91. Not Die
John 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
The bread, which comes down from heaven, is Jesus, who entered the physical world from the invisible world. He who eats (believes) this bread (Jesus) will not die. We eat of this bread whenever we hear and believe the Gospel. The world next to us invades our lives in this world with spiritual bread and life. In this physical world, without help from the spiritual world, we are without nourishment and without life and we will surely die.
The promise given here is that we will not die. Humans, along with the world, are under the sentence of death; but with bread from outside we are given life and all the sustenance we need to sustain and develop that new spiritual life. In fact, that life is so strong that it will never die. Believers have within them both life, and the promise of life forever, and death, the certainty of death forever. One life will die and the other will not. The “not die” promise refers to the life from heaven that has no death within it at all. The “not die” promise also applies to the physical life, in that, although it will certainly die, death becomes a gate through which it passes into a new and resurrected life. Death is changed into life after death; death is defeated and life wins. This promise defies the experience of all people, the empirical evidence all people see, and the science that seems to contradict the Word and Promise of God. Science says: “You are dying and you will die.” God says: “You are living and you will not die.” Faith eats the bread and lives.