Shared My Bread

John 13:17-18 – Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. “I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.’

Matthew 7:24 – “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

James 1:25 – But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

John 15:16 – You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

Psalm 41:9 – Even my close friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned against me.

Application:

• ·         The Bible often speaks metaphorically of God or Christ as a “rock”.
• ·         In contrast to the sinner, who is a slave to sin, obeying the moral law gives Christians the joyous freedom to be what they were created for.
• ·         Disciples normally chose the particular rabbi to whom they wanted to be attached, but it was not so with Jesus’ disciples. He chose them, and for a purpose—the bearing of fruit.
• ·         “Close friend…who shared my bread” was one who shared the king’s table—i.e., was an honored, as well as trusted, friend.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV