This is God's number one priority; to get people to believe in Jesus.
We read all about this in John Chapter 6 in the New Testament scriptures.
Jesus Christ had just fed five thousand men and we know not how many women and children.
He had gone walking on the waters of the Lake of Galilee to rescue his disciples whose lives were in great danger.
When Jesus and the crowd meet once again they say, "Give us a sign and we will believe.
" Give us visible proof.
Do another miracle.
These people had miraculously received bread and fish and it appears they were too busy eating to realise the significance of it all.
They say, Moses gave us bread from heaven.
What you did was nearly as great as Moses.
You did it one afternoon only.
Moses did it for 40 years.
The cheek, the impudence and the insolence, as they misunderstood everything that was happening in front of their very eyes.
Jesus will not give such people a sign.
Moses did not give you real bread, not the same type of bread that I am offering you.
I am offering you true bread, real bread.
This bread is not 'it' but 'He', and He comes down from the Father.
John is writing deep profound truth here and do remember that he was basically a fisherman, but he is a fisherman who has been with Jesus and who is anointed with the power of the Holy Spirit.
That gives a man insight, understanding and discernment.
God is giving you Him.
The bread the Father is offering you today imparts life! The bread I give you will give you life, and they want it immediately.
Immediate results please Jesus! I am the bread.
Come to me.
I cannot just give it to you like that.
Come and believe and you will never again go hungry, and you will never again be thirsty.
John, this is almost too deep? Jesus, can these people grasp the significance of what you are saying and teaching? John did! John gave the church such strong positive dynamic leadership.
Such leadership can be applied to every area of life.
God the Father will lead you to me.
Why do some people come to Christ and some other people don't? God the Father draws them.
The Father guides you to that moment when you see and believe and receive the Bread of Life.
When God the Father leads you to Jesus Christ the Son, the Saviour, He will never drive you away.
He will never reject you, and one day He will raise us up.
Jesus had taken their questions seriously and had led them on to deeper truths, and as soon as he did that they began to murmur! They no longer talked to the preacher, but they started to talk about the preacher, and they questioned where he had come from.
Come down? Is this not Joseph's boy? We know his mum and dad! "I kent ees faither", as would be said in Scotland.
But they did not know who his Father was, so they jumped to wrong conclusions.
That is the only exercise some people get; jumping to wrong conclusions! Sandy Shaw