Matthew 5:6 KJV  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

You HUNGER for food, and THIRST for drink.

• Jesus body is bread and blood is wine.
• BREAD AND WINE.
• This OBTAINS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
• It is HIS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
• And the link between the KINGDOM and RIGHTEOUSNESS for us is that we HUNGER AND THIRST for it and the CROSS speaks of the BREAD AND WINE.
• So receiving the TRUTHS OF THE CROSS is receiving HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS by actually partaking OF HIS BLOOD AND BODY.
• What greater way to GET HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS than by GETTING HIM IN YOU?
• THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!

Matthew 26:26 KJV  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.

Mat 15:32-37  Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.  (33)  And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?  (34)  And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.  (35)  And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.  (36)  And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.  (37)  And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.

Genesis 1:22 KJV  And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

Genesis 1:28 KJV  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
 

The handling of bread by Jesus always followed this patter.

1. Take.
2. Bless.
3. Break
4. Give.

In fact, Jesus was even recognized by breaking of bread when his very appearance did not give Him away.

Luke 24:30-31 KJV  And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.  (31)  And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

At the Last supper he used the same manner.

Luke 22:19 KJV  And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

This is a blessing since God told ADAM TO MULTIPLY AND FILL THE EARTH.

Genesis 1:28 KJV  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Adam and Eve would have ability to bear, and be fruitful.

• They would multiply themselves.
• Fill the earth.
• Subdue that earth they filled.
• Dominate the earth’s creatures.

THIS IS KINGDOM PATTERN.

• We become multiplications of Jesus.
• Fill the earth with believers.
• Conquer in the Spirit.
• And have dominion.

Psalm 91 notes this pattern.

We begin as believers by TRUSTING IN HIM.

Psalms 91:1-2 KJV  He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.  (2)  I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Others are damaged but we are blessed and safe.

Psalms 91:7 KJV  A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Then we move to CONQUERING, and not just seeing God protect us forever.

Psalms 91:13 KJV  Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

So KINGDOM LIVING requires this pattern.

• We are multiplications of the Lord from the cross’ breaking.
• The BREAKING is where the MULTIPLICATION ACTUALLY OCCURRED.
• It is where the miracle occurred.
• The preached word is BREAKING THE BREAD and under anointing power we receive it and BECOME MULTIPLICATIONS as we INGEST THIS BREAD.

We partake of HIS BODY, the BREAD MULTIPLIED, and WE BECOME HIS BODY… WE ARE THE BREAD.

1 Corinthians 10:16-17 KJV  (16)  The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion (fellowship – mutual participation) of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?  (17)  For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.


1 Cor 10 speaks of this, then 1 Cor 11 says this:

1 Corinthians 11:26-29 KJV  (26)  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.  (27)  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.  (28)  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.  (29)  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

It speaks of us AS THE BREAD.

• And not recognizing that THIS ONE COMMON BREAD WE ALL EAT speaks of EACH OF US being ONE BREAD, because we ATE IT spiritually speaking when the BREAD OF LIFE CHRIST WAS received into our lives, IS NOT DISCERNING THE LORD’S BODY.
• When we treat each other badly, we are not discerning THOSE PEOPLE AS THE BREAD AND BODY OF JESUS.
• And we are eating from one common loaf, Jesus, and not appreciating that it means I am from the same BREAD my brother is from.
• I am supposed to be showing UNITY with my brothers and sisters by eating this bread together.
• It shows MY LIFE came from the same source my brother’s life came from!
• JESUS
• Any division in my heart is so wicked in that light.

1 Cor 12 CARRIES ON WITH THE BODY idea!

1 Corinthians 12:14-16 KJV  (14)  For the body is not one member, but many.  (15)  If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?  (16)  And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?


THE BODY IS FOCUSED IN Ch 10, 11 and 12!

John 6:9 KJV  There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

John 6:11 KJV  And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

He did the same thing with the bread and fishes that he did with the bread of communion that He called HIS BODY.

• So the story of the bread and fishes is going to show us truth of the cross.
• JESUS COULD NOT BE ALONE.
• HE HAD TO MULTIPLY.
• THE KINGDOM REQUIRED IT
• ADAM NEEDED A HELP.

John 6:11-12 KJV  And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.  (12)  When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

THEY ARE FILLED.

Hunger and thirst after righteousness and ye shall be FILLED!

The people try to make HIM KING IN A NATURAL KINGDOM RIGHT THERE.

John 6:14-15 KJV  Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.  (15)  When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

Notice the BREAD MULTIPLIED induced them to want to MAKE HIM KING IN A KINGDOM.

• But it is not a natural kingdom he is interested in.
• IT IS SPIRITUAL.
• BUT IT DOES INVOLVE MULTIPLYING BREAD.

John 6:24-27 KJV  When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.  (25)  And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?  (26)  Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.  (27)  Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

John 6:35 KJV  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

And just as Jesus spoke of fragments of natural bread that should not be lost, He speaks THE SAME WAY OF PEOPLE who are MULTIPLICATIONS OF HIM, the true bread that was broken and multiplied.

John 6:37-40 KJV  All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.  (38)  For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.  (39)  And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.  (40)  And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.


John 6: (12)  When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.


We get eternal life from Christ.

• He’s the FRUIT OF LIFE from the tree.
• He’s the RIVER OF LIVING WATER from the Garden.
• FOOD AND DRINK.
• What we HUNGER and THIRST for.
• BREAD and WINE.

