From Material to Spiritual: Embracing the Bread of Life
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"Jesus said that people are all worried and concerned about what they're going to eat, what they're going to drink, what they're going to wear, and after all of these things do they heathen seek. They think only of life on the physical plane, but he said you should be different. You should be seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and if you are putting the spiritual aspects first, God will take care of the physical aspects of your life." [00:07:12]
"Jesus was constantly seeking to lift people to the spiritual plane, but people did not always understand the realm of the spirit, and he was always endeavoring to interpret life for them on the spiritual level, spiritual plane. We remember the story that Jesus told of a young man who came to his father and demanded from his father his portion of the inheritance, and his father gave him his portion of his inheritance, and he went away into a far country and spent it all on riotous living." [00:08:00]
"Jesus was always seeking to point out that life in the highest plane is life in the spiritual plane, and that if you start living the life in the spiritual plane, you'll really discover what real living is all about, that these other things are all there as you walk in fellowship with God. So Jesus said, 'I am that bread of life. I'm the life, the life in the spirit. I'm it.'" [00:12:17]
"Now again, it's important that r Jesus to realize that Jesus is speaking to them on the spiritual plane, but the problem is they are thinking on the material plane, and we have to guard against that ourselves. When Jesus is speaking on the material plane, we have to guard against interpreting it on the physical plane, and when we read things like this, we must not try to interpret it on the material plane because he wasn't talking about material things." [00:14:03]
"The Bible declares that you can be spiritually dead while you are physically alive, and if you are not spiritually alive tonight, if your spirit is not alive, then the Bible refers to you as being dead. The Bible said if a person lives only for pleasure, they are dead while they're still living, and so you see a world out there full of zombies, and look in your their eyes and you'll see their zombies, that emptiness that is there as they are searching for life." [00:14:48]
"Jesus declared that he was going to give his flesh for the life of the world. Now this created a whole new controversy among them. The Jews therefore got in a big controversy. They began to strive among themselves and they said, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?' How can he do that now? Notice their problem. What is it? Notice it here. How can this man give us his flesh treat? What was the problem? Thinking in the realm of the material." [00:36:25]
"This seeking to put these words of Christ back into the physical realm is a problem that much of the church has fallen into today, and there is that doctrine, and they give them big names for whatever purpose transubsense substantiation, and there are those churches who believe that in some mystic divine way, the bread that you take, the wafer that you take, actually becomes literally physically the body of Jesus." [00:37:48]
"And they believe that through some divine mystical way, the cup actually becomes his blood, and they won't let you partake of communion with them unless you believe that, and so they have closed communion, and unless you go through their whole catechism and learn all about it, they won't let you partake, but you see their problem is the same that the Jews were having. They're thinking only in the realm of the material." [00:38:56]
"As Jesus was talking in the realm of the spirit, this bread is my flesh which I'm going to give for the life of the world, and unless you eat of this bread, my flesh, you have no life, and what does he mean? You know, how can we eat his flesh? They interpreted it in the material realm, lost the meaning, so in order to understand what Jesus is talking about when he's talking about life, he's talking about spiritual life." [00:39:58]
"When he's saying you won't die, he's talking about the fact that the spirit doesn't die. It is the flesh that dies, but he's not talking about the flesh. He's on the higher dimension. He's in a higher realm. We live and move and exist in this realm of the flesh, he here in the realm of the spirit, and there are different realms entirely, and he's talking in the spiritual realm, and to understand him, you've got to understand it in the spiritual realm rather than in this material fleshly realm." [00:40:42]
"And so it's important that we do partake of Jesus, that we eat of that bread in order that we might have the life of Christ within us, and unless you eat that bread, drink of his blood, he said you really don't have life in you, but again, spiritually, don't make the mistake of the Jews and try and interpret it physically." [00:41:46]
