TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Date: Feb. 20, 2026. Lesson 35-2026. Title: The Bread That Conquers Death

Episode Date: February 20, 2026

In this Faith Friday edition of Morning Manna, the focus centers on John 6:50, where Jesus declares that the bread which comes down from heaven gives life so that one may eat and not die. Unlike the manna in the wilderness that sustained temporarily, Christ offers sustenance that overcomes death itself. This verse sharpens the contrast between earthly provision and eternal life. Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart explore what it means to partake of the true Bread from heaven, how faith unites the believer to Christ, and why the life He gives cannot be extinguished by the grave. Lesson 35-2026 Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart You can partner with us by visiting MannaNation.com, calling 1-888-519-4935, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961. MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today! www.megafire.world Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves! www.AmericanReserves.com It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! www.Amazon.com/Final-Day Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! www.books.apple.com/final-day Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Welcome to Morning Manor. Welcome to Morning Manor. Your teachers, Rackwiles and Dr. Burkla. Get your Bible and notebook and get ready to here before. Good morning. Welcome the morning, Manna. And today is Faith Friday. I love Faith Friday because we study the topic of faith. And we also participate in the Lord's Supper.

and you are invited today to join brothers and sisters, Christian saints all over the world in a worldwide virtual communion service. All you need is bread and your choice of grape juice or red wine. We will begin the service in just a few minutes. What are the requirements to participate? Number one, you are born again. Number two, you were baptized in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. If you meet those qualifications, you are invited to join us right now.

And as I said, this very moment, there are only God knows how many people on the Internet and on Faith TV who are participating in a worldwide communion service. We do this every Friday. And everybody keeps telling us how blessed they are to have an opportunity to join with their brothers and sisters in a communion service. Many people have told us that they have not been in church for a long time and have not partaken of the Lord's Supper in years. Some people are saying decades. Others are telling us that their church that they belong to hardly ever has the Lord's supper. And so we realize that we are fulfilling a need for a large number of people worldwide

to have communion with their Savior Jesus Christ. So, as I said, this is a day, Faith Friday, it's a day that we dedicate to learning more about faith, faith in who, in Jesus Christ, and all that He did for us on the cross. It is also, as I said, when we participate in a worldwide virtual communion service. Now, our Faith Friday lessons for a number of weeks

have been on John chapter 6, which is about the bread of life, which is what we're about to eat in this communion. And so I felt impressed many weeks ago that the Holy Spirit desired us to teach on Jesus Christ as the bread of life so that we better understand the communion that we're participating in. We are eating his flesh, and he is the bread of life. By the way, all of our morning matter lessons can be found at mananation.com. If this is your first time and you've not seen any previous lessons, go to manonation.com. Also, if you run out of time because of schedule, our lessons usually go 60, 70, 80 minutes, you know, and I understand that sometimes you've got to go.

you have work, you have other responsibilities. You can always go back to manonation.com and find this lesson and resume the lesson and pick up the rest of the teaching that you weren't able to hear at this time. So let's begin our service by entering into the presence of the presence of the Lord. and let's do this by praying the Lord's prayer. And this is another thing people have told us. Yes. People are telling us, I can't tell you the last time I prayed the Lord's prayer. I can't remember the last time our church prayed the Lord's prayer.

Sad. Okay. I'm not going to say anything about it. I'm just going to do what we can do to do it right. Okay. So let's join together. and go to the Lord and pray the Lord's prayer. Our Father, which art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors and lead us not into temptation, but delivers from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. I say this every week as we go to the Lord's table.

