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THE CHRISTIAN AND THE FOOD PROBLEM [ Continued from Page 333] nourishment of our natural life came, directly or indirectly, out of the dirt. It is a strong proof that we are dust, as the Bible tells—“Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return” (Gen. 3:19)—that all our food comes from dust and that when We die pur bodies are dissolved into dust. But the supernatural life, coming to us through regeneration—unto us, I mean, who have taken our place under the shelter of the shed blood of the Son of God—this supernatural life can not be sustained by the food that springs out of the dirt; its food must come from above. For the nourishment of our supernatural life, we must feed upon Christ Himself. He is not oply our Sa viour; He is also our spiritual food. And we should be far more eager to feed upon Him for our spiritual nour ishment than to feed upon material food for our physical nourishment. “Labor not,” said He Himself, “for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you:, for him hath God the Father sealed” (John 6:27). In the Jewish quarter of any large city there are meat and provision stores bearing Upon their windows the Hebrew word “Kosher,” meaning “clean.” This sign indicates that the food offered there for sale is prepared according to the requirements of the Levitical code and may be bought and eaten by ortho dox Jews. And to make this certain, the rabbi of the congregation of Jews has attached his seal to the food thus put on sale. Christ Himself is the food provided by His Father for His; chil dren, and “him hath God the Father sealed.” Christ— the Bread of God This mystery is unfolded for us in our Lord’s discourse in John 6 on “The Bread of God.” He says: "The bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world . . . I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst . . . I am that bread of life.'Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh,.which I will give for the life of the’world” (John 6:33, 35, 48-51). When the Jews to whom He was speaking said, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat ?” He went on to say: “ Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh ot the Son of
man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh toy blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day . . . He that ’eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood; dwelleth in me, and I in him . . . he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever” (John 6:52- 58). Of course, all this is mysterious, and the natural man is utterly unable to understand it at all (cf. 1 Cor. 2:14). Many even of our Lord’s followers found themselves unable to comprehend His meaning, and they said, “This is a hard saying; who can hear it?” (John 6:60). And indeed many of them went away from Him after hearing this discourse, and "walked no more with him” (v. 66), leaving only the little handful of twelve apostles remaining with Him. How Heavenly Food Is Appropriated Our Lord’s own key to the meaning of His dissertation on “The Bread of God” is contained in the words of verse 63: “It is the Spirit that quickeneth [or, ‘giveth life’] ; the flesh [that is, the mere outward form of the words] profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” This means that if we are to get the true meaning of His words, we must search for it beneath the surface. It is little wonder that the Jews who listened to Him—that is to say, those Jews who had not been bom again— were confused by His words. To them, with their training in the Torah, the law of Moses, the idea of drinking blood was repugnant. The law forbade the drinking of blood in any form. But here was a new thing. The blood here spoken of must be drunk, and the flesh here spoken of must be eaten; else there could be no life. ■ But for the regenerate—for the chil dren of God by the new birth, the law itself may provide a key for the under standing of even this mystery. In Le viticus 17:10, 11, Jehovah says: “I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” This may mean that in drinking the blood of a beast, the one who drinks may be partaking in a sense of the beast’s own life and nature, and this should by all means be avoided. But the passage goes on to say of the blood: “I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atone ment for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” Now, every intelligent student of Scripture knows that “the blood of bulls and of goats” could never “take away sins” [Heb. 10:4), and that the bloody sacrifices of the old covenant only served to point to a better sacrifice than these (Heb. 9:28), even the blood
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