“The Lord’s Supper”! (pt.3)

 Text: Matthew 26:20-30:  (Christ our King) – In here we see (The Lord’s Supper instituted by Christ Himself):  [Matthew covers events from Jesus' birth to His resurrection]:  today I’m ministering on just one of those events and that’s “The Lord’s Supper” or the “Last Passover”.

·         Vs 26: And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it and broke it and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat, this is my body”.  Vs 27: And he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them, saying, “Drink you all of it”.  Vs 28: For this is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for many, for the remission of sins”.  Vs 29: But I say unto you, “I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day (after His resurrection) when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom”.

This Passover festival was instituted by God for Israel at the time of the Exodus in order to commemorate the night when Yahweh spared (passed the houses where the blood was applied) all the firstborn of the Israelites, but struck dead all the firstborn of the Egyptians (Exo.12:1-51).

This “Passover festival”, the “eating of the unleavened bread” and “drinking of the wine” were looked upon as memorials of the deliverance of the Israelites being raised from the bondage of an Egyptian tyrant to being a free people owing allegiance to no one but Jehovah.  

The Exodus was looked upon as the birth of the nation; the Passover was the annual birthday feast celebrating their deliverance.  Each year the celebration was to be done as it was when they came out of Egypt:  the killing of a lamb roasted with fire, eating its flesh, eating of unleavened bread, with bitter herbs; eat it with their loins girded; shoes on their feet; and staff in hand; and eat in haste.

What the “communion”, “the Lord’s Supper”, or “Passover” is truly all about is God’s people “communing or coming into union with God and with one another as one unit.

Communion is the Greek word koinoni’a (koy-nohn-ee’-ah) meaning partnership, participation or intercourse, fellowship; communication; distribution; contribution.  It’s a “having in common”!  That happens by “having Christ in us, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27), and being a new creation in Christ Jesus  (2 Corinthians 5:17).

What’s the significance (worthiness; importance) of “this communing” [eating of the Lord’s Supper]”?  It is about “remembering what Jesus did” to deliver us from the bondage of sin and death!

We know that Jesus ate the sacrifice with His disciples that the disciples had made ready for the “Last Supper” as stated in the gospels.  

·       Mt. 26:17-25 [first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked Him where wilt that they should prepare for Him to eat the “Passover”]:   Vs 18: And he said, “Go into the city to such a man and say unto him, the Master said, my time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at thy house with my disciples”. Vs 21: And as they did eat, he said, “Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me”.

·         Mark 14:12-16 [They killed the Passover and His disciples  asked where might they go to prepare for Him to eat the Passover]:  vs 13: And he sent forth two of his disciples, and said unto them, "Go you into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him".  Vs 14: And wheresoever he shall go in, say you to the goodman of the house, “The Master said, where is the guest-chamber, where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples”?

·         Luke 22:7-20 [Preparation for the Passover]:  vs 7: Then came the day of unleavened bread when the Passover must be killed:  vs 8: Jesus sent Peter and John saying, “Go and prepare us the Passover that we may eat”.

·         John 13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.  Vs 2: And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him: vs 3: Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he was come from God and went to God; vs 4: He rises from supper and laid aside his garments; and took a towel and girded himself. Vs 5: After that he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

Passover in Hebrew is (pe’cach) a pretermission, in relation to exemption; (the festival or the victim).  It's also from pa-cach’ [paw-sakh’] meaning to hop or skip over (or spare); to hesitate; to limp; to dance; pass over; halt; become lame; leap.

In the Greek, Passover is (pas’cha), the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it:  Easter.  It goes back to Hebrew (pe’cach) a pretermission, in relation to exemption [the state of freeing or being free from an obligation or liability imposed on others]; us (the festival or the victim).

This Passover meal Jesus was about to have with His disciples now wasn’t just a memorial of Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian bondage, because that had to be repeated annually.

