The most important thing to remember, as Christians, as to why we gather
together to share, participate which is communion, is to call back to
remembrance why Christ gave his life for the New Covenant.
Without this New Covenant, this New Testament, we would all be doomed to
the same fate those people faced on this earth before our Christ gave his life,
shed his blood to ratify the new and to do away with the old, thus giving
us the opportunity to obtain ever lasting life. See,in the old if we sinned, we
died with those sins on our head.
But through the grace of God who gave his only begotten Son. Through the
blood of the Lamb of life, we can now reach our eternal home with the Father
and Son if we cover ourselves with the blood of that Lamb.
So we gather together in the name of that Lamb, in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the son of God to remember why he gave his body, shed his
blood and it was all for one thing, The New Covenant. For that new contract
between the Father and you. We eat of his body, and drink of his blood...to
some this may sound pretty morbid, but it's because they don't understand
why Christ ask us to do this. He gave us the bread, and the fruit of the vine to
represent his body and blood... But it seams now days our breathern want to
forget why we partake of his body and blood.
The Bible uses the word "communion" when referring to the
commemoration of the Lord's death:
To read a direct quote from Paul to the Church at Corinth in (I Corinthians
10:16) ...Paul said, " The "cup" of blessing for which we give thanks, is it not the
communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break is it not the communion
of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that "ONE" bread.
Notice that Paul specifically said, "Is not the cup of blessing for which we
give thanks..." He did not say is not the fruit of the vine we drink the
communion of the blood of Christ. It was the Cup, (the single cup represents
the single Christ) the "New Covenant" that Christ ratified in his blood that we
give thanks for. Note: The Cup holds the fruit of the vine just as Christ's body
held his blood.
Now read on into ( verse 17).We find he said, "Because there is one loaf, we, who
are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf"
Did you catch the difference between the Cup and the Bread? There is one cup just as there is one bread.
The Cup contains the blessings we receive through the blood of Christ. The
Cup represents the new promise of God( in Christ), the New Covenant, which Christ
gave his blood for. The Bread brings us together as one through the body of
Christ. ONE CUP-ONE BREAD!!!!
These two passage clearly states that when we as Christians partake (take
together) of the one bread and the one cup we are communing, jointly
participating and sharing in eating and drinking the body and the blood of the Lord.
Figuratively speaking, of course. Since Jesus was physically and literally
there in bodily form when he instituted the supper as we find in Matthew 26
verses 26 and 28 when the Lord said that the bread "is my body", and that
the fruit of the vine "is my blood", so we are lead to believe that the word
"is" obviously has to mean ("represents"). In both cases we find in Matthew
and in I Corinthians, we are to use one loaf and one cup according to both
Christ, who instituted the communion, and by Paul, who directed the
Church of Corinth in the order and usage of one loaf and one cup.
When we as Christians, in any given locale, came together to make up a
congregation in order to jointly partake of the Lord's Supper, which consisted
of one loaf of bread and one cup. If we break the will of our Lord who set forth
these simple guide lines for us to follow in this one act of remembrance of
his death, willingly defying his will, we are subject to the punishment that Paul
warned us about in (I Corinthians 11:27).
And on what authority did he have to give us such a stern warning? Well just
read (I Corinthians 11:23-25) Paul said," For I have received of the Lord
that which I delivered unto to you (it was given to him personally.)
Let us look closer at the Bread
In Matthew 26:26 it reads, "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and
blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is
my body'" Christ only had one body, so He chose only one loaf to represent
his one body. In (I Corinthians 10:17) it states, "For we being many are one
bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread."
[Meaning that the one Bread represents the one Christ].
Knowing that to be the gospel, why is it that some denominational churches
can't seam to find this passage in their Bibles? They claim to be using the
same version that you and I have? I will tell you why. Lack of knowledge, You
have first got to mislead the blind into to following the voice of a false
teacher, convince them that the word, as it is spoken by both God and
Christ, is too complicated for the modern Christian to interpret. "Don't believe
what you read" they say. For the words have a different meaning today.
These words are over 2000 years old. We are not like the people were back
then.
They are like lost sheep. For If you know any thing about nature of animals,
and we as humans are no different, when one is lost in the dark, scared and
alone, desperately seeking the flock or the safety of their master, and they
hear a voice that sounds like the one who will lead them back, they will
follow that voice as long as it sounds kind and harmless. And that's what the
false teachers do. Start with the simple things like changing communion then
move on to more destructive things. Things that will lead you straight into the
busom of the great deceiver himself. They lead the Lord's lost flocks deeper
and deeper into the darkness.
