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Feb 23, 2025

Bread of Life | Power and Promise

Bread of Life | Power and Promise

Passage: John 6:4-51

Speaker: Matt Petty

Series: Power and Promise

Category: Sunday Sermons

Keywords: gospel of john, christian living, jesus christ, spiritual growth, bread of life, spiritual transformation, jesus teaching, life change, spiritual journey, feeding 5000, spiritual hunger, god's provision, i am statements, spiritual nourishment, soul satisfaction, biblical truth, divine abundance, divine purpose, biblical teaching, christian message, jesus miracles, spiritual emptiness, spiritual fulfillment, divine provision, burnt hickory church, matt petty sermon, divine satisfaction, john chapter 6, manna in wilderness, true fulfillment

"I AM the Bread of Life" - An exploration of spiritual hunger and divine satisfaction. Through the powerful story of Jesus feeding thousands with just a few loaves and fish, discover why material abundance can never fill spiritual emptiness. Pastor Matt reveals how Jesus doesn't just meet our needs - He exceeds them abundantly and perfectly. Learn why nothing God gives you will ever fill you like Him giving you Himself, and how an intimate relationship with Jesus provides the only true spiritual nourishment our souls crave. This message connects the ancient story of manna in the wilderness with Jesus's declaration as the true Bread of Life, showing how He alone can satisfy our deepest spiritual hunger.

Well, good morning church, and thank you so much for being here. But also, thank you for who you are. You know, there's barely a week that goes by that we don't hear of life change happening in people's lives. How God has really and truly done something incredible in your lives. And the reality is, a lot of that has to do with who you guys are, how you're investing in people's lives,  how you're caring for people. So thank you, thank you, thank you for making this place what it is.

Now, I want to start the message a little bit different this week than normal, by simply asking a question: when was the last time you were hungry? Now I know some of you are like, Matt, right now, hurry up. A lot of you know two weeks ago Melissa and I snuck away for a little anniversary trip. And one of the best things about this place we were staying was that all the food you wanted was included. Can I get an amen for these kinds of places? And here's what you need to know about your boy. Number one, I get my money's worth. And number two, I've still got it. And here's what I mean by that. I went hard in the paint in the food department on this trip. Not only was breakfast there, which was all you could eat, Not only was there lunch, which was absolutely fabulous. Not only was there dinner… There were all those meals that don't have a name – Hallelujah, praise to God – that you can eat whenever you want to. And I did. There was pre-breakfast, post-breakfast, pre-lunch, post-lunch. There were even those moments when Melissa went back to the room a little bit early to get ready to go out to a nice dinner, and I hit up the street taco stand just waiting for dinner on the way there. There were appetizers at dinner, and there was dinner. There was one night we ate dinner, and I decided while walking past another place that I wanted what they had too. So I ate what they had on the way to get another dessert. That's how bad it was. Now, I'm not saying that gorging yourself for days on end is a good thing. And I'm not even saying that Melissa participated in my moment. But what I am saying is it was impressive. Not only was that impressive, but Monday morning after we got home and I stepped on the scale… that was impressive right there.

Which means one thing has to happen in this middle-aged guy's life. That means something drastically has to change. Remember when you were teenagers and you could just throw it down, whenever you wanted to, and it didn't matter? Well, that is not some of us anymore. Something had to change, and as a result of that, I'm not really good at cutting back a little bit. That doesn't work in my life. So I just cut it. So as enjoyable as that one week was, it has been a miserable two weeks in my life. I haven't just been hungry, I've been hangry. I mean, you know what I'm talking about. I've been so hungry, I think it's affecting all of my life, which science backs up. Science tells us that hunger can make you make bad decisions. It can change your mood. It can make a person unbearable to be around. (Don't look around right now.) It can give you sleep problems. It can break down your muscles, and it can break your immune system down after too long. None of us are going that long without food, but you know what I'm saying. And eventually, it can actually take your life.

Let me tie this in to John's gospel and to Jesus. You see, spiritual hunger is the same as physical hunger, and the reality is, it's no different. Spiritual hunger affects every part of who we are as well. So today we're going to look at the idea of spiritual hunger and what Jesus does about that. To set the tone for today, I want you to write down a principle that's going to get us thinking in the direction of John 6: The cause of many of your spiritual problems is spiritual hunger. In other words, at the heart of some of your worst habits, some of your addictions, and even some of your mental or emotional problems, what you will find is a deep unsatisfied spiritual hunger in your life.

