John 6:22-42

Introduction: What’s driving you? If you and I talked for 5 minutes, we would discover what’s on our mind. Not to mention what’s on our heart….

* Your children?

* Your past?

* Your money, bills?

* Your circumstances?

* Your sports?

* Your health?

* Your family?

* Your God?

Why aren’t you happy? Do our priorities need to be readjusted? Are we expecting everybody to meet all of our needs? John, the beloved apostle, records an experience he witnessed that gives us (3) ways to tell “What’s Driving Us”!

A large crowd had witnessed Jesus miraculously feeding over 5,000 people with a little lad’s lunch of fish and chips – 2 small fish & 5 barley loaves of bread. Consequently,  they began to think about who this Miracle-Maker was and how they could benefit from Him. This same response can be seen today.

1. Are we finding ourselves being SIGN-SEEKERS? (John 6:30)

“They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? What dost thou work?”

    • Sign-seekers in Jesus’ & Paul’s day

{Paul wrote, “For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks after wisdom.” God chose the foolishness of preaching the “Word of God” in order for men to believe and to be saved – (1 Cor 1:18-23)}

    • Are their Sign-seekers today? Yes.

{Instead – God requires faith – (Heb 11:1-6; Rom 10:17; Eph 2:8, 9)}

2. Are we finding ourselves being SELF-SATISFIERS? (John 6:26)

“Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled.”

     • Self-satisfiers in Jesus’ day – “What’s in it for me?”

    • Self-satisfiers in our day – “What’s in it for me?”

3. Are you willing to become a “SURRENDERED SAINT”? (John 6:66-69)

{After Jesus talked about eating his flesh and drinking His blood (v 53 – symbolically), many of his disciples went back – turned away- and walked no more with him v 66}

“Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?” (John 6:67)

    • Peter quickly acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God, who had the words of eternal life.

    • “To whom shall we go?” (v 68)

Conclusion: Tell me, are you a SURRENDERED SAINT? I can hear a lot of us saying, “Well….sort of……some things.” If our Lord Jesus, who has promised to give us both eternal life as well as abundant life, can be trusted with our total life, should we depend on our own understanding? (Prov. 3:5, 6). Are you & I willing to not just say the words (cheap talk), but to allow His Spirit to break us from letting our SELF-life control us (our mind, will and EMOTIONS)? 

Take a step back. Evaluate. Signs? Self? Security? Spirit? What’s Driving Us?