John's gospel is loosely organized around seven miraculous signs and seven "I-am" statements. The signs and the statements are meant to reveal his identity and lead to faith in Him, believing in Him for life. John 6 is jam-packed with two signs and one "I-am" statement. First, we have the feeding of the crowd with a young boy's sack lunch. Then we have Jesus' mastery over a storm. Finally, Jesus expounds upon His identity and mission with the statement, "I am the bread of life come down from heaven."
At one point, Jesus gives a profoundly (at least at that time) disturbing message about eating his flesh and drinking his blood and many of us followers stop following. So Jesus turned to his core team and said, "Do you want to go away as well?" Peter answered him, "Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God." Ultimately that's the decision point for each of us. Do we think we can find a better source of life? In the midst of it all is this amazing story of a young boy who gave Jesus everything he had and in the surrendering became part of a story that's been told to millions of people over the course of thousands of years. Now that's pretty cool!
More than bread, words of life. with that in mind, let’s read John 6. I’ll be reading from the
