Thank you. When Jesus said, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you, he was not advocating cannibalism.

Today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg addresses this often misunderstood and misapplied

passage of scripture and explains how our deepest longings are truly satisfied in Jesus.

We're studying John chapter 6 beginning today at verse 52.

So let's come back to it.

Anyone who eats of the bread will live forever.

What Jesus is actually pointing out is that he is going to do something for us on the day he dies, so that he can do something for us on the day we die.

I'm going to give my life so that on that day, since I am, as we will see later, the resurrection and the life,

what I have done for you in that place

is going to make all the difference in the entire world when you pass through the valley of the

shadow of death. And so the Jews began to argue among themselves. I'm not surprised.

There's probably all kinds of things going on in some of our minds right now, depending on our background.

They disputed among themselves, how can this man give us his flesh to eat?

And one of the other guys says, no, clearly that's not what he's talking about.

And another fellow says, well, then tell's not what he's talking about. And another fellow

says, well, then tell me what is he talking about? If that's not what he's saying, what is he

saying? So, Jesus is not referring to a physical process. He is not referring to a physical process. He is clearly not

doing so. The misunderstandings are a feature actually of John's Gospel, and this is perhaps the one

that holds the greatest potential for misunderstanding amongst

those who are listening to him. You remember in chapter two, the great misunderstanding

when he says, destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days. And the people say,

well, you can't do that with a temple. He wasn't talking about the temple in Jerusalem. He's

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