The Bread of Life: Come to Christ by Faith

He will raise you up at the last day. This is the promise of a resurrected body. It's the it's that which Paul elaborates on in first Corinthians 15 where we will all be changed and this mortal will put on immortality. This corruptible will put on incorruptibility. And so will we have an everlasting, perfected resurrection body. [01:24:30] (25 seconds)  #ResurrectionBodyHope

The significance of this word is important because it it communicates the work of God the father a person eating by faith. The father drags them to Jesus. John Trapp put it this way. He said, by a merciful violence, important to put those two words together, by a merciful violence, the father draws and the man comes. That notes the efficacy of grace and this the sweetness of grace. [00:53:42] (41 seconds)  #MercifulGraceDraws

But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. He's teaching the same idea, different different images, different different analogies. Jesus is the bread of life. Jesus is the living bread. Jesus is the heavenly bread. He is he is the object eating by faith, and he alone is that object of eating by faith. [01:08:19] (37 seconds)  #JesusBreadOfLife

And as this verse particularly points out, I can eat this delicious satisfying bread that's satisfying temporarily in this life, and I'm still gonna die. And so will we all. What we really need is the bread of life. The bread of life. Because Jesus promises in verse 51 if anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. But you can't get that bread of life at the bakery section in Kroger or Wally World or even at a good bakery store. [00:47:33] (40 seconds)  #NotBakeryBread

But it's a this life experience, isn't it? And what I mean by that is, you know, you have it at a meal and and it satisfies, but just temporarily. The next day, gotta have more. And then the next day, you gotta have more, and so on and so forth. It satisfies temporarily. John six forty nine points that out. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and are dead. I mean, it only satisfies for so long. [00:47:01] (32 seconds)  #TemporarySatisfaction

So the father's role is unseen. But you also have a role in coming to Jesus, and that's the thing you see. That's the thing you see. Verse 37 b, last part of the verse. Jesus says, all that the father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me, I will, by no means, cast out. [01:12:05] (27 seconds)  #ComeAndBeAccepted

God is to be glorified in. He has this role in your coming to Jesus in that in verse 37, he, the father, gives to Jesus a people. Look at verse 37. All that the father gives me will come to me. So he gives to Jesus a people. And the role of the father in giving a people to Jesus is to drag those people to him as we saw in verse 44. [01:10:04] (31 seconds)  #FatherGivesPeople

So after Jesus says in verse 44, no one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him. He says in verse 45, it is written in the prophets and they shall all be taught by God. Therefore, now listen, everyone who has heard and learned from the father comes to me. So here's another net that the Lord uses and that is his word. His word. [00:57:46] (28 seconds)  #GodsWordDraws