{"id":30769,"date":"2024-04-26T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/john-6_41-51-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T17:11:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T00:11:15","slug":"john-6_52-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/john-6_52-59\/","title":{"rendered":"With Jesus there is real life"},"content":{"rendered":"

John 6:52-59\u00a0\u00a0 (CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s passage is John 6:52-59.\u00a0 I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help, then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

John 6:52-59 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n52\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
\n53\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
\n54\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
\n55\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
\n56\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
\n57\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
\n58\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.”
\n59\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verse 52-59:\u00a0 When taken out of context these words from Jesus may sound like Jesus is promoting cannibalism or a vampire culture.\u00a0 But read these words in context and it is clear that when Jesus talks about eating his flesh and drinking his blood, Jesus is not talking about actually physically his flesh and drinking his blood; rather Jesus is talking about believing in him.\u00a0 As Jesus says in verse 47, \u201cI tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Whenever you come across a verse or a passage in the Bible that you find hard to understand, always consider the context (i.e. what is written immediately before it and after it as well as the surrounding background behind it) so that you can better understand its intended meaning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also, notice that over and over Jesus connects eating his flesh (i.e. believing in him) with life:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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  • \u201cI tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you\u201d (v53)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cWhoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.\u201d (v54)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cthe one who feeds on me will live because of me\u201d (v57)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cYour forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.” (v58)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    Notice that Jesus keeps connecting himself with real life.\u00a0\u00a0When you find Jesus, you find real life that nothing else can give you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Lord Jesus, thank You that with You there is life.\u00a0 Thank You that when I\u2019m with You, I find life that I can\u2019t find anywhere else.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Copyright \u00a9 2021 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

    Today\u2019s passage is John 6:52-59.\u00a0 I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help, then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

    John 6:52-59 (NIV)
    \n52\u00a0\u00a0Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
    \n53\u00a0\u00a0Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
    \n54\u00a0\u00a0Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.<\/p>\n

    On verse 52-59:\u00a0 When taken out of context these words from Jesus may sound like Jesus is promoting cannibalism or a vampire culture.\u00a0 But read these words in context and it is clear that when Jesus talks about eating his flesh and drinking his blood, Jesus is not talking about actually physically his flesh and drinking his blood; rather Jesus is talking about believing in him.\u00a0 As Jesus says in verse 47, \u201cI tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Whenever you come across a verse or a passage in the Bible that you find hard to understand, always consider the context (i.e. what is written immediately before it and after it as well as the surrounding background behind it) so that you can better understand its intended meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30772,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769\/revisions\/30772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}