EAT JESUS AND LIVE THE EUCHARIST
16/02/24 14:09
Jesus wanted us to live from the reality of our inheritance in Him. He said, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. John 6.53 NIV. The Lord’s Table is a meal. As food LITERALLY BECOMES US so God in Christ becomes our very self. This is the fruit of the atonement and the effect of the incarnation - the core of the spirit of sonship.
IT JUST IS
The reality is that His life is ours. This is an already accomplished fact. It’s something to be lived in rather than striven for. You have it already. We don’t make this happen at the sacrament of Lord’s Table. Practising the rite multiple times will not increase what already is God expressed in you. This is already a fact. Just live in the oneness of you and Jesus. This is life in the Spirit and Christ come in your flesh.
GET THE FACTS
There’s something we must understand if we are to live in the fullness of God. Miracles, minus the incarnation, is not a full gospel. It’s no gospel at all. The miracle of the cross – the great achievement is the healing of our God-wound is. our foundational healing. The two have been made one. Not that we were ever disinherited. The plan was to achieve the interwoveness between ourselves and God that the trinity enjoy with each other. This is our inheritance in full.
OBEY THE CHRIST
Jesus’ command is to receive Him as our life. The result is, "My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them’ John 14.23 NIV.
Jesus’ signs and healings done to the needy when He was here in the body heralded this healing – the forgiveness of sins and the undoing of separation. In Jesus we have joined the Holy Family of the trinity. Don’t expect healings and gifts to achieve what only our gift of oneness with Christ can achieve.
We can be of the Body in name yet not share in our inheritance in practice. ‘But what does Scripture say? "Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman's son’ Gal 4.30 NIV. Why? Because they would not believe.
YOU OWN IT
Oneness with God is our inheritance. It is the source of bodily health, a robust soul, healing of emotional disease and infinite life in the present and future. The Lord’s Table is the sign that this oneness is paramount and ours. That is that you are a son not notionally but in spirit and in truth.
GRIP IT
You have oneness with God. This is your inheritance and normal state of being. Jesus said that if we eat Him we will live because of Him. Real life is found in eating reality. This reality is that we have been made one with God. Reality in person is Jesus. You don’t achieve oneness by doing the Lord’s Table. You are already one with God. The bread and the wins of the reminder of our everyday reality – that just as food and drink become you, so God has woven Himself into your being. Already. The Lord’ Table celebrates and reminds us of this reality.
IT ALREADY IS
To imagine that we make this happen when we participate in the Lord’s Table is to mistake religion for the reality. The reality is Christ and He is already in you joining you to God and manifesting as you where you are.
CHRIST IN US AND WITH US
This is the incarnation – Christ our life. Paul Tillich writes, “Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it: "The Universe is God's sanctuary. Every work day is a day of the Lord, every supper is a Lord's supper, every work a fulfillment of the divine task, every joy a joy in God. In all preliminary concerns, ultimate concern is present, consecrating them.”
Know this: You live an incarnated life. Christ your life is your daily bread, and you in Him are the sacrament. You eat His person every day and each day is a Sabbath to the Lord. You have a Sabbath life, an Easter life and a life of continual rebirth and resurrection. You are in Christ.
