John 6:54-56 - Real food and real drink

6:54,55

If we believe in Jesus and trust in His atoning sacrifice then we have eternal life. In any and every situation and circumstance we need to trust in Christ. Then we are guaranteed to be raised up on the last day. Then Jesus tells us that His flesh is true food and His blood true drink. Now do remember that He is using metaphorical language here! In the natural we know that we need food to provide sustenance and that without water we will die. Now we come to where the scientific naturalism view of the world is completely wrong. This says that the material is all there is. What we are is a system of biochemical reactions. We are purely physical, everything about us can be completely explained in physical terms. Because we can measure various electrical patterns in our brains, that explains what emotions, thoughts and consciousness are. This view is so wrong, not to say plain stupid. The physical and spiritual have an effect on each other, but we are so much more than just the physical. Through sin our spirit has been corrupted, put to death. We need the atoning death of Jesus to give us life. And it is by trusting in Jesus that we are sustained, that is where our strength comes from.

6:56

Again remember that the eating and drinking here metaphorical. If we believe in Jesus and trust in His atoning sacrifice then we abide in Him and He abides in us. Believing in Jesus is not an academic exercise, it is about a relationship. We live in Christ. God is the source of our being. None of us chose to be brought into existence, none of us had any say in the matter! Now the materialist will say it just happened by chance, though that seems a very poor and inadequate explanation of being, and of all the abilities that we have. The truth is that God brought us into existence. Now when we rebelled against God, saying we would go our own way, death immediately came into our life. We lost connection with the source of life. When we repent and believe we regain that connection.

Notice also the close fellowship and unity that God desires. We abide in Christ, and He abides in us.