Bread of Life

John 6:35 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 .

We are created in such a way that we need food to survive.  We can go for periods without food and will survive for a time, but our bodies will be starving. We will not be able to live forever that way and will eventually die.  Jesus tells us He is our bread of life. He is the food that will nourish us so that we never hunger or thirst. He is the bread of “absolute fullness of life, both essential and ethical.” Jesus is the food that sustains our being beyond any physical satisfaction.

However, these promises are only for those who come to Him.  These promises are only for those who establish themselves in, become known to, and fall into the arms of Jesus Christ. There were many disciples who followed Jesus during his year of popularity, but shortly after He spoke these words Scripture tells us that “from that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him,” (John 6:66, KJV).  Many had followed Jesus and seen the miracles He performed.  They claimed to believe Jesus was the Son of God, but their true belief was revealed as they walked away from Him when the fire came.  When they were met with adversity and the challenge to choose what they truly believed, all but twelve of the disciples ran. They did not establish themselves in their relationship with Jesus, but rather satisfied themselves in His presence until the cost became too high.

This is the same glitter as today, an experience that people seek to fulfill their fleshly hunger and thirst. But when it comes time to walk out the living Christ, who Christ is in them, they haven’t counted the cost of a relationship with Jesus Christ and fall away. When we establish ourselves in Christ, it is so much more than saying, “I believe in God.”  Even the demons believe, as James 2:19 says. This belief is dead without walking in fellowship with our Lord and Savior.

Bread: artos 740

food of any kind

Life: Zoe 2222

the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate

every living soul life

of the absolute fulness of life, both essential and ethical, which belongs to God, and through him both to the hypostatic "logos" and to Christ in whom the "logos" put on human nature

life real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, in the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but after the resurrection to be consummated by new accessions (among them a more perfect body), and to last for ever.

Come Erchomai 2064

to come

of persons

to come from one place to another, and used both of persons arriving

to appear, make one's appearance, come before the public

metaph.

to come into being, arise, come forth, show itself, find place or influence

be established, become known, to come (fall) into or unto

to go, to follow one

hunger Peinao 3983

to hunger, be hungry

to suffer want

to be needy

metaph. to crave ardently, to seek with eager desire

believe Pisteuo 4100

to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in of the thing believed

to credit, have confidence in a moral or religious reference used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul

to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith 1bc) mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith

to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity

to be intrusted with a thing

thirst Dipsao 1372

to suffer thirst, suffer from thirst

figuratively, those who are said to thirst who painfully feel their want of, and eagerly long for, those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, strengthened