The
new and living way to the Father is what God intended even before the
foundation of the world so, instead of animal sacrifices, burnt offerings and
offerings for sin God prepared a body for Christ as replacement or the real offering
for the atonement of sin, and so, when 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' This real offering is the body and the blood of Jesus
Christ, which is in essence what Jesus Christ means when He says; “I am the
way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me”
(Numbers 28:2, John 4:6).
It
is therefore imperative that we have a clearer and deeper understanding of what
Jesus Christ meant when He said; “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through Me” and how to practically apply this
principle in order to get to the Father because, there is one God and one
Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus who gave Himself a ransom
for all, to be testified in due time” (John 14:6; 1Timothy 2:5-6).
And
so, the practical application of Christ’s statement which states, “I am the
way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me,”
and His position as the One and only Mediator between God and man is as
follows:
• Jesus Christ is the way to the Father
through the body of His flesh
We
have been duly instructed saying; “And you, who once were alienated and enemies
in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His
flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in
His sight” (Colossians 1:21-22).
The
way we are reconciled in the body of Christ according to the apostle Paul, is
by the breaking of bread. For thus he wrote; “The bread which we break, is it
not the communion of the body of Christ? For we, though many are one bread and
one body; for we all partake of that one bread”.
It
is also by partaking of the bread which represents the sacrificial body of
Christ that one becomes holy. For this is what the Lord instructed Moses
saying: “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).
According
to the apostle Paul, the breaking of bread is the new and living way to the
Father, For thus he wrote; “Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the
Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for
us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, an/d having a High Priest over the
house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with
pure water” (Hebrews 10:19-22).
The
bread represents the broken body of Jesus Christ which He instituted on the
night before He was crucified when He took bread, blessed and broke it, and
gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is My body." and
this became effective after His death since it is stated clearly “For where
there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the
testator: For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power
at all while the testator lives” (Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 9:16-17).
This
bread has replaced the food for the Lord’s offerings which we are to be careful
to offer to Him at the appointed time. As the Lord instructed 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' (Numbers 28:2).
There
are different types of offerings such as the regular daily offering, which is
to give thanks to the Father for His loving kindness in the morning and for His
faithfulness in the evening, there is also the offering for the Sabbaths which
is called a peace or a fellowship offering, there is the New Moon (monthly) offering
which is to commemorate the beginning of a new month and there is the sin
offering for the forgiveness of sins. The crux of the matter is, regardless of
the occasion the bread which represents the sacrificial body of Jesus Christ is
the food for the Lord’s offerings.
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To be continued, stay tuned
With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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