The Crucible - Take and drink, all of you

The World is offended in the Words of Jesus Christ, and unfortunately, in their confusion, much of the assembly of churches lend to the offense with their faulty doctrines and judgments of imperfect Christianity. Many of the Lord’s followers of that day, after hearing His exhortation: “Unless you eat of My Flesh and drink of My Blood you have no LIFE in you,” then they then went their own way, being offended in the spoken Words of Jesus Christ. ^{(See John 6 verse 60 thru 66.)} The Blood of Jesus Christ is an offense to the flesh of man yesterday and today: And they mocked Him and His words saying: Who can hear and bear it? And now the Words of Jesus Christ will echo back in that great day of the Lord; "Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when He comes in the Glory of His Father with the holy angels." ^{(Mark 8 verse 38.)}

The unseen Power of our Lord's WORD is Eternal TRUTH, for Jesus/Yeshua is the TRUTH, and like a two-edged sword, the fullness of the Words of Jesus Christ cuts into the heart of our being, and exposes our nakedness in the Light of the TRUTH. Is it any wonder that the sinful world slinks away into its more comfortable covering of darkness? For the Light shines in darkness and the darkness does not comprehend. ^{(John 1 verse 5)}. Even so, there remains the doubting Thomas's of the church, Jesus (the Light) was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.^{(John 1 verse 10.)}.

If the minds of mankind have been made to be prejudiced with the lies of this dark dying world, then how can one be made free of sin's chains of death. It is written that all have sinned and come short of the Glory of Holy Yahweh God. But Righteous Almighty God, in His benevolent New Covenant in the Blood of Christ Jesus. will justify all persons, who will fully put their trust in the sacrifice of the Incarnate Son of God. For the Son of Man was sinless, and yet was made to be sin for the world of mankind and was crucified to death because of the sin Adam/Man, but in Christ's Faithful Righteousness to His Father God, Jesus was raised from the dead to the Glory of His Father Yahweh God. So then, saving Faith comes by hearing and hearing the TRUTH of the WORD of GOD. The First Adam/Man sinned and brought death to all of mankind, but the Last Adam, the Man Jesus Christ, Yeshua haMashiach, with His sinless sacrifice for the sin's of the world, has fulfilled Yahweh's Promised Gift of LIFE through His Spirit of LIFE to all that believe and follow the TRUTH of His Salvation in His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ.

Faith begins for the sinner, with humility that acknowledges that they are sinners in this world, and in their turning to the Lord for Salvation, they will seek to obey the TRUTH of the WORD of God. Then again, who among the saved has been made perfect of heart and of mind in their understanding and obedience to the Word of God? If the core of our understanding is perfect concerning the vitality of the Word of Life in Jesus Christ, then it must be that love is perfected in our flesh, and the sinful nature of the flesh is no longer an issue, and all is well in Christendom. Alas, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the TRUTH is not IN us. ^{(See 1st John 7 thru 10.)}

But, we have heard the Living WORD of GOD, and in our repentance have come to the TRUTH, Jesus Christ, then should not the hearer of the Salvation Word of God be a lover of the TRUTH of our Salvation? Then be doers of the WORD, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the WORD, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass (mirror): For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.^{(James 1 verse 22 thru 24.)} The flesh of our being is caught up in the deception of sin, and is forgetful of the TRUTH of Jesus Christ. If we are not deceived by our flesh, and are following the TRUTH, then we are being clothed in the Light of the Almighty's Word, waiting in expectancy at all times, to move in the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ at the sound of His Voice?

One evening, I was watching a Christian television program, and was listening intently to the stirring testimony of an evangelical woman of note, for she spoke of being saved by God's Spirit of Grace IN Jesus Christ. She continued to give her testimony of her early young life, filled with abuse leading to drug addiction, and later a life consumed in wrong choices of self destruction; that is until Jesus and the Love of God entered into her heart and brought a new beginning to the meaning of life. I was most impressed with the devotion of her words, as she continued her expression of love for Jesus Christ and His Father God. I went to bed that night, pondering the strength of her vocal testimony, with the great love she expressed for her Savior. Upon awakening the next morning, again my thoughts turned to the woman's glowing testimony of her love of God and Savior. In those moments, I began to question the reasons of why I would want to continue to struggle, with these writings that concerns our fellowship with the Lord's Offering through the Communion Table.

In light of such love, as expressed from this evangelical woman born of the Grace of God, then of what real purpose does Communion serve for the believer? I lay there in my bed and mumbled out softly; "Lord, I don't understand: If there is such great love for you, then what purpose is Communion?" And then I heard distinctly, "Yes! My people say they love Me, ----- but they still sin". Later, the marriage of this noted Christian woman ended in divorce from her husband, with whom she co-pastured a large church and television ministry. Both continue in their endeavors, but separated from each other in their own worldly persuasions of self ministry. It seems that so many who speak and teach on the Salvation Covenant of the only Lord God Almighty are those who can not keep covenant with their own spouses.

Sadly, infidelity to God's Covenant of Love has become common place in the liberal church, whose leadership dismisses the violent consequences of sin. Sin without remedy, even for the self declared Christian, still separates and divides, even as a little yeast leavens the whole loaf, and separates the cellular fibers through its gaseousness that always creates various sized holes in the bread. Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven, leavens the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened Bread of sincerity and Truth. ^{(1st Corinthians 5 verse 6 thru 8.)}

Sin is not inert within the flesh of a person, just because a person believes in God's Salvation. But, the sensuous lure of sin within one self has dire consequences when followed, and has its own way of disrobing the flesh, revealing a person's nakedness to the world. To the members of His Church Body, the Lord Jesus Christ says yesterday and today: Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. ^{(Revelation 16 verse 15).}Sin has an allegiance only to itself, and without a person's accountability to God, through the Almighty's Covenant in the LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ, then the wages of sin is death. But remember, God's remedy for sin in the flesh of Christ's followers is set as the ROCK of TRUTH of the WORD of GOD, This is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sin.

Just a note of clarification. The Body of Jesus Christ, which we eat in Faith, was slain in His crucifixion death because of our sin. Now in living Faith, we drink of His Blood so that His LIFE IN His Blood, gives LIFE to dead souls IN His resurrected Body of LIFE.

Its remarkable that the wisdom of man sets aside as symbolic, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus the Messiah of God, just hours before His crucifixion death, declared the Word of His Father, saying "This is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sin". Now the wisdom of the not so wise, have negated the Resurrection Power of the LIFE giving Blood of Yahweh God's Salvation. For all intense purposes, this negation of the TRUTH of the Finishing Word of Jesus Christ was negated by the ever so wise, even before Jesus/Yeshua haMashiach was crucified to death and instigated Yahweh God's New Covenant in His Own LIFE Blood.

The Dichotomy of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

"You must be born again of God's Spirit", is the absolute axiom for man to enter into eternal Life within God. The soul of man that was dead because of sin, must be given new Life by the Only God that creates Life. It is essential that Christian leadership establish this faithful understanding in all the churches, and that the hearts of God's people know it is fulfilled, only in a faith that is following Jesus Christ and none other. But even if God's Salvation into new birth is understood in the Christian heart, then why is sin still mysteriously present within our being? Oh, you can be in a state of denial, and say that it is impossible for sin to exist in one that is born again. But the conundrum is that the flesh of our being, is not born again of the Spirit of God, but has its own will that is at enmity with Holy God and the Spirit of His Good Will. The flesh, of even the redeemed, has not forgotten what manner of man we are, and will seek its own base level. Now, if sin finds you out, as it will, then what do you do with your sin when you begin to see your-'self' wallowing in its gratifying pollution? When found out, sin will always seek to cover its naked self with self justifying responses that divert any responsibility from our offending flesh. With sin being in control of our self justifying flesh, we are tossed about and lost in the confusion. Oh, the good that I would do, but for the evil that is present!

This old body of the natural man we live with, is a dichotomy of the good and the evil of self determining gratification. Self gratification is rooted as one with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that is founded in the Garden of Eden. The Creator of Life warned Adam of the deadly consequences of eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Apart from the leading of God's Spirit, individually or collectively, we are not capable of overcoming the evil root embedded within our minds of self-idolatry that brings forth death and destruction. Even the good we attribute to ourselves, is centered in self judgment that is twisted with deceptions from the very same root of the tree that forms evil. Very simply, that root is one and the same perverted root, whether for good or for evil, and the core of the root is confusion. That one root comes from the same old Tree of Knowledge of self determination of what is good or evil, being judged from ones own Idolatrous self centered perspective. Even in the flesh of Christianity, your good is not necessarily my good, and your understanding of evil is not necessarily my understanding of evil. Hence the inevitable human judgmental consequences: If I do not believe in what you believe is correct, then I am anathematized.

Through out the centuries, the leaders of the churches have a history of being complicit with either the 'good' or the 'evil' derived from the tap root of the Tree of Knowledge. In hindsite, we have witnessed the mixture of good and evil that the historical churches would judge to do for the sake of church doctrine based on their biblical interpretations of even of the WORD of GOD. The churches' declared doctrines were inevitably clarified with violence, even perpetrated in the Name of God. Is this not the human rational, "Let us do evil that good would come of it"? Holy blunder: The end does not justify the means!

With sin in the universe, evil perpetuates its rebellious self by justifying its unrighteous actions. It makes no difference whether it is Catholic or Protestant judgment. All segments of Christianity are exceedingly guilty. Historical Catholic Europe is guilty, but right in its own eyes with its religious witch hunts, conquests for land, inquisitions with suppression of ethnic groups including genocide, infanticide, murder, broken treaties with blood shed, and the merchandising of Christianity. From its beginning origin in Europe and coming to America, Protestantism is guilty, but right in its own eyes with its conquests for land, genocide, religious witch hunts, the Civil War with suppression of ethnic groups, infanticide, murder, broken treaties with blood shed and the merchandising of Christianity. We are all right and justified within our own religious myopic eyes, but not in the Eyes of the One Holy Infinite GOD Almighty. I counsel thee to buy of Me, gold tried in the fire that thou may be rich; and buy of Me, white raiment that thou may be clothed, so that the shame of thy nakedness does not appear; and anoint thy eyes with eye salve that thou may see. ^{(Revelation 3 verse 18.)}

This root judgment of the flesh, born from the Tree of Knowledge, blinds all of us with its confusion, and obviously is still rampant within all churches, beginning with the clerics, and ending with the people of the pews. Because of our individual sins, and the generational sin's of the churches, then for a surety we all have great need for repentance. Now with true godly repentance, we need to seek the application of God's Spirit of mitigating Grace IN the New Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ. It is through the Almighty's Comforting Spirit of Holiness, that we might receive needed humbling correction, and then afterwards be clothed in the unity of the Almighty's Love. For, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. ^{(Revelation 3 verse 19.)}

Make no mistake on this matter: It is written in Paul's epistle, and I have heard it myself as a rebuke coming from the Spirit of the Lord saying; "No flesh shall glory in My Presence". ^{(1st Corinthians 1 verse 29).} The True Worship of Yahweh God the Father, only begins at His Altar Table, with His Word Sanctified Provisions IN the Flesh, and the sanctifying Blood of God's Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ. The nakedness of our wanton flesh can only be clothed in God's Love through His Holy Spirit of Grace that is One with the Blood, that enables His people to enter into the Presence of God's Holiness IN Spirit and Truth. If we are led by God's Spirit, and when we faithfully drink in of the Lord Jesus' Blood, that is to say His Holy Life of sacrificial love for mankind, then we are renewing in our mind God's Covenant Agreement, which we have with Holy, Holy, Holy God. For Yahweh was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Yeshuah, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His Blood, shed on the cross. ^{(Colossians 1 verse 19 thru 20).} Our concurring agreement with God's Blood Covenant, is that we are participating in mutual fellowship, with the Lord's sacrifice and death for our nature of sin in unredeemed flesh, and we now live in faith and hope with IN His Perfect Love, by the power of God's Holy Spirit of Grace and TRUTH. The Grace of Holy God reveals a new Life of sacrifice, bearing fruit in Jesus Christ. Indeed, it is the Love of our God that constrains us: For it is the righteous Life giving Blood of Jesus Christ that is the mortal antagonist, to the destructive will of sin in the flesh of His believers. If faith is alive, and not dead in unbelief, then sin will not flourish within the Perfect Love that God gives in the atoning Blood of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Paul makes it clear that because of the Law of Sin and Death, ^{(See Romans 7 verse 18 thru 23),} that it is impossible for our sin infected fleshly minds of self preservation, and justification to ever be perfected in God's love within our own merits, and to be justified before Holy God: For the Lord says, without Me you can do nothing! ^{(See John 15 verse 5.)} Now with God's mercy and goodness, there is saving and loving Grace for the heart of man that seeks after the heart and mind of Jesus Christ! For, Yeshuah is the Perfect Gift of Yahweh's Love, and that Love is the the manifested Power of God, freely given to us, so that we may not boast of our own efforts, and yet bring worthy fruit unto Almighty God. Now, if we are in fellowship within the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and when we come together with the one purpose of Worship of God, then we will find ourselves in humility, gathered around His spiritual Table of Grace with cleansing reconciliation, which Table is set by the Light of the Word of the Lord, with His sanctifying Provisions of His Perfect Love. It is here by faith, where we decide Whom we will believe. It is here by faith, where our hearts and minds are embraced with the Infinite's Law of Love and Forgiveness, superseding the confines of ourselves, and our supposed understanding of the natural law and the order of all things.

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"The Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two edged sword", and cuts far deeper than we can ever perceive, even as we shall find out through God's Word in Leviticus:
“For the life of the flesh is in the Blood”.

The Orthodox Jewish Rabbis' hold to the belief that the seat of Life is IN the blood, where it is thought that the 'soul essence' of a person resides. We are in agreement with the Rabbis, for the Holy Word of God Almighty declares: For the life (nephesh) of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it (the life blood) to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls (nephesh): For it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul (nephesh). ^{(Leviticus 17 verse 11).}

In medical science, it is understood that the life of the physical body is dependent upon a beating heart that circulates throughout the body, the life giving strength of the blood with its multitude of physical properties including oxygen. With the blood's known properties, there remains the unknown. We would understand that the unseen life of the body is synonymous with the flowing physical blood. However, in view of the above Levitical scripture, we would like to extend our thoughts beyond the natural association of blood and integrated it with the unseen life of the flesh, which we know to be IN the TRUTH of God. The TRUTH is incorporated within the Jewish Rabbis' understanding of God's Word of LIFE that it is one with the soul.

Within the noted Scripture in Leviticus 17, we see in the green links that both of the English words 'life' and 'soul' are transliterated from the solitary Hebrew word 'nephesh'. Hence, the words 'life' and 'soul' are synchronous to each other, as translated from the one Hebrew word 'nephesh'. For contrast, the English word for 'blood' in Hebrew is 'dam', as distinct from the Hebrew word 'nephesh'. If we put the translated words in Leviticus 17 verse 11 into expanded English thought, then for clarity we might appreciate this amplification: For the life, (which is the very soul) of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given the (life which is in the) blood to you upon the altar to make an atonement (a cover) for your soul, (which is your very life).

In our endeavor to understand TRUTH, we are seeking to bring a clarification to the natural unseen life force of a creature, that is within flowing blood, and link its life force to the unseen soul within all of God's creatures. God made it clear in Leviticus chapter 11 that in His covenant with Israel that the soul (nephesh), the very life (nephesh) in the blood of the sacrificial animal would be a cover for the sins of the soul (nephesh) of the individuals of Israel. Therefore, from researching the Word of God, we believe that the unseen soul (nephesh) is the very essence of life (nephesh), of not only man kind, but all creatures will naturally have the soul's distinguishing life essence existing within the blood that flows from a beating heart. The soul holds the full essence of natural life for both humans, as well as for the natural life within all of the individual species that God created. For the record, we see in the book of Job that the scriptures associate a soul for the beast of the earth. ^{(See Job 12 verse 7 thru 10.)} In the Lords hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of every man. Now, if the reader goes to Revelation 16 verse 3, then Scriptures will also reveal that all of the unnamed creatures of the sea are collectively called souls.