It is impossible to live in this sinful world without getting some of the world's dirt on you. It's just the way it is. We live in a dirty world. live in a fallen world. It's a sinful world. And we come in contact with sinful people and sinful ways and just the influences of the world. So what do you do at home when you're ready to go to dinner? You go to the washroom and you wash your hands because it's not proper to sit down at the dinner table with dirty hands. What do we do? The Lord invites us to go to the washroom so that he can wash our souls. And what soap does he use to wash our souls? The blood of

his son, Jesus Christ, because the blood of Christ can make us clean. It is the only cleanser that can cleanse us from sin and the filth of the world. So let's go to the Lord and ask him to clean us up before we sit down at his dinner table. Come, therefore, all of you who are truly sorry for your sins, who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, have confessed his name and desire to live in obedience to him, let us humbly confess our sins to Almighty God. O Lord, our God, we come to you as your sons and daughters,

confessing that we have been born in sin and have continued in sin. We have broken your commandments. We have fallen short of your glory. We have not loved you with our whole heart and mind and soul and strength. We've not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We acknowledge our guilt. We rightly fall under your curse and judgment. We ask that you blot out our transgressions.

and wash us from our iniquities, forgive our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Have mercy upon us, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Almighty God, to you, all our hearts are open and all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid. Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit that we may perfectly let you and worthily magnify your holy name. through Christ our Lord. Amen. Now hear the word of God to all who truly turned to him. It is in 1 John chapter 1, verse 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful in just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Almighty God or Heavenly Father,

who in His great mercy has promised forgiveness of sins to all those who sincerely repent, And when true faith turned to him, have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, and bring you to everlasting life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Now hear what our Lord Jesus Christ says. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

on these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets. Let us confess this symbol of our faith in the words of the Apostles' Creed. I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Punches' pilot, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell, and the third day he was, rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, the Father

Almighty. From there, he will judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of body and life everlasting. Amen. Let's enter into the Lord's supper here at this time. Almighty God, in your tender mercy, your only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to suffered death upon the cross for our redemption. He offered himself and made once for all time a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world, and he instituted this remembrance of his passion and death, which he commanded us to continue until he comes again. So, Father, we ask you to bless and sanctify with your word and Holy Spirit these gifts of bread and wine

that we may partake of his most blessed body and blood. Christ, our Passover land, has been sacrificed. Christ once for all upon the cross. Therefore, let us keep the feast. Alleluia. On the night that he was betrayed, Lord Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and give it to his disciples saying, take eat, this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. The body where our Lord Jesus Christ was given for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. This is the bread of heaven. Take and eat in remembrance of Christ, God. for you. After supper, Jesus took the cup,

and when he'd given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, drink this all of you, for this is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink, do this and remember, praise God. Hallelujah. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ was shed for you,

preserve your body and soul, dear everlasting life. Drink the cup of salvation and remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for you and be thankful. Behold the Lamb of God. Behold Him who takes away the sins of the world. And blessed are those who are invited to the married supper of the Lamb. This sacrament is the gift of God for the people of God. Feed on Him by faith with Thanksgiving.

Christ died for you. Praise God. Heavenly Father, we thank you for feeding us with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood of Jesus Christ, your son and our Savior. and for assuring us in these holy mysteries that we are living members of the body of Christ and heirs of your eternal kingdom, you have assigned to each saint a work to represent you in this world. So now send us out into the world to be faithful witnesses of Jesus Christ,

our king. To him, to you, and to the Holy Spirit, the honor and glory now and forever. Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. What a wonderful opportunity to share the table of blessing with so many people around the world. Well, last week we studied John chapter 6, verse 49, continuing on our theme about the bread of life. And that verse, just one verse we studied last week was, Your Father's Dead Eat Man in the wilderness and died. And we went very in depth on that particular topic. Now, today's Faith Friday lesson will focus also on just one verse. the following verse. John

6, verse 50. And it reads, This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die. God bless the reading of his word. Rick, let's get started to hear our lesson today.

