A month or two ago we listened to a John Piper sermon. It was the story about how Jesus miraculously feeds 5,000 people from a few loaves of bread and a couple fish. The story continues with the crowds following Jesus and asking Him to perform more miracles. I've always been hard on the crowds, why do they keep demanding miracles? Wasn't it enough that they tasted the bread? But Piper had this insight: they got hungry again. It's a simple factual observation from the text. Jesus fed them, they followed Him, a day goes by, and they got hungry as you do.
The solution Jesus offers is to provide them with Himself- eternal Bread for eternal Life. John 6:51 "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." This is what we are thinking of and praising God for on Easter that Jesus died for our sins and rose for His Glory as our great Saviour to be the Hope of the world. This is good news... Happy Easter!
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