In John 6, Jesus is going to emphasize this point and offer us an eternal cure for the spiritual hunger that all of us have. We've been tracking through the Book of John for eight weeks. From the beginning of John till now, we've watched John show us who Jesus is, that he is God, and that by believing in him we can have life. Starting in John 6, Jesus shifts into some of these longer teachings that show us an even deeper look into who he is and what he wants to do in our lives. So for the next six, or seven weeks, we will spend some time looking at the seven famous "I AM" statements that Jesus gives us. These statements separate him from everybody else and show us that he is God. And these statements show us that Jesus is the only one that brings what we truly need.

I want to start at the end today, John 6:35, then show you how the whole chapter builds towards this verse. It says, then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life. He says, whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. Now pause right there and I’ll give you a little background on why I told you to circle this idea of I am. I want to show you why this is such a big deal and why Jesus uses this phrase, tying all scripture together.

“I am” is the name that God uses to describe himself and his power to Moses in the wilderness as he was preparing Moses to be the one to deliver God's people, the Jews, out of bondage into the Promised Land. Moses has an encounter with God. God describes to him how he will use him and what he will do in his life. And then at the very end, Moses asks for some clarification and says, if I'm doing this, who is it that I need to tell them is telling me to do this? And God answers him in a way that's a little bit surprising to us. God looks at Moses and says, tell them that I AM has sent you. You may think that seems a little bit of an odd answer. And it is a weird thing to say, but let me tell you why. In this time, even more so than in today's world, names carried meaning. In this time, you didn't flip through the baby book or have a cool name that nobody else has, that nobody can spell, or really know why you named your kid that. During this time, a name described who you were, what family you were from, what area you came from, what resources you brought to the table, and what clout you had. And so when Moses looks at God and says, God, who do I tell them is sending me? What Moses is really asking him is, can you give me a description of who you are so that I can tell them by what power this can happen? So God looks at Moses and says, tell them that I am has sent you. In other words, I'm not like you, Moses. God's saying, I don't come from anywhere. I don't depend on anyone. I am fully sufficient. Therefore, if you lack anything, if you need anything, whatever it is you don't have, or as you're going on this mission, God says, I am.

Maybe nobody's ever explained that to you. God is saying, whatever it is that you're doing, whatever problem that you have, whatever power you lack, whatever name that you need, I am that. So as you're reading the Bible, the phrase I am in Hebrew is translated Yahweh. In Latin, the phrase I am is translated Jehovah.

So from this point on in the Jews' lives, anytime they needed something from God, they didn't simply call out to the I Am. Although that's an incredible thing to do, they would actually put an adjective alongside it to describe exactly what they needed. In other words, if they were in need, they would call out to Jehovah Jireh, the giver and provider of all that we need. If they were sick or dying, they would call out to Jehovah Rafa, which simply means that I'm the healer. If they were really afraid, they would call out to Jehovah Shama, the God I am that is with us. So when Jesus pulls up, come back to the New Testament, when Jesus pulls up in verse 35 in John's gospel and takes on the name I am, and when he does it for the next couple of weeks, just to keep in your minds, it is a big deal. It's actually a huge deal. So when Jesus says, not only I am, make no mistake, Jesus is claiming to be God, the God that our souls crave, the God that our souls need to flourish. So when Jesus looks at these people and says, I am the bread of life, he's saying, I'm not only Yahweh, but I'm the one that fills you with everything you need. There's no more common feeling on this earth than hunger. And there's no more universal satisfaction to our physical hunger throughout all times, in all places, at all moments, than bread. So that's what he's saying right here. Only Jesus satisfies the deep and spiritual hunger that you have. Write this principle down so you can remind yourself this week that just as bread sustains the hungry body, it's an intimate relationship with Jesus that nourishes the soul.

