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PREFACE:
In the days of
The Reformation, the Reformers
vigorously debated The Communion.
They argued, debated
and disagreed about the implications of the words that were
spoken by Jesus
about himself , as to being ’The Door,’
A Vine, and in relation to The
Communion of
Remembrance of himself as “The Bread and Wine” being his body and
Blood, which called
for The Church of Rome to call upon ’Transubstantiation’ to
make this a
virtual reality of truth.
While the
reformers revealed the cross and Jesus as The Lamb, they revealed a Christ
who could be
known by those who would believe. They
however failed, with any
clarity, to
reveal Christ in his heavenly work as
Baptiser with Holy Spirit, which fulfils
his work, AS THE
WAY, to his God and Father, but lack of
this work robs the believer of being
taught Truth by
God Himself, The Spirit of Truth.
Communion,
however, wherever, and by whomever it is practised , will remain to be
powerful, in its
statement of belief , however correct or incorrectly it is remembered.
Paul, in Philippians
1: 18 says : the important thing is that in everything, whether from
false motives or
true, Christ is preached, and
because of this I rejoice.
However, all
this being considered, it is essential for what is the truth of Communion
to be carried
out with clear understanding of its
powerful message and of its
witness
to the gospel message
of God and Christ, His Son. It is to be
an ongoing message of
The Church to
The World, of The Baptised, to The Unbaptised with Holy Spirit, and to
Principalities
and Powers who hate the testimony of communion and its remembrance of
Christ.
It is for the
Church to be the manifold wisdom of God, to know Him and His Truths and His
goodness to
which Communion testifies for His purposes.
SIGNIFICANT
ISSUES WITH COMMUNION:
Communion
as remembered by the church, is with many variations because of the differing
convictions as to its meaning.
Differing
denominations, believing themselves to be of the church, place communion in their
services in the guise and confines of their belief.
It is the
words of their message given by those who distribute that will state their
particular understanding of communion, and are carried out with genuine
conviction.
Jesus had
said “ I give to you my Body,” thus
alluding to the work that his body would do in the purposes of God. Matthew 26 : 26 says that we are to eat of it which is extravagant in its
meaning, but which is essential to describe the calling that is expected of
us. We are to take totally to ourselves, all the work that by
his body he was to achieve.
THE
FATAL ERRORS DOMINATING THE CHURCH.
A
great many Doctrines have been formed from Christ’s exhortation in what is called Communion.
Luke 22:
19-30 1 Corinthians 11: 1-34 1 Corinthians 10: 16-17
Those who
believe that they eat the actual body of Christ and do drink his blood, are
those who at infant baptism ‘jump over’ the first step for anyone who would
come to God through Jesus Christ. The
infant is said to be In Christ, a position which is only entered AFTER Baptism,
with Holy Spirit. This cannot occur at
infant baptism; any more than for those who come to the cross and are told that
they are Born Again.
Then
there are those who give potent centralisation of personal sin in the work of the cross. believing the cross to be
the completed work, believing they have received Eternal Life without being born again by God’s Spirit.
John
3: 3-8 Romans 8: 10 but not 11
It is the
deep concentration on the blood because of ignorance of what is God’s work and requirements, which they must know
if they would be saved and come to know God Himself, through Jesus, given body,
and be In Christ.
THE
BLOOD IS IN THE BREAD WHICH SYMBOLISES
THE BODY.
JESUS’ PHYSICAL BODY
When God
sent Jesus to be The Son of Man, he came out from heaven and his various
heavenly positions but especially his role as The Angel of The LORD, The
Messenger of God’s Covenant, and God’s Word.
Genesis
16: 7- 14 Exodus 3: 2 Exodus 33 : 2 Judges 6 : 11 Daniel
10 : 4-11
John 1:
1 Malachi 3: 1- 3
To become
The Son of Man, God prepared for Jesus
a PHYSICAL BODY WHICH WAS GOD’S NECESSITY IN ORDER TO FULFILL
THE WORKS THAT GOD HAD PLANNED FOR HIM TO BE AND TO DO AS GOD’S LAMB,
as a
Guilt Offering and a Sin Offering for all mankind.
Hebrews
10: 5-7 1 Timothy 3: 16 John 1 : 29 Romans 5: 15-21
Hebrews 2: 14-16
Isaiah 53
:10 Romans 8: 3-4 Colossians 1: 19-22
God
exerted His power to raise Jesus Bodily from among those in The Death Realm where,
as The Son of God, he was empowered by God’s Spirit to preach, as a man, to
those in captivity in The Underworld.
Ephesians
1: 17-22 Galatians 1: 1 Romans 1: 3-4 1 Peter 3 : 18-20
As The
resurrected Son of God, he gave convincing proof that he was alive.
Jesus
spent forty days teaching and exhorting his chosen apostles, emphasising his
commands that they wait for the Baptism with Holy Spirit.
Jesus, in
the sight of the apostles ascended bodily
to heaven, with The raised up Holy Ones, entering heaven, that had been closed, due to
Adam’s sin. The angels declared his
return.
Acts 1:
1-9 Ephesians 4: 7-10 Hebrews 9: 24 John 3: 13 Matthew 27:
51-53
Ephesians
2: 18-22 Hebrews 4: 14-16
When he
arrived in Heaven, God The Father sat him on His right hand, exalting Jesus as the risen Son of God, to the position as Christ and
Lord, giving him the work as
Baptiser with Holy Spirit.
As Head
of those called The Church, being the First fruits of the Resurrection and as
High Priest, he will judge those called
The Church. He became The Cornerstone
of God’s Spiritual Temple, and The Holy Ones, the foundation of The Temple
which is described in Ezekiel Chapters
40 -47 It is This Temple that
believers are built into by Christ.
Acts 2:
31 36 Revelation 3: 1 Romans 1: 3-4 Ephesians 1: 19-23
Corinthians
15: 20-28 2 Corinthians 5: 10 1 Peter 2: 4-8 Ephesians 2: 19-22
John 2: 19-22 Hebrews 5:1-6
As The
Ascended Christ, he was seen in his heavenly bodily form which is like that of
The Son of Man, by Stephen, Paul and John.
Acts 7:
54-60 Acts 9:3-6 Revelation 1: 12-18 [Daniel 10: 4-11]
Jesus
will rule as a man on David’s Throne for 1000 years with the Holy Ones he took
to Heaven with him, and all those In Christ, those called ‘The church’ who only will inherit Eternal Life because
they did the will of God The Father.
