TWO USES OF THE BODY

TWO USES OF THE BODY

1 Cor. 11:23 “For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:”

Two separate uses of two bodies happening in one night but remembered for two thousand years. Judas was at this point using his body. And because Jesus lived His life in unbroken fellowship with His Father we are availed to use this ordinance to keep a life of unbroken fellowship. Because the Jews rejected their appointed King which was also their Savior, worship changed. We do not go to Jerusalem to go to the most holy place. Because the Gentiles were grafted into the vine the most holy place was moved also. The veil was rent, torn in two. The altar is no longer in Jerusalem. And most significant of all there is no more blood sacrifices. The writer of Hebrews explains that these continual treks to Jerusalem failed to achieve their purpose which was the perfection of the worshipper. This new way of worship was instituted the very night that his close friend as the Psalm names Judas, betrayed the King. That night He took a symbol of His body which Heb. 10:5 says was "prepared" for Him. That body was especially prepared by God for His Son. Thus the One Who hung on the Cross is differentiated from all other men, even in the matter of His physical life.

Heb. 10:25 “Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me.”