That's what John chapter six is all about. Now, John chapter six has hardly ever preached in one full message of one full chapter. Because there are 71 verses in John chapter six. You're going to have to read them on your own this week. But today what I want to do is show us how all of this supports this idea that he is the bread of life, and how all of this shows us that at our deepest being, what we need is for him to fill us. Let me show you John chapter six. We're going to start in verse four.

Jesus, at this point, has done a lot of miracles. He's done a lot of teachings, and I want you to see that the Passover is on them. It's going to matter later on verse five, when Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, where shall we buy bread for these people to eat? He asked this only to test him for Jesus. He had in mind what he was going to do. Now I know all the time we say, man, I wish I was the disciple. I don't know if I really wish I was a disciple, knowing that Jesus could always throw out the test that he did right here, but he did. Let me set the tone of what's happening. Jesus is outside the city. He's in the wilderness. He's gained this massive popularity, this crowd of people around him because of all of his teachings, because of all of his miracles.

They're all following after him to hear these incredible lessons. And so at this moment, Jesus pauses to teach the disciples a small lesson right here. And what does Jesus do? Jesus throws out this little pop quiz moment. Now, everybody hates pop quizzes, right? But Jesus does this right here to his disciples. Now remember, anytime Jesus asks a question, he's not asking for his behalf. I mean, he's God for goodness sake. He knows what he's going to do. He always asks questions on our behalf to teach us something and to show us that we can't do it without him and how unable we are. So Jesus looks at his disciples. He says, how are we going to feed all of these people? Look at verse seven. Philip answers him, it would take more than a half year's wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite.

Now, your translation might say, it would take 200 denarii for each one to have a bite. It's the same thing. 200 denarii is literally a definition of a half-year's wage. So Philip looks at Jesus and he is like, there's no way, Jesus. There's no way we can do it. This is beyond our power. This is beyond our resources. This is beyond what we have. And Philip says, look, even if we worked for half a year, we would never be able to do this, and those people would die of starvation. And then Andrew steps up next. Now, Andrew doesn't get a lot of press in the Bible, but Andrew seems to always bring people to Jesus.

Look at verse nine. Here is a boy, Andrew says, with five small barley loaves. Barley was the cheapest of the cheap. I mean, it was the day-old wonder bread, right? Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish. But how far will they go among so many? Andrew says, in other words, here is a little Jewish snack pack or a Hebrew happy meal, whatever it is, here it is, right? But what is that going to do for these thousands of people? Now, the Bible tells us that there are 5,000 men there. You can add on the women and children somewhere between 15 and 20,000 people on this hillside at this moment. And now we've got these five fish in these two loaves.

What we see next is Jesus obviously feels like, Hey, you know what? I made my point with the boys. Now let me handle it. Jesus takes the little meal from the little boy and he blesses it right in front of him. There's a little precedent for praying over the blessings God has given us. He begins to share it with his disciples to start feeding this incredibly large crowd around him. Now, I want you to let this sink in your mind for a minute, even if you've been seeing this story since the flannel board. Jesus now has the small little meal. He's sitting in my mind at least, I don't know if he's sitting, but in my mind he is.

He is sitting at the front of this group and he begins to take the bread. He begins to take the fish, and he begins after praying for it, to divide it and to hand it to the disciples, to which now the disciples are standing there with it. And can you think of the level of faith that it took for these 12 disciples to begin to start handing out this food that Jesus gave them? I mean, think about the mutiny they would have on their hands if all they made was the front row of the 20,000, right? Jesus told 'em, Hey, take these and go begin to feed these people. They're thinking, well, what if it runs out? But the good news is it doesn't. And as they hand it out, Jesus multiplies it until they feed every single person on this hillside until the Bible says every person was full. Now notice the disciples were trying to get a bite for everybody. And in this society that would've been a lot because they didn't eat like we do. They don't sattle up to the buffet and eat until they about can't walk out of the place. No, they ate for substance. They ate to make it. But now what we're seeing is Jesus doesn't just give them a bite. He absolutely fills them and to make it all better, on top of that, Jesus doesn't just feed them. The scripture says, if you keep reading down that at the end of this event, there are 12 baskets left over. I want you to write this principle down about Jesus just so you can think about it this week.

