Page 021 - What Are You Eating?
*Verses from AMP
"I [Myself] am this Living Bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he will live forever; and also the Bread that I shall give for the life of the world is My flesh (body)---He who feeds on My flesh and drinks My blood has (possesses now) eternal life, and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day."
(Amp: 6:51, 54.)
Jesus was the first to make it clear that it is most important what one eats. Today everyone knows that one of the biggest problems in America is our diet. It is not that we do not have enough of the right kind of food, but we have so much junk food that it is causing obesity and a host of other diseases.
When Jesus said that He was the living bread, the Jews would have had more insight than we do. The processed bread that we eat today is not living. If you planted this bread in the ground, nothing would happen. It is subpar to real bread with grains that if planted will actually grow. This type of living bread is portrayed in Ezekiel 4:9, "Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them into one vessel and make bread of them."
Jesus wanted to make clear that His blood would be shed for our redemption so man we would not suffer eternal death. This is what is meant by drinking His blood because the life of a human being is in the blood (Leviticus 17:14). On the other hand, the Lord's body would be broken for us just as bread we eat for our life and life suppy. The precious thing about the bread He gives to us is that the life we receive is eternal.