You know, these Jews here, they
murmured because he said, I am that bread which came down from
heaven. People have problems with Christ coming down from
heaven. And if he didn't come down from
heaven, then he couldn't be our Savior. He had to be divine. He had to be God. He had to come
from another world. And yet, when he came into this
world, he became what everybody needs. He said, I'm the true
bread. I'm the true light. I'm the true
water. I'm the true life. Everything
that a soul needs in this world, a person needs in this world,
in the natural life, Christ becomes that in our spiritual life. And
I read here that these people came looking for him. And in looking for him, they
were looking for him not because of the miracles. They said, indeed,
it says there in verse 14 of John chapter 6, Then those men, when they had
seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that
prophets should come into the world. They didn't say the Messiah. They didn't say the Savior. They
didn't say the Redeemer. They didn't say the Lamb of God. They didn't say the Passover.
They said the Prophet. They said the Prophet. Now, in
reading this passage here, in reading this, I saw some things
that were true then and are true now. And they're true concerning
men's thoughts of the Lord Jesus Christ and the way of salvation. First we see their spiritual
ignorance. It says in verse 26, and men are spiritually ignorant
until God gives them sense. Jesus answered and said, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, you seek me not because you saw the miracles,
but because you did eat of the loaves and were filled. Now they
were in great pains to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. They took
a ship and went over to Capernaum to follow Him. Some walked around
the lake or the sea to get over there because they had seen Christ
fill in people's bellies. And they ate from that and they
went to great pains to follow the Lord just strictly for these
temple blessings. And a lot of people go to great
pains to follow Him for the temple blessings and people of preachers
are telling them that the Lord Jesus will meet all your Temple
means he'll bless you like you never, if you give him 10% you
just won't have to never worry about nothing. If you'll just
come and just do and do and do, then he'll give you all kinds
of things. They follow him strictly for their temple blessings. And
secondly, they were concerned with works. Doing something to
be saved. Look what it says there in verse
28. Then, said they unto him, what
shall we do, that we might work the works of God? First of all,
they wanted Christ for His temporal blessings, then they were concerned
with their work, with working, being saved by working. And our
Lord Jesus Christ just said in verse 27 that He says that He
will give everlasting life which the Son of Man shall give unto
you. You don't work for it, it shall
give unto you. For him hath God the Father self.
But they started, when he started talking about giving, they started
talking about working. And then they, not only that,
then our Lord Jesus Christ said in verse 29, he spoke about faith. Then Jesus said unto them, this
is the work of God. That you believe on Him, the
Father, whom He has sent. Now this work means that it's
God's work which enables you to believe on Him who has sent.
It's not a work that you do to believe. It's not your work to
believe. It's God's work that you believe. You know, a person
doesn't become a believer the moment he believes he believes
because God's already given him faith. He can't do anything else
but believe. It's God's work that you believe.
He doesn't give you a work because faith is not conditional. It's
something that He does for you. Well, when He told them that,
you know that you believe on Him whom He has sent. Then, instead
of believing, what did they say? Show us a sign. Signs don't have
a thing in the world to do with faith. He just got through saying
believe. He just got through saying giving.
They said work. They said, signs, and signs are
not for believers, but for unbelievers. And though the word Jesus Christ
says, believe on the earth, and they said, so it's a sign that
we may do this. And they said, what work are
you doing that we may do this? But oh, you see how spiritually
ignorant people are, and that's the way people are today. They're
not any brighter in the things of Christ, any more spiritually
alive, spiritually rejoicing in Christ. They didn't know more
about Him then, now than they did then. But Beloved also see
here and rejoice in the simplicity of the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ. The simplicity of it. He spoke of Himself as the bread
of life. One thing, bread of life. This
shows us, beloved, that he says, I'm the bread of life. That means
that we're to thank upon him, feed upon him, find our sustenance
in him. And thank God we've not received
a gospel that it takes a scholar to understand. Thank God we've
not received a mathematical gospel that it takes a genius to figure
out. Thank God we haven't received
a metaphysical gospel that it takes somebody that sits down
with a degree in philosophy to figure out what it is. We haven't
got a mystical gospel that's got all fogged up with all kinds
of signs and rituals in it. Our gospel is not confined to
scholars, men of genius. We have a gospel for the poor
man, the simple man, the laboring man, the common man. And thank God that we do. And
let me tell you something, what our Lord Jesus Christ said here
in verse 32, He says, Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but
my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread
of God, now watch what He says here now, for the bread of God
is He, He which cometh down from heaven.
