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Today we are looking at John 6:28-29.
This passage is in the middle of Jesus’ interaction with the crowds he had miraculously fed on the other side of the Sea of Galilee from only 5 small barley loaves and two fish.
He fed them, and then returned to Capernaum supernaturally walking on the water to meet his disciples, and then supernaturally arriving at the shore near Capernaum.
These miracles were signs.
Signs make a point.
The point of these miracles was that Jesus was God come in the flesh to give eternal life to those who would receive him.
The people followed the next day and found Jesus.
But, they had not gotten the point of the signs.
So Jesus begins trying to explain it to them, using the imagery of the sign—the food which He miraculously supplied them the day before.
This the the interaction they had.
We will begin reading in verse 25.
Prayer
Jesus said to the crowds...
The people’s whole focus was on the temporal things of this world.
They were looking to have their bellies filled, and their sicknesses healed.
Unfortunately, they were so focused on those things that they were missing Jesus, God, the Creator, the One who came to give Eternal life.
Jesus does provide for us in this temporal life.
However, the point is that He wants provide more than just the temporal.
He came to supply what truly satisfies!
He came to give Eternal life: Righteousness and a Relationship with Him.
So, he encouraged these people to stop working for, or expending all of their efforts for the temporal, and to work for, or expend their efforts for the food which would lead to eternal!
This special food could only be given to them by the Son of Man.
(The Son of Man is a title Jesus used for himself, because that is a title Daniel used for the One God promised to come to save His people, back in Daniel 7:13.)
God had given his approval, or the role of giving out this special food that would give eternal life, to Jesus, the Son of Man.
Since Jesus told them to work for this special food that endures to eternal life, which God approved Jesus to give to them, their next question was...
If we have to work for this special food that God has given Jesus to provide, what work does God require from us to get it?
To this question Jesus replied,
The work of God is this: believe in the one he has sent
In other words, the work that God requires from you to gain this food that leads to eternal life is believing in the one he sent; believe in Jesus.
Believe that He is God come in the flesh to save us from our sin, and give us eternal life!
We have seen this over and over as we have been going through this book, the Good news of Jesus that John wrote.
We saw it in the following verses:
Believe to receive eternal life
The people were asking Jesus, what do we have to do to get this eternal life?
Over and over the emphasis in the scripture is to believe in Jesus to receive eternal life.
We are born as people who disobey God.
We are sinful.
We are unrighteous.
This is why we do not have eternal life from birth.
We know we are sinful, or disobedient to God.
To make up for this, many people attempt to be good, or righteous on their own by following God’s laws, or at least the ones they like from the Old Testament.
This would work except for the fact we cannot follow the law perfectly.
We are not righteous.
Jesus came to correct that.
He came to pay the penalty for our sin, to free us from the power of sin, and to make us righteous.
God puts it this way in Romans 3:20-24:
God does not expect us to work for our salvation by obeying some set of rules, or following certain practices.
God wants to give the gift of eternal life to anyone who will receive it by faith—that is by believing Jesus is the God who loves us and died for our sins and rose again to give us life!
What is this life, this eternal life that He gives?
It is giving us righteousness when he takes away our sinfulness.
It is relationship with God when He takes away our enmity with God.
Believe to receive righteousness
What robs us of life?
Our sin, our guilt and and our shame rob us of eternal life.
Our sin is a willful disobedience to God.
And, we are guilty.
However, God declares us to be righteous the moment we believe!
That is so freeing!
We are no longer condemned!
We spoke about that in John 5:24!
We have eternal life.
We are not condemned!
We have crossed over from death to life!
This is the best news ever!
And what is more, He not only declares us to be righteous, He restores us into a relationship with Him!
Believe to receive a relationship with God
Since we have been justified through faith.
That word justified means God has judiciously declared us righteous!
He is the judge.
He declares us not guilty!
But more than just not guilty, he declares us completely righteous in His eyes!
Wow!
And because we are now righteous, we are no longer separated from Him.
We are no longer His enemies.
There is no more enmity!
We are at peace with God!
And more than just being at peace with Him, He declares us to be His children!
We also saw that in John 1:12!
Believe to receive Eternal Life:
Righteousness of Christ
Relationship with God
Do you believe this?
I do!
And the bible is clear, that everyone who believes in Jesus, has eternal life!
Everyone who believes in Jesus is declared righteous.
Everyone who believes in Jesus is made a child of God.
I believe this is the emphasis of the text we are looking at today.
This is our salvation that grants us hope for today, and a bright hope for all eternity with Him!
This really is the good news!
This is the best news!
I believe that most of you, if not all of you, know and believe this to be true.
This should change our lives, and for all of us I think it has.
But as I was studying this passage over the past weeks, what was challenging me about this is that thought of work.
Is it just that we believe in Jesus and then we just continue through life the same as before knowing that we have eternity with Him ahead?
Life is full of work, isn’t it?
We expel our efforts and energy for something all the time.
We work.
But like we were talking about last week, what are we working for?
We do not work for our birth into this eternal life.
The new birth that Jesus talks about over and over is by faith.
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