ANYONE & EVERYONE that accepts Jesus will live for ever!

John 6:52-59

Then the Jews began arguing with each other about what he meant. “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked. So Jesus said it again, “With all the earnestness I possess I tell you this: Unless you eat the flesh of the Messiah* and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you. But anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him at the Last Day. For my flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink. Everyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood is in me, and I in him. I live by the power of the living Father who sent me, and in the same way those who partake of me shall live because of me! I am the true Bread from heaven; and anyone who eats this Bread shall live forever, and not die as your fathers did—though they ate bread from heaven.” (He preached this sermon in the synagogue in Capernaum.)

Food for thought!

Jesus makes a universal offer of salvation to ALL people. He cries that “ANYONE who does the eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life.” Then he adds: “EVERYONE who eats my flesh and drinks my blood is in me, and I in him.” And still he says again: “ANYONE who eats this Bread shall live forever.” Anyone who will come to Jesus will be saved. Those who will not come to Jesus will never be saved. That is the bottom line!

This ANYONE includes you and me and all those who accept Jesus. All we have to do is see Jesus for who he is and place our faith in Him. When we do that, we will save our soul. “To all who received him, those believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children.” (John 1:12).

Man can try any method of salvation he chooses. That is one of the great privileges of being a human. God has created us with a free will. We have the ability to choose how we will live our lives. However, regardless of how a man lives or what path he chooses for life, salvation will never be produced in the life of any person anywhere unless they come to Jesus Christ by faith. That may seem narrow minded and simplistic, but that is what Jesus teaches us this week: “Unless you eat the flesh of the Messiah and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you.”

“They replied, “Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, and your entire household.” (Acts 16:31);

“There is salvation in no one else! Under all heaven there is no other name for men to call upon to save them.” (Acts 4:12);

“For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)