14 Jesus – The Bread of Life – Think Spiritually Part 1

Our focus for this year is from Ephesians 2 and verse 5 which says God, “even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)”. Nothing could be more important to us who are alive together with Christ than to know more about Jesus.  When we think on the words “alive together with Christ”, we know that spiritually “together” means there is a union between us and Christ that we have been added to the body of Christ—and no longer walk the course of this world (Eph. 2:1-7).  Together is a power theme found all throughout God’s word, “faith was working together” with Abraham’s works, and “and by works faith was made perfect” (James 2:22). In a lawful marriage a man and woman are “joined together” by God (Mark 10:9) and in the resurrection the dead in Christ will be joined together with those who are alive in Christ and “shall be caught up together” to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thess. 4:17). But the real togetherness does not come by osmosis, or by accident, but by consuming the Bread of Life, “the words of eternal life” (John 6:63, 68) — this is the only possible way to think spiritually…