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We then see something else that is quite remarkable, as if Christ abiding in us is not remarkable enough. There is a close parallel between the relationship between the Father and the Son and the relationship between Christ and us. In a sense the way that Christ relates to the Father is the way that we should relate to Christ. The Father sent Jesus, so Jesus sends us. The Son lives because of the Father, we should live because of Christ.
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Back in Deuteronomy 8:3 we have the words quoted by Jesus when being tempted by Satan, “man cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God”. The full quote is:
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
As an aside, we are all familiar with the start of John’s gospel and Jesus being called the Word. In this chapter Jesus has been repeatedly saying that He is the bread from heaven, and in Deuteronomy 8:3 we have talk of bread, manna and the word. So perhaps this is a further reason for John using the term Word.
The manna, wonderful though it was, was not the true bread. Jesus is the true bread, the bread that gives life. Let us feed on this bread today.
All this teaching on the bread of life was given in the synagogue at Capernaum.
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