 Jesus offers himself as true life for this world, for you, for me. He speaks through his word in the ears of sinners who desperately need to hear another voice, an external voice, a voice like Elijah heard, to show them that there is a different way of living, a different way of perceiving what they think is reality. And when the sinner takes this fate and gobbles it up, they get taken out of life as they once knew it to see how life works.