If you were to encounter Jesus, what personal belief you’ve held on to might He challenge?

Belief Challenged

• Exodus 16:1-4
• Deuteronomy 8:1-3
• Deuteronomy 18:15-19

Lessons Learned

• God would daily provide for them
• Man doesn’t live by bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord
• A Prophet like Moses would come who God would put words in His mouth that they were to obey

Jesus Reveals Himself

Read John 6:25-34

• Jesus responds to their wrong motives and interpretations
• Key verse: (29) “The word of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
• 6 Times in John 6 Jesus says He is the bread who came down from Heaven to give life to the world.
• (35) First of seven great “I Am” statements is recorded by John

Read John 6:35-40

• Jesus reveals that bread is a person
• Jesus reveals a personal relationship brings everlasting satisfaction not temporal

Process for Believing

Read John 6:44; 50-51

         God’s Role
         Our Role

GROUP DISCUSSION GUIDE:

1. Have you every changed something you had previously believed? What caused you to change?
2. Has Jesus become all you need or are you still pursuing other things to give your life meaning?
3. If Jesus has been drawing people to himself, how would you know someone in your Oikos is being drawn to Him?