Daniel 7:
13-14 Isaiah 52: 7-10 Romans 1: 2-3 Revelation 20: 4-6
Matthew
7: 21- 23 2 Corinthians 5: 10 1 Thessalonians 4: 16
FOR
THOSE WHO WOULD BELIEVE it is important to know him as The Son of God, because to believe
that he is GOD makes it impossible to be an over-comer. It is only by God’s power we can overcome
and this strength is not available from God if Jesus is trusted in as
God. Jesus was raised by God as The
Son of God; NOT GOD. Romans 1: 3-4
1 John 5:
1-5 Revelation 3: 11-12 Ephesians 4: 5-6 John 14: 10-12
Mark 16:
14-18 Acts 1: 4 Amp. John 3: 16 Isaiah 46 :5-18
Isaiah 45: 22-24 [shall to
God] Philippians 2: 10-11 [ should
to Jesus] Luke 22: 42
The
understanding of what is Jesus’ work as The son of man and what is his work, as
The Exalted Son of God, is required to build appreciation as to what The Bread
of Communion stands for, as we are to remember him. Luke 22: 19
A
Personal Comment :
While
believing Jesus to be God, and not knowing his heavenly work as Baptiser with
Holy Spirit, I found the exhortation to remember Jesus in Communion unsettling,
simply because I thought of him, all the time.
Due
to correction in accordance with God’s Word, by knowing Christ’s Work as Baptiser with Holy Spirit and
coming to know him as The Son of God, but not God. Now we obey God’s Will, giving Him all thanks
and praise for all things and in communion we remember Christ’s full work in
the purposes of God.
THE PROGRESSIVE,
PROPHETIC POSITIONS OF CHRIST
Ezekiel 41: 17-20 Cherubim -
The Son Of Man / The Lion Of Judah
THE COMMUNION AS SET UP BY JESUS,
prior to his death.
This is
to be found in Matthew 26: 17-30 Mark
14: 12-25 Luke 22: 7-29 with no
record in John’s Gospel. However in
John’s Gospel the texts and chapters refer to The PROMISED SPIRIT OF GOD,
which relates directly to the Spiritual essence of The Cup of The New Covenant which Jesus adhered to in Luke 22: 19
THE
PASSOVER IS NOT OUR COMMUNION:
At his
Last supper, with his disciples, his death imminent, Jesus wanted to celebrate
The Passover and to eat of it with his disciples.
It must
be remembered that the Passover is not our Communion. Our communion is the
Celebrated Spiritual Deliverance from out of The Death Realm, and into
Life,
FOR
REAL, by Jesus’ death according to God’s will.
The
Passover was established for protection, as God displayed His Power,
over The gods of Egypt.
Jesus in
foreknowledge before his death knew what God intended to do by sacrificing him as His Sacrificial Lamb, which was for
all mankind to know Spiritual Deliverance out
from The Death Realm, and its consequences and
be placed in Life.
The Cup
of The New Covenant, is relevant to his sacrifice, by which he would present and
establish a certain hope, for his disciples and all who would believe
in him.
Exodus 12
: 24-30 Ephesians 4:5-6 1 Corinthians 12: 13 Matthew 3:11-12 Hebrews 6: 9-12 Acts
11: 17
THE
FIRST PASSOVER:
I was
encouraged to check up as to what the preparation of The Passover consisted of
in Exodus 12, and I saw a difference
from the original Passover details of preparation. There was an added
element; a Drink Offering which Jesus
and his disciples partook of at their celebration of Passover.
Why was
there NO DRINK OFFERING in the original Passover set up? What was the added Cup, that we see Jesus
and his disciples drinking?
THE
GIVING OF A DRINK OFFERING:
We see
this first intimated in Genesis 28: 10-27,
when Jacob, while fleeing from Esau, met God and as a result he set up a
Pillar, poured oil on it, as he committed himself to God’s care. This place was Bethel and it was on Jacob’s
return to Bethel, in
Genesis
35: 1-15 we see him pouring out a drink
offering to God, upon which he also poured oil when he received God’s
confirmation of God’s Abrahamic blessing of inheritance of land and of his
name being changed to from Jacob to Israel.
Jacob’s
Drink offering
was given to God.
Jacob’s
communication with God, called for the Drink Offering from Jacob, being Jacob’s recognition of God’s goodness
in his name change which had previously been promised to him by God’s Angel in Genesis 32: 22-31
and was confirmed by God, The Father.
ISRAEL AS A NATION:
In the
institution of The Passover [established
as Israel prepared to exit Egypt to be established in a Promised Land], as
well as The Sacrificial Offerings, there were NO Drink Offerings, until we
see in Numbers 15 : 1-5 God ordain the
Drink Offering to be included in The Passover and Sacrificial Offerings.
This
was when Israel would enter their Promised Land, which they did under the
leadership of Joshua. It was the sign
of the fulfilment of God’s Promise to Israel.
It would
appear that obedience was to be demonstrated, by confirming God’s
requirement of them.
They did
this by maintaining The Way to please God through Sacrifice which was the sign
of giving themselves to God in Faith.
It would appear that the withholding of the Drink Offering in the work
of the Passover and of the Sacrificial Offerings when first established, before
the obligations to fulfil them were obeyed by Israel, that God’s purpose would
have been to see their obedience. When
He saw this, He ordained The Drink Offering to be included where it had not
been, in order to show His Praise because of their obedience.
This is
what the disciples and Jesus drank of which alluded to the time of The
Passover, which was to find fulfilment in The Kingdom of God. The only way for this to occur would be
for those of Israel to accept Jesus as The
Messiah, God’s Christ and Lord. In
order to drink The Cup of The Passover in The Kingdom of God, they are to
drink, God’s Drink Offering, THE CUP OF THE NEW COVENANT, which is only
possible as they receive in obedience Christ’s Work as Lamb of God and Baptiser
with Holy Spirit.
John 14:
13-15 John 13: 34 John 20: 23 Acts 1: 4-5 1
Corinthians 12: 13
In a
strong prophetic Word, Jesus introduced The Cup of The New Covenant, which he relates prophetically to his
disciples stating they would be in his kingdom on Thrones, judging the Twelve
tribes of Israel. This speaks of his earthly Kingdom
in which they will reign for 1000 years with
him, and all others ‘In Christ’, who by fulfilling their righteous
obligations to God, by doing His will, will
inherit eternal life by Christ’s judgement.
Romans
2:29 Matthew 7: 21-23 2
Corinthians 5: 10 Matthew 19:
19-28
Luke 22:
30 Revelation 20: 4-6 John 1: 29- 34 1 Corinthians 12: 3
John 15: 26
THE
CUP OF THE NEW COVENANT, IS NOT A CUP
OF BLOOD.
BUT A CUP OF CELEBRATION. IT IS GOD’S OFFERING TO MANKIND IN CONFIRMATION
OF JESUS’ FULL WORK BEING FULFILLED IN THE BELIEVER TO GIVE THE VIEW OF A
HEAVENLY KINGDOM AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
Jeremiah
31 :33-34 Hebrews 10: 15-18 Luke 22: 20 Hebrews 6: 13-20
HOW ?
