DID YOU
SEE THE MIRACLE
John
6:26-45
CAN YOU SEE A MIRACLE
26 Jesus answered, "I tell you the
truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because
you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for
food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him
God the Father has placed his seal of approval."
A. I have noticed that we have our largest turn out for
Sunday School
Is when we have
our quarterly Sunday breakfast. At the
Sunday
Breakfast we
usually have several times more members for
Sunday
School.
1. Previous to
this encounter Jesus had fed from 5 to 20000
people with
2 fish and five loaves (thin and plate size ) of bread.
2. The crowd
followed Him because they got a free meal.
B. Some people come to church to be fed a physical
breakfast.
1. Some come to
be fed the music of the choir.
2. Some come to
be fed the voice of the Pastor.
3. Some come to
be fed the knowledge that others know they
are in the
service.
C. Jesus notice that crowd didn’t come because of the
miracles
He performed.
1. They didn’t
come because they had faith in Him as the
miracle
worker.
2. They didn’t
come because they wanted to hear a word from
the Father.
3. They came
for their own fleshly reasons.
4. Recently,
our church under the direction of the pastor
gave out
1000 boxes of food, mask, and hand santisizers.
a. People
from all over the community came to be fed
b. The
miracle was that God affected the hearts and minds of
major
corporations and many volunteers to come out to feed
the
needy.
5, The miracle
is God took a virus that started in China
shut down
the economies of the world.
6. The miracle
is God took a pandemic, economic downturn,
racial
violence to show the world that every life matters.
HOW TO SEE THE MIRACLE
PURSUE FOOD THAT LEADS TO ETERNAL LIFE
E. God can straighten out our priorities.
1. Jesus said
don’t pursue food that spoils or last for a day,
but pursue
food that leads to eternal life.
2. What I hear Jesus
saying, is stop showing up to Church for the
show, but show up for the miracle.
3. Before the
pandemic, I thought that Christians didn’t come to
Bible study
and Sunday School because they were tired or just
couldn’t
get to Church.
a. But I
noticed that since we are doing Bible Study and Sunday
School
on zoom, the same people that came to Church,
participates on zoom.
b. The
people who had not been coming before the pandemic,
don’t
participate on zoom.
c. People
who don’t come to Bible Study or Sunday School,
doing
the pandemic don’t have a travel time excuse since
we are
using zoom.
SEE JESUS AS APPROVED BY GOD
F. Only Jesus can
give us eternal life.
1. Jesus
was commissioned by the Father to bring salvation
to
the world.
2. Jesus was approved by the God the
Father to do the work
of bringing men to Himself.
G. This verse points to God the Father, God The Son
(Jesus) and
God the Holy
Spirit ( through an understanding of the Word).
1. It was
Sovereignty of God the Father to send God the Son to
cross who
sent God the Holy Spirit to teach us the works of
the Son.
DO THE WORK REQUIRED BY JESUS
28 Then they asked him, "What must we do
to do the works God requires?"
29 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the
one he has sent."
30 So they asked him, "What miraculous
sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our
forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: 'He gave them bread
from heaven to eat.'
1. There are those who want God to prove
Himself before they
Act.
2. God’s commands to us
for any situation are given in the Bible.
3. We do not need any
additional signs from God to serve.
A. Our prime responsibility is to believe in the Jesus
Christ.
1. To believe
in Jesus is to believe in God the Father.
2. To believe
in Jesus, we have to take time and study His Word.
3. To know
Jesus, we must put His Word in action in our lives.
B. We have a command from Jesus to take the Word to the ends
of the
Earth.
Matt 28:19-20
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and
teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you.
1. We do
the work of Jesus by including Him in our everyday
conversation.
2. We do the work of Jesus by giving Him first
priority in our
planning and thinking
EAT BREAD FROM HEAVEN
32 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the
truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my
Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For
the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the
world."
34 "Sir," they said, "from now
on give us this bread."
A. When we look back over our lives, we ought to see a
track record
Of what God
has done in our lives.
