Chapter Five - The Christian Landmarks:
Section 4 - Christian Communion

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FBB1-5-4-01 Christian Communion - Introduction

Christian Communion, or The Lord’s Supper, is the continuing memorial of the sacrifice that Christ lovingly made of His body and blood; specifically, in the bread and the cup.  
The flesh of His body is figuratively the living bread from heaven that is broken for all mankind.  Likewise, His shed blood, which became the New Testament for the remission of sins, is memorialized by the cup containing the fruit of the vine.  
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FBB1-5-4-02 Christ's Fulfillment of the Passover

To fully understand the depths of Communion, one should understand its basic meanings as well as a basic history of two Jewish Feasts: the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Chag HaMatzot), and of the Feast of the Passover (Pesach) (Exodus 12:1-51).  Christ lived (fulfilled) the unleavened (sinless) bread of God and became the Passover sacrifice (lamb of God) for all mankind (not just the circumcision) to keep the plague of sin from condemning their souls.  
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FBB1-5-4-03 The New Testament in the Blood of Christ – The Cup

The cup that that Jesus refers to in His prayer in the garden of Gethsemane was the lot and fate of the Messiah, the ultimate Passover sacrifice. To memorialize the cup of Christ a person should not only appreciate what Christ did for all mankind but should also take into consideration being faithful to their own personal cross that they must bear. 
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FBB1-5-4-04 The death of his flesh on the cross

Jesus taught that He was the living bread that came down from heaven.  Those that would eat (partake) of His flesh (bread of heaven) would live forever.  In order to live forever, one must partake of the body and blood of Christ through obedience to water baptism in Jesus’ name. Communion is partaken of as a remembrance of the body that was broken and blood that was shed (Luke 22:7-20).  
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FBB1-5-4-05 The Coming of the Kingdom of God After His Ascension

An important part of the Communion story is the timing of the Kingdom of God.  After Christ resurrected from the dead and ascended into heaven, He prepared a place (John 14:2-3) known as the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:11-27).  This Body of Christ is also referred to as ‘the church’ (Colossians 1:15-20).  
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FBB1-5-4-06 Baptized into the Body of Christ

An individual may only be made free from sin and death through obedience to water baptism in Jesus’ name.  This is where the blood that was shed at Christ’s death, and His burial and resurrection are applied to that soul.  For a person to be a co- participant and abide with Christ, they must have first put Him on (Galatians 3:27). 
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FBB1-5-4-07 Eating and Drinking Unworthily

When a person partakes of the table of the Lord within communion, they are partaking in the remembrance of the sacrifice of Christ.  If a person partakes of Communion and is also living an ungodly life, they are in effect partaking of the Lord’s table and of the table of devils.