His body broke on the cross in DEATH, and when the soldier pierced his side, THE WATER AND BLOOD poured out.

• BLOOD IS LIFE of the flesh.
• So when you have BLOOD in the body it is LIFE.
• Well, what would BLOOD IN THE WATER MAKE THAT WATER if it made the body ALIVE?
• LIVING WATER!

And it was THREE DAYS for the death, burial and resurrection to occur!

Matthew 15:32 KJV  Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

People who experience the receival of the truth of the GOSPEL are said to have CONTINUED THREE DAYS!

• Jesus died, was buried and resurrected after THREE DAYS.
• NOW WE HAVE TO COME TO ASCENSION after the THREE DAYS.
• KINGDOM LEVEL.

His SPIRITUAL KINGDOM is for those who want to see the bread multiplied. Just as the people wanted a natural kingdom since He multiplied natural bread.

• But it is a SPIRITUAL MULTIPLICATION OF BREAD that is the concern of this KINGDOM!
• And we experience three days and get saved, and need to go on into KINGDOM LEVEL.

IT IS JESUS MULTIPLIED.

• What was the goal of the multiplying of Adam and Eve?
• TO FILL THE EARTH SUBDUE IT AND HAVE DOMINION.
• We have believers multiplied from Jesus, but not subduing since they think that is for millennium, and not having DOMINION!
• That was the reason for the MULTIPLICATION!
• THE END REASON!

Psalm 91 says we would trample the lion and adder.

The gifts of the Spirit need to operate.

• Paul mentioned one body but many members in speaking about one Spirit but many gifts.
• To get the idea across that BODY MINISTRY Must function.
• KINGDOM CHURCH involves BODY MINISTRY!
• BODY MINISTRY oriented believers will SEE KINGDOM TRUTH quicker than anyone!

Jesus split the bread at the last supper between 12 disciples.

• Notice that when Jesus broke the bread, and gave it, IT MULTIPLIED IN THE HANDS OF THE DISCIPLES.

1Co 11:24    And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

Perhaps Jesus was ALSO saying YOU DO THE SAME WITH YOURSELF.

• YOU do this, too, remembering me.
• Remember how I was broken in death  and self denial.
• Remember this and you do the same.
• If twelve people fed 5000 others, that would require each disciples to feed about 416 people.
• There is no way they walked away from Jesus with enough food to feed 416 people.
• This means that BREAD MULTIPLIED IN THEIR HANDS.
• To divide the five loaves into 12 pieces, Jesus could give each disciple a little less than half a loaf.
• It would be a quarter or less to feed all the men, women and children.
• Imagine Jesus putting that much in your hand and telling you to feed 416 men, plus that many more women and children, with maybe MORE children than all of them!

One other alternative if that Jesus did multiply enough for them to be able to carry all they could, and then it multiplied even more as the disciples broke the bread, themselves.

Breaking SELF is required.

• Self denial.
• Take up YOUR Cross, as Jesus took His and was BROKEN.
• And deny yourself.
• Self must be broken by not letting YOUR will be done and  by letting things go that hurt you.
• Follow me.

YOU WILL FEED OTHERS if you do this, as JESUS FED YOU!

Those 12 baskets were fragments Jesus did not want lost.

• They stand for everyone whom Jesus does not want left behind.
• But also, FOR TRUTHS the 12 apostles carried away from the same breaking of bread of the cross that saved us with truth for initial salvation.
• The apostles had more truth to fill us with later!

John 16:12 KJV  I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

You are filled with bread!

• Get more later.

John 16:13-14 KJV  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.  (14)  He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

The apostles became Spirit filled and began to preach revelations of God.

• The church then started feasting on the truths of the cross they were unable to bear before.
• They were filled from the breaking, and would later have need for the fragments… the truths of the cross they were not able to DIGEST earlier.

But we are MULTIPLICATIONS of Jesus in order to have DOMINION.

• That was the end result of Adam’s directives from God.
• Multiply, subdue and have dominion.
• Paul spoke of the multiplied BODY of Christ in 1 Cor 10, 11 and 12.  
• And in 12, He spoke of the multiple members of the one body for using the diverse gifts of the Spirit!
• So put it altogether and learn that dominion involves BODY MINISTRY of the gifts.

1 Cor 13 goes further!

• These gifts are not enough!
• WE NEED FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT!

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 KJV  (1)  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.  (2)  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.  (3)  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.


Recall the POMEGRANATES and BELLS on the hem of the high priest.

• After he left the HOLIEST PLACE and made atonement, he changed out of the linen garments and put back on the blue, purple scarlet and gold.
• And the bells started ringing.
• THE TONGUES in those bells started sounding forth.

Peter said Jesus is on the right hand throne having made ATONEMENT, and the way he knew was by WHAT THEY SAW AND HEARD in the PEOPLE SPEAKING IN TONGUES!

• So the tongues of the high priest were sounding forth in the mouths of the 120!
• BUT PAUL WARNS that if all we have are the gifts of the Spirit, with tongues and miracles, etc., WITHOUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT we are only a TINKLING BELL!
• THE POMEGRANATES were ALSO on the hem, and they STAND FOR THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT!

There are NINE gifts listed in 1 Cor 12, and NINE FRUIT listed in Gal 5.

JUST AS MANY GIFTS AS THERE ARE FRUIT.


Joe 2:23-29  Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.  (24)  And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.  (25)  And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.  (26)  And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.  (27)  And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.  (28)  And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:  (29)  And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

Acts 2:16-17 KJV  But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;  (17)  And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: