Analogy When you use a word to represent a concept. Flesh, bread, seed = for 'word of God' Blood, Water, Wine = for spirit of God Yeast = teachings Take up your cross daily = to daily 'put to death' your old worldly self. Born again = Turning away from your old state of being in the worldly world and moving into the spirit of God by through Jesus. One is putting to death his former self and taking up a new self in Jesus. Definitions in Spiritual context: Repent is to change your way of thinking, you former way of being Spiritually you turn away from your old conscious/being-state You put it to 'death' and then are reborn in a new spiritual conscious/being-state/ The 'word of God' is spiritual nourishment for the believer. The 'spirit' of God (in this context) is the indwelling of the state of being of those in Jesus, in God. Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God -reply to Satan when tempting him in the wilderness. If you drink of the water I give you will never thirst again. Please Sir give me of this water. - The Samaritan woman at the well. For I will be in you and you in me and we shall be as one in the Father. For those who love me the Father loves and we shall come and make our home/abide in him. For you will not be alone for I shall send the Holy Spirit to abide in you. Beware the yeast of the Pharisee's I am the bread of life. Unless you are born again you cannot enter the kingdom of God - to Nicodemus He who attempts to save his life will lose it => That is he who remains attached to his life in this world will lose Eternal Life. (see story of Rich Young man). ------ John 6-56 --- New Living Translation Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. English Standard Version Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. https://biblehub.com/john/6-56.htm Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (56) Dwelleth in me, and I in him.--Abideth gives the sense more fully. (Comp. John 14:2-23; John 15:4 et seq.; John 17:23; 1John 3:24; 1John 4:16.) It is one of those deeper thoughts which meet us only in the words of the beloved disciple. The union which results from the communication of life is not temporary, but is one that remaineth. By virtue of it we abide in Christ, and He in us. It is our home life, that of every day, and will be the life of the eternal home (John 14:2). (Comp. Note on John 5:38, and the contrast in John 3:36.) . . . Pulpit Commentary Verse 56. - He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I (dwell) in him. This mutual indwelling is illustrated elsewhere (John 15:1-5) by the image of the vine and its branches. The vine abides in the branch in the virtue of its life-giving forces. Cut away from the parent stem, it can do nothing. Fruitlessness condemns and fire consumes it. The branch abides in the vine, as deriving all its worth, its true place, its possibility of growth and fruit, from the vine (cf. also John 17:23; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:16). The dwelling of the believer in Christ involves an utter self-surrender to him, a recognition of the supreme claims of the God-Man and his work, a complete trust in him as the Source of all life, a sound and abiding place of rest, a justification before God as one with Christ, as one identified with him in his well pleasing to the Father. The dwelling of Christ in the believer is the fulness and riches of the Divine life. Christ liveth in him (Galatians 2:20), thinks in his thoughts, moves through his will. This is sanctification. The believer is in Christ as the members are in the body. Christ is in the believer as God is in his temple. What is the condition of this mutual indwelling? Christ puts the condition of this Divine interpretation thus: "He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him." The verb is in the present tense, implying the continuous appropriation of the Divine sustenance. John 15:4 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. 1 John 2:24 As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father. 1 John 3:24 Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
The words I say are the Father's words not mine. The things\works that I do are what the Father tells me to do. From John 14: Those who know my commandments and who also obey my commandments are those who really love me. Those who love me (listening to my words and living them) the Father loves, and I also love. and My Father and I will come and dwell within him.
John 6: 63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. 57 Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you. (John 6 is an analogy to John 14)