Jesus doesn't just meet our needs, he exceeds them abundantly and perfectly. That's what he is doing in the story. The humans on this side were asking, Hey, give him a bite. And Jesus is like, I'm not a bite person. I want to fill you. I want to fill them perfectly and abundantly. Did you catch what just happened here? Jesus, so they could see who he really was, he made sure there was extra even after they were full. Now, this is just scene one in John chapter six, I told you there's a lot of ground to cover here. This is scene one, and actually, this is not the main message of scene one, but it's setting us up for the scene that we need to see in verse 35. Look at verse 14. Here's what it says, after the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, surely this is the prophet who is to come into the world.

Now, notice what it doesn't say. Sometimes you have to look at that. It doesn't say, here is a prophet. It says there is the prophet. You see, there's a difference between a prophet and The Prophet. A prophet is anyone who proclaims that they can tell what is going to happen. The prophet is a whole other deal to these people. You see, to us, we're looking at this miracle and we're just seeing a new thing that Jesus does, a cool thing that Jesus does to show his power. But to them, Jesus was actually with the Jews at this moment. And to them, what they saw was this miracle in a whole different context, a whole larger context, because they saw what was really happening as Jews as an incredible moment. You see, they knew exactly at this point what they were saying when they said, this is the prophet.

Let me make the connections. As Israelites, their whole life, they've been looking for the prophet. They've been looking for the prophet. And right here, when Jesus produces bread from these little moments, they go, wait a minute, this is the Deliverer. They said that because in the Book of Exodus, when the Jews were coming out of Egypt they got hungry. Moses looked at God and he's like, Hey, we need to do something here. And God provided manna. He provided bread in the wilderness. Every single morning he put the sweet golden Graham cracker on the ground so that the people could eat until they were satisfied. The deliverer of God's people.

Now a couple thousand years later, we have another group of Jews. They're now in the wilderness again. They're now also living in oppression, not by Egypt, but by Rome. And they need a deliverer like Moses, and Jesus comes onto the scene and shows the same power that Moses showed in the wilderness, but Jesus also does it during the Passover. Remember in verse four, I told you to remember that, to show them exactly who he is. Put the pieces together. There's a new prophet. Not Moses. It is Jesus. There is new manna on the ground. This is the bread of life. There's a new Passover moment right here. All the while, what is happening in this, what was left over at the end of this story, there were 12 baskets left over. How many tribes were there in the wilderness that God delivered his people? There were 12.

So when you put all of this together, what you are beginning to see is this is the one, this is the prophet, this is the one that we've all been waiting for. But then things go a little bit sideways. Instead of seeing this for what Jesus was teaching it to be, they look at this as an opportunity to say he’s the one that is going to conquer Rome. And that's why we say that they understood the miracle, but they missed the point. Look at verse 15. Jesus, knowing that they had intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. In other words, they thought Jesus was feeding them to give them nourishment and strength to overthrow Rome. But Jesus wasn't doing that. That wasn't the main point.

Jesus's main point was to look at them and to look at us and to prove once again that he is God and he is the bread of life that gives us life. You see, Jesus is pointing to the fact that we have a problem. Our problem is way bigger than our empty stomachs. It's way bigger than Rome or our government. Our problem, what Jesus is pointing to in this whole chapter, is that our soul is empty. And no matter what it is that we chase after to fill it, it will not fill us unless it's the bread of life. That's what Jesus is pointing to. And listen, it is just as relevant today as it was with them that we have got to see Jesus for who he is.

And what Jesus is pointing to is what we need most is not the miracle, it's the maker of the miracle. It is Jesus himself and a relationship with Jesus. It's an understanding that Jesus doesn't just give us the bread, he is the bread. That's the whole point of chapter six. I know there are many of you that you came to church today with a problem. You need God to fix it. You need him to heal your marriage. You need him to fix your finances. You need him to fix your kids. You need him to heal your physical body. You need a job. You need him to help you get pregnant. And listen, yes, Jesus is in fact aware and he's fully consumed. He fully cares about those things.

