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Seeing with the Eyes of the Spirit.
 

The Apostle Paul says: "Let me show you a more excellent way." "And now abide these three; faith, hope, Love and the greatest of these is sacrificial Love." (1st Corinthians 12 verse 31, and 13 verse 13.)

We echo the spirit of Paul's writings, and will attempt to put more light on the unseen Holy Substance of the Love of Yahweh God.  For,

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding.  (1st Corinthians 13 verse13 and Proverbs 9 verse 10.)

I know for sure, that we build up impediments in our own minds through the worldly thoughts of others.  There is a convoluted saying that goes, "we cannot -- see-- the forest, because of the trees" or in context is it visa verse, "we cannot -- see-- the trees, because of the forest".  The original proverb was written by John Heywood in his proverb collection in 1546, “You cannot see the wood for the trees.” Are we lost in the details or the overall picture?  Our view of the words 'memorial or remembrance' may be just such a stumbling block that prevents our understanding of the TRUTH of the Communion Words of Jesus Christ.  The Communion Words of Jesus Christ, as written within Scripture, could be relegated to have an insignificant meaning of just simple passing thought, or of monumental proportions, such as the Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, Grant's Tomb, or Lincoln’s Memorial or any other memorial of man's making.  All of these structures, which we can see with our eyes, are memorials or tributes built to commemorate the lives of dead men. 

Lets try to reason together.  If you can see only with your natural senses a forest such as the natural wine and bread, then you may never see with the eyes of living Faith the Only  Entrance into the monument of God's Love and Mercy within the New Communion Covenant Body and Blood of our risen Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. 

Thinking that we have already arrived by a quasi understanding of scripture, then our pride in what we think we know, prevents us from remembering the Bloody Body of Jesus Christ that was suspended from the branches of a cross.  The Roman instrument of the cross did not take away our sins, but it was the guiltless Holy Son of Yahweh God, Who, in His  Body of flesh, was nailed to that cruel instrument of death.  Yahweh God's Sacrificial Gift of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, was given by our merciful Yahweh God for the remission of mankind's treasonous sins committed against the Creator.  Through a person's Faith in Father Yahweh God's Gift of the crucified LIFE of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, then IN His raising to LIFE the dead Body of Christ, the dead soul of man can be reborn into LIFE by God's Holy Spirit of LIFE.  Nevertheless, the flesh of the called man that houses our redeemed soul remains a problem, and so in God's New Blood Covenant, the Incarnate WORD of the Father says "Do this in Remembrance of Me".  Without the partaking of the whole of the Communion Memorial, in living faith, we may remain as naturally self centered individuals, and may never experience God's approving countenance, and His waiting expectancy for the unity of hearts, within all of the dead members within the One Body of Jesus Christ.

The Sin of Adam, by its very nature of corruption of life, brings about the inevitable promise of death to all of Adam kind.   Yahweh Elohim, the Creator of the universe, is not a party to sin and its reward of death, for HE is the HOLY LORD GOD of the Living, and is Eternally separated from the corruption of sin and death.  Because of Adam's rebellious sin that breads death, Because of the corruption of sin with death, HOLY Yahweh God's Spirit of LIFE withdrew Himself from Adam and his wife Ishshah.  Now the soul of rebellious Man kind, is absent of Yahweh's Spirit of Holiness and LIFE.  Therefore, the dead of all of genetic man kind can not save themselves from their own rebellious sin's of death.  The free will of mankind would declare their allegiance to themselves, and now with the absence of the leading of Holy God's Spirit of LIFE, their self centered choice was already established in all of genetic mankind with their sin being the inevitable cause of  death.

Sin and death came by the first Man, we call Adam.  From timeless Eternity, the timeless Wisdom of Yahweh Elohim, had already determined the plight of man kind.  In Yahweh God's Justice,  the rebellious sin of the first Man Adam that brought forth death to mankind, must be paid for by the absolute righteousness of a Man of Adam's genetic kind. The gross imperfection of the first Man, Adam, that brought death to mankind, must be paid for by the absolute Perfection of the Last Adam that would give LIFE to the dead of mankind.

