My dearly
beloved in Christ, Our Lord Jesus Christ prepares the Holy Communion for his
disciples and tells them in Matthew 26:29 But I say to
you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when
I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
That is why
Jesus Christ, who said I will go and prepare a place for you in my Father’s
house and I will come again and receive you to myself, came back on the Day of
Pentecost on all those who were waiting for him.
Acts 1: 3 – 9
says - to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many
infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the
things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
And being
assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem,
but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard
from Me;
for John truly
baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many
days from now.”
Therefore,
when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this
time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
And He said to
them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in
His own authority.
But you shall
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be
witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of
the earth.”
Now when He
had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud
received Him out of their sight.
After that, he
came back down on the Day of Pentecost.
That is what
Jesus is telling that everyone of us that we should receive power and be
strengthened by the Holy Spirit. (Kingdom of the Father) When we change in this
manner, Our Lord Jesus Christ makes us to sit in the heavenly places in the
right hand of God along with Him and prepares the feast of Holy Communion for
us.
Revelation 3:
20 - Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens
the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.
My dearly
beloved, That is what Jesus is telling us I will not drink of this fruit of the
vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s
kingdom.”
In this
manner, we should also wait for the Father’s kingdom to come in us according to
the pattern that Christ has taught us. If we wait on God in holiness we will
get the Father’s kingdom. We will be able to sit along with Christ in the Holy
Communion. When we partake in the Holy Communion in this manner, Our Lord Jesus
Christ is telling us here after we must drink grape fruit vine as new only in
the Father’s Holy Communion. We realize that we should not drink it in other
times and situations as part of our food.
Therefore, my
dearly beloved in Christ, We must preserve ourselves with holiness.
In Numbers 6:
2 – 7 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When either a man or
woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate
himself to the Lord,
he shall
separate himself from wine and similar drink; he shall drink neither vinegar
made from wine nor vinegar made from similar drink; neither shall he
drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.
All the days
of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, from
seed to skin.
‘All the days
of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the days
are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord, he shall be holy.
Then he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
All the days
that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.
He shall not
make himself unclean even for his father or his mother, for his brother or his
sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head.
Numbers 6: 8 -
All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.
The Nazarite
is our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us pray.
May the Lord bless you all.
- To be continued