We're still putting in our garden. We still got a couple more weeks
left and Try to plant things in time so we don't harvest it
all at once We're putting in a garden lately And then Kimberly
started making fresh bread It's a whole lot cheaper to make loaves
of breast. She's made bread for years. We're getting into high
gear now make them sandwiches at home. She's been baking a
lot of bread and we've been planting gardens. And so you may get an
idea how I got this message. I'm looking across the bread.
He said, I am that bread. I'm that bread. I've had bread
on my mind all week. I smelled it all week. Bread's
good, isn't it? And then I thought of all the
I am's. I was in a garden when I was thinking it. We're not
going to cover all the I am's, what he tells us, but I hope
it will be plain for you as it was for me. Here in John 6.30,
he says, They said therefore unto him, What signs showest
thou then, that we may see and believe thee? What dost thou
work? These ones that just fed, those 5,000 that just had a belly
full of sardines and biscuits in them. Our fathers did eat
manna in the desert. As it is written, He gave them
bread from heaven to eat. Moses gave them bread for 40
years. You did one thing for us. Jesus said unto them, Verily,
verily, truly, truly, of a truth, hang your hat on it. I say unto
you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father
giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God
is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the
world." Verse 35, and Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of
life. In case they still didn't get
it. Verse 47, barely, barely, truly, truly, I say unto you,
he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread
of life. Those that have everlasting life,
they eat of me. I'm that bread. This is what
they have, everlasting life. Your fathers did eat man in the
wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh
down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die. I'm
the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of
this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give
is my flesh. which I will give for the life
of the world." The Jews therefore strove among themselves saying,
how can this man give us his flesh to eat? Is he a cannibal? I've heard that so many times.
Is this a wild man? And people get off on these tangents
and explanations of things instead of shutting up and listening
to what God says. Well, He gave us His flesh to eat, and Jesus
said to them, verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat
the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, you have
no life in you. Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh
My blood, hath eternal life. And I will raise him up at the
last day. Our Lord is speaking to these
religious people. And He's speaking to you and I today. That hit
me while I wrote that. For 2,000 years, the Lord's had
His Word preserved for right now. So you could read it because
you just might hear something today. God just might save somebody
today. He's going to do it through His
Word, the preaching of His Word. What a miracle that is, isn't it?
And this is in simple terms anyone can understand. You may not like
it, You may not want to hear it. You may choose to be confused. You may just try to roll that
stumbling block and chew on it like a lifesaver, a piece of
gum. But it's simple. This is plain. We all can enter into this. Isn't
that wonderful? Isn't that precious that the
Word of God is simple and plain? You can get 10 degrees from the
10 finest universities on this world or the 10 best seminaries
that you can think of and not know God. And at the same time,
you could be somebody that cannot even read and have Christ preach
to you and know all things. I know about that red lock. I
get it. Can you explain it real well? No, not really, but I get
it. I believe Him. Isn't that something? To anybody. Our Lord came to this world.
He preached in parables. He preached in parables so that
way you and I can understand all things. He put it in terms
we could understand. Now those eyes are blind to other
ones, but His sheep hear His voice, they've been given eyes
to see, and He explains it. He meets us where we are and
explains it to us in a way we can understand. The Lord says
here that His body is represented by bread. I'm that bread. I'm
the living bread. I'm that bread. I'm the bread
of life. And you've got to eat this. You
have to eat the flesh of the Son of Man. You have to consume.
Have you ever ate? Do you know what eating means?
Of course we do! That's easy, isn't it? You have
to consume Him and live on Him. That has to be your life. You
have to drink His blood. What are you talking about? Vampires
or some nonsense? Naw, if you want to play games,
go talk, get your dictionary and go somewhere else. Your thirst
has to be quenched by His work alone. That make sense? I wouldn't have it any other
way. He says, Whoso eateth my flesh, my bread, this body, and
drinketh my blood, this wine, will be having this Lord's table.
