Summary
The people came to Jesus eagerly seeking after what he could provide, bread like the barley loaves that they had enjoyed, bread like the loaves that Jesus had multiplied out of some sort of miracle. Again, looking at verse 35, Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life, whoever comes to me will never be hungry and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty jumping down to verse 47, very truly. Jesus gives his own life and in giving his own life as the bread that sustains life, he is giving the eternal bread that never spoils, that never runs out and that always sustains and satisfies. If we remove the sacrifice of the flesh and the blood of Jesus, then God in the flesh, the sacrifice that God in the flesh made for you and I, then bread is bread and it sustenance for a moment. We seek and seek and seek after the bread that does not fill that will never fill that can never fill. And when we hear the good news, that we are not the bakers, that we are not the ones who gather the ingredients to make a loaf of bread, but that it is Christ in Christ Himself that has done all the work necessary, all of the gathering, all of the needing, all of the baking that he in his sacrifice has given us himself as the very necessity sustenance that we need for this life and eternally.
Video citations
- “Sustenance” 9-21-25 — If you would please open your Bibles to the Gospel of John 6 chapter, if you're using a Pew edition of the Bible, this can be found on page 85 in the New Testament, where in the Gospel of John 6…