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37. The COMMUNION Table

Each one of us needs to receive our own revelation & understanding of what Christ did for us on the Cross.
WHAT a privilege then to gather together around the Communion Table to allow the Holy Spirit to minister to us.

WE NEED TO CHANGE

AS YOU COME to the Communion TABLE… something in you need to CHANGE.
• Something in us needs to CHANGE and BREAK, that something can BREAK-THROUGH.

IF NOT – this can MOST LIKELY just become another ritual in our lives.

THE ELEMENTS on the Communion Table

ON this TABLE THERE ARE 3 MAIN ELEMENTS
• THE BREAD represents Christ’s BODY broken…
• THE WINE / GRAPE-SAP represents His Life & His BLOOD shed for us:
• THE CROSS is AN ALTAR – representing A PLACE for the atonement work of Christ,
a place of TRANSITION.

THE EXCHANGE at the Communion Table

THIS TABLE also SPEAKS of an ANCHOR-POINT of EXCHANGE!!
• You bring your STUFF – put it on the table.
• We bring our brokenness, disappointment, hurt, fears, challenges, flaws… our sins. We bring our needs, sicknesses and failures… and lay it down…

• In EXCHANGE we pick up the bread & the wine, the symbols of the victorious Christ… We EAT the elements. It becomes PART OF US as He now becomes part of our life.


Isa 53 :4-5

“4 Surely He has BORNE our griefs And carried our sorrows; …
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.”

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PERSONALIZE THE CROSS

• As we REMEMBER Christ ; we ALSO come quickly to REPENT of sins… we FORGIVE passionately… & GET RID of every hindrance!!
• We come with HUMBLE, penitent hearts.
• What happens here is not a ritual, a custom or religious action… IT is real!!
• WE do not only come to RECEIVE – BUT ALSO to ACCEPT it BY FAITH.
• You have to PERSONALIZE the Cross for your own life… making this experience at the Communion Table real to your personal life…

THE BREAD

THE BREAD SPEAKS of His Body – BROKEN, BRUISED, BEATEN
• We bring our BROKENNESS and LET GO… to receive something new from Him…
• We RECEIVE His WHOLENESS in exchanged for our failures & distresses.
• NOW we can step into RESTORATION by ACCEPTING His GIFT by FAITH.

THE BLOOD

THE BLOOD SPEAKS of LIFE, Forgiveness, Redemption, HIS Righteousness. It ANSWERS all the accusations of the evil one !!!


In Lev 17:11 it is written:
“For the LIFE of the flesh is in the blood, and I (God) have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls.”

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THE ALTAR – THE CROSS


• IN the O.T., the Blood of sacrifice – slaughtered, had to be sprinkled on the ALTAR…
• If there was no blood shed – there was no atonement.
• On the Via de la Rosa – the way to the Cross, and on the Cross itself, Christ’s Blood was TOSSED, SPRINKLED, SCATTERED and DISPERSED all over….
• It was done as God prescribed it… even in this extreme, harshest way.
• God knew how DESTRUCTIVE the sins of this world would become.
• God knew how much DEVASTATION our sins will cause to our lives…
• Therefore the punishment was so severe… the ULTIMATE PRICE had to be paid FOR us.

AS YOU PARTAKE of COMMUNION

AS you COME… I want to ENCOURAGE you to…
• ALLOW Him to touch, cleanse, heal you, set you free & bring you PEACE.
• ASK God to wash you with His Blood: “GOD WASH me WHOLE with Your Blood”

Something needs to happen here … and so every time and when-ever we draw near to GOD…
Christ said “IT is FINISHED” ; THIS IS IT… this is all you need!

COMMUNION – GOD’S LOVE FOR YOU DISPLAYED

The COMMUNION Table is the heightened symbol or display of God’s LOVE.
• This is the EPITOME of WHO GOD IS and WHAT CHRIST did TO establish us into the NEW COVENANT with the Father.
• A COVENANT of an ETERNAL RELATIONSHIP with the ONLY TUE God that is real in your life RIGHT NOW, TODAY.

• CHRIST is standing here… with His arms open wide:
“My Child…The Father LOVES you… the SON… and the Holy Spirit LOVES you.”

