Episode 409 - Show Notes
- We all know what it feels like to be physically hungry. But our hunger in life is much deeper than our need for the next meal. Our greatest hunger is spiritual. This hunger is what drives all of life. It impacts our search, our ambition, our goals, and our direction in life. We will do just about anything in our search to satisfy this hunger, and it can get us into a lot of trouble.
- In other words, most of our pursuits in life are for things that are temporary. It’s like food. All food has an expiration date. It’s only good for a little while. Jesus is saying instead of putting all your focus and energy into the search for temporary fulfillment, and temporary satisfaction, we should focus on the food that endures.
- In the NT we learn that crowds wildly pursued Jesus because he supplied them with material things. They like the idea of a Jesus who could give them fish and bread – someone who could give them the material things they wanted. But they failed to take a step farther and realize that a man who could miraculously supply bread was also the One who could meet the deep spiritual needs of their lives.
- Jesus came to meet a need in our lives that we cannot meet ourselves. But oh how we try. There is not a person here today who hasn’t tried to fill this inner hunger and thirst that we all have. As you look back over your life perhaps you can see how futile your attempts were. You always came up empty.
- Jesus doesn’t say, “I can give you the bread of life” or “I know where you can find the bread of life” or even “I have the recipe for the bread of life.” He says, “I AM the bread of life.” He is what we need.
- Jesus said I am the bread of life and this bread satisfies our spiritual search, our spiritual hunger. What bread is to hunger, Jesus claims to be for the soul.
John 6:27 - “Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you.”
John 6:35 - “Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
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