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Crisis in Galilee
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“As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so
he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.” Jesus was surrendered
to the will of God so fully that the Father alone appeared in His life.
Although tempted in all points as we are, He stood untainted by the
evil that surrounded Him. In the same way, we also are to overcome
as Christ overcame.
Are you a follower of Christ? Then by uniting yourself to Jesus
you may attain all that the Bible promises concerning the spiritual
life. Has your first love grown cold? Accept the love of Christ again.
Eat of His flesh, drink of His blood, and you will become one with
the Father and with the Son.
By ritual law, the Jews were forbidden to taste blood, and they
now twisted Christ’s language into sacrilegious speech. Even many
of the disciples said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?”
The Savior answered them: “Does
this
offend you? What then if
you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? It is
the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I
speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”
Life in the Word
The life of Christ that gives life to the world is in His word. By
His word Jesus healed disease and cast out demons; by His word He
stilled the sea and raised the dead. The whole Bible is a revelation
of Christ, and the Savior wanted to fasten the faith of His followers
on the Word. When His visible presence would be withdrawn, the
Word must be the source of their power.
As food sustains our physical life, so the Word of God sustains
our spiritual life. As we must eat for ourselves, so we must receive
the Word for ourselves. We should carefully study the Bible, asking
God for the Holy Spirit’s aid so that we may understand His Word.
We should take one verse, discover the thought God has put in that
verse for us, and dwell on the thought until it becomes our own.
In His promises and warnings, Jesus means me. God so loved
the world that He gave His Son, that
I
by believing in Him might not
perish, but have everlasting life. The experiences related in God’s
Word are to be
my
experiences. Prayer and promise are
mine
. “I
have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