“WHAT MUST WE DRINK” spiritually? To answer this question, we must know that there are two (2) types of DRINKS. We have:
1. DRINK as a beverage such as wine which includes champagnes and other drinks whether soft, alcoholic or non-alcoholic.
2. We also have water as a DRINK.
For this reason, most of the time when the dining table is set, it is not only FOOD that we find on the table to EAT, but we also take some wine or soft drink. In addition to this, we also DRINK water to help in the digestion of the FOOD and to quench our thirst. This is the same spiritually. Therefore when King David says before God that, “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies...” (Psalm 23:5), we must understand.
Jesus Christ is the One who set the “table” before us, and He invited us and told us, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you EAT the flesh of the Son of Man and DRINK His blood, you have no life in you... For My flesh is FOOD indeed, and My blood is DRINK indeed” (John 6:53,55). So we can see clearly here that Jesus Himself set the spiritual dinning “table” before us, and He told us that if we really want to gain eternal life, then we have no other choice than to “EAT” His flesh and “DRINK” His blood.
But He did not end with that, but He also gave us the spiritual life-giving “water” to “DRINK.” That’s why He telling us in our Scripture reading that whoever “DRINKS” of the “water” that He will give him will never thirst, but it will become in him a fountain of “water” which springs up into “everlasting life.”
So concerning what we must “DRINK,” they are of two types. First of all we must “DRINK” the blood of Jesus after eating His flesh as FOOD through which He took away the sin of the world when He was baptized, and we must also “DRINK” the “living water” that He gave us. But what at all is this living “water” which Jesus gave us to “DRINK”?
This “water” refer to the “Holy Spirit.” Therefore it is written, “On that day, that great day of the FEAST, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him will receive;