Whoever does that, they hath, hath everlasting life. They've
had eternal life in the past, always have, because they were
in Him. They have it right now, whenever they see this for the
first time, because they're in Him. He's revealed Himself to them.
It was there to reveal. It reveals something that ain't
there. and they will have it forever. Those that have eternal
life, they eat his flesh and drink his blood. They live on
his body, on his person, who he is, and their thirst is quenched
by his doing, his acts of righteousness. Bread and wine are good. They're
good for you. You go to a fancy restaurant,
there's oil on the table. Go to a real nice high-end Italian
restaurant. There'll be a little plate there, and there's oil
and sometimes some vinegar with it. There's oil on the table,
and there's free bread. They give you all the bread you
want, and you can get your glass of wine. And if you get careful,
you'll sit there and eat that good free bread, and drink your
glass of wine, and the food comes, and you can't eat nothing. You're
all filled up. It'll fill you up, too. Scriptures say it gives
the fatness thereof. We know that too. If I want to
lose weight, I ain't had none of that bread she's cooked. I've got
to get back in my britches. But boy, that's spiritual bread.
That makes the soul fat and glad and joy and comfort and sustaining. Those are good things for us.
David told us that in Psalm 104. He said, and wine that maketh
glad the heart of man. Wine is good for you. It makes
your heart glad. And oil that makes his face to shine. What
about that anointing that the Lord does? His choosing, His
electing of people. That makes my face happy. If
it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have any hope. We don't worship
election, we worship God of election. And the bread which strengthens
a man's heart. How's somebody going to grow?
How are you going to grow? If you ain't growing, you're
dead. You're either growing up or out, but you're growing. Hair's
growing, nails growing, something's growing. What's going to make
that heart strengthen? Bread. His body. Who he is. Who he is. We'll observe the
Lord's table, Lord willing, on this Sunday, if He allows. And
what a precious and light yoke we're given. He gave that supper
to remember Him, to show His death till He come. We read the
Word with our eyes. We hear the Word with our ears.
We believe in our hearts. And we consider these things
in these pure minds that the Lord gave us, and He stirs up.
And we live in this world. And He gives us unleavened bread.
And he said, you do this and remember it to me. And it gives
us bread to eat. And you take that cracker and
you think, well, there's no leaven in this. That's his body. There's no sin in it. And that's
unappealing to the natural taste buds, isn't it? Well, put some
salt in that. Make it fluffy. Put something
on it. Put some butter in there. Nope,
that doesn't leaven bread. That's his body. By nature, I
didn't want nothing to do with him. And there was no sin in
him. And then you wash it down with the wine. Wine on the leaves. Leaves is dead yeast. It sinks
to the bottom after it dies. It consumes all the sugar. All
that sweetness is took out of there that makes it appealing.
And the yeast dies, there's nothing else for it to live on. And it
goes to the bottom. And you rack the wine out of
a carboy. And you've got nothing but that
pure wine on the leaves. And you drink it. And you say, this
is his blood. It's pure too. And it makes me pure. I'm washed
in it. Throughly. Inside and out. Not
just on the outside. Not you went and took a bath
with it. I'm washed on the inside with it. He told us to do that. Is that hard? That's a sarcastic
question. That's an easy and light yoke,
isn't it? Remember Him. Remember who He
was and what He did. Remember Him. Then go... What
happened after that? After He hung on that cross,
He was took down. He said, you go baptize in the name of the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Go purge in those waters, like
that tree we just read next to us. When that was cast in those
bitter waters, boy, now them waters are made sweet. I have
no interest in getting in that thing. Do you know that? I don't
want nobody saying me. I don't want nobody having something
to say to me. If I don't want to do nothing wrong, I don't want to
embarrass myself. That's bitter waters. And all of a sudden,
when you see Him on that cross, who He is and what He did, it's
a light and easy yoke. I'll go get in them waters. Why?
He asked me to. He's my master. I'm a bondservant.
I love Him. I'm here willingly. He made me
willing today of His power. And I'm going to do what He says.
