Thursday, June 28, 2007

JESUS CHRIST THE TRUE BREAD OF LIFE FROM HEAVEN: John 6:32-38

Lord Jesus Christ here affirms that He is the TRUE MANNA sent from heaven by His Father, to the unbelieving religious crowd. They were thinking, God gave their forefathers manna from heaven to ate in the wilderness through Moses (often the old sinful nature causes men to fix their eyes on human folk whom they behold, not unto God of heaven and earth). All the religious leaders still esteem Moses better than Jesus. Often the servants of God (I am not generalizing, but many do that even today) put themselves in the place of Moses and reduce the glory that is due to CHRIST JESUS. Religious leaders of those days were looking unto Moses whom Father God appointed for a purpose. But their vision could not go beyond Moses (mortal man) to put the faith in the God who was providing them in the wilderness.

Jesus Christ emphatically affirms that it was neither Moses nor the Manna were true (could be shadow, because law was only a shadow of the good things to come Heb 10:1), but "I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE" descended from heaven above to give LIFE (not the life that is in the blood Lev 17:11 - but a higher order life "ZOE" which Adam and eve forfeited at fall) to the whole world.

Jesus Christ is the TRUE MANNA (Bread) who give the TRUE LIFE to the world to as many as those who truly believe in Him. Bible says, He himself is the true God and ETERNAL LIFE (personified) 1John 5:20. Jesus Christ is the only MEDIATOR between God and any man. None beside Him can assume that place or position 1Tim 2:5. Anyone who does so, his/her end result may be awful for misleading and misguiding the souls to eternal doom. For Jesus Christ thus answered, in John 14:6-7 one of His apostles to question the put to Him. Let Jesus Christ be to you all in all.