He identified himself as he, he which cometh down. The true
bread is he which cometh down from heaven. He identifies himself
as that bread and cometh down from heaven and
giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord
evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto him, I am
the bread of life. I am, that's another one of his
I am's. He that cometh to me, cometh to me shall never hunger,
and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. Now let me say
something about bread. Bread is the most common, common
article on the table. It's the most common article
on the table. And it's a blessed type of our
Lord Jesus Christ. It's the most common thing on
the table. And everybody's got it. There's not a house here
represented that when you go on, that one of the first things
you'll do is put your bread in the oven if you're going to bake
it. Or you'll get it out of the loaf if you're going to do that.
The first thing you're going to do is after bread. Now look
what it said here in our Lord's sentence, verse 47. Brother, brother, I say unto
you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that
bread of life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in
the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh
down from heaven, and man may eat thereof and not die. They
ate and died. Eat Christ, you don't die. Then
he says down in verse 53, Then said Jesus unto them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of
Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth
my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will
raise him up at the last day. Watch it now. For my flesh is
meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. So you see bread
is the most common article and our Lord said I am that bread
of life. Now when we sat down to eat, when we sat down to eat,
the bread that we reach and get, the bread that we break, the
bread that we take, it has a sermon in it, it has a message in it
to us if we'll just listen to it. You know what it takes for
something to become bread, a grain to become bread, whether it's
wheat, whether it's barley, whatever it is that they make bread out
of, no matter what it is, you know what it has to go through
in order to become bread to satisfy your hunger? The first thing
you have is a grain, just a little tiny grain. And it has to be
planted. And our Lord Jesus Christ was
sown, planted, and planted in the womb of a virgin. And He
came into this world. And then He also said this, except
a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone,
but if it dies, it bringeth forth much fruit. And that one grain
coming out of there will go in one, but come out many. And that's
the way Christ went into the womb, and He went into the tomb,
and He came out and He brought forth much, much fruit. Huh? And then the grain, not only
that, then it's threshed. You gotta go threshing. And you
get all the chap out of it. But our Lord Jesus Christ had
no chap in Him. But He was threshed. Our Lord
went down, He come down into the world, and He went through
this world, and He was threshed by the world. He was threshed
by the devil. He was threshed by the flesh,
and yet was without sin. He was threshed by men, and men
found no fault in Him, found no sin in Him. Our Lord Jesus
Christ was threshed by the holiness of God, and the holiness of God
said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And then you take that grain
after it's threshed, and then it's ground. You know, years
ago, and I guess some people still do it, they used to raise
this hickory cane corn and they'd all take a sack full of it to
somebody and grind it. And they'd take that and put
it between two millstones and just grind and grind and grind.
And our Lord Jesus Christ, He was put between the millstones
of God's wrath and justice. As sin was found on him, he was
crushed and ground, and ground, and ground, and ground, crushed
between the millstone of God's wrath that must, must punish
sin. Of God's justice, as said the
soul that sinneth, it must die. And our Lord Jesus Christ was
ground, and ground, and ground between the millstone of God's
wrath and justice. And then when it's ground, Then it's put in the oven. Then
it's put in the oven. And our Lord Jesus Christ passed
through the fire of men's hatred. Oh, how they hated Him. And it's written, you'll hate
me without a cause. Our Lord Jesus Christ passed
through the fire of God's judgment. He passed through the fire of
the humiliation of bearing our sin in His own body on the tree.
