Jesus said He alone has seen the Father and he who believes has eternal life.
He is the living bread from heaven that gives life to everyone who eats it. It is in eating His flesh that we have life. Many people got offended thinking He was making them cannibals. Jesus f
Didn't bother to explain to them about the Lord's supper.
Here we learn about the importance of the Lord's supper, that is partaking His blood and body. It's not just a ritual but a reality that makes us partake of the life of Christ and makes us know Him more intimately and abide in Him more and more.
It's unfortunate that this has become a meaningless ritual to many believers but Jesus didn't intend it to be.
Do you take the Lord's supper meaningfully or is it another church ritual?
Another thing we learn is that God will not explain everything He tells us. He wants us to have the obedience of faith. That is, I trust my heavenly Father loves me and cares for me and is all wise in whatever He commands me to do though I don't understand why. I will still obey without questioning.
Jesus lived because of the Father, we will also live because of Him. If know Him more and more intimate, abiding in Him, will be the source of our strength.
Jesus asked whether they got offended for saying the difficult things: He asked what will happen if they see the Son of man ascending where He was before.
It is the Spirit who gives life: the flesh profits nothing.
Have you come to know this in your flesh. Have you realised your flesh; which refers to your self-will, profits nothing? If you knew it you would crucify it everyday; saying no to my will and yes to Gods will and obeying the promptings of the Spirit for that alone gives life.
The words Jesus spoke are not empty. They are spirit and they are life; in the same way, the words of a true disciple are not empty. This is why the disciples must be very careful in the way they speak. Your tongue has power if you are a true disciples; that is one who loves Jesus more that Himself, and everyone and everything else.
No one comes to Jesus unless Jesus gives them to Him. In the same way, when God gives a ministry to a child of God, it is God who draws people to that ministry.
Jesus asked the twelve whether they also wanted to go away and Peter replied no; the words of Jesus had eternal life.
We see here that God constantly tests His disciples to see whether they would stand by Him.
As long as you are in this life; God will constantly test you to see whether you love Him with all your heart, soul, strength and mind and whether you will obey Him in private.
God tests us most times in secret, when He tells us to do something which no one will know even if we disobey it. We may still maintain a good reputation before others yet be failing the tests God gives us in private. Beware and pass your tests.
He said that He chose the twelve but one is a devil. The interesting thing about the word translated as devil here is that in other places it's translated as slanderer. A slanderer is one who speaks evil of others behind their back.
A devil is also a slanderer.
In the times of this ignorance, God overlooked but now command all men everywhere to repent. Acts 17:30
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