Let's continue with the necessary ground work to support our further understanding. We need to return to Genesis and further gather our thoughts around the un-clarified but forensic evidence in the written Word of God. Upon reading the Scriptures, we see that during both the fifth and sixth days of God's creation, Elohim respectively created all life forms either from the sea or from the land. Now, for our practical focus on the soul and too arrive at the same place of understanding, we will set aside the 5th day of God's creation of sea creature, and utilize only the scriptures of the sixth day, when all land creatures were created including Elohim's special creation of Man/Adam.

And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so. For God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good.

And God said; Let Us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He Man: Male and female created He them. ^{(Genesis 1 verse 26 thru 27.)}

We note from the beginning of scripture that the completely formed body of Adam, with all of its wondrous detail, including the yet non circulating blood, did not make Adam a "living" soul, until the Lord God Elohim divinely breathed His Breath of Life into Adam's nostrils. ^{(See Genesis 2 verse 7.)} Adam was a special creation of God, made by the Breath of God to be a 'living' soul, and not just a natural soul like the animals. It was with the Breath of Yahweh that the soul in the blood of Adam was infused with God's LIFE, for then Adam's soul became uniquely one in Spirit with Yahweh God's Spirit of LIFE. At that very moment of Elohim's Breath, then Adam's heart began to beat and the blood began to flow throughout Adam's body that God formed from the earth. Adam was made to be a unique Living soul, after the 'Likeness' of His Creator, for Adam's natural soul was transfused with Divine Essence by Yahweh God's Spirit of LIFE.

Many pastors of the pulpit have parroted the thoughts of their seminary teachers. The Pastors having paid for their indoctrination, now maintain in their own settled minds, a quasi distinction between what they have been taught is God's creation of the soulless beast of the earth, and that of the soul of Man, who was created in the image and originally in the 'Likeness' of Elohim, the Creator God. This confusion, infused in man's biased learning, continues to be orchestrated from the pulpit in the hearing of the people of the pews. The pastors and teachers unequivocally instruct their sitting subjects of the pews, that the book of Genesis makes no mention of God's other creatures as having a soul. Therefore, these proud pulpit pastors have assumed that with the lack of the mention of a soul's association with the beast, then it means that these creatures have no soul. Leviticus 17 verse 11 and other Scripture verses dispels this false notion. But what is a soul, and what makes for the difference in one soul from another? DNA Yes, but note this distinction: There is a vast difference between a natural soul possessing life, and that of the Holy Breath of God's Spirit that makes a distinct living soul that is the first Man/Adam, who was made not only in the image of Almighty God, but indwelt with the very Spirit of the Lord God Almighty! The Likeness of the Holy Spirit of the God of the Living vacated the soul of Man, when Adam chose death over the LIFE of God. God's Holy Spirit of Life was no longer indwelling the soul of Man/Adam. Is there an intrinsic value you would dare to place on the Infinite God's Breath of LIFE? ^{(See H5397 )}

So let's ask an obvious question: What is it within the beast that makes the animals possess life? The wisdom of the elder Job gives us the answer: Who does not know in all these that the Hand (Power) of the Lord brought this forth; in Whose Hand is the soul of every living thing, and (possessing) the breath of all of mankind. ^{(Consider again Job 12 verse 7 thru 10.)} Job knows for a certainty that the Infinite Creator of all things holds in His Hand of creative Power the natural life of all souls, of both the animals and of natural man kind

We can surmise with Job's statement, that the nephesh or the soul, is the enabling unseen force that makes for the physical life of all creatures. We witness with God's Spirit that the animal's soul (nephesh) would be the driving energy of life, within the fluid of the blood, that cause's the creature to pursue its own self-preservation and the drive to propagate its own genetic kind (species): Apart from the superior intellect of man kind, the soul of fallen man kind is just like the inclusive soul of the self of mankind that resides within all the other living entities of God's creations. The soul is the life, and the life is the soul of all naturally living creatures in God's creation.

Again, when we look to the earthen form of the Man/Adam, we see that God breathed His Breath of LIFE into the first Man/Adam, and it is then that Adam became a 'living' soul, and a son of God. The distinction from that of an animal's life and that of Adam, is that the first Adam is made a 'living' soul by the Breath of the Spirit of the Eternal God, while the animals are souls that live in the natural world.

Hypothetically, let us think on this: If God had not breathed into the nostrils of the earthly form of Adam, could the Man/Adam, having been made of the natural earth, still be a soul? Absolutely Yes: For that is what fallen man has become, a natural soul with the baser animal instincts. The natural man, in his fallen nature, is out of God's order, and is a lost soul awaiting death. Mankind is already dead, having an existence apart from the Breath of Yahweh's Spirit of LIFE that only comes from the Almighty God. All of God's creatures have life within them because of the soul that exists within the 'full' dynamics of the natural blood. Many theologians proclaim that the soul is eternal, but what does Jesus Christ say?

Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him Who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. ^{(Matthew 10 verse 28.)}

The true distinction of the first Man/Adam, and that of the sea creatures and the breast of the field, is that the Breath of God's Holy Spirit of LIFE was originally instilled into the soul of Adam, thereby making Adam to be a son of God. Therefore, the spirit of Adam's intellect became initially One in Spirit with His Creator, the God of the Living. By the Breath of Elohim God, the soul of Adam, the Man, was given Life in the Likeness of the God of the Living. Therefore the Spirit of God was within the soul of Adam, male and female, to direct them in the Way of Life as the Creator God had intended for His creation of Man. For the LORD God commanded Adam: "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die." ^{(Genesis 2 verse 16 thru 17.) (NKJV.)} As you know the devil, in the disguise of a serpent, deceived Adam and his wife Ishshah, and in their illicit desire for the power of Elohim, they ate of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This rebellion to their Creator's Verbal Direction caused the Holy Spirit of God, to leave Adam and Ishshah in their choice of death.

Because of the treason of the first Adam, the soul of Man with his wife Ishshah, later to be called Eve, became dead to the Life of God, for the LIFE of the Spirit of God (B reath H5397 Nishmah) left the souls of Adam and his wife Ishshah to their own selves. Without the LIFE giving Spirit of God, the conscience of their minds were already twisted in their choices of good and evil, and death would possess them. The very souls of Adam and Ishshah/Eve would naturally be like the souls of the beast of the fields, and in death, the natural man would return to the dust of the earth. For Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and (in his one hundred and thirtieth year) he begot a son in his own likeness and after his own image and called his name Seth. And all the days of Adam were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. ^{(Please See Genesis 5 verse 3 thru 5.)} Because of Adam's insurrection, instigated by the deception of Satan and his lust for God Almighty's Power, the Likeness of God in His Spirit had departed from the soul of Adam, and now all of the Man's prodigy would be born into the world having a natural soul with an independent spirit conceived in the mind set of Adam's own likeness of spirit. As proof of our naturally self serving disposition, all of humanity, when left to our own selves, are rebellious to our Maker, and without Yahweh's Spirit of LIFE will continually breed the nature of sin and death that opposes the Creator of Life.

The Almighty God of Creation, understanding sin's pursuing violence within time, vacated Adam's soul. Now with the absence of the Holy Spirit of the only Creator God of the Living, then Adam's soul, would have an unseen empty hole in his soul lacking life. So it is with all of Adam's prodigy, for every person that is born into this world, enters life, being born a natural soul of the earth that will stumble around trying to establish its own self worth, only to die in sin's grasp.

In man's pursuit for purpose, the empty soul that is man, will seek the ways of the world to fill the desires of its flesh. Not knowing what we are doing, we seek our own individual satisfactions through experiences that are not that much different from the natural instincts of the beast of the field. Yes, the natural wisdom of sin, leading to death, is now ingrained within the soul of man kind, trying to fill the void left by the Holy Spirit of the only God of the Living. The soul of man is enslaved to the will of sin that breeds death, and that same dead soul needs to be purchased back by Holy God's Spirit of LIFE that gives LIFE'S freedom to the soul that was dead in its sin.

From the beginning of His creation of time, the Holy God Almighty would justly intervene in the flow of time, and then at specific time, He would send forth His Eternal Word and Lamb slain before the creation of the world, to be incarnately conceived in the womb of a Hebrew virgin. The Word of God would be genetically born as the Son of Adam/Man, and God's Last Man, Jesus/Yeshua would absolutely trust in the Will of His Holy Father God Almighty and would become the Salvation of mankind. God's first Adam grossly sinned against his Maker and brought death to all of mankind, but God's Last Adam, was the innocent Jesus/Yeshua, and in His Love and Obedience to His Father God, He suffered and died for mankind's sins, and with Yahweh God's total satisfaction, Yahweh resurrected Jesus the Man from death, and brought forth His Promise of His Spirit of LIFE everlasting. Without the resurrection of God's Holy Son of the Living, then all of man kind would waste away to be nothing but dust and ashes. ^{(See Genesis 3 verse 19.)} Yet, though Jesus/Yeshua was Yahweh's Son; It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief: when Thou shall make His Soul an offering for sin.

While our souls are reasoning together, then let us continue to shed more light on the heart of the matter and consider the logic of it all.

If you understand our ground work in addressing the soul and the life, then let me ask the reader: What is it within God's first Covenant, that makes the life blood of an innocent animal acceptable to make a temporary atonement for the soul of a man? You may now know the answer: for it was the life (nephesh) of the soul (nephesh) of the innocent trusting lamb, or a domesticated trusting bullock, or a trusting dove that would initially make a temporary atonement for the dead soul (nephesh) of the Hebrew Man or Jewish man (ish) of God's old Covenant.

In what is called the Torah, Almighty God gave quarantining instructions to the Israelites. In the Instructions, God established His first Word of Covenant for the sons of Israel, which was in the sacrificial blood of His prescribed innocent animals as seen in the above paragraph. The sacrificial blood of the appointed souls of sacrificial animals, would temporarily cover the sins of the repentant souls of the sons and daughters of Israel/Jacob for a year. The Torah, with its commandments and instructions was given to the Hebrew Race by the Creator so as to protect His Holy Word concerning God's Promised Messiah. The life blood of animals could never make for an atonement for the sins of Man, for sin came by Man and the atonement must be paid by the LIFE Blood of the Man of Adam's genetic kind. Of absolute necessity, God's Perfect Word given in the Garden of Eden, would enter into conception with the seed of a Hebrew Woman, to be born in the genetics of the first Man/Adam. ^{(See the seed of Ishshah/Woman.)} Elohim's Word would not fail, in one jot or title, even in sin's corruption of time. The Lord God gave the Ten Commandments as quarantining instructions for the Hebrew Race, and with the Jews failures to comply to the instructions, the Lord imposed the works of animal sacrifice to protect the Hebrew Race from themselves. The genetics of the first Man of God's creation would continue in the lineage of Adam's wife, Ishshah until the virgin Mary would be born, in all probability as the last woman of Adam's genetic kind.

The soul of man was born naturally into this world, only to die like the beast of the field. Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh's Justice required life for life, and so the life of the first born souls of the beast was given on the altar to make an atonement for the soul/life of man. For the life (nephesh) of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it (the life blood) to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls (nephesh): For it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul (nephesh). ^{(Leviticus 17 verse 11).} This Covenant sacrifice of the life/soul of the animal would continue until God's Promised Messiah would come in the flesh of the original Adam/Man, and this Man would die, once and for all time, for the souls of man that are bound up in sin and death. The souls of animals die, so the sacrifices of animals was only a temporary adjunct in the first Covenant of blood. Now that Messiah Yeshua/Jesus had come in the genetic flesh of the first Adam, and died for sin once, and with His bodily resurrection in the Power of the Eternal Life of His Father, Jesus/Yeshua the Man would never die again. The old sacrifices of the souls of sacrificial animals for the souls of man, were never permanent, and are completely unacceptable to the Almighty God, Who saves the soul of man, by man's faith in the Grace of His Spirit of Holiness in His Son Jesus Christ.

Before a person's inevitable death takes place, the natural soul of man must be born again of God's Spirit of LIFE. Absolutely, Absolutely, I say unto you: Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God. For God so Loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son so that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting LIFE. ^{(See John 3 verse 3 thru 17.)} The first Adam lost faith in His Creator and brought death to the souls of his prodigy, but Christ Jesus the very Last of Adam's genetic Race, absolutely believed in the Word of His Father, and came to bring LIFE to the souls of man kind that believe in Him. This Faith of Christ Jesus brings about a new birth of the soul that was completely void of God's Spirit of LIFE, so that the Spirit of Life in Yahweh God may occupy the vacancy where God's Spirit of Life was missing, and where the depths of the darkness of sin had taken occupancy.

To see LIFE, man's soul absolutely must be born again, and made to be a Living soul, through a trusting faith in the sacrificial Life/Soul in the Blood of God's only Begotten Son, the Man Jesus Christ. Behold the Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world. ^{(See John 1 verse 28 thru 30, and chapter 3 verse 16 thru 18.)} What is the condition of your faith in the Word of God; dead, stagnant or Alive?

For if anyone be a hearer of the WORD and not a doer, they are like a person beholding their natural face in a glass (mirror), and seeing themselves go their way, and immediately forget what manner of person they were. ^{(See James 1 verse 22 thru 24.) (See follow-up James 4 verse 1 thru 10.)}

We are all forgetful of the manner of person we were before Christ Jesus entered our lives to save our souls by His Gift of justifying faith. By faith in the innocent offering of Christ's death for our sins, we have Peace with Yahweh God Almighty, and IN Christ Resurrection, we have been forgiven of the sins of our past, but nevertheless the consequences of our past and present sins have a continuing affect in all of the persons that were violated by our actions or inactions. And so the sowing of our shameful actions of our flesh continues its breeding of death in the world. When the nature of our old flesh is manifested within us, we blame the devil for reminding us of what we are capable of, and not realizing that it is God's Holy Spirit of Grace reproving the decaying flesh of our redeemed souls. We forget that our self centered unredeemed flesh is a continuing destructive problem in this dark world of violence and needs to be accountable to God and His WORD of Salvation. Although the consequences of our past sin are put far away from us, nevertheless, Holy God Almighty has not forgotten the problem that exist in the flesh of His people. The flesh of man is not redeemed, but by His Spirit of Grace, He provides His Only Remedy for the truly repentant soul that is born again to live through faith in the Word of God.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. ^{(See John 16 verse 7 thru 8.)} Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat (of the Lord's Provisions of LIFE), tarry one for another. ^{(1st Corinthians 11 verse 31 thru 33.)}

Now just suppose if we, who are saved by God's Covenant of Grace that is IN the LIFE Blood of Christ Jesus, could miraculously view our souls in a spiritual mirror, then what would we see? Would it still be a soul hidden in the shadows of self indulgence or would it be a liberated soul of great faith in Jesus Christ, which is continually being clarified by the Love and Light of God, through the Fountain of Yahweh God's Spirit of LIFE IN the cleansing Water of the WORD of GOD? It would be wonderful if our souls looked like the latter image, however the revelation would undoubtedly spoil us, for we, who are forgetful of what manner of man we are in our flesh, we would still have the same everyday need for our Savior, just as He is needed for the mirrored image of the soul still struggling with its fleshly desires to satisfy itself. ^{(See 2nd Corinthians 3 verse 17 thru 18).}

Yahweh God has placed all judgment under the authority of Jesus Christ, because Jesus/Yeshua is the genetic Son of Adam and He has overcome the darkness of the world. ^{(See John 5 verse 26 thru 27 and verse 30.)} If you perceive yourself to be a judge then be very careful, for the Wisdom of the Lord and Judge of the universe says: Judge not that you be not judged, for with the judgment that you pass out, the same judgment will return upon you. ^{(See Matthew 7 verse 1 thru 5.)} The judgment of even the so called saved can be catastrophic. The Word of the Judge, Jesus Christ, Who knows what He is talking about, for It is the Word of His Father Yahweh God Who sent Him, and Jesus/Yeshua says definitely: Truly, Truly, I say unto you; unless you eat of the Flesh of the Son of Adam and drink His Blood you have no LIFE in you. ^{(John 6 verse 53.)} Those who have a little wisdom from Yahweh God would do themselves well if they read again, John Chapter 5 starting at verse 17 and continue through all of Chapter 6.

