How much would one slice of bread be worth to us if it were the only food left on earth? Jesus uses one of the most basic facts of human life to explain the way of salvation. We all understand that if we want to live, we need to eat. If we don’t eat, we don’t live. There is no other alternative. Yet, Jesus challenged the lasting value of earthly bread. To those who murmured at his words, Jesus said, “Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.” Earthly bread cannot sustain us beyond the grave. For that, we need a much different kind of bread. So Jesus says plainly, “I am the bread of life. He that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst.” “And the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
Jesus laid down His life for us, only to take it up again, and promises that we too will rise. That is real bread. That is bread with lasting value beyond the grave, “that a man may eat thereof, and not die.” There is not a single sinner who is beyond hope, as if his sins are too great for God to forgive. Jesus provides everything needful. Jesus gives the bread that gives us eternal life. He gave his life on the cross for us all. He made satisfaction for all sins before God. No matter how great your sins may be, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”
- Pastor Wyatt Rosebrock