Ques._What is the meaning of John 6:53, "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink
His blood, ye have no life in you"?

Ans._Verse 63, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life," shows
plainly that the Lord’s words, of which you inquire, are not to be taken in a material sense. The
eating and the drinking of which He speaks, is not done with the mouth; nor has it the least
reference to the Lord’s Supper, where we eat bread and drink wine, though in eating and drinking
these we profess to be of those who have eaten the Saviour’s flesh and drunk His blood.

It is faith, and faith alone, which, in the power of the Holy Spirit, can and does eat His flesh and
drink His blood. Flesh and blood separated means death. Feeding on the death of Christ by faith
is what the poor sinner does when he realizes himself guilty and condemned. The substitutional
death of Jesus thus received brings him life. Apart from this, the Lord has said, "Ye have no life
in you."