WALK NO MORE (JOHN 6: 53 - 71)

WALK NO MORE

JOHN 6: 53 - 71

Lesson Prepared by: krisha of Solomon’s Wisdom FB page

DATE: APRIL 22, 2018

MEMORY VERSE:

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways and fear him.

-      Deuteronomy 8:6 -

 

INTRODUCTION:

-      Do you have some friends, relatives or love ones who have been there in the church for some time but eventually walked away from the church? They walked away after they experienced the blessings, good fellowship, good friendship, and the goodness of the Lord. It gives disappointment to those Christians who gave their time encouraging them but still they walked away. Another situation, have you heard someone got offended by the preaching of the preachers or sermon of the pastor? For you, you think it’s not a big deal but they took it seriously. These are some situations we experience in the church and sometime we ask why; only God and those persons who walk away could answer but we could get possible answers from the Bible. This kind of situation is our lesson for today which is titled, “WALK NO MORE.”

LESSON OUTINE:

       1)  WALKED NO MORE FROM PLACE TO PLACE WITH JESUS

-       The setting of our text this morning goes back to Jesus feeding the multitude of more than five thousand the previous day. Jesus and His disciples had left Capernaum to get away from the crowds there and had crossed the Sea of Galilee to a lonely place on the northeast shore near Bethsaida. However, the crowds followed them there. Jesus had compassion upon them and both healed the sick and taught them of God. That evening Jesus performed the additional miracle of multiplying five barley loaves and two small fish into enough food to feed the five thousand men present plus any women and children that accompanied them and still have twelve baskets of food left over.  http://gracebibleny.org/responding-to-difficult-doctrine-john-641-71

-      After the miracle and their stomachs were filled, they recognized that Jesus would be the prophet that should come to the world.  The people forced to take Jesus to be the King but Jesus departed and went to a mountain alone (verses 14-15).

-      We have seen in the verses that the people here were eager and motivated after they experienced miracles but these same people were also the people who mentioned in verse 66 “they walked no more with him.”

       2)  WALKED NO MORE WITH JESUS’ MINISTRY

-       In verses 24-25, they sought Jesus. It’s pleasant to read the verse that they sought Jesus but in verse 26 Jesus saw their motives. They seek Him not because they saw the miracles but because their stomach was filled with loaves. Is this sounded familiar? It’s true that some people stay and do the ministry for food. It is sad that many of these same people later get sidetracked from the importance of Jesus' true mission and the true significance of the miracle He had done. The significance was that Jesus had “the words of life” and they needed to find redemption from sins. They were more focused on the food. 

-       What have you seen in these verses? Let’s accept it, not all people who seek God have good motives.

     3)  WALKED NO MORE IN THE FELLOWSHIP AND INTIMACY WITH JESUS

-       In verses 27 – 58, Jesus began sharing salvation and that He is the bread from heaven, He is the Savior of mankind but they didn’t accept his teachings. Most people are like this, they just accept things that are pleasant to them; they don’t like the hard teachings from the Bible. After they hear the doctrine that Jesus is the Savior, in verse 66 says, “From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.”

-       People still have the same reaction to Jesus Christ. They claim to be followers for a while, but the more they understand of whom He is and what He desires, the more uncomfortable they become. They want to escape hell, but they do not want to repent from their sins.

-       These are professing Christians but not possessing Christians (1 John 2:19).

-       What this lesson imply to our monthly theme, revival? One of the possible reasons why others don’t walk no more with the Lord is they need salvation; no revival will happen because revival is for Christians.

CONCLUSION:

-       If ever we have friends, relatives, love ones who walked away from the Lord, let’s continue to pray for them that they will be enlighten and find the true salvation.

-       How about us, Christians?  Remember what Jesus asked to Peter. When others walked no more with God, he asked the 12 disciples, “Will ye also go away?” Peter answered, “Lord, to whom, shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life and we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the Living God.” This is a good answer from Simon Peter; take note of the word “SURE.” He is sure that Christ is God. As Christians we know that our journey in life has rough roads but with this, sometimes these rough roads give us reasons to walk away from the Lord but remember we are Christians; isn’t Christ enough to stay in His will, He has the words of eternal and that’s sure.

-       Our memory verse for today reminds us to walk in God’s ways.

“Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways and fear him.

Deuteronomy 8:6