CONCLUSION on my contemplation at The Communion Table

As you leave here today… receive and take hold of His Blood that speaks life to you & KNOW that Christ’s BLOOD WILL help you to overcome!

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35. BEING SET APART / CONSECRATED / SANCTIFIED

We are being set apart, consecrated and sanctified:-

1. Firstly by HIS EXTREME LOVE for US

IN this blog we are doing a brief study from scripture on the principles of being set apart, consecrated and sanctified. If we look at PALAH, the Hebrew word for being “set apart” the following descriptions are linked to this word. PALAH stands for ‘to be distinguished’, ‘to be shown to be marvelous’, ‘to be separated’, ‘severed’ and ‘to be made wonderfully‘.

Luk 15:7

(7)  I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

Luk 15:21-24

(21)  And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

(22)  “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe(anointing) and put it on him, and put a ring(covenant) on his hand and sandals(calling) on his feet.

(23)  And bring the fatted calf(abundant provision) here and kill it (by Christ’s sacrifice), and let us eat and be merry(joy of the Lord-our strength);

(24)  for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost(destroyed, perish, marred, die) and is found(find, get, obtain, perceive, see).’ And they began to be merry.

2Ch 16:9 

For the eyes of the LORD run to and for throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal(full, just, made ready, peaceable, perfect, quiet, whole, complete) to Him.

2. WE ARE SET APART TO FULFILL GOD’S PURPOSES AND PLAN; TO UNITE IN HIS PURPOSE

Psa 4:3  But know that the LORD has set apart (PALAH; to distinguish, show to be marvelous, separate, sever, make wonderfully) for Himself him who is godly; The LORD will hear when I call to Him.

Exo 28:3  So you shall speak to all who are gifted artisans, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments, to consecrate (KAWDASH; to be/pronounced/observed to be clean, purify, sanctify, keep holy, proclaim) him, that he may minister to Me as priest.

Jer 29:11-14

(11)  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of PEACE (well, safe, happy, friendly, favor, prosperity, safe at mind, full, wholly, welfare, rest, health, perfect, salute) and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

(12)  Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

(13)  And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

(14)  I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.

Php 1:6  being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; 

Php 1:10-11

(10)  that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,

(11)  being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

3. WE ARE SET APART TO MINISTER UNTO THE LORD

WE come to the Lord to offer a sacrifice on the altar by fire. The offering we bring to the altar is ourselves. We are called by the Lord to bring ourselves as a living sacrifice. This means that we lay down our lives and this presents a sweet smell to the Lord. As the bread is pleasing to our pallets, just the same is our consecration a sweet smell to our Father.

Exo 28:41  So you shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him. You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to Me as priests.

Lev 20:7  Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

Lev 21:6  They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy. 

Lev 21:8  Therefore you shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

John Gill: “and the bread of their God do they offer; the shew-bread, which they set every week before the Lord on the shew-bread table, …, the “minchah”, which they continually offered along with the sacrifices: or the word “and”, being a supplement, may be left out; and so this clause is put by way of apposition, and as interpreting the fire offering to be the bread of their God, which being wholly burnt on the altar, and devoted to God, was his meat and food, and accepted by him, see Lev 3:11,” FOOD:(battle, overcome, make war, prevail)

Therefore they shall be holy; separate from all others, and abstain from all impurity both of flesh and spirit, from all uncleanness, moral and ceremonial; it being highly fit and proper that the bread of God should be offered by holy persons.

But God would not permit the blood, that made atonement, to be used as a common thing (Heb 10:29), nor will he allow us, though we have the comfort of the atonement made, to assume to ourselves any share in the honor of making it. He that glories, let him glory in the Lord, and to his praise let all the blood be poured out.

John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lev 3:16 the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, offered by fire, for a sweet and satisfying fragrance. All the fat is the Lord’s.

1Ch 15:12  He said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark ( presence) of the LORD God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

4. WE ARE SET APART TO PURIFY AND CONSECRATE ONE SELF

IN YOUR WOUNDEDNESS and AFFLICTION / SICKNESS & DISEASE

– An example of being set apart, consecration and sanctification is when A BABY BOY is being circumcised on the eight day

– A LADY AFTER CHILDBIRTH and IMPURITY has to sanctify herself

Exo 13:2  “Consecrate to Me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine.”

