Gospel
John 6:52-59
My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink
The Jews started arguing with one another: ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ they said. Jesus replied:
‘I tell you most solemnly,
if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
you will not have life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood
has eternal life,
and I shall raise him up on the last day.
For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink.
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood
lives in me
and I live in him.
As I, who am sent by the living Father,
myself draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me will draw life from me.
This is the bread come down from heaven;
not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead,
but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.’
He taught this doctrine at Capernaum, in the synagogue.
Gospel Luke 1:57-66,80 'His name is John' The time came for Elizabeth to have her child, and she gave birth to a son; and when her neighbours and relations heard that the Lord had shown her so great a kindness, they shared her joy. Now on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, but his mother spoke up. ‘No,’ she said ‘he is to be called John.’ They said to her, ‘But no one in your family has that name’, and made signs to his father to find out what he wanted him called. The father asked for a writing-tablet and wrote, ‘His name is John.’ And they were all astonished. At that instant his power of speech returned and he spoke and praised God. All their neighbours were filled with awe and the whole affair was talked about throughout the hill country of Judaea. All those who heard of it treasured it in their hearts. ‘What will this child turn out to be?’ they wondered. And indeed the hand of the Lord...
Jesus Christ continues to give Himself to us as our Brother and our Lord. He is Life to our souls and spirits. Without God our lives in this world is just above life of the other creatures of the sea, sky and the land. We although will live on forever, but with whom and where do we want to go and live with? Our existence and beginning is with God and human beings are created above angels as they serve God in serving human beings. Both angels and saints are to live eternally with God. With Jesus as the Bread of Life, we will not be hungry and thirsty again, because earthly nourishment and food do not have eternal values and they go with the death of the bodies, but the Bread of Life in Jesus Christ is both food for the souls and the bodies as well. Jesus fasted forty days and nights without good and water and He lives on because His Soul was with God and nourished by God. His Body is secondary to the Soul. The Soul of Jesus Christ was fully fed by God and He was lifted higher than the law of human nature and the law for physical human beings did not apply to Him, instead the law submitted to the Law of God and the Spirit, because the laws for the physical world acknowledge God and in Jesus Christ as it's Master and Lord and these bow down to the order of God. Amen.
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