Bringing the specific offering of
the body and blood of Jesus Christ is the new and living way by which we now
draw near to the Father and there are specific instructions as to when it
should be offered because the Lord spoke to Moses saying; “Command the children
of Israel, and say to them, My offering, My food for My offerings made by fire
as a sweet aroma to Me, you shall be careful to offer to Me at their appointed
time.'
It is this offering that grants
us access to the presence of the Father, because it is through partaking of
this offering that the worshiper becomes holy as confirmed in the scriptures stating;
“Then Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is
in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. They shall eat those
things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them;
but an outsider shall not eat them, because they are holy” (Exodus
29:32-33).
In our new dispensation, the
things with which the atonement was made in order to consecrate and sanctify us
is the sacrificial body and blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which is
now the new and living way by which we are to draw near to the Father. This is
what the saints being a holy priesthood offer to the Father as a spiritual sacrifice
acceptable to Him through Jesus Christ.
This is also the food which we
have been instructed saying; “Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for
the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you,
because God the Father has set His seal on Him." Jesus Christ confirmed
the literal and practicality of this spiritual food by saying; “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 (real) food
indeed, and My blood is (real) drink indeed.
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. This is
the bread which came down from heaven ---not as your fathers ate the manna, and
are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever" (John
6:53-58).
Unfortunately, our education
system does not teach us anything about the real life, their teaching is based
specifically and principally on the temporary breath of life which is the life
that is in accordance to the flesh, teaching us how to earn a living in order
to sustain the physical life, but does not teach us how to live in accordance
to the Spirit.
Even when it comes to worship,
the sustenance of our spiritual life is unfortunately administered in accordance
to the flesh as envisioned and documented by the prophet Isaiah saying; “To
what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD.
"I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed cattle. I
do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats.
"When you come to appear
before Me, Who has required this from your hand, to trample My courts? Bring no
more futile sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the
Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies --- I cannot endure iniquity and the
sacred meeting. Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They
are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your
hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will
not hear. Your hands are full of blood” (Isaiah 1:11-15).
The New Moons (beginning of a new
month), the Sabbaths and appointed feast days were rejected not because God
does not require them, but are being rejected because they are observed not in
accordance with the way of life in the spirit which is based in accordance to
the commandments of God, but they were being observed in accordance to the
customs and traditions of men which are all vain and useless. Spiritual worship
is in accordance to the word of God as verified by Jesus Christ who said; “It
is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak
to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).
Therefore, any form of worship regardless
of how sanctimonious, charismatic, dynamic and pleasant to the eyes, they may
appear to be, as long as they do not conform to the instructions which states; “These
are the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their
appointed times,” are all vain and useless, because God has ordained these
times specifically for His honor and glory which He does not share with any
other.
These appointed times will
continue into the future. "For as the new heavens and the new earth which
I will make shall remain before Me," says the LORD, "So shall your descendants
and your name remain. And it shall come to pass that from one New Moon to
another, and from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship
before Me," says the LORD” (Isaiah 66:22-23).
The freedom to observe or not to
observe does not give anyone the license to choose for themselves when and how
to worship, it is not he who observes a day observes it to the Lord, but
rather, it is he who observes the day, a specific day which the Lord has
ordained. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all
men everywhere to repent.
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Lucius Joseph
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