I want to. He said, I am. This is the picture
He's given us. His person, His work, His body
that He gave and the blood that He shed. And He says in verse
48, I am that bread of life. And I've sat on that a long time. He starts out with, I am. Oh, what we can learn from that.
Moses talked to Him for what we just read. And the Lord said,
you go talk to the children of Israel and you go talk to Pharaoh.
You tell them all these things I want you to tell them. And
he said, Lord, I'm going to go to these people, and I'm going
to go to them, and they're going to say, well, who sent you? If
God sent you, what's his name? He said, you tell them, I am
sent you. I am that I am. That's who sent
you. And God said moreover to Moses,
thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, the Lord God of your
fathers, of Abraham, of Isaac, the God of Jacob, hath sent me
unto you, and this is my name forever. It wasn't for that season. It wasn't for that calendar year.
This is my name forever. This is my memorial unto all
generations. Our Lord right here says, I am.
I am. That's a big I am. I need to
know what He is. I need to know who He is. I need
to know something better. I know that woman back there.
That means I love her. And I know things about her.
And I want to know her more. I want to love her more. I want
to learn more about her. My Heavenly Father gave His Son,
His only begotten Son, to die for me. I love Him because He
first loved me and I need to know Him more. He says His name
is I AM. I don't understand. Do you understand
that? You got a good handle on that? You ready to get up in
front of a man and speak on God's behalf and tell him what that
means? Whew, that's frightening. It'll be a lot of sleepless nights
if you think so. We're crippled by this language
that we have. It's limited to our feeble minds. We have the
fanciest $10 words we can come up with, and it's limited by
our minds. And it's worse from year to year,
isn't it? We was living in a city a couple of years ago, and it
says, we hope you are BRB, be right back, or something. There's
abbreviated letters. This is a municipality. That's the best
you can do? You paid for that sign. We're shorting everything,
ain't we? So we're like, Paul saw the third
heaven, and he said he couldn't describe it. One, your brains
couldn't even enter into what it looks like, because you ain't
never seen nothing like it. And two, the human language ain't
equipped to describe what it is. How do you eat an elephant? You eat it one bite at a time,
don't you? How can this incapable, ignorant
worm that's standing in front of you have some understanding
of the character and will, the person and the work of the great
God that saved man? How can I understand him? He
tells us. Ain't you thankful for that?
It's simple. I don't have to gain a great
understanding. I don't have to have a huge intellect
and travel this world and understand the deep things of science and
nature and be able to describe what kind of ring-necked bird
that is. I don't have to know all that stuff. I don't have
to have all that to get it. He tells me plainly. The one
that spoke to Moses is the same one speaking here. The one that
told Moses, you tell him, I am, is the one standing in front
of these people talking to them. He says in verse 58, I'm sorry, John
8, 58. You don't have to turn there. Jesus said to them, verily, verily,
I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am. That's who's speaking. Turn over to John 18. Here's
when he told a large group of them that's coming to get him,
to crucify him. Judas is with them. All those
people, the high priest and Malchus, who's about to lose an ear, they're
coming to find our Lord. It says in John 18, verse 4.
We'll start here in John 18. We'll work our way back to the
text. We'll go backwards. John 18, verse 4. Jesus, therefore,
knowing all things that should come upon Him, went forth. He went forth and said unto them, Whom seek
ye? They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am. And Judas also, which betrayed
him, stood with them. And as soon as he had said unto
them, I am, he's in italics, as soon as he said, I am, they
went backward and fell to the ground, just like them trees
that went down whenever Mount St. Helens went off. Laid flat
like a carpet vacuumed one way. A whole host, all of them, laid
flat on their backs. Then he asked them again, whom
seek ye? You think he waited until they
stood up? It wouldn't have made a difference, would it? Whom
seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. Oh, how wicked we
are. Jesus answered, I have told you
that I am. If therefore you seek me, let
these go their way. That's a God that saves. What's
something about that I am I need to know? He saves his people.
He's a substitute for his people. that the saying might be fulfilled
which he spake of them which thou gavest me, I have lost none."