"Father, we thank you for that life in the spirit that we have in Christ Jesus. Thank you, Father, that you sent your only begotten son. You gave to us that bread of life that we might discover true living, life on the realm of the spirit, Lord, that for which the world is seeking after but not finding." [00:43:42]
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"Jesus was constantly seeking to lift people to the spiritual plane, but people did not always understand the realm of the spirit, and he was always endeavoring to interpret life for them on the spiritual level, spiritual plane. We remember the story that Jesus told of a young man who came to his father and demanded from his father his portion of the inheritance, and his father gave him his portion of his inheritance, and he went away into a far country and spent it all on riotous living." [00:08:00]
"Jesus was always seeking to point out that life in the highest plane is life in the spiritual plane, and that if you start living the life in the spiritual plane, you'll really discover what real living is all about, that these other things are all there as you walk in fellowship with God. So Jesus said, 'I am that bread of life. I'm the life, the life in the spirit. I'm it.'" [00:12:17]
"Now again, it's important that r Jesus to realize that Jesus is speaking to them on the spiritual plane, but the problem is they are thinking on the material plane, and we have to guard against that ourselves. When Jesus is speaking on the material plane, we have to guard against interpreting it on the physical plane, and when we read things like this, we must not try to interpret it on the material plane because he wasn't talking about material things." [00:14:03]
"The Bible declares that you can be spiritually dead while you are physically alive, and if you are not spiritually alive tonight, if your spirit is not alive, then the Bible refers to you as being dead. The Bible said if a person lives only for pleasure, they are dead while they're still living, and so you see a world out there full of zombies, and look in your their eyes and you'll see their zombies, that emptiness that is there as they are searching for life." [00:14:48]
"Jesus declared that he was going to give his flesh for the life of the world. Now this created a whole new controversy among them. The Jews therefore got in a big controversy. They began to strive among themselves and they said, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?' How can he do that now? Notice their problem. What is it? Notice it here. How can this man give us his flesh treat? What was the problem? Thinking in the realm of the material." [00:36:25]
"This seeking to put these words of Christ back into the physical realm is a problem that much of the church has fallen into today, and there is that doctrine, and they give them big names for whatever purpose transubsense substantiation, and there are those churches who believe that in some mystic divine way, the bread that you take, the wafer that you take, actually becomes literally physically the body of Jesus." [00:37:48]
"And they believe that through some divine mystical way, the cup actually becomes his blood, and they won't let you partake of communion with them unless you believe that, and so they have closed communion, and unless you go through their whole catechism and learn all about it, they won't let you partake, but you see their problem is the same that the Jews were having. They're thinking only in the realm of the material." [00:38:56]
"As Jesus was talking in the realm of the spirit, this bread is my flesh which I'm going to give for the life of the world, and unless you eat of this bread, my flesh, you have no life, and what does he mean? You know, how can we eat his flesh? They interpreted it in the material realm, lost the meaning, so in order to understand what Jesus is talking about when he's talking about life, he's talking about spiritual life." [00:39:58]
"When he's saying you won't die, he's talking about the fact that the spirit doesn't die. It is the flesh that dies, but he's not talking about the flesh. He's on the higher dimension. He's in a higher realm. We live and move and exist in this realm of the flesh, he here in the realm of the spirit, and there are different realms entirely, and he's talking in the spiritual realm, and to understand him, you've got to understand it in the spiritual realm rather than in this material fleshly realm." [00:40:42]
"And so it's important that we do partake of Jesus, that we eat of that bread in order that we might have the life of Christ within us, and unless you eat that bread, drink of his blood, he said you really don't have life in you, but again, spiritually, don't make the mistake of the Jews and try and interpret it physically." [00:41:46]
"Father, we thank you for that life in the spirit that we have in Christ Jesus. Thank you, Father, that you sent your only begotten son. You gave to us that bread of life that we might discover true living, life on the realm of the spirit, Lord, that for which the world is seeking after but not finding." [00:43:42]
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