November 3, 2019 The Blood and Life
/in 2019 Lord’s Day /by Youhyun ChangSenior Overseer Kidong Kim
[John 6:52-59]
God
is living and does His work.
He
sent His word and does the work He promised (Acts 1:4-5).
He surely fulfills His revealed promise through the Son.
Therefore,
He said, “Eat My flesh”
and “Drink My blood.”
If you eat the Lord Jesus’ flesh, you will gain eternal life.
If you drink the Lord Jesus’ blood, you will gain life (John 6:53-55).
No matter how godly you are,
without relying on Jesus’ merit, there is no salvation.
This is our faith.
We eat the flesh of Jesus and drink His blood.
Just as man eats and drinks to live,
Jesus must dwell in you through the experience of faith.
For example: if you believe in Jesus,
you should proclaim to the world what you believe.
This is a command.
Eating and drinking this holy flesh and blood
is proclamation (1Cor 11:23-27).
○ By treating the Lord’s Supper as a ritual,
you can show yourself as religious. But this is not faith.
Faith is to proclaim.
○ If Jesus’ flesh and blood dwells in you,
you should proclaim them.
Rely on the Holy Spirit and proclaim them.
○There is no life in practicing doctrines.
The Lord’s Supper is to be obeyed.
Proclaim it until the Lord surely returns.
※ Though we learn the Lord’s word,
if we do not practice it, it is disobedience and unbelief.
The person who practices it obeys it. This is faith.
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The mandate of our Lord Jesus Christ was this: “Pay attention to me.” The Lord Jesus loved those spirits who paid attention to Him. When the sick paid attention to Him, He healed them. When the lame paid attention to Him, they picked up their mats, got up and went home. Why did Jesus tell them to pay attention? It says, ‘Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.” This means we must receive the Lord Jesus’ love. Those who love the Lord will not be judged but will gain eternal life. Those who do not pay attention to the Lord Jesus and look elsewhere have received judgement. Where will judged spirits go? The moment the spirit departs from the flesh, it will appear in a different form. I discovered this countless times throughout my life from those who were sick and oppressed. Life of faith in church means to be baptized in immersion. We do this to turn away from our past lives, to pay attention to the Lord Jesus, and to obey Him. Why do people not pay attention to the Lord Jesus, but pay attention to His servants He has called? This clearly comes from religious conviction. Religion is man-centered and concentrates on ethics and morals. They pour all their efforts and devotion to fulfill man’s righteousness. God-centered faith is when you abandon man’s righteousness and receive baptism by immersion. This is to obey God’s righteousness. We do not reject man’s righteousness. We respect it. This is basic for all believers. Mankind did not become sinners through the Law. They were sinners beforehand and death reigned over their spirits. Their spirits were dead. The Law merely reminds us why our spirits are dead. Mankind has a moral conscious. Moral conscious does not make you sinners. From the beginning, even before the guilt of conscious, no one was righteous, no one was holy, and no one sought God. There is not one person who can save themselves. Those who do not believe are sinners. If they are sinners, they are under death and the future of their spirits has already been decided. We were sinners with no choice but death. We must rely on the Lord Jesus’ merit to be saved. If the Lord does not save, no one has life or eternal life. They only await the fire of hell. Therefore, the Lord Jesus commands everyone to pay attention to Him. This is the God-centered faith. If one pays attention to man or something else in the world, they have nothing to do with the Lord Jesus. Those who pay attention to the world acknowledge Jesus only as a Jew from Nazareth. Those who pay attention to Him will acknowledge Him as the Son of God and as Christ sent by God. Pay attention to the Lord Jesus. This is faith. Semuon, 3rd November 2019
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Outline translated by John Kim
Letter translated by John Kim
Interpretations by John Kim
Korean Summary by Ki-Taek Lee