When we ingest the Bread of Life, the Word made flesh, our spirit comes alive. Unless we accept that we are sinners in need of a Savior and that the Father provided us with the perfect sacrifice, the perfect Lamb of God, we will die in our sins. Jesus died in our place so that anyone who believes in Him and in the salvation of the cross would be saved.
His body was given up for us and He took upon Himself the sins of the world because His Father so loved His creation. By the stripes that He took we are healed, cleansed by His blood and sealed in the Holy Spirit, until He returns whose right it is to govern the world.
In the harmony of Communion we celebrate salvation and strengthen the inner man.
There is power in the redeeming blood of the Savior in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
Like Father and Son, the Holy Spirit is at the disposal of the other persons of the Trinity, and all three are one in graciously being at the disposal of the redeemed family of believers. The Holy Spirit’s attitude and ministry are marked by generosity; His chief function is to illumine Jesus’ teaching, to glorify His person, and to work in the life of the individual believer and the church.
Jesus had made it abundantly clear in this context that eternal life is gained by believing. These verses teach that the benefits of Jesus’ death must be appropriated, by faith, by each individual.
Faith alone pleases God.
John 6:53-58
53 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to 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 him up at the last day. 55 For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 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.”
26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”
Matthew 26:26
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17 For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread.
1 Corinthians 10:16-17
27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”
John 6:27
40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6:40
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:15
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