We can do nothing to justify our selves before Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty. We are dependent upon the Sanctifying and saving Grace that is in the Sacrificial LIFE Blood of Yahweh's Lamb, Jesus Christ. Our souls and spirits have the infinite need of the LIFE (Nephesh) in the Covenant Blood of our Savior, and thereby clarifying within ourselves, just Whom we really do belong to. When God looks upon the soul of an individual who declares his faith in Christ's Covenant Blood, then God sees and knows by the imprinted soul, that the person is of His own Seed, because He sees the very same LIFE Blood of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. The Blood of Jesus Christ not only a covering over the sins of the flesh, but His Blood is infused into the soul of the person who is born of His Perfect Love. The Communion LIFE Blood and the Water of God's Word, imprints over the confessed gross infidelities of our old nature with its flaws, and leaves the imprint of God's WORD and Son Jesus Christ, indelibly imprinted upon the soul of God's new creation. Because of the LIFE Blood of His Only Begotten Son Jesus, God does not see the flawed imprints of sin on the soul of the old man of sin, but He sees the new man being regenerated through and by God's Gift of Faith, maintained within the New Blood Covenant, in the Perfect LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, Who was and is, and is to come as the Son of Yahweh Lord God Almighty.

On an individual basis, we each need to heed our Chief Physician's instructions to daily deny our own selfish desires that are initiated within our fleshly minds, and thereby learning from the afflictions of our own cross while we follow the Lord our Salvation. ^{( See Matthew 16 verse 24 thru 25.)} Even with our failures to comply to His instructions, when we, in conviction have submitted our lives to God's keeping, He will jealously protect what is His, for the LIFE giving Blood Covenant of Jesus Christ shall not allow for sin to have dominion over those who are joined in His Spirit's unity to each other within the risen Body of Jesus Christ. When our minds become encumbered with the burdens of idolatrous sins of the flesh, and if we have not hardened our heart to the Spirit's prompting, then when we come together in His Body, we should humbly call upon the Lord our Physician, and give to Him our sincere confession of our hearts infidelities, confusions and weaknesses. We know that our God is Faithful, and through the Life (Nephesh) sustaining infusion of His Living Covenant Blood, He will forgive and permit the Thanksgiving New Covenant Blood to cleanse the gross impurities that are foreign to His Good Will, and the errors of the flesh which don't conform to the new creation born of the Word of God. Because there is Eternal LIFE in the Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ, then the refreshment of that LIFE, through His Holy Spirit of Grace, is given to His members as assurance to our minds, of God's faithfulness to His Covenant Word, and His LIFE To Be the only source of nourishment for the soul and spirit of all believers within His Body.

However, there are warnings to be heeded in God's amnesty program: If sin is not sincerely repented of by a member of His Blood Covenant and the person continues to practice sin so that the member becomes corrupted or hardened by the sin, then the Power of the Blood of Jesus Christ through the Word of His testimony, will isolate the member for severe correction. If there is no compliance, then God may destroy that cellular member as alien from the LIFE of Christ's Body and for the sake of the members in the Body of Jesus Christ. Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is Holy, which temple you are. ^{(1st Corinthians 3 verse 16 thru 17.)} Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Life everlasting. ^{(Galatians 6 verse 7 thru 9.)} If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the Truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the Blood of the Covenant that Sanctifies him, and who has insulted the Spirit of Grace? For we know Him Who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge His people." It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. ^{(Hebrews 10 verse 26 thru 31.)}

In a book on the Blood, Andrew Murray, (1828-1917) wrote of God's acceptance of Abel's blood sacrifice of his best lamb.

"He had this witness borne to him "that he pleased God." His faith, and God's good pleasure in him, are closely connected with the sacrificial blood. In the light of later revelation, this testimony, given at the very beginning of human history, is of deep significance. It shows that there can be no approach to God; no fellowship with Him by faith; no enjoyment of His favor, apart from THE BLOOD."

10 years later Murray communed with us in his book, 'The Lord's Table', and wrote:

And He took a cup, and gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is My Blood.” The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a Communion of the Blood of Christ?” ^{(Matthew 26:27-28; 1 Corinthians 10:16.)}

For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life” ^{(Leviticus 27:11)}. For the blood is the life, the living spirit; and therefore atonement is linked with the shedding of blood. It was the surrender of the life of an innocent animal in the place of guilty man. And thus with the shedding of Jesus’ blood, His life is surrendered for our sins. The worth and the power of that blood are the worth and the power of the life of Jesus. Every drop of that blood has in it the power of an endless life.

Holy God Almighty declares that without the shedding of the life blood of the innocent for guilty man-kind, there would be no pardon for sin. God remains the discerner of the heart and the intentions of the supplicant, who in accordance with God's Covenant, would sincerely be requesting pardon and desiring to enter into, or to remain in God's Gracious Favor. The old inferior Covenant was in the shed blood of sacrificial animals that could never atone for man's self idolatrous sins: But now God's New Covenant is in the poured out Life Blood of the Man, Jesus Christ. For Jesus/Yeshua, with a Son's Perfect Love and obedience toward His Father Yahweh God Almighty, poured out His innocent Soul from His Body, and in His Bodily resurrection from the dead, He defeated the idolatrous ways of man-kind that only breeds death. Therefore, the Word of God, in respect to God's New Covenant through the Blood of the Man Jesus Christ, continues in its Power, and affects the believer in spite of our ignorance or callousness towards the Word of our Salvation. Seeing of its vital importance in Life and death, let us further investigate the strength of our themed Scriptural text.

And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eats any manner of blood; I will even set My face against that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls:

For, it is the blood that makes an atonement for the 'soul'. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, and neither shall any stranger that sojourns among you eat blood. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: Therefore, I said unto the children of Israel, you shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: Whosoever eats of it shall be cut off. ^{(Leviticus 17 verse 10 thru 14.)}

Scripture testifies to the TRUTH of the WORD of God, for it reminds us that the old covenant forbade the eating or drinking of the blood of any animal that is of God's Covenant sacrifices. We are to know that within the blood, was the unseen soul and life force of all flesh, and so it was with God's beginning Covenant with Israel and their animal sacrifices. The soul was identified with the life within the flesh of the innocent animals that were daily sacrificed for the sins of the believing Israelites. Although mankind equates blood to life, the Creator God has never equated the lower life/soul of an animal, with what was the elevated life/soul of Adam/Man. In the Garden of Eden, and before his fall, Adam, the first Man, was created to be in the image and likeness of his Creator God Almighty. It is for sure that the reasoning man does not equate his life with the animal’s soul or life force, nor condescend to its base level. After all it is the life of a beast, and yet is this not what unregenerate man has become? ^{(See Psalm 49 verse 12 and 20.)} Historically, all men judge from within their thoughts of what they think is good or evil for the preservation of their own self righteousness. Confusion reigns in the flesh of the corrupted mind of the unsaved of man-kind. But unfortunately, even the many who say they are saved, have forgotten why they were called, and do not take up their cross daily and follow in the Way of the LIFE of Jesus Christ that honors Yahweh the Almighty God of the living. ^{(See 2nd Peter 1 verse 2 thru 11.)}

Through out the centuries to the present time, we see the historical and violent results of man's bestial nature. That nature is bent towards a life of action and reactions, similar to the naturally occurring lives of the wild beast of the field. This life of man-kind is centered within the importance of ones self, and is the result of the confusion of sin. In sin's confusion, man's reactions are entangled in superior and inferior base natures of earthly flesh, and may well be summed up by the naturalist equations of, 'the survival of the fittest', or 'might makes right'. However, we know through the Word of God that for man to survive, there has to be the death of this bestial nature that is set on self preservation. Without the Almighty God of the living's timely intervention in the death spiral of man-kind, man cannot survive, and the natural man would ultimately destroy himself, his offspring, and the life of the world about him.

From the beginnings of the mystery of iniquity, which was first revealed in the Garden of Eden, we can now know that man-kind's nature of flesh is infected with the self idolatrous sin that is derived from the affected nephesh or the life within the genetic blood of Adam. The soul (life) and the life (soul) within Adam's Blood is naturally passed on to all of his descendants. Now, because of sin's controlling influence within the natural flesh of man and affecting the nephesh (the soul and life of man), then man's judgment remains like an animal of the field, bent towards its own drive of self preservation. In God's original covenant that was to be maintained by the nation of Israel, we understand that in the temporary atoning animal sacrifices, the innocent blood containing the soul and the very life of passive animals was poured out on the earth, as a transitory solution for man's defiled earthly nature. With the Eternal God’s merciful intervention at this time, the lamb, dove or bullock was sacrificed and their innocent blood which equates to the life (the nephesh) of the animal was poured out at the base of the sacrificial altar and flowed to the ground. Afterwards, the flesh of the sacrificed beast was burned on the altar as a substitutionary offering for the sins of the people of God rather than God’s ultimate consuming justice of requiring the destruction of the guilty of Israel. In this we we see the TRUTH of the Eternal God's Patience, for the first covenant with the Hebrews was to be temporary until the Lamb of God would come at the proper time, to be the last Adam and Holy God's final Sacrifice for the abject sin of Mankind.

The Almighty's Supreme Covenant was established before the world was created, for it would be necessary for His very Own Lamb to be sacrificed in reparation for the rebellious sin of the first Man Adam. Although the Jew should understand from scripture that the seat of all earthly life was in the blood, the sanctity of the animal's life was not necessarily reverenced in the animals that were slaughtered for the life of the Israelite. The seriousness of the nature of treasonous sin, bringing death and separation from the God of the living, apparently became lost in the performance or the rite of the sacrifice. Also at issue, is self-justification within a mind, which was further encumbered with partiality in the keeping of portions of God's laws for appearance sake. Good works that satisfies our flesh are set in motion, to keep up the outward appearances of self righteousness. Sin has diverted the mind of man, for we all love to have it our way, and our way fails to keep the weightier matters of the heart with a soul seeking after the Holy Will of the God of the living. The perfection of love is not to be found in the fallen nature of the unrighteous flesh of self righteous mankind.

The original blood letting animal sacrifices would never, ever be the rectifying remedy for fallen mankind’s now bent and darkly distorted nature with his propensity to do violence in the earth. It becomes obvious that the blood that bares the soul of the very life of the beast does not equate with the higher life form of the original Man/Adam, and the animal's life blood cannot be the final solution for humanity's death spiral. Here in, are the principle reasons of why God's people were forbidden to eat or drink of the blood=life/soul of the beast. The soul of a beast of the field can never be the soul of a child of God. God's child to be, is given the faith of the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, and their soul is born again in God's Image and Likeness of His Spirit. Significantly, there is not the planted seed of perfect love in the soul of a beast. The soul of a man, must be born of God's Spirit, bearing the seed of His Holiness that only comes from the perfect Love, born of the sacrificing Life Giving Blood of the Perfect Genetic Son of Man, Jesus Christ. The Blood of Jesus Christ is of Infinite value for it came from the Infinitely Holy God Almighty to sustain not just one Life, but the Life of all who will except God's Offering of the Life of His Lamb of Infinite Value. ^{(See 1st Peter 1 verse 19 thru 20.)}

In Yahweh's Holy Communion, God's Spirit of Grace and Holiness presents to us, the Cup of our 'Yeshua', meaning Salvation, and to be sure, God's Love is in the Life Giving Blood of His Incarnate Son, Jesus Christ, Who is the very WORD of GOD made the flesh of the first Adam. The Heart and Soul of Yeshua the 'Incarnate Son of God', unlike the first created Man/Adam, Loves His Father Yahweh God above all things. God's Holy Spirit, is One in the Infinite Holy Life Giving Blood of Jesus Christ, therefore the Holy Spirit of Christ will bring the faithful believer into Holy Fellowship with Father God Almighty. It is impossible for Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty to have Fellowship or Communion with any form of unrepented sin, for unrepented sin can never be justified by Holy Yahweh God Almighty. But now, with the repentance of the born again sinner, the shed New Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ is deemed to have cleansed sin from the old man of the flesh, so that the Life of God's Beloved Son is made manifest in God's new creation of man. The man with the substance of faith, is cleansed from confessed sin, so as to be in the image and the likeness of Christ through the renewing Spirit of His Son, Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah.

How Great is the Love of God, and how far will God go to save man-kind from our sinful and damnable self serving nature of death? Thank God through His Son Jesus Christ. Therefore, there is no condemnation to those who are IN Christ Jesus who do not walk after the flesh, but follow after His Spirit of Life. ^{(See Romans 7 verse 24 and 8 verse 1 thru 2.)}

Whether it be Jew or gentile, the inertia for human life, was created by Almighty God to be within the loins of Adam, the first Man. Having been created in the image and likeness of the God of the living, apparently, Adam, the Man, with his Wife Ishshah were originally designed to bring forth life, in the image and likeness of their Creator. However, with Adam's rebellion against his Creator Elohim, all the generational seed of man-kind were made heirs of sin and death, having forfeited the right to life, and made to serve the master of sin and death. On our own efforts, we cannot save or pardon ourselves from our sinful corrupted nature that brings death. For all life forms comes from Holy God Almighty, and where dying man-kind is concerned, only the God of the Living can pardon and grant new Life to man-kind under His terms within His LIFE Giving Covenant in the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus the Christ of God.

The first Covenant, ratified in animal's blood, is voided, being supplanted by Yahweh God's final Supreme Covenant in the Infinitely Precious LIFE giving Blood of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the Lord of LIFE. Within the expanse of God's New Covenant with man, God's Holy Spirit of Grace provides the Sanctifying Holy Blood of Jesus Christ that remains the only remedy for the sins of the flesh of the repentant individual, as well as for the Ecclesia church's confessed sin's of the past and present.

If the eyes of our heart are open to see the TRUTH, then we are enabled see that the Love of God has an infinitely higher calling into the heart and soul of fallen mankind than the life of a beast. We live in this fallen flesh, and if we say we have no sin then we are in terrible deceptions and His TRUTH is not in us. ^{(See 1st John 1 verse 8-10.)} If we say that we have not sinned then we make (Almighty) God a liar and His WORD is not IN us. The WORD of God and His TRUTH is One and the Same. The Almighty God of the living has declared mankind guilty of their self serving idolatry that was initiated in the first Adam's rebellion. Now all of genetic man-kind have become subservient to the power of the law of sin and death; therefore, all of Adam's genetic blood line of genetic flesh, even the past and present day Jew, have all become defiled with sin's corruption in death. All of Mankind have no redeeming eternal life factors that can justify the continuance of life. Even the geneticist sees that there are limiting time factors in the altered Epigenetics that affects the DNA code of mankind, which brings about the cessation of tissue regeneration.

But Yahweh God's Spirit of TRUTH has the absolute solution to our death as the result of Man's sinful flesh. ^{(See again Leviticus 17 verse 10 thru 14).}The ultimate remedial solution or antidote for sin, required the Life/Soul within the Blood of the Perfect God centered Man. The whole Life of Jesus (Yeshua) was centered in the Love of His Holy Father Yahweh God, for Jesus/Yeshua came forth from the Holy Father's bosom, to become the unleavened Son of Man, and that Life of the Christ of God is HOLY, and is forever consecrated in Love. "For God so loved the world that He Gave the LifeBlood of His Only Begotten Son" on the altar of the cross, so that we might become new born sons of God, born of faith in God’s TRUTH after the image and likeness of the Father's Son, Jesus (Yeshua).Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: Therefore the world knows us not, because it knew Him not. ^{(1 John 3 verse 1.)}

For your further consideration, we have set before you, an abbreviated outline of the tradition of the four cups in the Passover Seder, which are also known as the four cups of redemption. The 1^st Cup of Sanctification and the 3^rd Cup of Redemption both required a special prayer of blessing and thanksgiving to the Creator of the Universe. With each of the four cups, there is the appropriate scripture from Exodus 6 verse 6 that makes reference to God's celebrated acts with Israel. We have interjected comments, as well as the relative Gospel scriptures, which parallels a particular cup and the logical order of events in the Pesach.

