Good Bread or Bad Bread

There are lots of things that we treat like bread, hoping they’ll sustain and nourish us. But most of these things aren’t meant to do so. The more we eat, the hungrier we get. They’re bad bread. But Jesus is Good Bread and the fulfillment of all that we hunger for.
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Introduction and RecapGood morning, brothers and sisters! It’s great to be with you this morning here already at the end of January as we continue our walk through the Gospel of John. We’re going to be looking at John 6:22-71 and there’s kind of a lot that happens here, and if we had more time, I’d say that we should all just stand, listen to the reading of it and stick around for lunch to discuss it, but we’re not really set up for that, so here’s what we’re going to do. First, I’m going to summarize this section for you, then make some notes, and then walk through some application. So let’s dive in.
The Text and Initial NotesFirst, you have to remember, particularly if you haven’t been here for a week or two, that this section of the Ministry of Jesus occurs after three things:• First, this passage is on the back side of The Feeding of the 5,000 literally a day earlier in verses 1 – 15, which makes it sound even crazier that the crowd asks Jesus for another sign, right? It’s only been since lunch yesterday and you already want another sign?• And it’s also on the back side of the crowd that He fed trying to force Him to be their King in verse 15, which seems kind of noble at first, but isn’t what Jesus had in mind and so He escapes the crowd and withdraws into the mountains.• All of this was also on the back side of Jesus Walking on the Water in verses 16 – 21, which you have to know probably still had the disciples freaking out because… well… on top of the fact that that just wasn’t normal behavior for anyone they’d ever met before, it was also kind of a huge topper for what had already been a banner day.• And finally, this was the first of what are called Jesus’ “I AM…” statements, which are found throughout the Gospel of John, and this one is like a spiritual atom bomb when Jesus drops it because, as we’ll see, many people who were following Him to this point stop doing so after His statement.
That sets an interesting tone for the fact that the crowd following Jesus around by this point is developing some energy about this Rabbi from Nazareth. I mean, the guy can work miracles, He’s wise, He’s powerful. This could be the King they were looking for to free them from the Romans and finally bring Israel back to its rightful place in the world. And He gives out free Filet O’Fishes, too! Global Hunger… eradicated! But that’s not actually what happens in this passage. Instead, Jesus dampens their hopes by cryptic messages about things that they don’t understand, and ultimately, instead of blowing up His Twitter Feed,