John 6:22-45 (The Real Manna)
Intro:
I was up in
A)While I was there I was
able to spend some time with Danny Donnelly worship leader
B) Danny is an amazing
Musician Before saved tour and do studio work Kenny Loggins
1) He was a part of the
whole LA Jazz Music scene
C) He told me this story
about being at this Jazz club to hear to amazing Musicians
Before the Concert guy
comes to the Stage dressed in overalls t- shirt walks up Mic
Youve got to
change your attitude.
Paint Imagine John
Lennon
Well
that is the same thing that Jesus is saying to this crowd You need to change
your attitude.
A)He wants them to move from
being focused on the temporal to being focused on the eternal.
B) Move from being so
concerned about the material to being concerned about the Spiritual.
C) We left off here in
1) MT to Pray came to the
disciples in the storm walking on the water RD V. 22-
25
So
when the people find Jesus on the other side wondering how did you get
here.
A)Saw the disciples leave
and there were no other boats available
.
B) What is interesting is
Jesus doesnt even address their question.
1)
Instead He proceeds to tell them why they came to seek him.
26 Jesus answered them and said,
"Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs,
but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.
C)Jesus could read the
motives of these people's hearts, and he tells them plainly,
"You did not
come because you understood the signs that I performed, those signs predicted
in the Old Testament to identify the Messiah."
D) No basically you came because you were
looking for another free meal!
E)
Which presents an interesting question for all of us. Why are we here?
1) Believe what the Bible
says about sinners
2)Believe we need a Savior
3) Believe Jesus is who he
claimed to be! God in the flesh
4) The only vehicle thru
which man can be saved?
Note:
V.26-40 Jesus is addressing the crowd
A)This will set up his
discussion with the religious leaders in v.41-65
B)Then the chapter ends with
a sifting his followers are divided into 3 groups
C) But Jesus starts with the
crowd: - Change your attitude change your perspective.
1) He Issues this challenge!
27 Do not labor for the food which
perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of
Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him."
A)In those days a seal was a mark of ownership and
authenticity.
B)Jesus was saying Look I am the real deal
1) Authentic Everything else is perishing
C) Dont pursue after
dont labor for the thing that perishes but that which endures to everlasting
life.
Think
about all the things you labored for this past week that is perishing!
A)PAY CHECK GAS PUMP!
B)New Car Perishing It
loses $1,000 in value the moment you drive it off the lot.
1) Clothes / holes goodwill
C)How much time has been
spent on laboring for the food that perishes temporal not eternal
Now
how much time has been spent on laboring or putting yourself in the place to
receive the food that endures!
A)Mary and Martha - Martha Distracted with much serving!
B) Distracted by ministry!
WOW!
1) Talk with Pastors across
the country common theme
C) You fill in the blank
Distracted with much
_________ Work,
entertainment, relationship
D) Mary has chosen the
better part and it will not be taken away from her.
E) That other stuff it
fades it perishes but no one can take away the intimacy developed in Jesus!
1) Make it your goal to feed on
that to work for that
F) Crowd responds: RD
V. 28-29
I
love this: SO simple what do we need to do? Jesus says Just believe! Not climb MT/ Not pray 50 hrs
A)This drives people crazy
it cant be that easy they want to do something to earn it.
B)That
very insult is an offense to the Grace and Generosity of God.
C)Consider How would you
feel invite someone for dinner nice spread break out their check book
1) What do I owe you? Come
on I want to chip in
D) Most of us would be
offended by that!
E) God says you cant work
for it pay for it just receive it by believing !
Well the crowd
is still thinking of the wrong kind of food.
RD V. 30-33
A)The manna that sustained the
people of
B) The name manna means
what is it?
1) Classic for 40 yrs they
were calling this stuff what is it.
C) Just like the Lord So
much that is a mystery!
1) It was small,
round, and white; it tasted like honey; and it
came from heaven.
D) In reality the manna was
a picture of the Bread of Life which was to come. Prefigured Christ.
1) How so?
#1 Small in size.
Its size speaks of humility. So too, Jesus left His throne of glory to live among us (Philippians
2:7).
#2 White in color.
Its color speaks of purity. So too, our Lord has no sin, no spot whatsoever (I Peter 1:19).
Lamb
without spot or blemish
#3 Round in Shape.
Its shape speaks of eternity.
So too, Jesus has no beginning nor
end (Revelation 1:8).
#4 Sweet in taste.
Its taste
speaks of satisfaction So too, Jesus satisfies our
deepest longing (Psalm 34:8).
Taste and see
that the Lord is good.
Well
when they heard Jesus talk about this other bread they said Give us some!
34 Then they
said to Him, "Lord, give us this bread always."
Woman at the well Give me
this water no longer have to come to the well to draw RD V. 35
First
of the I am Statements Jesus is basically saying I am the one who satisfies
Sustains
A)Hungering for is really
me!
B)Jesus tells the crowd
plainly (in Verse 35) how partake of the bread of life.
1)He
uses two simple things everyone understands: hunger and thirst: "He who comes to me shall never hunger, and he
who believes in me shall never
thirst."
C) That hunger is satisfied and that thirst is
quenched When we come!
1) That is the first step
to come to approach Him who is the bread of life.
D)
2nd step is to partake that is to believe.
