<p>6:68 <i>Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life</i>- It was the Lord's &quot;words&quot;, His use of language about drinking blood, ascending where He had been before, and about not all being called... which had caused the majority to go away into the darkness. Hence the significance of Peter's comment that His words were those of life eternal. His life was His words, and Peter was abiding with those words and that life. Peter was one of the few who really grasped the meaning of the Lord's miraculous provision of bread, and the discourse which followed. The Lord had said that He was the living bread, of which a man could eat and live forever. Peter's comment that only the Lord had the words of eternal life showed that he quite appreciated that it was the <i>words</i> of the Lord Jesus which were the essential thing, not the physicality of the miracle (fascinating as it must have been to a fisherman; Jn. 6:51 cp. 68). &nbsp;</p><p>The Spirit of Jesus, His disposition, His mindset, His way of thinking and being, is paralleled with His words and His person. They both &lsquo;quicken&rsquo; or give eternal life, right now. &ldquo;It is the Spirit that quickeneth present tense&hellip; the words that I speak unto you, they are right now spirit, and they are life&hellip; thou hast right now the words of eternal life&rdquo; (Jn. 6:63,68). Yet at the last day, God will quicken the dead and physically give them eternal life (Rom. 4:17; 1 Cor. 15:22,36). But this will be because in this life we had the &lsquo;Spirit&rsquo; of the eternal life in us: &ldquo;He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by on account of his spirit that dwelleth in you&rdquo; (Rom. 8:11). Again we have the same words, &lsquo;quicken&rsquo; and &lsquo;his spirit&rsquo;. And Paul says that our resurrection will have some similarities with that of our Lord- who was &ldquo;put to death in the flesh but quickened by on account of the spirit&rdquo; (1 Pet. 3:18). It was according to the spirit of holiness, of a holy life, that Jesus was raised and given eternal life (Rom. 1:4). What all this means in practice is that if we live a &lsquo;quickened&rsquo; spiritual life now, a life modelled around what Jesus would have done or said in any given situation, then we have the guarantee that we will be &lsquo;quickened&rsquo; in the Kingdom. Thus Rom. 8:2 speaks of &ldquo;the law of the spirit of life in Christ&rdquo;. Having &ldquo;the spirit&rdquo; in our hearts is therefore the seal, the guarantee, of our future salvation (2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5; Eph. 1:14).</p>