{"id":1084,"date":"2011-07-16T09:51:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T09:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2011-07-16T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T09:51:24","slug":"come-and-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"Come and eat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come and eat! \u2028\u2028(Horatius Bonar, \u201cThe Bread of Immortality\u201d) \u2028\u2028\u201dI am the bread of life.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/John%206.48\">John 6:48<\/a> \u201d I am the living bread.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/John%206.51\">John 6:51<\/a><br \/>\nAll food is for the sustaining of life.\u2028\u2028Jesus announces Himself as the bread which will sustain \u2028the life of the soul. Not merely some doctrine\u2013but Himself. \u2028He is the bread; not merely bread\u2013but the bread\u2013the one \u2028true bread; without whom the soul cannot grow, nor its life \u2028be sustained. For only by this life-sustaining bread, can \u2028such sickly souls be nourished. As such, Jesus is necessary \u2028to the soul as its food\u2013its bread.\u2028Outside of Him, there is no nourishment, no sustenance. \u2028He feeds\u2013He alone. He feeds us on Himself! All else is \u2028husks, or mere air and vapour. Jesus, in His glorious person,\u2028is our food\u2013the true bread and sustenance of the soul; \u2028the hidden manna. \u2028Jesus applies various names to it: \u2028\u201dbread from heaven\u201d \u2028\u201dtrue bread\u201d \u2028\u201dthe bread of God\u201d\u2028\u201dbread of life\u201d \u2028\u201dliving bread.\u201d \u2028All these are names indicative of its excellence, its power, \u2028its suitableness. It is the very bread we need; no other \u2028would do. Jesus is the soul\u2019s eternal food. This\u2028storehouse is inexhaustible\u2013and ever accessible!\u2028\u2028Come as you are, poor prodigal, starving on husks\u2013come \u2028and eat! Eat, O friends! Eat, and live! Eat, and be strong!\u2028Eat, and be in soul health!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come and eat! \u2028\u2028(Horatius Bonar, \u201cThe Bread of Immortality\u201d) \u2028\u2028\u201dI am the bread of life.\u201d\u00a0John 6:48 \u201d I am the living bread.\u201d\u00a0John 6:51 All food is for the sustaining of life.\u2028\u2028Jesus announces Himself as the bread which will sustain \u2028the life of the soul. Not merely some doctrine\u2013but Himself. \u2028He is the bread; not merely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-horatius-bonar","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}