This is a deep lesson. One verse. And we could talk for hours. We're going to try to keep it to about one hour, but we could talk for hours on one verse. The Aramaic Pashch. Shita translation says, this is the bread which comes down from heaven that a man may eat of it and die not. So we're going to break this into, actually this time we're going to break it into

three parts. So the first part of this verse is, this is the bread which cometh down from heaven. in the flow of John chapter 6 the crowd of Galileans who are talking to Jesus you could almost say confronting him not in a hostile way they wanted bread they wanted food

they wanted him to outperform Moses they they were asking for more earthly bread and they were saying, hey, we'll follow you. Show us that you're another Moses. We'll follow you, Jesus. If you're another Moses. But Jesus insists that the Father is giving them the true bread from heaven and it's in his own person. So what are we learning on Faith Friday? That faith must shift from the gift to the giver. Amen. Faith, therefore, is not a

a feeling, but it's a recognition. This Jesus, humbly standing before them, is the heavenly bread. He is God's appointed way of life. Jesus uses this demonstrative pronoun, this. He is pointing away from the shadows of the old covenant and squarely at himself, this. he's saying this about himself. You can almost see him pointing his finger at himself. Saying, I am the reality of that manna that was only Hinnettat in our father's day. He didn't say our father because Moses wasn't his father.

But he was saying, I am the reality that that that original manna only hinted. about tracing this verse and in the previous Jesus emphasized from heaven this is a claim of pre-existence Jesus is not the product of the earth he is not the result of human evolution he is a divine intrusion into the world of death think about it doc yes in a fallen world of death a fallen world a world of Heaven intrudes itself with life. Life shows up in a world of death and says, excuse me, you got to make some room for me.

I'm life. And everywhere I look on this planet, there's death. The man that Moses served was angels' food. Jesus is the creator's bread. The manna was a created thing. Jesus is the uncreated word. Amen. You have to understand the differences.

The bread coming down. He says, I am coming down, all right? This bread that cometh down. The present tense is cometh down. And that suggests that the incarnation was not some historical event in Bethlehem, but a current reality of God making himself accessible to man 24 hours a day. Amen. Very good.

Good point. He didn't come down one time. Doc, he's coming down continuously. The manna fell one time each day in Moses' day. But in our day, the manna, the bread of life is coming down every day, every hour, every minute, every second. Amen. It's ever present. this Greek word for coming down, Cata'a-a-a-a-nino, did I say right?

Close as I can get. This is good as this old boy is going to say it. It's a present participle. It indicates a continuous descent. Yes. Jesus didn't just come down one time. Unlike Moses's manna, which fell once and stopped, this bread is perpetually coming down to the believers.

There's a continuous flow of the bread of life coming down from heaven every day. Christ is the bread of God. He is the bread of life because he was sealed and sent by the Father. His descent is an act of sovereign grace. Man did not reach up for this bread. God reached down to man and brought the bread. It's different. Jesus said, this is the bread which cometh down from heaven

that a man may eat thereof and not die. His reference to a man means anyone in humankind, male and female. The invitation is universal. The provision of living bread is as broad as the need in the world. This does not just apply to what. one race, one ethnic group, one nation. This bread is for all mankind. Charles Spurgeon noted that down is the direction of grace.

We do not climb to heaven to find life. Life has climbed down into the manger and onto the cross to find us. Praise God. Saint Cyrillo of Alexandria viewed this bread as the life-giving word. He taught that just as physical bread must descend from the wheat to the mill to the oven. Christ descended through the Virgin and through suffering on the cross to become edible to us. It's going to be a good lesson, Doc. Yes.

Well, Jesus identifies himself in this verse as that true heavenly bliprient. So he's contrasted his self, his person with that manhood, that merely sustained physical life, but it couldn't conquer death. In fact, it led to death. And you've talked about that phrase coming down from heaven, talking about that continuous coming down, if you will. But something else in that phrase, too, Rick,

it underscores divine initiative. It comes down from heaven. It certainly doesn't come up from earth. Salvation doesn't originate in any way, shape, or form from human aspiration, but simply God's sovereign descent through the personage of Jesus Christ. So the world, everyone in the world would say Christ was a wonderful teacher, but he's not merely a teacher. And he's not merely a teacher sent from heaven,

but he's the very life-giving substance, provided by the Father's eternal purpose. That bread that we're talking about is heavenly in origin. It's divine in nature. It's sufficient in virtue, unlike all earthly provisions, which ultimately fail. So when we're talking about that heavenly bread, we're implying it's a divine sufficiency.

