If our God and King is working salvation today, shouldn't we be doing the same?
Psalms 74:12 KJV For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Philippians 2:12 KJV …work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
The Psalmist prophesied about the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem in 70 AD, and so did Jesus.
Psalms 74:7 KJV They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Psalms 74:8 KJV They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Psalms 74:9 KJV We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Many attempt to use the Name of Christ to force their political agendas without having a spiritual clue.
John 6:15 KJV When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
The love of God and His great salvation, which are gifted to us through faith, are not forced upon anyone. Such is willingly received or rejected.
John 6:20 KJV But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
John 6:21 KJV Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
Consumer Christianity, filled with commercial bread, saves no one. The consumer is entertained while the laborer is sealed unto eternal life by the Father and His Blessed Holy Spirit.
John 6:26 KJV Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
John 6:27 KJV Labour not 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.
If you truly believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, by faith, God will work through you.
John 6:28 KJV Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
John 6:29 KJV Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Far too many men take credit for bread deliveries that only God can deliver.
John 6:32 KJV Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
John 6:33 KJV For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
God delivered the Bread of Life. It’s up to us to come and receive it.
John 6:34 KJV Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
John 6:35 KJV And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
If you have been approved by the Father and given to the Son, you will not only not be cast out, you will never seek to be cast out, and you will seek to do the Father’s will. Of course, we fall short at times of the Father’s will and thsi is why the gift of faith grants us the ability to repent. Those who lack such repentance are not sealed with such faith.
John 6:37 KJV All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
John 6:37 KJV All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
John 6:38 KJV For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
John 6:39 KJV And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
John 6:40 KJV And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Just because you see does not mean you will automatically believe. Our eyes must be opened by the faith that only God can give.
John 6:36 KJV But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
Such murmurers are not our greatest allies.
John 6:41 KJV The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
We do not find God. God finds us.
John 6:44 KJV No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
It is never a matter of losing salvation, for God’s gift of faith can never die. It is always a distinction between manna and the Bread of Life. Unbelievers partake of God’s physical sustenance every day, just as the unbelieving children of Israel did with the manna. Those granted eternal life then, and those granted eternal life now, are partakers of the Bread of Life. by the gift of faith.
John 6:47 KJV Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
John 6:48 KJV I am that bread of life.
John 6:49 KJV Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
John 6:50 KJV This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
John 6:51 KJV 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.
Clearly, this is not the doctrine of transubstantiation, in which a priest transforms the wafer and wine into the literal physical body and blood of Jesus Christ, to be consumed in a cannibalistic manner. If baptism and this doctrine were necessary for salvation, the thief on the cross, along with many others, would be condemned. Just as the physical consumption of manna did not bring salvation, neither do these symbolic expressions of our faith save us. If they did, in and of themselves, many who lack faith but have been forcibly baptized or have taken communion would be saved.
John 6:52 KJV The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
John 6:53 KJV Then Jesus 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 no life in you.
John 6:54 KJV Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:55 KJV For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
John 6:56 KJV He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
John 6:57 KJV As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
John 6:58 KJV This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
Jesus clarifies and validates.
John 6:63 KJV It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
If you walk away from Christ, you were never among Him.
John 6:64 KJV But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
John 6:65 KJV And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
John 6:66 KJV From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
John 6:67 KJV Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
If Jesus is not the way, then tell me who is. I have studied the religions of the world, and nothing compares to Christ, the Son of God.
John 6:68 KJV Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
John 6:69 KJV And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
Even Satan himself serves as a chosen vessel of destruction. All people are chosen for one purpose or another, with respect to the 'chosen' of God.
John 6:70 KJV Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
John 6:71 KJV He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
All the words of the LORD concerning the everlasting covenant of Christ, sealed in His blood, are written in a Book. This is why Jesus preached, 'It is written!'
Exodus 24:7 KJV And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
Exodus 24:8 KJV And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Moses and the seventy elders of Israel saw Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Exodus 24:9 KJV Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
Exodus 24:10 KJV And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
If you are part of the covenant of Christ by faith, then you are His servant forever.
Job 41:4 KJV Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Father, thank You for the Bread of Life! In Jesus' Name, Amen.
