John 6:35-40 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
Jesus was speaking these words the day after He feed the 5000. After feeding the crowd, Jesus had to withdraw to the mountain because He knew they wanted to take Him and make Him their King. He knew they were missing the point. They wanted physical bread, Magic Jesus is what some people want. They want the outside world to be fixed. Jesus came with a message their intellect could not understand. If it didn't make sense, they couldn't believe. On a daily basis we accept many things we don't understand. We believe Cancer exists, yet we are not really sure why it starts in some but not in others. We believe in life, yet we only have theories about creation but some people believe strongly in evolution. Yet for some, believing in Jesus is foolish, yet they have never studied the possibility that this person was either a raving lunatic or really who He said he was. The Case for Christ, was written by an atheist turned Christian. He was the former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune who wrote the book after a two year investigation. I encourage Christians to read his book to help when non-believers struggle with such a revolutionary idea of Jesus. God who became a man, to die so that we might believe in Him and share in eternal life that starts the day they accept Him.
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