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The Food for My Soul - Dr. Jo Kim
(Jn6:55, 63, 12:50)

God is the God of life.
In Him is life (Jn1:4) and
He gives life to the fullest (Jn10:10).
As He gives food to the living, He gives the bread of life to living souls.
 
Faith is knowing that I am a soul that must live and that Yeshua Christ is my life (Col3:4).
The life of this faith is, to be judged as the living in the last day, eating the bread of life
For my soul to live (2Ti4:1).
 
While people strive to eat healthy food and live long,
Natural science that views the origin of life as organic matter like amoebas cannot revive dead, decaying cells.
 
•       The Bible says the origin of life—God, the Word, Yeshua (Jn1:1-4; 1Jn5:11);
•       The biblical definition of life—that does not perish, spoil or fade away (1Pe1:4);
•       The principle of creation—man dies and returns to dust (Ge3:19).
 
God breathed the breath of life into a man and the man became a living being, Adam (Ge2:7), and
For the spirit to live, he was to eat the word, obey the commandment of God (Ge2:17).
However, deceived by the devil, he disobeyed the commandment regarding the fruit (Ge3:4-6) and
Sin and death entered the spirit of all mankind as a result (Rm5:12).

God sent Moses to bring out the Israelites from Egypt where
They had gone during the great famine to find food and became slaves there (Ac7:11), and
They escaped death by the power of the blood of the lamb (Ex12:7).
 
God sent manna from heaven for them to eat during the 40-year life in the wilderness
To teach them that man does not live on bread alone but
On every word that comes from the mouth of God (Dt8:3), and
God had them place a vase with manna inside the Most Holy Place
So they remember Jehovah the God of the life of all flesh (Nu27:16).
But anyone who broke the Law, the Sabbath was to be put to death (Ex31:14, 35:2).
 
Yeshua said, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days,” because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body (Jn2:19-21), because:
In the name of Jehovah—the flesh made alive by the blood of animals—by keeping the carnal regulations—> entered the land of Canaan/ complete the first covenant (He7:16);
In the name of Yeshua—the souls made alive by the blood of the Son—obey the commandment of the Son, the food for the soul—>enter the Father’s house/ the new covenant (He10:19; 1Co9:21).
 
When the devil tempted Yeshua after He fasted 40 days (Mt4:3),
He said, man does not live on bread alone but also on the word of God for
Daily bread= doing the will of God= finishing the work of God (Mt6:11; Jn4:34, 6:27):
The Son of Man= the bread of life from heaven—> if you eat, eternal life (Jn6:51);
God—the life in the Word—when given to creatures—in the form of command—if you obey it, it becomes life (Jn1:1-4, 6:63, 12:50).
Exemplifying this was Yeshua commanding the dead man, “Lazarus, come out” and
Lazarus coming to life (Jn11:43-44).
 
As He died, He said, “It is finished” (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1)    Died according to the command and ate the food that the Son must eat to live again (Jn10:17-18);
2)    Through death, judged the devil the ruler of death (He2:14); and
3)    By death—paid the price of sin death—all mankind and
With His blood—raised to life the spirit dead in sin—to eat the bread of life (1Co15:45; Eph2:1; He4:12).
 
He resurrected and testified that He is life and immortality (2Ti1:10; Rev1:18) and
Sent the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of life (Rm8:2)
To the souls made alive by believing His name and receiving His blood (Jn20:31).
 
The Christian is he who, in order for his soul to live eternally in the land of the living (Ps27:13):
1)    Does not worry about the food for the flesh but is rather content with his daily bread (Mt6:31-34), and thus works for the food that does not spoil (Jn6:27);
2)    Knowing that the life of his soul now hidden with Christ will appear through the resurrection to life when Christ appears, sets his mind on things above, not on earthly things (Col3:1-5);
3)    To death clings to the Church and carries out given duty (Jn6:68); and
4)    Becomes a faithful servant sharing the bread of life with the souls given to him (Mt24:45).
 
O Lord,
Thank You for raising my soul to life once dead in sin and
Giving food to my soul!
Until we enter the kingdom of eternal life, the land of the living,
Let us souls eat the bread of life and obey the command of Christ.
May Your word to us be fulfilled in us (Lk1:38),
May Your will be done in us (Mt26:42)!  Amen.