The Life Of The World

"I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world." (1)

Jesus is "the life of the world." We are three times His:

1. He created us: "All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made." (2).

2. He Redeemed us: "For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (3) By His Spirit, He renews us and gives us new life in Him.

3. In the Resurrection He recreates us: "He who believes in Me has everlasting life." (4) "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord." (5) "For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God." (6)

Jesus truly is "the life of the world!"

1. John 6:51
2. John 1:3; See also Genesis 1:26, 27; and Isaiah 45:12.
3. 2 Corinthians 5:21.
4. John 6:47.
5. 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.
6. Job 19:25, 26.