The first and third cups of wine with water, required a thanksgiving blessing by the host.
Each of the 4 cups of wine represented the 4 "I wills" that God promises in Exodus.

1^st Cup of Sanctification. In Hebrew, Kos Kiddush.
“I Am the Lord, and I will free you from the burdens"
And the Lord gave thanks: ^{(See Luke 22: verse 14 thru 16.)}
"Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, Creator of the fruit of the vine."
The first of the matzah bread, dipped in the morar, was now eaten at this time.
Jesus gives the dipped matzah to Judas, the betrayer, who then removes himself from the supper,
leaving the eleven disciples with their Lord Jesus.
Judas, whose heart is not in right covenant with the Lord, does not participate in the Lord's Communion Table.

2^nd Cup of Judgment (or liberation). In Hebrew, Kos G’ulah.
“I will deliver you from bondage”.

During the main portion of the feast, and while the disciples were still eating of the old covenant Pascal lamb,
the Lord Yeshuah takes the hidden affico'men, the unleavened matzo bread, in His hands, and gives Thanks:
"Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments and commands us concerning the eating of the unleavened bread."
And then Jesus, the Son of Man, the Bread of Life says: "This is My Body that is given for you, take and eat".

3^rd Cup of Redemption or Blessing. In Hebrew, Kos B’raha.
I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great judgments”.
See the Edersheim Commentary in this link.
And Jesus gives thanks and institutes God's New Covenant in His Blood:
"Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, Creator of the Fruit of the Vine.
"Then Jesus, the True Vine, gives of the wine and says: Drink of it all of you;
"This is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."

I AM The WAY, I AM The TRUTH, I AM The LIFE of Men, no one comes to the Father except through ME
God speaks through Paul’s words concerning The WAY:
"There is no temptation taken you: But with the temptation, God will provide The WAY for you to escape:
The WAY follows; The Cup of Blessing, which we bless, is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ?" ^{(See Corinthians 10 verse 13 thru 16.)}

4^th Cup of Acceptance, ( or The Cup of the Kingdom.) In Hebrew, Kos Hartza-ah.
”I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob”. Traditionally this cup is not partaken of and left on the table: Perhaps it is even as Jesus had said: I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom.

Now when the Lord Jesus Christ, the I AM that I AM, lifts up the third Cup, “The Cup of Blessing and Redemption”, it was at this moment of time that Jesus instituted God's New Covenant in His LIFE giving Blood. Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. Not according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt: Which My Covenant they broke. ^{(Jeremiah 31 verse 31 thru 32.)} God gave to Israel, His Covenant Word in the Torah with His Decalogue of 10 warning Commandments. The Commandments were given as warnings to protect Israel from their sinful nature that breeds death. The Messiah, and Covenant Word of God His Father, would come to earth, as the Son of Adam through the generational genetic seed of the first Man/Adam. The WORD of God, as the Son of Adam, within the genetics of Woman came to the earth, and totally fulfilled the requirements of the former Covenant, and has now at the same Passover Table, inaugurated in His LIFE Blood the New Superior Covenant of God's Grace in the LIFE of His only Begotten Son.

The former blood and drink offerings of the Mosaic Covenant were a portend of that which was to come with the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ the Man, and now the 3rd cup of blessing and redemption is through the Spirit of Yahweh God, and is the effectual LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ, as the Lamb of God slain from before the foundation of the world. In the old covenant, the sacrificial lamb's blood was first sprinkled on the sides of the altar for sin, trespass and peace offerings, or poured at the sides of the alter for burnt offerings, and then the roasted flesh of the sacrifice may have been eaten, without the life blood of the animal. ^{(See Leviticus 7 verse 1 thru 13.)} In the sacrifice of the animal, no one was to partake of the blood of the lamb, for it was the life of the beast. ^{(See Leviticus 17 verse 10 thru 12.)} However, Yahweh God did institute His grain offering, to be a token memorial, in the Unleavened Bread that was to be a perpetual memorial set before the Holy of Holies and God's Presence. ^{(See Leviticus 6 verse 14 thru 22.)} The fulfillment of God's token Grain Offering, was a sweet smelling savor of Promise, and is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, Who was the Lamb of God, Slain before the foundation of the world. God's Lamb of time, is the One Who takes away the sins of the world. No man could take Yahweh's Lamb of Life, for Jesus Christ laid down His LIFE sacrificially in Perfect Love and Obedience to His Holy Father Yahweh God, and in His Perfection, as a Man, He could take it up again in fulfillment of a Son's LIFE of Love IN God. The True Unleavened Bread of Heaven Who came down to become the Son of Man says: Amen, Amen, I say to you; except you eat of the Flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His Blood, you have no LIFE in you. ^{(John 6 verse 53.)} No man comes to the Father except by Me. And God Almighty says: My Covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of My Lips. ^{(See Psalm 89 verse 34 thru 37.)}

The Blood of the Lamb
Slain before the Foundation of the World.

And almost all things are by the Law [Torah] purged with blood;
and without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
^{(Hebrews 9 verse 22.)}

Before Elohim's Salvation WORD of Promise that He declared in the Garden of Eden, the Infinite Creator Yahweh God's Justice and Mercy had already been established even before He laid the foundation of the world. Yahweh Elohim saw from Eternity the course of events that would take place in His creation of free flowing time. In His oversight of His creation of His free flowing fabric of time, Yahweh Elohim knew that the seductive persuasion of sin with its condemnation of death would come into the world: Therefore He had previously established with His WORD that the Messiah of Yahweh God was crucified even before the foundation of the world. ^{(See 1st Peter1 verse 19 thru 21.)} None of the satanic princes of this world knew of the Eternal God's plan of Salvation for lost mankind, for if they had known they would never have crucified to death the Lord of Glory. ^{(Confirm 1st Corinthians 2 verse 5 thru 8.)} But God has revealed His Wisdom to us by His Spirit, yes, for [Yahweh] God's Spirit searches the deep things of God [Almighty].

With the deceptive persuasion of the satanic serpent in the Garden of Eden, the first Man/Adam rebelled against his Maker and brought sin and death to himself and to his prodigy. But in the flow of time, Yahweh God's Justice would conceive in His Mercy a second Man/Adam, to be the Savior of the world. This second Man, being a True genetic Son of Adam was Incarnately conceived in the genetic seed from the unknowing first Woman/Ishshah that was generationally passed on in time to become the Hebrew virgin Mary. The prophet Isaiah bore witness to the wicked Jewish king Ahaz of the Eternal Power of the Almighty's WORD, as Isaiah prophecies to the house of David:

Therefore, the Lord (Yahweh) Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and His Name shall be Immanuel. ^{(See Isaiah 7 verse 14 thru 16.)}

Approximately 365 years after Isaiah's prophecy, it came to pass in the sixth month of the Jewish calendar, that Gabriel, the angel of the Lord Yahweh appeared unto a Hebrew virgin woman named Mary and said:

Fear not Mary, for you have found favor with [Yahweh] God. And behold, you shall conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a Son, and you shall call His Name Jesus/Yeshua. Then said Mary to the Angel, "How shall this be seeing I know not man. And the angel answered her saying: "The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the Power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: Therefore that Holy Thing, Which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God". ^{(See Luke 1 verse 26 thru 38.)}

The virgin Mary 9 months later gave birth to a male child, and when the child had matured to a grown Man, then the Incarnate innocent Man of Yahweh God Yeshua/Jesus, would defeat sin and death, with His own innocent death followed with His resurrection into the LIFE of His Eternal Holy Father Yahweh God Almighty. Yeshua haMashiach with His Eternal Holy Father Yahweh God would send the LIFE of His Holy Spirit to all who would fully believe in Yahweh God's Salvation IN the Christ of the Eternal God. The Eternal, all-knowing Yahweh God of His creation of time and all its substance, would bring about the destruction of evil with the Perfect Love and Obedience of the Last Adam, through the True genetic Son of Adam, and the only Begotten Son of Yahweh God.

Yeshua/Jesus, as the Incarnate Son of His Father Yahweh, would be born the Last true genetic Son of Adam, and then as the Incarnate unblemished Man, He would totally fulfill Yahweh God's Garden Promise with His Sacrificial Love and perfect obedience to His Father Yahweh God. He was the Lamb of God, Yeshua haMashiach, and with His crucifixion death and then His resurrection into the LIFE of HIS Father, He brought the potential of the Faith of God in the Salvation of Yashua, to the dead in sin. For God so Loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, so that whosoever believes IN Christ/Messiah's suffering, death, burial and His resurrection into the LIFE of His Eternal Father, should not perish, for they would follow the WAY of Christ, and enter into the very LIFE of Christ.

If you are risen with Christ, then seek those things which are above where Christ sits on the Right Hand of the Almighty. Set your desires on things that are above, and not on things of or on the earth. For you are dead, and your Life (to come) is hid with Christ in Yahweh God. When Christ, Who is our LIFE, shall appear, then shall you also appear with Him in Glory.^{(See Colossians 3 verse 1 thru 4.)}

Without active Faith in the Holy LIFE giving Blood of our High Priest Jesus Christ, the Lamb of Yahweh God, then there is no entrance into the Presence of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh, the Almighty Lord God of the Living.

Without true humility there is no repentance; without true repentance there is no remission of sin, for without the remission of sin, then there is the absence of the cleansing LIFE giving Blood of Yeshau within the conscience of man through God's Holy Spirit of Grace. Therefore; in our obedience to the Will of Yahweh God, then the subtle power of sin will not have dominion over us, for in our true sorrow and repentance from the power of sin, Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace leads us in the WAY, and the TRUTH and the LIFE of His Son, the Lord our Righteousness. ^{(See Romans 6 verse 10 thru 18.)}

Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty through His Spirit of Grace, provides His cleansing Grace in the LIFE Blood of His Son that is given for the remission of sins of the flesh of the believing of man-kind. Indeed, Salvation and Justification is by faith in the death, burial and the Resurrection into LIFE of the Lord Christ Jesus. The Lord our Righteousness, will answer the call of a pertinent soul to cleanse and relieve them of their entanglement with their sin. If you say you have no sin then you make Yahweh God a liar.

Wake up to the facts that hold you captive to sin, for the nature of idolatrous sin remains in the corrupting idolatrous flesh of our fallen humanity. The Sanctification of our flesh's propensity to sin, is a prerequisite necessity in Holy Communion for us to see Almighty Yahweh God. The Almighty is not willing that anyone should perish, whereas His Grace enables us to humbly remain in agreement with God's New Covenant WAY IN the Life giving Blood of HIS Son Jesus Christ. ^{(See Revelation 21 verse 5 thru 7.)} It is impossible for the new believer to serve Holy Yahweh God in the strength of his own flesh, but we are to serve Holy Yahweh God by the Power of His Spirit of Grace IN Christ Jesus the Man. IN Christ, we become ambassadors of Yahweh God through the Grace of Yahweh's Holy Spirit of LIFE in Christ Jesus. Let us witness for ourselves that God's Holy Spirit is the Fountain of LIFE, pouring out Living Water to those who return to the Fountain:

But My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of Living Waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. ^{(Jeremiah 2 verse 13.)}

The absolute Perfection of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty, requires absolute Perfection for anyone to come within His Holy Sanctuary that is made without the hands of man, and into His Holy Presence. This required Perfection could never be achieved by sinful mankind, nor could the blood sacrifices of animals that were continually performed by the sin laden priest of the old covenant make for a perpetual entrance into the tabernacle made by the hand of man. Only once a year, on the Day of Atonement (Rosh Hashanah) occurring on the 1st of Tishrei, the 7th month of the Jewish Calendar, was the high priest of Israel allowed to enter the sanctuary, even with fear and trepidation, into the Holy of Holies to present the sprinkling of the blood of animals upon the mercy seat of the Tabernacle.

Hear again, the amplified Wisdom of the WORD of Yahweh God and consider the Scripture in context with the Sacrifice of Christ Jesus:

The Life of the flesh is in the Blood, and I have given it [the Life Blood] to you upon the sacrificial altar, to make an atonement for your souls.

In the end of all contentious views, it will be Christ's LIFE giving Blood alone that makes an atonement for the soul of the believer. ^{(See Leviticus 17 verse 11.)}

The blood, signifying its relativity to life, was the ensign of Yahweh God's first Covenant that was to be settled in the heart of Israel. The temporary propitiation of an animal's blood was a ritual excised before the altar, twice daily for the sins of the people. Then once a year, on the 10th day of the 7th month, was the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) that occurred just before the seven day Feast of Tabernacles. On this one day, the people of Israel would fast and afflict their souls in repentance to sin, and then the priest would offer up to Yahweh God the blood of a sacrificed bull and then the blood of one of two he goats. It was at this one time of the year, that the sacrificial blood of a sacrificed bull was excised for the sins of the high priest, his house, and the sons of Aaron. The high priest would carry the bulls sacrificial blood beyond the temple veil, into the holiest of the earthly tabernacle, and there sprinkle the bulls blood with his finger seven times on both the east and then the west side of the Mercy Seat of the Arc of the Covenant. Having left the Holiest Place, the high priest would then bathe and change his linen clothing.

Then for the sins of the people the blood of one of the two he goats was presented before the Mercy Seat in exactly the same manner as that of the bullock. After coming out of the temple the second time, the high priest would anoint the four horns on the altar with a mixture of the blood of the sacrificed bull and that of the goat, and then sanctify the altar seven times in the manner that he had done with the blood upon the Arc of the Covenant. When this was accomplished, then the priest laid his hands upon the second he-goat to transfer the sins of the people of Israel to the scapegoat that was to be released in the wilderness. It would appear that our Lord Jesus Christ IN His resurrection from the dead, is Yahweh God's innocent scapegoat released into the wilderness for the sins of a dying world. ^{(See Isaiah 53.)(On this matter, please read thru Edersheim's scape goat.)}

Yahweh God's Highest Standards of Holiness have not changed, nor can they. Holy Yahweh God, is Eternally Holy, and He desires the willing heart of His people to come to Him full of faith through Yahweh God's Provisions within the Spirit of Immanuel our Living Mediator. The LIFE giving Blood of Yahweh God's Only Begotten Son, the Man Jesus Christ, is the Only WAY into the Presence of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh God, and certainly not in the old way of perfunctory blood offerings of Yahweh God's own animal creations. From the beginning of His creation, Yahweh God's Covenant was with His Perfect WORD, that was cemented in the Garden of Eden, for Yahweh Elohim's' Perfect WORD was His Perfect Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. It is impossible for the Perfect Wisdom of the Eternal God to perish in the earthly finite wisdom of created beings. The Wisdom of Yahweh God Almighty is Eternal, and the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God will maintain the Wisdom of His Eternal WORD in His creation through out time eternal.