He's a successful Savior. He's a successful substitute.
There was a garden. I've been working in it all week
and I thought that's where it all began, wasn't it? Where was Adam and
Eve made? In a garden. The Lord planted
a garden. He had a garden. It was fully
equipped and fully maintained and then out of that dirt Out
of that red clay, he made man. Out of man's side, he made woman.
Y'all have seen the garden. We know what a garden is, don't
we? We know what eating is, we know what drinking is, and we
know what a garden is. Drive up and down the road, you'll
see one. Go plant one, it'll be good for you. We're the dirt.
He made us. As Pop said, he separated me
from my mother's womb. He made me. He made what I'm made out
of. I'm the dirt. He's the seed,
isn't he? He's the seed. Peter told us
that. He said, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but
of incorruptible by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth
forever. He's the incorruptible seed. I'm dirt. He's the seed. And He's the root. Did you know
that? He's the root of Jesse. Isaiah
said, there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a branch shall grow out of his roots. There's going to be
a branch come out of them roots. Turn back to John 15, just a
couple pages. John 15, verse 1. We're the dirt. The seed that He gives is His
seed. He's the root. What comes next? John 15, verse
1. I am. The great I am. I am the true vine. I'm the true
vine. John 15, verse 1. I am the true
vine and my Father is the husbandman. Who grafted all these things
together? Who's really running the show in all this? Who's the
head gardener? His father's the husband. Look
down at verse 5. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I
in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me you
can do nothing. Nothing. Why? We're dirt. What
happens between us being dirt and us being branches? Christ. Christ crucified. Christ buried
in a tomb. Christ rising again. You see
the picture of that? It's a seed. You put it in the ground and
it comes back out. True to form. That holy thing went in on our
behalf and he come out. High and lifted up, didn't he?
We're the dirt, the compost. We're the manure. Can you say
that? God's people can. That's a strong statement, isn't
it? God's people can. I'm nothing
but done. He's the seed, he's the root,
he's the vine, I'm just the branch. Can we get all that? Is that
hard to understand? Without no seed, there's no root.
Without no root, there's no vine. Without no vine, there's no branches.
There sure ain't no fruit. And then that fruit comes. Is
that fruit for that tree? No. If you had a big old fruit tree
and all the fruit fell off of it, look at all my fruit. If
I was a branch and I bragged on my fruit, look at the fruit
the Lord gave me. It's all going to fall to the
ground and somebody's going to come get rid of it. It's going to stink and
rot and steal nutrients from the tree. That fruit's for somebody
else, ain't for me. And what's in that fruit? A seed.
A seed. How am I standing here? God's
preserved this vine, this seed, this picture in our Word, and
what He's doing spiritually in His people for 2,000 years since
He said it to us, right now. I'm an heirloom seed. He put
mine to seed. We went searching for heirloom
seeds the other day. It's putting me, it's true to form. True to
Him that gave it, isn't it? Always has been. What's the difference?
You think you can get along with a believer that was born 4,000
years ago? I bet you could. You think you can get along with
Rahab? I think you could. What about Nebuchadnezzar? He's a big king. The Lord humbled
him. I think we can get along with him. He knew he was a sinner.
He knew who saved him. The way the vine grows. Which
way does it grow? Turn back one page there to John
14, verse 6. You've got to train them things
up, don't you? Support it, do something. What's
the way that it grows? It says in John 14, 6, Jesus
saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, the life, and no man
cometh through the Father but by me. He's also the way. He's
the way that it grows. And he's also the reason that
life grows. What does it take to grow a plant?
You need dirt, but then you need light, don't you? A seed's got
to go in the ground, but if you ain't got no light, if it's nothing
but darkness, if you're up in Alaska at a high enough latitude
in the middle of winter, you only get two hours of sunlight
a day, you can't grow nothing. You need light, don't you? Turn
back to John 8, verse 12. And spake Jesus again, saying
unto them, I am, what about it? I want to know something of it.
