Come and See the One Who Satisfies Your Soul | John 6

Marcel: Good morning, brothers and sisters.

Good morning.

Amen.

My name is Marcel Hall, and, uh, honor and privilege to be able to

speak and preach God's word today.

Uh, we did wanna mention that, uh, we do have our Spanish-speaking

ministry here in our service today.

All right.

Bienvenidos hermanos y hermanas.

There you go.

And we will stop right there.

All right.

Uh, our Korean-speaking ministry is not here today.

They're actually on a retreat this weekend, and so, uh, we're, uh, uh,

praying that they have a great time there.

Um, I, I, I need to get this out the way right away, in

that, uh, yes, I am struggling.

I, I am, uh, I, I, I, I, I, I need your help.

We know.

I need your help.

Some of you looking like, "Why?

What happened?"

Uh-

USC lost yesterday.

How dare any of you actually cheer.

I heard some cheering.

The Bible says to mourn when others mourn, and I am mourning right now.

Some of y'all might be, you know, rejoicing, but we don't

rejoice over that, okay?

And so, yes, um, those who don't know me, that, that, that hits, that hits hard.

That hits hard, uh, for a brother.

I don't know why God allows me to preach when USC loses, you know what I'm saying?

He must know I need something to get up, you know?

'Cause if I don't, then I…

Who knows, I might not make it on Sunday.

Might just be at the house doing nothing, eating Cheerios,

sulking, you know what I'm saying?

But we're gonna get through it.

All right, so, uh, again, my name is Marcell Hall.

We are going to continue in a sermon series that we started a couple weeks ago

called Come and See, and we're studying out what, uh, we call the Gospel of John.

John is a letter written and, uh, uh, by the Apostle John, and, uh, really

it's an auto- it's- it's a biography of Jesus' life, and it really has more

theological framework in the text.

And so, at one point in John chapter 1, as they're recounting Jesus and some of

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his first followers, they, uh, as they tell their friends about Jesus, they

say, "Hey, you need to come and see."

And so there's this invitation.

You need to come and see for yourself who this Jesus is.

And so we're going ourselves, and we're being refreshed to remind it,

or maybe some of us for the very first time, realizing who Jesus is.

We're, we're accepting this invitation to come and see.

And, uh, we, uh, uh, have went through the first four chapters of the Gospel of

John, and we saw Jesus is the greatest.

We come and saw how Jesus is the divine, the Savior, and

then last week, the Messiah.

Now, we're gonna skip John chapter 5 because Kyle, uh, our campus

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minister, he preached on John chapter 5 earlier this year.

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So we're gonna jump on over to John chapter 6.

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And so today, we are going to…

It's a little bit longer of a title.

We're gonna come and see the one who satisfies your soul.

Amen.

The one who satisfies your soul.

Let's go to God in prayer.

Father in heaven, we thank you so much already for the opportunity to

be encouraged and to encourage others.

Father, we thank you already to hear how you worked in Kiana's life.

Father, we're grateful to be reminded of the opportunity to join in your good work

as we give to you through Derek's sharing.

Father, we're reminded of, uh, how good you are and how you wade in the

water, Father, how we wade in the water.

We see you trouble the water, therefore you move in our lives and

you stir us in our hearts, and you provide blessings upon blessings.

Thank you that you are a God who's worthy of us building

our trust and our lives upon.

God, you are good.

And Father, I pray right now that your Word may c- be communicated,

that your Word may be preached, that your Word may be understood, and

Father, your Word may not only be absorbed, but it may be lived out.

We pray in Jesus' name, amen We all understand physical hunger.

When our bodies are hungry, they tell us.

And what do we do?

We go and we start looking for something to eat.

But we also have a hunger that food cannot satisfy, that physical food

cannot quench, uh, an intangible hunger.

We hunger, if you're a USC fan, for them to actually win a game,

but we're not gonna go there, okay?

All right.

But we hunger to be loved.

We hunger to be seen, to feel secure, to know that we are

significant and our lives matter.

And we will go after these things in the way we believe in

which they will be satisfied.

And so we will beli- any way that we believe those hungers can be

satisfied, we go after it in that way.

And so we may go after relationships, accomplishments, pleasure,

approval, control, even religion.

Now, not all of those things are bad, but some of those things are good,

but they can also be twisted and actually end up being destructive.

But none of those things can satisfy the human hunger of our souls.

We can have full schedules, full stomachs, full bank accounts,

and still have empty souls.