In part one of this series I made the statement or asked the question, why did Jesus use “bread” in the Lord’s Supper and not a lamb?  It was because He was establishing a “new testament” or “new covenant” with Himself as the sacrificial Lamb, and the disciples were about to get a new revelation of the “eating of the unleavened bread” (Jesus the sinless Lamb) and the “drinking of the cup” (drinking of His blood) with the words of Jesus Himself, when He stated:

·        Matthew 26:26: And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and break it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat, this is my body”.  Vs 27: And he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them, saying, “Drink you all of it”.  Vs 28: For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many, for the remission of sins”.

Jesus’ use of the “breaking of bread” (and not meat) was showing them that from this point on the types and shadows were to cease (come to an end) when the real or true Sacrifice was come and offered.  There was to be no more shedding of blood when once His “innocent (not guilty) blood" was shed.  There must be nothing which might cast a doubt upon the all-sufficiency (acceptance; abundance; efficacy) of what He was about to do on that Cross because He the Lamb of God being sacrificed, once for all, would NOW be that “unleavened bread” (the sinless Lamb), and His “innocent blood” would pay the penalty for our sins!

·       Hebrews 10:11: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Vs 12: Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

What Jesus was teaching His disciples at this time was that now the Passover was about “remembering what HE had done or was about to do” to deliver them and us from the bondage of sin and death!

For the past few weeks I’ve been talking about communion or The Lord’s Supper and focusing mostly on the breaking of the bread, but for a few minutes I’m making mention of the “drinking of the blood”!

Blood in Hebrew is dam [dawm] meaning, blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or animal; the juice of the grapes; drops of blood.

Blood in the Greek is haima [hah’-ee-mah], meaning blood (of men or animals); (the juice of grapes); (the atoning blood of Christ); bloodshed; kindred.

We can rightly call it “the river of life” flowing throughout the body.

·         Leviticus 17:11: The life of the flesh is in the blood.

 There are many different kinds of tissues in our bodies as bone, muscle, etcetera, and blood is considered tissue as well.  But of all the tissues, blood is mobile and flows throughout the body. So because it flows through every cell that means it's not limited in its function giving life to every cell because “life of the flesh is in the blood”.   This happens in the natural, how much more "the blood of Jesus?

The Church of Jesus Christ is called His body and we are members of his body (Ephesians 5:30) and severally, members, one of another (Romans 12:5).  In this body Jesus Christ is the Head (Colossians 1:18). The life of each member depends on His blood for life, nourishment, cleansing, redemption, and growth.  For the life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11).  Every born again believer is a member of that body and lives the common life of every other member, by the one thing which unites them and makes them “relatives”, even the blood of Christ.  It matters not whether you’re Jew or Gentile, male or female, black, white, green, Catholic, Baptist, whatever, if you’re a believer we’re all one through the blood of the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ.

·         Acts 17:24: God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; vs 25: Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things; vs 26: And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; vs 27: That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel (search) after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.

Someone might ask, “Well, how do we drink Jesus’ blood” as He mentioned in John 6”?

·         Vs 53: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Drink (pi’no), means to imbibe (drink any liquid; to absorb [take in] or assimilate (take in ideas or knowledge and understand fully).  It's also from the root word piot’es, meaning repletion (filled or well supplied with something); plumpness, richness (oiliness);  fatness.

·         Vs 54: Whoso eats my flesh and drinks my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.  Vs 55: For my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed.  Vs 56: He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells (men’o) [to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy); abides remain; continue; endure; be present] in me, and I in him.  Vs 57: As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father:  so he that eats me, even he shall live (za’o) [be alive; quickened; have life] by me.

So how do we drink Jesus’ blood?  We “drink” Jesus’ blood by the receiving or the “inhalation” (breathing in) of the Spirit (ru’wach) in [Hebrew] or (pneu’ma) in [Greek]) of God.  As I explained briefly in part 2:  1st John 5:7: There are three that bear record in heaven (higher realms of spiritual elevation), the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:  and these three are one.  Vs 8: And there are three that bear witness in earth (the body you and I live in), the Spirit and the water (Word), and the blood:  and these three agree in one.