Our Living Faith, is in Yahweh God's New Covenant in the Blood of  Jesus Christ.  We are to understand that the New Blood Covenant is to be IN Unity with Yeshua haMashiach  and the Will of His Father Yahweh God.  That which is Spoken by the WORD, enables the one of Faith, to see more clearly through the forest of wooden trees.  The very LIFE of Christ is made manifest with our consuming of God's Sacrificial Offering of both the dead Flesh of the Son of Man and the LIFE giving Blood of our Risen Savior and Lord.

" Do This IN Remembrance of Me". 

To receive a better understanding of our Communion with God, please study in the box enclosure the transliteration of the English word “remembrance”, derived from the Greek word “anamnesis”.  We sinners are forgetful hearers of the necessary Words' of God's New Covenant in the Sanctifying Blood of His only Begotten Son Jesus Christ.  If we are left to the stubborn ignorance within our spirits of a vacillating minds, then we may loose the WAY and find ourselves on the outside of TRUTH, looking for our own entrance into the Kingdom of God.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, King James Version.
Greek Transliteration for Remembrance  

364. ANAMNESIS {an-am'-nay-sis} from 363 to bring to mind again.

Word Origin: from 0363.

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Definition:  a remembering, recollection, (bringing again)

Translation Words: (4 times) in KJV:  remembrance 3, remembrance again 1.

 

363: anamimneako;
from 303 and 3403; to remind; to recall, call to mind, (bring to, call to, put in re-member-brance. 

 303:  ana;
It often means by implication repetition, intensity, rehearsal, etcetera.

3403: mimneako ;
to remind to be recalled or to return to one's mind, to remind one's self of, to remember.

3415: mnaomai;
Middle, of derivation of 3306 or perhaps of the base of 3145 (through the idea of fixture in the mind or of mental grasp); to bear in mind, recollect; by implication to reward or punish; to be mindful, to remember, to come, (to have) in remembrance. Compare 3403.

3145: massaomai; 
From a primary. masso (to handle or squeeze; to chew; to gnaw.)

3306: meno;
 A primary verb; to stay (in a given place, state relation or expectancy); to abide, to continue, to dwell, to endure, to be present, to remain, to stand, to tarry.

 

The Greek word "anamnesis", is transliterated in English to "Remembrance", and has the implication of Yahweh God's Communion TRUTH being done often for the forgetful believing members of Faith, who are dead because of sin and are to remember that they are all members that are to be dead to sin IN the One BODY of CHRIST.  Remember that sin causes death, and because of our sin, the sinless Yeshua/Jesus was made to be sin and death for all of us sinners.   Our Communion in the set apart unleavened Bread and Wine is to maintain within the forgetful minds of professed believer's that the Lord's sinless Sacrificial Death was because of our sin and death.  Our Communion in the Body and Sanctifying Blood of Jesus  the Christ, cleanses us from our acknowledged sins of this body of flesh, but is also to keep the believer in remembarance of Christ's faithfulness to Yahweh's New Covenant Word that Promises to the faithful believer, the Spirit of LIFE IN Yeshua. 

For as often as you eat this Bread, and drink this Cup, you do show the Lord's death till He comes again. (1st Corinthians 11 verse 26.) 

Every person dwelling by faith IN the Body of Christ Jesus, is to liken themselves to be dead to sin's influence, because the condemnation of sin has already brought forth the forfeiture of the life that exist naturally in their willful body of flesh.  If we live by the will of the flesh we shall die, but if we live by the Will of Yahweh's Spirit, we shall have the LIFE of Yahweh God's Spirit.

Sin and its death in the flesh of the believers IN the Lord Christ Jesus, is to no longer have dominion over the souls of those that are dead IN the One Body of Christ.  Why continue to live in sin, when sin only confirms our death sentence.  Sin and its workings of death does not exist IN the Body of the sinless Christ Jesus:  For with our repentance from our confessed sinss, then corrupting sin with its death is abundantly pardoned through the unseen LIFE giving Communion Blood of Jesus Christ. Now our transgressions will be cleansed within our minds of flesh.  In remembering that Christ Jesus died for our sins, we are also to Remember that in Faith, we are buried with Jesus Christ IN His BODY, and are buried with Him in our Baptism of Death into His Body.  Therefore, we are to understand that sin has already killed us, and we should conclude with Paul that:  It is no longer I that lives but Christ lives in me.  Why should I continue to do the will of sin, if Christ lives in me so that I may do the will of Holy Father God:  For by conviction by the WORD of GOD,  I am already dead IN the crucified Body of Christ, nevertheless by that same Faith I also have living IN me the LIFE of the Righteous Resurrected Person of Christ Jesus Who loved me and died for sinful me.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the LIFE which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of [Yahweh] God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. (Galatians 2 verse 20.) 

