The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-11-01
CHRIST THE BREAD.
Discourse on One of the Six Striking
Claims of Jesus.
Figures OF Speech which Ne Used In
Speaking OF Himself-sernon
By the "Highway and by
way" Preacher.
fcopyright. 1909, by A. N. Kellogg News
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copyright. 1900, by A. N. Kellogg News
paper Col
Chicago. Oct. %. 1902.
Text-'.Iam the Living Bread which came
down from Heaven: II any man eat OF this
Bread. he shall live forever: ard the Bread
that will give is My flesh. which will give
for the life Of the world. John 6:5l.
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 we might
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God; and that, believing, We
might have life through His name"
John reverently and faithfully
starts his story ''in the beginning
with dod," 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
to which we wish to call your atten-
ton, and which, as we have said,
are to be found in none of the other
three Gospels.
It is to these six declarations OF
Christ we wish to direct your attcn-
ton, and the Lord willing, and with
His help, we will endeavor to unfold
in series of six sermons, each COM
plcte in itself, the marvellous and
blessed truth which they contain.
May the Lord. by His Holy Spirit,
so speak and so hear that we shall
come to know Christ as never before,
as "the Living Bread of God" as "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 theft king. The disciples are
troubled, for it is 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 would quickly disappear before
the certain blessing and feeding at the
hands of the Lord. The great company
of people is fed, the fragments are care
fully gathered and the disciples sent
away across the lake in their ship,
while Jesus withdraws Himself to Sc
.cluded spot, for He perceives that, al
though the stomachs of the people have
been filed, their hearts have 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 that great les
son of faith. But before the day has
fairly begun the multitudes come flock
ing back to the city seeking Him. Then
81 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 with
the same material aims are focking to
Christ to-day.
The Type.-The temper Of the jew
fish multitudes is readily seen in their
quick defense, as they suppose, of
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 yet greater than
Moses, was before them, and that the
mamma which fed the children of Israel
in the wilderness was but type of the
true Mamma which God was to send
into the world to feed perishing
world. To paraphrase what the Jews
said to Jesus would be something like
this: "You have just fed the great
in the wilderness by the
increaxe of the loaves and
fishes, but do not forget that our
fathers did eat mama in the desert.
Moses did not multiply loaves and
fishes, but he gave them bread right |
from Heaven, greater miracle. |
Therefore, what sign showest Thou,
that we may see and believe? What |
dost Thou work?" But they made a |
vital mistake and overlooked an i'm
portant point, to both Of which Jesus
at once calls their attention. "True,
your fathers did ca mama in the will |
derness, but they died, notwithstand-
ing Ana Moses did not give them that
bread from Heaven, but MY father
giyeth the True Bread from Heaven.
For the Bread of God is He which CON-
eth down from Heaven, and giveth life
unto the world. The mama was not
the True Bread from Heaven, but was
only the type OF the True Bread, for the
True Bread from Heaven giveth life
INTO the world, but your fathers who
ate the mama died, did they not?"
The mama did not go beyond the physi-
cal life II sustained life for m time