Now, John 6 introduces us to a crowd who's been fed and full by Jesus,

however, as we'll see, that even though they've been filled in their

stomachs, their souls were still hungry.

And John 6 is going to invite us to come and see the one who satisfies your soul.

Let's go on over to John, chapter 6.

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Brothers, sisters, are you with me here?

Yeah.

In John, chapter 6, now we- it's a long chapter.

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We're not gonna be able to go through it all, and so I encourage

you to read and study it out.

And so I wanna summarize the first part of this.

We have in John 6, verses 1 through 23, uh, Jesus and his disciples go

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to, uh, uh, uh, uh, the, the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee there,

or Sea of Tiberias, and there's these thousands of crowds that come to Jesus.

And Jesus, with just, uh, uh, two fish and five loaves, he feeds the 5,000.

And then he feeds them, not only that, but there's actually, they're full

and there's 12 basketfuls left over.

And then they decide to cross over to the other side of the

lake there, and this is at night.

Jesus sends His people off, and, and, a- a- and, and what happens is

they start to struggle on the waves there, and Jesus, He walks on the

water, and then the waters calm down, and they cross over into Capernaum.

I did want to mention also as well that when Jesus did this five, this miracle

of feeding 5,000, some of the people were in awe, thought, "This is maybe the

prophet that was promised, prophesied about and promised to us by Moses."

And so they wanted to make Him king, and they wanted to do it by force.

"Let's go get, let's go get the rifles.

Let's go, let's ante up and let's go do this."

Jesus is like, "No, that's not what we're going to do."

And so now we take it up here, and the crowd the next day, some of them have

crossed over, and they follow Jesus so that they can see and look for Him again.

We're in John 6:24.

John 6:24

Are you guys all with me here?

Yeah.

Okay, we have the context.

All right, let's go ahead and let's read John 6:24.

John 6:24

It says, "Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor His disciples were

there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.

When they found Him on the other side of the lake, they asked Him,

'Rabbi, when did you get here?'

Jesus answered, 'Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you

saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.

Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life,

which the Son of Man will give you.

For on Him, God the Father has placed His seal of approval.'"

We have classic Jesus right here.

He's asked a question, and what does He do?

He actually doesn't even answer the question, but He gets into this deep

spiritual conversation, and we see this throughout the Book of John here,

where Jesus asked a question, and He, and He turns it into this deep

teaching so that He can reveal God's truth to that person and persons.

And so they're looking for Jesus to get more food or, you know, maybe

see more miracles, but they're missing what the signs that they just

saw revealed about God and Jesus.

And Jesus tells them that there's food that leads to eternal life, and that

the Son of God is the source of it.

You know, they came looking for bread from Jesus, but Jesus wanted

to recognize that the bread was standing right in front of them.

Let's continue reading in verse 28.

It says, "Then they asked him, 'What must we do to do the works God requires?'

Jesus answered, 'The work of God is this, to believe in the one He has sent.'"

You know, that's a good question.

What, what kind of work should we do that God wants?

Good question.

Could be potentially wrong motives or maybe wrong theology, thinking that they

can earn God's favor or thinking that they can earn eternal life through their works.

And Jesus tells them what?

He tells them to believe in the one He has sent.

This is the thing.

Now, we can misinterpret this if we forget all that's been happening prior to John

6 or all that happens after this verse.

And so we wanna make sure we're reminded, and I shared about this a couple weeks

ago, that biblical belief includes BTS.

Do you guys remember this?

Okay, those, remember BTS.

I know some of you are already going to your K-pop moves, you know what I mean?

But we talked about this, that biblical belief, it means believe,

trust, and surrender And so that we believe in who He is, that Jesus is

the Son of God, that we trust His word.

What He says is truth because it's from heaven, it's divine, and we trust His

sacrifice on the cross being the only way that we can have atonement and a

salvation with God for eternal life.

But it also includes surrender to Jesus as Lord.

He's not just Savior, but He's Lord.

So every time when we see this word belief, especially in John, we have

to remember it's not mental belief, but it's a belief in who He is, it's

a trust in what He did, and it's a surrender to Him and His lordship.

Are you guys with me here?

Yes.

Because that way we can make sure we capture it and not misinterpret

and misapply to our lives, therefore missing out on eternal life.

And so let's continue reading here in verse 30.

"So they went and asked Him, 'What sign then will You give that

we may see it and believe You?

What will You do?

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness.

As it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat."'"

Now, this is a reference to the Israelites going out of slavery and into the

promised land, The Prince of Egypt.

