# 116 When's the Last Time You Were At the Lord's Table?

 

# 116 When’s the Last Time You Were At the Lord’s Table?

 

Joh 6:27 "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him." 28 Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?" 29 Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent." 30 Therefore they said to Him, "What sign will You perform then, that we may see it and believe You? What work will You do? 31 "Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" 32 Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 "For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

 

“Labor for the food which endures to everlasting life which the Son of Man will give you.” Sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it? How do you “labor” for something freely given? The people respond in a way that continues to reveal their true motive. “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God? In other words, “What do we have to do so we can heal people and make our lunches appear out of thin air?”

 

Jesus ignores their motive and sticks to the main question. The question that is answered time after time after time in the Bible. It’s the central message of the Bible and God keeps repeating it because it’s vital that we get it!

 

Do you want to do the work of God? “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him who He sent.” This is the only work of God required….belief in Jesus. God revealed faith through grace that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, promised to the human race from the fall of Adam and Eve.

 

  Believe  Joh 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

 

That’s your work! That’s your job!

 

Believe  Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

 

That’s your work, that’s your job!

 

Stop resisting the Holy Spirit! Ac 7:51 "You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

 

That’s your work! That’s your job!

 

 

Jesus stresses salvation apart from our labors when He reminds the people  that the bread their fathers ate in the wilderness (manna) did not come from Moses! It did not come from the Law! It did not come because of the labors of the people. It came as a free giftfrom the Father. The only work involved was to go out and pick up their daily supply. They had to receive it! They had to eat of it to be nourished by it, in order for their lives to be sustained.

 

The new manna is out their folks. It’s in the form of Jesus Christ, who, like manna, came down from heaven, He was freely given by God to sustain us for eternity, and “as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name. (Jn 1:12)

 

Your work, my work, is to gather this manna on a daily basis. We can’t just be a spiritual couch potato expecting the Holy Spirit to spoon feed us. We need to be in the Word of God for regular feedings and yes, we do need to be in church to feed on the body and blood of Jesus at the Holy Table of the Lord’s Supper!

 

When’s the last time you shared the body and blood of Jesus? Your answer to that question speaks mounds about your willingness to do the “work of God.”