The Fountain of cleansing Water from Yahweh God's Covenant Word of LIFE is received IN the unseen Sacrificial LIFE giving Blood of Yeshua, for the Blood of the Son of MAN/ADAM, assures the resolute believer that in Yahweh God's time, they would be raised to New LIFE IN the Resurrected Body of the sinless Man Christ Jesus.   The conformation of Yahweh God's New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Christ is assured in Messiah Yeshua's Bodily Resurrection victory over mankind's sin and death.  Yahweh God's Peace and Freedom is freely given to all those who abide IN Christ Jesus, and enables the believers to rejoice IN our faithful God Who redeems His people of obedient Faith with His Promised WORD of LIFE IN Christ Jesus!

If we are taught and believe that we're saved by the Grace of God, then does that mean that sin has ceased in the flesh of believers?  Are we now perfected in the flesh, because we have heard a quasi interpretation of the Truth of the Gospel?  If you understand that the answer to both questions is NO, then perhaps you may understand with a little nudging that we are forgetful hearers or doubtful believers even when we hear the TRUTH of the WORD of God?  Hear the warnings of Paul, and then consider the errors that proceed out of the flesh of humankind!

I do not hesitate  to declare unto you the whole council of [Yahweh] God.  Therefore, take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which Yahweh's Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the Ecclesia of God, which He has purchased with His Own [LIFE] Blood.  For I know that after my departure, shall grievous wolves enter in among you, and without mercy shall not spare the flock. Also, among your own selves, shall men arise, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples that would follow them.

Therefore watch and remember, that during the last 3 years I ceased not to warn every one of the coming perversion both night and day, even with tears.

And now, brethren, I commend you to Yahweh God, and to the WORD of His Grace, for He [His WORD] is able to build you up, and give you an inheritance with all them that are Sanctified [set apart by His WORD of Grace].

If the reader is not pleased with any inserted interpretations then please investigate the KJ Version of Scriptures in (Acts 20 verse 27 thru 32.)   

Sin's dark coverings in our fleshly minds makes us falsely perceive of our own worth based on our own self righteousness. Oops, our perceived self righteousness leaves us dead in our own body of sin, and not dead members IN the One BODY of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Without the reproofing guidance of Yahweh God's Holy Spirit, then the stigma of sin remains active within the sullied mind's of human flesh. (See Romans 7 verse 22 thru 25.) The vile nature of sin within our minds of flesh, only amplifies the necessity for God's Sanctifying Grace within Yahweh God's New Covenant Communion IN the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.   Yahweh God's One Spirit of LIFE IS the administrator of Yahweh God's Grace, for He gives His renewing LIFE IN the Blood of Messiah Yeshua that gives Holy Strength to Christ's Body of believers. 

The Lord Jesus Christ did not give to His Ecclesia a nonchalant symbolic metaphor, as many church leaders may think and erroneously teach in their manipulated doctrine: But Holy Communion is given to Baptized believers as Yahweh God's expressed Word within His New Blood Covenant IN Christ Jesus for our remembrance of Jesus' death and conquest over our sins that separate mankind from Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh God.  Our worshipful remembrance is to be Rock solid in our Faith in God's New Covenant Gift, that enables us to be in right standing with Holy Yahweh God. Consider that our Faith in the Word of God is universally signed in the shed Blood of Jesus Christ, and ratified by His resurrection in the Power of the Word of LIFE In Yahweh God and is instilled within the Incarnate Word through His Father God Almighty. 

Therefore does My Father Love Me, because I lay down My LIFE, that I might take it again.  No man takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have Power to lay it down, and I have Power to take it up again. This Commandment ( Of the WORD of LIFE} have I received of My Father. (John 10 verse 17 thru 18.)

