FULLY PROCESSED BREAD AND WINE
-- NOT HALF-BAKED CAKES

March 24. 2002 am
MF Blume

Genesis 14:18-20  And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

John 3:14-19  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

John 8:3-11  And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.



There is a major truth that everyone who truly wants to be a Christian must understand for their own eternity's sake.

Jesus did not come to condemn, but to give life.

Notice that the woman was caught in adultery, and Moses' law said she should be stoned.

Moses' law was holy, and not at all wrong, though. Because Jesus told the woman he would not condemn her, after the scribes and Pharisees said she should be stoned according to Law, we understand that CONDEMNING her would be KILLING HER.

 Condemning her would be giving her death.

Even Paul said this:

He synonymously used condemnation and death together when speaking about the nature of the Law of Moses.

2 Corinthians 3:7-9  But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
In the story of Melchisedek, a priest of God, coming to Abram we see the same picture. Melchisedek comes to Abram and brings in his hands bread and wine.

Something else we must always recall is that bread and wine will always tell a message about Jesus' death, burial and resurrection.

Matthew 26:26-28  And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
And the more I study it out, the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus becomes more and more awesome to me.

You see, the death of Jesus occurred one single time and is intended by God to stand as our own deaths.

Death only came into this world due to sin.

Melchisedek comes to Abram and gives bread and wine.

 Think of how bread and wine are made, in order to understand the depths of it representing Jesus broken body and shed blood.

Bread goes back to a seed of wheat.

The Bible said there would be a seed of the woman that would bruise the serpent's head.

Jesus came to this world as a seed planted into the womb of Mary.

That death was the whole desire of God.

 Why?

We will see why.

And the seed then springs from the earth and grows.

We read:

Luke 2:40  And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
Jesus grew until He became 30 years of age and began to minister to Israel. They take the hewn wheat and oxen tread upon it and it is ground beneath the millstone into powder, or flour. Just like this, Jesus Christ had taken upon Himself all our wickedness and God's judgment fell upon Him just like fiery wrath. And then the bread comes forth.

This is the PROCESS of making bread.

The same is with wine.

Grapes are processed to be made into wine.

The grapes are actually killed when they are plucked from the vine.

 And they are put into vats or winepresses in which the grapes are crushed.

The Bible calls God's wrath the winepress of God.

Then the bread is taken and eaten and the wine is taken and drunk.

Another angle is to look at the bread as Christ and that bread is BROKEN as Christ's body was broken in death, and the wine is POURED OUT as His blood was SHED in His death.

The Bible calls this COMMUNION.

1 Corinthians 10:16-17  The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
COMMUNION actually means PARTICIPATION.

 When we drink the communion of the wine/blood of Jesus Christ, we show participation in that experience of having shed blood.

When we eat the communion of the broken bread, it shows participation in the death of His body.

We hold the bread out and are supposed to be thinking that this represents His death, and by putting it into my body by eating it, I am showing that I participated in that death He experienced.

 Its not just Him that died.

So when Melchisedek gave Abram bread and wine, and Abram ate the bread and drank the wine, we see a symbolic picture of exactly what Jesus and true Christians are doing.

 Jesus came to GIVE US LIFE.

Melchisedek came to give Abram bread and wine.

Mankind is in a state of sin.

Sin and death go together.

In fact, the Bible talks about the law of sin and death.

And if someone only comes with LAW to a person with sins, all that one will do is give condemnation to that sinner.

 The soul that sins shall die.

That is law.

But Jesus did not come to give condemnation.

Jesus came with GRACE AND TRUTH.
John 1:17  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
If the soul that sins must die, then how could one not give condemnation if one is God?

How could one give Life?

A REMEDY!

What is the remedy for sins?

BREAD AND WINE.

 It is death.

But did we not just say that Jesus came not to bring condemnation.

Be careful here. To have experienced Christ's death and burial is to experience ETERNAL LIFE THAT NEVER DIES. He was already dead once. The Bible says true preachers of the Gospel are priests after the order of Melchisedek.

And they will always give you FULLY PROCESSED bread and wine.

Putting it inside you, remember, is identifying yourself with all of it.

Believing that ITS YOU when you consider all of Christ's experiences in dying.

You're eating symbols of His death and burial.

Its complete and its YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Preachers who come to condemn you are putting you through something that Christ already took for you.

Its like Moses striking the rock twice.

Condemning someone is bringing death in the form of making them go through it themselves.

Someone said WE BECOME CHRISTIANS AND THEN NEED TO BECOME HOLY AFTERWARDS.

Half-baked cakes require more cooking and more fire and more processing.
FULLY PROCESSED BREAD AND WINE
-- NOT HALF-BAKED CAKES

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