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; …
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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.”
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 !!!
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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.”
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!