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Showing posts with label The meaning of the Body and the Blood of Christ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The meaning of the Body and the Blood of Christ. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 June 2026
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Letter to Arthur and Denise Blessitt
Arthur and Denise,
I've just come out of a hernia op after tossing
pianos for 30 years. Interestingly I was born in Ghana to British
science teacher parents with a pyloric stenosis, a
block in my stomach. I now have a scar from my birth running into
another scar where they did the hernia. I am a
human zip.
Why is this all relevant? Well a subtle change has
to occur concerning the Cross and the Church.
Watch this. In Revelation it says how the Word is
sweet to the taste, but in the stomach it is exceedingly bitter.
As a broad generalisation the Church for 2000 years
has taken the "sweet pill" of the cross, the forgiveness, the amazing free
grace
of Christ ....but as it was ingested, this Word was
never carried through all the digestion system. There has been a
blockage.
The church has had a pyloric stenosis....and who
knows...even a hernia.
Our perception of the Cross has been the blood of
Christ. But ask anyone during a communion what on earth
the bread is about, and you'll find everyone's
eyebrows become furrowed? Or at best some well instructed Bible
lover
will return a reply which is straight off the top
of his head. Straight out of his thinking, but absolutely no revelation at
all.
As a general rule, nobody "gets" Galations 2:20.
The I have been crucified with Christ bit.
Even on TBN you should be fine talking about the
forgiveness through the Blood of Christ, but go any further and you'll get
problems.
I have confidence in you guys, that you have taken
the Cross further. That it is not merely a forgiveness emblem to
you.
Jesus took every single one of us, every last trace
of the whole Adamic order into death in His Body. We were all
there.
We talk of God's love, but actually Jesus set His
face. He was ruthless. He so hated Arthur Denise and Chris that, without
asking
us beforehand, before we ever knew anything about
it, He pulled all of us into His Body death with Him and took us all to the
Eternal municipal
waste dump, and incase there were any signs of life
and struggle, kept us in His death for 3 whole days. He finished us
completely.
Then the Father made a sign to the Holy Spirit to
come and give life to His mortal Body. Only, Jesus caught us up in Him as
well.
And the Greek for "hidden with Christ in God" is
"interleaved" like the Viennetta ice creams Denise will know. We are so
interleaved with Christ
nobody has a clue where He starts and we finish.
And this is the meaning behind John 17. This is the Body death of the
Communion.
This is the anchor we have in Hebrews which means
we're gonna make it as Christians.
Except nobody knows.Somehow Arthur you knew. Cant
understand how on earth you picked that up in the States?
They know about the forgiveness bit and like a
sweet morsel of food they ingest that bit, but virtually the whole church leaves it at that. That is all they know.
Somehow Arthur, you picked up it was more than that. You see unless the Word
passes
right through us,and is fully ingested, the world
never sees Christ in Arthur and Denise form walking around. All they see is
sinner Arthur and Denise continuallyasking forgiveness from one Sunday to the next. And
this is why it is so hard to get more evangelists. Because, as marvellous as it
is to be forgiven, you are still the same sinners,
even though born again, and you feel fraudulent going around telling people
about a salvation that only half works. So this is why
Rheinhard Bonnke, Morris Cerullo and yourselves waste so much energy trying to
raise
up evangelists. it's exhausting.
Jesus has a better plan. Kill them all and raise
them on the 3rd day! How ruthless!
Yes, but how effective!. And 3000 were added the
first day.
But Arthur wasnt working up a sweat trying to raise
more evangelists! Nope. On the day of Acts Arthur was nowhere to be
seen
but somehow God still managed it!
Understand I have the highest respect for you guys,
but I'm just trying to sharpen you as you go round with the most
lethal
of all weapons....the Cross.
Chris Welch
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Clive Jackson from Shaftsbury Church visits Havant
Clive talked to us today on the same sort of subject that I was writing about at the bottom of the last post: PRIESTHOOD. A new definition. I explain on video how this relates to the subjects in this blog.
Similar linked material referred to on the video
Monday, 7 June 2010
Two deliverances Available at the Cross by Sylvia Pearce
Two Deliverances Available at the Cross - Chapter 4 of Treasures of Darkness by Sylvia Pearce. Downloads from Christ our Life Ministries
“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death
of His Son much more, being reconciled,
we shall be saved by His life”
(Romans 5:10)
There is a section in the book of John that really catches my attention. It is where Jesus says, “I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.” Also there is the passage from the Ephesians epistle: “To know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God” (3:19). These two passages challenge us as Christians to know total deliverance and total fulfillment in our lives today. Yet, if we are really honest, most of the Christian world would have to say that this is only an aspiration which can never be attained right here and right now. For we mistakenly think that total deliverance and total fulfillment are only really attainable in our future heavenly home.