GOD
SAYS “I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN YOUR HEART
AND WRITE THEM ON YOUR MIND” Hebrews
10: 15-18 Hebrews 8: 10-18, which only applies to those “In Christ.”
**** Many would believe that the entirety of
God’s New Covenant is completely the
work of the blood and the Baptism with Holy Spirit, and believe by knowing this
they have fulfilled God’s Covenant, rather than THEY ARE THE MEANS OF RECEIVING
GOD’S NEW COVENANT PROMISES THAT WE MUST DRINK SPIRITUALLY OF IT CONTINUALLY IN ORDER TO KNOW GOD AND HIS
GOODNESS.
Luke
22:20-30 1 Corinthians 12:13-18 Romans 2: 29 Ephesians 2:6
Matthew
13: 47-50 Ephesians 4: 5-6 Ezekiel 44: 10-14 1 Corinthians 8:6 Galatians 5:
16-25 John 1: 29-34 Matthew 7: 21-23
Communion
celebrates THE FULFILMENT OF GOD’S WORK IN US.
Communion
celebrates OUR RECOGNITION OF GOD’S
CARE.
Communion
celebrates A CUP THAT WILL NEVER BE
EMPTY, no matter how much is drunk.
The
fulfilment of The Passover has been accomplished by Jesus as God’s Lamb. Obedience to the requirements of Passover
brought forth The Drink Offering to be given from MAN TO GOD.
It is
obedience to the work of Christ Jesus, as Lamb of God and of Baptiser with Holy
Spirit that a Cup has been given TO MAN FROM GOD.
THE FORGOTTEN WORDS, IN GOD’S
WORD, WHICH WOULD GIVE REVELATION
OF COMMUNION.
Many
stand strongly in their convictions based upon The New Testament in particular
from Acts to Revelation and take all spiritual work and positions proclaimed in these Books,
and yet totally disregard the Words of Jesus in The Gospels, especially those
that relate to The Baptism with Holy Spirit.
By
this they hinder ‘the full meaning’ of Communion. They
also ignore commands and words that relate to The Old Testament, and
especially those which relate to The Old Testament sacrifices, believing that these words are unrelated to The New Covenant Cup which
Communion is Celebrating.
This has
hatched misunderstanding of words of great meaning, that would reveal The Truth
of God’s unchanging plan of
Salvation. For man to know The Way to
come to God Himself, and partake of The New Covenant with understanding, it is
necessary to talk about misunderstandings,
which prevent blockages being a continuing condition.
John 12:
47-50 John 8: 51 John 14: 31 Colossians 1:23 John
14:13-17
Acts 1:
4-5 Mark 16: 14-18 Revelation 3:14-20 Ezekiel 44: 5 Ezekiel 43: 11
Hebrews
6: 11-12 Hebrews 5: 11 Hebrews 3: 14
THE
WORDS OF GREAT MEANING IN GOD’S WORD IN REGARD TO COMMUNION. They
are The Lamb OF God
The Sprinkling and pouring of Blood.
THE
WORD REGARDING THE LAMB OF GOD :
In
Psalm 49: 7-9 But God has declared in The Psalms
that NO MAN could redeem another however righteous.
God
brought forth His man, Jesus to
be His Lamb
God, The
Father, took His Chief Angel, who was with Him before ‘the beginning’ and
brought him forward, as The Son of Man.
He was not born as other men, under Adam’s Curse, because he was
conceived by God’s Spirit in Mary. God
brought him forth, as He had brought forth The First Adam, who had been without
sin.
GOD’S
MAN IS NOT A DIETY, BUT WAS BROUGHT INTO BEING AS THE SON OF MAN. IN ORDER TO BE GOD’S LAMB, IN ORDER FOR GOD
TO FULFIL HIS OWN CRITERIA, OF HOW THAT MAN MAY COME TO HIM.
From all
appearances of Jesus by men he was seen as an illegitimate. As a Child he was wilful and strong minded,
but mindful to observe God’s Laws. He
died the death, of one cursed, when he was crucified as a criminal, in the eyes
of the Gentile world and of
Israel’s
Laws. As it was asked of him: can any good
thing come out from Nazareth?
As a man,
a carpenter, who to all appearances took too much upon himself, and was seen as
an upstart who led the people astray by signs and wonders and words of great
wisdom.
He
appeared to be lawless and he died as such.
BUT in God’s eyes this was
not so : but a man prepared for God’s purposes.
Jesus
declared himself to be “a man who has
told the truth that he heard from God.”
John 8:
46 John 1: 43-51 John 2: 12-25 John Ch. 7.
Therefore
God, The Father, planned to have all
His fullness dwell in Jesus, by His Spirit in Jesus, which fulfilled THE NAME IMMANUEL, in
order that, God could reconcile to
Himself all things, making peace through Jesus’ shed blood. On the cross, God by His Spirit in Jesus
fulfilled His obligation to His own Word when Jesus, as a man, as God’s Lamb
shed his blood in the place of God Himself, according to The Old Testament
Stipulations and Regulations of Sacrifice.
Initially
Jesus died as God’s Lamb for God’s purposes, NOT
FOR MANKIND, whose redemption was,
God’s purpose
1 John
5: 1-5 Acts 20:28 John 1: 29 Colossians 1: 19-22
Romans 5: 15-19 Hebrews
5:7-8 Hebrews 2: 10-18 Isaiah 7: 14 Matthew 1 : 22
Luke
3: 21-23 John 1: 1**
The word VICARIOUS
APPLIED to the sacrifice of Jesus, has been misunderstood, to believe that
redemption was Jesus’ plan, to act as a substitute and to suffer on the behalf
of all mankind, rather than it was his willingness to shed his life, for the
purposes of God Himself. God’s purpose
were for all mankind to be free to take His full Salvation and to know its
Eternal Consequences of blessing.
John 3:
16 Luke 22: 42-43 Galatians 3: 13-14 Galatians 1: 1 Romans 1: 3-4
Ephesians
3:10-12 Ephesians 6: 10-18 Hebrews 3: 2
Jesus
is said to be THE PROPITIATION and the expiation for our sins. The word propitiation means, a gift, to show
favour, to appease. Jesus gave his body
to God in order that God could show favour to mankind, WHO would favour God’s
Gift of salvation. Jesus was a
satisfactory gift to God, as God’s Lamb in order to appease, by God making
concessions to sinful men and for the sinful man that they be saved and come
into God’s Favour. Romans 2: 29 The Bread ‘symbolises’ his body AND
blood. It is necessary to see the
centre of the flower and to realise that if God Himself had not fulfilled His
obligation, that mankind would have had no hope of Everlasting Life with
Him. Because He is merciful and is
Love, He has given us a Cup that pertains to what and who He is, from whom we
can know all He would have us to have.
Ephesians
3: 14-19 Colossians 2: 9 Hebrews 10: 15-18 Hebrews 8 : 10-15
THE
CRITERIA OF THE BLOOD.