He went through the fire of being rejected of his own father when
he says, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. And
he went through the fire and cried out on that cross, My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He went through the fire
of the cross. Till he cried out, I thirst.
And did they give him water? No, they gave him vinegar. Oh, what a message if we'll just
listen to the brand. Just listen to the brand. And
all messages all around us, if we'll just listen to them. When
we look at the heavens, they declare the glory of God. You
look at them at night, and there they are, the glory of God. Look
at them of the day, the glory of God. The firmament, when we look at
the land, the earth, it declares His glory, shows His handiwork.
Look out at night and the stars tell of His power. The Scriptures
tell us that He named every single one of those stars. Named every
one of them. Astronomers go out there and
they just get flabbergasted at these These stars, and how they
see them, and how many they are, and they can't begin to count
them, and they say, this star over here, and that star over
there, and the morning star, the evening star, all these wonderful
stars. Well, every one of them, in every
constellation, God put them up there, God named them, and not
one of them, not one of them falls that God don't cause to
fall. And every time the sun gets up,
Every time the sun rises in the morning, it tells us the sun
of righteousness rises with healing in its wings. And it also tells
us how faithful God is that the sun gets up every day. You may
not see it, but it's still there. It may be pouring down the rain,
but it's still there. And it gets up every day, and
it shows us God's faithfulness. And every sparrow that we see, Every raven that
we see tells us that God feeds His people. Every lily tells
us how that God clothes us. Every spring of water tells us
that Christ is the refreshing water of life. Every rock tells
us that Christ is that shadow of a rock in a weary land. All
of them, a rain shower that comes down, God said He had caused
the latter rain to fall on them. Oh my, so many things. But here
our Lord calls Himself bread. The most common thing that there
is. Bread. Bread. What is it about this bread of
life that we say, Lord, as they did, evermore give us this bread?
Why, what is it about it that we say, Lord, what is it? Lord, evermore give us this bread.
Well, first of all, it's the bread that God provided. Ain't
that what it says in verse 31? Our fathers did eat in manna, in the desert, as it is written. He gave them bread from heaven.
Then Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, Moses gave you not
that bread from heaven, but my Father, my Father giveth you
that bread. He gave it to you. And then look
what it says, He giveth, verse 33, He giveth life unto the world.
So everything about it here is a gift. Bread is a gift, and
Christ is a gift. God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son. Our Lord Jesus Christ, God spared
not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all. You see, Christ
came as the gift of God. Not something we work for, not
something we deserve, not something we earn, not something we even
ask for. He was a gift of God. A gift
of God. Just like manna was given to
Israel. Christ is given to spiritual
Israel. He said He is that bread which
came down from heaven. Every morning, you know, them
people came out of Egypt and they began to murmur, God sent
them bread from heaven. And that bread came down, it
went out that morning, there's little old wafers laying around,
it looked like cornflakes. They began to gather it up. They
begin to gather it up. And beloved, those people are
dead. But now you don't gather up Christ. Christ comes to you. Unspiritual Israel. And beloved, Christ, and it says
here in verse 33, He which cometh down. Christ came down. He came way down. He came from
glory itself. He came from where the angels
worshipped Him and adored Him and blessed Him and came down
here and dwelt among us, lived among us. And oh, how low did
He come, how far down did He come that He made Himself of
no reputation, humbled Himself and became obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross. So I'll tell you why we say,
Lord evermore give us this bread. It's the bread that God provided
for us. God provided it. I didn't provide it. The church
didn't provide it. Politicians sure ain't going
to provide it. You know, they may say there'll be a car in
every garage and a job for every man. But our Lord, when He says, I'll
give you something, you got it. And our Lord is, I'll tell you
another reason they say this, because our Lord, the true bread
meets all the wants. All the wants of the new life,
of the spiritual life. And you know, when men are born
of God, we have new wants, we have new desires. Just like when
you're an unconverted person, you have wants, you have desires.