I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Whenever you
grow something, you've got to have ground. He made it. You've
got to have seed to put in there. It's His incorruptible seed.
That's got to start. There's going to be a root first.
Now vines want to come up, then a branch off that vine. Now we're
going to bear fruit. Now we'll bear fruit. You've
got to have a lot to grow that thing. What else do you have
to have? You've got to water it. We know that especially here,
don't we? Water is precious in this part of the world. You've
got plenty of water. Turn back to John 4. Verse 13, John 4, 13. That woman at the well would
ask him, she said, what are you talking about? He'd come to her,
remember? Verse 13, Jesus answered and said unto her, whosoever
drinketh of this water shall thirst again. But whosoever drinketh
of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. But the
water that I shall give him shall be within him, be in him a well
of water, springing up unto everlasting life. That's what he said over
in John 7. He said, in that last day, in
that great feast, Jesus stood and cried. He cried aloud. He yelled, wake some folks up. And he said, if any man thirst,
let him come to me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the
scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water. That's why. You ever seen a garden? Christ is all. Do you know that's
what that garden declares? He's all. We're dirt. We ain't
good for nothing but worms. And He's all. Life's in Him.
He's life. Come to Him. Worship Him for
what He is. You can go out and see these things. Simple things.
Things understood by every tribe and every kindred. Do you know
that? Go to a different continent. Do they grow things upside down?
Do they put all the light in the ground and pour water on
it and then wait six months and then put a seed in there? No!
This is the same way, isn't it? The Lord made dirt. He gave His
seed. He's the seed. He made the living
seed spring out roots. He's the root. He's the vine.
He's the light. He's the living water. He's everything. He's
life. He said in John 10, I am. What's
He going to do? Come that they may have life
and that they may have it more abundantly. That's why He came. To give His people life. Those
given to Him, He gives them life and He gives it more abundantly.
Oh, I want to know something about that. We will. We'll know one day. Right after
he said that in John 10, he said, I am the Good Shepherd. He said,
I am of several other things, didn't he? We can understand
that too. We know what a shepherd is. He
told Martha, he said, I am the resurrection. Oh, if we could
understand that. If we know Him, the person, and
not the facts, He's our resurrection. He's our, what's going to happen
that day? Well, there's going to be a cloudy activity. No, my
Lord's coming. I'm going to be with Him because
I'm going to be made like Him. That's a good, is that hard?
It ain't too big, is it? It's huge. Ain't too hard to
understand. God has to reveal it. Well, back
in John 6, back in our text, John 6, And I'll try to hurry. Verse 48. John 6, 48. He says, I am that
bread of life. I'm that bread. Bread's needed.
This bread, it's essential. It's vital. That manna in the
wilderness was a picture of Christ. It was a picture of Him. And
now the Messiah has come. And he tells them plainly, standing
right in front of them, I'm that bread of life. That bread fed
your fathers and Moses and them in the wilderness. I'm that bread.
It was a picture of me. In Exodus 16, we looked at it
back in October. But I'll remind you of it again.
This manna that came down from having them little tiny white
balls the size of coriander seeds, the size of cilantro seeds, was
on the ground every morning when they woke up. That's what they
lived on. That's what they fed. They ended
up getting tired of it. They had to bend down to get it. And
for that day, if they stored it up, they wouldn't keep it.