1. Israel
2. Some look back and give
themselves the credit for what
they have accomplished in
their lives.
3. Some look back gives others
the credit what has happen in their
lives and never mention
God.
B. We have to come to the conclusion, that every step we
have taken
Has been due to the guidance and directions
of God,
1. His grace and mercy has
flowed on us even in our worst days.
2. It is in Him that we live
and have our being.
Acts 17:28
'For in him we live and
move and have our being.' As some of
your own poets have
said, 'We are his offspring.'
SEE THE VALUE OF THE BREAD OF LIFE
35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread
of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me
will never be thirsty.
A. Jesus has made
a promise of spiritual security.
1. Our physical life is
temporary, but while we yet live
here on earth,
Jesus also promises to provide for all
our needs
B. In Matthew 5:6 Jesus states;
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be
filled.
1. This statement is a
desire to live according to God’s Will and
put God’s will into
practice.
2. Being filled with the
Spirit ls being satisfied with God in
the sense
of being stuffed after
a good meal.
John
4:14
but whoever drinks the water I give him will
never thirst.
Indeed, the water I
give him will become in him a spring of water
welling up to eternal
life."
3. According to Adam Clark the phrase never thirst has
this meaning:
“By this water our Lord
means also his doctrine, explaining and
promising the gifts and
graces of the Holy Spirit, which proceed
from Jesus Christ their
fountain, dwelling in a believing heart.”
4. The righteousness of the Lord has no end.
PSALMS 111:3
Glorious and majestic are his deeds,
and his
righteousness endures forever.
5. God grace and mercy
toward us are boundless.
6. From a bodily stand
point, we need solid food for the nourishment
of the body. We need
water to keep us hydrated.
7. Our hungry for the Word
is satisfied with our study and
meditation of the Word.
8. We can be come
spiritually dehydrated by ignoring the enlightenment
of the Word through
submission to the Holy Spirit.
I am the bread of life is the first of
seven “I Am “ statements in the Book of John. Each one describes His
divinity,
2. Then Jesus spoke to them
again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He
who follows Me shall not walk in darkness,
but have the light of
life” (John 8:12 ).
3. I am the door. If anyone
enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and
out and find pasture” (John 10:9).
4. I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd gives His life for the
sheep” (John 10:11 ).
5. Jesus said to her, “I am
the resurrection and the life. He who believes in
Me, though he may die, he shall live” (John 11:25 ).
6. Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No one comes to
the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
7. I am the true vine, and
My Father is the vinedresser” (John 15:1).
ALL 7 I AM’S ARE IN THE BREAD
REJOICE BEING ELECTED TO BE WITH JESUS
36But
as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All
that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never
drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do
my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that
I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last
day. 40 For my Father's will is that everyone who
looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise
him up at the last day."
A. Here we have the doctrine of election, selection and
exclusion.
1. It is our
faith that puts us in the present of the Lord.
2. Before Jesus
came into our lives we were blinded and could not
see His
glory.
3. Faith comes
by hearing, and hearing by the Word of
God.
4. Many hear,
and choose to disregard the Word of God.
Thus
condemning themselves. (exclusion)
Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and
is baptized will be saved, but whoever does
not believe will be
condemned.
B. We have been given to Jesus by the Father for Salvation (election)
C. Our selection in Jesus is secured by Jesus
D. It is the will of the Father that we live an eternal life.
E. We all will die, but on the last day be raised by Jesus to live
Eternity in Heaven
F. Everyone is given the choice to see Jesus and decide to believe
Or not to believe.
ACCEPT JESUS AS YOURS
After this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said,
"I am the bread that came down from heaven." 42 They said, "Is this not Jesus, the
son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came
down from heaven'?"
BE THANKFUL THAT GOD DREW YOU TO HIMSELF
43 "Stop grumbling among
yourselves," Jesus answered. 44 "No one can come to me unless the
Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is
written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.'
No one can come to Jesus by his own desires. We were
born in
sin and need the help of
the Father to break our natural
condemnation
Rev. M. Mitchell
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