Jesus is the Son of God incarnate from heaven. The Lord continues to affirm this with the metaphor of eating (faith) and bread (Himself). He who has eternal life believes in Jesus, who is truly human, flesh and blood, the incarnation of the Son of God from heaven. Eternal life is a gift to all who trust and believe in this person of Jesus Christ.
John 6:48-51 The Bread of Life
The Lord employs the metaphor of eating and living to powerfully portray what salvation is. Saving faith is to take in the words of Christ and let Him and His authority abide inside of us. And salvation is the undying and forever living fellowship with the holy God that is only possible through the forgiveness of sins through Christ’s death on the cross.
John 6:44-47 The Sign of the Bread [Part 6]
The Father is sovereign in salvation, and the Lord appeals to Scripture to bolster this truth. Moreover, whether it is the future or the current, the Lord will fully carry out His role in the Father’s plan. He will raise the elect on the last day, and He will stay constant in His current duty to proclaim salvation to the lost, i.e., to believe in Him enduringly.
John 6:41-44 The Sign of Bread [Part 5]
What an amazing person is the Lord Jesus Christ, who never misapplied the sovereignty of the Father but always fully obeyed His commands. Even while people were grumbling (about Him!), our Lord is unfazed and He stays focused on what God is sovereignly accomplishing. May the Spirit of our God conform us evermore to Jesus’ wonderful and wondrous likeness.
1 Thessalonians 1:2-10 An Example in the Faith
John 6:32-40 The Sign of Bread [Part 4]
Spiritual hunger and thirst are real. And apart from faith in Christ, the longing for spiritual life will never be satisfied. God sent His Son into the world to give THIS life (and that eternally!) to those who believe. But if eyewitnesses of Jesus’ miracles (the crowd) did not believe, who would ever believe? Jesus’ answer reveals a divine truth about true believers.
John 6:26-31 The Sign of Bread [Part 3]
The crowd goes to great lengths to catch up with Jesus but is spiritually blind. In the Lord’s conversation with them, we see four marks of their spiritual blindness: preoccupation with the needs of this life, neglect of the work of faith, heedlessness to the sign of God, and incorrigibility with regard to the words of the Lord. May we not be blind as they.
John 6:16-27 The Sign of Bread [Part 2]
Jesus performed astounding miracles. The Father gave the signs as His seal that Jesus is truly His Son. In the historical setting of John 6, the Lord not only fed the 5K but He also walked on water. These scientifically unexplainable miracles show that Jesus is truly who He claimed to be. And if He be God the Son, then what must we do in response? Take heed to His Word, turn away from sin and follow Him as He has called us to.