The Lord’s Supper is a prophetic sign of the past, present and future in the kingdom of God, involving our physical partaking and spiritual participation. Since it is a prophetic sign, we need our eyes opened by the Holy Spirit in order to see, hear and feel more than bread and wine in it. The Holy Spirit dwells in all who trust in Jesus.
The words breaking of bread signify eating together with one another in reverence and harmony with the Lord. Jesus broke bread during the Passover meal with His disciples and turned that Old Covenant feast into the prophetic sign of the New Covenant. We call this sign the Last Supper, the Lord’s Supper, a Love/agape feast, Breaking of Bread, Eucharist or Communion, Those are words of rich relationships in Christ Jesus with one another.
Messiah Jesus spoke words of spirit and words of eternal life that the eyes of our understanding must see more clearly. I am writing this because the Lord’s Supper is seldom celebrated as a supper. This has led to erosion of our one another relationships before the Lord. The supper is meant to involve one … [Read more…]
Passover was the day Jesus was crucified. God established the Feast of Passover to avert the plague of death for His people Israel around 1446 BC. He was about to inflict that plague on Egypt to get Pharaoh to release His people from captivity. The plague Moses said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About … [Read more…]
That those who respected the LORD is from one of my favorite portions of God’s Word given to God’s old covenant people. It concludes the Old Testament in Malachi chapters 3 and 4 and gives us immense things of the kingdom to ponder. For, we are to walk before the Lord in righteousness, peace and … [Read more…]
God invites us to cooperate with him in the work of renewal, and his acts in history offer clues we do well not to ignore. 10 Marks of a Healthy Church. Combining elements of both the institutional and the charismatic perspectives, such a model of renewal assumes the fact and the value of some form … [Read more…]
Eat the Lord’s Supper is what Jesus was telling his disciples when he said “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you… “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled … [Read more…]
The Lord’s Supper, is a meal we eat and drink together with one another. We celebrate the Lord’s Supper as God’s holy ones, saints, gathered together in Messiah to eat and drink in remembrance of His death till He comes. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That … [Read more…]
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. John 6:63 ISV Unlike Nicodemus and all who were or are not born again, we understand spiritual things. Or, or as Jesus put it, heavenly things, by the Spirit, for we are born of the … [Read more…]
A Lord’s Supper gathering in your home is a special meal with a special guest—Messiah Jesus. This supper, breakfast or lunch meal is filled with prophetic signs of our salvation. Messiah Jesus ate the Passover with His disciples and turned the old covenant Passover feast into the prophecy in act signs of the new covenant. … [Read more…]
The roots of breaking bread with family began when God commanded the Israelites, “remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy” (Ex 20:8). The sabbath day was a sign of God’s Mosaic covenant with them. God rested from creation on the seventh day and He pronounced it a day of rest for Israel. Wherefore the … [Read more…]
The heart of early Christian worship was table fellowship. Throughout the first three centuries Christian communities gathered once a week for a meal. The Pauline model−an evening meal providing real sustenance and also in remembering Jesus: a multivoiced symposium in which all could pray and contribute; face-to-face relationships in a domestic setting−was still persistent 150 … [Read more…]