JESUS CHRIST IS THE BREAD OF LIFE

“I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE” – JESUS CHRIST
Text: John 6:25-59

Deuteronomy 8:3 – “that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.”

Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.”

INTRODUCTION: Bread is food for the body, that is, physical bread made of flour and other necessary ingredients. One can live literally on bread alone with water from day to day and physically live. The people in the context of John 6 where those who experienced the feeding of the five thousand excluding women & children .

They wanted for the LORD to continually supply and feed them with loaves of bread. They did not understand Him when He said: “I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE”. He meant another kind of Bread, that is, spiritual bread. This kind of Bread is able to meet man’s greatest need. The need for their sins to be forgiven; to become rightly related with the LORD; become God’s children and receive the gift of eternal life; the assurance of heaven as one’s eternal abode after physical death. This is the end result of one who “eats” The Bread of Life, even the LORD Jesus Christ!

Yet, this is not what the LORD obviously meant when He said to the crowd: “Man shall not live by bread alone.” He was not referring to loaves of bread baked out of the oven. What He meant was about “Spiritual Bread”, the kind that produces a relationship between a Holy God and Sinful Man and grants eternal life to the one who “partakes” of this “Spiritual Bread”.

NOW WHAT IS THIS BREAD?

1) This “spiritual bread” which is the “True Bread” comes from heaven. And
the Source of this True Bread is God the Father (John 6:32);

2) This “Spiritual Bread” is the bread of God, who cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world (John 6:33 cp v. 38, 50 & 58);

3) John 6:35 - Identifies WHO the Bread of Life is! No other than The LORD Jesus Christ is “The Bread of Life” by His own admission and declaration when He said: I AM the Bread of Life;

4) To partake of the Bread of Life, who is the LORD Jesus Christ, is to “BELIEVE ON HIM, that is, on Jesus Christ! Such belief on the LORD Jesus Christ results in a person having everlasting life (John 6:40 cp v. 47);

5) This Bread of Life, who is the LORD Jesus Christ, is The Living Bread!
The person who “eats” this Living Bread” shall live forever (John 6:51);

6) In John 6:56 & 58 – the LORD SAID: “He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.”

The person who “EATS” this Spiritual Bread, which is the True Bread of Life, the Living Bread, who is the LORD JESUS, is the person who BELIEVES ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS ONE’S PERSONAL SAVIOR AND LORD! (Mark 1:15; John 1:12-13; 3:16-18; 36; 5:24; 14:6; Acts 3:19; 4:12; Romans 10:9-10; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Ephesians 2:8-10).

Such AUTHENTIC, GENUINE and TRUE BELIEF on the LORD Jesus Christ results in a changed and transformed life. The person becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17); a follower of the LORD, thus becoming a disciple of the LORD Jesus Christ and a student (2 Timothy 2:15)of His Precious Pure Words, the Holy Bible, for the rest of one’s physical life.

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