The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-31
CHRIST THE BREAD.
Discourse on One of the Six Striking
Claims of Jesus.
Figures of Speech Which He Used In
Speaking of Himself-Sermon
by the sHighway and By
way" Preacher.
copyright. 1902. by A. N. Kellogg News
paper Col
rbicago 1902.

copyright, 1902, by A. N. kellogg News
paper Col
Chicago, 1902.
Text am the Living Bread which came
down from eaven If any man eat OF TINS
Bread. he hi live forever: and the Bread
that l viii give is My flesh, which will give
for the hfe Of the world "-Joh COL.
interchangeable Gospel as re-
corded by John is the deepest and
most profound of all the four Cos
pels. Under the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit he wrote, that ye might
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son OF God; and that, believing, We
might have life through His name.
Matthew presents the Christ IN his
kingly aspect, giving His genealogy
from Abraham, the father of the
Jewish nation, down through the
royal line of King David, n
telling of the heavenly mani
f~estation of the star in the
east, the visit of the wise men,
their gifts and their homage, all be-
fitting the advent of a king. Mark
plunges into the life of Christ at the
point where He begins His active
ministry, and holds Him up as the
servant, the key text of the book be-
ing found in its closing verse: The
Lord working" Luke traces the an
cestrv of Christ back to Adam and
Identifies Him from the very begin
ming of his Gospel with nkln
He unfolds the human side of
svJ,.As, I.fn ,orna1;n~ Him nc the
Son of man. the perfect man.
But John ~reverently and faithfully
starts his story lin the beginning
with God" introduces the reader to
the Christ as ~coeXistent with God,
and records such acts and words OF
His as reveal Him as the Son of God.
For this reason we find in Johns
Gospel some most startling, but SIM
pie, declarations of Christ in regard
to Himself, and which are to be
found in none of the other Gospels.
There are six of these declarations
ton, and which, as we have said,
are to be found in none of the other
three Gospels.
1t is to these six declarations of
Christ we wish to direct your atten-
tion. and the Lord willing, and with
His help, we will endeavor to unfold
in a series of six sermons, each COM
plete in itself, the marvellous and
blessed truth which they contain,
May the Lord, by His Holy Spirit,
enable us as speaker and hearers to
so speak and so hear that we shall
come to know Christ as never before,
as 1.-The Living Bread of God" as 1.-The
Light of the world" as the only
-'Door'' into the fold of God, as "the
Good Shepherd" as "the Way, and
the Truth. and the Life" and as "the
True Vine" To-day we are to speak
of Christ as the Living Bread"
Text Setting.-The words of our
text were spoken by Jesus during a
discourse called forth by the feeding
of the 5000 and the subsequent desire
and purpose of the multitude to make
Jesus their king. The disciples are
troubled, for it is a desert place and
the 5000 men, besides women and chill
dren. are tired and hungry. In their
eagerness in finding Jesus they have
recklessly disregarded every physical
need. Oh. that to-day we might be as
eager to find Jesus! The difficulties
which the human reason can offer
against the wisdom of such eager
search woum quickly disappear before
the certain blessing and feeding at the
hands of the Lord. The great company
of people sled, the fragments are care
fully gathered and the disciples sent
away across the lake in their ship,
while Jesus w%ithdraws Himself to a Sc
cluded spot. for He perceives that. al
though the stomachs of the people have
been flied. their hearts haye not been
touched. and they would make Him
their king for the sake of material
blessings. During the night Jesus
Joins His disciples. walking to them
upon the sea, and teaching Peter and
the rest Of the disciples hat CREATES
son of faith. But before the day has
fairly begun the multitudes come flock
ing back to the city seeking Him. Then
it is that He rebukes them by charging
that they. seek Him not because they
beheld the unseen Hand of God mani
tested in the miraculous feeding of the
multitudes, but because their bellies
were filed with the loaves and fishes
And a similar company of people witt
the same material aims are focking tc
Christ to-day.
The Type.-The temper of the jew
ish nultitudes is readily seen in theil
quick defense, as they suppose, oil
Moses, Their blind loyalty to the ira
ditions of their fathers and their re
markable national history prevent
their perceiving that the prophet like
unto Moses. and vet greater thal
Moses. was before them, and that the
mamma which fed the children of IsTae
in the wilderness was but a type of thu
true Mamma which God "a to sent
into the world to feed a perishins
world. To paraphrase what the jew
said to Jesus would be something lik'
this: "You have just fed the grea
multitude in the wilderness by th'
miraculous increase of the loaves AM
fishes, but do not forget that ou,
fathers did eat mama in the desert
Moses did not multiply loaves ant
fishes, but he gave them bread RICH
from Heaven, a greater miracle
Therefore, what sign showest Thou
that we may see and believe? VIVA
dost Thou work." But they made
vital mistake and overlooked an i'm
portant point, to both of which Jesu
at once calls their attention. "True