The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 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 mself-SermOn
by the "Highway and By
way Preacher.
Copyright, 1902, by a. N. kellogg News
paper Col
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Chicago, 1902.
Text.-"Iam the Living Bread which came
Gown from Heaven: if any man eat OF TINS
| Bread, he shall live forever: ard the Bread
that will give is My flesh. which will give
for the life of the id.'-John e:5l.
Introductory.-The Gospel as re-
corded by John is the dsepest 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, ye
might have life through His name
John reverently and faithfully
starts his story ''in 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
| 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.
1t IS to these six declarations of
| Christ we wish to direct your atten-
| ton, and the Lord willing, and with
| His help, we viii 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 "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 1.-The Way, and
the Truth, and the Life" and as ''the
! True Vine" Today 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 wouIu 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 4 Sc
| cluded spot, for He perceives that, al
! though the stomachs of the people have
| been filled, 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
| 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 filled with the loaves and fishes.
! And a similar company of people with
| d
! Christ to-day.
| The Type.-The temper of the jew
ish 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 >he world to feed a perishing
world. To paraphrase what the Jews
said to Jesus would be som ething like
this: "You have just fed the great
multitude in the wilderness by the
miraculous increase 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 showcst Thou.
that we may see and believe? What
dost Thou work?" But they made q
vital mistake and overlooked an i'm
portant point, TO both of which Jesus
at once calls their attentions. "True,
your fathers did eat mama in the will
| derness, but they died, notwiths tand-
ing. And Moses did not give Them that
bread from Heaven, but Ny Father
! giveth the True Bread from. Heaven.
! For the Bread of God is He which COM
eth down from Heaven, and Eiveth life
unto the world. The mama. was not
the True Bread from Heaver. but was
only the type of the True Bread for the
| True Bread from Heaven giveth life
unto the world, but your fathers who
ate the mama died, did they not 2"
The mamma did not go beyond the physi-
cal life. 1t sustained life for a time,
but the fathers all died in due process
of time But the True Bread from
| Heaven was sent not to feed the physi-
cal body, but to give life unto the
soul. Hence Jesus begins His :alk by
appealing to them not to labor for the
meat which perisheth, but for that
meat which endureth unto Everlasting
Life A double paradox, a S Mr.. Moody
used to put it. for He tells them to
work not for the perishable food, which