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神已经拯救了祂的子民脱离埃及为奴之地，他们很快便发觉自己正身处没有食物的荒凉旷野。然而，他们还未向神祈求，神已经知道祂子民的需要了，神告诉摩西，祂要将“从天降下的粮食”赐给他们。（参出 16:4）从天降下的粮食？这是真的吗？

诗篇七十八篇有更生动的描述：“【神】敞开天上的门，降吗哪像雨给他们吃，将天上的粮食赐给他们。各人吃大能者的食物。…… ”（诗78:23-25）

在约翰福音六章中，耶稣把自己比作这天上的粮食，祂也是从天上来到世间，祂也赐生命给人类。祂甚至说：“一切见子而信的人得永生。”

我们领受基督在主餐中赐给我们属天的灵粮，就显明我们已接受基督进入我们的生命中。

尽管我们不是藉着领受主餐的饼和酒而“得救”的，但吃喝主餐促使我们在神藉基督赐给我们的丰盛生命中追求更深的成长。

God had rescued his people from slavery in Egypt, and they soon found themselves in a barren desert without food. But God knew what his people needed before they asked him, and God told Moses that "bread from heaven" would rain down for them (Exodus 16:4). Bread from heaven? Really?

Psalm 78 is even more descriptive: "[God] opened the doors of the heavens; he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven. Human beings ate the bread of angels…" (vv. 24-25).
In John 6, Jesus compares himself to this heavenly bread. Jesus too came from heaven to earth. He too came to give life to humanity. He even says, "Everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life."

Our receiving of Christ into our lives is reflected in our reception of the heavenly food he gives us in the Lord's Supper.

Though we are not "saved" by eating and drinking the Lord's Supper, eating and drinking the Lord's Supper helps us grow ever deeper into the abundant Christ-life that God gives us.