Zeke Murley

PASSOVER — EXODUS / MANNA / THE LAMB / BLOOD / DELIVERANCE

1ST MIRACLE : FEEDING OF 5000 — BREAD / PROPHET LIKE MOSES / MAKE HIM KING

15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

John 6:15 ESV

2ND MIRACLE : WALKING ON WATER — SELF REVELATION / IT IS I (I AM — EGO EIMI)

20 But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”

John 6:20 ESV

CROWD CHASES JESUS — HUNGER / CHASING HIM FOR MORE BREAD

26 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. 27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

John 6:26–27 ESV

WORK OF GOD VS WORK OF MAN — BELIEF IN JESUS IS THE WORK OF MAN / SALVATION MOVES FROM LAW TO HIMSELF

29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

John 6:29 ESV

MOSES VS JESUS — MOSES FED US FOR 40 YEARS / IT WASN’T MOSES WHO FED YOU / IT WAS NOT TRUE BREAD / DIDN’T GIVE LIFE / SOMETHING GREATER THAN EXODUS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW

Some of you are still testifying about what God did ten years ago because you haven’t recognised what He’s doing today. You cannot build the future by living emotionally in the past.

ESCALATION — BREAD TO FLESH

53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59 Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.

The Words of Eternal Life

60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? 62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) 65 And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”

John 6:53–69 ESV