HE LIVES … WE LIVE

John 6:53-59
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.

Jesus, The Bread of Life

53 So Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you. 54 But anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise that person at the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57 I live because of the living Father who sent me; in the same way, anyone who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 I am the true bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will not die as your ancestors did (even though they ate the manna) but will live forever.”

59 He said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.


I think it was in the late 1960s or 1970s that there was this ‘God is Dead’ movement. Books were written and there was a lot of talk surrounding the subject. Jesus answered any question about whether God is dead. He referred to God as “… the living Father …”.

As Jesus attributed His life to the living Father, believers live and move and have their being because of the living Savior.

I serve a living Savior, He’s in the world today.
I know that He is living, whatever men may say.
I fell His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer,
And just the time I need Him, He’s always near.

He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today,
He walks with me and talks with me,
Along life’s narrow way.
He lives, He lives, salvation to impart.
You ask me how I know He lives?
He lives within my heart!