When you become born of God, when you're born of God, when
you're made a new creature in Christ, with that new nature,
with that spiritual life, there comes new wants, new desires,
new pains, new longings, new appetites. And as a new man,
we have to have new food. We have to have a different type.
We have a different appetite. We have different desires. And
we're full of all these new needs that we never had before. New
cravings that we never had before in this new life. I never craved
to read the Bible until I got converted. I never craved going
to worship until I got converted. I never craved Christ until I
got converted. I never craved and desired to
be done with sin until I got converted. Ain't that right? I never had
a spiritual pain till I got converted. I never knew what groaning over
sin was till I got converted. And oh beloved, we are full of
new and nothing old. We want something to feed on.
When we get converted, when we have the new birth, we want something
to feed that new man on. We crave something to feed that
new man on. And we haven't. Christ the true
bread. Christ the bread of life. Not
50 things. Christ's not a smorgasbord. You
take just whatever part you want out of it. One thing. This one
thing Paul said, I want to do. One thing. One person. One bread. That's what he says. Huh? One bread. One thing. That's
not hard to understand, is it? Mary makes such good cornbread,
I can make a whole meal out of her cornbread. I honestly can't. Just give me some Cornbread,
oh, this is so good. Oh my, the Lord Jesus Christ,
He's the ideal bread for us. The perfect bread for us. People
tell us, you know, that we need other bread too. We need to mix
Christ up with something. We need a little law mixed in
with Christ. We need a few works mixed in
with Christ. We need a little free will mixed
in with Christ. We need a little morality mixed
in with Christ. Our Lord said, a little leaven,
leaven's a whole lot. No, no, Christ is the perfect
bread, the ideal bread, we need nothing mixed with Him. He's
enough, He's enough. That's why they murmured, said,
how's this? And He says, that bread was coming down from heaven.
He's just Jesus, the son of Mary and Joseph. Oh, they didn't want
that bread. They didn't like that bread.
And others said, well, give us a sign. Give us a word. They
wanted something to add to this bread. And Christ said, I'm the
bread that giveth life. Amen. Oh, man, the manna was
ideal, perfect for traveling through the wilderness. And oh,
Israel ate that manna for 40 years. The manna was ideal for
traveling through the wilderness. Why? Because, first of all, it
was fresh every morning. You have new bread every morning,
fresh bread every morning. And not only that, but it sustained
them through the day. What they had that day sustained
them for that day. And it also tells us that every
soul had his own portion. Some had much, some had more,
some had little, but nobody lacked what they needed. Some had greater
appetites, Some had less appetites, but they all had just the exact
amount of bread they needed for that day, for that day. And over
in Psalm 78, it said it was angels' food sent down from heaven. There
never was such bread as what fell in the wilderness, never
has been, never will be again. And that's why our Lord says,
your fathers did eat man in the wilderness, and they're dead.
But he that eateth this bread shall never die, never die. And the man of Excuse me, the
manna was perfectly, perfectly pure food. Nothing was mixed
with it. Nothing. You know, a man is what
he eats. Do you know that? We are what we eat. We're what
we eat. You know, there's a certain silkworm,
I can't think of the name of it here, but he, whatever kind
of color of the leaf he eats, he creates that kind of a silk. If it eats red leaves, you get
red silkworm, that's silkworm, green or whatever. A certain
kind. And they're colored by the leaves
they eat upon. And you know, everything about us is affected
by what we eat. If you eat too much, you get
sluggish. If you eat too much of certain
things, you get fat. If you eat too much of certain
things, you get sick. But then you eat Christ. When
we feed on Christ and Him alone, do you know how it will affect
us? Do you know how it will affect us? It will affect our minds. You feed on Christ, it will affect
your mind. Oh, how it will affect your mind. It will fill your
mind. Feed your mind. Oh, to feed on
Christ, to feed your mind, to feed your understanding, to feed
your knowledge on Christ. And oh, when we feed on Christ,
we become pure. We become lonely. We become meek. We become humble. We become gentle. We become content. We become
more like Him. The more we feed on Him, the
more we become like Him. The more we want to be like Him.
