Bread in the Lord’s Supper represents:

  1. God’s provision for our truest needs.
  2. Christ’s incarnate body, given and broken for our salvation.
  3. Covenant fellowship and unity among believers.
  4. Anticipation of the future kingdom feast.

The Feeding of the 9000 - Jesus is not just giving away free bread. He is the source of all we need. He transforms scarcity into abundance, exclusion into belonging, hunger into trust, and brokenness into blessing. 

  1. Scarcity into Abundance – He takes that which is SCARCE and MULTIPLIES it. The essence of the miracle is that He takes what ALREADY exists and REDEEMS it.
  1. Exclusion into Belonging – All who knew their hunger received blessing. Mark 6 (the 5,000) occurs in Jewish territory, while Mark 8 (the 4,000) happens in Gentile regions (Decapolis).
  1. Hunger into Trust – He is pointing to the source; to worship and be satisfied not by the GIFT but by the GIVER. Jesus doesn’t take away hunger. He SATISFIED it. The Christian life is about TRUSTING that Jesus is ENOUGH. And that what he has for us will be SUFFICIENT and will SATISFY.
  1. Brokenness into Blessing - Both miracles end with leftovers. The message is that in the breaking comes abundance. Just as the bread multiplies when broken, life multiplies through the broken body of Christ. This reverses the FALL as the bread once eaten in TOIL now becomes the bread given in GRACE.

 

Participation in the Lord’s Table – Do this in remembrance of me…

 REMEMBER: The  Bread Reveals God’s Presence in Christ — The Lord Himself fed His people (Melchizedek, Manna, Jesus). At the Table, the same Christ who broke bread in Galilee now meets us by His Spirit, nourishing our souls with His presence.

  • Come to the Table and as you receive, recognize that the living Christ is here, offering Himself to you again.

REMEMBER: The Bread Reveals God’s Abundance — There Is More Than Enough Grace. Where the disciples saw scarcity, Jesus revealed abundance. The Table is not a place of lack, but of divine surplus.

  • Come to the Table confident that His grace will not run out. There is always enough.

REMEMBER: The Bread Reveals God’s Provision in Christ — As we come to the Table, we acknowledge our hunger and receive the One who alone satisfies.

  • Come to the Table with open hands, trusting that Christ is enough for today.