You remember that movie there?

Okay, so and so as they went across, they hit this point, and God provided bread

from heaven, and they called it manna.

They…

In fact, manna means what is it?

They didn't understand what it was, so they just said, "Hey, you know what?

Let's call it what is it."

And so every day, God would provide what is its, and they would go ahead

and have their fill for each day.

And so some, uh, uh, uh, Jewish, uh, uh, traditions at this point in time,

and we know it, it further later on, especially after Jesus, but during the

first century, some believed that the Messiah, the promised prophet, would

also repeat this bread of heaven, this manna being delivered, so therefore

revealing that they are the prophet.

You guys with me here?

And so this is why they're asking, "Wait, so are you gonna do something?

Because if you are, that means this is who you are."

And so they're asking questions.

Jesus says in verse 32 here, He says, "Very truly…"

Remember, listen up, I'm giving you some truth.

I'm about to drop a jewel for you here.

"Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven."

That's interesting.

"But it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven."

Hey, don't get caught up on Moses.

Moses was a great figure, but he was a servant of God.

Remember who the source was And he tells them, "Hey, there's actually

bread that comes from heaven.

It's true bread."

And in verse 33, "For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from

heaven and gives life to the world."

He's obviously not talking about physical food.

We're talking about spiritual food.

Jesus says there is a food from heaven.

There is a bread from heaven that actually meets your soul.

This is the first example of true soul food.

And you know a brother loves his soul food.

If you don't like soul food, then you just don't like food, okay?

But this is bread from heaven that gives you life.

It gives you true life, and it gives you eternal life.

Again, John reveals that eternal life isn't just in the

life to come, it begins now.

It's true life, and it's for who?

For the world.

It's not just for the small or the minority.

It's not just for the Jews, but this is for all of creation.

We continue in verse 34.

Or excuse me, we're gonna, uh, we're gonna, we're gonna jump on over to

verse 47 here for the sake of time.

And so what happens is that some of them start to grumble.

They start to get angry, and, you know, it's similar to even the,

the, what happened with Moses.

The people started to grumble.

But, but we won't go there right now.

But they started to grumble because Jesus claims to have come from

heaven, and they're like, "Hold on.

Huh?

What in the world?

How's this guy gonna say he's from heaven?

We know his kinfolk.

We know his cousins, his mama, his auntie.

He can't be from heaven."

And so Jesus goes and he says, "Look, you know what?

You guys can't come to me unless the Father draws you to me,"

and that he alone is the only one who has seen God the Father.

And so we take it up in verse 47.

It reads, "Very truly," listen up, "I tell you, the one who

believes has eternal life.

I am the bread of life.

Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness…"

Hold on here one second.

We skipped verse 35.

Ooh, I sure did.

Okay.

All right.

Here we go.

All right.

Sorry about that.

You know what?

Can we rewind for a second?

Rewind.

Let's rewind for a second

Verse 34 and 35, let me recap that for you too, okay?

All right.

He tells them that He is the bread of life, "Whoever comes to me will

never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."

And so He tells them, "Hey, I am the bread of life.

I am this bread of heaven.

This bread that I'm referring to, guess what?

It's me.

I'm standing right here in front of you."

And so he's telling them, "Hey, don't just come to Jesus for bread, come

to Jesus because he is the bread."

We go back on over to verse 47 to 51.

Sorry there, now we're back, we're all caught up.

You guys with me here?

Yeah.

All right, here we go.

"Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.

I am the bread of the life, uh, bread of life."

Second time he says this.

"Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven.

Whoever eats this bread will live forever.

This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

Now, he continues again, and now he says he's this living bread from heaven,

but also who eats this bread will live, and then he goes on and says,

"All right, this bread is my flesh."

Now, now i- things turn for the crowd.

What in the world?

Now you're saying that your, your flesh is the bread?

Mm, now we're starting to get into some cannibalism.

And so then the people get upset, and they sharply argue amongst themselves, "How

can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

And i- you know, you can understand that gets a little weird Now, it's

interesting, though, because they, they really should have understood that

it was a metaphor, but they didn't.

You know, they took it literally because they couldn't get it

or they didn't want to get it.

You know, we too can also do this, where we don't get the simple truth, or

we don't want to get the simple truth.

Because maybe our hearts are hard, and we don't really want what the

implications are from this simple truth.

We continue in verse 53.

Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh

of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I

will raise them up at the last day.

For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink."

D- Jesus double downs on this.

"All right, y'all don't get the metaphor?