The more we take Him into ourselves, the more like Him we become.
And then He's the sustenance for our faith. The only thing
that will keep your faith and feed your faith, and increase
your faith, is feeding on Christ. Now you keep John 6, and let
me show you over here in Philippians chapter 4. I want to show you
something. Philippians chapter 4. I want you to see this here,
just a moment. Philippians 4. You know, people that don't feed
on Christ, it's just awful the things they come up with. Just
absolutely awful the things they come up with. They're interested
in doing something for God instead of God doing something for them. They're interested in making
themselves acceptable to God instead of Christ being made
acceptable to them. And oh, look what it says here
now, verse 4. Philippians 4. Rejoice in the Lord always, and
again I say rejoice. Now watch this, let your moderation
or your temperate living, your even living, be known unto all
men. Now watch this, the Lord is in
hand. Now what that means is that the Lord is at your right
hand, that He's ever present wherever you are. The Lord is
at hand. That's why I said always rejoice.
Christ is there. That's what that means. You find
any place and you study that and it will tell you that the
Lord is at your right hand. The Lord stands right at your
side. Always ever present with you.
And so that, beloved, is we feed on Christ, be joyful, be patient. And you know, He's the substance
for our faith. He's the substance for our love. He's the substance
for our patience. He's the substance for our joy.
The Lord's at hand, always ever present. And that's why I said
here back over in John 6, He said, My flesh is meat indeed,
and my blood is drink indeed. Indeed and true. Not only is
our Lord Jesus Christ a perfect bread and pure, but He's also
sufficient. You know, He's sufficient. The
man who was all they really needed in the wilderness. What they
needed, they needed water and bread. Christ was both. God smoked a rock and out come
water. God sent bread every morning
and they had fresh bread every morning. And that was sufficient
for them. That got them all the way through
the wilderness. You know, the manna was all they really needed
before they lusted for the food of Egypt. And they called it
light bread. But beloved our Lord Jesus Christ
for us right now, right now, yesterday and today and tomorrow,
He's sufficient for us. His grace is sufficient for us.
His power is sufficient for us. His blood is sufficient. Every
part about Him is sufficient. We need nothing else other than
Christ and Him alone. He's sufficient for us in our
labors. He's sufficient for us when we
have anguish. He's sufficient for us when we
have grief. He's sufficient for us when we have sorrow. He's
sufficient for us when we feel alone. And for the baby in Christ,
He's milk. For the grown man, He's meat. He's sufficient. We've been proving
that for years. He's proved that to us for years
and years and years. Ain't He? He has. And in the
Lord Jesus Christ, In him there's a sweetness. I know the first
time I went to Mexico, they got a bakery down there and every
morning they'd run over there and get a bag of sweetbreads,
all different kinds of breads. They called them sweetbreads. And they'd bake a bunch in the
morning and everybody would get over there as fast as they could to get
them a bag of those sweetbreads. Because when they sold out, they
wouldn't make no more until the next day. And they'd go over
there and get a big bunch of those sweetbreads. And all those
different breads had different flavor, different type. Well,
that's in Christ, a sweetness of its own. You know, they said the manna,
if you want to read about the manna, you read Exodus 16. But
they said the manna tasted like wafers with honey. Wafers that
had honey on them. But now Jewish tradition says
that it tasted according to every man's taste. Whatever your favorite
taste was, whatever flavor you liked or taste you liked the
best, the manna had that flavor to you. Now I think that's probably right,
and I'll tell you why. So to each one, the manna was
a personal and a peculiar food. Our tastes change, you know.
When you're a baby, you don't eat meat. And you have different
tastes. And as you grow older, your taste
grows. Your taste changes. And you know, there's a sweetness
and a taste about our Lord that precisely suits each and every
one of us. And it's different for each of
us. And He tastes different to us according to our circumstances.
