Our spotlight today will be on John 6:27 where Jesus says,
"Don't work for the sustenance that perishes, however for the nourishment that continues to interminable life, which the Son of Man will provide for you. For on him God the Father has set his seal."
What does Jesus imply that God has set his seal on the Son of Man? What does he imply that we should work for the sustenance that perseveres to endless life? What does he imply that we ought not work for the bread that perishes?
Those are the three primary inquiries for now, and they relate straightforwardly to your circumstance throughout everyday life. What are you doing as such that you have everlasting life? How are you approaching your every day work — at the workplace, at home, at school — with the goal that it won't be said of you that you toiled for the nourishment that perishes?
A Public and Personal Message
Be that as it may, in the first place, we should get the setting plainly at the top of the priority list. The day preceding, in verses 1– 15, Jesus had crossed toward the eastern side of Sea of Galilee and encouraged more than five thousand individuals with five grain pieces and a couple of fish. It was an indication that indicated himself as the Bread of Life.
Verse 35: "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me should not hunger."
Verse 41: "I am the bread that descended from paradise."
Verse 48: "I am the bread of life."
Verse 51: "I am the living bread that descended from paradise. In the event that anybody eats of this bread, he will live until the end of time."
Verse 55: "My substance is genuine nourishment."
That is the thing that the wonder of the rolls and fishes was indicating. It was additionally indicating particularly the way that Jesus will dependably be there for his supporters to deal with them by and by. He demonstrates this by making sure that twelve full bins are left finished — one for every missionary. So the supernatural occurrence had an open message for all, and an individual lesson for the witnesses.
The Masses Miss the Sign
Openly, he was stating: I am the bread of paradise. Much the same as God sent you sustenance in the wild to maintain your life, he has sent me into the world to give life — everlasting life. What's more, by and by, he was stating to the messengers: Serve me loyally, and you will never need what you require. I will be for you all that you require, even in the hour of affliction and demise.
In any case, the general population didn't see the sign that way. They missed it. Thus verse 15 says, "Jesus pulled back again to the mountain without anyone else's input."
Jesus Will Be There for You
Later that night, the pupils get in a vessel and set out toward Capernaum on the west side of the ocean, abandoning Jesus. The general population see them go, yet don't know where Jesus is. At the point when an awesome breeze undermines the devotees on the ocean around three miles out in the lake, Jesus comes to them strolling on the water. They are panicked, however he recognizes himself, and they blissfully take him in the vessel.
Jesus will be there for you. Nothing can stop him. What's more, what he gives is most importantly is himself.
What's more, I contended that having Jesus in the watercraft with them was the finish of that "story inside the story," since John was truly making an indistinguishable point from with the twelve remaining containers. Jesus will do whatever it takes to be there for us in our inconveniences. He may appear as removed and as out of reach as a good natured, powerless companion on shore while you are going to muffle three miles to ocean. Be that as it may, there is a distinction. He makes bread out of nothing, and Jesus strolls on water. He will be there for you. Nothing can stop him. What's more, what he gives is most importantly is himself.
Jesus: Blunt and Critical?
Early in the day, the group can't discover Jesus thus as indicated by verse 24, they cross the ocean to Capernaum searching for him. Also, they discover him in the synagogue. We realize that since verse 59 says, "Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he instructed at Capernaum."
Verse 25: "When they discovered him on the opposite side of the ocean, they said to him, 'Rabbi, when did you come here?'" They were astounded at how he had been deserted by his pupils, but then figured out how to get over the ocean. Be that as it may, Jesus does not see their inquiry as a cheerful sign. He is extremely limit and basic.
Verse 26: "Jesus addressed them, 'Genuinely, really, I say to you, you are looking for me, not on the grounds that you saw signs, but rather on the grounds that you ate your fill of the rolls.'"
Focused on the Product, Not the Person
What does this mean? It implies that, when Jesus nourished five thousand individuals with five rolls and a couple of fish, it was a sign — that is, it resembled a light emission spilling out from the individual of Jesus Christ. It resembled a beam of light turning out from Jesus. What's more, when the group saw the rolls and felt the delights of a full stomach, and thought about what it resembles to have a ruler who could fill their stomach like that consistently, they were excited.
Yet, what they didn't do, when they took a gander at the sign, was to give their eyes a chance to keep running up the light emission from the joy in their paunch to the fortune of Christ. They didn't take after the beam of light move down to the magnificence of the sun. What they did was focus on the result of the marvel, not the individual of the wonder. Thus the sign stopped to be an indication for them. What's more, Jesus stated, "You are looking for me, not on account of you saw signs, but rather in light of the fact that you ate your fill of the rolls." They were amped up for bread as their pleasure, not Christ as their Treasure.
