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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“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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