When Bread Is Not Enough

good to have you out in the house of the Lord. John chapter 6 is where we are this morning. I'm going to be covering all of John 6. Now, it's the longest chapter in the Gospel of John. And so, if you have reading glasses keep them on, you're going to need them, because we're going to be tackling this whole chapter. And it's a chapter that is full of some important information here as a dialogue, and as some miracles unfold. And I just want us to see it all. So, I'm going to start out of John 6 and read just the first 14 verses. The first part of this story is probably very familiar if you've been around church for very long. The first part of chapter 6 is about the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000. It is what happens after this that is unique to the Gospel of John that we're going to focus on primarily. But I'll start with the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000. I'm going to read John 6 verses 1-14. It says, After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs, which He performed on those who were diseased. And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near. And then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, Where shall we buy bread that these may eat? But this He said to test Him, for He Himself knew what He would do. And Philip answered Him, Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them

may have a little. One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him, There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many? And then Jesus said, Make the people sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down in number, about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down, and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted. So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost. They gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten. Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, This is truly the prophet who is to come into the world. All right, pause there for a moment, a brief introduction, then we'll pray. You notice in verse 10 that they only counted the men back in the day, and it numbered five thousand. So when you add women and children, conservatively this miracle was really about the feeding of the ten or twelve thousand or so, certainly much more than just five thousand men. And it was indeed a miracle. Jesus feeds them with one boy's lunch of five loaves of bread and two fish. Now don't believe what liberal theologians will say to you, which is that they dismiss this as a miracle. Liberal theologians will say that Jesus didn't really perform a miracle here, that what happened was this was more or less a miracle of generosity. That when this one boy surrendered his lunch, it inspired everybody else, and they gave up their lunches. And thus they had enough food, and

enough fish left over that they had twelve basketfuls. Ok, that's what liberal theologians would have you to believe. Don't believe it, it's a false narrative. And that narrative, what it does simply is give credit to people for their goodwill, and robs Jesus of a miracle. Ok, this is a miracle in the Bible. A miracle is basically something that defies natural law, that it cannot be attributed to human ingenuity. But a miracle is a supernatural act of God. And that's what we're reading here. Now it doesn't tell us exactly how Jesus performed this miracle. I kind of wonder if the boy had either a basket or a bag with these loaves and fish in it. And so as Jesus kept reaching in, you know this miracle of multiplication was happening in the bag. It doesn't really tell us. But what we need to understand as we read this, is that this is a supernatural act of God. And if you can accept Genesis 1, you can accept John 6. Alright? If you stumble at Genesis 1, you're going to stumble at the rest of the Bible. So, you have to understand that God works in miraculous, supernatural ways that defy natural law. law and that are ways that are not attributed to human ingenuity. So, what's interesting about this miracle is that it is the only miracle, the feeding of the 5,000, that is recorded by all four gospel writers. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John all record the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000. It's the only one that all four mention. What is unique to John's gospel is that there is a sequel to this miracle. There is a whole other story that follows and is related to this story, this miracle, that only John records. And that's primarily what we're going to be looking at today, the sequel to this miracle. So, let me pause and pray and then we'll dive through this chapter together. So, let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word today and we pray that you would use it to speak to our hearts. And we are always so grateful the way that you both challenge us and encourage

