DID YOU SEE THE MIRACLE
John 6:26-45
CAN YOU SEE A MIRACLE
26 Jesus answered, \”I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.\”
A. I have noticed that we have our largest turn out for Sunday School
Is when we have our quarterly Sunday breakfast. At the Sunday
Breakfast we usually have several times more members for
Sunday School.
1. Previous to this encounter Jesus had fed from 5 to 20000
people with 2 fish and five loaves (thin and plate size ) of bread.
2. The crowd followed Him because they got a free meal.
B. Some people come to church to be fed a physical breakfast.
1. Some come to be fed the music of the choir.
2. Some come to be fed the voice of the Pastor.
3. Some come to be fed the knowledge that others know they
are in the service.
C. Jesus notice that crowd didn’t come because of the miracles
He performed.
1. They didn’t come because they had faith in Him as the
miracle worker.
2. They didn’t come because they wanted to hear a word from
the Father.
3. They came for their own fleshly reasons.
4. Recently, our church under the direction of the pastor
gave out 1000 boxes of food, mask, and hand santisizers.
a. People from all over the community came to be fed
b. The miracle was that God affected the hearts and minds of
major corporations and many volunteers to come out to feed
the needy.
5, The miracle is God took a virus that started in China and
shut down the economies of the world.
6. The miracle is God took a pandemic, economic downturn,
racial violence to show the world that every life matters.
HOW TO SEE THE MIRACLE
PURSUE FOOD THAT LEADS TO ETERNAL LIFE
E. God can straighten out our priorities.
1. Jesus said don’t pursue food that spoils or last for a day,
but pursue food that leads to eternal life.
2. What I hear Jesus saying, is stop showing up to Church for the
show, but show up for the miracle.
3. Before the pandemic, I thought that Christians didn’t come to
Bible study and Sunday School because they were tired or just
couldn’t get to Church.
a. But I noticed that since we are doing Bible Study and Sunday
School on zoom, the same people that came to Church,
participates on zoom.
b. The people who had not been coming before the pandemic,
don’t participate on zoom.
c. People who don’t come to Bible Study or Sunday School,
doing the pandemic don’t have a travel time excuse since
we are using zoom.
SEE JESUS AS APPROVED BY GOD
F. Only Jesus can give us eternal life.
1. Jesus was commissioned by the Father to bring salvation
to the world.
2. Jesus was approved by the God the Father to do the work
of bringing men to Himself.
G. This verse points to God the Father, God The Son (Jesus) and
God the Holy Spirit ( through an understanding of the Word).
1. It was Sovereignty of God the Father to send God the Son to
cross who sent God the Holy Spirit to teach us the works of
the Son.
DO THE WORK REQUIRED BY JESUS
28 Then they asked him, \”What must we do to do the works God requires?\”
29 Jesus answered, \”The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.\”
30 So they asked him, \”What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: \’He gave them bread from heaven to eat.\’
1. There are those who want God to prove Himself before they
Act.
2. God’s commands to us for any situation are given in the Bible.
3. We do not need any additional signs from God to serve.
A. Our prime responsibility is to believe in the Jesus Christ.
1. To believe in Jesus is to believe in God the Father.
2. To believe in Jesus, we have to take time and study His Word.
3. To know Jesus, we must put His Word in action in our lives.
B. We have a command from Jesus to take the Word to the ends of the
Earth.
Matt 28:19-20
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them inthe
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and
teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
1. We do the work of Jesus by including Him in our everyday
conversation.
2. We do the work of Jesus by giving Him first priority in our
planning and thinking
EAT BREAD FROM HEAVEN
32 Jesus said to them, \”I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.\”
34 \”Sir,\” they said, \”from now on give us this bread.\”
A. When we look back over our lives, we ought to see a track record
Of what God has done in our lives.
1. Israel looked back and saw Moses and not the hand of God.
2. Some look back and give themselves the credit for what
they have accomplished in their lives.
3. Some look back gives others the credit what has happen in their
lives and never mention God.
B. We have to come to the conclusion, that every step we have taken
Has been due to the guidance and directions of God,
1. His grace and mercy has flowed on us even in our worst days.
2. It is in Him that we live and have our being.
Acts 17:28
\’For in him we live and move and have our being.\’ As some of
your own poets have said, \’We are his offspring.\’
SEE THE VALUE OF THE BREAD OF LIFE
35 Then Jesus declared, \”I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
A. Jesus has made a promise of spiritual security.
1. Our physical life is temporary, but while we yet live
here on earth, Jesus also promises to provide for all
our needs
B. In Matthew 5:6 Jesus states;
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
1. This statement is a desire to live according to God’s Will and
put God’s will into practice.
2. Being filled with the Spirit ls being satisfied with God in the sense
of being stuffed after a good meal.
John 4:14
but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.
Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water
welling up to eternal life.\”
3. According to Adam Clark the phrase never thirst has
this meaning:
“By this water our Lord means also his doctrine, explaining and
promising the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit, which proceed
from Jesus Christ their fountain, dwelling in a believing heart.”
4. The righteousness of the Lord has no end.
PSALMS 111:3
Glorious and majestic are his deeds,
and his righteousness endures forever.
5. God grace and mercy toward us are boundless.
6. From a bodily stand point, we need solid food for the nourishment
of the body. We need water to keep us hydrated.
7. Our hungry for the Word is satisfied with our study and
meditation of the Word.
8. We can be come spiritually dehydrated by ignoring the enlightenment
of the Word through submission to the Holy Spirit.
I am the bread of life is the first of seven “I Am “ statements in the Book of John. Each one describes His divinity,
2. Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He
who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of
life” (John 8:12).
3. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and
out and find pasture” (John 10:9).
4. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the
sheep” (John 10:11).
5. Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in
Me, though he may die, he shall live” (John 11:25).
6. Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to
the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
7. I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser” (John 15:1).
ALL 7 I AM’S ARE IN THE BREAD
REJOICE BEING ELECTED TO BE WITH JESUS
36But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father\’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.\”
A. Here we have the doctrine of election, selection and exclusion.
1. It is our faith that puts us in the present of the Lord.
2. Before Jesus came into our lives we were blinded and could not
see His glory.
3. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
4. Many hear, and choose to disregard the Word of God.
Thus condemning themselves. (exclusion)
Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does
not believe will be condemned.
B. We have been given to Jesus by the Father for Salvation (election)
C. Our selection in Jesus is secured by Jesus
D. It is the will of the Father that we live an eternal life.
E. We all will die, but on the last day be raised by Jesus to live
Eternity in Heaven
F. Everyone is given the choice to see Jesus and decide to believe
Or not to believe.
ACCEPT JESUS AS YOURS
After this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, \”I am the bread that came down from heaven.\” 42 They said, \”Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, \’I came down from heaven\’?\”
BE THANKFUL THAT GOD DREW YOU TO HIMSELF
43 \”Stop grumbling among yourselves,\” Jesus answered. 44 \”No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: \’They will all be taught by God.\’
No one can come to Jesus by his own desires. We were born in
sin and need the help of the Father to break our natural
condemnation
Rev. M. Mitchell
