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abundantly clear in the words of Christ.

John 6:53-57
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His
blood, you have no life in yourselves. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has
eternal life, and I will raise him up on 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.”

This saying offended the Jews, and many of Christ’s disciples left Him after hearing
these words. His words were intended to be understood spiritually.

John 6:63
“The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.”

Christ was declaring that in order for man to pass from death into life, he must have
the life of Christ in him. Mankind was under a sentence of death ever since Adam sinned
in the Garden of Eden. Yahweh said to Adam, “on the day that you eat of the fruit of the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall surely die.”
The blood of Yahshua is the only provision that Yahweh has made for man to pass
from death into life. There is salvation in no other name. Mohammed cannot save man.
Buddha cannot save man. Only one who had been born of holy seed and lived a sinless life
could offer His soul as an atonement for mankind. This One is Jesus Christ, Yahshua the
Messiah.
When Christ told His disciples that they must eat His flesh and drink His blood, He
was speaking of spiritual realities. Man must receive the spirit of Christ into his being that
he might have life. We must be born again. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, but that
which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
We receive the life of Christ by receiving His seed.

I Peter 1:23
For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that
is, through the living and abiding word of God.

Matthew 13:24
He presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be
compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.”

Mankind is the field. The seed is the Word of God. Christ is “the Word made flesh.”
As we receive the Word (Christ) and believe, conception takes place. The life of Christ
appears within our own being. It continues to grow and mature until we can say with Paul,
“It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” This process will continue until “Christ
is fully formed in us.”

Galatians 4:19
My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you...