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About-Him.Com Devotional 02-21-2004
 
Thank God for the Living bread that came down from heaven and purchased our salvation.  We have tasted and can truly say that we have need of nothing else. We have a confidence that because we have believed on and accepted Him by obeying His gospel, we will live eternally with Him.
 
In our segment below Jesus affirms His  Deity. We just recorded an old hymn that expresses this to the fullest, entitled, It's All In Him. Hope you check it out and that you enjoy it.
 
 
124: Discourse on the Bread of Life Jn. 6:25-59
 
After the boat had landed and Jesus finished ministering to the people of Gennesaret, He and His group continued on to Capernaum. Here, He was found teaching in the synagogue. A group of antagonistic followers found him and marveled how He had arrived. They had taken note that there was only one boat which had crossed the sea, after the feeding of the five thousand.
 
Jesus knew their hearts and simply stated that they were only seeking Him for the natural bread that He had provided. Jesus told them to not work for food that perishes, but rather for the food that produces eternal life. Jesus Himself was soon to provide this food at Calvary.
 
The rabbin of that day taught that there were specific Works of God for each hour of the day. The question was then put to Jesus, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered, “This is the work of God, that you believe on Him whom He (God) has sent.”
 
In The Christ of the Gospels, page 271, J.W. Shepard explains how that a lintel has been found in the ruins of the ancient synagogue of Capernaum. This lintel depicts a pot of manna and is ornamented with a flowing pattern of vine leaves and grape cluster. It’s purpose was to remind people of the miracles of Moses and the greater miracles that Messiah was to produce. Perhaps this graphic depiction was in full view during the discussion and debate that was to follow.
 
So the question was put to Jesus (vs, 30) , ‘What sign are you going to produce?”
 
It appears that in their thought they attributed the giving of the manna in the wilderness to Moses, rather than unto God. Jesus simply stated, “Moses did not give the bread from heaven, it was my Father. perhaps some were convinced, at least momentarily, and said, “Lord, evermore give us this bread.”
 
The discourse is now building to the critical point. In the words that follow Jesus affirms His Deity and the fact that he has come down from heaven to provide the true bread. He will soon give Himself as the perfect sacrifice for sin. There is no middle ground here. Either believe and follow Jesus, or cling to their carnal expectations and dead tradition and walk away.
 
John 6:35 Jesus said unto them. I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, that ye have seen me, and yet believe not.
37 All that which the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
 
Jesus stated that He had not come to do His own will, but rather the will of His Father. It is the Father’s will that we believe on His Son and be resurrected at the last day and have eternal life.
 
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
 
Those who were not receiving the Lord’s words began to murmur. “How can this fellow claim to have come down from heaven, when we know His parents. Of course the implication was that He had been an illegitimate child.
 
Once again, Jesus asserts His Deity:
 
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.
 
Jesus also implies (vs. 45-46) that if they are not receiving His words, it is because they have not been drawn by His Father. He was the Father’s emissary. He had come from God and only He had seen God.
( See Jn. 1:1-2,14, 14:9, 17:20-21, I Jn. 5:20).
 
Many years before, as Israel wandered in the wilderness, God supplied manna from heaven to sustain them. This of course was a type of the true Bread from Heaven. That generation ate the manna, but eventually they all died. Jesus boldly proclaimed the He was the Bread of Life.  If anyone eats this bread he will never die. One eats the bread of life by believing on Jesus. If we do so, we are assured of eternal life.
 
John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48 I am the bread of life.
51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
 
In the culture of the day, when one had been taught the word of God and understood it, it was said that he had eaten it (compare Ps. 16:24; 119:103; Ezekiel 3:3).
 
Jesus foretold His coming death. His body would be broken and His blood spilled for the sins of the world. The following scripture is not a reference to the Lord’s supper which we take as a remembrance of the His suffering. It is an invitation to appropriate the Lord’s death to ourselves and to be assured of living with Him eternally.
 
John 6:53 Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.
54 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
 
 
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