John 6:46

John 6:46 says, Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.  Jesus continued to tell those gathered there about His relationship with the Father and to further explain His being the living bread.  He said that no one had seen the Father, save He which is of God.  Jesus was speaking of Himself.  We don't see God when we come to Jesus as one of His followers.  We, unlike those He was speaking to, don't even see Jesus.  What God looks like is unimportant.  All that matters is Who God is.  Verse forty-seven adds, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.  Jesus said that anyone who believed on Him has everlasting life. He did not say would have some day but has everlasting life.  From the moment we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord, we everlasting life with Him.  Verse forty-eight states, I am that bread of life He was the bread of life come down from heaven.  Jesus said that He was the bread of life come down from heaven.  He was not a physical bread of life like the manna though, but a spiritual bread of life.  Verse forty-nine adds, Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead   Jesus then said that their fathers who ate the manna, the physical bread come down from heaven died, but those who ate the spiritual bread of life would never die.  Verse fifty continues, This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.  Verse fifty-one states, I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Jesus then said He was that living bread, and that anyone who ate of that bread would live forever.  He then said this bread was His flesh, which He gave for the world.  Now, some who oppose Christianity claim this means cannibalism, but we know that Jesus was not speaking of literally about His flesh.  Verse fifty-two adds, The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?  Those listening to Him that day did not understand what He was talking about.  They asked how could a man do this.  They were still looking with an earthly understanding, but we must look from a spiritual understanding.  Verse fifty-three continues, 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, ye have no life in you.  Jesus then said that unless someone ate the flesh of the Son of Man and drank His blood, he had no life in him.  Some churches today believe that when they have communion that the bread and drink literally transform into the body and blood of Christ, but we know that is not what He was speaking of. Verse fifty-four says, Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.  Verse fifty-five adds, For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.  Jesus gave His body and spilled His blood on the cross to redeem mankind, and unless we believe in Him as our Savior because of that, we will not have everlasting life with Him.  Verse fifty-six continues, He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.  When we accept His gift of salvation, His giving His body and blood for us, He lives in us through the Holy Spirit.  Verse fifty-seven states., As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.  As the living Father sent Him and He lived by the Father, so shall we live by Him.  There is no other way to salvation.  Verse fifty-eight adds, This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.  He gave His body and spilled His blood on the cross to redeem mankind, and unless we believe in Him as our Savior because of that, we will not have everlasting life with Him.  When we accept His gift of salvation, when we eat this bread, which is to believe on His sacrifice for us, we shall live forever.  We must understand that this is what was meant by eating His flesh and drinking His blood.  The people around Jesus were still trying to apply a literal interpretation to what He was saying, but He was not speaking of a literal concept.  When we read the Bible, we need to ask God to help us understand what He is truly saying and not just read the words. 

John 6:41

John 6:41 says, The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.  When the Jews heard that Jesus said He was the bread of life come down from heaven, they murmured amongst themselves.  People today are still murmuring among themselves about Who Jesus was and is.  Verse forty-two adds, And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?  The Jews were too familiar with the human Jesus to recognize that He was also, not Joseph's Son by birth, but the Son of God. We will always find people murmuring about Jesus as long as they see Him as anything less than the only begotten Son of God.  Verse forty-three continues, Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.  Jesus told them not to murmur.  If they had questions about His claim, He was standing there.  When we have questions about Jesus, we need to go to Him in prayer for the answers. There is no use in looking to the world for answers.  Verse forty-four declares, No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.  Jesus said no man cometh unto Him unless the Father draw him, and He would raise him up the last day.  Again, we could see this as the preordination of some, but we know that the Father draws all people to Jesus.  He will keep us once we are His by faith in His gift of salvation.  This had been foretold by the prophets.  Verse forty-five adds, It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.  Jesus reminded them of this, and then said, "And they shall be taught of God.  Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me."  The Jews should certainly be familiar with the prophets, and should have learned from the Father, but they didn't come to Him.  The church nor the Bible nor an acknowledgement that Jesus lived will save us.  It is only when the Father draws us to Him and we respond by placing our faith in Jesus as Savior and Lord will we be saved.      