Exo 19:10  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes.

Jos 7:13  Get up, sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says the LORD God of Israel: “There is an accursed thing in your midst, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the accursed thing from among you.

5. WE ARE SET APART AND CONSECRATED FOR WAR AND AT SPECIAL OCCASIONS

Jdg 7:5  So he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps from the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.

Joe 2:13-17 

13 So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. 

14  Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him—A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God? 

15  Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; 

16  Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room. 

17  Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, “Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ” 

Mic 4:13  “Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; For I will make your horn iron, And I will make your hooves bronze; You shall beat in pieces many peoples; I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, And their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.”

Jos 3:5  And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

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6. GOD SANCTIFIES HIS OWN NAME and SETS US APART FOR HIS NAMES’ SAKE

I Will Put My Spirit Within You

Eze 36:22-27

22  “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went. 

23  And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD,” says the Lord GOD, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes. 

24  For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. 

25  Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 

26  I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 

27  I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. 

7. JESUS’S PRAYER TO THE FATHER TO SANCTIFY US – FOR US TO BE ABLE TO MINISTER & LIVE BY HIM; WHO IS THE TRUTH

Joh 17:17-19

(17)  Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

(18)  As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

(19)  And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Heb 10:29 Welcomed into His presence by the Blood

(29)  Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

8. WE ARE ENCOURAGED TO START FULFILLING OUR LIFE’S PURPOSE BY LOVING GOD FIRST & OURSELVES IN ORDER THAT WE CAN LOVE OTHERS

Mat 22:37-40

(37)  Jesus said to him, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’

(38)  This is the first and great commandment.

(39)  And the second is like it: ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’

(40)  On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

9. WE ARE SET APART IN OUR OWN ‘DYING TO SELF’; TO RISE UP THROUGH REBIRTH IN FAITH UNTO LIFE

1Th 5:23  Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Heb 13:12-14

(12)  Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

(13)  Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

(14)  For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.

10. WE ARE SET APART IN OUR DAILY MISSION

GO AND DO WHAT GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO DO TODAY. ONLY YOU CAN PERFORM THAT TASK

HEBREWS 13:15-16

(15)  Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

(16)  But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

:20-21

(20)  Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

(21)  make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

:19-24

(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, (21)  and having a High Priest over the house of God,

(22)  let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

(23)  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

(24)  And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works.

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33. LIVING AMONGST the LIVING

Upper Room Fellowship – Wednesday 02 FEB 2022

THE DEPTH of JESUS BLOOD – 1

1. HIS CONQUERING BLOOD ASSURES US RESURRECTION LIFE – That is to live an enfused SPIRIT-LED LIFE

LIVING AMONGST THE LIVING

IF….

IF LOVE covers a multitude of sins and …. and GOD IS LOVE – which HE IS!!!

If His MERCIES are NEW every morning… enabling us then to receive our Healing, Wisdom, Strength, Hope, Faith, Grace…. for each New Day afresh…

If the WORD is the TRUTH and ALIVE IN US…

2Jn 1:2
(2) Because of the Truth which lives and stays on in our hearts and will be with us forever:

IF….

If THANKSGIVING is the KEY to ENTER the Gates of His kingdom…

Psa 100:4 Enter into His gates with THANKSGIVING, And into His courts with PRAISE. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.

If PRAISE gives me the AUTHORITY to stand in His Courts to execute His Will…

2Co 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

If GRACE abounds where sin increases… for us to be SAVED from Utter destruction BY GRACE….

Rom 5:20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,

THEN SURELY HIS BLOOD has then…:

COMPLETED the UTMOST QUEST for LIFE!!!


Deu 32:4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.

  • His Blood ANSWERED all the accusations
  • It reaches the deepest deep
  • It Satisfies all the charges that the enemy can ever bring into the courts against us
  • It places us in an unassailable bond with the Father

1Sa 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.

  • It provides All provision needed to live this live IN Full, To His Glory!

2Co9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.

HIS Blood has power to cover the most adverse of situations, sins, losses, failures, difficulties, trials, challenges… in people’s lives

HIS CONQUERING BLOOD ASSURES US RESURRECTION LIFE

Mar 5:41 Then He took the child by the hand, and said to her, “Talitha, cumi,” which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”
Luk 8:54 …took her by the hand and called, saying, “Little girl, arise.”

