Life Capsule for Today Date 18th October, 2023
Theme: Christ the bread of Life (4)
Memory Verse: John 6:58
58 This is the bread which came down from heaven — not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.” NKJV
Topic: Eating the Lord (1)
Today’s Reading: John 6:14-15
14 After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” 15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. NIV
John 6:53-59
53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, 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 him 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 him. 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 forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. NIV
Words of the Ministry:
Today we continue with our life capsule on Christ as the bread of life. We have seen from our previous lessons that Jesus referred to himself as manna which the forefathers of his audience ate. While he showed them his supernatural ability to multiply bread and fish, he also made them a counter offer of eating his flesh and drinking his blood. In other words, he was guiding them on how to eat the Lord. Eating the Lord is a central part of Gospel preaching, unfortunately many are not familiar with the concept. It may even come as a surprise to many that the first do and don’t commandment given to Adam and Eve was concerning eating.
As we read the account in Genesis, we notice the tree of life but we can’t find the blood. The tree of life which figuratively represented Christ and which was to impart immortality was there and the tree of knowledge of good and evil was also there. The necessity of the blood came only because of the work of redemption. Man could have only needed to eat and keep eating the Lord, the tree of life. From our passages, we notice that the people after eating bread and fish wanted to forcefully make Jesus king. This is not a small matter; it is a simple illustration of our lives. Many of us want Jesus to be king to be worshiped, our natural concepts come to play when we hear about worship but unfortunately, what the lord wants is to be eaten. I am not saying worship or service is wrong but true worship to God is to eat him in the Spirit (Jhn 4). Jesus did this in John 4 when he told his father he had food they don’t know and that was to do the will of his father.
God’s intention from Adam in Genesis to the end of Revelation is to be eaten, so we see a tree of life in Genesis and the same in Revelation. A noteworthy type is in Exodus, God commanded the children of Israel to kill a ram and spill the blood on their lintel but while they were in the house, they were to eat the ram which was a type of Christ. The implication is now that as we are under the blood of redemption in the house which typifies the Church, we are meant to be eating the Lord. What we eat is what we become, by eating the Lord, our constituent is changed and as we grow in life, we become an acceptable sacrifice to the Lord because our elements is Christ himself with whom God is pleased. Tomorrow we look at the how to eat the lord, Amen.
Please keep in mind our Peniel Encounter meeting coming up on Sunday the 29th of October by 4pm.
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