The children of Israel, in their carnality, would fail many times to keep the essential core of God's Divine Purpose that He declared from the beginnings to bring forth His Salvation WORD in the Seed of Ishshah. To whit, God's Perfect Lamb was established in Ishshah's XX Seed and the Lamb would be the Perfect genetic Son from the first Man. For God's Holy Spirit would perpetuate the true Genetic Seed of His Perfect Lamb Who would be Gods' Perfect Man throughout Yahweh's chosen generations of Hebrew women who would be of the Seed of Ishshah. The very good genetic seed of His creation of Adam would be perpetuated through Adam's wife, whom Adam first named Ishshah meaning Woman. The first Man failed with his rebellion again His Maker, and brought death to all of mankind: The Second Man remained apart from sin and brought God's Holy Spirit of Life to all that would believe in the God of the Living. The first Adam was of the earth, and the self centered will of his flesh was lusting for power, and with his conceived rebellion against Elohim, he made his soul void of God's Holy Spirit of LIFE. The Second Adam was the True Bread come down from Heaven, and was conceived by God's Holy Spirit to be One IN the genetic flesh from the first Man. The core thoughts of this Man, Christ Jesus, was Perfect toward God, even knowing of His own passion that would end with His Crucifixion death. Adam, the first son of God, loved himself to death, but Yahweh Father God was forever pleased with another Son's selfless and innocent offering of himself for the sins of the people. In His Pleasure, Yahweh raised Yeshua/Jesus from the dead, revealing that this Man's one Perfect Offering of Love is excepted by Yahweh God, and Yahweh God has put all things under His Feet, until death is ultimately destroyed. ^{(See 1st Corinthians 15 verse 20 thru 28.)}

Israel's infidelity would break the heart of their Covenant with the WORD of Yahweh God, and no amount of animal sacrifices could ever suffice for mankind's failures then and now. Yahweh God, in His Eternal Understanding, would bring judgments upon the children of Israel, so as to segregate the True Seed of His Promised Salvation. The Almighty Yahweh God, is Eternally Faithful to His WORD, and would oversee time's circumstances, and then in His foreknowledge of time, He would bring forth His WORD of Salvation that was conceived in the ovum of the virgin Mary. The Hebrew virgin Mary was a generational daughter of Adam, and she would give birth to the Incarnate Son of Adam. ^{(Read Luke 1 verse 26 thru 30.)} Now that the Messianic Lamb of Yahweh God has come as Man to atone for the sin of the First Adam and to bear the sins of the many, then there is no other sacrifice for sin and Yahweh God's Eternal Sacrifice of HIS SON for sin and death is accomplished for mankind once and for all time. The Sacrifice of Yahweh God's only Lamb, Yeshua/Jesus, as the innocent offering of the Man Christ Jesus for the guilty of mankind so pleased the Lord that Yahweh God Almighty in His Holy Justice gave Eternal LIFE to the dead Body of the innocent Son of Man/Adam.

The Wisdom of the Eternal Yahweh God can not be perceived without the Spirit of the Eternal Yahweh God. With the Eternal Yahweh God's purposeful intervention in time, He would bring forth His WORD of Salvation/Yeshua, as the Promised Messiah, whose sole purpose as the Son of Adam/Man was to defeat sin and overcome the imposed death of the first Man/Adam. The Perfection of the WORD of Yahweh God is mankind's Standard for holiness, and mankind can be seen as justified by Faith in Yahweh God's Lamb, that is if they live and breath IN Yahweh God's Standard of LIFE IN the Man Christ Jesus.

The daily offering of the sacrificial animal for sin, only precipitated the eventual death of the performing Levitical priest, who was bound in his own sin and death. Likewise the sacrifice of the animal also precipitated the death of the people who were of the priest's like corrupted nature. ^{(See Hebrews 10 verse 11 thru 12.)} The sacrificial offering of the life blood of an animal of its kind, could never give life to the souls of man that are of their own kind that is created in the image of the Creator. Because of their free will to sin, all of man-kind are dead in their own nature of sinful corruption. But now the WORD of God at the Will of His Father, has come down from heaven as the True Bread of Heaven to be born of the flesh of Adam/Man; So then:

it is this Man after He had offered His one sacrifice for sin, forever sat down on the Right Hand of His Holy Father.

The Jew was to understand that there are no more continuing sacrifices of animals to set aside the sin of mankind. For while the first covenant stood only in dead works offered

in meats, and drinks, and various washings, and in carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time of reformation (a return to God's first order).

For God's Faith is Living fully in the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE of men that is IN Christ Jesus Alone. Christ Jesus/Yeshua, having died once for sin, and raised by the Spirit of God from the dead, reveals God's Eternal Satisfaction with the Man Jesus Christ's and His perfect Presentation Offering of Himself. The Man Christ Jesus has ended all animal sacrifices forever, as well as the carnal sacrifices of all of sinful mankind.

Now with the remission (obliteration) of these is (meaning animal sacrifices), there is no more (animal) sacrifices for sin. ^{(Hebrews 10 verse 18.)}

The sin of the first Adam brought death to all of mankind, but the Sacrificial death of the Last Adam with His sinless Life as a Man, has conquered death for all time, for LIFE is revealed in His Resurrection from the dead. Now Christ's LIFE giving Spirit would bring the beginnings of true Life to the souls of all of sinful man kind that believe in God's Saving Gift of LIFE in Yeshua haMashiach, Jesus the Christ of God.

Therefore, remember the "Therefore" in the next passages that ties Holy Yahweh God's Covenant as One Spirit in the Body and Blood of Yahweh God's Offering of His only Begotten Son.

Having "therefore" brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest place by the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua, by a new and living Way, which He has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say His Flesh (The Bread of Life); and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith (in God's Word), having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience (by His Blood) and our bodies (of sin) washed with pure water (by God's Spirit of Holiness). ^{(See Hebrews 10 verse 19 thru 23.)}

Note that our fleshly bodies of sin were initially washed in the Baptism of Faith through the Fountain Water that flows from Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace IN Christ Jesus.

Let us understand that Yahweh God's TRUTH is the Person of Christ Jesus, for the True Bread of Heaven inaugurated IN Himself, the only Entrance into the very Holy of Holies made without hands and is through our Fellowship/Communion/Koinonia with Yahweh God's WORD of TRUTH. Now by the Faith of Christ Jesus, we have the True Entrance into heaven's Holiest Place into the Presence of His Holy, Holy, Holy Father, Yahweh, the Lord God Almighty. First the faithful would acknowledge within themselves of our failures in our own flesh and our dependency on Yahweh God's Covenant TRUTH. Then in the eating of the Bread of LIFE with true Faith IN Yahweh God, and drinking in of Christ's LIFEe giving Blood, we will have entered through the Veil of the Unleavened Bread of Christ's Body, having the spirit of our contrite minds, cleansed with Christ's purifying LIFE giving Blood of His Spirit of Grace.

This is My Blood of the New Covenant that is shed for many for the remission of sin.

Only absolute holiness will satisfy Yahweh God's Holy Requirements that permits one to come into His Presence. I AM the WAY, and I AM the TRUTH and I AM the ^{(Perfection of the)} LIFE of men: No one comes to the Father except by Me: Declares our High Priest, the TRUTH and the Man, Jesus Christ.

Elohim's HOLY WORD of the Promised Messiah established before the foundation of the world and established in the Garden of Eden, could not fail IN one jot or one title of the WORD of God for the Lamb of Yahweh God is the TRUTH of Eternity. The True Hebrew Lord Jesus Christ, the True Bread of Heaven, was born on Earth as the Son of Man, and yet Emmanuel the TRUTH must preside at His Table of Grace during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You will take notice in the Books of Matthew and Mark that while the disciples were yet eating of the animal flesh of the old Covenant, then Jesus/Yeshua brought to a close the old Covenant in the sacrificial blood of animals when He inaugurated His Father's Everlasting Covenant in the fullness of Christ's Body and Blood. For the WORD of God said:

Sacrifices and offerings Thou would not accept, but a body Thou prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou had no pleasure therein. Then said I: Lo, I come to do Thy will O God. ^{(See Hebrews 10 verse 4 thru 10 . (Now compare transliterated scripture with the Septuagint's correct Psalm 40 verse 6.)}

The author no doubt used the Greek Septuagint Scriptures for reference, but the word 'body' is missing in the English transliterations of Psalm 40 verse 5. The WORD, as the Christ of Yahweh God, fulfills the heart of the Scriptures;

for He takes away the first (covenant) that He may establish the second (Covenant). Take and eat: This IS My Body, given for you. Take and Drink, for this is My Blood of the New Covenant shed for the remission of sin.

Now with the Third Cup of Blessing, Jesus/Yeshua inaugurated God's New Covenant in His Life giving Blood, given for the remission of the current sins of admission for all baptized believers. In God's New Covenant for fallen mankind, Yahweh established His finale Eternal Covenant in the Perfect Sacrifice of the selfless Life of the Incarnate Son of Man/Adam. ^{(See Hebrews 9 verse 23 thru 28.)}

So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many: and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto Salvation. Whereby, we are set apart through the offering of the (Whole) Body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Yahweh God's Eternal Covenant, began with His Personal Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, and would be established with the incarnate birth of Emmanuel, and would be finished with the crucifixion death and resurrection of Jesus/Yeshua the Christ of Yahweh God, There are no more animal sacrifices by the Aarronic priesthood that only temporarily set aside the sin of man kind, but could not eradicate death. ^{(See Isaiah 66 verse 1 thru 4.)} The only Sacrifice that is pleasing to Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh, Father God of the Living, is the one selfless Sacrifice (Chagagah Offering) of His Lamb and only begotten Son Jesus Christ. The Lamb of God was God's WORD and God's Holy Spirit of LIFE and Grace would bring about the conception of Yahweh's WORD in the flesh of Man by impregnating with His Spirit the ovum from the genetic flesh of the Hebrew virgin Mary. The virgin Mary was the Last True genetic daughter from the genetic lineage of "Woman" (Ishshah), the wife of Adam that Elohim took from the side of the first Adam, "Man".

Yahweh God's New Covenant of Grace calls the baptized believers, circumcised or uncircumcised, to His Table of Grace, to participate in thankful remembrance of Christ's suffering and death for our sins, and then to rejoice IN Yahweh God's Holy Sanctifying Provisions of LIFE IN the Body of Christ with the LIFE giving Blood of Christ Jesus. The incarnate Son of Man, as the Holy One of Yahweh God Almighty, and being One with His Eternal Father, instituted at His Passover Table, with the Sanctifying Spirit of His Father's Word, the New Covenant of Grace IN His Life providing Blood.

Drink of this, all of you: For this is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sin. For God so Loved the World that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting Life. And to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My Word.

Jesus Christ alone, as the Son of Man, has met Yahweh God's Highest of Standards that is at the core of the Spirit of Yahweh God's Eternal Mind, so that His children born of Faith in Yahweh God's Salvation Gift of His Son have gained an entrance into the Holiest of Yahweh's Heavenly Tabernacle through God's faithful High Priest, Jesus Christ, made forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Yahweh God's New Covenant in the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ, was established on the evening of the Passover Feast of Unleavened Bread, and occurred hours before Jesus the Messiah of Yahweh God was crucified to death in the daylight hours on the 15th day of Nisan. Christ Jesus is the manifest Power and of the Wisdom of God Almighty, and as the Eternal WORD of His Father Yahweh, Jesus took the unleavened Bread and said to His disciples

After His Resurrection from the dead, Jesus said unto His Disciple: Thus it is written, and so it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
^{(See Luke 24 verse 45 thru 48.)}

The TRUTH of Yahweh God has spoken and His Holiness will not repent. Holy God has called man kind to repentance from our own destruction, knowing full well that the flesh of man has an arrogant tendency to subjugate the Word of God to accommodate its own self belief system of twisted theology. Unbelief, in the TRUTH of the WORD of God, perpetuates the self centered sins of the perishing flesh of our fallen humanity, and these same unrepentant sins, continues to bring death to relationships, as well as to our selves. But the Holy Spirit of the Eternal Light of God, is absolutely One with the Life and Soul that is in the Sacrificial Blood of His Lamb, God's Son, Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God's Word of Grace is a never-ending Wellspring of the Water of Salvation LIFE in Christ Jesus, and Yahweh God Almighty has given His Eternal Word "To Be" the renewal of New Covenant Life, to those, who have a new essence of mind and soul that lives by faith in the Sacrificial Life giving Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Life is in the Blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls. ^{(Leviticus 17 verse 11.)}

The offering of the life of a sacrificial beast of the field for the sins of the people, by a Levitical priest, had no permanency and perishes with its use from year to year. But the WORD of God having been made the flesh of the last Adam, was Yahweh God's innocent Lamb, born in the flesh of Man, and was crucified to death for the sin's of mankind, but because of His Holiness, the Christ of God was raised from the dead, through the Holy Spirit of the Eternal Yahweh God of LIFE, for the Eternal Yahweh God of the living raised the guiltless Man Christ Jesus from the dead. ^{(See Hebrews 10 verse 11 thru 14, and Hebrews 5 verse 8 thru 10.)}

If you will look at the above linked scriptures than you should perceive that sanctification is a continuing process after our initial cleansing and justification within God's Spirit of Water Baptism into the Body of Christ. Now the sons of God, who are being set apart from sin are led into an obedience to the Spirit of Life .

Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a Witness to us: for after that He had said before [hand]: This is the Covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put My laws into their hearts for in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is [their sins and iniquities of the flesh], there is no more offering for sin.^{(Hebrews 10 verse 15 thru 18.)}

Understand this: God's New Covenant is indeed, a one and done in the one selfless sacrificial death for sin by the Son of Man, Christ Jesus, and was confirmed with His Bodily resurrection over sin's power of death. There are no other offerings of animals or the works of man that will satisfy Holy Yahweh God Almighty. But in God's Wisdom, the Sanctification in the New Blood Covenant by Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace is not a one and done: For those who have entered into Yahweh God's New Covenant of Love in Jesus Christ, the Spirit of His Law's govern the heart of the matter. The Covenant Laws of His Kingdom, remain set in His two Great Commandments of Love, whereby His Covenant Provision for the remission of the transgressions of the flesh, affecting the the spirit of the mind and soul, are indelibly set in the Body and Blood of our High Priest, Jesus, the Christ of Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty.

The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at My Right Hand, until I make Thy enemies Thy footstool. The Lord has sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.^{(See verses in concert Psalm 2, and Psalm 110.)}

He that eats My Flesh and Drinks My Blood dwells IN Me and I IN Him. The Words I speak unto you, They are Spirit and They are Life.

The Salvation WORD of the Eternal Yahweh God is inextricably bound in the shed Blood of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus/Yeshua haMashiach. The Perfection of the LIFE of the Father, is the same Perfection of LIFE in His obedient Son. The LIFE of Christ over came the death of man, for His LIFE was given as a Perfect Sacrifice for sin's death through the shed Blood of the WORD of God that is Christ Jesus the Last Man/Adam. In Christ the Man, with His Resurrection from the dead, Yahweh God indeed magnified His WORD over His Name, for the Perfection of LIFE is IN His WORD, for Christ Jesus the incarnate Man, overcame humanity's corruption of sin and death with the LIFE that is of Holy His Father.

Then spoke Jesus again unto them, saying, I AM the Light of the world: he that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of LIFE. ^{(See John 6 verse 12, John 14 verse 6 thru 7.)}

This then is the message we have heard of Him and declare to you: That [Yahweh] God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all.

If there is no darkness whatsoever in Yahweh God of all Light, then where does that put us with our sins from decaying flesh?

If we say that we have "Communion" with Jesus, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not do the TRUTH: For if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have "Communion" one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin. ^{(See 1st John 1 verse 5 thru 10.)}

The Spirit of the Grace Yahweh God, delivers to us the Sacrificial LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ, so that we may have Communion/Koinonia/Fellowship with Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty, and with each other by the same Holy Spirit of Grace, for God is faithful and just to cleanse our confessed sins of the flesh. That which is yet hidden in me, myself and I, remains in our flesh of self idolatry.

There is no Love/Agapao in the darkness of sin, for the Almighty Yahweh God, does not have fellowship with our darkness. Holy, Holy, Holy God Almighty cannot not deny His Nature nor change His Nature to accommodate the dark nature of fallen man kind. But, in His Holy Nature there is yet Mercy for those of repentance who seek Yahweh God's Mercy in His Salvation WORD that brings LIFE to Faith within the new born souls of man kind. Jesus Christ is the Constancy of the WORD of the TRUTH of Yahweh God, Who created the universe, and holds all things together in subjection to His WORD of Infinite Power: And Jesus is the same constancy of TRUTH, Who sets the prisoner free from their chains of sin that shackles the fallen self centered nature of human flesh to death.

If we say we have no sin, then we deceive ourselves and the TRUTH is not in us.