One in Greek is homothumadon', meaning, each of the three are unanimous; with one accord (mind).  Agree is from the root word eisi (I-see’), meaning, each of the three are present; are; be; were; have; is.  Agree goes to another root word eimi (i-me’), meaning, I exist; I am; it is I; be; I was, have been.   Synonyms for agree are: concur; conform; accord; answer; attune; blend; click; cohere; coincide; covenant; contract; acknowledge; admit; allow; assent; comply; see eye to eye.  

This tells us that we were there in the beginning with our Heavenly Father!  He is with us now, has always been, and forever will be "in us"!!  Hebrews 13:5c: I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee!!

Leviticus 17:11: The life of the flesh is in the blood.  

Again, when Jesus in John 20:22, breathed (exhaled His breath) on them, and said unto them, "Receive you the Holy Ghost", they inhaled (breathed in) also the blood of Christ that was contained in the Spirit of Christ!  

I would like to say again:  1st John 5:7: There are three that bear record in heaven (spiritually elevated places), the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:  and these three are one.  Vs 8: And there are three that bear witness in earth (the body we live in), the spirit, and the water (Word), and the blood:  and these three agree in one.

Again, the word agree in this verse is the Greek root word eisi (i-see), meaning, they are:  agree; are; be; is; were.  It goes to another root word eimi (i'mee), meaning, I exist:  am; have been; it is I; was. This tells us that we were "one" in the beginning with our Heavenly Father!!  But He brought us forth in flesh bodies to teach us to overcome in the flesh and were reconnected as "one" again through Christ Jesus! 

John 17:20: Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word:  vs 21: That they all may be one, as thou Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

He is with us now, has always been, and forever will be "in us"!!  Hebrews 15:5c: I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee!!  

See how these manifestations correspond with each other in 1st John 5:7-8?  The Father [vs 7] the Spirit [vs 8]:  the Word [vs 7] the water [vs 8]:  the Holy Ghost [vs 7] the blood [vs 8].  GLORY TO GOD!!  So when we receive God's Spirit, we are receiving His blood also!!  [Praise break]!!!

This is how we attain to having eternal and everlasting life, through “eating Jesus’ flesh” and “drinking His blood” or "by eating the chief meal" along with "drinking His blood"!!!

·         1st John 4:17: As he is, so are we, in this world!!! 

Remember with Adam in Genesis 2:7: And the LORD God breathed (naphach’) [to puff; inflate; blow hard; kindle [set on fire] into his NOSTRILS (aph) face; countenance; forehead (frontal lobe) [deals with speech; personality; higher intellectual processes (concentration, planning; and decision making); verbal communication] THE BREATH (neshamah’) [wind; divine inspiration (inhalation) [being inspired mentally and emotionally; a stimulus of creative thought; action; or idea] OF LIFE, and man (male/female) became a living soul.

Also, Adam means “to show blood in the face”; to be rosy (ruddy; red).  Man had become “red” with the “blood of understanding” of God because he now had the mind of God in him!  So when the “LORD God” breathed into Adam He breathed God’s blood into Him and in the blood was the “life” that made him a “living soul”!

Adam had been given God's "innocent (not guilty) blood", but when the creation fell through him, his blood became "guilty" and God had to send the innocent Lamb, Jesus Christ to give the creation an all prevailing "innocent blood" transfusion.  Matthew 27:4 (Judas said): "I have betrayed the innocent blood"!  That's why 1st Corinthians 15:22 states: In Adam all die, even so in Christ, shall all be make alive!!

·         Leviticus 17:11: The life of the flesh is in the blood! 

John said “the Spirit and the blood agree in one.  Agree is from the root word eisi (I-see’), meaning they are; be; were; have; is [ONE].  Then it goes to the word eimi (i-mee’), meaning I exist; I am; it is I; be; I was; have been.  What did Jesus say?

