For years, I straddled the fence between victory and defeat.  For years, I let the enemy push me to the ground and then drive me knee-deep through mud with a whip to my back.  I wanted so badly to see the victory of God’s Word manifested in my life.  I heard testimony after testimony but had no story of my own.  I read it all, heard it all, saw it all and believed it all.  But something was missing.  I wasn’t living it.  It’s not that I didn’t want to — I desperately wanted to, I tried to, I failed to and I even got back up to try again.  I celebrated momentary victories — even if they were later washed over by an onslaught attack from the enemy.   I felt like a 14-year-old splashing around in the baby pool while everyone else my age was jumping off the high-dive in the deep end of the big pool.

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As I mentioned before, it was T.L. Osborn’s book Healing the Sick (chapter 33) that really brought me into new revelation concerning Communion.  And when I read this excerpt nearly two weeks ago, concerning what happens (in a physical sense) as we ingest Jesus’ body (the bread) and Jesus’ blood (the wine), I about flew out of my chair:

God has installed in the human body a processing plant which we call a stomach.  The food we eat is digested there and sent out into our blood-stream.  Its chemical essence becomes flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone, skin of our skin, body of our body.  It becomes part of us (page 179, Healing the Sick).

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For years, I have been learning more and more about the significance of the blood in terms of Communion.  But it wasn’t until recently that I realized the power of the body (the bread).  And let me tell you: What I learned has changed my life.  More about that tomorrow.  First, let’s journey back to the Old Testament to remember what the body meant back then.  If you’re like me, you’re thinking — but what did it mean back then?  That was before Jesus!  I hear you, my friend.

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“This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.” Those were Jesus’ words as recorded in Luke 22:20.  Notice that Jesus called it a new covenant.  The old covenant we were under (outlined in the Old Testament) was the Law.  But the new covenant Jesus was introducing to His disciples was one of love, unending mercy and righteousness.  And of course, when the disciples drank the wine and ate the broken bread, they didn’t know what we know now.  Yes, Jesus had warned them of what was to come.  They had an inkling.  But they couldn’t look back and see the Cross like we can.  They couldn’t point to what that blood or that body accomplished.

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