If the TRUTH, Jesus Christ, is not in us, then we do not walk in fellowship with the Light of the world, and will be like the five foolish virgins with no oil in their lamps. The only entrance into the Wedding Feast will be closed to those souls who have no Light from the Spirit of God. ^{(Matthew 25 verse 1 thru 13.)}

If we say we have not sinned, We make God a liar and His WORD is not in us.

In any moment of time, all of God's covenant people will be forgetful hearers of the WORD and TRUTH of Yahweh God, setting our idolatrous selves as first, especially in our judgment of others with our own interpretation of scripture. The idolatrous deception of the flesh, within the neuronal mind of all of man kind, remains in a tangle of self idolatrous confusion. What we think in our own self justifying minds of flesh to be true and good for us, may be perceived as false and evil to others. Can you not hear the old mantras? "Do as I say and not as I do".

Then again, "Actions speak louder than words", and yet what is rightly heard should provoke right actions. Now consider Hannah's prayer:

There is none Holy as the Lord: for there is none beside Thee: neither is there any Rock like our God.Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogances come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of Knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. ^{(See 1st Samuel 2 verse1 thru 10.)}

In our day to day lives, even Christians are prone to forget that we were bought with a price, and that Price was the Sacrificial Sanctifying LIFE giving Blood of Yahweh God's Perfect Incarnate Son of Man, for Jesus, the Lamb of Yahweh God, Loved His Father, and us, perfectly. Having heard in our ears of flesh concerning Yahweh God's New Covenant Mercy, we now think we are OK in our own minds, and have safely arrived, so that we can do no wrong. We are all right in our own eyes, because our opinions of ourselves remains transfixed in the me, myself and I. The nature of the mind of flesh, even with those that say they are saved, causes us to esteem ourselves as being first, having a superior understanding of why we are right.

The subjective spirit of the flesh of our minds has not all of a sudden changed into total perfection, but in Truth, the spirit of our minds requires an ongoing metamorphic change by the cutting edges of the Sword of the Spirit that is one with the LIFE Saving Blood of Jesus Christ. When we come to Christ Jesus, our unseen souls may be saved, having our past sins of the former old man dissolved in the Holy Spirit's Serum Waters of our Baptism into Christ Jesus, but the question remains: What do we do with the demands of the innate sin of selfish flesh that is ingrained within our fallen humanity?

Who can understand this continuing battle that we have with the flesh of our minds? The sin within our unredeemed flesh, blinds us, so that we may no longer see ourselves as sinners of omission or commission, but already perfected once and for all time. The error lies with the teachers that only teach that Christ's Sacrifice is done once and for all, but fail to understand and convey that Christ's Sacrifice transcends space and time, and His Covenant WORD remains effectual for covenant members of His Body that are nevertheless, sinners of the flesh. Yes, we absolutely agree that Christ Jesus died once for the forgiveness of the sins of the whole world, but because we yet live in this flesh we still need to appropriate Yahweh God's merciful forgiveness, beginning with our humility that repents before Holy Yahweh God, and acknowledges our need of Yahweh God's New Covenant repair through His Holy Spirit within the Life Blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. But without partaking of Yahweh God's Remedy IN New Covenant Faith, we can be sure that our self loving sin will find us out.

But the Almighty God is Love, and in the Almighty's Covenant of Love and Mercy, He provides through His Holy Spirit of Grace, the Sanctifying LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ's overcoming Love, given for each and every repentant member of His Body. For he that drinks the Blood of the New Covenant in Faith, shall little by little be cut off from the old sinful nature of the flesh.

For we are to endeavor to be renewed in the spirit of our mind: And that we would put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. ^{(Ephesians 4 verse 23 thru 24.)}

In the revealing visionary dream, that we called "Seeing the Sword of the Spirit", Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace confirmed to me of the absolute importance of the Covenant Blood of our Lord Yeshua! Yahweh God's New Blood Covenant with man, through Yahweh God's Spirit of refreshing Grace, may be continually ratified within each of the believers, with our active participation in the Communion Body and the shed Blood of Yahweh God's very own WORD and the TRUTH of His Son Jesus Christ.

For we being many are One Bread and One Body: For we are all partakers of that One Bread (of Heaven). For the WORD of GOD says: This is My Blood of the New Covenant shed for many for the remission of sin.

So then, every time we come together to worship Yahweh God as the Body of Christ, it should be to participate in our Savior's Body, whose members we are, and drink of the Spirit of His Sanctifying LIFE Blood that covers the multitude of confessed and unknown sins. In the collective Body of Jesus, we come to worship Yahweh God, in Spirit and Truth within the exaltation of the spirit of our heart and soul, and not with the encumbrances of our self centered flesh. The New Covenant LIFE, in the Power of Yahweh God, is made possible by WAY of the Blood of the Lamb of God, slain from before the foundation of the world: To which end, we would glorify Yahweh God IN our Faith IN Him, where all things are possible.

I AM the True Vine, and My Father is the Husbandman, every branch in Me that does not bears fruit HE takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, He purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

"Behold the Living Sacrifice", I heard the priest of God cry out. The experience of the powerful visionary dream, left an indelible imprinting upon my mind and soul. The whole experience left a profound affect on my spiritual understanding of the Sword of the Spirit of God, and the Power of the Blood of Jesus Christ.

That Sword of Yahweh God's Spirit is the very WORD of GOD, that is Jesus Christ. The WORD, the Lord Yeshua haMashiach, is One with the whole Blood of the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. The piercing by Holy God's Sword of the Spirit seemingly separated my soul from the spirit of my being, leaving me to ponder my own execution by the Sword of GOD, and yet remaining alive at the same time. Death and Life are in the Hands of God, for Yahweh wields His Sword with precision, cutting down through the joints and bones to the very marrow of who we think we are in our religious flesh. There is not one thought nor actions of our being that are not open to the Eyes of the Almighty God. The Infinite King of the universe, in His Righteousness, will judge all manner of things according to His moral design of His creation.

In the Song of Moses, we witness that God's Sword of the Spirit, is continually giving warnings of His judgment to the forgetful nation of Israel. With their failures to heed God's warnings, then His judgment will weigh on them until all of their willfull strength is extinguished. In the end of days, the patience of the Lord Yahweh God Almighty will deliver His compassion ON Christ Jesus upon His chosen people, and Israel will be saved from total death. However, the Psalm also speaks to the rebellious sinners and enemies of God. Will they heed God's judgment stroke upon all who are not mindful of the Blessed Creator, and be saved from their death. So then for all the enemies of God who desire to be saved from death's destruction, then listen with attentive ears:

"See now that I, even I AM He, and there is no god with Me: ^1stI kill, and ^2ndI make alive: ^1stI wound, and ^2ndI heal: neither is there any that can deliver (themselves) out of My Hand". ^{(Deuteronomy 32 verse 39).}Notice the order: ^1st I kill, and ^2nd I make alive;^1st I wound and ^2ndI heal."

For the Word of God is a living two-edged Sword, cutting to the very marrow of who we are, even to the separating the soul from the spirit. ^{(See Hebrews 4 verse 12.)} God's Holy Spirit of Life speaking through the writings of Hosea, declares:

"In their distress they will beg My favor, saying: Come, let us return to the LORD; for it is ^1stHe Who has torn (us), and ^2ndHe will heal us; ^1stHe has struck down, and ^2ndHe will bind us up. After two days He will revive us ^{(from the grave)}: On the third day He will raise us up ^{(from the grave)}that we may live before Him". ^{(Hosea 5 verse 15 and chapter 6 verse 1 thru 3).}

The Infinitely Holy Yahweh God knows exactly who we are in our sinful flesh, and thereby knows us far better than we know ourselves. If we sinners submit ourselves to the LORD of the universe, then IN His Mercy He will remove the sting of sin and raise us up from the grave yard of our death. God's WAY is in His Son, for Jesus the Christ of God is the Only WAY we will find the TRUTH and the LIFE that is given for the resurrection of dead men. When the changed heart of man receives the Living Spirit IN the Blood of Jesus Christ, then the Sword of God's Spirit will operate with precision against the unseen enemy of our minds and souls. Yes, the LIFE giving Blood of Christ Jesus still cries out from the earth in mercy given for the sake of earthen vessels: Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. Father Yahweh God's Love for His beloved Son of Righteousness, mediates mercy in Christ's Love and obedience to His Father God. Wherefore, the Almighty gives to the people of God the renewing of LIFE that flows from Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of LIFE IN Christ Jesus.

Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, is both our High Priest and the King of Glory, and from His Eternal Throne He mediates through God's Holy Spirit, His Grace and Mercy unto the souls of men who are faithful to His Call. With our Spiritual unity and fellowship within the Body of our High Priest and the King of kings, then Communion is a true renewing celebration of Christ's victory over our sin and death, so that when we eat of the unleavened Bread of Heaven and drink of the Blood of the New Covenant, “We do show our Lord’s death ^{[for our sins,]} till He comes in His Glory and Power”.

I kill and I make alive, declares the Sword of God's Holy Spirit: I wound and I heal. The death of Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, derived from the genetics of the first Man/Adam, is TO BE fully commemorated in the Communion LIFE Giving Blood of Yeshua haMashiach, for His Blood is LIFE to the Body of Christ's believers. So then, the Holy LIFE that IS IN Sacrificial Blood of the resurrected Messiah Yeshua might abound in the earthly flesh of the called people of Yahweh God Almighty. Sin kills and is evidenced in its dominion by death. ^{(See Romans 5 verse 21.)} The Fact remains that the innocent Meaaiah of God died with the shedding of His LIFE giving Blood to assuage our sins of death. The Son of Man died once and for all time, for in His resurrected perfection into the LIFE of His Holy Father Yahweh God, the unblemished Lamb of The Eternal God of the Living can never die again. Death, as a result of sin's rebellion, has lost its dominion in the death of Jesus Christ and with His resurrection into the Eternal LIFE of His Holy Father, Yahweh Lord God Almighty. The Righteousness of the Man, Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah, brings LIFE to all that would believe IN Him as The WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE of men. ^{(See Romans 6 verse 9 thru 11.)}

And so it is with the faithful members that abide by Living Faith in the Body of the BRANCH that is the Lord our Righteousness. I kill and I make alive, says Holy God's Sword of the Spirit: I wound and I heal. For He [the Salvation of God] was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities; for the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, for by His stripes we are healed, (from our sins.)

The English word 'stripes' is transliterated from the Hebrew word chabburah {khab-boo-raw'} and its root chabar {khaw-bar'}. If you click on the word stripes and then its origin, you will see that it's meaning is in conjunction with the accumulated wounding that brought death to the innocent crucified Messiah, for Jesus/Yeshua was Yahweh God's Lamb sacrificed for the sins of the world. The flesh of men can parse scripture to satisfy their own presumptions, and leave off the whole of the Word of TRUTH. The scourging of the Messiah took place at the very first of His passion, and not at the last or end of His passion, for Pilot sought to release the innocent Jesus Christ, so as to offset the boisterous people's demand for Christ's crucifixion death. The Scriptural Word of God would not have put the cart before the horse. It is impossible that Jesus/Yeshua haMashiach could have been released with a scourging, and not be wounded to death in His crucifixion for the sin's of humanity. But, All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him [Christ] the iniquity of us all. For the transgression of My people was He [Messiah] stricken.

The apostle Peter quotes this same passage in Isaiah 53 but he set it in its righteous context. Peter knows that The Innocent Lord Jesus Christ suffered His wounds of death on the cross to satisfy Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty of the sins of man-kind. The Righteous Man, Jesus Christ was sacrificed for the unrighteousness that became endemic in the person of all of man-kind. ^"Jesus Himself bore our sins in His Body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness: By His wounds [stripes] you have been healed. For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls." ^{(See NIV 1st Peter 2 verse 21 thru 25.)} Even though the body of a person may have experienced Divine healing, nevertheless, the physical body of all of mankind sees corruption because of the disease of catastrophic sin. The TRUTH stands Eternally IN the risen Christ's victory over death, for the Righteous Lord Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world so that the finality of sin's death over mankind does not have its victory over the trusting soul. The dying soul of a believing person was healed of their past sins through their confession of faith in Yahweh's WORD of TRUTH. The old way of the man of sin is dead, so that the new person in Christ may endeavor to live in the Righteousness of their Living Savior, and not end up succumbing to the death of unrighteous of sin.

There are many of the protestant evangelical churches that remain dismissive of God's Doctrine where His WORD of TRUTH institutes the New Covenant in the Salvation Life Giving Blood of Jesus Christ. The pulpit leaders confess their one time salvation doctrine, but in the confusion that dwells within their sinful flesh, they twist God's WORD to appeal to the flesh of man. For the most part, the pulpit preachers love to hear the praises from the pews of sinners like themselves. Alleluias are shouted from the pulpit, and then the pompous preachers, turn their brazen faces to hear the barking accolades coming from the wooden pews. Jesus Christ died, so that in His death, the faithful are to consider themselves TO BE dead to the sinful influences that call in the flesh: For in the Messiah's Spirit of LIFE, the believer is TO BE alive in Christ's resurrection IN the Everlasting Power of Yahweh the God of the Living.

Understand the Word of TRUTH, for in Communion, through God's Holy Spirit of Grace, we are commemorating within the spirit of our minds our own death to sin, IN the death of Jesus Christ. For by God's Gift of Faith, the members that abide IN the Unleavened Bread of Heaven, should IN Thanksgiving to Yahweh, rejoice in the Eternal LIFE of Yeshua/Jesus; for sin could not hold the innocent Man Christ Jesus in death's grave, for the Christ of God is rise indeed. God Almighty has glorified His WORD, for the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Last Son of Adam, is resurrected INTO the LIFE of His Holy Father, Yahweh God Almighty.

There is in the liturgy of some churches, a verbal commemorations that proclaims: Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again. In coming again, the Messiah will receive to Himself, His very own children of resurrected faith in the Salvation Gift of their High Priest, Who is One with His Holy Father Yahweh Lord God Almighty.

In the fullness of God's New Covenant IN the Life giving Blood of Jesus Christ, sin shall not have dominion over the faithful believer in Christ Jesus. Jesus' absolute victory over our sins, liberates our consciences from the condemnation of our confessed sin that is innate within our flesh. The Blood of Jesus Christ is God's healing LOVE and forgiveness, given in exchange for our iniquities that warrant death. For the Almighty has made Jesus, Who knew no sin, to be sin for us that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him [Jesus Christ]. O the depth of the riches, both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His Ways past finding out! ^{(See 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 21 and Romans 11 verse 33.)}

The flesh of our being is not redeemed, for it is of the earth, and will return to the earth as dust, for it remains subject to the influence of sin that brings corruption and death. But if the mind of our redeemed heart reveals our lack of love, then it is time for the confession of our sins of guilt to be mediated through our High Priest and King, the Lord Jesus Christ. In humility, we individually show our total dependency on the Lord, and submit to His spiritual Covenant Provisions that are One with His Holy Life. Those Provisions from God's Spirit of Grace enable us to confirm within our own minds, the death of our willful nature, when it present itself with our sinful failures and accompanying condemnations. Through our faith in the faithful Word of our High Priest, we rest in the knowledge of His Grace at His Altar Table of Grace. His WORD of Grace gives us full assurance that He is willing and able to accomplish His Living Word with in each of us. We agree with God's Covenant in the Life Giving Blood of Jesus Christ, and are seeing ourselves as having died to the rule of sinful flesh, thus abandoning the whole of ourselves to the rule of God's Will, in the care and reproof of His Holy Spirit of Grace. God's Grace through His Holy Spirit enables the Life of His Son to flourish within us, making the believer fruitful IN the True Vine, all to the Glory of Yahweh God Almighty.

I AM the Vine you are the Branches. He that lives in Me, and I Live in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without Me (the True Vine) you can do nothing. ^{(John 15 verse 5.)}

If a person does not live in the Vine that is Jesus Christ, then as Jesus/Yeshua declares: For without Me, you can do no nothing!
Without Jesus Christ, the Vine, then no one can produce the Fruit of the Vine.

