Jesus offers words of eternal life in John 6 video discussion

The final reading from John 6, for Trinity 13 in Year B, ends with many of Jesus’ disciples turning away, together with Jesus’ response. Typically Johannine, the passage and Jesus’ speech folds in new ideas about the Father, the Spirit, life, and believing in Jesus.

Come and join Ian and James as they explore the text and the issues it raises.

Full written commentary behind the discussion can be found in the next post.

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2 thoughts on “Jesus offers words of eternal life in John 6 video discussion”

Sublime, James and Ian, I could have listened all morning to you both.
Yes, one could do a M. Loyd Jones on this chapter.
What strikes me is the simple yet profound speech of Jesus, that is to say His use of the common everyday language and infusing it with profound truths.
Reminds me of J. Wesley not using a word without passing it first before a serving maid.
I see in this passage Jesus defining what Life means, not the actual life, but the authentic life.
At the end when some departed from Jesus, Peter makes a remarkable statement that they recognized that Jesus had “words of Eternal [authentic]Life not “THE” words [See Gk translation] “we for our part,” whatever others think “have believed and know,” cf. 1 John 4:16,
This in contrast to the Jewish theologians mentioned earlier in John 5:39-42
39 ¶ Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
41 I receive not honour from men.
42 But I know you, that “ye have not the love of God in you.”
Which is the evidence of authentic life.
That passage would seem to indicate that one can be expert in dissecting the Scriptures;even believing all that they say, yet be devoid of authentic life.
They could not “see” Jesus in the Scriptures, because there was a vail over their eyes, the issue being that they would receive a false Christ in his own name, i.e. in his own authority and self-representations, not as one commissioned of God consequently a false Messiah;
He will be received, because he satisfies the opposite of the love of God, viz. self-love (by promising earthly glory, indulgence towards sin, etc.)
. For a definite prophecy of false Messiahs, see Matthew 24:24. Any misrepresentation of God [Christ] is the spirit of idolatry.
Mat 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
For those who do receive Him, authentic life will be manifest to and in him; that is Kingdom Life, Righteousness, Joy and Peace, that is to say Holiness, the beauty, fruitfulness and fulness [and continual] of an abundant Life, which is the Life of God in the soul of man.