Section 11
is not only to drink God as the living water, but also to eat Christ, the embodiment of God, as the living bread. The Lord's word about eat ing Him was offensive to the religious people, and they could not bear it (v. 60). In verse 63 the Lord said to His disciples, "It is the Spirit Who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life." The Lord seemed to be saying, "I am the bread of life. But I can only be dispensed into you as your life supply through the living Word. This living Word is the Spirit." Thus, we must not contact the living Word as the black and white letters; we must contact the living Word as the living Spirit by exercising our spirit. Thus, the way to experience the organism is to contact the very God, who is the Spirit, and to eat and drink of Him.
THE OVERFLOW
If we truly contact the Lord and eat and drink of Him, we shall have the overflow spoken of in 7:37 and 38. On the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirst, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living