Therefore, in God's new Covenant, through the power of the Life giving Blood of our Lord and High Priest Jesus Christ, sin is to have no continuing dominion over those that are in the process of dying to carnal self through the New Covenant LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ, and thereby remain alive in the True Vine.

Hear now, O Joshua the High Priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: For they are men of wonder: for behold, I will bring forth My Servant the BRANCH. ^{(Zechariah 3 verse 7 thru 9.)}

How remarkable is this dichotomy of opposite branching reactions brought about through the Covenant Life giving Blood of Jesus Christ. On the one hand, Jesus is our Sin offering: This one branch of the Lord's righteous judgment brings death to our body of sin.

For, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

In God's cleansing through Christ' living Blood, there is a death process to “The old wretched man or woman of death".

For, Truly, truly, I say unto you, except a kernel of wheat fall into earth and die, it remains as wheat: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit. He that loves his life shall loose it; while the man who hates his life in this world shall preserve it in Life Eternal. If any man serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I AM, there shall also My servant be: If any man serve Me, Him will My Father honor. ^{(John 12 verse 24 thru 26)}.

Now, on the other hand, the Lord Jesus Christ is our Peace Offering: This faithful Branch brings renewed Life and nurturing Love for the new creation of man. The man of Faith is empowered by God's Holy Spirit of Living Grace through the same Communion Covenant Blood that ameliorates sin. ^{(See 1st Colossians 1 verse 19-21, and Hebrews 10 verse 19-22.)} Sin and death can not coexist within the Righteousness of Christ, for the Righteousness of God is merited through the Love of God in Christ Jesus. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. ^{(Matthew 12 verse 33).} What is your produce? In God's pruning process for His trees of righteousness, the old dead wood of sin, is cut off to make way for the new branches cultivated in God's Love. Through the Love of Christ, we are to bear the fruit of righteousness that IN Christ Jesus that speaks of the Holiness of Father God.Now you are clean through the Word, which I have spoken unto you. Live on in Me, and I will Live in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it lives IN the vine, neither can you bear fruit, unless you live in Me. If a man does not abide IN Me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered, and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned. If you live in Me, and My Word lives in you, then you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. Here in is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be My followers. ^{(John 15 verse 3 thru 8.)}

The death of self centeredness through the Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ.
Live on in Me, and I will Live in you.

For every time you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes. ^{(1st Corinthian 11 verse 26)}. Now you are clean through the Word, which I have spoken unto you. Live on in Me, and I will live in you. ^{(John 15 verse 2 thru 3.)}

And they, the brethren, overcame Satan and sin by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life unto the death. ^{(Revelation 12 verse 11.)}

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ Living in me: and that LIFE of Jesus Christ, which I now live in the flesh, I live in faith, the faith, which is IN the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself up for me. ^{(Galatians 2 verse 20 .)}

In ourselves, we have done nothing to merit such an infinitely wonderful gift of God's Spirit of Life. Now, as the called children of God, we may participate in the fullness of the Lord's Covenant Life of Love, even while we exist in flawed earthen vessels. God's Eternal Provisions of mercy and love, are extended to those who from the depths of their being, participate in the New Covenant Life Blood of Jesus Christ, and are not shaken from the Tree of LIFE, at the Lord's rebuke and sword of correction. For whom the Father Loves He corrects; "For when we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse (and purge) us of all unrighteousness" through the Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ. ^{(In full context 1 John 1 verse 7 thru 9).} For we, which have been baptized into the death of Christ Jesus, and live accordingly in God's New Blood Covenant, "are always delivered unto death" for our own fleshly sins of self idolatry by the Hand of God, for Jesus' sake. What is the chaff (the stubble) to the wheat? says the LORD. Is not My Word like as a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the rock into pieces? ^{(Jeremiah 23 verse 28 thru 29.)} John the Baptist says: I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. But He that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. ^{(Matthew 3 verse 11 thru 13.)}

Having entered into Covenant with God, the writer in the letter called Hebrews reminds his Jewish readers of a previous exhortation, given in their assembly. "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him, for whom the Lord loves, He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives". ^{(Hebrews 12 verse 5 thru 7.)} In the following table we have a list of 10 branching reactions of the LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ that we see as being attributed to the two-edged sword of the Spirit of God. The one branch brings death, and the other branch gives life with peace in Holy God.

Yahweh's Holy Spirit is at work in the cleansing process of His people born of the Faith of Christ Jesus.

While living by Faith IN Christ Jesus, Paul and the other writers of the Gospel have abdicated the will of their minds, into the hand of the only Holy Lord God of the Living. God's Holy Spirit hones all of His yielded earthen vessels into righteous instruments that show forth God's Great Salvation Gift for man-kind and thereby bring Glory to the Creator of Life. Paul writes to the Corinthians of his manifest trials that do not shake him IN his faith IN Jesus/Yeshua, God's Holy One Who leads and the One Paul follows. It is God with Whom we have to do, that makes all things to work together for our good, according to His designed Will and purpose of bringing sons and daughters into the Kingdom of His Son. The Lord disciplines those whom He loves, and although the chastening appears severe in the moment of our time, the outcome in glory, far out weighs the present grief. No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening, it is painful! But afterward there will be a quiet harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way. So take a new grip with your tired hands and stand firm on your shaky legs. Mark out a straight path for your feet. Then those who follow you, though they are weak and lame, will not stumble and fall, but will become strong. ^{(Hebrews 12 verse 11 thru 13).} May God forbid that we, in our ignorance of His Holiness, would become stumbling blocks for others that would follow in the WAY of Righteousness that abides IN Jesus Christ.

Paul preaches the true Gospel through the power of the two-edged Sword of God's Holy Spirit. Paul's letters of exhortation to the Ecclesia, are written to strengthen their faith in the hearing of the Word of God, and encourage them in the straight and narrow way they are called to walk, even as he was called to faithfully walk after Jesus Christ. God has led him into and through fiery trials that in the exercising of his faith, Paul's mind becomes conformed to the Will of God, proving what is good, and what is acceptable in the Sight of God. Through Jesus Christ and His cross, Paul sees the working of death, in that which is good, for it separate the new man IN Christ from his own idolatrous self, so that the intercessory Life of Jesus Christ alone, is made manifest in the life of others. Nothing is hid in our darkness, and all of our thoughts are naked before the Holy Spirit of God. In the Light of His Word, God's One Holy Spirit reveals to the Ecclesia of our needful dependency upon Yahweh God's New Covenant in the Life giving Blood IN Christ Jesus: For Almighty God is faithful and just to cleanse Christ's followers of all their confessed unrighteousness through the Fountain of His Serum Water and Blood that poured from the wounds of Christ Jesus, for They are One with the Spirit of Holy God.

The following scriptures and spiritual analysis are presented to you for your thoughtful and prayerful consideration, for they concern the efficacious reasons why we eat and drink of the Holy Spirit's Presentation of the real Body and real Blood, of Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah). Paul's rendering in 1st Corinthians 11 verse 26 is amplified thus: "For every time you eat this Bread and drink this Cup, you are representing ^{(with in yourself and to the world)} and signifying ^{(with in yourself and to the world)} and proclaiming to the world the fact of the Lord's death (for our sins) until He comes again. "With in yourself and to the world" is added to clarify the ongoing thoughts. Hopefully, all that is written in these pages will be understood, and provoke the reader to a deeper walk and Communion/Koinonia/Fellowship with our Just and Holy God of Love and Mercy, and with each other in the Holy Body of Jesus Christ.

For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son. That whosoever believes in His Son should not perish, but have Eternal Life. ^{(John 3 verse 16 .)}

I have given: God has given the Life IN the Blood of His only begotten Son, as an Infinite Sacrifice for the sins of the world. Blood gives life to the flesh, and the Flesh of Jesus Christ is One with His Holy Father God Almighty, and likewise the Blood of Jesus Christ that is One with His Body is One with His Father Yahweh God. The LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ that supplied LIFE to the Body of the Son of Adam is Eternal Life, for His LIFE Blood is Eternally One with His Eternal Father Yahweh God Almighty. To wit, that God was IN Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us His Word of reconciliation. ^{(2nd Corinthians 5 verse 19.)}

In God's New Blood Covenant of LIFE, God poured out the full cup of His Righteous Judgment upon His Perfect Sacrificial Lamb, for Christ was the scapegoat for the blood guiltiness of all of man kind. The Son of Man, Jesus Christ, saw within the cup that He was to drink, the abominations of mankind and knew of Holy God's full judgment against man's sin. For He has made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.. Then Yeshua/Jesus prayed three times that He would not have to drink from that cup of His Father's indignation. O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: Nevertheless, not as I will, but according to Thy will. Holy God's Judgment was poured out in His fury upon His Only Begotten Son, for He was made to be Sin for all of man kind, For it pleased YAHWEH to bruise Him, He has put Yeshua to grief; when thou shall make His Soul and Offering for sin. YAHWEH shall see the travail of His Soul and shall be satisfied, because My righteous Servant has poured out His Soul unto death, baring the sin of many, and made intersession for the transgressors. ^{(See Matthew 26 verse 39 and Isaiah 53 verse 10 thru 11)}

Christ Jesus, the Son of Man/Adam, presented His Soul to God Almighty as an unblemished Offering for sin, and with His Offering of Himself, He would make peace with God, for all those who would have faith in mankind's Supreme Representative before Holy God Almighty. In the celebration of the three major feast of the Lord, all of the males of age were absolutely required of God to present themselves before the Almighty and to bring a presentation offering that would be sacrificed for sin as a peace offering. The required offering was called the Chagigah or Hagigah. With His death on the cross, Jesus the Christ of God, as the Son of the first Adam presented His sinless self as the Chagigah, (Presentation Offering) to satisfy God's Wrath against the sin of man-kind. There are no more sacrifices of any kind, for God presented to Him Self, His own Chagigah in His resurrected Word and Son, as the Representative Son of Man, meaning the first Adam.

Again we hear the Scriptures of Life say: For He (Yahweh) has made Him (Yeshua) to be sin ---- for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. ^{(2nd Corinthians 5 verse 21 .)} We, being the corrupted offspring from the loins of Adam, were that violence and filth of sin that has contaminated the whole of the earth with violence. The flesh of the natural man is offended in the reality of the Face of the TRUTH. If Jesus Christ, was made to be sin for us, then what does that in reality make each one of us? Were we not within the whole of our being of flesh, soul and spirit of mind, the very nature of controlling sin that breeds death? Our death, is a result of the innate iniquities within our bodies of flesh that are corrupted thru and thru, and in the end will be reduced to nothing but the dust and ashes of the earth.

It is our unloving nature of sin that defiled Jesus Christ, God's Unleavened Bread of Heaven, for Holy One of God came down to be the unblemished Sacrificial Lamb of God?

For Holy God Almighty so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son. That whosoever believes in His Son should not perish, but have Eternal Life. Yahweh Father God Almighty was well pleased with the Love and Obedience of the Son of Man so that Jesus' Body did not see corruption, but God's Yeshua/Salvation was Bodily raised in the LIFE of the Spirit of God.

The Love of God overcomes this World of sin and death, and His manifest Love constrains us while we dwell in this body of flesh. And Jesus took a cup, and when He had given thanks, (to His Father God) He gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you; for this is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins. ^{(Matthew 26 verse 27 thru 28 .)} Do this in remembrance of Who I AM.

I AM poured out like water, and all My bones are out of joint: My Heart is like wax, it is melted within My Breast: My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My Tongue cleaves to My Jaws: Thou dost lay Me in the dust. ^{(Psalm 22 verse 14 thru 15.)}

The Lord of Life took upon Himself the fullness of guilt for all of mankind's violence to mankind, and ultimately to God the Creator of life. From Adam's defection in the Garden of Eden to this present destructive generation, this violence of sin has made the whole earth polluted in the blood of man. Scripture confirms this premise, for the Lord says to Moses: So you shall not pollute the land where in you are: For blood, it defiles the land: And the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there in, but by the blood of him that shed it. ^{(Numbers 35 verse 33.)}

God, in His mercy to mankind, laid on the innocent Man, Jesus Christ, the full responsibility and guilt for all the blood shed by the hand of all of mankind. Even as this is remarkably true of the Branch, a very powerful mitigating factor In His Blood is now also present in the earth to give Life to the souls of men who died in Faith of the God of the Living.

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. ^{(Isaiah 26 verse 19.)}Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast led captivity captive: Thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them. Blessed be the Lord Who daily loads us with benefits, even our God of Salvation. ^{(See Psalm 68 verse 18 thru 21, and Ephesians 4 verse 8.)} Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. ^{(1st John 3 verse 2.)}

The scripture reads in Leviticus 17 verse 10: If anyone, whether of the house of Israel or of the aliens residing among them, partakes of any blood, I will set Myself against that one who partakes of blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

In the garden of Gethsemane, the Lord Jesus Christ saw the horror of the full cup of the abominations of mankind, containing adultery, fornication, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, wrath, disputes, sedition, heresies, envying, murder, drunkenness and orgies and the list of violence goes on. The Lord Jesus, as the Son of Man, voluntarily drank the fullness of the cup of wrath filled with the blood guiltiness of all mankind, and became fully the sin of all the generations of humanity. The Lord, while on the cross, consumed the climax of this cup of blood guiltiness, ending when the soldier offered to Him a sponge dipped in sour wine attached to the branch of the hyssop. After the Lord partook of the sour wine, He cried out; "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me", and then He said; "It is finished", and then gave up His Spirit. (See John 19 verse 28 thru 30.) He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of My people was He stricken. ⁽^{Isaiah 53 verse 8).} With the whole of His person being made the filthiness of the sin of all humanity, our Lord Jesus Christ, suffers death for mankind along with God's absolute indignation and total rejection of sin and its damnable nature.

Truly, Truly, I say unto you; except a kernel of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. ^{(John 12 verse 24).} And the one Seed becomes a plurality, and yet the same as from the beginning.

