As I was partaking of my precious Lord's Table with my brothers and sisters in fellowship, I believe it was The Spirit that brought a new thought to my puny understanding. In my usual thinking, the Blood of Christ seems to take precedence. But as I considered the Body of Christ in this Remembrance, I realized that first of all, (as in all of the Gospel writers', accounts) Paul mentions the Bread of Remembrance first, " and when he had given thanks (a crucial element), He broke it and said, " this is My Body which is broken for you, this do in Remembrance Of Me." He presented the Bread first and then in the same manner He took the cup and proclaimed, this is the New Testament in My Blood." While neither element is more important than the other, I believe there is an imbalance in the church's thinking. The Blood of Christ and His Cross is the foundation for so much thinking, and I don't mean to minimize that, for in that sacrifice, the guilt of our sin is washed away in that Glorious Liquid. But what Jesus says here first of all, is that His Body being broken is crucial to our understanding of His Purpose on this Earth.
In a very real sense, our Lord's Body was broken for us, that in It's Nourishment, each one of us might live in the hope and promise, "that in the fullness of time, He (The Father) might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in Heaven and which are on Earth, Even IN HIM."!!! Paul tells us in Ephesians 1:2-6 that this is the Good Pleasure of the Father's Will, and it is for the purpose of bringing Praise and Glory to His Grace wherein He has made us accepted in the Beloved. And all of this is His Glorious Means by which He is bringing us into the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself!!! (vs 5)
Paul proceeds to tell us in chapter 1: 16-23, that we are to pray that "the Father of Glory may give unto us His Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the Knowledge of Him, the eyes of our understanding being enlightened that we might know what is the Hope of His Calling, and what are the Riches of the Glory of His Inheritance in the saints and what is the exceeding Greatness of His Power to us who believe according to the working of His Mighty Power, which He Worked in Christ when He Raised Him from the dead and Set Him at His Own Right Hand far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world but that which is to come and has put all things under His Feet and gave Him to be HEAD over all things to the church which is His Body the Fullness of Him that Fills all in all."
I don't pretend to know how we can possibly be the fullness of Him that Fills all in all, but I know that anything approaching it, is by His Spirit of Glory of the Father by which He Raised Christ from the dead, and by that we are to walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:3-5) God's Holy Word says it, and I believe it. Therefore, we are not Baptists, Lutheran, Assembly of God, Catholic, or any other denomination If we believe in and depend upon only the righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ and His precious willing sacrifice in the Father's Will (Psalm 40:7-11) of His Body and Blood. We are His Body, and we have life in His Name only. Beloved, glory in this for that is His Church, His Body for which He died and was Resurrected. And never forget that He IS The Head of His Body. Never let any man approach that position or duty in your thinking or focus. By the way, the capital letters in this text are purposeful!!! For every aspect of ur God’s Purpose and Work is uniquely His and needs to be set apart in our thinking from our puny labors!!!
In a very real sense, our Lord's Body was broken for us, that in It's Nourishment, each one of us might live in the hope and promise, "that in the fullness of time, He (The Father) might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in Heaven and which are on Earth, Even IN HIM."!!! Paul tells us in Ephesians 1:2-6 that this is the Good Pleasure of the Father's Will, and it is for the purpose of bringing Praise and Glory to His Grace wherein He has made us accepted in the Beloved. And all of this is His Glorious Means by which He is bringing us into the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself!!! (vs 5)
Paul proceeds to tell us in chapter 1: 16-23, that we are to pray that "the Father of Glory may give unto us His Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the Knowledge of Him, the eyes of our understanding being enlightened that we might know what is the Hope of His Calling, and what are the Riches of the Glory of His Inheritance in the saints and what is the exceeding Greatness of His Power to us who believe according to the working of His Mighty Power, which He Worked in Christ when He Raised Him from the dead and Set Him at His Own Right Hand far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world but that which is to come and has put all things under His Feet and gave Him to be HEAD over all things to the church which is His Body the Fullness of Him that Fills all in all."
I don't pretend to know how we can possibly be the fullness of Him that Fills all in all, but I know that anything approaching it, is by His Spirit of Glory of the Father by which He Raised Christ from the dead, and by that we are to walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:3-5) God's Holy Word says it, and I believe it. Therefore, we are not Baptists, Lutheran, Assembly of God, Catholic, or any other denomination If we believe in and depend upon only the righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ and His precious willing sacrifice in the Father's Will (Psalm 40:7-11) of His Body and Blood. We are His Body, and we have life in His Name only. Beloved, glory in this for that is His Church, His Body for which He died and was Resurrected. And never forget that He IS The Head of His Body. Never let any man approach that position or duty in your thinking or focus. By the way, the capital letters in this text are purposeful!!! For every aspect of ur God’s Purpose and Work is uniquely His and needs to be set apart in our thinking from our puny labors!!!
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