.
But there was a big problem with manna: After a day or two, it got worms and started stinking.
You just couldn’t eat it.
*Now, most of us would say, “We love bread!” -- French bread, white bread, wheat bread, corn bread, potato bread!
Rolls or biscuits, home-made or store-bought, we love bread!
*There’s just one problem with bread.
It gets old.
Like that sandwich you make, and you are ready to dive in.
But something interrupts you.
And when you come back 20 minutes later: Dry as a bone.
Then, there’s that sandwich you make.
And you are two bites into it, when you look down and see mold.
-- Uh!
*One woman said the only thing worse than that was seeing your husband go back and make another sandwich with the same bread!
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