The Lord's New Covenant Words during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, are linked together as One.  The WORD of God goes hand in hand with God's Covenant Mandate for the believer to receive the New Covenant Communion LIFE of Christ quite frequently.  The Eternal Creator, Yahweh Elohim would know of our weak frame of earthly flesh, and had seen from Eternity, the necessity for frequent repetitions for ussinners.  The Covenant people of Yahweh God tend to forget that their old independent nature of corrupted flesh remains present and desires to control them.  But, Remember the Word of LIFE In Yahweh God's New Covenant of LIFE: 

This is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins; This do in Remembrance of MeFor Yahweh God was IN Christ reconciling the world unto Himself

When Communing with His disciples, at what is called the Passover Seder, the Lord Jesus, brought to a close the old Covenant, for while His disciples were eating the flesh of the lamb of the old Covenant, Jesus inaugurates the New Covenant IN His LIFE giving Blood with the Third Cup of Salvation. (Matthew 26 verse 26.) The same Communion New Wine Skin is tied to Christ's Ecclesia Body, that would be IN rehearsal for the marriage supper of the Bride, for the Bride of Christ is cleansed by the Blood of Yahweh God's Perfect Sacrificial Lamb of Yahweh God's  Passover. 

If we presume to think we are members IN the One Body of Christ and continue to live in sin, then perhaps in our absentmindedness we need to remember that we are not born again because of our genetic blood line in man, nor of the will of the flesh that is the will of man, but we are born again by the Will of Yahweh God Almighty.  And don't forget the Word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying,

Not by the might [of man], nor by the power [of man], but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. (Zechariah 4 verse 6.)

If we participate within this Living Memorial of Yahweh's Sacrifice of His Lamb given for the dead of sinful Man kind, then we need to remember that the dead IN the Body of Christ Jesus, are proclaiming the Lord's Death for our selfish desires and corrupted actions until the victorious Jesus/Yeshua comes again for His redeemed Bride. (See 1st Corinthians 11 verse 26.) Through the unseen Holy Spirit of Yahweh God, we are coming together to drinki of Yahweh God's WORD Declared New Covenant IN the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ. 

Although our Faith IN Christ Jesus has made us all individually dead members within the One Body of Jesus Christ, God has given each one of us His Gift of Holy Spirit, so that IN the One Body of the Christ of God, we would all be saying the same things that Glorify God Almighty.  So then, we are making a public testimony of the Will of God and we are in one accord with Holy Yahweh God's Sanctifying New Blood Covenant given for the remission of man's sin and death.  Through Yahweh God's Spirit of LIFE, we have each recognized the death that is in our own self centeredness.  Now through our eating by Faith of the One Body of Jesus Christ, we are to understand that each of us sinning members, being many,  are the reason that the sinless Jesus.Yeshua died for the sin and death of the many.  Now then, when drinking IN Faith of Yahweh God's cleansing New Covenant LIFE giving Blood of His only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, we have the Promise of LIFE IN the Christ of God.   Almighty Yahweh God, is the Giver of LIFE and is Glorified IN His Son of Salvation LIFE.

Now, as it is with so many Christian Communities of doctrinal error, if there is unbelief in the Creator God's Communion WORD in Christ's Blood of the New Covenant, then sin with its deadly errors in the flesh of mankind will persist with its unabated corruption.  Therefore, if Yahweh God's Word Sanctified Bread and Wine are left as lifeless elements without Faith of expectations through the Spirit of Yahweh God, then for a surety you will eat according to your callous faith, and your strength will be according to the dictates of your flesh.  The error is compounded in the unbelieving church leadership, for their teachings are centered upon individual self worth and what the unconditional love of their self interpreted god can give their followers. They lack reverence for the expressed New Covenant WORD of Yahweh God, that is inaugurated by the WORD of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. This is MY Blood of the New Covenant shed for many for the remission of sin.  As often as you do this, you Remember My Death for your sin. From the foundation of the world, this IS Yahweh God's Communion Blood Covenant, that the obedient and innocent Lamb of Yahweh God shed for the sins of the whole world of mankind.  (See Matthew 26 verse 26 thru 28 and Hebrews 10 verse 19 thru 23.)

