HEAVEN'S HOPE FOR EARTH'S HUNGER (9 OF 31)
by Tim Badal
Scripture: John 6:22-71
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Heaven’s Hope for Earth’s Hunger (9 of 31)
Series: The Gospel of John
Tim Badal
John 6:22-71
In John 6 we have Jesus declaring that He is the bread of life. As we’ll see, even though the people had just been given their fill of bread the day before, the 5,000 found themselves hungry again. Even though they had eaten only hours earlier, they were still longing for more food. It has been said, ‘‘To err is human.’’ I might change that to, ‘‘To be hungry is human.’’ No matter how much we eat on any given day, it’s only a matter of hours before we’re hungry again.
All of us have just experienced Thanksgiving, including the American tradition of eating lots of food. In fact, we’re told that we consumed 370 million pounds of turkey this past Thursday. That’s one pound for each American alive today. We also enjoyed consuming 250 pounds of mashed potatoes. That’s a lot of potato peeling, right? Add to that 77 million pounds of ham, 45 million bakery dinner rolls, along with $96 million spent on stuffing. All in all, we consumed on average-including drinks and desserts-6,300 calories, which is three times what our daily need is. We did all this to celebrate and be thankful for all God has done. If you’re like me, you consumed all of that, and then when you woke up on Friday-before you headed out to do your shopping or before you set up your Christmas tree-and found yourself hungry again. That’s because to be hungry is to be human. No matter how much we eat the day before, we’ll inevitably be hungry again.
The people in John 6 who had been fed loaves and fishes until they were full-the Scriptures say everyone had as much as they wanted-came the next day being hungry again. As we’ll see, Jesus took their physical hunger and applied it to a broader spiritual issue. Even greater than our physical hunger is the hunger we have for our lives to be spiritually filled by God. Yet we choose to fill our lives with the things of this world, only to find ourselves contin ...
Series: The Gospel of John
Tim Badal
John 6:22-71
In John 6 we have Jesus declaring that He is the bread of life. As we’ll see, even though the people had just been given their fill of bread the day before, the 5,000 found themselves hungry again. Even though they had eaten only hours earlier, they were still longing for more food. It has been said, ‘‘To err is human.’’ I might change that to, ‘‘To be hungry is human.’’ No matter how much we eat on any given day, it’s only a matter of hours before we’re hungry again.
All of us have just experienced Thanksgiving, including the American tradition of eating lots of food. In fact, we’re told that we consumed 370 million pounds of turkey this past Thursday. That’s one pound for each American alive today. We also enjoyed consuming 250 pounds of mashed potatoes. That’s a lot of potato peeling, right? Add to that 77 million pounds of ham, 45 million bakery dinner rolls, along with $96 million spent on stuffing. All in all, we consumed on average-including drinks and desserts-6,300 calories, which is three times what our daily need is. We did all this to celebrate and be thankful for all God has done. If you’re like me, you consumed all of that, and then when you woke up on Friday-before you headed out to do your shopping or before you set up your Christmas tree-and found yourself hungry again. That’s because to be hungry is to be human. No matter how much we eat the day before, we’ll inevitably be hungry again.
The people in John 6 who had been fed loaves and fishes until they were full-the Scriptures say everyone had as much as they wanted-came the next day being hungry again. As we’ll see, Jesus took their physical hunger and applied it to a broader spiritual issue. Even greater than our physical hunger is the hunger we have for our lives to be spiritually filled by God. Yet we choose to fill our lives with the things of this world, only to find ourselves contin ...
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