A Little Faith Builder

A little faith builder.

This morning I was reading in John 6 (thinking about a conversation I had with someone yesterday who thought that we can lose the Salvation that the Lord gave to us.)

After Jesus feeds the 5000 (can’t imagine how good that blessed bread and fish was) Jesus was talking later in the chapter to the “disciples” who were following because they were intrigued by all that He could do and were just wanting to know more about this man. And Christ does not let them sit on a fence like this for long at all.

He says in verse 26-27 that they were more concerned about their stomachs and were not coming to Him for what He really came to give them (Himself). There is a discussion that continues from this point on and as Jesus explains to them about what they should really be wanting, they get more and more aggravated at His words. At one point, they are so frustrated, because they want physical bread and He is talking to them about spiritual bread (though in physical terms). He is revealing to them that He is the “Bread of Life” and they should be hungering and running after Him.

In John 6:57-58, Jesus says something that they refused to heed but caused my heart to leap with joy. This is what He said: “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven – not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

Did you catch those last 7 words? My mind raced back to Genesis 2 where God made a promise to Adam that if he eats from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, he would surely die. Adam eats from the forbidden tree and God has kept His promise and all men die. Every time a person dies, it should stir our hearts and jolt our minds – God keeps His promises.
But in John 6:58 we have Jesus, the Son of God, making to us another promise (be sure it will be kept as God’s promise in the garden to Adam) – “He who eats this bread will live forever.”

So I have to ask – “When did you eat This Bread?” When did you partake in faith our Lord Jesus Christ? When did you cry out to Him in faith to save you? When did you put your complete trust in Him?

When you did, that is when the life forever began – life that will never be taken away and life you have no way of keeping just as man has no way of not dying. These are promises from our Lord. Just as one man ate of the forbidden fruit and died (as God promised), so we who eats of “This Bread” (Jesus) lives eternally (just as God promised.)

Now you may ask, “how is this a faith builder?” Well just as you asked the Lord in faith to take away my cancer and that He did according to His will (which He was not obligated to do nor ever made a promise in His word that He would do.) Then if you cried out in faith for me how more sure will He save you who have cried to Him in faith to save you. He has already obligated Himself and will keep the promise to save you as you see here in John 6:58 (see also Rom. 10:9-13).

So take heart, you who may think that you could lose the salvation that the Lord has promised to those who call on Him – He will never break His promise. That is for sure.