I love the “Bread of Life”
sermon because it teaches me more about the role of my Savior. Here are some thoughts based on some
questions I answered:
Before the Savior preached
the sermon on the bread of life, a miraculous event took place. A big number of people followed the savior
where he noticed that they had nothing to eat.
So he took five barley loaves and two small fishes and after blessing
it, fed five thousand men (without counting women and children). After the miraculous event, many people were
seeking Jesus, but not because of the miracle that he performed or because they
wanted to follow him, they were looking for Jesus for the wrong reasons.
Unlike the people that were
seeking the Lord for the wrong reasons, something that motives me today to “seek”
the Lord is a need to fulfill my spiritual hunger. He has the spiritual bread that will fulfill all
my spiritual needs. I won’t look for him
whenever I need help, I will follow him instead. If I just came to Jesus whenever I needed
something, I would be seeking him for the wrong reasons, like those people
were.
After Jesus noticed that
those people were looking for him not for the right reasons, he taught them
about the bread of life. He taught them
that He was the bread of life and to believe in him. He told him to seek for eternal things and
not temporary things.
In Mathew 6:19-21 Jesus
teaches us to build treasures up in heaven where no moth or thieves will steal
it, instead of building treasures here on Earth where moth or thieves could
take it. This is similar to what he said
in John 6:27 about the “meat that perisheth” and “that meat which endureth unto
everlasting life.” In today’s world, a
lot of people work hard only for those temporary riches that will stay here on
Earth after death. Today, people focus
on earthly riches that they will not take after they die. People that live the gospel understand that
they must work to build up their treasures in Heaven, which is eternal life
with our eternal families. That is a big
difference between the people that seek treasures here on Earth and the ones
that work here on Earth to build up treasures up in Heaven: they live the
gospel.
After the sermon of the
bread of life, many people chose not to follow the savior anymore! What a sad choice they made. They refused to accept Jesus as the bread of
life. The response of his apostles was
different though. Peter testified to
Jesus that he knew he was the Christ and that he had the true gospel with
him. What enabled Peter and the other
Apostles to say this was their testimony of Jesus Christ.
An example of someone with
a great testimony of Christ like Peter is Nephi. He did everything the Lord asked him to
because Nephi had a testimony of him.
Another example is the many converts of the church. They must accept Jesus Christ as their savior
and many of them gain a strong testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ.
John chapter 6 teaches that
following Jesus Christ, even when is not convenient, will bring us eternal
life. Jesus Christ is the only way to
eternal life, because he is eternal life.
Through his atonement and sacrifice we will be able to have eternal life
if we endure until the end. We can
choose to accept the Lord as the Bread of Life or we can choose to stop following
him like some people did. In the end, is
our eternal choice.
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