The sixth fact is that to give our life to the Lord is for us EXACTLY THE SAME THING! We also are giving our lives to one another until we shall live, which is, for ever! The seventh fact is that the earthly husband and wife are not becoming one spirit, but one body (Eph. 5:25-33) while the Heavenly Husband and Wife are not becoming one body (they already are one Body today), but they become ONE SPIRIT so They both may live ONE LIFE! The eight’s fact is that as the believer is giving his life to Christ, so Christ is giving His Life to the believer. This is the Principle of the Heavenly Marriage. The Lord Christ Jesus had established a “marriage covenant” already with Israel. It is called “The Old Testament”, which Israel, through their unfaithfulness, annulled, ignored, though Christ was their true Husband! (Jer. 31:31-33) The New Testament is the New Marriage Covenant between Christ and the Church. The New Testament is founded on the Blood of the Husband (Mt. 26:28/ Mk. 14:24/ Lk. 22:20/ 1Cor. 11:25). And the New Marriage Covenant is founded on the Love of the Husband (Eph. 5:25). Maybe, this is why the Lord asks the unusual question whether He will find faith, which means, faithfulness in His Church when He comes to the earth? (Lk. 18:8b) Because with Israel He had bad experiences! Unfortunately, He will find faith-faithfulness only in the Remnant, not in the whole Church.
Just as the husband is the head of the wife, so is Christ the Head of the Church-Wife and He is also Her Saviour (Eph. 5:23). And as the Church is subjected to Christ with Her life, so should wives be also subjected to their husbands in all things, which means, with their lives (Eph. 5:24). And husbands should love their wives just as Christ loved His Wife-Church and gave Himself for Her (Eph. 5:25,33). I must underline here that if any husband does not belong to verse 25, nor 33a, then his wife does not belong to verse 24b! Because should the wife abandon unconditionally all her life and give it to her husband, live one life with him and for him and be subjected to him, then the husband must be WORTHY of that unconditional abandonment, submission, faith and trust of his wife. If Christ would not love us as He does, then He could not expect or demand from us our absolute abandonment and submission to Him or our absolute trust for eternity.
The Lord knocks on our heart, if we hear His voice and open, He will come to us and will sup with us, and we with Him (Rev. 3:20). What does it mean “to sup with Him”? It means two things: a) We will be able to “eat” His Word, which represents His Body (Jn. 1:1,14), which represents bread (Mt. 26:26), and “drink“ His Spirit, which represents His Blood (Mt. 26:26). The Body and the Blood are here, of course, symbolic (Jn. 6:51-56). After His Resurrection, Christ had a glorified body and had no blood (Lk. 24:39). Why? Because He poured His soul unto death (Is. 53:12) and the life of the soul is in the blood (Lev. 17:14). Thus He poured His Blood unto the death, which means, He separated Himself from His Blood, which was soaked with the sins and iniquities of the whole world (when He drank the cup – Lk. 22:42).But when we “eat” His Word-Body and “drink” His Spirit-Blood, then we are uniting ourselves with Him because we are becoming what we eat and drink! “The Lord’s Supper” symbolizes this physically where we break bread-Body and drink wine-Blood. “Supper” is always the last meal of our earthly day; hence, even here the “supper” means the last meal of our earthly life, which we will ever need for our Life eternal! Other meals we will not need any more.
b) “Supper” has a great importance also in that there is a great difference in hearing the Word and eating the Word! The same great difference is in hearing the Spirit and drinking the Spirit! Even the most delicious and good food and drink are to no use, if we only view them, smell them or touch them with our fingers, but we never eat them or drink them. Besides, we cannot digest or assimilate them outside of our body. Christ IN MY HEART enables me to digest, assimilate what I eat and drink from Him into my whole soul, into heart, mind and will. Christ, Who has no access to my heart cannot enable me this digestion or assimilation! Therefore, if I “eat and drink Christ”, I assimilate Him into my soul, and then I will think as Christ, express myself as Christ, behave as Christ, live and decide as Christ, it will only be the question of time. If you then have not started to think, express yourself, behave, live and decide as Christ then He cannot be in your heart!
Our heart will thus be recreated and enabled to do His Word, which says: “Thou shalt love The Lord Thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself”(Lk. 10:27b). These are the most important Commandments in the whole Bible and the whole Law and the Prophets hang on them (Mt. 22:40). Though we are yet unable to do this Word as it is required or as we would wish in our own souls, but already today we can give our life to Christ, such as we are! We do not have to worry, how we are going to love God with all our being. His Life assimilated into our soul will enable our heart to love God naturally and spontaneously without our speculations on how to do it. I believe Christ will receive your life as it is irrespective of the level of your present love, faith, fruits, wisdom or abilities! The proof of my faith is His Word, where one father brought his devil possessed son before Jesus, Who told the father: “…all things are possible to him that believeth.” Then the father cried out with tears in his eyes: “Lord I believe; help Thou mine unbelief.” (Mk. 9:17-24). The father of that young son admitted that he was not sure about his faith and begged the Lord to help him in his unbelief. The Lord accepted his cry and helped him! Do the same, you that are not sure about your love for Christ and ask the Lord to help you in your unlove. He will receive your life such as it is and will help you in your unlove. This is very important! We must realize here that our whole future life depends on this, because…
AFTER OUR REDEMPTION, THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP FOR OUR SALVATION AND LIFE ETERNAL! Because, if we will not give our old life to the Lord, will not open the door to our heart, we cannot be saved! If you are not prepared to do this step then I must ask you one simple, but vitally important question: What alternative do you have for your future? Because this step must be one day (or one night) taken by every Christian, who desires that his name would not be blotted out of the Book of Life! (Rev. 3:5). Pagans will not be damned because they were “bad people”, but because the Lord could not change anyone of them to His Image, because they never believed in Him and never opened their hearts to Him. And without this change they cannot possibly get the Life eternal, be saved and enter into the kingdom of Heaven. And this applies also to the carnal Christians, which do not open their heart to Him and do not love Him either. Regarding loving the Lord, He inspired Apostle Paul to write a very serious Word saying: “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha (damned, accursed, doomed at His Coming)” (1Cor. 16:22). Is this serious? Really? Who will care for this? Very, very, very few!
Hence, the same two alternatives, two ways, two offers stand before us, which God had already given to Israel saying: “See, I have set before thee this day LIFE AND GOOD, and DEATH AND EVIL” (Deut. 30:15,19). But even here the Lord gives us a precious promise so that we could love Him and do the right choice for our life. The Lord God says: “And the Lord Thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord Thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live” (Deut. 30:6).
These facts of the Scripture were never preached nor will they ever be preached, taught, explained. Why? Because Satan knows that when we believed and are baptized, he has not lost us yet! But when we gave our life to Christ and His Life begins to pour into our being and rule our soul, Satan’s chances are ZERO and time works for us and against him! And this is the last thing what Satan wants Christians to learn and know.
We do praise You, Our Creator and Saviour and coming Bridegroom and the King of kings, because we have learned and now know this wondrous news from You.
We are, therefore, opening our heart that it might sincerely confess to You that we truthfully give to You our life and we believe that You will receive our life as it is today. That You might enter into our heart and open to us Your Heart so that we might also enter into Your Heart. And all that agree with this prayer and are giving their life to Christ will say: AMEN. (all present said Amen + + + +)
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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