In fact, we just saw him feed these people, did we not? So many times we'll say, if Jesus will just do this, then everything else will be good. But listen, nothing that God gives you will ever fill you like him giving you himself. It's the point here. At our core, what we really need is Jesus. What we really need is the bread of life. And I pray that we can grab hold of this. So the Jews, they're here at this mountain and they don't get it. But Jesus doesn't get frustrated. He goes and he retreats off to a moment of prayer. You would think that the next chapter in your Bible would have a title that says Jesus sets 'em straight. But that's not what happens actually. Jesus sends the disciples across the sea of Galilee, right?

He sends these disciples over towards Capernaum when he goes over to pray. As the disciples get into the boat, they head across in the middle of the night, what John's gospel tells us is that in the middle of the night, a great storm comes up. And they row against it. They can't get anywhere after struggling and then all of a sudden, just before daylight, it tells us that Jesus comes walking across the water on the storm. And two things happen at the end of that moment. The first thing is that Jesus climbs into the boat and the storm stops. The second thing is the second half of verse 21 in John chapter six, where it says, immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.

So in other words, I don't know how it worked. Maybe Jesus steps into the boat and automatically it fast forwards right to where he was sending them. But I want you to write a principle down that this reminded me of this week. Whatever storm you are in, Jesus has the power to overcome it. Jesus has already overcome their hunger. He's overcome that storm. Now, Jesus has overcome the physical storm and the storm of their fear. And that's what Jesus is saying through this whole chapter: I am the only one. You can chase the other stuff. But I am the bread of life that fills.

They land at Capernaum, right where Jesus sent them in verse 16. Capernaum was an area where all the gentile population of that region lived. There was a ton of Gentiles there. They weren't Jews. They were looked at as downcast. They were looked at as enemies of God. So they land there and immediately after they land, John doesn't tell us what's going on. But if you want some background in Matthew 14 and Matthew 15, Matthew tells us what happens. Immediately after they land, Jesus heals this Canaanite, this Gentile lady's daughter, which nobody understands. Actually, they hated him for it. But Jesus was just proving once again that he has come for all of us. Thanks be to God, because not many of us are Jews, that he has come for all of us. And then secondly, after healing this Canaanite lady, what Matthew tells us is that actually Jesus does the feeding miracle again. Maybe you never realized this, but there are two of them. There's the feeding of the 5,000 on the Jewish side, and now what we're seeing is the feeding of the 4,000 on the Gentile or the pagan Canaanite side. The same thing happens again. Jesus looks up, finds a little food, he feeds the 4,000 late in the afternoon, but instead of there being 12 baskets left over when they're done, now there are seven baskets left over. Why is he tired? Did he run out of power? Is his mojo running low? No, actually, let me tie the pieces together. Once again, if you go back to Exodus to the first manna miracle, you'll see that when God did this manna, this bread miracle in the wilderness, seven Canaanite nations surrounded the 12 tribes of Israel in the wilderness.

You're watching now that on the Jewish side, he gives them 12 baskets of leftovers. He crosses the sea to the gentile side. Now there are seven baskets left over, recognizing the fact that Jesus has come for whosoever. You don't have to be a Jew, you don't have to be a Gentile. He is crossing over. In fact, write this principle down. Jesus has come to save and sustain whosoever will receive him. So church, let me bring this into where we are. Whatever storm you're facing, whatever hunger you're dealing with, yes you can keep chasing all the things the world wants to give you. But what Jesus is showing us here, no matter where we come from, and no matter who we are, Jesus wants to step into our boat, bring us peace, heal us from our infirmities, and give us fullness because he is the bread of life.

In fact, it was on the Gentile side that we read verse 35, then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life and whosoever comes to me will never go hungry and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. Have you ever thought about the fact that it is Jesus who comes to save the whosoever? Have you ever traced the whosoever through scripture? Let me give you a couple of them. John 3:16 from a couple weeks ago, for God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him shall have everlasting life. What about Romans 10:13 where it says, whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. What about John 11:26: Whosoever lives by believing in me, John says, shall never die. Acts 10:43 says, whosoever believes in him shall have forgiveness of their sins.

John 4:15 says, whosoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God, he lives in them. You might have come to church this morning, yes, with a problem on this side, not realizing that your biggest problem is needing Jesus to fill you. But you also may have come to church today thinking, Hey, I am too far for God to ever do something in me. To which Jesus says, oh, no. I'm in the business of crossing the seas and I'm in the business of meeting you right where you are. Listen, you don't have too much baggage, you don't have too many secrets. You don't have too much past, you don't have too many bad decisions and you don't have too much shame. I've got news for you. You are not that far from God. And Jesus wants to come to your Capernaum with the same bread multiplying, filling power that he's shown us twice in this one little chapter.

