John 6:41-59 41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?” 43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” 52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Last time we talked about the Lord Jesus is the bread of life, today we will talk about the second part. When the Lord Jesus said that I am the bread that came down from heaven, the Jews said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph?” They looked at the Lord Jesus from the human point of view, they didn’t know that the Lord Jesus is the Son of God, he descended from heaven, became flesh, and came into the world as a man. The Lord Jesus went on to say that no one can come to him unless God the Father who sent him draws them, those who come to him, believe in him have eternal life. The ancestors of the Jews ate the manna in the wilderness, the physical food still died. The Lord Jesus is the bread of life, the spiritual bread, Whoever eats this bread will never die. When the Lord Jesus said: unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. The Jews understand it from human point of view, thinking that this is cannibalism. Life is in the blood, to eat the Lord’s flesh and drink the Lord’s blood is to receive his life, and to have his life in us. In this way we abide in him, and he abides in us. We will live forever if we eat the bread that came down from heaven.
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