In God’s
Criteria of The Blood, which He set out
in Genesis 9: 5-6 , He planned that it would call for Himself to shed His
Blood AND THIS WOULD BE BY A MAN.
Because
of God being of The Spirit Realm, He would Not have blood to shed; so it
required A MAN TO BE HIS LAMB IN ORDER TO FULFIL HIS OWN CRITERIA.
Because
God had caused men to shed blood, in obligation to righteousness demanded by
God. So He planned His purposes that He must shed His
blood, by a man, as His Lamb, in
order to reciprocate His Covenant Agreement, He made to all mankind, in the
days of Noah, after The flood.
He made
this Criteria in Gen. 9: 5-6 John 3:16
Isaiah 61: 1-7 Isaiah 53: Isaiah 49:1-7
GOD’S
CRITERIA was made by God Himself in order to
revoke His curse He had placed on all mankind when Adam sinned, in order to
make a New Way for all who would come in
repentance to Him, and with faith and belief in Jesus.
He would
open Heaven that had been closed since the Fall of Adam.
He would
release from Paradise, His Holy Ones, whom He had already judged to be Righteous,
where they had been kept waiting for heaven to be opened by God fulfilling
His Criteria of The Blood. Jesus was literally and in full reality ,
God’s lamb for God’s planned purposes to redeem mankind. This was carried out under The Old Testament
Stipulations and Regulations of sacrifice, and therefore the work of the
sacrifices should speak volumes to us because Jesus’ sacrifice as God’s Lamb,
was a Guilt Offering and a Sin Offering.
Acts
20:28 Genesis 17: 1-14 Genesis 22: 8
John 3: 13 Hebrews 9: 15-16 /
24 Ephesians 4: 7-10 Leviticus Chapters 1- 7. Isaiah 53 : 10 Romans 8: 3-4 John 3: 16
THE
FULFILMENT OF THIS CRITERIA BEGAN AT
THE DEATH OF JESUS ON THE CROSS. ITS CONFIRMATION BEING THE RESURRECTION OF
THE HOLY ONES AT THE TIME JESUS DIED.
GOD’S OBLIGATION WAS FULFILLED.
HE CONFIRMED HIS COVENANT.
John 3:
16 Luke 22: 42-43 Galatians 3: 13-14 Galatians 1:1 Romans 1:
3-4
Ephesians
3: 10-12 Ephesians 6: 10-18 Hebrews 3: 2
THE
WORDS SPRINKLING AND POURING:OF BLOOD.
Leviticus
Cps 1-7 ,1 Peter 1:2 Luke 22: 20
TO
UNDERSTAND JESUS’ WORDS IN REGARD TO THE CUP OF THE NEW COVENANT IT IS TO
UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORD “POURED” IS AN ARROW GIVING DIRECTION BY BLOOD AS TO
WHERE, WHAT AND TO WHOM, THE CUP OF THE NEW COVENANT IS TO BE PARTAKEN OF AND
WHAT IS ITS VALUE AND THE COST OF ESTABLISHMENT.
John 3:
16
THE WORDS SPRINKLING AND POURING WITHIN THE
FRAMEWORK OF A PARTICULAR SACRIFICIAL OFFERING ARE WORDS which figure very
importantly in ESTABLISHING a Spiritual position. Depending upon what The Sacrificial Offering is trusted in, will
dictate where and upon what, the Blood is sprinkled or where it was poured.
The
“Sprinkling and The Pouring” of blood ARE TODAY THE CONTINUIUNG DIRECTIVES
GIVEN BY GOD AND WHICH, BY THEIR WORK, GIVE THE MESSAGE OF THE EFFECTIVENESS
AND LIMITATIONS OF ANY PARTICULAR SACRIFICE’S STIPULATION AND REGULATIONS.
The
blood represented in The Bread which
speaks of Jesus’ body is the essential
condition of entrance and exits in God’s Present Spiritual Temple. This is where the arrangements and design
speak loudly of His Regulations and Laws.
This is where the Sprinkling and the Pouring give their understanding to
the believer as to where they stand Spiritually, in their ‘Spiritual
Journey’. The blood speaks of this
journey.
The word Sprinkling of The Blood, giving
the message to ‘Go On’, and the Pouring of The blood, means a
work done and completed, no need to go
on or to be repeated.
The particular
work is finished, as Jesus said of his work on the cross.
Ezekiel
Chps 40-47 Ezekiel 44 : 5 43: 10-11 Hebrews 10:18**
Hebrews 6: 4 -6
ONE
SACRIFICE FOR TWO WORKS IS DECLARED IN THE BREAD OF COMMUNION SYMBOLISING THE
BODY OF CHRIST.
THE
SPRINKLED BLOOD OF THE GUILT OFFERING AND THE POURED BLOOD OF THE SIN OFFERING
DICTATE THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED ON THE CROSS DECLARING TWO SEPARATE WORKS WHICH
ACCOMPLISH TWO SPIRITUAL POSITIONS.
This was
accomplished by Jesus as God’s Lamb as a Guilt Offering and a Sin Offering.
Isaiah
53: 10 Romans 8: 3 1 John 2:1-2 Hebrews 13: 11-14
THE
JOURNEY THROUGH GOD’S SET ENTRANCES AND EXITS.
THE
WAY ACCORDING TO GOD’S TRUTH TO BRING US TO LIFE :
JESUS OUR GUILT OFFERING:
Jesus was
a GUILT OFFERING: its Sprinkled
blood however was never taken INTO THE HOLY PLACE; so neither can the
believer.
With
past sins forgiven by God but not all sins, the believer receives from God, The Spirit of Christ and places them
in Christ’s Spiritual Kingdom, where they are freed from “the dominion” of The Death Realm, BUT NOT FROM THE DEATH
REALM ITSELF BECAUSE IT REQUIRES THE SIN OFFERING AND ITS POURED BLOOD TO DO
THAT WORK.
The
Guilt Offering and its Sprinkled blood calls for the believer to ‘GO ON’ to
know Jesus as their SIN OFFERING, with its Poured blood taken into The Holy
Place, where God’s Throne is.
Leviticus
5: 14-19 Leviticus 7: 1-10 Romans 8: 10
not 11 Colossian 1: 27 not 28
1 Peter
1: 2 Romans 4: 7 Colossians 1: 13-14 Colossians 2: 13 Hebrews 6: 16-19 John
14: 6
**The
Guilt Offering is for Violation of God’s Holy Offerings which was carried
out on behalf OF THE WORLD. At
the cross and its Sprinkled Blood’s work established deliverance from
the Lake of Fire, and from THE DOMINION OF THE DEATH REALM but not the Death
Realm itself, because The Body of Sin IS NOT dealt with by the work of The
Guilt Offering.