They redefine the scripture, distort the true meaning and inject their own
personal ideas into the Lord's word. Basically rendering the blood of Christ
worthless and to no effect to them and to those who blindly partake of their
man made rituals and say it's the will of our Lord.
Now let us look at The Cup
Matthew 26:27 says that Jesus "took a cup [singular, meaning one], and gave
thanks, and gave it to them, saying, 'Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of
the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."
(Although it sound like the last person who drank from the cup was to make
sure he emptied it, that isn't the meaning of "Drink ye all of it"; the meaning
is that all the disciples were to drink from the cup [the one cup, not two or
more cups or their own cup] as Mark's account clarifies in 14:23, when it
states that "they all drank from it".IT, IT, IT... What part of "IT" do these
False Teachers not understand!!!?
And Jesus said " unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is
shed for many." The contents of the cup represents His blood, and Luke's
account in (22:20) tells us that "This cup is the new testament [ratified] by
my blood, which is shed (poured out) for you. There is only one New
Testament or New Covenant just as there is one bread and blood. To change
one renders the other worthless.
Now this my friends is just how they do it. Convince the flock that to change
one thing is alright. Let the lost sheep get used to the feel of the brambles and
snags pulling and cutting into there spiritual skins. They begin to trust the
voice is leading them to safety. After all he is in the Pull Pit and he wares a
suite and tie, surely he must be a man of God. He looks and sounds like a good
shepard.
This is just the tip of the ice burg. You know what is meant by that don't you?
It means you only see 10% of the real thing. The other 90% is hidden below
the surface.
The Command is very simple people!
Notice three verses in (I Corinthians 11). In verse 23 Paul said, "For I have
received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you," [it was given to
me personally by Christ] In Verses 24 and 25 we read that after Jesus
demonstrated how it was to be done and observed, He commanded His people
to "'Do This.'" He expects His people to do what He did. (We have no more
right to change His supper table than our neighbor would have to come into
our house and change our supper table.)
But these False Teachers will get on TV and Radio, climb into the pull pits
and teach you every thing from " its not the Cup that Christ blessed" to the
old law of Moses on Divorce and Remarriage and you will believe and follow
them if you don't know what is written in the word of or Lord.
The New Covenant that Christ ratified with his blood means nothing to
them. They are like King Herod at the birth of Christ, just do away with him.
Your salvation means nothing to them. They will take the word
FORNICATION ,stick some modern day definition to it and tell you that
Christ meant ADULTERY in Matthew 19:9. Some will even go as far as to tell you that
Christ was teaching the Precept of Moses. Proof and Fact that they place the
crucifixion of our Lord to mean nothing more than the crucifixion of any
man. So why should they care about those who they lead to there spiritual
death?
Its like there is a two prone attack on the scripture. Maybe it's just me, or can
anyone else see what is happening here?
First they take something that our God hates more than anything. When God
described a unmoral or hideous act against his command he calls it Adultery.
Did you know some scholars say it was the first sin committed in the Garden
of Eden? And these false teachers make it a sin no more. God hates the
adulterer so bad that it was pretty much summed it up in (I Corinthians 6:9)
My friends, once a sin always a sin. No where in this book is a sin pardoned
or overlooked. You must repent and turn away.
Second, take the one thing that our Lord Jesus Christ commanded us to do in
remembrance of his death when he said "Do this..."and make it into nothing
more than a Tea Party. Teach people to put their personal beliefs before the
word of Christ. Break down the work of our living God and destroy the will
of his Word he sent to save us from eternal death, and you have the
foundation of what was tough in (Jeremiah 14:14)
Now is it me or dose this sound funny to you also?
But what did Jesus do? If we take all the passages together (Matthew
26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:15-20, I Corinthians 10:16-17, &
11:23-26), we find that Jesus took a single loaf of unleavened bread, broke
off a piece, ate and handed it to them, telling them to do what He did. He
then took a single cup containing the fruit of the vine, drank from it and
passed it to them, telling them to do what He did, and they all did. Ever
thought it to the churches and to the people of that day. Then please point out
to me where I, or anyone has the right to rewrite scripture?
It is really very simple, and surely Jesus meant for it to be that way, because
The Bread, The Cup and the Fruit of the Vine represented not only His body,
New Covenant and his Blood, but it also brings unity between his people in
his name, in any congregation.
