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Communion Celebration
Communion should be a celebration. We should celebrate Jesus’ shed blood and sacrificed body often, not morbidly re-enacting His death, but celebrating what He accomplished - the end result of it - re-affirming that:
1. His shed blood paid for the wrong we did, and because we understand that we aren’t going to do those things anymore. Reckon yourself to be dead to sin, and alive unto God as you live in Christ Jesus your Lord (Romans 6:11). Don’t allow Satan to unload any more guilt or condemnation on you because Jesus shed His blood to buy our freedom from that! The cup of His blood is the new covenant ratified and established in His blood (I Corinthians 11:24-26 Amp.). It accomplished life for us. “The life of the flesh is in the blood,” (Leviticus 17:11). The life of our flesh is in His shed blood. So celebrate the blood because it is our life!
2. “He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses in His own body on the cross, and by His stripes we are healed” (Matthew 8:17). “A Man of pains and acquainted with sickness…He has borne on Himself our sicknesses and carried our pains…He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed (made whole)” (Isaiah 53:3-5)! Celebrate the fact that His broken body bought our healing!
Remember these things that Jesus accomplished every time you take the bread and cup in communion and celebrate them. He went through these things so we wouldn’t have to! That is something to rejoice about. Don’t allow Jesus’ suffering and death to be useless and to no avail in your life.
The things you celebrate each time you take communion are His victory over sin, sickness, eternal death, debt, and poverty. I Corinthians 11:26 says, “You are representing and signifying and proclaiming the fact of the Lord’s death until He comes again.” As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim (or preach) what He accomplished till He comes again (see Amp).
And, because you begin to understand these things, then partake of the benefits of Jesus’ vicarious death. Accept them, enter into them, and receive them as yours. In John 6:41-58 Jesus said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven…I am the bread of life…this is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread…If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world…Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed (or true food), and My blood is (true drink). He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me…He who eats this bread will live forever.”
Now, check yourself to be sure you are right in your heart before God. Check yourself that you are correctly discerning what He did for you, so that you won’t take communion in a superficial manner, but you are partaking of His blood and His body with understanding (I Corinthians 11:27-28).
So, celebrate that He died and went to hell so we won’t have to. Celebrate the anointing - the burden-removing, yoke-destroying power of God - that abides within you through you assimilating Jesus into yourself. And we can share this joy and victory with people that don’t know about it, so they can have it too! So rejoice because communion is a celebration!
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