us as we open up your word and have you speak to our hearts today. So, Lord, use this story to do just that. And I thank you for each person here and for those who are watching online. We pray, God, this would bring you much glory as we study your word together and that you would delight to see your children walking in the truth. So, help us now, we pray, to apply these things to our own hearts and lives. We love you in Jesus' name. And everybody said, Amen. So, as we make our way through this chapter, and again, you know, this is a lot of reading today, but I want you to see everything that happens here. There's a little segue between the miracle and the sequel. The segue is between verses 15 and 21. And I'll just summarize verses 15 to 21. After the miracle of defeating the 5,000, it tells us that evening sets, and the disciples get into a boat, and they are rowing their way back to Capernaum on the northern coast of the Sea of Galilee, which is where Jesus' home base of ministry was. Now, Jesus didn't get in the boat with them. He sent them in the boat. They went. The Bible says that Jesus went up on a mountain alone. You know, after a long day of ministry, I'm sure he just needed some time to recharge, and to draw near to the Father. But in addition, it tells us that because of the miracle of defeating the 5,000 plus, that the people wanted to make Jesus king. And that was premature. So, Jesus departed from them before they could somehow forcefully make Him king, goes up on this mountain where He's alone. His disciples now, it's the middle of the night, they're in the Sea of Galilee, rowing their way back to Capernaum, when all of a sudden a storm arises on the sea. And the Bible says that Jesus then comes to them, so He, you know, either just divinely knows this, or can observe it from His vantage point on this mountain. And He sees that the disciples are in distress in their boat, and John records that Jesus walks on water to get to them there in the Sea of Galilee, another moment where God is defying natural law. That's what a miracle is. Climbs into the boat with them, calms the storm. And verse 21 tells us that immediately the boat, once Jesus got in it, landed on the shore of Capernaum. So, you have a few miracles right there, where you have Jesus walking on the water, He gets in the boat, and immediately they're transported right to

the shore of Capernaum. So, that must have been kind of a startling event for the disciples, like, what just happened? You know, there they are in the middle of the sea, in the middle of a storm, and now all of a sudden they're docked at Capernaum. But that's what the Bible tells us there. So, that's where Jesus and His disciples are now. They're in Capernaum. And the next morning, the 5,000 plus or so that had been wonderfully fed by Jesus the day before, ok, we'll refer to them as the eaters, ok. The eaters, they wake up the next morning and they wonder where Jesus is. They don't see Him around. Pick up the story in verse 24, When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they also got into boats and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus. Now, underline or highlight the word, seeking. We'll come back to that in a moment. So, they come to Capernaum seeking Jesus. And when they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, Rabbi, when did you come here? And Jesus answered them and said, Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him. And then they said to Him, What shall we do? That we may work the works of God and Jesus answered and said to them This is the work of God that you believe in him whom he sent All right, pause there. So this starts the sequel that only John records. That is a follow-up to the feeding of the 5,000 the group of eaters wake up the next morning and Well, guess what? It's breakfast time. They're hungry again. So they're like, where's Jesus, you know, I wonder what the menu is today I'm feeling like bagels and lox. You know what I'm saying? Do you where is Jesus and they're looking around? They're looking around and his disciples to cannot find them. Well, they understand his home base of ministry is Capernaum So they're like we're gonna get in boats. We're gonna go find him. Okay, we want another free meal That's what they're looking for. They get in the boats. They get it to Capernaum. They find Jesus. They're like Jesus rabbi How long have you been here? Why didn't you tell us you were leaving? You know, this is what is insinuated here and Jesus basically says to them and I'm paraphrasing You did not seek me for me

You seek me for you Because I filled your belly with food and now you're hungry again And so you've come to find another meal and he confronts them Their their objective their motivation is not to seek Jesus for Jesus Their motivation is to seek Jesus for what Jesus can give them Their passion for Jesus was for something physical Whereas Jesus is passion for them was for something spiritual But because they were so focused and it might even be safe to say obsessed with their own physical demands They were not interested in spiritual truth And what we find sadly in this chapter is a slow progression downward away from Jesus where because he doesn't meet their expectations and their demands They end up going in a cycle spiraling downward and here's here's the progression Some of those from the feeding of the 5,000 they start out as seekers That's the word I had you to circle in verse 24. They came to Capernaum seeking Jesus But it tells us through the story and we're gonna see here that they go from being seekers to complainers to quarrelers to deserters They end up actually no longer following Jesus at all Because they're disappointed in him This is this terrible progression that happens here in chapter 6 that only John talks about and why is it that they go from seekers to complainers to quarrelers to deserters Here's the reason all because they didn't get from Jesus what they wanted and they didn't want from Jesus what he offered All right. Now keep that in mind and we're gonna see this downward progression here away from Jesus as we look at how this Conversation unfolds and as we read through this conversation I instead of giving you points, which I normally do in a teaching like point 1 2 & 3. I'm gonna offer us challenging questions and I'm gonna offer the questions in the first person because I want to ask myself these questions as much as I Want you to ask yourself these questions and I want us to be challenged about what we see happening in here

