3.2 Jesus as Bread



© 2018 Christ Revealed Bible Institute

Your ability, now, to believe that God is telling you the truth when He speaks concerning you, that ability is a miracle and gift of the Holy Spirit.

Christ lives in your heart through faith. If you KNOW that God is telling you the truth through these words, and if you receive these words coming into you through faith to be Jesus in Person living inside your heart, then you have been touched by a miracle of God and the power of the Holy Spirit is overshadowing you. This Jesus living inside of you is the very same Jesus that was conceived inside of Mary.

I now want to show you Jesus as He is three things to you, the Bread, the Light, and the Aroma of incense.

The Bread of Life. Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; the one coming to Me shall never hunger and the one believing into Me shall never thirst at any time” (John 6:35). Then Jesus went on to say this: Indeed, my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. The one eating My flesh and drinking My blood abides inside of Me and I inside of Him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live through the Father, so also the one feeding on Me, even he will live through me. This is the bread having come down out of heaven… the one eating this bread will live into the age” (John 6:55-58).

How is Jesus the “bread which we eat?” Before we can understand that thought, however, I want to take you back through your second agreement and experience with God.

Your Second Encounter with Jesus. As you sought to know the Lord in the Bible and by attempting to live the Christian life, you perceived another great barrier between yourself and the knowledge of God. You saw things in the Bible that you did not understand; you read things you knew were not part of your experience. You wanted more from God – so you asked for a greater measure of God’s Spirit.

It is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are Spirit and they are life (John 6:63). – How much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him (Luke 11:13). And in that moment, you entered into a second agreement with God.

Surrender All. In the days and moments before you entered into this second agreement with God, you found yourself confronted with a question requiring an answer of you. That question would have come to you in a different manner than how it came to anyone else, yet there it was – Will you surrender all that you are to Me?

Before you surrendered your soul to the Holy Spirit, you did not know the extent of your inability as a Christian. You did not know that you could in no way understand the words of your Bible with your intellect. You did not know that you could not ever please God with your “Christian” actions. And in your surrender, you agreed that to know God, He had to immerse you into a realm you had never known – into His Holy Spirit.

In Spirit and Truth. God is Spirit, and it is necessary that those worshipping [kissing] Him, should worship inside of Spirit and Truth (John 4:24). In that moment, as the Holy Spirit flooded out from your own spirit and into your soul – into your mind, will, and emotions, you knew a joy unspeakable and full of glory – and the words on the pages of the Bible became a living reality to you.

Before you entered into that agreement, you were incapable of seeing your inability to know what the Bible actually means, and you knew nothing of walking in the Spirit. Here are the words that could define the philosophy by which you lived: “I’ve got things under control. I will figure this Bible out. I will live as God expects a good Christian to live.”

Another Person. Yet something else was happening in the heavens all around you, inside your absolute reality, things of which you were quite unaware. Another Person had set His intentions upon you.

Two thousand years ago a Man, an eternal, all-here-now Man, had dropped to His knees a second time in Gethsemane. At the end of the second hour on His knees, this Man, in agony of soul, agreed with God: “Not My will but Thine be done.”

What was this agreement with God? Jesus agreed, in that moment, to become your soul, to become all the psychosis of your own self-story spinning your own self-consciousness as if you were separate from Christ.

Bearing Fruit to God. Unless a grain of wheat is planted into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. He who loves his soul, his own self story, will lose it, and he who hates his self-story in this world will keep it to age-unfolding life (John 12:24-25). Jesus is that grain of wheat and you are the ground into which He was planted, there, a second time in Gethsemane. As that seed becomes the plant, so Jesus has become you that He might, through you, bear fruit to God.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit (John 15:16). You did not know in the moment you agreed a second time with God what it all meant, but you did know that Words of Life were flowing all through your soul by the Holy Spirit.