John 6:37

 John 6:37 says, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.  After just telling those following Him that they didn't believe Him even though they had seen Him, He said that all the Father gave Him, He should no wise cast out.  Some would use this verse to say that some are preordained to be saved, those given by the Father.  We have to understand it in the context of the next verses.  There would certainly be no security in salvation if we could not even know for sure that we were one of those given by the Father.  Verse thirty-eight adds, For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. Jesus said He came down out of heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of the Father.  It wasn't the Father's will that Jesus be an earthly King, nor simply a miracle worker.  He was to be and is the Savior. When we become His followers, we are called to do the will of the Father, and not our own. Verse thirty-nine continues, And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day Jesus said that the will of the Father was that He would lose nothing given to Him but raise it up again the last day.  If we have given our life to Him by faith in His salvation given to us, we will be secured to everlasting life.  Verse forty concludes, And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.  This is the Good News for everyone.  Jesus said that anyone who saw the Son, and believed on Him, should have everlasting life, and Jesus would raise Him up the last day.  Though we cannot look to Jesus physically, we can and must look to Him spiritually as the Son of God and our Savior.  We see in this verse that salvation is secured to any who believes on Jesus.  Salvation is available to all but is only secured for those who believe in Jesus and accept Him as Savior.  Security in the world, based on worldly things, is often not very secure.  Security based on God is everlastingly secured by Jesus.  We have no reason to worry.  

John 6:34

John 6:34 says, Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.  Matthew Henry says some see this as being said in derision, but he feels they were sincere but mistaken about what this bread really was.  I agree with him. They had had their physical hunger met, they remembered learning about the manna in Moses' day, and looked for Jesus to daily fill their physical hunger.  Many today look to God for material reasons, but they refuse to acknowledge Him as their Savior, Lord, and Master.  Verse thirty-five adds, And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.  When Jesus said this, He was not speaking of a physical hunger and thirst, but a spiritual one.  When we accept Jesus as our Savior and Lord, we no longer need to hunger and thirst for righteousness.  We know where the answer to life's problems lies.  Verse thirty-six continues, But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. Jesus told them that He knew they had not believed in Him.  They had seen Him, but they did not accept Him as the Son of God, the Messiah. They were willing to follow Him for earthly blessings, but not for spiritual redemption.  So many people today would be willing to follow Jesus, if it were for material gain, but are not willing to allow Him to be the Lord of their life. They don't want to give up control of everyday decisions, so they reject the salvation He offers.  Sometimes, even we as His followers can be the same way about everyday decisions we make.  We need to make sure that whatever we do it is God's will.  We look for security in a lot of ways today, but often find that they fail.

John 6:30

John 6:30 says, They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?  Those Jews following Jesus asked Him what sign would He give them that they might believe.  They had seen the miracles He performed and had been miraculously fed, but they were looking for a sign.  We as Christians have the miracle of the cross as the only sign we should ever need.  Yet, we often look for some material sign that Jesus is really able to meet our needs.  Verse thirty-one adds, Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.  The Jews that day spoke of Moses giving their fathers bread from Heaven.  They were wrong about the source of the bread. Verse thirty-two continues, 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.  Moses did not give them the bread but was simply an instrument that God used to meet the need of the people in the desert.  We need to be careful that we give God credit for the good things that happen in our life.  Yet, we are more likely to attribute the bad to His lack of caring for us.  Even as the people following Jesus spoke of the bread from heaven, they didn't mention their fathers complaining about it.  When God provides for us, we need to praise Him, not grumble about whether the provision is all that we wanted, because too often our wants do exceed our needs.  Jesus said that He, not the Manna, was the true bread from Heaven.  Verse thirty-three concludes, “For the bread of God is He which cometh down from Heaven, and giveth life unto the world."  The bread Moses gave them was a temporary provision to sustain physical life, but Jesus was the bread from heaven to bring everlasting life. We need to never look for any other way to life than through belief in Christ as our Savior.  Jesus said He could give them the everlasting bread of life. 

In John 6:30, those Jews following Jesus asked Him what sign would He give them that they might believe.  They had seen the miracles He performed and had been miraculously fed, but the were looking for a sign.  We as Christians have the miracle of the cross as the only sign we should ever need.  Yet, we often look for some material sign that Jesus is really able to meet our needs.  The Jews that day spoke of Moses giving their fathers bread from Heaven.  They were wrong about the source of the bread.  Moses did not give them the bread, but was simply an instrument that God used to meet the need of the people in the dasert.  We need to be careful that we give God credit for the good things that happen in our life.  Yet, we are more likely to attribute the bad to His lack of caring for us.  Even as the people following Jesus spoke of the bread from heaven, they didn't mention their fathers complaining about it.  When God provides for us, we need to praise Him, not grumble about whether the provision is all that we wanted, because too often our wants do exceed our needs.  Jesus said that He, not the Manna, was the true bread from Heaven.  In verse thirty three, He said, "For the bread of God is He which cometh down from Heaven, and giveth life unto the world."  The bread Moses gave them was a temporary provision to sustain physical life, but Jesus was the bread from heaven to bring everlasting life. We need to never look for any other way to life than through belief in Christ as our Savior.