2/6/26

John 6:14 NASB95 Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

Jesus had just fed 5,000 men, plus women and children, to the point of fullness. They then gathered up the leftovers and it amounted to twelve baskets of food. The amazing thing is that He had started to feed them with only five barley loaves and two fish.

Jesus had fed over 5000 people with only enough food to feed a young boy for a day or two and then collected leftovers that were more than they started with.

This was truly a miracle. The people were so amazed that they confessed, "This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

"The Prophet," meaning the one foretold. The Messiah, the anointed one. That God first foretold in Genesis 3:15.

Then the next day these same people came to Jesus on the other side of the lake. They say to Jesus, Moses gave bread for our fathers to eat while they were in the wilderness. Are you going to do this for us? However, Jesus, instead, offers them the opportunity to receive spiritual bread for eternal life. They in selfishness are not interested in the eternal but only in the physical here and now. Then they say to Jesus. John 6:41-42 NASB95 Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.” They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?”

Notice that just two days before these same people said in our text, John 6:14 NASB95 Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

When He gave them what they wanted to satisfy their pride and physical desires, they were ready to crown Him Messiah. However, when He offered to provide for them their spiritual eternal needs they grumbled that He would profess to be the Messiah.

We must be careful that we do not follow the example of these people. Jesus is the Messiah whether we confess Him or not. Jesus is the Messiah when He blesses us here and now in the physical. Jesus is the Messiah when He offers us Salvation. Jesus is the Messiah when we are hungry, poor, hurting, and struggling. Just like Jesus is the Messiah when we are blessed, full, not lacking, feeling good, and full of joy and peace.

We must not waver in who Jesus is. This is called living in faith. Faith in Jesus the Messiah (Christ) is required for us to receive God's Grace of Salvation.

Do not let your circumstances dictate your profession of who Jesus is, because He never changes who He is or what He offers.

When He is blessing us physically, He is offering us eternity in God's presence.

And.

When He allows our struggles He is offering us eternity in God's presence.

The struggles don't come from God, they come from sin. He sometimes allows us to experience them simply to show us why He had to always be the Messiah.

No one else could. So He was, is, and always will be, the anointed Son of God, the Savior of the world. He is Jesus the Christ.

Messiah.

What a beautiful word!

Love Bro. Scott