There's nothing further requiring beyond Christ for eternal life. It's the only bread you need. It's the only bread that works. As you said, Rick, this phrase coming down, it's the present partisan, but what that simply means is it's still ongoing. It's ongoing until today. Christ remains the present and living provision for the soul. And so this descent from heaven reflects electing grace.

The father sends the son as the appointed means of life. for those given to him, the only means for life. But it's the only means, but it's available to all. There's a universality to that offer. What a man may eat, and what this really expresses here, is the sincere gospel invitation. That's extended to all who would believe.

No one has left out, only believe, only believe. Amen. Theologically, this verse teaches that faith must be directed toward a divine person, not merely toward moral instructions or religious sentiments, some type of moral code. Your faith must be directed towards a divine person. The incarnation of Christ itself becomes the foundation of faith. believers trust not in abstract religious promises, but in the incarnate son sent from heaven. Jesus clearly identified himself as the bread of life. He revealed himself as the fulfillment of the original manna. Not a temporary gift from heaven, but the central living bread sent by our heavenly father.

the bread comes down from heaven. It is of divine origin. Jesus is not earthly bread. He is the son who descended from the Father's presence to give life to us. Faith, therefore, begins with the recognition, this is the bread. This, Jesus, this is the bread. There's no alternative. This, Jesus is the bread.

if you reject that thought you can't be saved. This is the bread of life, Jesus Christ. It's a singular provision ordained by God. God has chosen that his only begotten son is the bread of life. You have to accept it or reject it. Your eternal future depends on the decision you make on that sentence. Is Jesus the bread of life or not? So this manna in the wilderness sustained physical life for season for the Hebrews.

Jesus as the living bread sustains spiritual life forever. Faith in Him means, faith in Him is the means of receiving eternal life. Faith is the act of eating, believing, trusting, receiving Christ as the true sustenance of the soul. Doc, one of my favorite Lutheran theologians. And I have this massive book, Doc. It's gigantic. I want to say 600 pages written by Johann Gerhard. I like him already.

And his 600-page book was on two topics. The Lord's Supper and Baptism. 600 pages. that's it. The table contents had two chapters, you know, essentially, you know, baptism and the Lord's supper. He emphasized that the descent of Christ is the remedy for Adam's fall. Where humanity fell downward into death, Christ descended downward in grace, bringing life. So remember, Jesus came not to judge the world, but to be eaten by it. Yes.

His descent, his descent down from heaven is for our ascent to heaven. Praise God. Hallelujah. Wow. I love chapter 6 of the gospel according to John. All right. So let's look at the second part, that a man may. eat thereof. He said, I am the bread of life. Now he says that a man may eat thereof. This points to the

purpose of the bread. It is to be eaten. The bread of life is to be eaten. It's not to be looked at. You don't put it on your shelf. It's not the write books about it. It's to be eaten. The only purpose of bread is to eat it. So he says that a man may eat thereof. We are to eat Christ with faith. I'm telling me, Doc, I hope this teaching that we're doing today. I hope it releases something into thousands of churches worldwide. I hope pastors and elders and church members suddenly get a revelation of what the Holy Communion meal is about. We are to eat, Christ with faith. Yes.

With faith by faith, he's come down that we may go up. So Jesus uses this intimate metaphor for faith to eat is to take something from the outside and make it part of your inside. Right? When you eat bread, what do you do? You take something from the outside, bread made with wheat, and you eat it and it now becomes part of your inside. Do you get now why we have the Lord's supper? Faith is not merely looking at the bread or admiring the bread. It is the personal

appropriation of Christ, the living bread. Communion is you've taken the bread of life from the outside, and you've eaten it in Holy Communion, and it's now on the inside of you. And it becomes part of you. How often, doctor, we say, you are what you eat? Well, if you eat Christ on a regular basis, you are what you eat. You join in communion with him. So faith is the simple, trusting act of taking. and eating the bread of life.