Romans 8:
10 MAKES THIS VERY CLEAR ; relating to those who have Christ’s Spirit in
their spirit, but do not have the Spirit of God The Father, who raised Jesus
from the dead.
It is
because of The Guilt Offering Work , and The Sprinkled Blood, that the believer
receives The Spirit of Christ, and it is
his presence WHICH QUALIFIES THEM to
‘go on’ in order to deal with The Body of Sin in the believer, that
is dealt with by the Poured Blood of The Sin Offering.
NB.
The Guilt Offering
will see PAST SINS FORGIVEN : NOTALL SINS, BECAUSE THE BODY OF SIN HAS NOT BEEN DEALT WITH
WHICH WILL ONLY COME BY THE WORK OF THE BLOOD OF THE SIN OFFERING.
Romans 6:
6 Romans 8: 10 Galatians 1: 1 Romans 1: 3-4 Romans 3: 25
not Colossians2: 13 Romans 8: 11 Romans 4: 7 not 8.
By the
work of The Sprinkled Blood of The
Guilt Offering and then The Work of The Poured Blood of The Sin Offering, Progression and Finalisation of an “old
life” is revealed, and the expectancy of being a New Creation.
John
14: 13-17 1 Corinthians 12: 3-18 Colossians 1: 27-28 Romans 8: 10-11 1 Peter 1: 2
THE POURED
BLOOD OF THE SIN OFFERING:
It is
at the time the believer calls for Baptism,
that The Poured Blood of The Sin Offering EMPOWERS The Instantaneous
Spiritual Process, to proceed and sees the believer spiritually crucified with Christ, buried in Death and raised
by God, The Father from The Death Realm.
THE
BODY OF SIN IS DEALT WITH ONLY BY THE POURED OUT BLOOD OF THE SIN OFFERING,
within the “ reality work” of The
“Instantaneous Spiritual Process”, which is Spiritual, AND DOES NOT
RELATE TO WATER BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE.
Leviticus
4: 3-21 John 14: 13-17 Matthew 3: 11-12 Acts 1: 4-5 Romans
6: 6 Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians
2: 9-13 Ephesians 1: 19-20 Galatians 1:1 Romans 8: 11
THE
BODY OF SIN MUST BE DEALT WITH IN ORDER TO
BE RAISED BY GOD OUT OF THE DEATH REALM FOR ONE TO BE BAPTISED WITH HOLY SPIRIT, BY CHRIST, IN
ORDER TO BE THEN BAPTISED BY GOD
INTO
THE SPIRITUAL BODY OF CHRIST : IN CHRIST : WHERE ALL THOSE BAPTISED ARE PLACED BY GOD THE
FATHER, WHO CONFIRMS THIS BY DECLARING “ JESUS IS LORD.”
John 15:
26 1 Corinthians 12: 3 Matthew 15: 13 1 Corinthians 12 : 13
Romans 2: 29
Jeremiah
9: 25
NB. Many,
from various denominations who without the teaching of Baptism with Holy
Spirit, have been baptised, without asking, because Christ saw their love for
him, and their hungering for more. This
is The Criteria of asking for Baptism, by Christ.
John
14: 13-17
THE
BAPTISM WITH HOLY SPIRIT IS THE EVIDENCE AND FULFILMENT
OF THE
WORK OF THE POURED OUT BLOOD OF THE SIN OFFERING WHICH IS ACTIVATED WHEN
CHOOSING TO BE BAPTISED.
THOSE
HAVING NO MANIFESTATION OF THE BAPTISM WITH HOLY SPIRIT HAVE NOT PARTAKEN OF
THE WORK OF THE SIN OFFERING, BUT ONLY THE GUILT OFFERING AND CANNOT KNOW THE
REALITY OF THE NEW COVENANT BECAUSE OF NOT KNOWING CHRIST’S FULL WORK
REPRESENTED BY THE BREAD. TOTAL
NEGLECT, DENIES ONE
FROM
TRULY PARTICIPATING IN COMMUNION BECAUSE THEY EAT UNWORTHILY.
Romans
8:10-11 Colossians 1: 27-28 Romans
4: 7-8 Ephesians1: 13-14
Ephesians
4: 5-6 1 Corinthians 11: 27-32
NB.***
While The Baptism with Holy Spirit gives entrance into The Most Holy Place
of God’s Spiritual Temple, if the believer is trusting in Jesus as God, they
are denied entrance into the Most holy Place, where God’s Throne is.
They
are RESTRICTED TO THE HOLY PLACE. They can serve as Priests
throughout The Spiritual Temple, except in The Most Holy Place, because God
declares that they cannot come near to serve Him nor will they know His Holy
Offerings and Things, IF TRUSTING AND BELIEVING IN JESUS AS GOD.
Ezekiel
44:10-14 Isaiah 22: 20-25 Ezekiel 43:10-12 Ephesians 2: 18-22
Because
of this fact, they are truly violating God’s Holy Offerings and Things and will
not realise what are the promised contents of The New Covenant : to know The
Father and to know His full care. To
be guilty of this neglect, even through ignorance, is to be guilty of violation
of God’s Holy Things, which is ‘the sin’ of those called the world, before
redemption. It is suggested that those
who are guilty of this, and would realise their error that they BE BAPTISED IN
WATER TO REPENT.
To trust
in Jesus as God, causes the contents of The Cup of The New Covenant to be
withheld and defeats The Promise of The Poured Blood.
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JESUS
OUR SIN OFFERING:
Paul, in
God’s Word declares that Jesus was The Sin Offering, in Romans 8: 3
-4 and Jesus declares himself to be A SIN OFFERING, when he spoke of his poured blood, in the
establishment of communion.
While
there are four Sin Offerings, detailed in Leviticus, which
all have THE BLOOD POURED, there are TWO Sin Offerings that the
Blood is poured and taken into The Tent of The Meeting.
The
choosing of the two Sin Offerings are in relation to whom they applied in
the system of sacrifice. Also in
relation to Jesus and his death they relate to the ordinance that these two Sin
Offerings, whose poured blood of the sacrifice was not eaten, but burnt and
taken outside the Camp, as Jesus was taken Outside Jerusalem, where we are
encouraged to go “Spiritually” in order to know the work of The Sin
Offering.
Hebrews
13: 11-14 Leviticus 4: 3-12 Leviticus 4: 13-21 Romans 12:1-2
1. The Sin Offering in relation, TO ISRAEL relates to
the believer as having The Spirit of Christ.
Both areas signify a relationship with God’s agreements.
Galatians 4: 6
Colossians 1: 13-14
2. The Sin Offering in relation THE PRIESTS relates to
the believer, with Christ in them, who require the anointing of God’s Spirit,
which results through the work of The Sin Offering for those with Christ in
them, through The Instantaneous
Spiritual Process, of : Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13 Philippians
3: 10
NB.
