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/This morning I’m going to go out on a limb and talk about a dangerous subject: I’m going to talk about food.
Food is a dangerous subject because it’s been awhile since you had breakfast, and it’ll soon be time for lunch.
If I’m not careful, your stomach might start speaking louder than the sermon.
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/            /Many years ago a friend of mine preached a homecoming service for me, and asked one of the guys cooking chicken outside to come to the door and wave to him when the meal was done so he’d know when to wrap up.
He and I almost lost it when we see an arm slide through the doors at the back of the sanctuary, waving a chicken leg! Needless to say, the sermon was soon over.
/            Hunger can be a powerful motivator.
Advertisers know if they can stir up your appetite, they’ve made their sale.
If you’ve ever tried to diet, you can’t watch TV, because almost every commercial involves close-up shots of apple pie, juicy steaks, or some other fattening food.
You can cut a lot of corners in your budget, but it’s not too often we skimp on the groceries.
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/            But let’s steer clear of the subject of physical hunger and focus on a different kind of hunger this morning—the hunger of our souls.
Just as our physical body hungers for food, our soul has its own hungers, its own desires for satisfaction and fulfillment.
What do our hearts really hunger for?
How do we satisfy the appetite of our souls?
This is what I want to talk about this morning as we look into what the Bible says about the Bread that Satisfies our souls.
The answer comes to us from the lips of Jesus Christ Himself found in *John 6:35*.
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*PRAYER*
*            *Jesus’ statement implies a very important truth about human nature:
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EVERYBODY HAS A HUNGRY HEART*
     A minister was conducting an altar call at the end of his sermon, asking for the lost to come to Christ, as well as inviting those with other requests, to come forward.
The entire congregation was surprised to see the preacher’s three-year-old daughter get up and make her way forward.
She waited patiently while the others ahead of her made a request.
When his daughter’s turn comes, the pastor leans down and asked, “What is your request, sweetheart?”
She whispered, "Can we go to McDonald’s after church?" [i]  This little girl was a little confused about physical and spiritual needs.
But Jesus makes a direct connection here between physical and spiritual hunger.
At the beginning of this chapter in *vs.
1-14*, the Bible tells us Jesus feeds 5000 people with only 5 barley loaves and two fish.
*V.
13* says after everyone has their fill, there are still 12 baskets of bread left over.
This is a lot of food for folks in those days that lived on the brink of starvation.
So it’s not surprising in *vs.
24-25* this hungry crowd meets Jesus on the opposite shore looking for another miracle meal.
But Jesus warns them in *vs.
26-27*(*read*).
He says /You don’t realize you have a deeper, more urgent hunger inside that physical food won’t satisfy.
Put your energy and effort into seeking a way to satisfy the hunger in your souls!
//            What Jesus says to these people He says to you and I this morning: everybody has a hungry heart.
In a land of plenty of food in the pantry, there is a hunger for the food which endures for everlasting life (*v.
27*.)=the food which nourishes your soul--the food that feeds the part of you that will live forever.
Everybody has a hungry heart.
/Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. once wrote, “Everybody basically has an empty hole inside of them that they try to fill with money, drugs, alcohol, power—and none of the material stuff works.”[ii]
/            At the back of our addictions is a hungry heart.
//            At the back of many relationships is a hungry heart, a hope that the right relationship will make us happy.
//            If the real truth were known, it’s a hungry heart that drives many people to accumulate money and wealth, drives them to seek fame and a name for themselves, drives people to find some way to settle this nagging desire to be happy and satisfied in life.
Just when you think you’ve finally got it, you realize: no, this isn’t it.
All of us hunger and thirst for something that will last, that will satisfy us not for a day, or a year, but for good.
As surely as God created your body with an appetite for food, God created your soul with an appetite for something more.
/     /I wonder if you’re sitting here this morning and your heart is hungry?
Maybe your heart is hungry for love, or hungry for purpose and meaning in life.
Perhaps your heart is hungry to know God, to know you are forgiven for your sins, hungry to be at peace.
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/            Don’t try and suppress that hunger.
Don’t settle for the junk food this world tries to offer you.
This world can offer many spiritual appetite suppressants, but don’t fall for them.
A hungry heart is a sign of a healthy spiritual appetite.
Just as physical hunger drives you to eat physical food, so the hunger of your heart can drive you to the real food that will fully satisfy your soul./
/            But the next question is: if the sin or the things of the world cannot satisfy the hunger in your heart, what can? Jesus This passage declares to us/
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JESUS IS WHAT YOU ARE HUNGRY FOR*
*            *There are those who don’t recognize a good meal when they see it.
*            *A mountaineer went to Boston and entered a seafood restaurant.
“Bring me the best meal you have,” he tells the waiter.
The waiter brings a bowl of clam chowder.
The hillbilly eyes it suspiciously but eats it.
When they bring him a shredded cabbage salad, he doesn’t look happy, but he eats it, too.
Finally, the waiter brings in the main course, a fine New England broiled lobster.
The man stares at it a moment, then jumps to his feet and cries:” I drunk your dishwater and I et your weeds, but I’m not about to eat no big red bug! ”[iii]
/            /Sometimes we don’t recognize what we’re really hungry for.
/            /This crowd is hungry for more bread, so in *vs.
30-31* they ask Jesus to do an encore of Moses’ miracle.
/If You’re a prophet, rain down bread from heaven like Moses did! /Jesus replies in *vs.
32-33* /Let’s get something straight —Moses didn’t feed you the manna—My Father in heaven did.
Now He has better bread for you/: /the Bread of Life/.
Now the crowd eagerly asks in *vs.
34*, /Lord, give us God’s Bread.
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/            /I can imagine Jesus smiling, standing before them and shocking them all when He declares /I am the Bread of Life.
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/            /A sea of blank faces.
Everybody looks at each other with confused expressions.
Jesus continues: /That’s right, I came down from God in heaven, just as the manna fell in the wilderness.
The big difference is all your ancestors ate the manna, and they died; but any of you Who eat the Bread of Life- Me- you won’t die!
You’ll live forever!
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/            /Some of them start to sneer- /Who does this Guy think He is?
He didn’t come down out of heaven- He comes from Nazareth, from the home of Joseph and Mary! /
/            /It gets better as Jesus continues in *vs.
53-58*: /You all need to eat My Flesh and drink My Blood if you want to live forever!
/Now if you don’t think that blew their minds, you haven’t been paying attention.
*/Eat /*/His *flesh*?
*Drink* His *blood*?
Does He think we’re cannibals?/
Even the disciples admit in *vs.
60* (*read.*)
That is an understatement.
What is Jesus saying?
First of all, He’s obviously using symbolic language.
He is not saying He literally is a loaf of bread, or that you have to literally devour His skin and drink His blood to be saved.
Also, Jesus is not referring to the Lord’s Supper here.
Later on when He institutes that ordinance, He uses real food and real drink, not His own flesh and blood.
So what /is /Jesus saying?
He is comparing /eating to believing/, and /food to Himself/.
He is saying /Believe in Me, and your soul will be satisfied.
/In other words /He is what your soul is hungry for.
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