08/08/21 Contemporary Service

St. Paul's Lutheran Church

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08/08/21 Contemporary Service

Sermon: Jesus - The Bread of Life (John 6:22-69) Part II: It’s A Feast.

August 8, 2021 • John 6:35–51

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When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we speak in the Fourth Petition, “Give us this day our daily bread.” We are reminded that “daily bread” includes everything we need for this body and life as we pray and give thanks for all the Lord provides regarding our well-being in this mortal life. Yet, we are never left to just be satisfied with earthly things, as we will be taken from worldly provisions to His greater eternal gifts, which always last. It is why He sent His Son into this world, and why Jesus spoke to the people then and still to us today, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to Me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in Me shall never thirst” (John 6:35).

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