The words of Jesus on the cross, saying
“It is finished,” in the light of the Sin offering and its poured blood
indicated his work in God’s Plan, in dealing with the Curse upon Adam had been
dealt with, but more so that The Way into God’s presence, into His Heavenly
Spiritual Temple had been fully accomplished for those who were to believe in
the times to come.
It
does NOT infer that the belief in Jesus as one’s Lamb is the “beginning and end
of it all” but one Must Go On to know Christ’s Heavenly work as Baptiser with
Holy Spirit, as this is where the poured blood of The Sin Offering comes into
complete operation.
The
Guilt Offering deals with the Sin of being Adam’s descendant. [The Curse]
The
Sin Offering deals with the realm one is in as a descendant of Adam, and
Deliverance is accomplished, when believing for Baptism with Holy Spirit.
THE
ESTABLISHED WORK OF THE POURED BLOOD OF THE SIN OFFERING: BY CHRIST AS GOD’S
LAMB.
Christ
made the way through the heavens to The Throne of God in His Spiritual Temple.
This
symbolic work was pictorially and
physically carried out in the Old Testament. Christ as The resurrected
Son of God, carried this out with spiritual reality, by
spiritually sprinkling his blood, shed for God, on the doors of the Entrance to
The Holy Place and The Most Holy Place, where the blood was sprinkled on The
Horns of The Altar of Incense.
Hebrews
6: 19 Galatians 1: 1 Romans 1 3-4
The
same blood was carried outside to the
Altar and was poured against The Altar,
giving the message of a work that is finished.
It is to The Spiritual Altar that we are to go continually, as we
spiritually shed our blood, giving our lives to God, as Living Sacrifices. Because we are in God’s Spirit and Sons and
Priests, we are spiritually in The Kingdom of Heaven. And we are there because of Christ ‘clearing the way’ to
heaven, thus fulfilling God’s Plan to open heaven, that had been closed.
John 3:
13 Matthew 13: 47-50 Ephesians 2: 6 Hebrews 9: 24
As the result of being sons of God and Priests who sit spiritually in the
heavens we can know the cleansing and
purifying of our sins as we confess them, because we know we have “all our sins
forgiven” by the work of the Guilt offering AND the work of The Sin
Offering. As Sons and Priests we are
to be ‘the manifold wisdom of God to principalities and Powers’, having
the armour of Truth and asking and learning from The Father Himself out from
His store houses, and to do His will in all aspects of our lives.
Leviticus
4: 3-21 Leviticus 5: 14-19 Hebrews 9: 2 Ephesians 4:
5-6 Romans 12: 1-2 Romans 8: 17 1 Peter 2: 9-10 Exodus 29: 39-46 1 John 1:7-10 Ephesians 2:6 Hebrews
7: 24 -28 John 16: 13 -15 John 16:
23-28 Matthew 13: 47-52 which holds a judgement factor Matthew 7: 21-23
WHY
HAVE WE MADE SO MUCH CONCENTRATION ON THE SIN OFFERING AND
ITS POURED BLOOD?
Because
it is the
essential message of The Gospel of God
and Christ, which has been neglected to be taught through the lack of revelation
by God Himself to the church. It is the
essential Spiritual Work which results in Christ’s Work as Baptiser, through
The Instantaneous Spiritual Process, which is not understood as to its
necessary, potent work. This is what
Jesus was referring to when he said “Not to believe and be Baptised, one is
condemned.” The believer is, while they
remain in The Death Realm. Because of
this neglect, the work of The Sin Offering and its poured blood, has lost its
great significance, and powerful work
for the believer. Those who have known only the work of The Cross must go on in order to have
confidence to inherit God’s full salvation. We believe that this state of
affairs must be rectified.
The
Message must be declared that there are :
TWO WORKS OF SALVATION HELD IN THE ONE
SACRIFICE.
THIS
HAS NOT BEEN UNDERSTOOD BY SO MANY, WHO HAVE
CREATED A DANGEROUS
ASSUMPTION BELIEVING
“JUST
COME TO THE CROSS, AND YOU’RE BORN AGAIN.”
THEY
DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE BODY OF SIN AND WHERE IT HOLDS ONE AND THE STRONG SPIRITUAL WORK OF GOD AND CHRIST, IN
THE INSTANTANEOUS SPIRITUAL PROCESS, THAT WAS NECESSARY TO RAISE / SPIRITUALLY
CIRCUMCISE A BELIEVER OUT OF DEATH AND TO BE PLACED IN LIFE. TO BE PUT INTO A BODY WHERE GOD THE FATHER’S
SPIRIT IS IN US, THROUGH US, AND OVER US.
ONE
SACRIFICE WITH TWO WORKS, CONSEQUENTLY CREATES TWO SPIRITUAL POSITIONS.
Romans 3:
25 Galatians 3: 14 1 Peter 1: 1-2 Mark 16: 14-18 Hebrews
2:1 - 4**
Ephesians
1: 18-23 Ephesians 4: 5-6 1
Corinthians 12: 3-18 Romans 8: 10 & 11 Colossians
1: 27 & 28 Matthew 13: 37-40 to Matthew 13: 47-50
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THE
FULL WORK OF THE BLOOD IS CONFIRMED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD
HIMSELF……….“JESUS
IS LORD”………FOR THE BELIEVER.
The Sin
Offering and its spiritual results which are only possible through the work of The Sin offering are
illustrated, by the context of Romans Chapter 8.
This
speaks of walking in The Spirit of God
Himself and of the steps of receiving the Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of
God who raised Jesus from the Dead.
Romans 8:
10 & 11 It speaks of our becoming
Sons of God, and Priests, co-heirs with
Christ and how our Spiritual Adoption, and fellowship is maintained in
fellowship with both, God and Christ in
us by their Spirits. Here Christ is
High Priest. Here we are Priests, able to serve God and enjoy His Holy
Offerings and Holy Things, as we stand before His Throne, believing in Him as
God Alone. To have faith in God as did The Holy Ones. The God of Israel who is to be our Healer,
Deliverer, Provider, Protector and as a result, the deposit of the fruit of His
Spirit will remain in us.
We are to
know the Prime Facts as Sons of God which is to know in all things God works
for Good to those who love Him and have been called to His purposes.
We
have been justified by His Faithfulness by the fulfilling of His obligatory
Promises of salvation to mankind. We,
in turn, as Sons justify or fulfil our obligations of righteousness to God, to justify
our inheritance, in order for Him to reciprocate to the giving of ourselves as living sacrifices.
Romans
Chp 8 Romans 8: 10-11 Romans 8: 17 Romans 8: 26-27 John 14:23
1 John 1:
3 Ephesians 3: 10-12 John
16:13-15 John 16: 23-28 John 17: 3 1 Corinthians 8: 6 Galatians
5: 16-25 1 John 2: 4-5 Ephesians
3: 14-19 Romans 12: 1-2
Matthew 26:6-13
While
Jesus was in Bethany, a woman poured oil upon his head, which Jesus said
related to his burial preparation. He
announced that wherever this Gospel [of his death and resurrection] is preached, what she has done also be told in
memory of her action.