·         Revelation 1:8: I am (always present tense) Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty (pantokrat’or) [the all-ruling, God (as absolute and universal sovereign); Omnipotent].

Jesus has always been the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).  Even in Exodus 12 in relation to the Israelites exodus out of Egypt that Lamb killed was Jesus and His blood had to be applied to the lentils (mashqowph’) [sense of overhanging; upper door post].  The “upper door post” is the mind of man.  Why is that? 

·         Psalm 24:7: Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be you lifted up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory, shall come in! 

So this “door post”, our mind has to be transformed (changed; renewed; refreshed) and become Christ minded, which is spiritually minded so that we can live! 

·         Romans 8:6: To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

·         Philippians 2:5: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.

·         1st John 4:17: As he is, so are we, in this world.

We’re still talking about “the Lord’s Supper”!

The festival had been annual and no rule was given of time and frequency of the “new feast” that had now occurred to change the old.  Now, what was spoken in 1st Corinthians 11:26, emphasizes:  For as often (daily; as many times as) AS YOU eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord’s death, till he come.  [This coming is not out in the sky, but “to you” individually]!  That's why Jesus said in relation to His "coming" (appearing; manifestation) in Matthew 24:36: But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.  Because it's a different day and time for every man (male/female), when he/she accept Christ as Savior!!  Hallelujah to JESUS!!!

·       Revelation 3:20: [church at Laodicea]: Behold, I stand at the door and knock:  if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him and him with me.

SUP (deipneo) [dipe-neh’-o] means to dine (eat), take the principal (first in rank; importance; or (evening) meal; supper.

How can Jesus eat and drink with us?  The same way He ate and drank with the disciples in the gospels.  When they had communion or the last supper they ate and drank together (Matthew 26:26).  As we minister God’s Word to one another we are eating of the “bread” that each of us are and drinking of the "blood" by inhalation or receiving of God’s Spirit from one another. We’re eating Christ and He is eating us!  [Get that]!!  That's why Paul said, 1st Corinthians 11:29: He that eats and drinks unworthily (anaxi'os) [irreverently (disrespectfully; disdainfully; contemptuously; disparagingly)], eats and drinks damnation (kri'ma)[condemnation judgment] to himself, not discerning (diakri'no) [separating thoroughly; distinguishing] the Lord's body.  Vs 30: For this cause many are weak (asthene'o)[feeble (in any sense); diseased; strengthless] and sickly (ar'rhostos)[infirmed; sick] among you, and many sleep (koima'o) [slumber; deceased; dead].

Many religiously think and believe that they must die and go to heaven (up yonder) "to eat the marriage supper of the Lamb", when in truth, we can and are "eating supper" with Him right here and right now, by eating of His Word, and drinking His blood, and eating of one another in sharing the Word, by God's Spirit!  Revelation 19:7: Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him:  for the marriage of the Lamb is come (present tense), and his wife (we the church) hath (already) made herself ready.  Vs 8: And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white:  for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.  Praise break!!!

John 4:27-34 [The woman Jesus ministers to at the well testifies and brings a city to Him]:

·       Vs 31: In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, “Master, eat”.  Vs 32: But he said unto them, “I have meat to eat that you know not of”.   Vs 33: Therefore said the disciples one to another, “Hath any man brought him ought to eat”?  Vs 34: Jesus said unto them, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work”.

We know that CHRIST is that “Bread”:  John 6:33: The “bread” of God is he which cometh down from heaven and gives life unto the world!

BREAD in Hebrew is lech’em, meaning food (for man or beast), especially bread or grain (for making it):  food; meat; showbread; loaves; fruit; meal; provision.  It goes to another word lacham’, meaning to feed on; to consume; eat; overcome; devour; ever; prevail.

It was “showbread” (face-bread) or the bread of presentation.  The priest had to keep this bread daily before the Lord and anoint it with pure frankincense.