Believing, trusting, resting in Christ is how we partake of this bread. Without faith, the bread remains uneaten. You may put the wafer in your mouth and swallow it, but if there's no faith, it's still a wafer. You may drink the juice or the wine, but with no faith, that's all it is. It's faith or juice. I mean, it's juice or wine inside of you.

It doesn't change until there's faith. You have to have faith. He said that a man may eat. Oh, man. Salvation is not collective. It is individual. You cannot be saved by your father's manner. You must eat it yourself.

You're not saved because you're, your grandfather and your grandmother were devout Christians. You're not saved because they participated in the Lord's SEPA on a regular basis 55, 75 years ago. No, you must do it. Salvation is personal. So that a man may eat. A man here means of the human race, Adam, Adam.

God made man. and he made them male and female. So that a man or woman may eat individually. Each person must decide whether he or she is going to eat Christ in faith. Bread on the table does no good to a starving man. Christ is available to the whole world. His availability is not enough. Christ must be eaten.

Yes. He must be believed. He must be received. He must be trusted. He must be obeyed. The bread is on the table. If you're hungry, what good is it if you don't touch it and eat it? Right.

Christ says that a man may eat. Do you eat Christ in faith? That's the question. we just participated in the Lord's supper did you eat a cracker and drinks and juice or did you eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ and it's only between you and the Lord did you do it in faith

if you didn't do it in faith we'll come back next Friday and we'll do it right and you can eat the flesh and drink the blood and faith so faith so the bread's on the table It's available to all. Nobody is excluded. It's free.

It's a free gift. Come. Come all. Eat, dine. But you have to take the bread and put it in your mouth. Yes. Your faith is

the hand that takes this bread. Without faith, the bread remains uneaten and the soul remains hungry, think of your faith as your hand that lifts this bread to your mouth, that a man may eat. Hunger is the best qualification for eating. What are the purpose? Why else would you eat, except that you're hungry? So those who are filled with their own righteousness have no appetite for the bread of heaven. This doesn't appeal to them. How many people have turned off the television? We're on faith TV.

How many people have turned off the television and said, I'm not interested in this? How many people have seen this on YouTube and said, this is boring, I'm not interested in this? You know, why? They've been eating something else. They're not hungry for the bread of life. They've been dining on other things.

Now, I don't know for you, but for me, Eating is a daily necessity. I tend to eat every day, Doc. I even eat a couple times today, occasionally. So what does that mean regarding faith? True faith is a continuous feeding on Christ. It's not something you do once a year, like some denominations. Or once every three months.

The early church did it every day. The apostles went house to house. Yes. They did house calls. Yes. The apostles were the original Uber eats. Many eats. They were delivering food house to house.

Hey, knock on the door. We're here. We've got the bread of life. We brought it to your house. It's so important. brought it to you, okay? We have to feed continuously on

Christ, relying on his strength, his blood, his very word, every hour of the day. Yes. That a man may eat thereup uses this physical eating as a metaphor

for faith. You're not just walking around with bread and a cup of wine and saying, look what I have. No. You have to eat this bread and receive Christ inwardly, personally, trustingly, and continually. So when we participate in the Lord's supper, that is really a picture of what we should be doing all the time, eating that bread of life constantly. So this metaphor also implies dependence.

Eating is a daily thing. It's a continuous thing. Eating is essential for survival. And all these things are just as important in faith. Just as faith is an ongoing reliance on Christ. Now, if we get into the language of verse here, it implies active participation. You know, you've touched on this a couple times, right?

But bread only nourishes when it's eaten, just as Christ benefits only when he's trusted. you can claim Christ all day but unless you trust him it doesn't mean anything so eating Christ means believing on him receiving him inwardly by faith

resting upon his marriage alone Christ is offered to be received he's offered to be received Christ wasn't just offered to be admired or to be put on a pedestal or to say good words about he was to be received faith is the hand and the mouth of the soul that allows us to receive of Christ.