Jesus Is the Treasure, Not His Gifts
This gospel is composed to uncover the brilliance of Christ — not primarily the wonderfulness of his endowments — with the goal that we would not commit this error, but rather would see Christ himself as our Treasure — our everything fulfilling Bread from paradise — and have everlasting life.
With the goal that's the place Jesus hands over verse 27, where we will center whatever remains of our chance. He says: "Don't work for the nourishment that perishes, however for the sustenance that persists to endless life, which the Son of Man will provide for you. For on him God the Father has set his seal." So we should take these statements each one in turn.
"On him God the Father has set his seal."
"Work for the sustenance that perseveres to unceasing life."
"Try not to work for the sustenance that perishes."
1. The Father's Seal on Jesus
To start with, the last provision of verse 27: "On him God the Father has set his seal." I imagine that implies eventually that Jesus bears the sign of God since he is God. In any case, more specifically, it's likely saying that God has approved his Son, as the Son of Man, to be the Mediator of interminable life. He sent him; Jesus would give his tissue for the life of the world (verse 51); he would become alive once again (John 10:18); and he would offer life to others. God gave this expert to his Son as the Son of Man. He put his awesome seal, or characteristic of specialist, on him.
It's a similar thing we read in John 5:19– 27:
For whatever the Father does, that the Son does moreover. . . . For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so additionally the Son offers life to whom he will. The Father . . . has given all judgment to the Son. . . . As the Father has life in himself, so he has allowed the Son additionally to have life in himself. What's more, he has given him expert to execute judgment, since he is the Son of Man. '=
So the seal of God will be God's approving his Son, as the Son of Man, to give unceasing life to whom he will.
2. The Food That Endures
Presently the second provision in verse 27: "Work for the nourishment that persists to everlasting life." Let's see it in setting. Verse 27: "Don't work for the sustenance that perishes, yet [labor] for the nourishment that perseveres to unceasing life which the Son of Man will provide for you." What does this mean?
The key is found in verses 28– 29: "At that point they said to him, 'What must we do, to do crafted by God?'" Now that inquiry takes after from what Jesus just said. He stated, "Work, or work, for the sustenance that persists to unceasing life." And they ask, "How? What are those works? How would you function for the bread that gives endless life?"
Taking every necessary step of God: Believing
Jesus replies in verse 29, "This is crafted by God" — that is, this is the sort of work you do to please God and get the bread that gives life, this is the work that you do — to be specific, "that you have faith in him whom he has sent."
So what is laboring "for the sustenance that perseveres to unceasing life"? Jesus says in verse 29 that it implies have faith in Jesus as the bread that God has sent from paradise for the life of the world. "Put stock in him whom he has sent."
Taste and See
"Accepting is taking Jesus as the all-wonderful, nurturing Treasure that he is."
Here they are remaining before the Bread of Life, Jesus Christ — the limitlessly important, endlessly wonderful, all-delightful, everlasting Food that persists to unceasing life — who gives interminable life. Furthermore, they solicit: What kind from works does God need us to do as such that we can have the Bread of Life? What's more, Jesus says, generally: If you don't see the individual remaining before you for his identity, no measure of work will make him your Treasure. You don't have to do any works, you have to taste and see. Eat. Accept.
"To all who received him, who had faith in his name," is a piece of what John said in John 1:12. Accepting is getting. Accepting is seeing him for the Food that he is, and eating. That is, bringing him into your spirit, your life, as the all-fantastic, nurturing Treasure that he is.
Doing Turned Upside Down
So Jesus takes working for this bread ("What must we do, to do crafted by God?") and flips around it. On the off chance that a devour is spread before you, and you don't consider it to be a devour, no measure of working for God will transform it into a devour. You see it and uninhibitedly eat and live. Or then again beyond words. Jesus is that devour. >The individuals who eat — that is, accept — live until the end of time.
The individuals who don't, die. "
This is crafted by God, that you put stock in him whom he has sent
Delicate seek after a couple of years of matured retirement, however the total conviction of the everlasting lodge by the lake with Jesus. Also, you won't be excessively old, making it impossible to appreciate it. You'll be youthful for eternity. What's more, the everlasting sea voyage with Jesus. Furthermore, the everlasting night by the fire with a decent book and Jesus. Furthermore, the way that you don't need that now — on the grounds that you know you will have it always — changes everything.
In synopsis:
God put his seal on Jesus, the Son of Man, as the Mediator of endless life.
Jesus offers himself to us uninhibitedly as the sustenance that continues to everlasting life and no measure of working for God can influence you to consider him to be a devour. He is free. He took every necessary step on the cross. Everything we can do is eat, that is, accept, and live.
**Furthermore, when we eat, two things change: another section is added to our lives, forever. Furthermore, another Treasure rules our heart, his name is