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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Saturday, March 20, 2021
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Bread of Life (4) Bible Verse:John 6:52-59 (NCV) "Then the evil people began to argue among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, you must eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood. Otherwise, you won’t have real life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day. My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them. The living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father. So whoever eats me will live because of me. I am not like the bread your ancestors ate. They ate that bread and still died. I am the bread that came down from heaven, and whoever eats this bread will live forever.” Jesus said all these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum." Message:
John 6 begins with Jesus feeding the 5,000. He withdraws when they want to make him a king; the disciples cross the stormy Sea of Galilee to escape the crowd, and are getting nervous about the boat sinking when they see Jesus walking on the water. The crowd follows them the next day and catches up with them in Capernaum, on the eastern side. This is where Christ gives the long teaching about his body and blood.
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The ties of Jesus to Moses are never more apparent than here, and Jesus actually makes specific reference to Exodus.
Consider that the crowd of Jews have followed Jesus across a great and dangerous body of water in search of salvation. Jesus did not part the waters, and there was no army in pursuit, but the parallel is obvious and intentional. He is not leading them to a new physical life in a geographical Promised Land, as did Moses, but to a new spiritual land. Crossing the physical sea is purely symbolic. He actually leads the Jews out of the old Promised Land — for they leave Canaan — just as He is leading them out of the Old Covenant, into a promised land that exists outside of geography.
And in pursuit, we have not Pharaoh, but Satan himself. The unwitting emissaries of evil are the Pharisees, holy Jews, who represent the inevitable futility of salvation by works. But Christ will not drown them in the sea; instead, He will be the one to die, to show that He has not overcome merely the physical power of the world’s pharaohs, but death itself.
So Christ preaches Himself as the fulfillment of the Exodus. As God fed the Jews with manna to sustain their physical life, He now feeds them with His own body, to sustain their eternal spiritual life.
We also get another “new testament commandment.” There are not many and they all deal with faith, rather than works, but the language sounds mandatory: “You must eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood.”
Jesus does not answer the rather shocked question that begins the passage. In fact, He rubs it in; He elaborates and insists that they are going to have to eat His flesh and drink His blood. But the importance of His refusal to calm their fears — that some sort of cannibalism is about to occur — comes clear in the next verses.
Meditation : Prayer : Lord, in utter humility I thank you and glorify you, that you might hear the prayer of one so small as myself, amidst the billions of souls among billions of stars in one of billions of galaxies in your universe. Let me go forth in your peace, keeping your Spirit always in my mind; and bless me, I pray, that I might always follow your will and live in the radiance of your blessing........Amen |
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