·       Leviticus 24:5-7: And thou shalt take fine flour and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.  And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.  And thou shalt put “pure frankincense” upon each row that it may be on the bread for a memorial even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Frankincense here is from the Hebrew root word (lebownah’), meaning frankincense from its whiteness.  This whiteness being the “righteousness of God” that the sons of God are become through Christ.

·       Isaiah 61:3: To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called “trees of righteousness”, the planting of the LORD that he might be glorified.

·       Romans 8:2-4: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.  For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:  that the “righteousness” of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

·       2^nd Corinthians 5:21: For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made “the righteousness of God” in him.

The diet of early Hebrews ordinarily consisted of bread, meat, and liquids.

Bread in the Greek is ar’tos, meaning bread (as raised) or a loaf; showbread.  Then it goes to the root word airo (ah’-ee-ro), meaning to lift; to take up or away; to raise (the voice); keep in suspense (the mind); to sail away; to expiate sin:  carry; lift up; loose; put away; remove.

This means “to take, raise up, to lift, to take upon oneself and carry what has been raised physically”.  What was it that Christ raised up physically? 

·       St. John 6: 38: For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.  Vs 39: And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise “IT” up again at the last day.

What was the “IT” He took upon Himself to raise up in Himself who is the “first day and the last day” (Revelation 1:17)?  It was the creation itself and all that’s connected with it, and took our sins to the cross!!

·       Romans 8:2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.  Vs 3: For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:  vs 4: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

·       2nd Corinthians 5:19: To wit (know), that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them:  and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation: 

·       vs 21: For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin:  that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

·       Ephesians 2:14: For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us:  vs 15: Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to  make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.

·       Colossians 1:19: For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell:  vs 20: And having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself:  by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

·       Colossians 3:13: And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses:  vs 14: Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross:  vs 15: And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

May I also add that we are "individual creations" being raised!  2nd Corinthians 5:17: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (ktis'is) [original formation; building; creation]:  old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Because Christ is that BREAD, we are also that same BREAD, as He!!

·       1st Corinthians 10:17: We being many are “one bread” and “one body”:  for we are all partakers of that “one bread”!

And that “ONE BREAD” is “CHRIST”!

So we eat of this “Bread” continually because it’s the “hidden manna” spoken of to the church in Pergamos:

·         Revelation 2:17: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches; “To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the “hidden (secret) manna”, and will give him a white (light) stone , and in the stone a new (fresh) name written, which no man knows but he that receives it.

The “hidden" [krupto (kroop’to) to conceal (by covering); secret)] manna” is not the same as the "manna" or the edible wafer given to the Israelites in the wilderness that they questioned about it or questioned the what-ness of it.  

That which had been hidden (concealed or kept secret) in relation to God's Word from the beginning is now revealed by revelation (manifestation or taking off of the cover of things not known before) truth of God's Word.  This is the "hidden manna", the receiving of the understanding that the fullness of God can be and is contained in us while we're alive, manifesting Him in the earth now.  This is the knowing that He is us and we are Him, and we are "one" with Him, through Christ Jesus, by the power of the Holy Ghost.  As he is, so are we, in this world (1st John 4:17).  But there are those even when you give them scripture to support this truth, the still "QUESTION IT"!

2nd Corinthians 2:7: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:  vs 8: Which none of the princes of this world knew:  for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.  Vs 13: Which things also we speak not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.  Vs 14: But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God:  for they are foolishness unto him:  neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The white (light) stone (pse’phos) was [a pebble (as worn smooth by handling), (used as a counter or ballot); a verdict (of acquittal) or ticket (of admission); voice] and is our entrance into kingdom authority, justification, deliverance, freedom, life, peace, health, all the blessings of God.

·    The white (light) stone is us being cleansed by the washing of water by the Word of God (Ephesians 5:26), and purified by the “Holy Ghost fire” of God to take out of us all the dross or everything that is not like Him (Hebrews 12:29), so that as he is, so are we, in this world (1st John 4:17).

