Sunday 2021.01.17
Reading from John Chapter 6
Words of Life
John 6: 63b-64 ASV
the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are *life*. But there are some of you that believe not.
John 6:68 ASV
Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of *eternal life*.
Here are some words of life gleaned from John chapter 6:
(1) Concerning the work of God
John 6:27 ASV
Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.
John 6: 29 ASV
This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
John 6: 47 ASV
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth hath eternal life.
(2) Concerning the bread from heaven, the flesh and blood of Iesou
John 6: 32b - 33 ASV
. . . It was not Moses that gave you the bread out of heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
John 6: 35 ASV
. . . I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
John 6: 48 ASV
I am the bread of life.
John 6: 40 - 58 ASV
50 This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, *How can this man give us his flesh to eat?*
53 Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.
54 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.
58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.
(3) Concerning the will of God
John 6: 37 - 40 ASV
37 All that which the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
40 For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
(4) Concerning being taught by God, and being drawn to Iesous
John 6: 44 - 45 ASV
No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day. It is written in the prophets, *And they shall all be taught of God.* Every one that hath heard from the Father, and hath learned, cometh unto me.
cf Isaiah 54:13 KJV
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
cf Jeremiah 31: 33 - 34 KJV
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
John 6: 65 ASV
And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father.
(5) Concerning Iesous having come from God
John 6:46 ASV
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he that is *from God*, he hath seen the Father.
John 6: 62 ASV
What then if ye should behold the Son of man ascending *where he was before*?
(6) Responses to the words of life:
John 6:66 ASV
Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
John 6: 68 - 69 ASV
Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we have believed and know that thou art the Holy One of God.