Now, He tastes different to me when I'm depressed than He does
when I'm full of joy. He tastes different to me when
I'm greatly burdened or tried about something than He is when
I'm full of faith. He tastes different to you when
you're in affliction and in a hospital bed than He does when you're
sitting here in the service. Don't He? He tastes different
to you. And whatever your situation or
circumstances is, He has the taste for that. He has exactly
the right, whatever taste you're going through, circumstances
or situation, Christ is that strength for that situation.
And oh beloved, because of our situation, you know when we get
sick, we lose our appetite. We lose our appetite. But you
know the Lord Jesus Christ being who He is, He'll get you over
your sickness. His bread will even heal you
from your sickness. Let me tell you something else
about this bread. This bread was given, given by
God, given to Israel, and it was suitable for the wilderness.
And only for the wilderness. You know, when they got to Canaan
and they got into the Promised Land, there was no more manna.
No, they took their nest while they took their meadent throat
with them. But they never needed any bread all the time, never
made any bread all the time as in the wilderness. God's provided
it for them. But when they got into Canaan,
they got out those meadent throats, started eating that bread. You
know why? Because it's in the promised
land. But, oh beloved, our Lord has given to us as bread from
heaven, and we're in this wilderness right here. Oh, what a wilderness
we're in. And it's getting more of a wilderness
all the time. Boy, more and more of a wilderness
all the time. I just feel like it. I don't
know which way. I mean, it's just getting, oh, wilderness. Oh, I can name a thousand. I
can name a dozen wilderness right off the top of my head. This
world is so much wilderness. Wilderness in religion. Wilderness
in politics. Wilderness in the flesh. Wilderness
in the world. Wilderness in the economics.
Wilderness with our children. Wilderness in our own hearts
and souls. And all we need is bread from heaven. And it's given
to us in this wilderness. In this world where we have to
work. In this world where there's weeping. In this world where
there's toils and troubles. He's that bread. In this world
with all of its cares, in this world with all the changes that
take place, in this world where there's wars going on and where
there's wars going on, in this world where there's fears and
they're spreading, He is sufficient for us in this wilderness. Thank
God we have bread to eat in this wilderness. And as our Lord said
to his disciples, I have meat to eat that you know not of,
we have meat to eat that the world don't know nothing about. And that's bread. That's bread. Not only is he suitable for this
wilderness, bless his holy name. Oh, I've got something to feed
on. I can sit, and you've done this too. You have sat in the
morning drinking your coffee, you've stopped eating lunch,
you've got the end of your day, you've sat out on your porch
or your deck, and you sit there and you look around you and you
relax a little while and you begin to think about God, you
begin to think about Christ, and you say, oh, oh my, oh, you
just get overwhelmed. And you just look around and
you say, Lord, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And as our bread from heaven,
as the bread given to us, He's suitable for us all. He's suitable
for us all. The Lord Jesus was the Son of
Mary, but He's also the Son of God. He was a man like ourselves. As the children were takers of
flesh and blood, He likewise took part of the same. And oh,
He bore our sorrows, was acquainted with our grief, He is a brother
born for adversity. When we're in trouble, He's the
brother born to come and knees to knees in our adversity. When
we're tired, when we're troubled, when we're burdened, our Lord
Jesus Christ is too. And He was. When we have to agonize
to pray, He did too. When we have to endure slander
and lies and cursings, He did too. Let me slice you off a piece
of this bread. Let me slice you off a piece.
