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.  

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.  

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. 

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).  

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).  

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). 

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.  

FBB1-5-3-07 Enlightenment

The Purpose of the Light of God:  It is God’s design that a person must seek to find God. A person cannot find their Godly purpose in this life unless that person makes a conscious effort to find it.  God provides the truthful way by which a person may find Him, by spiritually illuminating this pathway unto Him.

FBB1-5-2-08 The new covenant - Inward Parts

God provides them spiritual spark of initiation to which, if a person notices and pursues, they will come into a relationship with Him that is spiritual and eternal.   The Lord would not respond to some because they refused His counsel and reproof within their hearts. 

FBB1-5-2-09 the new covenant - Written in Thier Hearts

God directly influences the heart through convictions.   The tables of one’s heart bear record of the engrafted Word of God within their hearts.   When conviction of heart is in harmony with the engrafted (applied) word, there is spiritual direction and purpose of the eternal soul.

FBB1-5-2-10 the  new covenant -  God and His People

God saw that His creation (that was created in His image) no longer had a spiritual bonding as it had in the garden.   This grieved God to point that He committed to destroying His creation.   In the heart of God, the creation of man and beast went from “very good” to Him repenting that He created them.   
Yet, God still wanted to have a relationship with mankind.   There would be a certain time in the future where God would reconcile the heart-relationship.

FBB1-5-2-11 the new covenant - Witnessed in the Jewish Perspective

To obtain the Jewish perspective, the Gentile reader needs to see through the lens of a devout Pentateuch (first five books of Moses) and Old Testament prophecy believing, Psalm & Proverb living - son of David. The thinking is that righteousness only comes through the Law of Moses and the covenant through the circumcision of the flesh, and that all Gentiles are sinners and need to be avoided. 

FBB1-5-2-12 The new covenant -  Witnessed in the Gentile Perspective

To obtain the Gentile perspective, the Jewish reader needs to see through the lens of a devout Pentateuch (first five books of Moses) and Old Testament prophecy believing, Psalm & Proverb living; Jesus following, Apostle building and grafted in wild olive branch person that is saved by the grace of God through faith like unto faithful Abraham.   Joint heirs of the promise given to Abraham by the foreknowledge of God. 

FBB1-5-1-14 God of Fulfillment

Matthew 5:17-18 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

FBB1-5-1-15 God Commits All Judgment Unto the Son

John 5:22-24  For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

FBB1-5-1-16 God Gives Power to Forgive Sins Unto the Son

Mark 2:8-10  And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? 9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? 10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)

FBB1-5-1-17 God After the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ

1 Corinthians 15:23-28 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

FBB1-5-1-18 God Abides Within Each Believer

John 17:20-26 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.