Thursday | 01 January 2026
Christ’s flesh is the bread which comes down from heaven. Joh 6:51. His blood is the cup which we drink. It is the fruit of the Vine. Joh 15:1‑4. These elements, along with foot washing, belong to the agape meal, which Jesus established as the first step of His journey back to the Father. Joh 13:3‑5. Significantly, Paul explained that these elements of Christ’s body and blood are a fellowship, or participation. More specifically, they join us to the altar, or context, of Yahweh’s offering, through which Christ, the Seed, fell into the ground and died and rose again as the substance of the new humanity, having been made, through this process, in the image and likeness of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
All three Persons of the Godhead were working together, by offering, to bring forth the new creation. We see that our ongoing participation in the agape meal is an implication of our baptism into the name of the Father, the name of the Son, and the name of the Holy Spirit, by which we are brought forth as new creation in the fellowship of Their offering. Mat 28:19‑20.
When Christ rose from the dead, the one Seed had become a Sheaf of firstfruits, full of seed for sowing, and also bread for eating! The prophet Isaiah connected this ‘seed’ and ‘bread’ to the word of God, saying, ‘For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it’. Isa 55:10-11. We eat bread by receiving the word of the Lord spoken by His messengers. This is fundamental to the way we live as covenant people today, and to receiving the resurrection at the last day. Isa 55:2-3.
Further Study:
Isaiah 55
References:
Joh 6:51
I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.
Joh 15:1-4
I am the true Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the Vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
Joh 13:3-5
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.
Mat 28:19-20
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.
Isa 55:10-11
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Isa 55:2-3
Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting Covenant with you — the sure mercies of David.