He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities. The
chastisement of our peace was upon him. The Lord laid on him
the iniquity of us. It pleased the Lord to make his
soul an offering for sin. And when he saw the travail,
that threshing, that fire, when he saw the travail of his soul,
he was satisfied. He was the just for the unjust,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit,
that he might bring us unto God. He himself bare our sins in his
own body on the tree. And oh beloved, he did it. He did this. suffered this all
to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And after he had
by himself purged our sins, he sat down at the right hand of
emergency on high. And the debt's been paid. We don't owe another dime. We
don't owe a penny. We don't owe a farthing. Justice
has been satisfied. It can't come and demand no more
from us. Our Redeemer paid him. Oh, sinner,
eat this bread. You'll never be hungry again. He's our bread. He is our bread
in His resurrection. He is our bread in His life. He is our bread in His death.
He is our bread in His resurrection. He is our bread in His ascension.
He is our bread on His throne. He is our bread in our acceptance
of Him. He is our bread as He sets in
glory. He is our bread from the day
we are born until the day we leave this world. And everywhere
He is at, He is our bread. Oh sinner, sinner, sinner, eat
this bread, come to this bread, that's why I said eat it, come
unto me and eat it! I give! And I'll tell you something
about bread, bread's no good unless you eat it. You'd rather
mold if you don't eat it. When they ate, then they gathered
too much and said, we're going to keep it over its stank. Oh,
bread's no good unless it's eaten. And after that, what our Lord
Jesus Christ said, He said that in verse 27, Matthew, John 6,
labor not. for that meat that perishes.
Don't go out here and labor for a life that's just going to perish. Don't go out here and labor to
be accepted with God. Don't go out here and deceive
yourself. But, oh, go after that meat which endureth, endureth
unto everlasting life. Now watch this, which the Son
of Man shall give unto you. For Him hath God the Father sent. And John, in verse 35, our Lord
said, I am the bread of life. Now watch this. He that cometh
to me. How many times did He say, He
that cometh to me? He stood that last day, the great
day of the feast, and said, If any man is thirst, let him come
unto me and drink. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger, shall never thirst. Cometh to me shall never hunger. Oh, beloved, Christ must be received. What is it to receive Him? It's
to trust Him. It's to believe Him. Well, how
do I trust Him? How do I receive Him? How do
I do that? Believe everything that's revealed
about Him. Take Him and say, It's my brand.
Say, He died for me. Believe He died for me. Do you believe He died for you?
Do you believe He took your sins? Do you believe He went to that
cross? Do you believe He was flesh for you? Do you believe
He was put in the fire oven for you? Do you believe He came down from
heaven for you? Do you believe He went to the grave
for you? Do you believe He ascended for you? And oh, if you believe He died
for me, you say, yes, He's my Savior, yes, He's my bread, yes,
He's my everything. Not only did He die for me, but
now He lives for me. And those who feed upon Christ
are supremely, supremely blessed. Our Lord said they shall never
hunger again. And I ain't. I have one hunger,
and that's for Christ. That's the only hunger I have,
ain't you, James? I don't hunger for anything else
in this world. I'm happy as if I had good sense. Men may offer
us many things, but Christ is enough. And oh,
listen to this in verse 53. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of
Man, and drink his blood. Watch this. You have no life
in you. If you don't eat Christ, receive
Christ, believe Christ, it's because you don't have any life.
But if you have life, only living people eat. And living people
eat Christ and feed upon Him. And this precious Word right
here, this Word right here is Christ to us as He was to His
disciples in real life. This is where you, God helped
you to take Christ now as your all. Our Father, our gracious, gracious
Father, thank You for the wonderful mercy and grace given us in Christ.
Thank You for the truth as it is in our Lord. God bless Christ
to be the bread of life to those here today, to me, to all. Oh
Lord, we thank You for this bread. We thank You for Christ. We thank
You for His doing. We thank You for His dying. We
thank You for Him identifying with us and bearing our sins.
Thank You that You've made Him unto us everything we need, that
we rejoice in Him, that we love to eat Him, that we know what
it is to live on Christ, His flesh and His blood. The flesh
that sustains us and the blood that cleanses us and the blood
that makes us acceptable and righteous in God's sight. God
bless this word to the hearts of the hearers today. For Christ's
sake we pray. Amen. Amen.