Wednesday | 31 December 2025
Our fellowship in the offering and sufferings of Christ depends upon ‘eating His flesh’ and ‘drinking His blood’ in a ‘worthy’ manner. 1Co 11:27‑30. Partaking of this meal is fundamental to receiving the substance of Christ’s life as exanastasis in our mortal body ‘today’, and to obtaining the full inheritance of a spiritual body in the resurrection, or anastasis, at the last day. As Jesus Himself declared, ‘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.’ Joh 6:53‑54.
Clearly, we must ‘eat’ Christ’s flesh and ‘drink’ His blood. The question we need to answer is the very question that the Jews asked – ‘How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?’ Joh 6:52. We know that the food and drink that we are to consume is not the natural material that was brought forth from the womb of Mary, for this is when the Son became our flesh. Joh 1:14. Concerning this material, Jesus 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.’ Joh 6:63.
To understand how we truly eat Christ’s flesh and drink His blood, we need to ask for wisdom! Jas 1:5. This is necessary, for Paul wrote, ‘I speak as to wise men; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion [lit: fellowship, or participation] of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion [lit: fellowship, or participation] of the body of Christ? For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread. Observe Israel after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?’ 1Co 10:15‑18.
Further Study:
John 6
References:
1Co 11:27-30
Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgement to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this reason, many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.
Joh 6:52-54
The Jews, therefore, quarrelled among themselves, saying, ‘How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?’ Then Jesus said to them, ‘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.’
Joh 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Joh 6:63
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are life.
Jas 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
1Co 10:15-18
I speak as to wise men; judge for yourselves what I say. 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, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread. Observe Israel after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?