I'm gonna keep going with it.

You gotta eat me and drink me, okay?

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in them.

Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one

who feeds on me will live because of me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven.

Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on

this bread will live forever."

And so Jesus here, and the main crux here that we see that he communicates

at what's real, what, what's revealed, what we get to come and see, is

that Jesus is the bread of life.

Jesus is the bread of life, but he also expands on this by saying

he's the bread from heaven, and he's also the living bread.

And so there's this idea here that's developed.

And this bread from heaven means he's divine.

He comes from heaven.

He's, his, his, his origin isn't Earth, and he brings life and

truth from heaven to Earth.

And like manna in the desert, but he's even greater than the manna

in the desert because he leads to spiritual nourishment and eternal life.

Jesus did not come just to simply fill some stomachs with food, but

to fill our lives with the very presence, power, and blessing of

God He says He's the bread of life.

Jesus didn't just give us what we need, no, He is what we need.

Jesus, Jesus satisfies our souls by giving us the life with God

that you and I were created for.

You, we need both, we need food to live, but we need Jesus to live spiritually.

And Jesus is the one who gives true life, and He sustains this true life.

You know, if you think about it, this includes the meaning to life.

You know, from Jesus, we know the purpose to life, this eternal purpose to life

that God has designed and created us for.

From Jesus, we gain an eternal mission for our lives.

Because we consume the bread of life, that we don't go just from

surviving from Friday to Friday.

You guys get what I'm saying?

Sometimes it's, maybe you're at this point or you were at this

point where you're like, "I'm just trying to make it till Friday."

'Cause you're like, "Man, this Monday through Thursday was tough, but I can

get to Friday, the weekend is here."

But Jesus, when we consume the bread of life, we don't live just to get to

Friday, because we know we have a mission and a purpose Monday through Thursday.

He says He's the living bread.

This manna sustained them temporarily.

It gave them sustenance for the day, but Jesus gives and sustains eternal life.

Eating and drinking, you know, with flesh and blood, again, this

is a metaphor, means to consume Him in our innermost being.

Right.

We take Him in.

Leviticus 17, God told the people that life is in the blood.

So when we drink the blood of Jesus, when we consume Jesus'

life, His life is now in us.

And it, we need Jesus for our soul's deepest need, our soul's deepest

desires, and our soul's satisfaction.

And only He can satisfy the deepest hunger of our human soul.

Yeah.

That's right.

The problem is, you and I, what do we do?

We keep snacking on the false or the temporary things that, that satisfy

our soul for a second, but leave us starving for the bread of life.

Oh.

So the question now is, what are we feeding our souls?

Yeah.

What are we feeding our souls?

You know, we wanna make sure we have the real and not the imitation.

You know, sometimes we can settle for imitation when it comes,

you know, you're expecting some Oreos, but then they give you the

generic chocolate sandwich cookies.

You're like, "This is cool, but I like the Oreos."

Or you're looking for some Cheetos, and you get the Cheese Curls.

Or you want the Nutella, but you get the generic hazelnut spread.

You know, that's fine.

There's no knock on that.

Hey, look, if that's what, you know, your, your, your jam, then go ahead.

But we don't want any substitute or imitation for our souls

But there are a number of false imitation, temporary substitute for our souls.

We can pursue and think sin or pleasure, that's gonna satisfy

my human hunger of my soul.

Accomplishment and success, perfection and control, other people's approval,

religious activity and hard work, even the things we hope Jesus will give us.

You know, it's not something that satisfies our soul, it's someone

You know, and over time, and many of us, we know this to be true, but over time

we can lose our appreciation, and then we start to devalue Jesus, who He is and His

role in our lives, leading to a distance from God and an unfulfilling faith.

As I was reading this the other day or, or last week, and I asked myself, "Wow,

do I see Jesus as the bread of life?"

I've taught this many times.

I have a whole, a, a Bible discussion just on this topic, but I thought recently,

"Do I value Him as the bread not only of life but the bread of my life?"

And I was like, "Uh, I don't think I really do.

I don't think I'm, I'm seeing that He's the only one that fills and fulfills

and satisfy my soul's deepest hunger."

That's right.

And so I know He's great, but as I'm going into my time with God,

there's not this desperation and understanding that, man, I know I

don't just do this because I have to.

I do, I do this because I absolutely need Jesus.

Yeah.

I need to feed on Him.

And maybe some of you can relate to what I'm sharing.

And so this is why it's important that we realize or that we recall that Jesus,

again, is not just the bread of life.

