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1Cor.10:17 Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many
are one Body; for we all partake of the one bread.
1Cor.12:12 For even as the body is one and has many
members,
yet all the members of the body, being many, are one
body, so also is the Christ.
In 1 Corinthians 10:17 we see that the bread signifies not only
the physical body of the Savior; it also signifies His mystical
Body, which is the church. This is not a matter of an individual:
it is a matter of a corporate Body. We are all one bread, one
Body, because we all partake of the one bread. Our joint partaking
of the one bread testifies that we all are one.
This indicates that our partaking of Christ makes us all His one
Body.
The very Christ of whom we all partake constitutes us into His one
Body. This loaf includes not only the Lord Himself; it includes
the Lord with us. Therefore, the loaf is no longer the individual
Christ; it is now the corporate Christ (1Cor.12:12), including the
Lord Jesus and the believers.
In the institution of the Lord's table the loaf is the main
element. On the cross we see the Lamb, but on the table we see the
loaf. When we are at the Lord's table, we need to realize that the
loaf includes the Head and the Body; that is, it includes Christ
and all the believers. Hence, it is a complete loaf, a corporate
entity. Praise the Lord that the Lamb has become the loaf! Through
His death and in His resurrection, the Lamb has become the loaf.
According to John 12:24, the Lord fell into the earth and died as
a grain of wheat and then in resurrection became a loaf composed
of many grains. This loaf is inexhaustible!
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