John 6:36-47 But I
said to you that you have seen Me and yet do not believe. All that
the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I
will by no means cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not
to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will
of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose
nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. And this is the will of
Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may
have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” The Jews
then complained about Him, because He said, “I am the bread which
came down from heaven.” And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of
Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I
have come down from heaven’?” Jesus therefore answered and said to
them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to Me unless
the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last
day. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by
God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father
comes to Me. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is
from God; He has seen the Father. Most assuredly, I say to you, he
who believes in Me has everlasting life.
Continuing Pastor Herk’s
message, he explains that without Jesus, our physical blessings really have
little meaning. Jesus tells us in John 15:5, “I am the vine, you are the
branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without
Me you can do nothing.” It’s a package deal. But, there are people out
there who do not really believe that. They believe that you can do enough
righteous deeds and be a nice enough person to earn a guaranteed place in
heaven; that you bought your ticket by just being a good person. But, that is
not true. No one person has been good enough by their life. The only way that
any of us are getting to heaven is through Jesus Christ. In John
14:6 Jesus said, “I am the
way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through Me.”
John 6:48-51, “I am the
bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are
dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of
it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If
anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I
shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
Jesus was not talking about
real bread here. When He said, “I am the bread of life”, what He meant was that
every time you look at a loaf of bread, remember that just like you need bread
to live, you need Jesus to live. When Jesus said, “I am the vine”, He didn’t
mean that he literally was a vine. When Jesus said, I am the gate”, He didn’t
mean that he was a literal gate. In His teaching, He was talking about
sacrificing His flesh and body on the Cross that we may have forgiveness and
life.
John 6:57-58 “As
the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on
Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from
heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this
bread will live forever.”
Bread gives life, and like
physical bread Jesus’ body on the Cross gives us life and life eternal. Salvation is too important to be put off until another day. Make haste to lay hold of the living Bread of Life. Pass the bread please.
In Christ, Brian
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