And if you go back and look at this, what we're seeing even again this week on a micro-scale of Jesus crossing and meeting is exactly once again what Jesus does on a macro-scale of who we are. Jesus has crossed the sin sea to come for me, he has sought me out. He has shown me his power. But the question is, have I received him? We started this whole series off with John 1:12 which says yet to all who did receive him to those who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. Do you know what one of my biggest passions in preaching is? It's to bring the text not only to life, but it's to bring it to right where we are. And listen, Jesus just did this. Do you know the reality today is that you can receive him right now?

The greatest advantage that we have over them is that not only now, Jesus is not just limited to one spot at one time at one place. Now Jesus is beside the Father interceding on our behalf, and he can hear every single one of us at one time, which means that he is listening for us to ask him to fulfill us and satisfy our soul as the giver and the bread of life. That's the whole text. The question is today, what is keeping you from it? And whatever it is, I can promise you it's not worth it. I can promise you whatever you're chasing that is not the bread of life will not fill you. It will give up on you and it will turn your back on you. Look again at the promise of Jesus. Let me read you these last couple of verses that I just want to point out from this text.

It's Jesus again reviewing what he's already taught us in verse 47, Jesus. And this is what I'm closing with. Jesus says, very truly, I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. Jesus says, I am the bread of life. And watch what he did. He ties all the pieces together magically that I've just been so feeble trying to do all day watch. He says, your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, yet they died. In other words, they got some bread, but they chased it after. And it wasn't me. Now picture this in your mind. Picture Jesus telling me that. He says, but here is the bread. In other words, he's looking at himself, he's going here. He's not looking at the bread he's giving them. That's where your mind wants to tell you. But here I Jesus said, I AM the bread.

But I am the bread that come down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. Verse 51. He says it again, I am the bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh. Here's the gospel which I give for the life of the world. This is not about physically eating your lunch in about an hour from now. This is about Jesus going, I am the bread not, does he give the bread? No, he is the bread not. Does he give you a way to live in the bread? No. He is the bread not, does he just give you a new lifestyle? No, I am the bread. Listen, church, it's about a relationship with the bread. And Jesus says, I am the bread.

I'm the one you've been looking for. I'm the one that can satisfy your soul. I'm the one that will meet you right where you are. But I love you too much to leave you there. Therefore, I'm offering my life to you to satisfy you eternally and the bread of life. Man, this chapter is incredible because it takes one of those things that every one of us fills and it shows us we can chase after anything we want, but it won't fill us like he will. You realize that he's the bread of life in our victories, that he's greater even than our victories. He's the bread of life in our defeats, knowing that nothing else matters. If we have him, he's the bread of life that doesn't just exist on the Jewish side, but he is there for us. He's the bread of life that meets us in the storms and meets us in the hunger and meets us in the question, and meets us in those moments where we feel like nobody can do it. He is the bread. I hope you're seeing what's offered to us. I hope you're seeing the new manna, the new bread, the new Passover lamb, whose body brings us satisfaction, whose blood brings us forgiveness. And now he said, I'm available to the whosoever. So here's the question this morning, have you given him your life?

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Bread of Life

 

February 23, 2025

PRINCIPLE: The cause of of your spiritual problems is spiritual hunger.

John 6:35
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."

PRINCIPLE: Just as bread sustains the hungry body, an intimate relationship with nourishes the soul.

John 6:4–6
4 The Jewish Passover Festival was near. 5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” 6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

 

John 6:7
Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”
John 6:9
“Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”

PRINCIPLE: Jesus doesn’t just meet our needs; He them abundantly and perfectly.

John 6:14
After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
John 6:15
Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
John 6:21
…and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.

PRINCIPLE: Whatever you are in, Jesus has the power to overcome it.

PRINCIPLE: Jesus has come to save and sustain whosoever will him.

John 6:35
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."
John 1:12
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
John 6:47–51
47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

 

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