Episode notes
The Bread of Life
John 6:1-15, 22-40 (ESV)
1. We all need Jesus
John 6:1-5 (ESV)
2. When things don’t add up, Jesus has the power to multiply.
John 6:5-7 (ESV)
3. Entrust what you have to Jesus
John 6:8-15 (ESV)
Charles Spurgeon - Now, I daresay that some of you have had Satan saying to you,
“What is the use of your trying to do anything?” To you, dear mother, with a family of
children, he has whispered, “You cannot serve God.” He knows very well that, by
sustaining grace, you can; and he is afraid of how well you can serve God if you bring
up those dear children in His fear. He says to the peddler of books over yonder, “You
have not much ability; what can you do?” Ah, dear friend! he is afraid of what you can
do, and if you will only do what you can do, God will, by-and-by, help you to do what
now you cannot do. But the devil is afraid of even the little that you can do now; and
many a child of God seems to side with Satan in despising the day of small things.
4. When you don’t have enough, Jesus is enough.
John 6:22-40 (ESV)
Whenever God reveals something about His nature, it always comes with the
invitation to know Him in that way. Never does the understanding of His nature
come to us just to make us more theologically sound. That's important, but it is
secondary. What's important is to know Him in that way, to encounter Him.
He who is already king, has come to open his kingdom to men; but in their
blindness, men try to force him to be the kind of king they want; thus they fail to get
the king they want, and also the kingdom he offers.
Jeremiah 2:13 (ESV)
Isaiah 55:1-2 (ESV)