Faith continually feeds upon Christ, drawing strength from his atoning work and from his resurrection life. And that word, the word in there, a man or anyone, it implies a universal invitation. And it just continually reinforces to call the gospel. Once again, faith is open to all. it doesn't matter what your status is, what your heritage is, what your genetics is. It doesn't even matter your moral background. Only believe. And so this ability to eat in itself is a picture of the gift of grace.

This bread, Rick, has been offered to all of the humanity, but only individuals can receive. It has to be personally received. And once again, eating is pretty much voluntary. right? I've never seen somebody being forced fed. And that's the same way with faith, too. It's got to happen all the time voluntarily on your part to receive Christ. On your part to receive Christ. And so faith is not just an occasional, you know, it's not like a tasting board or anything like that, but it's sustained nourishment. Believers need to continually feed upon Christ through His Word and through His Holy Spirit. And so this verse, Rick, reveals that salvation, first of all, is not automatic.

It's not automatic. It requires union with Christ through faith, and that requires a decision. Amen. So we talk about eating Christ. Eating denotes believing in Christ. receiving and applying him to ourselves, feeding upon him and living upon him. Again, without faith, you have not eaten Christ. You have not eaten the bread of life.

There must be faith. To eat this bread is to believe in Jesus Christ, to believe in everything that he said, to believe that he is who he says he is, to believe that the Word of God is, the Holy Bible is the Word of God and he is the Word in flesh, you have to believe all these things. You have to believe that he is resurrected from the dead, that he is seated at the right hand of the Father now, that you have to believe that he's coming back in glory for his church. You have to believe that he is going to resurrect your dead body on Judgment Day.

That's what this is. To eat the bread and faith is to believe Jesus Christ is all these things. When we eat his flesh and drink his blood by faith, and we feed upon him in a spiritual manner. This eating is faith in the crucified risen Lord. and it's also lived and deepened sacramentally in the Lord's supper. Doc, let me tell you that when I came to realize this, the significance of that we eat Jesus Christ by faith,

a number of years ago, I attended a local Anglican church for about three years. for my own spiritual nourishment. Do you ever think about who, who, where did church leaders get spiritual, spiritually fed? Who feeds? They had pastors, the elders, they were accountable to. Okay, so who feeds chefs? For a restaurant chef, where does the chef go to get a meal? He has to get it from others.

Right. And so I was in a place spiritually, and I felt the Lord instructing me to attend an Anglican church. And my soul was fed. I couldn't, I was amazed at the liturgy. And, Doc, every week they said, feed on Christ by faith. And it took me a while to understand what they were, what they were teaching. what they were saying. Now I understand it. I get it. But I went to church for decades, and nobody told me to feed on Christ by faith. I attended churches where they had communion, but basically it was a, you see this cracker, this represents the body. You see this juice? This represents the blood. There was no faith. It was just a dry ritual. okay so this eating christ is faith and it's faith in the crucified and the risen lord and it's lived and deepened sacramentally through the lord's supper this is why we have a lord's supper every friday because we need to deepen our experience with him.

The gospel is an open invitation to all to come and to believe. Nobody's shut out. There are no restrictions based on race, gender, social status, financial, worth, all are invited to come. Come and dine. Come on in. You can see the Holy Spirit standing at the door saying, come on in. everybody's welcome.

Come and dine. Come and dine. When I was young Christian, we used to sing in church that we attended that old hymn, come and dine. Come and dine, the master call with. Come and dine.