So that we can avoid this same path All right, hopefully all of us are seekers of Jesus We we want we want to see Jesus and know Jesus and have relationship with Jesus But there is a problem with with us not with him that can lead to this downward spiral of going from a seeker to a complainer to a quarreler to A deserter so may it not happen to us I'm going to show you some challenging questions out of this out of the scene here, but let's read again verse 28 So just keep your Bibles open. We're gonna go straight through this chapter verse 28 again They say what shall we do that? We may work the works of God and Jesus answered and said to them This is the work of God that you believe in him whom he sent Therefore they said to him what sign will you perform then that we may see it and believe you What work will you do? Gonna pause there and ask yourself. That's a curious question that they're asking him, right? What will you do to perform for us so that we might believe in you? Excuse me just yesterday Right just yesterday. He fed thousands of people with five loaves and two fish Like what more are you wanting him to do in order for you to believe in him? I find I find their questioning very peculiar Here that verse 30 what sign will you perform that we may see it and believe you Do we understand that God is not obligated to perform for us? The very question is insulting What are you gonna do to perform for us? What are you gonna do to fancy us so that then we might actually believe in you and I think to myself Didn't he already do enough for them that that amazing miracle the feeding of thousands should have been enough for them to believe in him But it wasn't something of late like that was yesterday, you know, it reminds me of the 1980s Janet Jackson song What have you done for me lately? Right? This is the way they're coming at Jesus like okay, we know about what happened yesterday But what have you done for us today? What have you done for us lately and before we're too critical of them. Here's a challenging question for us How many times has God worked in my life?

But I didn't really appreciate it because I was already looking for the next thing that he could do for me Now think about that you know, how quick are we to move to the next thing without really appreciating what he's already done for us and Here's kind of a companion question with that Do I spend more time praying for something that I want than I do praising God for what he's done. I Mean I can't tell you the number of times I felt convicted about you know, here's my list and Lord Please do this and please do that and please do this and please and I'm going from one request to another without really stopping for very long to Thank him for when he does answer prayer and even when he doesn't the way that I think you should because it means that his best is better than my request and And we get into this habit of just meet my needs and do this and and do that like feed me again feed me again And wait a minute. What did he just do? How about us pausing long enough to give him? Thanks for what he's already done Well in this continuing dialogue the eaters get a little snarky with Jesus. Yes, they do Look at verse 31 They say well our fathers ate the manna in the desert as it is written He gave them bread from heaven to eat and then Jesus said to them most assuredly I say to you Moses did not give you the bread from heaven But my father gives you the true bread from heaven For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world and then they said to him Lord Give us this bread always Like, you know, they're not only Questioning they're demanding they're just like well, why don't you just give us this bread then because he sets them straight Here's here's what they say to him. They basically say this, you know, listen our You know forefathers were fed in the wilderness because Moses provided manna for them And then they quote the scripture and Jesus says well, let me just kind of clarify the scripture there It wasn't really Moses who provided manna. Okay, it was it was God the Father It was God in heaven who provided the miracle of the manna. Oh, and by the way God has provided for you a better bread that will offer more

