I Am The Bread Of Life – All You Ever Need In This World And The Next - Part 2 Series

I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE – ALL YOU EVER NEED IN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT - PART 2

This is PART 2 of the Message “I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE” one of the magnificent truths spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ when on earth. We ended the first PART looking at The Bread for Christian Sustenance, and were studying the manna. We continue . . .

POINT 3. (Considering the Bread who came down from heaven). We have seen how the manna from heaven is the heavenly food for God’s people in the earthly journey, and the Lord from heaven is the One upon whom we feed. If you don’t have any desire to feed on the Lord Jesus Christ, (to spend time with him in His word, in prayer and with God’s children), and find your interests more aligned with the world, then take a good look at your salvation that you have actually partaken of the Bread of Life for salvation. Those who belong to Christ should have a consuming desire for His word; to be fed; to feast on the Lord. That was Mary’s desire as she sat at the feet of Jesus listening to Him. That is the desire of nearly all of you here today – I hope all of you. The Bible is our inerrant, God-breathed truth, our food, and our growth supply.

FAILURE IN THE WILDERNESS – THE MANNA REJECTED

We look at this verse again –

{{John 6:32 Jesus therefore said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.”}} To the Jews exiting Egypt, this bread given in the wilderness, was not the true bread. The true manna that had heavenly origins, was not good enough for them. They whinged and whined to Moses about the bread, and God gave them their desires, but their complaining resulted in leanness (famine) to their souls. There were the malcontents who travelled along with the people in the wilderness, who found little satisfaction in the true manna but hankered after the delights of the world, for Egypt is the symbol of the world in scripture – {{Numbers 11 v 5-6 “We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic, but now our appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manna.”}}

The worldling and the worldly Christian do not desire the things of God but find them tiresome and demanding. They want to spend their time chasing the things of this corrupt world, not desiring the true manna from above. Well, God gave them their desires, and note in the passage about to come, the way their greed rushed in to gather to themselves the lusts of the flesh – {{Numbers 11 v 31-33 “Now there went forth a wind from the LORD, and it brought quail from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits deep on the surface of the ground. The people spent all day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers) and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very severe plague.”}}

Rejection of God’s best, as you move away from the heavenly manna, always results in leanness in a spiritual walk. All you can expect, is stunted growth and failure. A worldly Christian who hankers after the leeks and garlic of Egypt, is useless for God, and likely to come under the judgement of God. The Jews of Haggai’s time did not have God’s interests as their priority, and there was drought, and a failure of harvests and leanness upon the nation. Haggai wrote {{Haggai 1 v 10 “Therefore, because of you (the people), the sky has withheld its dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.”}}

THE GREAT FAILURE IN TODAY’S CHURCHES

Is it not true, that comparison of our churches with many of those of 100 years ago, reveals leanness and failure today? What is the difference between then and now? Well the Christians back then believed the word from cover to cover, honoured it, read it, did not question it, and put it into action. Today, the termites of higher criticism, rejection, humanism, and liberalism, socialism, and now WOKE, have tunnelled through nearly every chapter of the bible, chewing up what God has given through inspiration. We must become real for God, and honour His word (His true Manna) with a true reverence. We must seek the spiritual delights of the true manna, and reject the lusts of Egypt.