The gospel of John reveals to us core truths about the Lord Jesus Christ, which we all need to know, and—more importantly—we all need to get to know the Lord Jesus Christ himself, and John’s Gospel is an ideal place to go in order to do that, because the one we meet here—and the way that John presents him—is truly—perhaps more noticeably than anywhere else in the New Testament—is as the one who is undeniably our Lord and our God, the one we need to focus on.
Last Sunday evening we saw the Lord feeding five thousand people with five little loaves of bread and two little fish, and this week we’re going to see him walking on water.
Jesus knew that the people wanted to make him king after his feeding of the five thousand, because—as we said last week—everyone wants to not have to worry about money and food. Back then it was the same—if not even worse—than it is right now, food was expensive. So the people felt that they had found someone who could finally solve their problem of not having enough money to be able to feed the family… here’s someone who can put food on the table. Let’s make him our king so we’ll never go hungry again.
But the Lord Jesus knew that that was not the main reason he came, merely as a great politician or social-worker, no rather he came to reconcile us to God. ‘Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things[—like food and drink and housing and clothing and money—]will be added to you also.’
The kingdom of God is the main concern then. And Jesus gets us into the Kingdom of God, because he’s the King of the Kingdom of God. The one who—as we saw last Sunday evening—is the ‘I AM’ of Moses and the burning bush.
