John 6:35  Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to Me shall not hunger."
 

Christ's words "I am" take us back to Moses at the burning bush, where God declares,  "I am who I am" (Exodus 3:14). God is the great "I am." So is Jesus!

John's Gospel includes seven of our Savior's "I am" sayings. Seven is John's way of saying, "Jesus is the perfect Savior!" The first "I am" statement is in John 6:35, where Jesus says, "I am the bread of life." Christ explains it this way: "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die" (John 6:49-50).

Eating Christ's bread - trusting Him for forgiveness - means we will never die. Jesus isn't talking about physical death. He's talking about spiritual death. Spiritual death is what we deserve. Eternal life is what God gives.

"Life" is one of John's major themes. Life now. Life tomorrow. Life forever! In John, the verb live and the noun life appear fifty-three times. To give you some perspective, the words live and life appear thirty-four times in all of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

Life is why John wrote his Gospel. "These are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name" (John 20:31). Taste and believe that Jesus is the bread of life!

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