MEDITATION John chapter 6:30-40
1. The people asked Jesus for a sign that they may see and believe in him. (V30)
2. They said their fathers ate manna in the desert as it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. (V31)
3. JESUS told them that Moses did not give them the bread from heaven but that his father will give them the true bread from heaven. (V32)
4. JESUS said to them that his father gives them the true bread that comes from heaven. ( v33)
5. JESUS said that the bread of God is that comes down from heaven and gives life. ( V33)
6. Then they asked him to give that bread to them. (V34)
7. JESUS said he is that bread of life and whosoever come to him shall not hunger and those that believe in him shall not thirst. (V35)
8. But Jesus said that they saw him but still did not believe. (V36)
9. JESUS said whosoever father God gives him shall come to him and he will never cast them out. (V37)
10. JESUS came down not to do his own will but to do the will of the father. ( v38)
11. JESUS said the will of the father on him is that he should not lose anyone, but should raise them in the last day. (V39)
12. This is the will of God that everyone sees Christ and believe in him shall have everlasting life and Christ will raise him on the last day. (V40)
Life application:
The bread of heaven:
Jesus said the father gives them the true bread from heaven. (V32,33)
Here in our meditation let us see some facts about this bread from heaven.
1. The bread of God comes from heaven and it gives life to the world.
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
John:6:33
2. JESUS said he is the bread of life.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
John:6:35
I am that bread of life.
John:6:48
3. Any man which eat
This bread shall not die.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
John:6:50
4. This bread is the flesh of Christ.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
John:6:51
5. The WORD became flesh:
Now I would like to spark in you a revelation; compare these two verses
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John:1:14
: and the bread that I will give is my flesh,
It is the spoken word of God that became Christ in flesh.
So, eating this word of God, is eating Christ himself.
Hallelujah! Let us thank God for this heavenly manna that CHRIST is giving us each day that we shall not die but live life everlasting.
This is why, Christ told,
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Matthew:4:4
We live not only because of the physical bread, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
This is what CHRIST says,
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
John:5:39
LIFE APPLICATION 2:
Jesus came down not to do his own will, but to do the will of the father.
A similar verse with a Strong correlation is,
Jesus saith unto them,
My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
John:4:34
Jesus compares finishing the will of the father to a heavenly meat.
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Matthew:18:14
It is not the will of the father that one of us, should perish. This is why, Christ came in flesh.
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
John:6:39
So dear children of God, Are you not secure about your walk with God? It is not the will of God for us to perish; neither the will of God for Christ to lose us.
We have a faithful God who will keep us blameless till the end.
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians:5:23
So we have PEACE with God! God bless you all!