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Chapter 11 |
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Jesus then told them what the bread is that gives life and how they could get it. “I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger.” Christ will satisfy all our desires. Some people imagine that the desires of the heart are sinful things, which must be torn out and destroyed. But that is not what Christ purposes to do. He says that our thirsts shall all be satisfied. He does not mean our sinful and selfish desires, the things of our lusts which we think would satisfy us, but our desires purified, such as Christ meant when He said, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”
Jesus reminded the people that they had not received Him as the one sent from God. “Ye also have seen Me, and believe not.” That is, they had not eaten the bread of God of which He had been speaking to them. The assurance that follows is one of the most precious words of all the Bible, “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” No penitent who ever really comes to Christ shall be turned away.
The closing words of the passage are rich in their revealing of the purpose of Christ’s coming into the world. He came to do His Father’s will. His will was that of all that the Father had given the Son, the Son should lose nothing. Our part in His great purpose is also made very clear, “This is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
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