The Bread of Life (1 of 7)
Series: The Right Now Jesus - I Am Statements
Steve Wagers
John 6:35
''I Am For Our Spiritual APPETITE''
When I was a boy, no matter what meal my mother had prepared, as far as my dad was concerned, it was incomplete unless it included bread. Dad could be eating a bowl of peaches/cottage cheese, but there would have to be some type of bread involved.
A recent article in Medical News Today listed several benefits of eating bread:
Contains Fiber
Has a Prebiotic Effect
Contains Protein
Fuels Your Body
Low in Fat
Can Decrease the Risk of Cancer
OT - (Heb.) YHWH ''Yahweh'' - (English) LORD
One who is absolute. No dependence on any other creature, being or power.
Self-existent. Eternal. Covenant keeper/maker.
God IN Himself - OF Himself - ALL BY Himself
NT - I AM - HOLINESS and GRACIOUSNESS to His People
WHO HE IS to WHERE WE ARE/WHAT WE NEED
The 1st I AM statement deals with a basic need of PHYSICAL (Bread) life to reveal a basic need for SPIRITUAL life (Bread of Life)
Feeding of 5000 - ONLY 1 of 2 miracles recorded in ALL 4 Gospels (Other is Resurrection)
All 4 writers tell WHAT He did - Only Mark tells WHY He did it - Compassion for crowd
1) Jesus SUPPLIES
John 1 - LAMB (Passover)
John 3 - SERPENT
John 4 - WATER
John 6 - BREAD
A) He FED Them (5-14)
Picture of the manna God provided in the wilderness.
White - PURITY
Small - HUMILITY
Depicts the Lord Jesus
B) He FILLED Them
Their BELLIES (12)
Their BASKETS (13)
(John 6 - Feeding of 5000)
12 - God's Governmental # (12 tribes/disciples/foundations)
Miracle to the JEWS
(Mark 8 - Feeding of 4000 Gentiles)
7 - Number of Completion/Perfection
Miracle to the GENTILES
To both JEW/GENTILE - He is ALL they need
(Romans 1:16) ''...to the Jew first and also to the Greek.''
2) Jesus SATISFIES
A) He CAME DOWN as LIVING Bread
6X - ''Came Down'' (33,38,41,50,51,58)
5X - ''Sent'' (38-40, 44, 57)
COME DOWN - pre-exi ...
Series: The Right Now Jesus - I Am Statements
Steve Wagers
John 6:35
''I Am For Our Spiritual APPETITE''
When I was a boy, no matter what meal my mother had prepared, as far as my dad was concerned, it was incomplete unless it included bread. Dad could be eating a bowl of peaches/cottage cheese, but there would have to be some type of bread involved.
A recent article in Medical News Today listed several benefits of eating bread:
Contains Fiber
Has a Prebiotic Effect
Contains Protein
Fuels Your Body
Low in Fat
Can Decrease the Risk of Cancer
OT - (Heb.) YHWH ''Yahweh'' - (English) LORD
One who is absolute. No dependence on any other creature, being or power.
Self-existent. Eternal. Covenant keeper/maker.
God IN Himself - OF Himself - ALL BY Himself
NT - I AM - HOLINESS and GRACIOUSNESS to His People
WHO HE IS to WHERE WE ARE/WHAT WE NEED
The 1st I AM statement deals with a basic need of PHYSICAL (Bread) life to reveal a basic need for SPIRITUAL life (Bread of Life)
Feeding of 5000 - ONLY 1 of 2 miracles recorded in ALL 4 Gospels (Other is Resurrection)
All 4 writers tell WHAT He did - Only Mark tells WHY He did it - Compassion for crowd
1) Jesus SUPPLIES
John 1 - LAMB (Passover)
John 3 - SERPENT
John 4 - WATER
John 6 - BREAD
A) He FED Them (5-14)
Picture of the manna God provided in the wilderness.
White - PURITY
Small - HUMILITY
Depicts the Lord Jesus
B) He FILLED Them
Their BELLIES (12)
Their BASKETS (13)
(John 6 - Feeding of 5000)
12 - God's Governmental # (12 tribes/disciples/foundations)
Miracle to the JEWS
(Mark 8 - Feeding of 4000 Gentiles)
7 - Number of Completion/Perfection
Miracle to the GENTILES
To both JEW/GENTILE - He is ALL they need
(Romans 1:16) ''...to the Jew first and also to the Greek.''
2) Jesus SATISFIES
A) He CAME DOWN as LIVING Bread
6X - ''Came Down'' (33,38,41,50,51,58)
5X - ''Sent'' (38-40, 44, 57)
COME DOWN - pre-exi ...
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