Not Saved by Ideas

The advent of our Lord reminds us to forsake all attempts to disembody Christianity. Our Father in heaven did not save us by ideas. He saved us by His Son. Our Father did not send us principles and notions from heaven. He sent us a child out of the womb of the virgin. And the name of this human is the truth. 

Consider these things as we come to this table. We have not come to participate with the idea of our Lord. We have not even come to participate with the bodiless Son of God, as if we lived in the days of Abraham and Moses. We have come to Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to Jesus, the Godman, the mediator of the new covenant. The advent of our Lord demands that we know what time it is. The Son of God has become man. He is still man. And this world has been radically changed.

Scripture says that this bread which we break is a communion of the body of Christ. When the unbelieving Gentiles sacrificed at their altars in Corinth, they genuinely fellowshipped with devils. Likewise, when you come to this table, you genuinely fellowship with the man born in Bethlehem two thousand years ago. Though you have not seen Him, you love Him. Though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory (1 Peter 1:8).

So what are you to do? Eat in faith. Drink believing in Immanuel, the Son of Man who is with us even now. And as you do, glorify God in your body. Work for Him and with Him. Labor to love one another by Him. And look with faith to His appearing on the last day. By faith, you’ll see that the light of that appearing is already shining. So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ.

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