I am the bread of life.I am the bread of life.I am that bread of life.I am the bread of life.
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… from heaven and gives life to the world. Sir, they said, always give us this bread. And 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. I am the bread of life. Our daily bread is Jesus. And it's making that leap from the thing he taught us to the one who taught us. From the thing that we heard him say to the one who actually is saying it. it's taking the step from the information into a relationship with Jesus he quoted Deuteronomy when tempted in the wilderness and he said man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes out of the mouth of the Lord and what he's inviting you to today what he's inviting me into today is not just to get the nugget, but to get Jesus. and that's I think somehow what we've ended up with in our culture is we're transactional people who want to tell everybody what we heard learned or saw versus actually experiencing Jesus and savoring him for who he is and yeah maybe sharing that a little bit later but that's not my first thought was, wow, I got to post that. My first thought was, I want to linger with you. …
… Jesus says in John 6, verse 35, here we go. I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. Jesus says, I am the bread of life. Now, most of these 71 verses are about bread. And the word bread doesn't mean the same thing in our context today as it meant to those who were listening to Jesus in the first century. In fact, when we talk about bread today, most of us are trying to avoid bread. We have a placer of bread. Some might say too much bread. It's complimentary at restaurants now. I took my kids to Kroger over the weekend to count the different kinds of bread on the bread aisle. Don't you wish you were a pastor's kid? 178 different kinds of bread on the bread aisle. We got all different kinds. We got wheat. We got white. We got butter. We got artisan style. We got Hawaiian. We got Texas toast. …
… We picked it up with one of the I Am's where Jesus said, I am the living bread. He had said that He was the bread of life, and then this portion of the text, He said, if anyone eats this bread, he will live forever, and that the bread that He gives is His flesh, that He gives for the life of the world. And at this point the Jews quarreled, the Jews were skeptical, and they said, how can this man give his flesh to eat? And Jesus knows this murmuring that's going on, and so He reinforces this declaration that He had made when He said, most assuredly, I say to you, now notice these words, I'm Unless... Before I go any further, every time I run into that word in the text, I remind you that that word signals something very important that is coming. The word unless introduces a necessary condition, a sine qua non for some desired consequence or effect to take place unless… Mr. Maddox has a good game this afternoon, but we're in deep weeds. …