Why did Jesus promise fulfillment if it is only a carrot on a stick designed to tease us? The one thing we all know about God's nature is that “He cannot lie” (Titus 1:2). So, if Jesus promised it, then total satisfaction is available to us today. That is why Paul prays for us in the Ephesians epistle: “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his call, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.” Paul is saying that we have an inheritance in Christ that we haven't even seen let alone entered into.
What we don't realize is that there are two deliverances available to us by the Cross of Christ. We Christians understand the first deliverance from our past sins, through faith in the blood of Christ. We realize the forgiveness of our past sins, we know our future is secure, and we confidently look to heaven as our eternal home. This gives us peace from
the past and assurance for the future, but what about our present tense experience? Can't we all agree that most of us live a roller coaster life of trying and failing, falling far short of what Jesus promised in John 6:35 (never thirsting, never hungering)?
What does total deliverance mean? I believe the Gospel is much deeper and broader than most Christians realize. We have heard only half of the Gospel, the provision of the precious blood. Never do we hear that there is deliverance in the precious body of Christ. I often hear Christians singing “there is power, power, wonder working power, in the blood of the Lamb,” but I have never heard anyone say or sing, “there is wonder working power in the body of the Lamb.” But there is!
Jesus brings out both aspects of the gospel when he makes this provocative statement in John 6:53-57; “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whosoever eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him. As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eats me, even he shall live (daily) by me.”
We know that eating and drinking are metaphors for faith. Faith is receiving what is available to us, and what we take, like food, takes and becomes us. God is satisfied when we take by faith (drink) the blood of His Son, because “without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.” Without our receiving that provision we are still in our sins.
But why are we Christians so dissatisfied in our daily lives? I believe it is because we have never entered into the second deliverance provided for us by the body death and resurrection of Christ; “Except you eat my flesh, you will have no life in you.” Eating His flesh means that we take the provision of His bodily death and resurrection as our present tense deliverance. The blood of Christ satisfies God, and the body of Christ satisfies us. When God and man are both satisfied, then we will never hunger or thirst again.
What are the available provisions in the “Blood and Body”of Christ? These two aspects of the gospel are symbolized in the Lord’s supper: the wine and the bread. The Blood of Christ, symbolized by the wine, is offered to guilty and hopeless sinners as a provision for our sins. Jesus Christ took our sins on himself and bore the full death penalty. This sacrificial offering totally satisfied God’s justice, thereby setting us free from sin. Then, by the miracle of the resurrection, Jesus was raised from the dead for our
justification, thereby, giving us eternal life. The blood gives us peace with God, the forgiveness from our past sins, and security for our future destiny.
Secondly, the Body of Christ, symbolized by the bread, is offered to helpless saints as our present tense deliverance. The deeper element of the gospel is that Jesus became the very nature of sin, which is Satan expressing himself as us (II Cor. 5:21). Jesus became sin and then died to it, and in his resurrection we are made one with his righteousness. There is a nature exchange, thereby exchanging our consciousness from a separated striving-self-sufficient consciousness, which is the nature and mind of Satan, to Christ’s own life as us. Christ didn’t come to improve us, He came to replace us.
The Cross (body death) exchanges sin’s nature of self-centeredness with Christ’s nature of "other love;" it exchanges sin’s consciousness of separation with Christ's own mind of oneness; and finally, it exchanges sin's operation of striving self-effort with Christ's own operation of faith, causing us to know oneness with Christ..
Let us look deeper into the full meaning of the Body of Christ. We can begin by answering the question, “What is the Body of Christ?” The Body of Christ is his humanity or his human-ness. My good friend Linda Bunting says, “The Jews deny Jesus’ divinity, while we Christians deny His humanity.” We know that the Bible says that He was God in the flesh, but to most people that means an all-knowing consciousness without weakness and human limitations. Somehow, we think that weakness and humanity are sinful and wrong in themselves, therefore denying Jesus' humanity the same way we deny our own. We must look deeper into the life of Christ to know that when God became flesh, he became as weak and as capable of human frailties, emotions, and desires as we are: He truly became like us.
