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Greetings,
Today, I again continue on the topic of communion, in light of the fact that Easter is coming soon. I am taking this from my book The Seven Eyes of Grace, Chapter 6. This is part of the audiobook:
That which was “shadow” in the Old Covenant, has now become “complete”! Passover has been made “complete” in Christ. The writer of Hebrews reveals this clearly.
Heb. 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—in the volume of the book it is written of Me—to do Your will, O God.’ “
Jesus didn’t come to invoke more sacrifices. He didn’t come to exchange the ritual of the Old Covenant for a ritual of New Covenant ceremony. He came to establish the Body of Christ upon the earth. Jesus became the completion of the Passover meal in order to establish the true bread of the Body of Christ and the true life of the cup of Praise in human form! We have been sanctified to God, not for further ceremonies and sacrifices, but to be the Body of Christ.
Heb. 10:8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
The obedience of Jesus to His Father fulfilled all of the requirements concealed in the Passover meal. He was the Lamb slain for our deliverance from sin. He was the fulfillment of the bread of Adam to give us the bread of Christ. His life was given for the bitter herbs of slavery and suffering in the bondage of sin. He identified with us that we might identify with Him. Jesus shed tears of sorrow for the captivity of all men, as was portrayed in the green herbs dipped in salt water. He exchanged the mortar of the kingdoms of men for the relationship of the kingdom of God, as seen in the “charoset” set at the table to represent the mortar used by Israel to build the palaces and pyramids of Egypt. He was born as the cup of Thanksgiving, lived as the cup of Telling, died as the cup of Redemption, and forever lives as the cup of Praise for all who receive Him in the power of His resurrection. All of these He drank in the “common bowl” of human flesh! He completed Passover and is seated at the right hand of God offering us the bread and wine of true communion!
Heb. 10:12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, 16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” 17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
The testimony of the communion that Jesus offers us is a change in our lives together as the Body of Christ. We have experienced His resurrection life in that we love God with all of our hearts, souls, and strength. We have partaken of the life of His living bread, in that we love one another as we love ourselves (His city). We are free from condemnation and shame (Rom. 8:1)! We must judge no one according to the flesh (2 Cor. 5:14-16)!
Heb. 10:18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. 19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh…
The veil that Jesus rent was not merely the shadow veil of an earthly temple. It was the skin of the real temple! It was the opening up of the Body of Christ for all to come in! It is a holy of holy place! It is a corporate place! It is filled with many members. It is filled with broken pieces of living bread. When those pieces come together, there is a fullness of the bread of the Body of Christ! We are bread with feet! It is our responsibility to come together to drink the cup of Praise. In doing this, we proclaim the death of Christ and the life of Christ! We enforce His victory and subdue His enemies beneath the feet of the Body of Christ!
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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