I Am New
“Bread of Life”
John 6:27-51

“I am the Bread of Life.” –Jesus 

These statements are not metaphors about Jesus, but rather Jesus stating that He is God.  

Each statement reveals part of God’s character and who He is in us, making it possible for us to say, “I am new.”

John 6:35

I am the only one who can satisfy the cravings you have. –Jesus 

Hunger	
Epicurean						
Pursuit of pleasure										
“Every good and perfect gift is from above…” –James 1:17

Stoicism
Indifference to pleasure	
“Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature…” –Col. 3:5
 
Truth with a miracle
There is more food than hunger 
There is more peace than fear

Bread of life
1. Jesus can satisfy us - v. 25-29

We have an
Infinite appetite and
Infinite desires which take an
Infinite God who brings 
Infinite satisfaction!

In Jesus there is more…
Food than hunger 
Grace than sin
Strength than difficulty 
Wisdom than confusion

2. Jesus will sustain us - v. 30-35

Me: “I can’t live like this for the rest of my life.”
Jesus: “I’m just asking you to live like this today.”

I am not worried that God allows things that I don’t understand.
I am grateful for God who sustains me in what I don’t understand.

Manna - Exodus 16

“God, and God alone, is man’s highest good. God, and God alone is the abundant fountain of all good.” –Herman Bavink, Dutch Theologian, 1854

3. Jesus hungers for us to receive Him - v. 47-51

It isn’t about what God will do FOR us, but who God is IN us

“I am the Bread of Life”
Because Jesus said this, we can say, “I am new.”