ARISE CUMI – Hebrew H6965 qûm koom
A primitive root; to rise : – abide, accomplish, confirm, continue, decree, endure, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, ordain, perform, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-) rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-) stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure (-ly), (be) up (-hold, -rising).

ARISE – Greek G1453 egeirō eg-i’-ro
collecting one’s faculties; to waken, that is, rouse (literally from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence): – awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-) rise (again, up), stand, take up.

IT TRANSFORMS the LOWEST LOW to the HIGHEST HIGH

Rev 1:18 And the Ever-living One [I am living in the eternity of the eternities]. I died, but see, I am alive forevermore; and I possess the keys of death and Hades.

IT CONQUERS THE DARKEST DARK –
Those who are hell-bound, sickness stricken can say

Isa 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

IT REVERSE & REBUILD, IT STRENGTHEN

Jer 33:7-8
(7) And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to be reversed and will rebuild them as they were at first.
(8) And I will cleanse them from all the guilt and iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will forgive all their guilt and iniquities by which they have sinned and rebelled against Me.

IT CURES 12 years of unnecessary blood flow

Luk 8:43-48
(43) And a woman who had suffered from a flow of blood for twelve years and had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed by anyone,
(44) Came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His garment, and immediately her flow of blood ceased.
(45) And Jesus said, Who is it who touched Me? When all were denying it, Peter and those who were with him said, Master, the multitudes surround You and press You on every side!
(46) But Jesus said, Someone did touch Me; for I perceived that [healing] power has gone forth from Me.

Christ knows when you draw near & trust Him; when you make Him your ONLY HELP to do something for you

(47) And when the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came up trembling, and, falling down before Him, she declared in the presence of all the people for what reason she had touched Him and how she had been instantly cured.
(48) And He said to her, Daughter, your faith (your confidence and trust in Me) has made you well! Go (enter) into peace (untroubled, undisturbed well-being).

IT REMOVES THE BLINDNESS OF SIN ( mud) from our eyes

  • Nehemiah petitions God

Neh 1:6 please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.

  • Our OWN STATE of Blindness (LACK of REVELATION)

Eph 4:18-22
(18) Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded. [They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature].
(19) In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and reckless and have abandoned themselves [a prey] to unbridled sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity [that their depraved desires may suggest and demand].
(20) But you did not so learn Christ!
(21) Assuming that you have really heard Him and been taught by Him, as [all] Truth is in Jesus [embodied and personified in Him],
(22) Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion;

ARISE!!!

THE VICTORIOUS BLOOD of the LAMB ENCOURAGES US TO ARISE

2. WHY DO YOU LOOK FOR THE LIVING AMONG DEAD?

Luk 24:1-7
(1) BUT ON the first day of the week, at early dawn, [the women] went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had made ready.
(2) And they found the stone rolled back from the tomb,
(3) But when they went inside, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
(4) And while they were perplexed and wondering what to do about this, behold, two men in dazzling raiment suddenly stood beside them.
(5) And as [the women] were frightened and were bowing their faces to the ground, the men said to them,
Why do you look for the living among [those who are] dead?

(6) He is not here, but has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee
(7) That the Son of Man must be given over into the hands of sinful men (men whose way or nature is to act in opposition to God) and be crucified and on the third day rise [from death]. [Psa_16:10]

JESUS IS ASKING….

Why do we look for HIM among things that are worthless, stresssing about the things mortal and callous – (without the heart of God) – try to fill your lives with frivolity (superficial) & feeble things…

Why do you labour so hard at things of the spirit that is not spirit led…???

Why do you look for Christ – to experience Christ – amongst the things, programs, entertainment, pleasure, religious activities, things naturally discerned and seen or that is of the world…???

PRAYER TIME :

SHOW US LORD the things that we are wasting our time, energy, resources, talents, that is steering us away from your REAL PURPOSE for our lives
• Personally
• Church life
• Society
• Relationships
• Careers

FOR HIS BLOOD LEAD US TO OVERCOME

Rev 12:11 And they have overcome (conquered) him by means of the blood of the Lamb and by the utterance of their testimony, for they did not love and cling to life even when faced with death [holding their lives cheap till they had to die for their witnessing].