I. Partaking of the Bread of Life. V47-59
A. I would like to start off by looking at a word.
1. Look at John 6:47:
a. In my version. (It says “Anyone who believes has eternal life”
and it leaves it right there)
b. The King James says. (“He that believeth “on” Me hath
everlasting life)
c. The Greek NT. (Agrees with the King James version having
the “on Me” as how this verse reads)
1). This is important. (This word “on” is a preposition and it
shows or indicates the relationship of a noun, for
“Me” and in can mean “into, purpose and can evening
relay the idea of being of one mind”)
2). Now let’s couple that with “believeth”. (GK is pist-yoo-o which
the RT word is pistis meaning to have “moral conviction”
and that is tied to a Hebrew word “shama” to hear and
obey)
3). How many of you know about picking the right mushrooms? (I
don’t, but I have been places where we ran across some
mushrooms and I with some other people)
4). Now one said, “I think this is a good mushroom to eat. (Now I
don’t know about you, but the words “I think” did not
give me a lot of faith about eating that mushroom)
5). So I said. (Great! And I tossed that mushroom over my
shoulder and continued to walk out of there)
6). I did not put a lot of. (Faith in his ability to tell what
mushrooms were which, but on the other hand had I
been convinced of his ability I would have eaten that
mushroom)
2. Once again Yahshua brings up the idea that He is the Bread of Life
Life that came down from heaven, and we discussed this:
a. Now back to John 6:30-32. (Now look at this, and let’s keep this within
the context of Yahshua having already fed the 5,000-20,000 people just
days before this conversation)
1). It would seem that feeding the people. (With these 5 fish and two barley
loaves seems like to kind of magic trick or something, because they
want some kind of other miracle and they referred to Moses feeding
the people with manna in the desert)
2). Look at Ex. 16:4. (“Yahweh tells Moses that He (Yahweh)” is going to
rain down “bread” from heaven for you)
3). The word “bread”. (Heb. is lehk-em and it means food and grain or
bread, and we find that Israel named it “manna” which in Heb.
means “whatness” or what is it? Look at Ex. 16:16-17 Moses
answered “It is the bread that Yahweh has given you to eat)
4). What may have been going on is this. (Look at Ex. 16:35, which says
that Israel ate the “bread” or “manna” for 40 years, until they came
to the land of Canaan, so they were saying something like that was
just once, where is the bread everyday?)
5). This goes back to John 6:25-27. (They may have been looking for
Yahshua to continue to feed them the bread and the fish)
6). To truly understand what is being discussed in V32 we must understand
a couple of GK words. (The first is “ouranios” this form of the word
denotes the “sky”, we can see this in Matt. 16:3 where Yahshua is
referring to the appearance of the “sky”)
7). The second is. (GK “ouranos” notice the only difference is an “i” is
missing in this form, and this word refers to the heaven where we
find the Kingdom of Yahweh or heavens, look at Matt. 3:2)
8). So Yahshua is saying in John 6:32. (Moses didn’t give you the bread
that can from the Kingdom of Heaven, referring to the manna
coming from the “sky” or where the rain comes from, remember
Yahweh made it to “rain” the manna from the “sky” look at Ex.
16:13-14, the manna came in with the “dew”)
9). Yahshua is explaining the picture. (The manna was a picture of the
“true” bread that comes down from the heaven)
10). The difference is. (One gives you life for today and you must eat it or
have it everyday or you will starve, but the other give you eternal
life when you partake of it once)
a). Look at John 6:49. (Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and
they died)
11). But look at John 6:50-58. (Here Yahshua starts telling them they must
eat His flesh and drink His blood, and they have a strong reaction to
what He is saying, look at John 6:52, how can this man give us His
flesh to eat?)
3. Look at Heb. 9:23-28:
a. . The writer explains that the first things were copies of Heavenly things:
b. This word “copies” is important. (In the GK it means “an example, or a
thing of imitation, something used to imitate something else)
1). But the RT word means. (GK “to instruct or to admonish, so these
Sacrifices were to instruct and admonish them of something else)
c. The instruction was one of purification. (GK means “to make clean or to
cleanse something)
1). But this word also carries with it a moral sense. (Means to be cleansed
From defilement, or from sin and also means to make pure)
2). This also goes back to Lev. 17:10-11. (Yahweh admonishes Israel and
The foreigners among them not to eats blood)
a). Yahweh points out that it is for atonement. (They are use it to atone for
for their sins)
b). The word “atonement”. (Heb. means “to cover our souls”)
c). The word “souls”. (Heb. means “breathing creature” and can mean
“vitality)
d). The word for “flesh” (Heb. means “Flesh, body, fat, and can means
nakedness”)
e). The word for “Life”. (Heb. means “breathing creature” and can mean
vitality” and is the same word as soul in the Heb.)
f). The word “eat” is. (Heb. means “to eat, to consume, or devour”)
g). So, the blood sacrifice was for the covering of the souls. (And was to be
to be done as prescribed by Yahweh on the altar)
h). So to consume the blood. (Is to take on the soul of the sacrifice and
make that soul part of us)
1). Look at Gen. 4:10. (The voice of Abel’s blood crying out from the
Ground was his soul crying out to Yahweh)
2). Look at Gen. 9:4. (Noah was told not to eat meat with its life blood
In it, or its soul)
3). Look at Gen. 2:23. (Made one flesh, this is a union of the flesh, we
Don’t understand the significance of these union’s)
4). Look at 1 Cor. 6:16-20. (Ties the flesh to the flesh of a harlot and will
Destroy the flesh)
5). Look at John 6:53-63. (This is why this were so offended by His
His teaching, it was about taking on His life the Ruach or the Spirit)
6). Look at John 6:56. (The one who does this lives in Me and I in them
showing that there no life separate from this intimacy with Him)
7). Look at John 6:53. (Unless you eat His flesh and drink His blood you
do not have life in yourselves)