It'd stink. Except on the day before the Sabbath. Then they'd
go and they'd get two days worth. Because the Lord provided. But
this was a type of Christ. First of all, it was prepared
in heaven. The Lord made this as His holy manna, and it came
down to earth. Israel didn't do anything to
make it come down. Israel didn't do anything to
make it. They didn't have flour, and they went out there mixing
somewhere. They didn't have the raw ingredients, and they had
to work on it. It was prepared in heaven and came down. The
Hebrew writer tells us, Wherefore, when he cometh into the world,
he saith, Sacrifice and offerings thou wast not, but a body hast
thou prepared me. That living bread standing in
front of them. That manna, every day for 40 years was a picture
of what happened right here. A child was born, but a son was
given. This bread is a gift. It was
given. God gave it. Second, this manna
in Exodus 16, it was mysterious. The Israelites couldn't figure
it out. They woke up and they said, what is this? That's what
manna means. Whatness. What is it? They just kept calling it what
is it? You want a bowl of what is it? That was its name, manna. It was mysterious. What did Paul
tell Timothy? Without controversy, great is
the mystery of godliness. The first thing he mentions,
God was manifest in the flesh. This holy thing from heaven prepared
and come down. Mysterious, wasn't it? It was
free. You couldn't buy it. If you wanted
to, you couldn't buy it. You didn't have nothing to pay,
but you couldn't buy it if you wanted to. This manna was free, given
to the Lord. It was abundant. It was abundant. No one went hungry. It don't
matter if you was a premature baby or you was a giant in that
area. A full-grown man. Every one of
them ate until they were full, and it didn't run out. The richest
and the poorest, they ate the same thing. One didn't get Higher
on the hog. You didn't get higher on the
manna. They all ate the same thing. Educated, non-educated.
Bond or free. This bread was the same for all.
Christ is the bread for all that believe. Is He any different
to somebody else? We got it made in this country.
We'll pay in taxes and complain about it in a year what a lot
of our brethren throughout this world make in ten years. We think
we got it rough. But is Christ any different to
them than He is to me? Is he any more needed? Do they
need him more than I need him? Is he going to give them something
different than himself? We get the same bread, don't we? And
that manna, it was mysterious bread from above. It's freely
given in abundance. And what did it taste like? Exodus
16.31 says, And the house of Israel called the name thereof
manna. It was like coriander seed, white. And the taste of
it was like wafers made with honey. Oh, it's sweet. Sweet. It was all natural. Oh,
it tasted good. It was sweet. It's Christ's substitution. It's His person, His holiness,
and His blood sacrifice on your behalf. Is that sweet to you?
Is that like a waiver covering, honey? Him being all and in all. Him being that great I Am that's
glorified forever. He's going to get all the glory.
Is that sweet to you? It's sweet to His children. That's
delicious. I want to see more of that. Tomorrow
morning I want more of that. He says, I am that bread of life.
He tells us something about that bread. He said He's the manifestation
of that picture of the Old Testament. He's explaining that to us right
now in a short sentence. And He gives us a contrast. He
says, I'm that bread. And then He gives us the contrast,
how it's an anti-type. It says in verse 49, Your fathers
did eat man in the wilderness and are dead. That man pictured
me, but they're dead. I love types and anti-types.
I love something in the Scriptures that pictures Christ. He's pictured
throughout the Scriptures. And I like it whenever it's for
and it's opposite. We see Him. We're rejoicing Him
either way. But you can't hug a picture,
can you? A picture can't console you when you're sad. A picture
can't put its arms around you and warm you up when you're cold.
If you know the person, all those types, all those anti-types,
how like our Lord, He's greater than the picture. He, the person,
is greater than the picture. That's what Israel did too. They
had a serpent high and lifted up. And if you looked at it,
you got bit by them snakes, you didn't die. What did they do?
Well, they were mature, grown, stable believers. They took that
serpent down, had a carpenter make a box, and they put it in
a box, and they worshipped it in the temple. Hezekiah came,
and he ground it to powder. And they said, what are you doing?
They said, we looked at that and lived. He said, it's worthless.
