We looked last time at the fact the Jesus is the Light of the world. Today we are looking at His statement in John 6:35 that He is the bread of life.
John 6:35 says, “Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.’” Let’s get some context here. So far, Jesus has been well received, by the masses at least, and He has been doing some great signs and wonders that shows who He is. One of those has been to feed a multitude of people. Just prior to this, He had fed five thousand men. That apparently didn’t include the women and children, so it could have been much more than five thousand. We have five thousand people or more fed and they are excited about that. They want to actually make Him King. You can see why. Most of us have never actually experienced true hunger. We get hungry sometimes, but to have the idea of true hunger with the possibility of not finding food is something pretty foreign to most of us. In the first century times when Jesus lived, hunger was a real deal at times. Someone who could come along and actually feed the people and meet their most basic need for food without cost was something very special. So, when they found a person in Jesus, who now they are recognizing is a great prophet if nothing else, and He feeds them in this way, on top of the other signs that He has performed, some of them are now saying and thinking, “Let’s make Him King, maybe He is the Messiah! Let’s force Him to be our King and to take care of us and to feed us and satisfy our hunger.” Jesus of course rejects that because their motivation is to be fed, not to follow Him in righteousness. Jesus does, based on this account, say that He is the bread of life and if you come to Him you will never hunger. He wasn’t talking about physical food here. He is talking about spiritual food . . .
