Heb 10:10
For God’s will
was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once
for all time.
God wanted us to be made holy, so
that we can approach Him. Jesus became
our sin offering, His body a sacrifice unto God, in order to achieve this.
Now step back in time with me - in
the Old Testament times, priests had to be sanctified (made holy) in order to
serve in the tabernacle and temple, and to approach God. Part of this sanctification process was to
eat sin offerings brought by the people for the forgiveness of their sin. In
other words, the priests had to eat food which had been made holy by being sacrificed
as a sin offering:
Lev 6:26-27
The priest who
offers the sacrifice as a sin offering must eat his portion in a sacred place
within the courtyard of the Tabernacle. Anyone
or anything that touches the sacrificial meat will become holy…
With this in mind, think again
about what Jesus meant when He said:
John 6:51
I am the living
bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever.
This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
Is this not what we do when we take
communion? As New Testament priests, (which
we are according to 1 Pet 2:9), eating
the bread during communion signifies eating His body - eating the sacrificial
sin offering - which now becomes a reminder of our
sanctification process!
Points to Ponder
Does partaking of communion bring
me to a place where I think about whether my life journey is leading me to
a holier lifestyle?
