Monday | 24 November 2025
Jesus identified living by the word of God as being a participation, or fellowship, in His body and blood as a member of His body. Joh 6:63. The elements of Christ’s flesh and His blood join a son of God to the altar, or context, of His offering and sufferings as a member of His body. Paul identified the failure to discern and embrace one’s sanctified participation in the fellowship of Christ’s offering as a member of His body as ‘eating and drinking in an unworthy manner’. 1Co 11:27. He said that such conduct brings the believer under the judgement of God, explaining that ‘for this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep’. 1Co 11:29‑30. However, Jesus said that if a person ‘eats His flesh and drinks His blood’, He will ‘raise him up at the last day’. Joh 6:54. That is, they will receive from Him the substance of a spiritual body. This is the hope of the resurrection.
A second implication of immersion into the Son, and connection to His offering travail as a member of His body, is that a believer is proceeding forth from the body as part of the corporate bride of Christ. In the fellowship of His travail, they are being sanctified and cleansed by the washing of the water of the word, which is bringing regeneration to their humanity and reformation to their households. Eph 5:25‑27. Tit 3:5. Being established in the order and fellowship of headship, they are obtaining grace to minister the word of the covenant in and from their houses. This is the ministry of the Spirit through which sons of men can be born as sons of God. The sons of God brought forth from the bride of Christ refer to both natural children born in covenant houses and people in the world who are delivered out of the kingdom of darkness to be born as sons of light.
Further Study:
1 Corinthians 11
References:
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.
1Co 11:27
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.
1Co 11:29-30
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 6:54
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Eph 5:25-27
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
Tit 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.