You can feed at Jesus' table anytime. There you go. He's saying, come and dine. Dinner's ready, come. So at the same time that everybody is welcome, the door's wide open all are welcome to come into the dinner table eating is personal it is individual and is active you can't send somebody in to eat for you and you can't eat for somebody else right

either you're there at the meal or you're not everybody's welcome but you must go individually No one can eat for another person. Each soul must come, take, and feed on Christ by faith. One last thing I want to say here, Doc, faith is not a one-time meal. It's a lifelong feeding. We keep coming to Christ for our daily spiritual nourishment. Just as ancient Israel, the Hebrews went out

every morning for the manna. And that continued until they entered the promised land. That's right. Not everybody entered the promised land. A lot of didn't. And what kept them from entering the promised land? A lack of faith. Yes.

Well, and I'll shift funfus a little bit here, Rick, on that phrase, and not die. Because it's an important part of this verse. And in contrast with last week's lesson, what happened to the children in the wilderness? Well, verse 49 says, your father did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. Once again, we talked about this last week, but we'll reiterate it here that the manna, that they could not save them from death. In fact, that entire generation died in the desert.

They all ate manna. They saw miracles every day. they eat manna every day, and they died. But this bread that we're talking about is we contrast it now and not die. You know, physical death is inevitable, but spiritual and eternal death isn't. So faith, by faith, we eat this bread and we live forever. The soul that trust in Christ never dies spiritually. And it's given so that anyone, anyone who believes,

and each Christ by faith may have life. So the believer who feeds on Christ by faith has obtained eternal life and will experience eternal life. Death has no ultimate power over him. This body may perish, but we won't perish. Who we are will not perish. And then one day this body will be resurrected as well. So faith in Christ delivers from

eternal death. It's very simple, and yet so hard for many people to accept, the one who believes passes from death to life, like Jesus said in John, chapter 5, verse 24. But here's the promise. And we talked about this, and they're going to be raised up at the last day. Praise God. Amen. The promise addresses not only physical, physical death, but spiritual separation from God, which is the ultimate consequence of sin. There's a difference between temporal, physical death, which even believers experience, and eternal death, which Christ abolishes for those who believe, those who trust him. If you trust Christ, he has abolished spiritual death for you.

If you do not trust Christ and believe Him, then you will face spiritual death, which is eternal separation from God, which is in a place called the Lake of Fire. Theologically, this verse presents faith as a decisive boundary between life and death. Those who ate manna still died, but those who feed on Christ. by faith, receive life, that death cannot extinguish. When you leave, when your soul leaves your body, it doesn't matter how puffed up death gets standing there in the room where you leave your body. Oh, death can make noises and faces and grunts and growls

and puff himself up. He has no power. No power. No power. You're just going to go right past him. Death has no power over the believer who believes in the resurrected Christ. The promise transforms the fear of mortality. Physical death becomes a passage, not a defeat, not something to be feared. When you trust in Christ, the resurrected Savior of the world, you have no fear of death. and I know a lot of people, is there aging, they fear death. What's it going to be like? What's going to happen when I take my last breath? Christ is going to greet you and escort you,

because you've believed in him. He's going to escort you into eternity. Our hope for the resurrection rest upon the sufficiency of Christ, what he did. Because he is the living bread. those who are united to him share in his life our faith in his promise in this first John 6th

verse 50 our faith in this promise guarantees our resurrection on the final day how do we know here's why faith eats Christ and lives forever because the believer's soul is united to the living Christ,

the one who is himself in mortal life. Remember earlier we talked, you are what you eat. What you eat leaves. You take it from the outside of your body. The bread is on the table. Your hand picks up the bread, puts it in your mouth, you swallow it. It goes inside of you.

becomes part of you. The bread becomes part of it. Why else did you eat it? Your body need it what's in the bread. When you eat Christ, your hand is faith. Your hand picks up the living bread, Christ. You put it in your mouth. You feed on him by faith. In Christ, the living Savior is now inside of you and becomes part of you. it becomes part of your body and on resurrection day the resurrected Christ resurrects your body

because you are what you eat praise God and you ate the resurrected Christ oh doc I'm going to jump up and run around I can't take any more of this this is this is too good

this is the too good news this is awesome good news okay I got one more point on one of the bread is the antidote to the fall of mankind what did adam and eve do they ate of the forbidden tree and what did it bring death the new man eats of the bread of heaven who is the last atom if if you are in christ you are a new creature adam and eve died because they ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

They ate the forbidden fruit. They died. It brought death. You are a new creature in Christ. You were born again. Your old dead spirit came alive when you believed in Christ and were baptized in water. And now, not the first Adam, but the last Adam. He's not the second Adam. He's the last Adam. Because there's not going to be. or third and fourth and fifth Adam.