Sustenance than that manna was in the wilderness for your forefathers and they're like, okay. Yeah, really? Well, why don't you give us some of this bread? That's what's going down here now I think to myself how how patient Jesus must have been with people who constantly did not Understand what he was saying to them like he's speaking to them in spiritual terms But they're thinking purely in natural physical terms. So here they are having this conversation about bread and they're thinking like natural bread that they would eat and he's trying to communicate to them a Sustenance a bread a spiritual sustenance that is far greater than that natural bread, but they're not getting it Okay, this is very similar to the conversation a few weeks ago with a woman at the well remember she's coming there to draw water literal water natural water to drink and Jesus says to her I have some living water and if you take of the living water You'll not have to come back here and and drink again, you know Because what he's saying is I'm the living water if you have a relationship with me I will quench the deepest thirst of your soul that this well can only touch Physically I'm gonna touch your soul and your heart with living water and she's like well, sir Give me some of this living water so I don't have to come back to this well again, and he's like, oh, hey You know, you're not understanding yet. It's like it's like I'm talking to you about me. I'm not talking about natural water I'm using symbolic terms here to get you to understand. There's a thirst in your heart, right? She's like, yeah, I've been married five times. He goes. Yeah the guy you're living with you're not even married to so you're thirsty Yeah, so I'm gonna give you something that'll quench that thirst like nothing else, okay now she eventually gets it But the same thing is happening here They're like we're hungry. We want bread. We've shown up here We've you know, we've wrote our boats and we've come ashore and we'd like you to give us some more bread How about some bread and he's like you understand I got some bread for you All right But I got bread for you that's come down from heaven because if you have a relationship with me It will satisfy the deepest hunger of your heart and you'll never hunger again When you know me because I'm gonna satisfy your soul and they don't get they're like, why don't you give us some of this bread? We'll just have it always so then he has to say to them plainly verse 35 Jesus said to them I am the bread of life Okay, he's like open your eyes. I am the bread of life. Sometimes we're a little slow

Right, you know just in life in general our middle child Austin that you know, you you see him every once in a while. He's up here from time to time Yeah, he has brown hair, but he but down deep he's blonde. I'm just telling you I'm He's a blonde guy. I'm just telling you now Some of you are blonde. You're like, did he just insult us? You wouldn't know but anyway you know, I'm just it's a blonde thing, but Years ago years ago. So like like Austin's I got her like 14 and he and and there's an event after church And he was ready to run off with friends I said, hey don't don't leave just yet because we're having some punch and cake after church and he looks at me and he goes What kind of cake is punch and cake? Oh Brother and I could go I could go on and on I had to say it really slowly like punch and Cake Oh Punching cake. Okay, so that's what's happening here. He's like I am the bread of life. I've come down from heaven I'm not talking about croissants. Okay. All right So He says there verse 35 I am the bread of life he who comes to me shall never hunger and he who believes in me shall never thirst But I said to you that you have seen me and yet you do not believe All that the father gives me will come to me and the one who comes to me I will by no means cast out for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him Who sent me? Verse 39. This is the will of the father who sent me That of all he has given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up at the last day And this is the will of him who sent me that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have everlasting life And I will raise him up at the last day verse 41 the Jews then Complained see it they go from seekers now to complainers They complained about him because he said I am the bread which came down from heaven and they said is not this Jesus the son Of Joseph whose father and mother we know. How is it then that he says I have come down from heaven pause there

You see this downward progression here It's very sad If you remember when we first opened up the story back in verse 14 They are they marvel at Jesus because he just fed thousands of people with five loaves and two fish So in verse 14, they say this is the prophet who has come into the world now what's happened to oh This is the prophet is coming to the world now. They've reduced him to isn't this just the son of Joseph? This is just that Jesus son of Joseph guy. We know his parents right? He's just like one of us How dare he say he's come down from heaven? So they've gone from marveling at him To now just reducing them to you're just one of us like who do you think you are and they're complaining about him and why? because Jesus has not performed for them He's not performed for them So here's another question for us is Jesus still Lord of all to me even when he doesn't do all that I want This is an important question because it has to do with lordship Is Jesus only Lord when he does what I want? When he fills my belly When he meets my need or is he Lord all the time because that's who he is Well keep reading verse 43 Jesus therefore answered and said to them do not murmur among yourselves because he hears they're complaining No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him and I will raise him up at the last day He keeps making that comment about raising up at the last day because it's the hope of eternal life that you know The dead in Christ shall rise and we get glorified bodies and we go to be with the Lord forever And so he's reminding people of this and verse 45 He says it is written in the prophets and they shall all be taught by God Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the father comes to me not that anyone has seen the father except he who is from God He has seen the father talking about himself most assured I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. I am

