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Communion, what does it mean? What does the bread and the wine symbolize?
I know what some of you are going to say: "The bread is the Lords body, The wine is the Blood of the new covenant... But, what does that mean, what does, or is the Lords body symbolize or represent or mean? What does, what is the blood and what does it mean or symbolize?
I want to understand this as I do not take communion yet, but want to, but not before I know what it means?
The Blood of the new covenant...
The New Covenant (that the blood and wine symbolize) is a/the promise that God makes with humanity that He will forgive sin (Does this mean no consequences for it? Do we have to confess/repent/turn away from/change our mind, about our sin) and restore fellowship (relationship, communication) with those whose hearts are turned toward Him. (who "Love", who's hearts love him and their fellow man, who have the "Love of God" in them) (Do we have to confess/repent/turn away from/change our mind, about our sin?)
But this is the new covenant (promise) I will make with the people of Israel on that day,’ says the Lord. ‘I will put my law in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. (The law of Love? Godly Love in our minds and hearts?) )I will be their God, and they will be my people’” (Jeremiah 31:31, 33).
Ezekiel 36:26–27, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.” (by Godly Love perhaps) Ezekiel lists several aspects of the New Covenant here: a new heart, a new spirit, the indwelling Holy Spirit, and true holiness...
So, does the blood symbolize or mean the new covenant, new agreement, new "promise" (in bold above) between God and man, written in blood, so to speak, or a "blood oath"?
What about the Body, his body, the bread, which Jesus says is the "true bread" that comes down from Heaven and gives life to all men who feed on it...?
Is it the "Word" or "Word(s) of God", possibly his (Jesus, God's) "teaching" in it's entirety, the whole of it from beginning to end? (Spiritual food, for the Spirit) Jesus when he performed the miracle of multiplying the bread and fishes (food)(physical food, for the physical body) said to his disciples/apostles when they asked about it... "Do you not yet understand, do you not yet get the meaning of it...?"
Then he said "Watch out, for the leaven of the Pharisee's..." Then it says that they understood that it was not about the leaven of the loaves but to watch out! for the "teaching" (that act's like leaven/yeast in bread, it "puffs up" people) (makes people overly proud, arrogant, haughty, on a high horse, judgmental, condemning of others, makes them think themselves better than others, ect. ect. so on and so forth...) anyways, to "watch out!" carefully for that, the teaching/doctrine of the Pharisee's, and many do this using his own words and teachings...
But, you, when you read his Word(s) do not get "puffed-up" like them, but be level headed and even keel, and by this discern the truth, which is why the bread that symbolizes his body is "unleavened" bread, right?
And does partaking of the bread and wine, mean that you ingest and "believe in" the new covenant promise/agreement between you and God and ingest and "believe in" his "Word" or teachings in it...?
Am I beginning to understand this at all?
Comments?
God Bless!
I know what some of you are going to say: "The bread is the Lords body, The wine is the Blood of the new covenant... But, what does that mean, what does, or is the Lords body symbolize or represent or mean? What does, what is the blood and what does it mean or symbolize?
I want to understand this as I do not take communion yet, but want to, but not before I know what it means?
The Blood of the new covenant...
The New Covenant (that the blood and wine symbolize) is a/the promise that God makes with humanity that He will forgive sin (Does this mean no consequences for it? Do we have to confess/repent/turn away from/change our mind, about our sin) and restore fellowship (relationship, communication) with those whose hearts are turned toward Him. (who "Love", who's hearts love him and their fellow man, who have the "Love of God" in them) (Do we have to confess/repent/turn away from/change our mind, about our sin?)
But this is the new covenant (promise) I will make with the people of Israel on that day,’ says the Lord. ‘I will put my law in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. (The law of Love? Godly Love in our minds and hearts?) )I will be their God, and they will be my people’” (Jeremiah 31:31, 33).
Ezekiel 36:26–27, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.” (by Godly Love perhaps) Ezekiel lists several aspects of the New Covenant here: a new heart, a new spirit, the indwelling Holy Spirit, and true holiness...
So, does the blood symbolize or mean the new covenant, new agreement, new "promise" (in bold above) between God and man, written in blood, so to speak, or a "blood oath"?
What about the Body, his body, the bread, which Jesus says is the "true bread" that comes down from Heaven and gives life to all men who feed on it...?
Is it the "Word" or "Word(s) of God", possibly his (Jesus, God's) "teaching" in it's entirety, the whole of it from beginning to end? (Spiritual food, for the Spirit) Jesus when he performed the miracle of multiplying the bread and fishes (food)(physical food, for the physical body) said to his disciples/apostles when they asked about it... "Do you not yet understand, do you not yet get the meaning of it...?"
Then he said "Watch out, for the leaven of the Pharisee's..." Then it says that they understood that it was not about the leaven of the loaves but to watch out! for the "teaching" (that act's like leaven/yeast in bread, it "puffs up" people) (makes people overly proud, arrogant, haughty, on a high horse, judgmental, condemning of others, makes them think themselves better than others, ect. ect. so on and so forth...) anyways, to "watch out!" carefully for that, the teaching/doctrine of the Pharisee's, and many do this using his own words and teachings...
But, you, when you read his Word(s) do not get "puffed-up" like them, but be level headed and even keel, and by this discern the truth, which is why the bread that symbolizes his body is "unleavened" bread, right?
And does partaking of the bread and wine, mean that you ingest and "believe in" the new covenant promise/agreement between you and God and ingest and "believe in" his "Word" or teachings in it...?
Am I beginning to understand this at all?
Comments?
God Bless!