What are you eating?. What is this Bread of Life? Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life;...

What are you eating?

What is this Bread of Life?

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life;

whoever comes to me shall not hunger,and whoever believes in me shall never

thirst.” John 6:35 ESV


Life – bios or zoe

Tim Keller’s son – this is real life





What is “zoe” for you?• quality of life, meaning, warmth, energy, ultimate, joy• For a 7 year old it may be a soft drink on an airplane.





False “zoe”?

Don’t labor for the food that spoils (6:27)

“Don’t be drunk with wine,because that will exhaust your life.

Instead be filled with the Spirit.”Ephesians 5:18 (NLT)




Where is your zoe?

Warmth, courage, strength, to get rid of your self-awareness, comfort, security, etc.


Driving back from graduate school

Put up a Mirror

What is your “zoe”?

A thirst for constant intensity, having other people love you, power, beauty, eating, etc.

Where are we searching for our zoe?


Alcohol = Depressant

Stimulant of the Spirit




What Jesus is describing is dynamic, energy-filled life, where addictive behaviors, prejudice beliefs, and apathy are challenged to participate in the holistic change of Kingdom living.

What he is describing is a responsive life to the Spirit.

How is your “response-ability”?

“Instead be filled with the Spirit.” Ephesians 5:18

Why can’t these people seewho Jesus is?

Because they have become too familiar with him…

So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down

from heaven.” They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother

we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down

from heaven’?” Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.

John 6:41-43 ESV

Because they are a lot like me

The Story of an Entitled Preacher

Jesus’ Vocation

One of John’s primary points through this Gospel is that Jesus is the one who

brings life.

The God-life, Kingdom-Life, whichwe as humans were intended to live

from the beginning.

Jesus’ Vocation

However, not all the “bread” we’re eating is from the bread of life.

King David Re-imagined

“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will

live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 6:51 ESV


And David said longingly, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from

the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!” Then the three mighty men broke through

the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried and brought it to David. But

he would not drink of it.(continued)


He poured it out to the LORD and said, “Far be it from me, O LORD, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went

at the risk of their lives?” Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three

mighty men did.2 Samuel 23:15-17 ESV

“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he

will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 6:51 ESV


Do the opposite of King David…

“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he

will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 6:51 ESV

Until Bread is BrokenIt Can Offer Us Nothing

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