John 6:26-40: I AM the Bread

Houston's First Baptist Church

Do you like to bake bread? Many find it a very satisfying thing to do. In this lesson, Jesus literally made bread, but not as you or I would. Today's lesson is the conversation that follows, bread as a metaphor for life, and Jesus as the bread of life. We’ll see the first of seven “I Am” statements that Jesus makes, taking the Old Testament name of God, applying it to himself and adding a metaphor to explain something about his character and the nature of his work. A study of John 6 26-40 …