It's a piece of brass. It ain't worth nothing. And they
said, well, what about that cross? Look at them all over, isn't
it? Crosses everywhere. They're on all kinds of mountainsides. That's where Christ died. It
never saved nobody. He saved somebody by going to
that cross. It's a piece of woods, all it is. Grind it up, throw
it away, put it in your fireplace, do your better good. That manna was only for the flesh,
the outward man, and it couldn't do anything for the Spirit. It
says next, there in our text, verse 54, "...whoso eateth the
flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life, and I'll raise
him up at the last day." That manna wasn't like Him because
those people still died. That manna wasn't like Him because
it spoiled the day after. Christ is eternal. You fill up
on Him. You learn of Him. Learn something
of Him. Who He is. What He did. And it's
just as sweet tomorrow as it was the day when He revealed
Himself to you. Tell me that old, old story. I'm so quick
to forget it and I want to hear it again. I want to hear it again. Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
today, and forever. That manna was only found in
the morning. My pastor said, if you ate that
man in the morning and you got hungry, you'd wait all the way
until afternoon to get a quail. Is there a time that you can't
call on the Lord? So many believers waste their
lives and live in misery out of ignorance or on purpose by
only calling out to the Lord and worship Him on midweek and
Sundays. 2 a.m., call out to Him. That bread's right then. You
can feast on that bread right then. What about when you're
driving to work? You can feast on Him right then.
I would say when you're pumping gas at your grocery store, feast
on Him. When you're making bread or you're planting a garden,
what are you thinking about doing all this week? Feasting on Him.
Feasting on Him. Any time of the day, Friday at
lunch, it don't matter, 7 p.m., you feast on Him. When Ezra went
through Jericho, they crossed the Jordan into Canaan. And there
was no more manna. They walked for 40 years. That
manna was with them every morning. And then they crossed the river
Jordan into Canaan, that promised land. No more manna. That's not
like our Lord, is it? We feast on Him now in this world.
And when I cross that Jordan of death, I cross into glory. When you do, when you leave this
world to be with the Lord, our manna is sitting on His throne.
But there it is, eternal in the heavens. He says down in verse
50, and I'll hurry. John 6.50, this is the bread
which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and
not die. John 6.51, I am the living bread
which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread,
he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give
is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The
Jews therefore strove among themselves saying, how can this man give
us his flesh to eat? What's he talking about? What
is it to eat the flesh and drink His blood? Do you have to have to live like
your daily bread, the person of Christ? He has to be God's
Son in the flesh. This is His body. I won't elaborate
on that, but John wrote it here and he went real deep into it
against those Gnostics. In 1st John, it says, well, it's
as if he came and it's as if he died. It's as if you don't
have any sin on you. He said, you don't eat his flesh. It's necessary. He'd be made
like me. It's necessary. He'd be holy, perfect from birth,
from conception, be born of a virgin till the day he died. You drank
his blood. What's the only way that these
dry lips are ever going to be parts to life, to be able to
speak again, to call out praises, is of what he accomplished on
Calvary. You consume it. You have to have
it. Do you have to be here right
now? What if he's sick? What if he's bad off? I don't
mean bad off. He couldn't go to work. Would
you go to the grocery store? Why? Why would you go to the
grocery store? Well, I have to. I've got to eat. I'll starve
to death. I have to have Him. Or I'll starve
to death. I'll starve to death. It says
in verse 53, Then Jesus saith unto them, Barely, barely, I
send you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink
His blood, ye have no life in you. They said, Are you sure
of what you're talking about? And He doubled down, made it
plainer, didn't He? Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
hath eternal life. And I will raise him up to the
last day. And his person and his work is what I have to have
to live. That's because I already have life, because he's gave
life. You're born again. And those that he's done that
work in, that dirt, that's who he's talking to. Just dirt, nothing.
Now he's put his seed in, he's grew a root, he's grew a vine,
he's made you a branch, he's produced fruit through you. And
you eat and drink off of him, the light and the water, just
like a plant does. He'll raise you up to the last day. He'll
raise you up. I have no fear of dying. I've
been in a lot of situations, more than most. More than most.
I got the medals for close to death. Death didn't scare me
one bit on this earth. How I died, I have preferences.
I worry about that. I want to be quick and I don't
want to be falling when it happens. I don't like heights. I'm not
afraid to die. Why? I believe Him. Why? He made
me believe Him. Is that fair? Not to him. Sure
is to me. I'm thankful for it. What confidence
could I have? I'll be resurrected. He said
so. He said so. He's done the work and he's put
the warranty on it. And that's just fine with me.
Is that fine with you? It is. All right.