Table of Abundance

Jesus came so that we might have life, and have it more abundantly (John 10:10). This is contrasted with the theif who comes to steal, kill, and destroy. The theif would erase you. He would remove your being if he could. He would take away what makes you you and leave you but a shell of a man, on the border of being nothing. But the Second Adam came so that you would be truly human, so that ruined nature would be restored to the full.

So the life you live must be a life of addition. You must add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperence, and to temperence patience, and so on. Many have flamed out and locked up because they have pursued this life of addition apart from faith in Christ. They have experienced what every engine experiences which tries to run on no oil.

So don’t make that mistake. Christ gives Himself to you at this table. He does not merely give you the tools you need to succeed. This bread and wine does not simply enlarge your capacity to go and live life to the full. This bread and wine is fullness of life. Christ is the One who is fully alive. This bread is kindness. This wine is charity. You will add neither to your life if you go looking for them outside of this God man who was slain for us. So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ.

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