SUNDAY- 18^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME –B

Gospel: John 6:24-35: He who comes to me will never be hungry: he who believes in me will never thirst.

I Reading: Exodus 16:2-4: I will reign down bread for you from the heavens.

II Reading: Ephesians 4:17.20-24: Put on the new self that has been created in God’s way.

The Answer to Man’s Great Hunger, Jn 6:22-29

Human has a gnawing hunger within for both the physical and the spiritual. He/she hungers for both food and material things and for God and spiritual things, things such as love and joy and peace. Therefore most of human’s time and energy is spent in seeking to satisfy his/her hunger. This passage deals with the answer to human’s great hunger.

1.     Answer 1: know that human has a great hunger, a great need (v.22-25)

a.     The people were miraculously feed

b.    The people acknowledged their need

c.      The people noted Jesus’ absence

d.    The people sought Jesus

e.      The people questioned Jesus’ absence

2.     Answer 2: acknowledge that human’s motive is corrupt (v.26-27)

a.     Sought the Messiah for what they could get out of Him

b.    Sought food that spoiled-misplaced labour

3.     Answer 3: work for food that endures-that gives eternal life (v.27)

a.     Source: Son of Man

b.    God guaranteed

4.     Answer 4: do the work of God-believe

The Bread of Life: The Source of Spiritual Satisfaction, Jn 6:30-36

Jesus Christ is the source of spiritual satisfaction, of human’s spiritual nourishment. He is the only bread that can feed human’s great hunger, the hunger that gnaws and gnaws within his inner being. There is no other source upon which human can feed and be nourished.

1.     The people demanded proof (v.30-31)

a.     Jesus’ great claim

b.    The specific proof demanded

2.     Jesus Christ the True Bread (v.32)

a.     Human cannot provide true bread: satisfaction

b.    God alone provides true bread: true satisfaction

3.     Jesus Christ is the Bread of God (v.33)

a.     He came from heaven

b.    He gives life

4.     Jesus Christ is the Bread of Life (v.34-35)

a.     The request for the Bread of God

b.    The phenomenal claim

c.      If human comes to Jesus, he/she will never hunger

d.    If human believes, he/she will never thirst

5.     Jesus Christ was seen, but rejected (v.36)

Thought: Human never has enough, he/she craves and craves, never being fully satisfied. Jesus Christ is the Bread of God gives eternal life and satisfaction. Let us believe in Christ and in the Word of God.

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