Community Baptist Church Hastings

I Am The Bread of Life 11/1/26
John 6:35

Category Bread Jesus, The Bread of Life
Bread
specifically or
food in general

Biblical diet: wheat or barley, 50-
70% of food consumed. You need
food to live physically.

You need “The Bread of Life,” to
live spiritually.

Old Testament

Unleavened bread for Passover, Ex
12:8. Leaven associated with sin,
1Cor 5:6-8

Jesus is without sin, unleavened
bread, 1Joh 3:5

Mannah, bread from heaven, Ex
16:13-32, gathered daily

Jesus: the bread from heaven (see
also John 6 below); given by God,
part of daily life

Bread as sacrifice, Lev 2:4,11

Jesus, the Passover Lamb is also
sacrificed as the Bread of Life, Rom
8:3
Showbread, literally “bread of the
face,” Ex 25:30, Lev 24:5-6,8,
reminder of God’s presence,
covenant and provision

Jesus is Emmanuel, the presence of
God with us, His is the New
Covenant, and His provision of
everlasting life.

Feast of Unleavened Bread, Lev
23:6ff

Jesus fulfills this feast by sacrificing
His sin free, unleavened” life, and
dying without corruption. 1Pet 2:22

New Testament

Physical bread gives life

Jesus is the (Spiritual) Bread of Life,
Luk 6:32, 33, 35,

Bread as metaphor, spiritual life is
more important than physical life

1) During the temptation, Mat 4:3-
4, Deu 8:3
2) Woman at the well Joh 4:32
3) After feeding the 5000, Joh 26 ff.
Mat 5:6

The Lord’s Supper, end of the
Passover meal, Mat 26:26

By His sacrifice, Jesus, the Bread of
Life gives eternal life to His
followers, This my body for you.
1Cor 11:24

Application

Fasting: abstinence of eating or other activity. Whenever we fast, we
demonstrate to God that the spiritual is more important than the physical.
Mat 6:16-18 (“When you fast,” not if)
Digestion: we daily eat food, digest, the body absorbs and it literally
becomes part of us. We should follow the same process for Jesus and God’s
Word. Daily intake, digestion, chewing on His word, meditating,
memorizing, praying over it until it becomes part of us.
Spiritual life is more important than physical life. Mat 10:28. So, we need
to take our spiritual nourishment even more seriously than we do our
physical.