Title: THE LIVING BREAD/BETTER THAN MANNA
Preliminary Reading: John 6:49-58
John 6:51 (KJV) I am the living bread which came down
from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever:
and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for
the life of the world.
Text: John 6:51, "I am the living bread which came down from heaven:
if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and
the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for
the life of the world".
Intro: Earlier message discussed God’s greatest gift.
We broke down that gift into understandable parts.
The parts were:
Bread of Life
Door
Gate for The Sheep
Good Shepherd
King
Life
Light
Resurrection
Vine
Way
Let us focus on The Living Bread.
My imagination sees:
1. a dislocated , disillusioned, multitude in a wilderness
gathering round wafers (Manna, Bread from Heaven).
2. A Levite Priest waving sheaves of grain before the Lord
in a ceremonial fashion--Feast of Weeks, Heave Offering,
First Fruits.
3. 5,000 or more folk eating divinely multiplied bread
(from five barley loaves).
4. Christ’s broken, bleeding body on the cross-Ps. 34:7. <---
Theme: Participation in Communion is an outward expression of
our inward partaking of Christ, The Living Bread.
I. His Divine Origin
II. His Wondrous Character
III. His Great Mission
IV. His Assuring Promise
V. His Universal Offer
I. His Divine Origin
A. Only Begotten (unique, only one of its kind) of The Father
B. "...came down from Heaven."
1. someone found
2. term repeated seven times in chapter in chp six
D. down a distance than cannot be measured
1. from glory to poverty
2. from exhaltation (nobility) to shame & death
3. so we could be spiritually-
a. rich
b. recoginized
c. resurrected
II. His Wondrous Character
A. Jn. 10:10, life-giving
B. life satisfying
1. never hunger
2. Jn. 6:35. "...I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me
shall never hunger; and ...never thirst."
C. The bread that gives spiritual & eternal life.
III. His Great Mission
A. address the World’s need
1. blinded by sin
2. Unhealthy diet that will never satisfy.
B. give the gift of His flesh
1. John 6:51
2. "...for the life of the world."
IV. His Assuring Promise/Guarantee
A. He that has the Son has life.
1. satisfying life
2. eternal life
3. vibrant, lively life (not mere existence)
B. Jn. 14:19, "...because I live, ye shall live also."
1. Rom. 5:10
2. 1 Cor. 15:20
3. 2 Cor. 4:10
V. His Universal Offer
A. Jn. 6:51, "...if any man eat of this bread,
he shall live forever:..."
B. within the reach of all
1. must be appropriated (taken in/received)
2. must be digested
Conclusion: Divine Origin, Wonderful Character, Great Mission,
Gurantee, Universal Offer
Wherefore do you spend money for that which
is not bread? And your labor for that which
satisfies not. Hearken diligently unto me, and
eat ye that which is good, and let your soul
delight itself in fatness ( Isa. 55:2, paraphrased ).
Inivation: Come freely to the Throne of Grace.
Accept, Jesus, the Living Bread
that is better than Manna.
Taste the Lord and see that He is good.
Have another heaping helping of Heaven’s
hospitality.
