BREAD OF LIFE’
Physical survival is dependant on
food. If we look at how we maintain
physical life we can learn much about how to maintain spiritual life. We are dependant on our parents to nurture us
when we are new born. Mother’s milk is an extraction of her blood. Leviticus 17:11- “the life of the
flesh is in the blood.” The life giving
nutrients of the mother’s blood prepares us for the digestion of natural
food. It is interesting that for us to
survive in the natural realm, something must die. What we call food was once alive. In order for something to be food, it must at
one time have been alive. The food that
sustains our physical life at one time had it’s own
life. In order for us to have sustained
life on earth, something must die! The
life of the earth keeps our earthly bodies alive. Without earthly life, we would die. The parent is the source of food for their
new born offspring.
So in the spirit realm, our life is dependant on our parent. Spiritual as well as our natural parents must
supply us with life sustaining food.
When we were an infant, we required mother’s milk to survive the transition
time it takes for us to get ready to eat natural food. So in the realm of the
spirit, when we are first born-again we have need of the milk of the Word,
until we can handle the meat of God’ s Word.
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Some fail to grow to the stage were they can handle meat.
1 Corinthians 3:2- “I
have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to
bear it, neither yet now are ye able.”
Have you noticed when an infant begins to be weaned from milk and starts eating
solid food, that they spend a great deal of time spitting it out? How much like
an infant many Christians are, when it comes to hearing the meat of God’s Word.
One will never become liberated from an infants life,
until they move on to
meatier food.
Hebrews 5:14- “But strong meat belongeth to
them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil.”
As one begins to eat natural food they gain more capacity to eat other foods.
So it is with God’s Word, the more you use it, the more you can use. The
principle, that in order to have life, one must eat life, is still true.
It is no better demonstrated then with the death of
The spiritual life is birthed and sustained by the death of
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How
does this work? We first have physical
life and then when we hear the Word of God, and respond to it, we are born a
second time into spiritual life.
John 3:3-6 “Jesus answered and said unto him,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be
born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and
be born?
In order to become born into the spiritual realm, one must become a product of
God’s Word. The creative power of God’s spoken word,
is what created all things.
Hebrews 11:3- “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed
by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which
do appear.”
As creation occurred at the spoken Word of God, so to, we must be a product of
God’s spoken Word.
2 Corinthians
The Bible is the written record of God’s spoken Word and has the same creative
power as the spoken Word of God. If we receive the truth of the written Words
of God, we shall be born of the Spirit.
Matthew 4:4- “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God.”
The source of our life is
Matthew 4:4- “But he answered and
said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. “
Matthew6:11- “Give us this day
our daily bread.”
Have a God-day!
