Jesus: The Real Food and Drink – How He Lived by the Father -John 6 Explained (DCLC – July ’86, Part 2)

Now then, this one comes into our realm, born of a virgin, grows up, and recalls His past experience. And don’t ever forget that that life, which is in substance what? Spirit: it went through that portal, went through Mary’s womb, and came out into the visible realms. Oh, I’d have to go through all the epistles to tell you that. You just believe that God dwells within Him; all of that God, any part of all of that God, is all there. God is in Him. That Spirit is within Him. And that Spirit is the Father. And that Spirit is life. And that Spirit is in substance what? Spirit. All of this is in the young Boy growing up in Nazareth. And the young boy remembers, He hears people talking about eating and drinking. He says, “That’s not eating and drinking.” That’s something, when I created the universe, I pictured eating and drinking. Eating and drinking is going on in here.

I am partaking of My Father. I am drawing from His life, and I am living by Him. The real eating and drinking is going on inside of me right now, and you folks are a picture of that when you sit down to a meal. He knows all this. Yes, brother?

Audience: Eating and drinking, though to me, when he was with the woman in the well, and had to go back with food. Natural food.

That’s right. That is right. That’s exactly correct. And He gave her water to drink that would last forever. His eating and drinking was going on inside of Him at the well. He was eating and drinking of His Father. And that’s how the first Christian lived on this earth. I don’t want you to think about you; I want you to think about Him. Consider Him. Consider the author of your faith and the finisher of your faith.

All of this, He knows; He knows this before He’s 30. He remembers and knows it after He’s 30; He’s clear about all this, but there’s something else He remembers. He remembers a day when He pictured this. He pictured it clearly. I mean, He pictured it so that men who lived in the age of pictures could see it clearly. I want you to watch this. There are some people out in the desert, and they’ll run out of food. They run out of water, and just before sunup, God, the eternal God, Father, Son, and Spirit, whatever you want to see, doesn’t matter to me, the Godhead, just let’s call Him Lord. I am breaks through out of eternity, He takes the fabric of our universe and rips it open. And there’s a door out of heavenly places into earthly realms, and out of the heavenly places, to these people who run out of food and run out of water, He cast food out of heaven to them. It came out of the other realm. They got up and woke up the next morning bright and early, and they looked out and all over the grounds as far as they could see, fallen out of the heavens, was food on the ground. And it was food you could drink, and it was food you could eat. And it was cool, and it was white, and it was round and tasty, and it was moist. It only lasted one day, and then the Lord would have to open the heavens and give it to them again. Are you clear? And He pictured for them what was going on in heavenly realms between the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Are you following me? I am speaking of the ancient story of the Israelites in the wilderness when the manna fell and came out of the heavens.

Now then, just like the woman at the well, He’s living on two planes. They’re talking; she’s talking about one kind of water; He’s talking about another kind of water. She’s talking about one kind of food; He’s talking about another kind of food. She’s talking about one kind of temple; He’s talking about another kind of temple. She’s talking about one kind of worship; He’s talking about another kind of worship.

Now then, the Lord Jesus is caught up in the vortex of one very intense day. He is healing. He is doing miraculous signs. He is teaching things He learned before He was ever born. He was responding to questions by means of a voice within Him so tied to His own consciousness that the two are one. A Christian being a Christian, and He’s doing some other things nobody’s seeing, nobody’s knowing, nobody notices. One of the things that happens is when He sees all those people, He sees a herd of sheep. Through His eyes, He sees sheep. I know you all know that sheep cannot exist without a human being. If you don’t know that, I’d like to tell you sheep, if all the shepherds on earth disappeared, the sheep would be extinct within a year. They have to have a human being to guide them, and they’re so dumb. And here was a whole flock of sheep that had lost their human being. They had lost their shepherd. They were just “baaing” all over the place. He looked at them, and they were lost sheep; they didn’t have a shepherd, and His insides felt compassion for them because dear brothers and sisters, as you’re going to learn in the morning, He is a sheep. In fact, He hasn’t gotten to be a sheep yet. He’s a lamb, and He has a Shepherd, and the shepherd in Him had compassion for the sheep that were coming up toward Him. Praise the Lord. And the Shepherd within Him had bowels of compassion for these people. And He welcomed them and loved them because they were coming to Him needy on a good level of need, and He met their need. But while He met their need, somebody was meeting His need. And something was happening inside Him.  Nobody noticed that, but He noticed it, and He knew it. And He was terribly conscious of it. Please hear me. He was intently conscious of what was going on inside of Him.

While they were talking about all these things all around Him, He was once more dealing with realities, the realities within Him. And He was also conscious of the other realm. And He was in that other realm. And He knew what He was doing. And He knew how He was managing to do it. And no one was noticing. And He was really aching to tell them a little bit about how His inwards work. And nobody was even interested to hear.

He remembered eternity, and He remembered what He did in the wilderness, and how similar it was to what He was now doing on a hillside. He had done it by means of His Father as the recipient in eternity past. He had done it in the wilderness as the giver, not the recipient, with Israel. There in time and space on earth, this very God is reenacting the manna scene. They still have a little food, a little fish. He was looking in His soul. This is a symbol. This is a symbol to eat true food. This is a symbol of true food. He can’t get the memory out of His mind of the children of God’s people, Israel, in the wilderness, and He can’t get out of His mind what was going on inside of Him in eternity past. He keeps looking at the symbol, and He passes it out to them.

See, it never ends. It never stops. You see, there’s more of it, and then there’s more, and it’s a symbol and it’s a picture. Can’t you see? Doesn’t anybody care? Look at what I’m doing. This is what I did in the wilderness. This is what my Father has been doing for and in and through and with and by Me for all eternity. He broke it again, and there was still more. He’d pass it out some more. And it was feeding 50, and it was feeding 100, and it was feeding 200, and it was feeding 500, and it was feeding a thousand. And it was feeding 5,000 men. And He kept on saying, “Does anybody care? Isn’t anybody interested? Doesn’t anybody want to know how it was that I haven’t slept and I’m not tired? Doesn’t anybody want to know where I get the words I speak? Isn’t anyone interested in where I came from? Isn’t anyone interested in how these things come about in my life?” But all they’re getting more and more interested in is the eating and less and less in the miracles, that He’s losing them from the very thing He wants to give them. And the intensity is going in Him to declare what is really real.

Are you looking at a Christian? Look at this Christian live the Christian life, would you? Don’t look at them; don’t apply it to your life; behold your Lord. And then when you get through, behold Him again. And when you get through, behold Him some more. And when you get through, behold Him some more, and it will be life to you. I don’t want to tell you what you’re supposed to do; I’m going to show you what He did. And at the moment He was breaking the bread, something was going on inside Him. Praise the Lord.

And it so happens that the next day they’ll come up to Him, and they are in a sweat. They’ve been running for blocks, maybe miles, and they are puffing and blowing, and they have really expended energy to get to Him because He’s a free meal ticket. That’s the only reason they’re there. They even forgot healing; now that’s pretty incredible. These people are not Pentecostal; they are probably Baptist, or at least they’re welfare recipients. They’re so tired. They’ve been running. And He says, “Why do you want to work that hard for what perishes? Why don’t you work that hard for what lasts forever? I’d love to see work like that to learn reality. I wish you could see what’s going on in Me. Work for bread. Work for bread. Work for food. Work for real food.”