1. Drawn to Bread John 6:35, 41-51

2. Grumbling John 6:35, 41-42 Jesus has claimed personally to be the bread God has given. Jesus has claimed personally to be the bread God has given. However, Jesus is too familiar to satisfy. Suppose we don’t want him? However, Jesus is too familiar to satisfy. Suppose we don’t want him? God invites by grace we did not choose.

3. Drawing by Grace John 6:43-44 John Wesley: “No man can believe in Christ, unless God give him power: he draws us first, by good desires. Not by compulsion, not by laying the will under any necessity; but by the strong and sweet, yet still resistible, motions of his heavenly grace.” John Wesley: “No man can believe in Christ, unless God give him power: he draws us first, by good desires. Not by compulsion, not by laying the will under any necessity; but by the strong and sweet, yet still resistible, motions of his heavenly grace.” God invites by grace we did not choose.

4. Drawing by Teaching John 4:45 Quoting Isaiah 54:13. Quoting Isaiah 54:13. Isaiah 55:10-11 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:10-11 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. God invites by grace we did not choose.

5. Drawing by Jesus John 4:46-47 Jesus, this person they neither choose nor want, is the only person who can show us both what we seek and He it is that seeks us. Jesus, this person they neither choose nor want, is the only person who can show us both what we seek and He it is that seeks us. John 12:32 “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” John 12:32 “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” God invites by grace we did not choose.

6. Drawing by Hunger John 6:48-51 “All which I took from thee I did but take, Not for thy harms, But just that thou might’st seek it in My arms.” … Is my gloom, after all, Shade of His hand, outstretched caressingly? (Hound of Heaven, Francis Thompson) God invites by grace we did not choose.

7. Isaiah 55:1-7 "Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; … Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.” God invites by grace we did not choose.