You Agree with God. When you entered into Jesus as the Immerser in the Holy Spirit, Jesus as the Truth, you left the company of multitudes of people who are just like you once were. And the significant difference now between you and them is this. They do not agree with God; they are convinced they can figure out God and the Bible themselves by their own minds. You agree with God; you know you cannot comprehend either Word or Spirit, but you must have another Person to take all your foolish psychosis upon Himself, that you might possess His soul, His story to speak as your own.

And for this season after your soul was filled with the Spirit, you are coming to know the full meaning of an anointed and living Word, and you are seeking to know God in the dealings of the Spirit. The Spirit is now your life.

Feeding on Jesus. How do we “feed on” Jesus as Bread?

I want to put three thoughts together for you. First, that human consciousness, as well as God’s consciousness, is a story of words existing inside of a spirit-awareness. Second, that the Word God speaks became flesh so that we might know Him. Jesus said that His flesh is the Bread we eat.

And third, this statement of Jesus: Unless a grain of wheat is planted into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. He who loves his soul [his self-story] will lose it, and he who hates his soul [his self-story] in this world will keep it for age-unfolding life (John 12:24-25).

Treasure in Our Earth. You can see that God speaks to us with figurative language, with metaphors. It is in this way that a Being such as God, far beyond us, can make Himself understandable to us. Yet God is always mixing metaphors, as Jesus does in these two verses from John 12.

Jesus is the grain of wheat, and you are the ground into which He is planted – Christ lives in your heart through faith. Paul said it this way: We have this treasure {Jesus living in our hearts} in earthen vessels {the ground into which He is planted, hearts of flesh}, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us (2 Corinthians 4:7).

But in the next verse, Jesus switches to talking about our souls.

Our Story of Self. The Greek word translated “soul” is psuche, from which we get the modern English word, psychology. And Jesus is using that word here to refer to the story of self going on inside our hearts and minds, the words and thoughts of our existence, flavored by our deepest emotions, inside our spirit-awareness of ourselves.

Thus it is very important for you to see that Jesus is merging two things together in this most important statement He made just before the cross. First, He refers to Himself coming into you, planted as a Living Word inside your heart, and then He refers to your trading of your own self-story for another story that is brand new.

Every Good Speaking. Jesus wants His Story, all the good words coming out of the Father and living inside of you, to become your own story of self, the words and thoughts by which you know yourself. Paul said this about that good-speaking that is Jesus: We bless and speak well of the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the One having blessed and spoken well of us with every spiritual speaking of goodness and blessing in the heavenly realms inside of Christ (Ephesians 1:3).

You see, your new story of self, the thoughts and words by which you know yourself, is already spoken by the Father inside of Christ. Yet, if you spend a moment observing the “story of self” going on in your own mind at present, you would see that it is still too much not these good words.

Speak What God Says You Are. To know Jesus as your own Bread of life, to “eat of Him,” in order to possess life as the knowledge of God, you must take Jesus’ own story of self upon yourself, as your own personal thinking about yourself.

Here is another way of saying it. – Speak what God says you are. Paul also says it this way: That the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is inside of you inside of Christ Jesus (Philemon 1:6).
God says that He has already blessed and spoken well of you with every spiritual speaking of goodness and blessing in the heavenly realms inside of Christ. So, when you speak words of cursing and falling short of God, of doubt and unbelief, of “poor little me,” and so on, you are speaking contrary to what God has already spoken you to be.

Trading Soul for Soul. You see, Jesus already lives in your heart through faith. He is already every Word God speaks written upon your heart of flesh. It’s now your task to believe on Him; that is, to bring those same words written upon your heart into the thinking of your thoughts, the story you tell yourself about yourself.

And you are able to do that because the same Holy Spirit who is the writing of Christ within your heart has now flooded into your mind and emotions. You are able to place Jesus’ soul, His own story of self, upon and all through your own soul, your own story of self.

And this “eating of Jesus as Bread” is the life of knowing God.

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