Jesus is the bread of my life

And so, yes, it applies to the whole, but we need to internalize and see

it applies to me, the individual.

And so if Jesus is the bread of life, then what should our response be?

Well, I believe it's this, to consume the bread of life, to take in the bread

of life, to consume the bread of life.

And for those of us who are not disciples of Jesus, this means, yes,

to come and to believe in Jesus, trusting and surrendering to Jesus

and accepting the gift of salvation through repentance and baptism.

For those of us who are disciples of Jesus, this means to continue to live

in Jesus by faithfully following Jesus' word and example, but continuing to live.

This isn't just a one-time meal, but to continue to live.

And we see this in the results and the ramifications here, and the examples

for us here still in John chapter 6.

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Brothers and sisters, are you still with me here?

Yeah.

Okay.

We continue with the story here in, in John chapter 6, but actually, let

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me point this out in verse 56, 57.

This points us to this idea of a continuing relationship, a continual

feeding upon and consuming and taking in and abiding in Christ

and having Christ abide in us.

And so again, it's continuing to view and appreciate Jesus

as the bread of our lives.

We need Jesus and therefore, we are so thankful for Jesus.

And we have to remember that we follow Jesus continually,

but we follow it on His terms

Let's go and read John 6:60.

John 6:60

Brothers and sisters, I said are you still with me here?

Yeah.

All right, it says, "On hearing it," again, Jesus is teaching, "On

hearing it, many of his disciples…"

His who?

His disciples.

These are followers of Je- These are ones who have claimed to have belief in Jesus.

They said, "This is a hard teaching.

Who can accept it?"

Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said

to them, "Does this offend you?

Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before?

The spirit gives life, the flesh counts for nothing.

The words I have spoken to you, they are full of the Spirit and life."

Again, pointing, hey, guys, y- you, y- you know I was talking, this is a metaphor.

Again, this is Spirit and life that I'm speaking here to you.

If you receive it, boy, you have the Spirit and you have eternal life.

But they weren't understanding, and look what happens in verse s- 66:

"From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

'You do not want to leave too, do you?'

Jesus asked the 12.

Simon Peter answered, 'Lord, to whom shall we go?

You have the words of eternal life.

We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.'"

Amen.

You see, the people wanted the Messiah to fit in their image.

They didn't want the Messiah that Jesus offered.

And so we can see here that what there was a difference in what the

crowd wanted and what Jesus offered.

What the crowd wanted, they wanted bread from Jesus.

What Jesus offered is Jesus is the bread.

What the crowd wanted, they wanted temporary satisfaction.

Jesus offered eternal life.

What the crowd wanted was a Messiah on their terms.

Jesus offered a Lord to follow on his terms.

Again, remember when I told you early on when they saw him when he fed the 5,000,

they wanted to make him king by force.

You see, they had this image of a political king, so they

wanted Jesus to fit their mold of what the Messiah was like.

So we see it then, and we see it even with his own people.

And when they didn't get what they wanted, they decided to leave

We have to make sure we follow Jesus on His terms.

The crowd wanted Je- what Jesus could give them, but when Jesus didn't meet their

expectations, they stopped believing.

You know, it's possible to want Jesus as a healer, as a provider,

as a problem-solver, without surrendering to Him as Savior and Lord.

But if He's Lord, then He must be followed as Lord.

Brent says, "Jesus is the Lord we must trust."

You know, the apostles say, "Lord, to whom shall we go?

You're the Holy One."

You know, it's funny, they didn't fully realize and understand who

Jesus was and all that was taking place until after the resurrection.

But they truly believed in Jesus so that they surrendered

to His Lordship in their lives.

You know, the same for us.

Will we believe and follow when we don't completely understand?

Or when, when Jesus' words challenge us, our opinions, and our worldviews?

Or will we follow only the part of Jesus that is easy and that we agree with?

They wanted bread from Jesus.

Jesus offered himself as the bread.

I'll say it again.

Don't come to Jesus for bread.

Come to Jesus because he is the bread.

And when we consume Jesus, he meets our soul's needs, and that's where

true and eternal life takes place.

And so I want to remind us, you are what you eat

You are what you eat.

Isn't that true?

You are what you eat.

I remember being in college and, and I had some health ch- uh, challenges

my s- I think it was my senior year in college, and I went to the, um,

to, like, the school nurse or doctor, whatever it was on campus, and so she

says, "Well, tell me about your diet."