By this
Jesus took the opportunity to foretell his death. When we celebrate Communion we can spiritually recognize our continual need for ‘self to die’ and to know its burial.
By the
spiritual work of God and Christ in The “Instantaneous Process” my body of sin
was buried, however in the working out of one’s salvation as Sons of God, in
our walk of righteousness, this will deal with self which is to be continually
buried. We witness by our lives of
victory, by overcoming, by the resurrection power that is God’s who raised
Jesus and the believer out of The Death Realm.
GOD
AND CHRIST’S KNOWLEDGE OF US: Hebrews
4: 11-13
The
wonderful, amazing fact is the knowledge that God has of anyone who would come
in faith to Him. His knowledge was operative in The Tabernacle as to where the
blood of the sacrifices were put.
Any
blood taken into The Tent of the Meeting, shed in the regulations of The Guilt
offering was an affront to God’s Holiness, which applied to any priest who
would enter The Tent of The Meeting and
fail to wash in The Laver, they would die.
Sons of Aaron took alcohol into The Holy of Holies. They died by fire. Man did not carry out
these judgements : God did this when He saw their disobedience. We might not see devouring fire, on the
disobedient sons of God, but those who partake of Communion unworthily will
become sick.
1
Corinthians 11:27-32
The
same knowledge of God and Christ applies when a believer, comes in faith to the
cross. He gave us The Spirit of Christ, and placed us in Christ’s Kingdom. He knew when He spiritually raised us out of
The Death Realm, forgiving all our sins, and Christ Baptised us with God’s own
Spirit, so God then Baptised us into The Spiritual Body of Christ, where He
places all those so Baptised. This
being carried out, He then confirms the work done for us by his Son, and
declares “Jesus is Lord”, which is expressed in the Spiritual Language of God’s
Kingdom and so then God and Christ look forward to the believer partaking of
His Cup of The New Covenant Promises.
It is God
and Christ’s knowledge of where each of us is spiritually, that is recorded in
His Books. Whether we are in The Courts
of His Temple/ Kingdom of Christ: or The Sanctuaries / ’In Christ.’ God
knows with whom He can share His Holy Offerings and Holy Things and
those with whom He cannot, as they believe Jesus to be God.
These
privileges will be called to account by Christ when he judges the church.
1
Thessalonians 4: 16 2 Corinthians 5:
10 Matthew 7: 21-23 Hebrews Chp 6.
Revelation
2: 23 Romans 8: 26-27 1
Corinthians 12: 3 John 15: 26
Leviticus
Chps 1- 7 Exodus 30: 17-21 Galatians 4: 6 Colossians 1: 13-14
Matthew
13: 37-40 Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13 Matthew 13: 47-50 1 Corinthians 12: 3-18
Matthew 15: 13 Ephesians
4: 5-6 Colossians 1: 27-28
Revelation 2: 23 Revelation 13:
8 Revelation 3: 5
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THIS
IS TO BE REMEMBERED:
The
Continuing Power of Communion is its connection to the use of “The Name of
Jesus” as The Bread presents, and is to display Jesus’ full work which is what “his
Name” means ; and is an integral part of the Gospel of God and Christ.
It
declares that we are in communion with the work of God and Christ and in agreement with all that their work
personally means, as we use his Name, and believe it to be powerful against ALL
who are God’s enemies.
Philippians
1 : 29 - 2: 2 John 17: 20-26 Ephesians
6: 10-18
We are
to remember The
Bread is speaking of Jesus AS A MAN.
His body as The Son of Man
and The Son of God and the work that he did in these positions, which is on
going. We must centre upon this, in
order to understand how Jesus who had been with God in the Beginning, came
and stood in God’s place, as God’s
Lamb. And then exalted to the work as
The Baptiser with Holy Spirit, as The Son of God. Both these works which are for mankind’s Salvation is represented
in The Communion Bread which we eat as a sign of participation in his work.
As to
being God’s Lamb, this gives understanding as to God’s purpose that the animals
in the Old Testament sacrifices would
be man’s representative to die for the man.
Jesus as God’s Lamb died for The Father’s Purposes. This gives the reason for God’s set
precedence of an animal being accounted for in His Criteria of The Blood.
Genesis
9:5-6 Leviticus Chps 1-7
We are
to remember that We know that we have a New Name,
and look forward to the time when those who overcome, Christ will make them
a Pillar in the Temple of his God, because we did the will of God The
Father, which is His Criteria to inherit Eternal Life. We will be judged as to what ‘remains in us’
of God and Christ, which is The Criteria for our transformation into The
Likeness of Christ.
Revelation
3: 11-12 1 John 5: 1-5 John 5: 17
Matthew 7: 21-23 1 John 2:
24-25
John
15: Ephesians 3: 14-19 1 Corinthians 13: 12 2 Corinthians 3: 17-18
We are
to remember Christ has shared his inheritance with those In Christ, calling
them co-heirs with him. He calls us his
friends and his brothers who have fulfilled the commands given by him from God
to us. This especially pertains to
being Baptised with Holy Spirit which is possible if we obey Christ’s
commandments to love one another and forgive each other. To neglect Baptism, one will be condemned.
***God is
saying to those who are concerned as to their inheritance being available to
them “You must be alive to inherit!”
Those who are still in Death cannot inherit.
Therefore
it is so vital [in this life] to choose
to be Baptised with The Spirit of God as one thereby ‘chooses life’ and so be Born
Again, and to be In Christ, in order to fulfil our obligations to God, to shed
our blood, that is to give our ’total lives’ to Him.
John 3: 3-6
1 Corinthians 12: 18 Colossians 1: 28 Romans 12: 1-2 Mark 16: 14-18
Ezekiel 46: 16-18 Hebrews 2: 11 John 14: 13-15 John
13: 34 Acts 1:4-5 John 20:23
AT THE
TIME OF OUR COMMUNION.
The
communion is a celebration as partakers of The Cup of The New Covenant which is
God’s gift to those who continually obey His Will.
The
given Cup of The New Covenant given by God to us, is the confirmation of
Christ’s obedience and so we drink because of our obedience to Christ’s work,
as Lamb of God and as Baptiser with Holy Spirit, giving a constant recognition
of all that God has planned and
purposed for us.
Communion
is a celebration of the reality OF KNOWING GOD AND CHRIST, IN US BY THEIR
SPIRITS. John 14: 23
It is
IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT, The bread remains bread, remembering that it represents Christ’s works that he did in his
body. The Cup is physical, but
spiritual as we remember what God has promised us.
The Spiritual
reality of Communion IS IN THE BELIEVER WHO AS A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST,
DECLARES THE ELEMENTS, TO BE SYMBOLICAL OF GOD’S WORK TO US THROUGH CHRIST.