There's the first autumn and the last Adam. And he is the resurrected Christ. He died on the cross. He was buried. He descended into hell. He rose on the third day. He ascended to heaven. He is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He is making intercession for you. He's coming back in glory for you and me. Praise God. And when he comes back, the dead in Christ are the first to rise the graves are open all the graves are open

all of them all the graves the wicked and the just how are people what you know if that's what Jesus said all the graves are open some are resurrected to life

others are resurrected to judgment to death they are they are They enter into, imagine this, living spiritual death. How do you live death? The wicked, those who have never believed in Christ, they are going to live eternal death. But the righteous, those who fed upon Christ,

are going to enter into eternal life. Yes. With the one upon whom they feasted by faith. Yes. The bread of heaven, whoever, this new man, you and me, when we eat the bread of heaven, we regain immortality. Adam and Eve had immortality. They had it, and they surrendered it, because they ate the wrong thing.

Yes, they eat the wrong thing. They ate the wrong thing. You and I eat the right thing, Christ, and we regain the immortality that Adam and Eve lost. Oh, Doc, it's just so good. Man, I'll take that away with me today. Don't eat the wrong thing. Wow. So the problem is really clear for those that are watching and listening today.

Eat and believe. I know it sounds simple, but if you eat and believe, you'll never die. It's really that simple. Faith secures your soul against eternal separation of God. Eat and believe. and it's pretty clear here Jesus said, and he will not die. That means eternal life.

The believer is delivered from spiritual death and you have the promise of you, your body will rise again. So faith eats the bread of life and less breath ever. Death will be swallowed up in Christ's victory and the result of the cross

but ultimately because of our final resurrection. the one who believes also never hungers in this life either. Faith brings that spiritual satisfaction for your soul when you rest in Christ promises. And that promises that you will never die. You will never die. And the soul that receives Christ, Rick, never tastes dent eternally.

Our body dies once, but we don't die. we get resurrected. Our body gets resurrected. Faith in the resurrected Christ is the key to living forever. Why? Why is eating Christ the key to living forever? Christ's flesh is life-giving because it is the flesh of the divine word. In the beginning was the word, and the word was made flesh. union with Christ through faith means your soul shares in his indestructible life there is nobody who is going to kill Jesus Christ

can ever think about there you think Jesus is afraid of being mugged you think he's afraid that Satan's going to sneak up on him some night and murder him His life is indestructible and when you are in union with him when you are eating him by faith your soul becomes indestructible and not die a few weeks ago

I mentioned the Greek Orthodox Church doctrine of theosis which is pretty much the Greek way of saying the Protestant doctrine of sanctification. You're not that far apart. You know, if we get together with our brothers and sisters around the world in different churches, we'll find out we're basically

believing the same thing. We just say it differently. But the key of theosis, which is the process, the process of becoming united with God and partakers of the divine nature by grace rather than by nature. That's theosis.

So death's dominion is broken. Even when our body dies, the one united to Christ is alive and alive to God and awaits resurrection. Jesus does not promise we will avoid the grave, but death will avoid us.

Oh, Doc, that's a keeper. Yes. That's a keeper. Jesus does not promise we will avoid the grave, but he does promise that death will avoid us. Praise God. The grave is not the end of life.

Those who feed on this bread of life will never know what it is to be cut all from God. Christ will raise you up on the last day. You have his word on it. all you have to do is believe and eat his flesh and drink his blood. Praise God. All right, that's our lesson for today. Great lesson.

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