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Eat My Flesh And Drink My Blood
- Sermons on the Gospel of John(III)
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Eat My Flesh And Drink My Blood
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Jesus Has Given Us Everlasting Life through His Own Flesh and Blood
The Church keeps two sacraments commanded by Jesus. One is baptism, and the other is Holy Communion. We take part in Communion to ruminate on the gospel of Truth revealed through its bread and wine, in remembrance of this gospel.
In the rite of Holy Communion, we eat the bread in remembrance of the flesh of Jesus, and drink the wine as the ceremony of His blood. As such, the real meaning of Holy Communion is to strengthen our faith in the Truth that Jesus has saved us from the sins of the world and given us everlasting life through His baptism and His death on the Cross.
However, the problem is that almost all Christians take part in Holy Communion only formally, without even realizing what Jesus meant by the phrase, "My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed"(John 6:55). Therefore, within the gospel of the water and the Spirit, we need to once again focus on the meaning of Jesus' commandment to eat His flesh and drink His blood, and believe in it.
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The Biblical Evidence That Jesus Bore All the Sins of This World
When Jesus received the baptism, He ordered John the Baptist to baptize Him, saying, "Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness" (Matthew 3:15). Our Lord took all the sins of the world by receiving the baptism and blotted out all those sins by bearing them onto the Cross. Our Lord fulfilled all righteousness by bearing all the sins of the world through His baptism.
This is why John the Baptist said the next day of Jesus' baptism, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29) We have to keep in mind the truth that we cannot receive the true remission of sin without believing in His baptism along with His blood on the Cross.
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