the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world." The Jews therefore, verse 52, quarreled. There's the next progression. They go from seekers, to complainers, to quarrelers. They quarreled among themselves saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? So now, they're just quarrelsome and argumentative. They just have bad attitudes. They don't like what Jesus is saying. Not only is He not delivering according to their demands, but now He's saying things that to their ears sounds confusing. And by the way, ever since Jesus said what He did here, there has continued to be quarreling over His words throughout the Church Age, ok? Particularly among Roman Catholics versus the Protestant view of what Jesus is saying here in John chapter 6. Now, I'll get to that in a minute, but I want you to especially see why the debate is what it is today. If you read further the words of Jesus, because the things that He says further become even a little more complicated. Look at verse 53, Then Jesus said to them, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh, and drinks My blood, has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh, and drinks My blood, abides in Me, and I in him. As

the Living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from Heaven. Not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever. These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum. Ok, your attention for a moment here. So, Roman Catholics have a very different take than the Protestant Church. Roman Catholics take what He says here very literally. So much so that they believe in a doctrine called the doctrine of transubstantiation. Now, those of you with Catholic backgrounds know what this is about. But for those of you without a background, here's basically what transubstantiation believes. It is the belief that when you partake of the Mass, and you take of the wafer, and you take of the wine, that the wafer actually miraculously becomes the body of Jesus when you ingest it, and the wine actually becomes the blood of Jesus when you ingest it. I get emails from time to time, as I've said this over the years from Catholics who don't know their own doctrine who say that is not true. Read your own catechism. That is what they believe. That there is this miraculous, they believe based on the words of Jesus here, that you have to eat His flesh and drink of His blood. That when you partake of the elements there is this transubstantiation moment where those things become the flesh and the blood of Jesus. Ok, as Protestants we don't embrace that. We don't believe that. We believe that the elements are symbolic. That the bread is symbolic of His body. That the wine or the juice is symbolic of His blood. That His real presence is there when we share communion

together, but not in a literal sense where we are partaking of His body and of His blood. Ok, Jesus was not into cannibalism. He was not asking us to partake and eat of His flesh in a literal way. Please understand there are many places in the Bible where Jesus used very extreme terminology to communicate an extreme point. But He wasn't always being literal. Example, there is a place where Jesus also said, if your hand causes you to sin cut it off. If your eye causes you to sin pluck it out. Now, if He actually meant that literally we'd all look like pirates walking around with patches on our eyes and hooks on our hands. Ok, He didn't mean it literally. He means it seriously. He means I want you to live your life in such a way that you drastically deal with sin in your life. Ok, so how do we know He doesn't mean it literally here? Keep reading with me and He says so in verse 60, therefore many of His disciples when they heard this said, this is a hard saying who can understand it. That's true right? This is hard. Verse 61, when Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this He said to them, does this offend you? What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? It is, this is verse 63, it is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh profits nothing, the words that I speak to you Spirit and they are life Okay If he meant it literally he would have said the words I speak to you are literal He says the words I speak to you are spirit These have spiritual meanings and the spiritual meaning is that you must be all in with me There's no such thing as a partial Christian You were either fully invested. He's either fully Lord or he's not at all and

