Signposts, Part 4

In John 6, Jesus feeds 5,000 people with just five loaves and two fish—but this miracle is more than just about food. In this message, we explore how Jesus’ signs point to a deeper reality, challenging us to ask: Is Jesus truly enough for us?

High Praise
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Christ Is Enough
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Nothing Else
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With Everything
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John 20:30-31
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but 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.

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Is Jesus enough for you?

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Are you more attracted to the bread on Jesus’ table than to Jesus Himself

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Key Reality
1. What Jesus DOES reveals who He IS.

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John 6:1-14
After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 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?” He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” 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. 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. And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”

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What Jesus DOES reveals WHO HE IS!

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2 Kings 4:42-44
A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they may eat.” But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’” So he set it before them. And they ate and had some left, according to the word of the Lord.

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Connections to the Miracles with Elisha
1. Both stories have a food donor: the little boy and the servant.
2. Both stories emphasize barley loaves
3. Both stories contain the miraculous multiplication of the food.
4. Both stories emphasize there was some food remaining.
5. Jesus recreated manna in the desert.

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John 6:47-48
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 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.”

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Key Reality
2. Abundance is not God, but abundance teaches us something about what God is like.

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John 6:12-13
And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.

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Matthew 7:11
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”

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Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our daily bread.

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Job 23:12
“I have treasured the words of His mouth more than the portion of my food?”

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What are the functional gods in your life that, should you lose them, your faith would be devastated?

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John 6:66
After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.

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John 6:67
So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?”

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John 6:68-69
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”

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40 Days Leading up to Easter
1. Identify one thing you can fast from for 40 days.
2. Commit to 40 days with The Risen King.

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