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THE CONSUMATE GOSPEL

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If I have avocado on toast this morning later in the day it will have become me. That which is so in the natural is even more so in the spiritual. This is the meaning of Christ come in our flesh – not primarily about discerning demons but about the fullness of God incarnated in you so that the nature of Father, Son and Holy Spirit becomes you.

ONE SUBSTANCE WITH CHRIST

‘The bread and wine’ did not originate in isolation. No little glass cups and fragments of bread here. The context was a meal. This fits in with Jesus’ insistence that we receive His spirit and life by eating Him. He is blunt about this. No glass half empty or half full here. If we do not eat His flesh and drink His blood we have no life in us. This is to say no spirit and life – the only kind that builds His Kingdom.

Our post cross inheritance – incarnation means the Spirit of Christ manifests as our flesh, as our being and person. This is eating His flesh and drinking His blood – the only way to have righteousness and life in us.

‘Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you’ John 6.53 NIV. No life. That would be zero spirit and life.

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UNDOING ADAM TO DO THE NEW YOU IN CHRIST

The Lord’s Table is not entirely about the cross. Sure, it begins with it. His cross was the prelude to the mystery of the new set of facts in which we now live - that Christ is now our life. The incarnation. This is the new covenant in essence: That in every possible way Jesus stands for you and becomes your life.

‘Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me’ John 6.57 NIV.

TO HAVE LIFE IN YOU

In the Kingdom we are what we eat. Live from His stuff (Christianity) and we will find ourselves subsisting on junk food. As He said, there will be no life of God in us. Eat Him and we will live in infinite life because of Him. We are what we eat. If we eat Jesus we will be sons. If we eat the law we will be slaves and workers.

‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away’ Luke 19.6 NIV.

We can ignore this but our only progress will be increasing torpor because we continue to promote a parcel without contents.

WHERE IS LIFE”

‘Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you’ JOHN 6.53 NIV.
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In the new covenant age Christ Himself is our life. He is the righteousness of God in us and all that is God as us. There is no intermediate state, no law that exists that is separate from God and independent of ourselves. There is just God in us who is our life. In this age the manifestation of God’s righteousness is you.

BREAD OF LIFE

The Lord’s Table is less about the cross and more the result of the cross. We recommence our lives as new persons via the cross and resurrection of Jesus. Our Adam in Jesus has died. Our new Adam and the new ‘us’ has risen to new life in Jesus who is our life.

Any addition to Christ is ‘another gospel’ that short changes and debilitates.

DIRECT MEDIATION

There is one mediator between ourselves and God. Nothing external to this such as Moses laws or Christian political correctness. Jesus does not exist to empower us to keep a set of rules separated from Himself and from us. He lives in us as our life. He is our grace and all that comes under the heading of spirit and life.

So we are not, in this age, living a Christianised version of the knowledge of God and evil. We are living Christ our life. The vicarious humanity of Jesus means that He is all things towards Himself, to Father and Holy Spirit that it is possible and needful to be on our behalf. Either Christ is our life – or we are - and we are not alive.

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS, PAUL AND JOHN

What does Christ our life mean? It means this: “
It was precisely into the midst of that depraved and dehumanised humanity that the Son of God penetrated by his Incarnation in Jesus Christ, that is, into the very split in our human nature where we are not and cannot be what we ought to be, and where we manipulate moral righteousness in the protection of our selfish ends.

“Through hypostatic union and atoning union inter-penetrating each other he laid hold of both sides of that split and brought them together in his own Person, removing the sin and guilt which perpetuated the split, reconciling man to God and God to man in such a way that he set the whole moral order upon a new basis. That is the moral order he embodied in himself as the one man who was and is the man he ought to be.” (1)
This Christ lives in you and is your life when you agree that He is.
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(1) Thomas Torrance. The Mediation of Christ, P 71.