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THE
BOOK OF HEBREWS; THE SUBSTANCE OF COMMUNION.
In Jesus’
establishing a remembrance of himself by
the celebration of Communion we have the book of Hebrews which fortifies
all that we are to remember, in communion about Christ which is unprecedented in other New
Testament Epistles.
The
message of remembrance, to be in Communion, is not to expect a Spiritual work
to be done, which has already been accomplished and fulfilled.
Romans 8:
10 accomplished by faith in Jesus as God’s Lamb for man’s sin. Col. 1: 27
Romans 8:
11 accomplished by faith in Christ as Baptiser with Holy Spirit Col. 1: 28
John
14 15-23
We are
to celebrate, but Communion Promises there are warnings for us who are the
church, the called out ones.
The book
of Hebrews which was written to Jewish Christians, who through faith in
Christ’s full work, are ‘In Christ’ and are called the Church and so the message of Hebrews is for the church ;
God’s Promises and His warnings.
Hebrews displays for us, Jesus, the one out of
heaven, The Son of Man, The Son of God,
Christ and Lord and our High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews
1: 1-5 2: 5-18 3 : 1- 6 3: 14 5: 5 - 10 7: 28
Hebrews
1: 1-3
We see
Jesus is God’s Last Word, to mankind, as The Angel of The Covenant, who came as
The Son of Man telling The Way to The Father : calling Israel to repentance.
John 14:
6 Malachi 3: 1-2 John 1: 1
Hebrews
5: 7-10
It
reveals Jesus as The Man, who knew what it was to be tempted, and how that he
knew ’victory’ by The Power of His Father’s Spirit.
Romans 5:
15 Isaiah 7: 14 Luke 2: 52
Hebrews
highlights for us the essential information of the sacrifice and the priesthood
system, essentially concentrating on the work of the blood, which is the centre
of the meaning of Communion, and the Cup of The New Covenant, and to those
under continual commitment.
Hebrews
9 : 11-15 Hebrews 9: 16-28
Christ
whom we are to remember, must be
remembered as The Pivot of our Salvation and of God’s Promises. While Israel had a great problem with
remembering and the disciples displaying the same fault : the church is not
to : but let’s face it, one can only REMEMBER WHAT ONE HAS ACTUALLY KNOWN BY
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OR HAS LEARNT, AND REJOICES OVER WHAT HAS BEEN MADE
KNOWN. Hebrews 3: 14
Such
great privileges carry responsibility, and responsibility always carries
warnings of not to neglect those
responsibilities.
Hebrews 6
: 11-16
In coming
to the cross by faith and Baptism with Holy Spirit and Fire, they can be seen
as antidotes, as experiences known at the time, WHICH WE ARE NEVER TO FORGET
to whom we have been brought.
The
warning of Hebrews, is relevant to Communion which is :
“ We
have come to share ‘In Christ,’ if we hold firmly to the end the confidence we
had at first.”
The
church in Ephesus, noted in Revelation, failed to do this.
Hebrews
2: 14 1 Corinthians 10: 14-17 Colossians 2: 23 Revelation Chps 2-3
Hebrews
2: 4
All
mankind is to take note, if they would escape judgement of eternal
proportions, and in particular the church who has had the message confirmed by
signs and wonders, which are to continue.
Mark
16: 14-18 Hebrews 10: 26
Hebrews
2: 10-11 Hebrews 3
We are to
know Jesus who calls us brothers, who was faithful to God’s appointments as The
Son of Man, when God manifested Himself by His Spirit through Jesus. This is what is expected of us as Sons of
God to do the ’greater’ things, Jesus said that we would do. Jesus was truly
God’s exact representation, and the radiance of God’s Glory as he revealed his
God, and Father. God, by His Spirit, doing His works through Christ.
Hebrews
1: 2-3 John 14: 10-11 Colossians 1: 19 1 John
5: 1-5 John 14: 10-11
Hebrews
6 We are to remember that God is very
determined as to who WILL NOT ENTER HIS REST.
AGAIN, AGAIN AND AGAIN we see exhortations and warnings to those called
the church - those In Christ- those Baptised with Holy Spirit.
These
are warnings
for those who have not taken Christ’s full work which God has ordained as His
Way to Himself.
Hebrews
10: 14 Hebrews 5: 6-11
Hebrews 6
and 12,
are the
encouragement to go on to have ‘Faith in God’ and to enjoy with assurance God’s
faithfulness to His Promises, which The Holy Ones basked in, and so with them
we shall enter The Promised Rest of God, in His Eternal Kingdom, with Christ
His Son IF we continue.
Hebrews Chps 7 -10 exalt Jesus as Melchizedek, The
High Priest of The New Covenant.
We see
the work of the blood of Christ, who offered himself unblemished to God as a
Sacrifice that shall never be repeated, for those who have known its work. This
is the seriousness of Communion.
Hebrews
10: 18
Hebrews
11: 16-40
God is not
ashamed to be called their God for He has prepared a City for them and for us.
We wait together to enter that Eternal City, The Kingdom of God.
We are
to carry out this remembrance with great awe, of not only what he has done for
His Father but to what The Father has exalted him to be.
We
remember Christ through the means of communion, but always remembering that
all praise and thanks for all things must go to God The Father, from whom we
have received The Cup of the New Covenant.
Those ’In Christ’ who are called to shed their blood, by the giving of
their lives to God, not in order to obtain the work of the Cross and of
Baptism, by good works, but “that we ‘work out’ our salvation as Sons of God,
with fear and trembling.”
We are
to be ever growing in God’s teaching of righteousness, renewing our minds by
changing our wills to the doing of God’s will.
Ephesians
5: 20 Hebrews 5: 13-14 Hebrews
12: 5-13 Hebrews 10:32-35 Hebrews 12:22- 28
Communion
exhorts us in our remembrance of Christ to be like him, who it was declared
of him saying in Psalm 45 and quoted in
Hebrews 1: 8
YOUR THRONE O GOD WILL LAST
FOREVER:
This
is Jesus’ cry, for His God and Father, and it is to be ours, as we remember the
aims of Jesus, when coming to
Communion.
Ephesians
1: 17 I keep asking that the God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, The Glorious
Father,
may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him
better.
Hebrews
13: 20 “May The God of Peace who
through the blood of The Eternal Covenant brought back from the dead, our Lord
Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for
doing His will, and may He work in us what is pleasing to Him through Jesus
Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen.
THIS IS COMMUNION.
Scripture
used N.I.V.
Communion
is a strong Spiritual declaration of
Belief:
Because
Our Communion is with
GOD
AND CHRIST 1 John 1:3
As
we know, we shall be known,
By
GOD AND CHRIST
1
Corinthians 13 : 11-12
THE
SPIRITUAL TEMPLE OF GOD.
WHERE ARE YOU?