And what he's saying here is you have to consume me and be consumed with me because Jesus offered his all when he died on a cross for us and he wants nothing less of us in the sense of Complete surrender not partial surrender. Not he's he's he's a Lord a little bit of my life He's Lord over a part of my life. He needs to be Lord of all or he's not Lord at all Does everybody get this and that means that we have to make a full-on commitment? full-on commitment So this is why he's using spiritual language here, but you have to be consumed with me. This is not some casual Relationship. This is not some I'm partially invested You have to be all in because Jesus is all in with us Sacrificed his life gave his life on a cross for us Didn't just do a little bit went fully in to redeem us from our sin and from a wicked world. So verse 64 He goes on he says but there are some of you who do not believe for Jesus knew from the beginning who were there Who they were who did not believe and who would betray him and he said therefore I have said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by my father and from that time on look at this verse 66 from that time many of his disciples went back and walked with him no more they deserted him and Isn't it ironic? It's it's John 6 6 6. All right. It is. It's John 6 verse 66 Where his disciples said forget you and they desert they go from seekers to complainers to quarrelers to deserters Now when it says his disciples Would no longer walk with him they deserted him. It's not talking specifically about the 12 Anyone who was a follower of Jesus in the day was considered a disciple That means a student even today we can be considered disciples or followers or students of Christ So he's not this is not a reference to the 12. He's gonna have a separate conversation in a moment with them But there were many of his disciples who at this moment when he says all of this and he doesn't perform for them They just say well we're out of here and they desert him and here's a couple of questions for us to ask number one do I pursue Jesus for who he is or only for what he can give me and Along those lines do I draw near to him to seek his face or to seek his hand? Like in other words, do I want to have relationship with him because I want to behold him Or is it only because I want to see what's in his hand for me. I want to hand out

You know Lord meet my need do this. I have these demands. Here's my list That's all you're good for So to close out this chapter Jesus then after some disciples leave him He turns to his own 12 and he has a very personal moment here with them This is the last of the chapter look at verse 67 and then Jesus said to the 12. Do you also want to go away? But Simon Peter answered him Lord To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life also, we have come to believe and know that you are the Christ the Son of the Living God and Jesus answered them that I not choose you the twelve and One of you is a devil He spoke of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon for it was he who would betray him being one of the twelve Notice if you will Simon's answer and we'll close with this It Must have broken Jesus's heart to see all these people You know rowing in on boats to Capernaum because they're looking for another free meal They didn't really want to seek Jesus for Jesus. They wanted to seek Jesus for themselves He has this dialogue with them about bread and how would I had to offer you will provide? eternal Satisfaction to the appetites of your soul if you have a relationship with me I offer you the bread of life that came down from heaven and he's Dialoguing with him about all this and he's saying you got to be fully in you got to be fully committed you you have to really Be consumed with me or this isn't gonna work because I'm fully in for you and At this point they go from seekers to complainers to quarrelers and then they just desert him and in this moment no doubt Jesus's heart is broken as they just walk away and he turns to his own twelve and He says, what about you guys? You want to leave too? And I just love Simon Peter's answers like, Lord, where else shall we go? Like you're the only one. You're everything. You're our hope. You're our peace. You're our joy. You're our salvation. There is no one else. There is nowhere else to go. And on top of that, we

believe that you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. You have the words of eternal life. There's no one else. We have to be at that place too, where there's no one else. It's Jesus completely. We're fully in. So last two questions for us. Am I convinced that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God? And am I committed to following Jesus because I know that there are no other options for eternal life besides him? God said through Isaiah the prophet in Isaiah 45 5, I am the Lord and there is no other. There is no other God besides me, says the Lord. Are you fully in? Corrie ten Boom, that survivor of Nazi prison camp, would say, you will never know that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. May that be our story. Amen. Let's pray together. Father, we thank you, Lord, for your word and we thank you for this chapter, a strong chapter that reminds us that being your disciple means we have to be fully in. Consumed with you is the bread of life who's come down from heaven to offer us what this world cannot offer. This world promises much but delivers very little. But Lord, you offer us life through faith in you. You offer us forgiveness of sins and you offer us life after death that when we die we'll go to be with you in heaven and you came down to redeem us, to save us. So we thank you, Lord, and we pray that we would be fully invested, that we would see you as Lord of all, otherwise you're not Lord at all. And so, Lord, examine our hearts today. Forgive us if we've only come to you because of what we want to get from you. If you don't give us another thing, you've already given us more than enough. You died on a cross, offered your life for the salvation of all who would believe and receive you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. You are so good and gracious and giving and sacrificing. Help us, Lord, to always seek your face and to never move in the direction of these folks who went from seeker to complainer to quarreler to deserter. Lord, may we always follow after you, fully in, and we thank you. Thank you, Lord, that you rescued us. In Jesus' name and all God's people said, amen and amen. God bless you all.