1) If I come to the table
it does me no good unless I partake.
E) Someone else cant eat
for me! I come starving here eat this steak for me feel better.
1) I need to partake that is
what believing is all about.
Christ
is the manna. He is the One who came down from heaven and gave His life for the
world that we might have life.
A)That is What saves us but He is also the one who SUSTAINS US
B) Eat of Him regularly! Daily bread
C)He
is the Bread that we are to feed upon constantly so that we might grow
spiritually.
D) Taste and see that the
Lord is good! -
RD
V.36-40
Here
Jesus reveals 4 truths about conversion.
[1] Not all
who see will come! (36)
A)Those who see him as a
significant person , or even a prophet, but still dont come to a belief in him
as Messiah.
B)They have an intellectual
understanding but fall short of true trust!
[2] All who
are chosen will come! (37a)
A)The Spirit leads them, the
Father draws them(44), all who are chosen will come!
B)This thirty-seventh verse
is a very important verse.
1) There is a theological
argument that rages today on election or free will.
C) The scriptures present a
definite conflict God Sovereignly elects
1) Yet man is given the
responsibility to respond.
D) Too be honest I dont
understand it all or where the line for balance is drawn.
I
will say this though: I do not believe that the Bible teaches that God elected
some to be saved
A)And that He elected others
to be damned!
B) Especially since the
Bible tells us that there are more who will be damned than saved
1)Two roads Broad is the Rd leading to destruction many on that
road.
2) Narrow is the road that leads to life. Few that find..
C)
D) He loved the World as a
whole every whom being For that reason sent Jesus.
I
also do believe that those who are saved has something to do with Gods
Foreknowledge
A)But I cant explain it.
B) Here
is what is interesting: Election and free will are both in this verse!
Notice it again
1) All that the father gives me will come to me that states the truth
of election.
C) Selected by the Father!
They come
D) But then it says that the
one who comes He will not cast out in that we see free will
1) The choice to come!
I dont
know how to reconcile them, but they are both true.
A)The Father gives men to
Christ, but men have to come.
B)Because Spurgeon preached
a whosoever will gospel, someone said to him, If I
believed like you do about election, I wouldnt preach like you do.
C)Spurgeons answer was
something like this,
If the Lord had put a yellow stripe down the backs of the
elect, Id go up and down the street lifting up shirttails, finding out who had
the yellow stripe, and then Id give them the gospel. But God didnt do it that
way. He told me to preach the gospel to every creature that whosoever
will may come.
I
will say this: God is the initiator V. 44
No one can
come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at
the last day.
A)God is the initiator
Started by sending Jesus.
B) He knocks on the door of
hearts He draws by his spirit
C) HS convicts of Sin and
need for a savior
1) We respond in faith.
D) When you respond
discover Hey I was chosen
1) God Chooses Yet man is
challenged to repent!
So
[1] Not all who see will come! (36)
[2] All who are chosen will come! (37a)
[3] All who
come are welcomed! (37b)
A
strong double negation I will by no means
cast
A)I will never, never cast
out!
B) This is such a great truth
The Lord isnt going to abandon you.
1) Bad week doesnt give up
on you!
C) Not going to hear Him
say: You are Fired!
1)No
matter what youve done, where youve been, nor how many sins youve
stock-piled!
D)There is a giant Welcome mat in front of Jesus house. Wipe your sins
on the mat & come on in!
[4] All who come are safe in Jesus. (39)
A)Jesus isnt going to lose
you / misplace you/ forget you!
B)John 10 He is the good
shepherd and no one can snatch you out of his hand.
1)Jesus
believes in the assurance of the believer!
C)How reassuring are those
wonderful words!
V.41
The response of the religious leaders The Jews then complained about Him
A)The Jews in Johns gospel
is always a reference to the religious leaders
B) So at this point the
religious leaders in the crowd begin to murmur and complain.
1) Murmuring is their
favorite indoor sport
RDV.41- 44
The
first mistake they were making was they were Judging Jesus by externals { Too
familiar
A)Isnt this Josephs son?
The Carpenter How could he come down from Heaven.
B)Think about how weird this
must have been to them. Comes out of no where.
C) Today: Howard: I am the
voice of God. Skeptical
D) The only difference: They
were supposed to be expecting Messiah.
1)
They completely missed Him because He didnt fit their external view of
what they thought Messiah would be
E) He grew up there familiar
with Him they were so familiar they wouldnt listen to what he said
1)
Same thing happens to us. Family doesnt
listen because Familiar
They are
struggling with what He is saying here.
45
It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore
everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
If you guys were really in
tune with God you would believe in me.
46 Not that
anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.
I have seen the Father He
is saying By now they are blowing a gasket Who does he think he is.
V.47 Doesnt help matters
47 Most
assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
Note
how many times he mentions everlasting life.
V.27/
40/ 47 / 54/ 68/
A)This chapter is about
everlasting life
48 I am the
bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the
manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of
it and not die.
Listen folks we are dying
Nothing in this life that sustains the Physical man.
Not
going to live forever! Not this flesh
A)Listen your fathers ate
the miracle man and are dead
B) They died Physically
C) All the stuff today: Live
longer
1) Health food 6weeks
longer
D) Live longer
Jesus says hey not true
But He who eats of me will
not die.
Physical death vs Spiritual death.