By nature we want God to do our will; but we can only be satisfied by submitting to God’s will.
1. Both believers and unbelievers misunderstood Jesus.
– 4:31-33. The KJV has references to ‘meat’ but the word has changed its meaning. It is actually ‘food’. The question in verse 33 implies a ‘no’ answer, but they are uncertain.
– for misunderstandings, see 2:20; 3:4; 4:15, 33; 6:51-52; 12:14-16; 20:8-9. It shows us how dark the world is, how sunk in its own misunderstanding.
2. Jesus’ mission was to carry out His Father’s will.
– 4:34. Spurgeon calls this a ‘golden sentence’. Food is necessary for survival, yet see Deut.8:3.
– see John 5:17, 30, 36.
3. Jesus completed this mission.
– 4:34. The emphasis is on the goal, the telos, of His mission. This especially has His death in mind – Phil.2:6-8.
– Hebrews 10:5-10; John 17:3-4 and John 19:30. – John 6:38-40. You come to Jesus here and now, and believe in Him. Yet you will still die. But you have the assurance that you will be raised from the dead in the new heaven and new earth. That is the will of God carried out by Christ and made known by Christ. It was Jesus’ food to carry that out; it is our privilege to believe it.