The manna from heaven sustained Israel in their wilderness wanderings. Christ, the true bread from heaven, feeds souls dead in sin with everlasting life. Today, R.C. Sproul examines Jesus’ self-description as “the bread of life.” Get R.C. Sproul’s book Who Is Jesus?, his teaching series Knowing Christ on DVD, and lifetime digital access to the messages and study guide for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3709/knowing-christ Meet Today’s Teacher: R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine. Meet the Host: Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children. Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they are dead. That is, the manna in the wilderness sustained them from day to day or from week to week, but eventually they died. This bread is different. I am the living bread.
In the Gospel of John, Jesus uses several metaphors to describe himself, including the bread of life, the light of the world, and the Good Shepherd. But what do they teach us about Jesus? Welcome to the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. And over the next few weeks, R.C. Sproul will walk us through several of these I Am sayings of Jesus from John's Gospel.
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Well, here's Dr. Sproul on why Jesus said that he's the bread of life.
Today we're going to start a brand new series of lectures, and we're going to be focusing our attention in this series on the person of Christ. We remember back to the occasion where Jesus met with his disciples at Caesarea Philippi. and he asked his disciples the question, who do men say that I am? And they gave the report of what the scuttlebutt around the countryside was about Jesus.
And then he turned back to the disciples and said, well, who do you say that I am? And it was on that occasion that Peter gave what is called the Great Confession, when he said, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. But what we're going to be looking at in this course is not so much other people's views of Jesus, but we're going to be asking the question, who did Jesus say that He was?
And in declaring His identity to the people during His earthly ministry, He used a very unusual structure to identify characteristics of his person. These sayings are recorded for us in John's gospel and only in John's gospel, and these sayings are called the I Ams.
of Jesus because he introduces these statements by the words, ìI am,î things like, ìI am the bread of life,î ìI am the light of the world,î ìI am the good shepherd,î ìI am the door,î and so on. And so we'll be looking at each one of these statements of Jesus to see what they reveal to us about his own self-understanding. And the first one that we will look at today
is the statement, ìI am the bread of life,î which is found in Johnís Gospel, chapter 6. In verse 30 of the sixth chapter of John, we read these words, ìTherefore they said to him, What sign will you perform then that we may see it and believe you?î what work will you do? Our fathers ate the manna in the desert. As it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat.
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