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Christ the Bread of Life

4/1/2018

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While there are some who are gluten intolerant and can’t eat regular bread, most of us love bread, probably too much. We eat sandwiches, have rolls, biscuits, flat breads, cornbread, etc. Most of us have some kind of bread every day and some have it at every meal, but we could live without it and probably be healthier. In Jesus’ day that was not the case. They didn’t have the same access to fruits and vegetables and meats that we have today. For some in the Bible bread was literally what kept them alive. That’s why Jesus telling Satan that man does not live by bread alone was a significant statement.

In John 6 some amazing things happen and some amazing teaching takes place. Jesus feeds the 5,000 and walks on water. The people try to make him a king and follow him around the Sea of Galilee. So, they have just eaten miraculously produced bread and now he is teaching them about true bread. They talk a little about the manna in the wilderness and then in John 6:35 Jesus says, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.” Jesus says that the manna was only a foreshadow of him and that he is the real bread from Heaven.

People lived on bread and water and not much else sometimes in those days and Jesus wants them to understand that spiritually he will be the thing that sustains them in their hunger and thirst. He wants us to know that as well. Are we coming to Jesus so we will never hunger or are we eating all the spiritual junk food out there in the religious world? Are we believing in him so we will never thirst or are we trying to quench our thirst with other things? The good news is that Jesus is bread that brings and sustains us and that all can partake of. Let’s be sure we never become Jesus intolerant.

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