Our ability to come to Christ is, however, by God’s grace. It is the central message of today’s text – come to me!ģ5 Whoever comes to me will never go hungryģ7 All those the Father gives me will come to meģ7 whoever comes to me I will never drive awayĤ4 No one can come to me unless the father draws themĤ5 Everyone who has heard the Father comes to meģ5 whoever believes in me will never be thirstyĤ0 everyone who believes in him shall have eternal lifeĥ0 Whoever eats this bread will live foreverĤ0 everyone who looks to the Son shall have eternal life God’s grace – the Father’s will He issues us an invitation, an open and generous invitation, to come to him. Eleven times in 14 verses he uses these terms. Christ’s invitation – come to meįirst, Jesus repeatedly uses language that speaks to us coming to him, believing in him, eating of him, looking to him. We’ll see that Jesus is once again persistent in using the same phrases over and over to drive home his message. I’ll be extracting five word themes from the passage. Our passage today continues that theme, as Jesus unpacks what it means to orientate ourselves to him and how he takes the leading in enabling us to do that. Everything was focused on getting us to redirect ourselves towards Christ, to orientate ourselves towards him. Last week ( Part 2) we saw how Jesus persisted in redirecting people from worldly work and food to heavenly work and food, from our actions to Christ’s actions, from our small vision to God’s grand agenda, and from bread to Christ. We continue with our series on the Bread of Heaven, this week focusing on John 6:35-51. Or watch the video on Facebook here (the message starts at 26 minutes).

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I am bread of life