I said, "Well, I eat frozen burritos, Top Ramen, hot dogs, hamburgers, and, uh, and

maybe some vegetables every now and then."

And she said, "Do you think that could be part of the problem?

You're right.

That could be part…

Wow, that's deep right there."

I was like, man, maybe that's what it is.

You are what you eat spiritually.

If we feed on the imitation and the substitutes, we'll be frustrated.

We'll be discouraged.

We won't like Jesus.

Why?

Because we're feeding on the substitutes.

We'll start disagreeing and making up our own version of who the Lord should

be and how he should fit into our box.

We'll believe and follow only when Jesus meets our expectations, and

we may eventually stop following or we may remain physically present,

but stop following in our hearts.

And what can happen is a false version, an imitation of crea- Christianity with cheap

grace that doesn't lead to eternal life, but leaves us being spiritually deceived.

But when we feed on Jesus, the living bread of life, his life grows

in us, and that's the perfect life of heaven that will abide in us.

His character forms in us.

His words direct us.

His mission gives us purpose, and his life sustains us now and leads

to resurrection and to eternal life.

Don't just come to Jesus for bread, come to Jesus because he is the bread,

the only one that satisfies your soul.

So let's get real practical here.

Let's have some action steps here for the week.

And here, we're gonna do this first one…

Uh, we're gonna do this one right here, right now.

Okay?

All right?

So I'm gonna give you a couple action steps here, and

here's what I want you to do.

We're gonna take 60 seconds, and I want you to reflect

on what could possibly be…

what, what could become possible this week with Jesus as the bread of your life.

So I'm gonna go ahead and give you 60 seconds right now.

I want you to think through and reflect upon what could become possible this

week with Jesus as the bread of my life.

You can go ahead and write it down.

You can go ahead and just pray about it.

But I'm gonna give you guys 60 seconds to have a little reflection upon that

Okay, I want you to take maybe 30, 45 seconds and, um, and I

want you to go ahead and share with the person next to you.

All right?

If you know them, then go ahead and share.

If you don't know them, uh, you go ahead and introduce yourself real quickly.

If you're online, uh, maybe you could put it in the chat there.

All right, share what was something that you felt like the Spirit, uh,

said to you and ministered to you as you reflected upon this question.

I'll give you guys 30 to 45 seconds to go ahead and share with each other

All right.

Sorry about that.

We're gonna have to cut you off there.

I only said 30 seconds here, okay, so don't be mad at me, okay?

All right.

So, here's the second thing here.

Action step for the week here.

Pray.

Pray about Jesus being the bread of life, either to realize it, maybe to

return, or maybe to live in this reality.

Just go ahead and pray this week about living in this reality there.

And then lastly, pick, pick one way you will feed on Jesus this week.

Pick one way you will feed on Jesus this week.

Maybe it's listen to His words, respond in prayer, or maybe it's put

one thing He teaches into practice.

Whatever it is.

All right?

And if you want to still share your reflection after service,

please feel free to do that.

A- a- and over lunch have a great discussion.

Right now, we're gonna go ahead and take communion.

Communion's where we remember Jesus' sacrifice on the cross for our salvation.

We take the bread and the juice that, that resemb- uh, that, that, that,

that, that, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, represent His blood and His body that

was sacrificed for our salvation.

And as we can see in John chapter six, there, there's some language there that's

used that helps us think of communion, uh, as he talked about receiving and

eating the flesh and the blood, and again, the emblems that we take for communion.

And in John chapter six in verse 51, we'll read this verse.

It says, "I l- I am the living bread that came down from heaven.

Whoever eats this bread will live forever.

This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

Jesus satisfies our souls because He did more than just give us

teachings, more than just blessings, and more than just physical bread.

He gave us Himself.

And as we eat the bread and drink the cup, may we remember that Jesus gave His body

and blood so that we can have life in Him.

Let's pray.

Father in heaven, we thank You so much for Jesus.

We thank You for Him being the bread that came from heaven, the

living bread, the bread of life.

And Father, we're so grateful for the sacrifice that Jesus did, the offering of

His life so that we can have salvation.

We are humbled and we are grateful.

God, we know You didn't have to, but You chose to.

And Lord Jesus, we're grateful because You fulfilled it, and You could've

gotten off the cross, but You chose to stay, and we say thank you.

And thank You that not only can we believe in You, but we can have

eternal life in and through Your death, burial, and resurrection.

Thank You for Your Spirit that abides in us, and we pray to respond

faithfully, truthfully, and holy.

It's in Jesus' name we pray, amen