“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death
of His Son much more, being reconciled,
we shall be saved by His life”
(Romans 5:10)
There is a section in the book of John that really catches my attention. It is where Jesus says, “I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.” Also there is the passage from the Ephesians epistle: “To know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God” (3:19). These two passages challenge us as Christians to know total deliverance and total fulfillment in our lives today. Yet, if we are really honest, most of the Christian world would have to say that this is only an aspiration which can never be attained right here and right now. For we mistakenly think that total deliverance and total fulfillment are only really attainable in our future heavenly home.
Why did Jesus promise fulfillment if it is only a carrot on a stick designed to tease us? The one thing we all know about God's nature is that “He cannot lie” (Titus 1:2). So, if Jesus promised it, then total satisfaction is available to us today. That is why Paul prays for us in the Ephesians epistle: “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his call, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.” Paul is saying that we have an inheritance in Christ that we haven't even seen let alone entered into.
What we don't realize is that there are two deliverances available to us by the Cross of Christ. We Christians understand the first deliverance from our past sins, through faith in the blood of Christ. We realize the forgiveness of our past sins, we know our future is secure, and we confidently look to heaven as our eternal home. This gives us peace from
the past and assurance for the future, but what about our present tense experience? Can't we all agree that most of us live a roller coaster life of trying and failing, falling far short of what Jesus promised in John 6:35 (never thirsting, never hungering)?
What does total deliverance mean? I believe the Gospel is much deeper and broader than most Christians realize. We have heard only half of the Gospel, the provision of the precious blood. Never do we hear that there is deliverance in the precious body of Christ. I often hear Christians singing “there is power, power, wonder working power, in the blood of the Lamb,” but I have never heard anyone say or sing, “there is wonder working power in the body of the Lamb.” But there is!
Jesus brings out both aspects of the gospel when he makes this provocative statement in John 6:53-57; “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whosoever eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him. As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eats me, even he shall live (daily) by me.”
We know that eating and drinking are metaphors for faith. Faith is receiving what is available to us, and what we take, like food, takes and becomes us. God is satisfied when we take by faith (drink) the blood of His Son, because “without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.” Without our receiving that provision we are still in our sins.
But why are we Christians so dissatisfied in our daily lives? I believe it is because we have never entered into the second deliverance provided for us by the body death and resurrection of Christ; “Except you eat my flesh, you will have no life in you.” Eating His flesh means that we take the provision of His bodily death and resurrection as our present tense deliverance. The blood of Christ satisfies God, and the body of Christ satisfies us. When God and man are both satisfied, then we will never hunger or thirst again.
What are the available provisions in the “Blood and Body”of Christ? These two aspects of the gospel are symbolized in the Lord’s supper: the wine and the bread. The Blood of Christ, symbolized by the wine, is offered to guilty and hopeless sinners as a provision for our sins. Jesus Christ took our sins on himself and bore the full death penalty. This sacrificial offering totally satisfied God’s justice, thereby setting us free from sin. Then, by the miracle of the resurrection, Jesus was raised from the dead for our
justification, thereby, giving us eternal life. The blood gives us peace with God, the forgiveness from our past sins, and security for our future destiny.
Secondly, the Body of Christ, symbolized by the bread, is offered to helpless saints as our present tense deliverance. The deeper element of the gospel is that Jesus became the very nature of sin, which is Satan expressing himself as us (II Cor. 5:21). Jesus became sin and then died to it, and in his resurrection we are made one with his righteousness. There is a nature exchange, thereby exchanging our consciousness from a separated striving-self-sufficient consciousness, which is the nature and mind of Satan, to Christ’s own life as us. Christ didn’t come to improve us, He came to replace us.
The Cross (body death) exchanges sin’s nature of self-centeredness with Christ’s nature of "other love;" it exchanges sin’s consciousness of separation with Christ's own mind of oneness; and finally, it exchanges sin's operation of striving self-effort with Christ's own operation of faith, causing us to know oneness with Christ..
Let us look deeper into the full meaning of the Body of Christ. We can begin by answering the question, “What is the Body of Christ?” The Body of Christ is his humanity or his human-ness. My good friend Linda Bunting says, “The Jews deny Jesus’ divinity, while we Christians deny His humanity.” We know that the Bible says that He was God in the flesh, but to most people that means an all-knowing consciousness without weakness and human limitations. Somehow, we think that weakness and humanity are sinful and wrong in themselves, therefore denying Jesus' humanity the same way we deny our own. We must look deeper into the life of Christ to know that when God became flesh, he became as weak and as capable of human frailties, emotions, and desires as we are: He truly became like us.
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