I. Feeding the Five Thousand (6:4-15) John 6:4-12 (ESV) 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” 10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. 11 Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.”
Broken ≠ Not Blessed
John 6:14–15 (ESV) 14 When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!” 15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
II. Jesus Walks on the Water (6:16–21)
John 6:19–20 (ESV) 19 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. 20 But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”
III. A Misguided Pursuit (6:22–24) John 6:25–30 (ESV) 25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. 27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” 28 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” 30 So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ” 32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
IV. The Man & The Manna
John 6:33-38(ESV) 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” 35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. 36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
“They loved the miracle until they heard the message.”
John 6:47-51 (ESV) 47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
V. The Bread of Life 1. He is Essential
“The truth is that you are valuable. The lie is: ‘I am enough.’”
2. He is Sufficient
3. He Sustains
4. He Satisfies
“Cravings are nurtured.”
5. He Shares Himself “The Bread of Life was Broken to be Shared.”
VI. He Is True Food (6:52–59) John 6:53 (ESV) Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
John 6:63-64 (ESV) 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.
John 6:56 (ESV) Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
VII. Many Turn Their Back John 6:60 (ESV) “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”
John 6:66–69 (ESV)66 After this, many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
John 5:9-10(ESV) 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.”
John 5:15–18 (ESV) 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” 18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
The healing exposes two things: I. Religious Resistance
“Jesus is not seeking your feelings; he is seeking your faithfulness.”
II. The Authority of Jesus- 7 Statements
John 5:17-10 (ESV) 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” 18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. 19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
1. Equal with the Father
“If Jesus is equal with the Father, you can’t ignore Him—you must submit to Him.”
John 5:20-21 (ESV) 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
2. Power to Give Life
John 5:22(ESV) For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son.
3. The Authority to Judge 2 Judgments:
Where do you spend eternity- The Great White Throne Judgment
How will you spend eternity- The Bema seat of Christ
“We must live with eternal awareness because we will all answer to Jesus!”
John 5:23(ESV) That all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 4. Equal Honor with the Father
“If you get Jesus wrong, you are getting God wrong.”
John 5:24(ESV) Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
5. The Source of Eternal Life
John 5:25-30(ESV) 25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. 30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
6. Authority to Resurrect the Dead
7. His Witness is True John 5:31-32 (ESV) 31 If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.
A. John the Baptist — John 5:33–35 John 5:33-32 (ESV) 33 You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34 Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. 35 He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
B. The Works/Miracles John 5:36 John 5:36 (ESV) But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
C. The Father - John 5:37-38 John 5:37-38 (ESV)37 And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, 38 and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.
4. The Scriptures(And Moses) John 5:39, 45-47 John 5:39-40(ESV) 39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
John 5:45-46(ESV) 45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me;for he wrote of me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
John 5:1–13 (ESV) 1 After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” 11 But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ” 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. The Pool of Bethesda Bethesda: House of Mercy.
The Missing Verse? John 5:4 (NKJV) For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.
His Broken Hope 1. Broken Hope in People Our hope is not in others
2. Broken Hope in Methods Psalm 20:7 (NIV) Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
3. Broken Hope in Timing “We are not trusting timing; we are trusting God in the tension of timing.”
“We are not waiting for an event to happen, we are living from an event that already happened.”
4. Broken Hope in Resources “Scarcity is the language of the system. Abundance is the language of the Kingdom.” “Jesus is our source.”
Ephesians 3:16 (NIV) I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being.
Jesus showed him Real & Living Hope 1 Peter 1:3 (ESV) According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. “Jesus doesn’t provide stirred water; he provides living water!”
John 5:8(ESV) “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 1. Get up 2. Take up your bed “What you were once bound to now speaks your breakthrough!” 3. And walk.
John 5:14 (ESV) Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”
“Don’t confuse a moment with Jesus… for a life in Jesus.”
1 John 1:6–7 (ESV) 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
John 4:43–54 (ESV) 43 After the two days, he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast. 46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum, there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” 49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51 As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.”
A Dying Son/A Desperate Father
Acts 1:8 (ESV) You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Titus 2:11 (ESV) For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people.
5 Facts of Faith “The source for seeing is believing.” 1. Faith often looks like desperation
2. Faith is Persistent
“God is not looking for casual inquirers; he is looking for diligent seekers.”
Hebrews 11:6 (NIV) Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Luke 11:8-10 (NLT) 8 if you keep knocking long enough, he will get up and give you whatever you need because of your shameless persistence. 9 “And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
John 4:50(ESV) Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.”
Psalm 107:20 (ESV) He sent out his word and healed them.
“We dont have faith in the method, we have faith in the man.”
“We don’t have faith in the outcome; we have faith in Jesus.”
3. Faith must be properly placed. John 4:50(ESV) ...The man believed the word.
“God’s word works at a distance.”
Isaiah 55:10–11(NIV) 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Psalm 33:6 (NIV) By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.
4. Faith obeys John 4:50(ESV)“And went on his way.” “Because his word travels, so does our faith.”
“Faith Works.” James 2:17 (ESV) Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
“The word doesn’t shorten the journey, but it changes the way you walk.”
5. Faith accomplished His Purposes
John 4:53–54 (ESV) 53...And he himself believed, and all his household. 54 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
John 20:31 (ESV) These are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
The Source: Pure Worship= Spirit+Truth | John 4:13-45
“Because He is the source, He is OUR Source.”
John 4:13–18 (ESV) 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
“Jesus exposes what’s in us so He can reveal Himself to us.”
2 Kings 17:29 (ESV) But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made.
2 Kings 17:41 (ESV) So these nations feared the Lord and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children’s children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
“You can’t just add Yahweh into the mix—He doesn’t share the throne.
“Mixture is the enemy of purity.”
John 4:20(ESV) “Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
John 4:21-24(ESV) 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth,for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
God is Spirit
Pure Worship = Spirit + Truth.
“Jesus is confronted a mixture because the Father is seeking pure worshipers.”
John 3:24(ESV) “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
In Spirit
“Because we are born of the Spirit, we can worship in spirit.”
“The Holy Spirit is our escort in worshiping the Father.”
In Truth
“We are called to love God rightly, faithfully, and sincerely.”
“Worship isn’t just expressed—it’s lived.”
John 4:31–38 (ESV) 31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Romans 12:1 (ESV) I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice,holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual Worship.
“You were re-created for more than being filled—you were re-created to Overflow.”
John 3:35-42(ESV) 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” 39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
John 4:3–26 (ESV) 3 He left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
Biblical Portraits of Life-Giving Water A. Eden (Genesis 2)
Water represents a source of life, blessing, and provision
B. Water in the Wilderness (Exodus 17) C. Water Flowing from the Temple(Ezekiel 47) D. The Cross(John 19:34)
Biblical Portraits of Wells
Isaac and Rebekah – Genesis 24
Jacob and Rachel –Genesis 29
Moses and Zipporah – Exodus 2
Jesus reframes the pattern.
The Samaritan Woman 1. She’s a woman 2. A Samaritan Woman 3. She was immoral 4. She was broken
Jesus cares for the broken. Psalms 34:18(NIV) The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
“Jesus repairs her with the water she will carry.”
John 4:14(ESV) Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
“You don’t retrieve living water, you receive it.”
Living Water:
“You don’t draw living water; it draws you. “
“When we drink of Jesus, the river takes over.”
Her Response John 4:28-29(ESV) 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”
1. She left her jar.
2. She said to her people, “Come and See.”
“A lot can happen with one Encounter with Jesus.”
Isaiah 55:1 (ESV) “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the water...”
