Week 2 – The Bread of Life

• Lets talk about names for a minute

• The principle of Supply

• The missing piece = Nourishment

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousand

v.5-6…Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat? He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousand

v.10-11…Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated.

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousand

v.12-13… “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousand

v.15… “Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him King, Jesus withdrew

- JESUS WALKS ON WATER

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousandv. 25-40…31 Our fathers ate the manna

in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” 32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but 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.” 34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousandv. 25-40…35 Jesus said to them, “I

am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. 36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousandv. 25-40…38 For I have come down

from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousandv. 47-55…47 Truly, truly, I say to you,

whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousandv. 47-55…52 The Jews then disputed

among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

The Bread of Life

• We already see parrallels in the passage–Feeding 5 Thousand–Most people want physical

provision more than spiritual provision

–Manna in Heaven

The Bread of Life

• We already see parrallels in the passage–The Lord’s Supper

–Tying of Bread to Salvation

• So lets look a little at Bread

The Bread of Life

• Bread was one of the world’s first currencies

• Foraging, Hunters, Farmers–Men & Women roles

• Egyptian Wage System 3000BC

The Bread of Life

• This was tied to the Consequence of Eden

• Genesis 3…By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken

The Bread of Life

• Bread doesn’t grow it has to be manufactured

• Manley the Miller

• Slang for Money today is…

5 PATTERNS

of Bread

1. Feeding 5 thousand

• God can supply for unlimited people with limited resources

• There was more leftover than what was started with

• The test of what you depend on

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousand

v.5-6…Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat? He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

1. Feeding 5 thousand

• He who is faithful in little

• The principle of counting the cost

• Balancing this with Faith

• It takes more faith and maturity when you know how much God needs to provide

2. Perspectives – Sp. Vs. Phys.

• Lotto Jesus

• 8ball Jesus

• Aspirin Jesus

• Blessed Jesus

• Tell them their wrong Jesus

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousand

v. 25-40…25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

John 6 – Feeding 5 thousandv. 25-40…Do not labor for the food that

perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?

2. Perspectives – Sp. Vs. Phys.

• The Spectrum

• Jacob’s Ladder

• Where the war takes place

3. Manna in the Exodus

• Manna was the daily bread to the Israelites during the Exodus

3. Manna in the ExodusExodus 16…Then the Lord said to

Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. 5 On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”

3. Manna in the Exodus

• Matthew 6:11…Give us this day our daily bread

• Matthew 4:4…But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

3. Manna in the Exodus

• Greed and Insecurity• Even God supplies our daily

needs when we are disobedient• Psalm 37:25…I have been

young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

4. The Lord’s Supper

• Jesus makes an obvious tie in this passage to the Lord’s Supper

• Bread is not the Word of God, it is Christ himself

• John 1…In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God

4. The Lord’s Supper

• Melchizedek…Genesis 14…17 After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)

4. The Lord’s Supper

• Matt. 26:26…Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

4. The Lord’s Supper

• Matt. 26:26…Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

4. The Lord’s Supper

• John 13…21 After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” 22 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table close to Jesus, [5]

4. The Lord’s Supper

• 24 so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus [6] of whom he was speaking. 25 So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?” 26 Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot

4. The Lord’s Supper

• 27 Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.” 28 Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him.

4. The Lord’s Supper

• 29 Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. 30 So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.

4. The Lord’s Supper

• 1 Cor. 11…27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

5. Bread and Salvation

• What is bread made from?• Matt 3:12…His winnowing fork is

in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

The Parable of the Weeds

Matt 13…24 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds

The Parable of the Weeds

[3] among the wheat and went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. 27 And the servants [4] of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does

The Parable of the Weeds

it have weeds?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.

The Parable of the Weeds

30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”

5. Bread and Salvation

• John 12…24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25 Whoever loves his life loses it,

5. Bread and Salvation

• and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

In Closing…

• All the parallels point to How we view God’s provision for us

• Bread represents the simplest form of provision

• If we can’t depend upon God for bread, then how can we depend upon him for salvation?