Unfortunately, the same guilt can be said for those who participate in Holy Communion on a weekly bases, just because they believe it to be a religious duty of the institution they attend.  In the Roman Catholic Church, prior to 2003, and dating back to at least the 1200's, the affirming New Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ for the Remission of confessed sins, was not prioritize to the people of the pews.  During this time period of 800 hundred years, the confusion of expediency brought in the doctrine of Transubstantiation, where the Roman Church with its controlling powers, declared at the Council of Trent that the Communion of the bread, was now the combined flesh and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that the Blood, transubstantiated in the wine, was not necessary for the unholy communicants of the laity.  Concerning the Communion  cup, Vatican II, changed the Roman Church's dogmatic position that was infallibly established at the church's Council of Trent.  Since 2002, until the present time, with the discretion of the local Bishops, the Communion Cup maybe offered to all the communicants of the pews.

Paul, concurring with the WORD of GOD, writes: For as often as you eat this [unleavened] Bread, and drink of This Cup, you do show the Lord's death till He comes.  If we are to remember the Lord's death until He comes again, then we need to understand that the crucified Body of Jesus Christ was dead because of our rebellious sins against the good Will of Almighty Yahweh God. The Son of Adam/Man did not commit any sin whatsoever: Even so, His One dead Body was made to be sin for us dead sinners, for He was crucified to death to atone for Man kind's rebellion against their Creator.  Now then, sin could not hold the Holy innocence Lamb of God in the darkness of the Grave, for the Body of Christ was made alive by the Glorious Resurrection Power of the Spirit of Yahweh God Almighty. So then until the Messiah comes again, we are dead members IN the earthly Body of our Lord, but are made alive by the poured out Power of LIFE of the Spirit of Yahweh God that is One with Christ's LIFE Sanctifying Blood.  Yahweh God's Holy Spirit is IN absolute union with the LIFE Blood of the Incarnate Jesus Christ, for Yeshua was conceived by the Spirit of His Holy Father Yahweh God.   Now by the Faith of the dead IN Christ, Holy Yahweh God's Spirit per fuses the many members of the earthly Body of the Messiah. 

Jesus said: Verily, Verily, I say unto you; except you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His Blood, you have no LIFE in you.  Whoso eats of My flesh, and drinks My Blood, has Eternal LIFE; and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6 verse 53 thru 54.) 

Yahweh God is Eternal LIFE.  Do you still think that God's Holy Communion is an absurdity, or at best a symbolic metaphor? 

Twice in the Lord's discourse in John 6, we read:  "Verily, Verily, I say unto you". Those first two words "Verily, Verily" are transliterated words from Hebrew to Greek to Latin, to English, etc., and that Word is universally "Amen" meaning "so be it". We need to recognize with absolute certainty, that  the One Who  is saying "Amen, Amen, I say to you". is Yeshua haMashiach is the WORD of GOD in the flesh of Man, and His Witnessing WORD  is none other than the WORD of the Great AMEN Yahweh God Almighty:  

These things says The AMEN, the faithful and TRUE Witness, the beginning of the creation of Yahweh God. (Revelations 3 verse 14.)

The Words of Jesus Christ do not fail in one jot or tittle of the WORD of His Holy Father, Yahweh GOD, although perverse men trivialize the significance of His Word to justify their finite mind's understanding of the unknowable Infinite GOD.  The gainsayers of the proud flesh of man, do not create true Faith in the hearts of men, but color over the Word of God with their ignorance of the Infinite and the Holy.  Then, in John 6 verse 32 and 35, Jesus said unto them,

"Verily, Verily, [Amen, Amen.] I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread (manna) from heaven; but My Father gives you the True Bread from heaven". "I AM the Bread of LIFE: He that comes to Me shall never hunger; and he that believes on Me shall never thirst".

Then in verse 53 “Amen, Amen, I say unto you, except you eat the Flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no LIFE in you. (John 6 verse 53.)

Those that come to Jesus Christ, know that in themselves, they are dead in their sin, but the Lord has offered to those who hear the terms of His Covenant Amnesty, and the wise believer will come in full agreement to the terms IN Christ's Body and the LIFE IN His Blood.  They that come to Christ are obedient to His Sanctifying WORD,  Therefore Yeshua haMashiach says to those who come in obedience to Him, that He will in no wise cast them out of His Body.

Amen, So be it. 

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