As stated before, we being those “white (light) lively stones”, is us being the righteousness of God in Christ (2nd Corinthians 5:21), which is the determining factor of our verdict of acquittal or innocence, because we’re delivered from sin, death, hell, and the grave by the death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. 

·         Romans 8:1: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  Vs 2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

These “white (light) stones” are also our ticket of admission into the Kingdom of God:

·         Luke 12:32: Fear not little flock:  it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom!

·         Luke 17:20: The kingdom of God comes not with observation (ocular vision):  vs 21: Neither shall they say, Lo here!  Or, lo there!  For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Revelation 2:17: And in the stone a new (fresh) name written, which no man knows but he that receives it.

We that are sons of God (male/female), are not mere men (mortals), but we are the invisible God, made visible in the earth!  John 10:34: Jesus answered them (the Jews):  “Is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods”?  This is what also gives us our “new name” which is THE WORD OF GOD!  As he is, so are we, in this world (1st John 4:17).

·         Revelation 19:13: And he was clothed with a vesture (the body of Christ) dipped in blood:  and his name is called The Word of God.

Because of our eating of the Bread, the Word that was made flesh, we are also the Word made flesh!  Ephesians 5:30: We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

As we “eat of His flesh” and “drink of His blood” continually (not some particular day), that means that we have already come into union (communion) with Him!!

So having communion a certain Sunday out of the month isn’t scriptural, but man-made.  A person can do this “as often” as he/she chooses, even daily.

This is the fulfilling of Revelation 19:7:

·         Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him:  for the marriage (gam’os) [wedding] of the Lamb is come (present tense) and his wife (the church) hath made herself ready!

So those waiting to get to their heaven beyond the blue to eat the “marriage supper” with the Lamb, will miss it, because it has and is taking place for those that’s “eating His flesh” and “drinking His blood” right here and right now!!

·         Vs 8: And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white (light):  for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

We are God’s righteousness now:  2nd Corinthians 5:21: For he was made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

We’re already married to Him and are eating and enjoying “the marriage supper” (chief meal; feast), Jesus’ flesh and blood continually now because we’re no longer the bride wearing the veil, because the veil has been removed and we are the “wife” that’s been unveiled by the “revelation truth” of God’s Word that has freed us to bring forth sons of God legally for His kingdom!! Psalm 2:12a: "Kiss the Son, lest he be angry".

We know now that after Jesus ate the Last Supper with His disciples as stated in the gospels while they were eating according to Matthew 26:26-28, He “break  bread” and told them to eat it, because it was His body, and He gave them the cup and said, to drink it because it was His blood of the new covenant which is shed for many for the remission of sins, demonstrating to them that the types and shadows were to cease [end] after He was crucified.  There was to be no more shedding of blood of animals when once His “innocent all prevailing blood” was shed, because He was the ultimate (last; final] sacrifice!!

·         Hebrews 9:11: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; vs 12: Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

·         Hebrews 10:3: But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.  Vs 4: For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.  Vs 9: Then said he, “Lo, I come to do thy will, O God”.  He taketh away the first that he may establish the second.  Vs 10: By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

The Passover is both commemorative and typical. 

Commemorative:  because the deliverance it commemorates (celebrates; honors) was a type of the great Salvation it foretold.  No other shadow (profile; outline) of good things to come contained in the law can compete with the festival of the Passover in expressiveness (articulation; dictation; oration) and completeness (integrity; plenitude).   

Typical:  because the “Passover lamb” is the leading feature in the ceremony of the festival.  The lamb slain was Christ the “Lamb of God”, slain for the sins of the world.

·         1st Corinthians 5:7: Purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened.  For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. 

·         Vs 8: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

·         Hebrews 9:22: Without shedding of blood is no remission.

So let us keep constant communion with Jesus the Christ by eating continually of His flesh and drinking continually His blood through the Word and Spirit of the Living God so that we can live forever!!!  HALLELUJAH!!!

Pastor Gracie Perry