Every time the redeemed of the Ecclesia comes together, they should faithfully participate in Holy Communion. Each faithful covenant member of the Lord's Body is to remember that the Life Blood of Jesus Christ, became the Infinite God's absolute purchase price for our redemption from sin and death. Upon drinking the Covenant Communion Life Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, we are submitting ourselves to the Will of God, and through our repentance from sin, the old trappings of our carnal man are being cut off, or circumcised by God's Sword of the Spirit. This is so that the new spiritual man IN Jesus may prevail IN the Life of God's Only Begotten Son. On our part, we willingly remain in covenant agreement with our baptism into the Lord’s death to sin. On God's part, unless we resist, we are surgically being cut off from the life of sin, so that we may continually arise into the new life of faithful service, being Graced by God's Spirit of Grace into the Sacrificial Love of God. In the God-ward process, we are becoming the new created genus of man IN Jesus Christ, but in God's pruning, we are also becoming aliens from the nature of worldly man. See, How great a Love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. But we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.^{(1st John 3 verse 1 thru 2.)}

The natural man does not understand the Holy Things of God, and so he will not understand the zeal of God's new man in Christ Jesus. If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you! "No servant is greater than his master." If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed My teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of My Name, for they do not know the One Who sent Me. ^{(John 15 verse 18 thru 21 NIV).} For all, who walk in the WAY of the Lord, there will come separations and the cutting off of the old associated nature of man through circumcision by the Sword of the Spirit: For the Word of God is One with the Covenant Life Blood of Jesus Christ. For the Lord, while praying to His Father, says of His Disciples: “They are not of this world, even as I AM not of the world. Sanctify them through thy TRUTH: Thy Word is TRUTH". If we liken ourselves as dead to sin through faith in the One Who has died for our sin, then we are being cut off from this world of sin, and separated from our confessed iniquities. For God is faithful to His Word and His Covenant of LIFE in the Blood of His Son Jesus Christ. The Almighty will sanctify the faithful with the Sword of His Spirit, because He is not wiling that any of His children should perish in their death. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial, which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when His glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. If you be reproached for the Name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of Glory and of God rests upon you: On their part He is evil spoken of, but on your part He is glorified. ^{(1st Peter 4 verse 12 thru 14.)}

For the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. ^{(Deuteronomy 30 verse 6.)}If the Love of God through Jesus Christ is to permeate one's life, then in the trying of our faith, there are the possibilities of being devastated emotionally within our beings, being set on fire by the unloving judgments of our fellow man. The results can be especially catastrophic, when we find ourselves cut off from family members who do not know the Spirit of the Living God of Creation. And yet we are to be more than conquers IN Christ Jesus, Who Loves us. "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a SWORD. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's foes will be those of his own household. He who loves father or mother more than Me, is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me, is not worthy of Me; and he who does not take up his cross and follow Me, is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me, receives Him Who sent Me. He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward, and he who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. And whoever gives to one of these little ones, even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward. ^{(Matthew 10 verse 34 thru 42.)}For the Lord God says: "Whosoever drinks the Blood, I will cut him off from among his people". God, in allowing the trials of our lives, gives no ground, for the earthly man, who is born of God's Spirit, to fall back upon the familiar things of the earth. Jesus says; "No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back (to the things he left behind) is fit for the kingdom of God". ^{(In context St Luke 9 verse 59 thru 62)}. That which is of the earth, is earthly, and shall perish, but that which is born again of God's Spirit of LIFE, is that person, who looks to the eternal things of God's Kingdom and His Glory. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose Life, that both you and your seed may live: That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey His voice, and that you may cleave unto Him, for He is your LIFE: ^{(See full context Deuteronomy 30 verse 19 thru 20.)}

Now, perhaps, the spiritually circumcised person, who has a new heart seeking after God in His New Covenant, may come to a better understanding of their difficulties with family, and friends and with in themselves. Yea, and all who will live godly, in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution. ⁽^{2nd Timothy 3 verse 12).} But, blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake. ^{(Matthew 5 verse 11.)}Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry. They are surprised that you do not now join them in the same wild profligacy, and they abuse you. ⁽^{1st Peter 4 verse 3 thru 4 .)}

Jesus said unto His disciples, If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake, shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? ^{(Matthew 16 verse 24 thru 26.)}

The first Commandment of understanding is: I AM the Lord thy God, there are no gods before Me. Neither shall you setup or build any image of worship that is in heaven or earth. From the time of the fall of Adam and his wife Ishshah, whom we know after the fact as Eve, the whole of mankind's life has been centered in self love, and not in the LIFE and Love of their Creator God. However, in His Grace, Jesus Christ the Word of His Father, has called all who shall hear, to be His followers into His LIFE, that is centered as the Love of the Eternal Father God. The Love of God is Jesus Christ, and the Lord declares: I AM The WAY and The TRUTH and The LIFE, no man can come to the Father except by Me. All of the Words of Jesus Christ are for the tearing down of the old corruption of sinful man, and the enabling of the new man birthed IN LIFE of Christ Jesus.

The Lord Jesus Christ has called His people IN to the WAY of His Holy LIFE, whereby the hearer would shoulder their own cross, an instrument of death, and with conviction in His WORD of TRUTH, they would follow the Lord of LIFE. The individual's cross has the spiritual signature of the Eternal God written upon it IN the Life giving Blood of the Man Christ Jesus. The LIFE of God is Eternal as is the Perfection of His Word that was Spiritually conceived IN the flesh of a virgin Woman, the Hebrew female offspring of Man/Adam. ^{(See Genesis 3 verse 15 and Isaiah 7 verse 14 thru 16.)} Evil's corruption of death could not hold the crucified Son of Man/Adam in the grave for Yeshua/Jesus was the Perfection of LIFE, for He Loved and Trusted, to the utmost, His Holy Eternal Father of LIFE. The Perfection of LIFE is IN the Perfection of the Love and Obedience of the Only Begotten Son of God.

The Wisdom of the Eternal WORD of God taught His followers that the singularity of a Kernel of Corn, when buried in its death, gives rise to an abundance of its own Kind. O the depth of the riches, both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God. ^{(See the whole Romans 11 verse 33 thru 36.)} For the death of the earthly, gives rise to those who Love the Eternal Lord God, and believe IN the Promised abundance of LIFE IN the heavenly Christ Jesus. The individual cross that God has signed for each of us to carry, is where we begin to deny our self centeredness and begin to put to death the idolatrous nature of myself being first, for IN humility we are to follow on a daily basis the WAY of the Lord of LIFE Jesus Christ. ^{(See Matthew 16 verse 24.)} The ultimate paradox within the Wisdom of God is that for a man to save his life, he must lose his life for the sake of Jesus Christ, the Living WORD of Yahweh God.

But let's face the TRUTH. On a day-to-day basis, we are not very good at the denial of self and the bearing of our cross of affliction and the death of our old nature. Our questionable absolute love of God, will eventually give way to our flesh, which expects a reward even for our little devotion to God. From our very beginnings in this limited life, we are all partakers of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and the root of self determination and judgment remains ingrained within our flesh. Man, male and female, changed in the Garden of Eden, for in their lust, they ate of the poisonous fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and died in their unbelief. Perhaps the readers think that all is well with them, for in their earthly wisdom they would only choose to eat of the Good and naturally spurn the Evil. However it is one fruit of good and evil, and the one fruit is derived from the one tap root of the idolatrous Tree of Knowledge that only breeds death. In one individual, their seemingly good choice maybe seen as evil to another individual, and vice versa as individual opinions are naturally rendered as contradictory belief. For all time, man's truth is arbitrary. Self idolatry is rooted in the Tree of Knowledge, for whether the choice is Good or Evil the self serving choice is derived from the one tap root that is encompassed as one in the substance of our minds of self centered subjection. The Apostle Paul's new understanding of himself is echoed for us in His writings, for he says; "I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me". ^{(Romans 7 verse 21).} The unseen fact is that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is the source of the renegade Law of Sin and Death.

Self is subject to its own individual judgments. In the course of untimely and catastrophic events, we inevitably find ourselves lost in ourselves with the perplexities of seemingly inward failing grace. Then depending on the circumstances, we don't understand how this could have happened to us, or how we could have made such a mess of things. Darkness surrounds us, as we sink into the dark mire of self, causing us to loose sight of God. Perhaps at this time of failure, we might recall to remembrance Paul's lamenting words: "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank Yahweh God through Jesus Christ our Lord." ^{(In context Romans 7 verse 24 thru 25.)}Thankfully, our God, through the Light of His Son Jesus Christ, is faithful and just to the hearer and doer of His WORD.

For if we walk in the Light as He is the Light of the World, then we have fellowship one with another because the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive our selves and Christ the TRUTH is not in us. (1st John 1 verse

There are many theological philosophers and so called fundamental pastors that deny the unseen Grace in God's Communion in the unseen LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ that Holy Gods' Spirit of Grace gives to cleanse the believer of their divisive sin in their body of death. The stealthy deceiver of man is well pleased with his deception of the one and done theologians. Be not deceived. For in your unbelieving self serving merchandising semantics, you bring confusion to the Word of God and may have make yourselves losers of that which you thought was yours. Jesus Christ, the Eternal Winner, declares that He is The TRUTH, and The TRUTH declares through the writings of John's first epistle; "If we acknowledge our sin, then Father God is faithful and just to cleanse us from any unrighteousness." And now with the true confession, and obedience to the Word of God, we can have a clean conscience from the condemnation of sin, because of the Blood of Jesus Christ; We have Fellowship/Koinonia/Communion one with another. Sin of any dimension always brings division that foments death, and how can you have fellowship with the TRUTH of Almighty God and one another in the midst of death. God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him (Almighty Yahweh God) and yet walk in darkness (of death), then we are liars, and are not of the TRUTH.

God resist the proud but gives Grace to the humble: Therefore submit yourselves to God. Humble your selves in the Sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up. Cleans your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you double minded. Resist the devil and he shall flee from you. ^{(See James 4 verse 6 thru 10.)} For the weapons of our warfare are mighty through Eternal God to the tearing down of strongholds. ^{(See 2nd Corinthians 10 verse 4 thru 6.)}

The devil's very nature of death can not exist in the Presence of the Holy LIFE cleansing Blood of God's only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. For in all of time, the LIFE Blood of the Eternal God's Son, Jesus Christ, was set to be the absolute Antidote for sin's spiritual infection leading to absolute death in mankind. Sin and death is an alien enemy of the God of the Living, and the Eternal God from timeless Eternity knows that all of mankind are dead in their sin, for all of humanity have sinned. So then both Jew and Gentile are under the condemning power of sin, for the power of death reigns in all of humanity, and the nature of sin compels mankind to scorn the Only Lord God of the Living. ^{(See Romans 3 verse 9 thru 19.)}

Take and Drink all of you that are My disciples.
For This IS MY Blood of the New Covenant that IS shed for many for the remission of sins.

On the evening of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and as the Lord conducted His Own Passover Table, the Lord Yeshua/Jesus inaugurated for the members of His Body, His Memorial of Remembrance. We as members IN the Body of Jesus Christ, will victoriously participate IN Jesus Christ's sacrificial death for our sin and of His resurrected LIFE that provides our Righteous Justification over sin and death. Clearly, the baptized saints in their thankful humility, when eating of the Sanctified Unleavened Bread of God, should totally identify with the Savior Jesus Christ, for the Son of Man/Adam was the sinless Bread of Life that came down from heaven, to die unselfishly for the sin of all of mankind. The New Blood Covenant of God, given for the Salvation of men, is written in the earth, with the unseen Blood of Jesus Christ the Son of Man. For a surety, God's Spirit of Holiness provides the same Sanctified Blood of Christ's Salvation, which we drink IN faith to maintain within the core of our being, the more Perfect Love of the Eternal God of the Living.

As individual members of the Ecclesia, we each are to be centered IN Jesus Christ; for Salvation is of His Holy Spirit sealed IN His Father's Doctrine. The Father's Doctrine is Holy, for the Doctrine of the Holy Father of Jesus Christ, is fully in God's Covenant LIFE Giving Blood of His Only Begotten Son, Whom the Almighty Ordained as Emanuel, for Jesus Messiah is God with us.

And so, through God's Provisions of LIFE from His Holy Spirit of Grace, we thankfully come to refresh ourselves in God's Covenant Communion Table of LIFE. It is here at His Altar of Sacrifice, we are to present our needful selves to The Chief Physician, where God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH and Grace will administer to us His cleansing Drink of the Communion Blood of Christ Jesus that also gives renewing LIFE to the dead because of the corruption of sin. I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is your worshipful service. ^{(See Romans 12 verse 1 thru 2.)} When we submit ourselves to God IN Communion with the Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ, we do mortify through His Holy Spirit the unrighteous thoughts and deeds of this body of death. Therefore, we have come into complete agreement with the Lord's New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Christ, for the old man of selfish idolatry is being put to death, so that the new born man IN Christ blossoms IN LIFE. Now, through the Grace of God's Holy Spirit, the believing over-comers IN the Body of Jesus Christ will faithfully follow IN the WAY of the victorious TRUTH of the WORD of God. The new born man IN Christ Jesus is made to Live IN the WAY of Christ's Righteousness. Indeed, we LIVE by Faith and not by sight. Like our Savior Jesus Christ, we should always choose the good and spurn the evil: But oops, there seems to be large vestiges of exhausting flesh that makes its contradictions against the TRUTH. ^{(See Isaiah 7 verse 14 thru 16.)}

While we remain in these earthen vessels, we each will have our own personal struggles with the flesh of the old man, for he will strive against God's Spirit of Holiness. The Scriptures warn us: "If you live after the flesh, you shall die, but if you through the Spirit do mortify (put to death) the deeds of the body, (then) you shall Live". ^{(Romans 8 verse 13.)} Therefore Mortify the parts of your earthly nature; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience: ^{(See Colossians 3 verse 1 thru 8.)} And again the scriptures reminds us through its rebuke; "If you say you have not sinned, then you are in self deception, and the TRUTH is not in you".

Holy Lord God Almighty, IN His LOVE for His creation of mankind, has given to us on the altar of sacrifice, the Supreme Gift of the Holy LIFE of His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. In Holy Communion, it is absolutely essential for God’s people to remember and identify with the Holy LIFE that is in the Blood of Jesus Christ. With the innocent Man Jesus Christ hanging on a bloodied cross, His Holy LIFE Blood that sustained His Body of Flesh, was pouring out on to the dust of the earth, and His Life was shed for the sins of earthly mankind. Remember, that from the beginning, Man/Adam was made by Elohim God from the dust of the earth. Jesus Christ's Holy LIFE was conceived by the Holy Spirit of His Father God, and brought LIFE into the ovum of the earthly virgin Mary, and so the LIFE of His only Begotten Son was given by Almighty God as the Supreme Sacrifice for our earthly nature of sinfulness. The death of the just One, was Holy God's Holy Sacrifice of His Beloved Son, Whose LIFE was freely given in exchange for the dead life of the unjust. Eternal death was finalized for all believers in the death of the Man Jesus Christ, but in that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead to die no more, then Jesus Christ' Righteous LIFE became imputed to the believer IN Jesus Christ the Man, and with obedient Faith, the believers are to remain IN accord with God's WORD of TRUTH that is the Savior of mankind.

Now the newly rectified sinner, through his active faith IN God's TRUTH, will believe in God's New Covenant IN the the LIFE giving Blood of His Only Begotten Son Jesus/Yeshua haMashiach Christ. Holy Communion is that blessed spiritual Gift of the Eternal Power of God's love, that is given for the renewal of Christ's LIFE in the mind of sinful man. Through the Eternal Power of the Eternal God's Word of TRUTH, the LIFE of Jesus/Yeshua enables each faithful member of His Body to become an over-comer to sin's desires, and sin's former possession of the soul.

Such a wonderful, perfect Gift of God's Holy Spirit of Grace, for when we participate in Christ's Covenant Remembrance, we receive His righteousness, for our unrighteousness, His holiness, for our unholy thoughts and actions, His forgiveness for our self-righteous judgments, His love, which provokes us to give of ourselves beyond what we thought was possible. Holy Communion is LIFE from the dead for the Ecclesia IN the Body of Jesus Christ.

The Ecclesia needs to be in complete agreement with the Holy Spirit of God, for in this Holy Matter of Communion in the Blood of Jesus Christ, it is a matter of the death of self, so that God's Spirit of Grace may give LIFE to the dead IN Christ Jesus. For we always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the LIFE also of Jesus Might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus Sake, that the LIFE also of Jesus, might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. ^{(2nd Corinthians 4 verse 10 thru 11.)}

Whosoever drinks of Christ's Blood shall be put to death;
So that the LIFE of Christ through His Spirit might abound in our Flesh.

Oh such Holy irony. We drink the Gift of the Precious LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ, so that with God's Covenant help, we would die to carnal self, so that again, we may live in the Resurrected LIFE of Christ Jesus by the Eternal Spirit --- IN Him. Having entered into God's Covenant, the old man of selfish desires is being put to death with the active two edged Sword of the Holy Spirit of God, so that the new man of God may flourish in the Love of God, and that for his fellow man. Without the Lord's Holiness within our hearts, no man shall see God. ^{(See Hebrews 12 verse 14.)}

How can the lord of the flies contend with the Wisdom of God, when the hearts of His redeemed people are open and truly begin to understand our Lord's Communion Covenant in the LIFE Giving Blood of Yahweh's Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ?

And they, the brethren overcame Satan and sin by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life unto the death: ^{(Revelation 12 verse 11.)} Because, by faith, our testimony becomes; "It is no longer I that lives, but Christ Jesus Who lives within me."

Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that, which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to Whom be glory for ever and ever. ^{(Hebrews 13 verse 20 thru 21.)}

The following chapters will look at the visionary dreams on Holy Communion, and will continue to reveal the fullness of God's New Covenant IN the Blood of Jesus Christ. The Word of God speaks of the unity of the people of God living IN the Body of Jesus Christ. In our minds of flesh we have difficulties seeing ourselves as members of one another, and yet so we are IN the Holy Body of Jesus Christ our Savior.