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March 4, 2018

Filling & Thrilling

March 4, 2018 • Dr. Stan Welch

John 6:25-35; 41-51 (NET)

25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

26 Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

27 Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life—the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”

28 So then they said to him, “What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?”

29 Jesus replied, “This is the deed God requires—to believe in the one whom he sent.”

30 So they said to him, “Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

32 Then Jesus told them, “I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34 So they said to him, “Sir, give us this bread all the time!”

35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.

41 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

42 and they said, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

43 Jesus replied, “Do not complain about me to one another.

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, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

46 (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God—he has seen the Father.)

47 I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.

48 I am the bread of life.

49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

50 This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”