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HE rs THE BREAD 0FLIFE
LESSON YIN, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 20.


vi, 34-Commentary by the Rev. ID. NJ.
stearns.
Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by
permission of II. S. Hoffman, publisher, Phil
adelphia.l
g. Jesus answered them and said, Yer
lily, verify, / say unto you, Ye seek me,
not because ye saw the miracles, but be
cause ye did eat of the loaves and vert
filled"
He reads their hearts, He sees their blind.
ness, and that their only thought Is for
food for the body. Were they not very
like multitudes in our own day, and like
very many who bear the name of Jesus, but
yet are wholly given up to laboring merely
for food and raiment2
81 Labor not for the meat which per
isheth, but for that meat which endureth
unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man
shall give unto you"
We are reminded of the question in lisa.
", 3, Wherefore do ye spend money for
that which is not breadS And your labor
for that which satisfieth not2 Hearken
diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which
IS good, and let your soul delight itself in
fatness"
For Him hath God the Father sealed"
This is given as the reason why the Son
Of Man is qualified to give the meat which
endureth. BY comparing Eph. i, 10; iv,
80, with Acts X 38; John iii, 80, 81 it
seems to refer to His being sent by the
Father and filled with the Spirit. These
are our qualifications also.
2S. "Then said they unto Him, What
shall we do that we might work the works
of God2"
He spoke of giving them enduring meat
as His gift. They talk of doing something,
so blind were they and so blind are we to
Gods way. How much had they done in
the matter of being fed a little while before
on the other side of the sea?
20. Jesus answered and said unto them
This is the work of God, that ye believe on
Him whom He hath sent"
They spoke of doing the works of God
He speaks Of the work of God, for it is inn
possible for God to work through instrti-
ments which He does not control To be-
lieve on Him Is to receive Him (John /, 12).
Sc. 'iThey said, therefore, unto Him,
What sign showest Thou, then, that we
may see and believe Thee? What dost
Thou work."
1t does not seem possible that those who
tion of five loaves and two fishes to feed
five thousand men could ask for a sign.
81. Our fathers did eat mama in the
desert; as it is written, He gave them bread
from heaven to eat"
Reminding Him that in the wilderness
the people were fed with mamma every day,
and doubtless saying in their hearts, "You
fed us yesterday, it is true, but now feed
afroir, tA1o Il f,tI
80. "Then Jesus said unto them, Verify,
verify, say unto you, Moses gave You not
that bread from heaven; but my Father
giveth you the true bread from heaven"
He would direct their thoughts not to
Moses, nor even to Himself but to the
Father in heaven This he always did
49, For the bread of God is lie which
cometh down from heaven and giveth life
unto the world"
Bread is mentioned in this chapter six
teen times, and at least ten times it refers
to the True Bread. BY considering verses
30, 80, "a, 80, Al, 49, SO, 81, So, and their con
text, it will be seen that He is Himself the
True Bread, and that we are to eat Him,
or eat His flesh and drink His blood oversees
$780, which, by comparing verses "a and
AZ, will he seen to mean that we are to be-
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of obtaining eternal life.
"a. Then said they unto Him, Lord,
evermore give us this bread.
Like the woman at the WELL who said,
"Sir, give me this water, that thirst not
neither come hither to draw" Chapter w.
15), she thought only of natural water,
and they think only of natural bread.
5. And Jesus said unto them, am the
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never hunger, and he that believeth on me
shall never thirst"
Continuing the thoughts of the last
verse that He Is our forgiveness, our peace,
our assurance, our salvation, read such
words as Eph. /, 8, Z; ii, IA; II Tim i, H.
lisa. xii, 2, and do as the people did with
the words of Hezekiah, rest yourself upon
these words Oh Chron. xxi, 8 and you
will know the meaning of this verse of our
lesson. Hunger and thirst" is phrase
embracing all individual needs and unsat-
isfied desires of man. in all their variety.
80, But l said unto you, That ye also
have seen me and believe not"
There are some of you that believe not.
aye will not come to me. "How often
would |, and ye would not" "In return
ing and rest shall We be saved and We
would not" "They despised the pleasant
land; they believed not His word" "They
could not enter in because of unbelief''
Verse Ga; chapter V, 40; Matt xiii 81;
lisa xxx, Is; Ps. cvi, "a; Heb. iii, 19).
Such is the sad refrain all through Script
ure, while the loving, tender heart of God
Is seen in such words as these, "Oh that
my people had hearkened unto me, and
Israel had walked in my waysl
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finest of the wheat, and with honey out of
the rock should have satisfied thee ops.
Xxi, 1916.
81 "All that the Father giveth me shall
come to me, and him that cometh to me
will in no wise cast out"
The last part of this verse is familiar to
all Bible readers and gospel hearers, and
has given rest to many q soul which, hav-
ing come to Christ, has gone on rejoicing
and saying, "Thank God am not cast out,
have His word for it; and If not cast out
l am cast in, am saved"
80 For l came down from heaven, not
to do mine own will, but the will of Him
that sent me"
He sought not His own will but the will
of God the Father, which He delighted to
do ops. Xl, s., He sought not his own
glory, pub III Hll innings Blorlueu Gou
Chapter viii, so; xvii, A.
49, And this is the Fathers will which
hath sent me, that of all which He hath
given me should lose nothing, but should
raise it up again at the last day"
The elect will not enjoy perfected re-
dembtion till the resurrection of the just
at the coming of Christ for His saints duke
xiv, Ia; | Thess. iv, 1918
40. And this is the will of Him that
sent me- that every one which seeth the