Reflective Journal
For
Sang-Ehil Han, Ph.D.
TS 602 PENTECOSTAL THEOLOGY – SPIRITUALITY II
January Term, 2012
1/11/2012
The lecture today with Chris Green stirred my spirit. The Lord’s Supper is an expression of the truest and deepest call to friendship, fellowship, and partnership. Jesus is the bread from heaven waiting to be consumed by whom He loves.
COME AND DINE
I am everything you hunger for – I am everything you ever long for
I am the bread and I am the wine - come and dine
Except you eat my flesh and you drink my blood you have no life in you
Come and dine – Come and dine
The life I lived and the death I died you must too be sanctified! – sanctified!
Oh the life I lived and the death I died – you must too be crucified
(Song written by Bo Robinson)
It is a scientific fact, we become what we eat; this is spiritually so as well. The bread of life was born in the city of bread (Bethlehem) intentionally to be ingested and assimilated in the process.
When food is ingested into the body, it is assimilated by the way of digestion; in the process, food eaten literally becomes a part of the living organisms of the flesh. Once again, this is so with the spirit. The question is how do we ingest this bread from heaven?
The life Jesus lived is as important as the death He died. To assimilate Jesus into the living organism of our spirit is to assimilate all that He is as the bread of heaven sent down from above to us. He is the Word made flesh and He in flesh lived among us as the only begotten Son of the Father.
Before His flesh was broken and given to us as a meal, His life lived in that flesh was a manifestation of the anointing that is to be lived out in our flesh. We were first called Christians in Antioch; little Christ, little anointed ones who ingest the bread from heaven in the literal act of communion. Ingested through faith with the intent and purpose to live the life He lived and die the death He died.
Does this mean we become Jesus? No more than I would become a carrot if I ate carrots for the rest of my life. I would never grow green carrot leaves out of my head; however, my flesh would become orange if I ate enough of them and still lived. They would eventually assimilate into becoming a part of the living organisms of my flesh.
I can never be another Jesus or be Jesus there is only one Begotten Son of the Father. Nonetheless, by faith I am given the power to become a son of God (soteriology). That word become in the Greek implies an ongoing process (salvation from the narrow perspective to the broader). The sacramental worship becomes an act of faith assimilating the holy into my character and lived out life (ecclesiastical) till He come again (eschatological).
“He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1John 5:12). Except we eat His flesh (live the life He lived) and drink His blood (die the death He died) we do not have His life in us.
For
Sang-Ehil Han, Ph.D.
TS 602 PENTECOSTAL THEOLOGY – SPIRITUALITY II
January Term, 2012
1/11/2012
The lecture today with Chris Green stirred my spirit. The Lord’s Supper is an expression of the truest and deepest call to friendship, fellowship, and partnership. Jesus is the bread from heaven waiting to be consumed by whom He loves.
COME AND DINE
I am everything you hunger for – I am everything you ever long for
I am the bread and I am the wine - come and dine
Except you eat my flesh and you drink my blood you have no life in you
Come and dine – Come and dine
The life I lived and the death I died you must too be sanctified! – sanctified!
Oh the life I lived and the death I died – you must too be crucified
(Song written by Bo Robinson)
It is a scientific fact, we become what we eat; this is spiritually so as well. The bread of life was born in the city of bread (Bethlehem) intentionally to be ingested and assimilated in the process.
When food is ingested into the body, it is assimilated by the way of digestion; in the process, food eaten literally becomes a part of the living organisms of the flesh. Once again, this is so with the spirit. The question is how do we ingest this bread from heaven?
The life Jesus lived is as important as the death He died. To assimilate Jesus into the living organism of our spirit is to assimilate all that He is as the bread of heaven sent down from above to us. He is the Word made flesh and He in flesh lived among us as the only begotten Son of the Father.
Before His flesh was broken and given to us as a meal, His life lived in that flesh was a manifestation of the anointing that is to be lived out in our flesh. We were first called Christians in Antioch; little Christ, little anointed ones who ingest the bread from heaven in the literal act of communion. Ingested through faith with the intent and purpose to live the life He lived and die the death He died.
Does this mean we become Jesus? No more than I would become a carrot if I ate carrots for the rest of my life. I would never grow green carrot leaves out of my head; however, my flesh would become orange if I ate enough of them and still lived. They would eventually assimilate into becoming a part of the living organisms of my flesh.
I can never be another Jesus or be Jesus there is only one Begotten Son of the Father. Nonetheless, by faith I am given the power to become a son of God (soteriology). That word become in the Greek implies an ongoing process (salvation from the narrow perspective to the broader). The sacramental worship becomes an act of faith assimilating the holy into my character and lived out life (ecclesiastical) till He come again (eschatological).
“He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1John 5:12). Except we eat His flesh (live the life He lived) and drink His blood (die the death He died) we do not have His life in us.
