He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me and I in him. As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me. John 6:54-57
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would remember the Lord by eating the Lord’s body and drinking the Lord’s blood, thereby eating and drinking the Lord Himself (Luke 22:19-20; John 6:54-57).
What does it mean to eat the Lord’s body and drink the Lord’s blood? To eat the Lord’s body and drink His blood is to eat and drink of the Lord Himself. A person may say, “I have eaten some chicken.” How was he able to eat the chicken? Without death and without the shedding of blood, the chicken could not have entered into him. The reason that the Lord Jesus can enter into us and become our food is that He died and shed His blood.
One day the Lord Jesus told the Jews, “Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you” (John 6:27). This meant that the Jews should not seek to eat bread and be filled, because bread is merely physical food and temporary. Instead, they should seek the food that abides unto eternal life. The bread that the Lord would give was His flesh, but the Jews did not understand Him. As a result, they contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” (v. 52). Then the Lord Jesus said, “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life…For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me and I in him” (vv. 54-56). Then many of His disciples said, “This word is hard; who can hear it?” (v. 60). This was because they were full of their natural concepts.
What is it to eat the Lord’s flesh and drink the Lord’s blood? To eat the Lord’s flesh and drink His blood is to take the Lord into us by eating and drinking Him. The Lord is life. Therefore, when He comes into us, eternal life comes into us. (Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1952, vol. 1, “Guidelines for the Lord’s Table Meeting and the Pursuit in Life,” ch. 1)
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