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Why Did Jesus Use Passover Imagery in His Bread of Life Sermon? #664 · Scripture Central

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  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life.
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  He that cometh to me shall never hunger.
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  And he that believeth on me, shall never thirst.
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  Hey, listeners. This is Nick from scripture
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  Central and today's podcast addresses.
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  The question, why did Jesus use Passover imagery in his bread of
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  life sermon? According to the Gospel of John,
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  Jesus offered a powerful sermon as the Passover, a feast of the
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  Jews was nigh. This discourse, often called the
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  bread of life, sermon relates to the Passover in several profound
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  ways as summarized by Eric D, Huntsman the Passover setting
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  establishes, some of the fundamental symbolism necessary
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  for understanding the bread of life discourse, including
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  Deliverance, the crossing of the sea.
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  Miraculous feedings in the wilderness and the saving role
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  of the Paschal Lamb. These Passover Illusions arise,
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  well, before Jesus even began his famous sermon.
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  For instance, in John chapter 6, verse 3, we learn that Jesus
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  went up into a mountain and there he sat with his disciples
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  other gospel accounts place this mountain in a desert place this
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  Mountain Wilderness context, Echoes the Wilderness through
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  which the children of Israel wandered after the very first
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  Passover, as well, as Mount Sinai.
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  Where they received the law of Moses.
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  In this setting, Jesus fed his disciples as well as about 5,000
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  people who had followed him which he accomplished by
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  multiplying. A few small Loaves and Fishes.
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  This famous Miracle notes, Hudson.
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  Not only recreates, the table Fellowship of the Passover meal,
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  but also harks back to Jehovah's provision of mana and flesh.
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  To the Israelites, in the wilderness, having witnessed
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  this miracle, many present, clearly recognized.
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  Jesus as a new Moses stating that this is of a truth that
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  Prophet that should come into the world.
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  Who would be like unto Moses? After these events, Jesus
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  miraculously crossed the Sea by literally walking upon it akin
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  to the Israelites traversing through the Red Sea on dry
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  ground while many viewed the coming Messiah as a prophetic
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  King, Jesus has direct control over the elements showed that he
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  possessed power typically attributed to Jehovah in the Old
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  Testament, Jesus is identity. As Jehovah was further
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  solidified, when he approached his disciples in the boat saying
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  it is, I Be not Afraid the Jesus statement uses the Greek
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  formula, I am thus offering a possible rendering of, I am Be
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  not Afraid. This same formula was used by
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  Jehovah to Moses, when he declared I am that I am.
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  And this formula is found elsewhere throughout John's
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  gospel in ways, clearly, identifying Jesus as the god of
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  the Old Testament. Finally, as Jesus delivered, a
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  sermon to the multitude and Capernaum the following day, he
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  stated, I am the bread of life. He, that cometh to me shall
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  never hunger and he, that believeth on me shall never
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  thirst when asked how they might receive this bread?
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  Jesus offered, what was for many a shocking instruction except ye
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  eat the Flesh of the son of man and drink his blood.
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  You have no life in you and whoso eateth my flesh and
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  drinketh my blood hath eternal Erna life and I will raise him
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  up at the last day, many in the crowd, misunderstood or doubted,
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  the truthfulness of Jesus statement.
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  Just as many today, might be puzzled by it yet as Huntsman
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  concluded, the exit is imagery of the discourses Passover
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  setting provides unimportant, although often overlooked image
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  that connects this flesh-and-blood symbolism
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  directly to the original discourse.
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  That Jesus delivered, namely the Paschal Lamb which was
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  sacrificed So that it's blood would ward off death and whose
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  flesh was eaten. In a festive meal for modern
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  Christians including Latter-Day Saints are taking of the bread
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  of life and therefore the Paschal Lamb of God is most
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  recognizable through the ordinance of the sacrament while
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  the sacrament is often understood to be commemorative
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  of Jesus atonement unspent proposes that it may also have a
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  broader meaning not only looking backwards in time but forwards.
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  Also the very fact that the sacrament is to be celebrated It
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  specifically until he comes again suggests that it can also
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  in a sense, be proleptic. Anticipating his glorious return
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  and foreshadowing, the great end time.
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  Messianic Feast. When viewed in light of these
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  additional doctrinal relationships, the sacrament can
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  take on new and profound layers of meaning as see Wilfred Griggs
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  observed, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper cannot be received
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  without an awesome reverence or buy it.
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  He is in. And we become one with him.
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  Thus he prayed with those who supped with him prior to
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  Gethsemane and the cross Elder, Bruce are McConkey taught that
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  for the Latter Day, Saints, and all Christians today to eat the
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  Flesh and drink, the blood of the Son of God is first to
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  accept him in the most literal and full sense with no
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  reservation whatsoever, as the personal Offspring, In the Flesh
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  of the Eternal Father working, the works of God, Elder
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  McConkey. I continued means keeping the
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  Commandments of the Sun by accepting his gospel joining,
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  his church, and enduring an obedience, and righteousness
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  unto the end. Sadly many, who heard this
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  teaching directly from Jesus, himself were unwilling to accept
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  that, he was the bread of life who had come from God.
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  While Christ is not directly ministering to mankind today,
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  the opportunity for a deep interpersonal communion with him
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  and the father is made possible. Each week through the ordinance
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  of the sacrament as we worthily participate.
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  In this sacred ordinance, we promise to take upon ourselves,
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  the name of Jesus Christ. To always remember him,
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  including his body and blood, which was given for us and
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  always keep his Commandments as both a commemorative and
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  proleptic act on spinrite, the celebration of the sacrament and
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  Latter-Day Saint theology. Therefore, not only looks back
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  to his atoning death but also looks Forward to the
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  resurrection, emphasizing the possibility of current and
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  future communion with him, by staying true, to the covenants,
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  we make with the Lord, we can have this hope looking forward
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  to the great Messianic Feast when Jesus returns to the Earth,
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  as well as dwelling with the father and son.
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  In the eternity', as Jesus Promised whoso eateth My Flesh
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  and drinketh my blood hath, eternal life and I will raise
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  him up at the last day. Thank you for listening to this
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