Lesson 11 – Enjoying God by Eating and Drinking (Outline)

Lesson 11 – Enjoying God by Eating and Drinking

John 6:35 Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall by no means hunger, and he who believes into Me shall by no means ever thirst.

John 4:14 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water gushing up into eternal life.

John 6:57 As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.

  1. God’s desire is for man to eat and drink Him
    1. Placing man in front of the tree of life 1
    2. Man’s fall due to not eating the tree of life 2
    3. Bringing man back to the tree of life as His eternal goal 3, 4, 5
  2. God becoming the Spirit for us to enjoy Him
    1. God became man to be the bread of life 6
    2. The Spirit being the consummation of the processed God to be the water of life 7, 8
  3. Eating and drinking God through our mingled spirit
    1. In the principle of depending on God 9
    2. Receiving the divine life and partaking of the divine nature 10, 11

READING

Bible References:

  1. And Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2:8-9)
  2. And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may eat freely, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of it you shall not eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. (Genesis 2:16-17)
  3. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7)
  4. And on this side and on that side of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. (Revelation 22:2)
  5. Blessed are those who wash their robes that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter by the gates into the city. (Revelation 22:14)
  6. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall by no means hunger, and he who believes into Me shall by no means ever thirst. (John 6:35)
  7. But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water gushing up into eternal life. (John 4:14)
  8. Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. (John 7:37-39)
  9. As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me. (John 6:57)
  10. It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. (John 6:63)
  11. Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust. (2 Peter 1:4)