ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: APHIEMI HEALING, Part 10

Another Coffee Break:

Aphiémi Healing, Part 10

 

December 27, 2013

As we get ready to enter the year 2014 on our Gregorian Calendars, it is important to remember that we have already entered the year 5774 on the Hebrew Calendar.  And rather than refer to it as the Hebrew Calendar, we will simply call it God's Calendar!  That said, we are in the Year of the Open Door!  An entrance is being provided for God's people into a realm of His presence that most Christians only dream about.  The feast that the Lord has set before us at His Table is beyond anything your natural mind can comprehend!  Ready?

John 6:53-58:  Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.  This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live forever.

What Jesus did by instructing us to eat of Him was to reveal a process that the world simply cannot get a hold of.   This is a spiritual picture and it is a spiritual reality.  It defies human reasoning, and as a result many believers fail to grasp the significance of what we have available with Christ in us.

Those of you familiar with Jesse Duplantis' testimony of being in Heaven will remember the experience when he saw Jesus merging into the father and then coming back out.  In the realm of the Spirit the physical restrictions associated with corporeal (physical) existence simply vanish.  In the realm of the Spirit, none of the laws of physics apply.  There is no time in the  Spirit, and there is no space.  If you’ll pardon the Sci-fi illustration, this is “interdimensional living.”

[It is one of the reasons why so many Christians have gotten blindsided by the Enemy.  They think that evil spirits cannot inhabit their bodies -- especially if they have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior.  What they fail to understand is that our bodies have been specifically designed by God in the first place as "spirit containers."  That's a discussion I'd like to pursue, but this isn't particularly the time or place I want to get into that.  We can consider that aspect of our makeup in a later discussion.]

Jesus tells us that if we eat and drink of Him, we are in Him and He is in us.  We have been merged together.  The apostle Paul explained it like this:

II Corinthians 5:17-19:  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

 The picture that Paul draws is that not only was Jesus in Father, but that Father came to earth IN JESUS!  This was a real conundrum for Philip.  He couldn’t figure things out.   Jesus was telling the disciples that He was getting ready to leave and prepare a place for them in His Father’s house.  Philip said to Jesus (and I’m paraphrasing), “Lord, we’ll understand things a whole lot better if you’ll show us the Father.

John 14:9-11:  Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.  Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

The body of Christ still doesn’t grasp this.  We don’t really grasp it yet.  We have a concept and perhaps an image of it in our minds but lack the revelation.  If we can receive this revelation and allow it to permeate our beings, it will radically change how we think, how we live and how we function day-to-day.

This is why and how Jesus could follow what He said to Philip with this:

John 14:12-14:  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

Understand?  The revelation of this is that whenever we ask anything of Father in the name of Jesus, we are asking Father just as if Jesus were doing it.  If He is in us, then Jesus is making the request.

This is how the onoma of the Lord works in us, through us, with us, around us.  His onoma is His character, His makeup, the very essence of who He is!  With His onoma comes His authority, His power — AND — His relationship with Father.  Pretty simple isn’t it?  We’ve so complicated this that we’ve lost sight of who and what Jesus is in us.  It isn’t just Him!  It is Father, as well.

John describes it like this:

I John 2:24-29 (NASB):  "As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.  This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.  Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming."

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.  This is how we receive revelation.  Jesus had said that if He left He would send another “comforter” — the Paraklete — Holy Spirit.  Now, put all that together and what do you have?  We live in Jesus Christ.  We live because of His sacrifice.  We live because we eat and drink of Him.

But there’s more!

Because we eat and drink of Jesus, we also eat and drink of Father.  Therefore, Father is in us.  Both Jesus AND Father live in us.  But still there’s more!

Jesus had said He was sending Holy Spirit.  Here’s how He put it:

John 14:16-21:  "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."

Jesus was saying that despite the fact that He was departing from the earth in physical form, He was still in us, and so was Father.  But more than that, He was sending Holy Spirit to be with us.

And still there was more!  Jesus promised that He — Holy Spirit — would also be in us!  This is why He said to the disciples,

^"And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high."

The “power from on high” was Holy Spirit — the force that energized the life and Word of Jesus Christ — and Father — in us.

When John began His Gospel, he wrote,

John 1:1-4, 12-14:  "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.  In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

"But as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

Jesus was the Word made flesh.  We become the Word made flesh when we confess with our mouths the Lord Jesus Christ.  We become the Word made flesh when we — with Christ in us — speak the Word that He spoke, and speak it in agreement with Him and the Father.  When we speak the Word in agreement with Him, it becomes rhema!  It has the force within it that keeps the universe together!

Holy Spirit — dwelling with us and in us — energizes and empowers that Word so that it has the same creative force that it had when Jesus spoke it.  What needs we have, we ask Father for in the onoma of Jesus.  Father — in Jesus — enacts those needs for us by means of the Holy Spirit who is both with us and in us.

Are you beginning to grasp this picture?  Are you getting the significance of “Christ in us, the hope of Glory”?  The apostle Paul expressed it like this when he was writing to the Ekklesia in Colosse:

Colossians 1:26-27:  "Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."

This is a revelation — the concept of Christ in us.  With that revelation comes the understanding that it is not only Jesus, the Son with His anointing, but it is Father in us as well.  More than that, we have Holy Spirit dwelling in us, filling us and permeating us with God’s presence!  With Holy Spirit indwelling us as the power-generating force that gives life to the Word (who is Jesus), we become Jesus to the world around us.

The light that radiated from Him was that same light that exploded into being when He spoke those first words of Creation, “Light be!”  That’s the light that dwells in us when we are in the Anointed One and His anointing — and He is in us!

John 8:12:  "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."

John 9:4-5:  "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

And Jesus commanded us to duplicate that by being in Him.

Matthew 5:14-16:  "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."

The parallel that Jesus is drawing in this statement is that He didn’t light us up with His presence just to stick us under a bushel and hide us from the rest of the world.  He illuminated us with Himself so that Father would receive the Glory.

Matthew 10:7-8:  "And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give."

We haven’t become Jesus to the world to do anything less than Jesus did.  He healed the sick.  He raised the dead.  He cleansed the lepers.  He cast out evil spirits with His Word.  He broke the chains that held people captive.  He restored crushed spirits.  And all of the power and authority to accomplish everything that Jesus did has been invested in us.  That’s why Jesus made a point of stating that ALL authority was His, and His to dispense.

Matthew 28:18-20:  And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power (exousia—authority) is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.  Amen.

ALL POWER — ALL AUTHORITY!  Get it?  That’s what resides in us by virtue of the Father being in the Son, the Son being in us, Holy Spirit being with us, in us and filling us ….. AND … us in Jesus!

Let’s try this again, expressing it just a bit differently.

Father and Son merge with one another.  You see one — you see the other.  Holy Spirit is the energizing power — the same power that upholds everything in the universe — of God the Father and God the Son.  And that’s the same power that resides in us.  And that’s the same power that we reside in.  So how come we don’t experience this 24 hours a day?

The answer is simple enough.  If we don’t see it, we don’t believe it.  If we don’t believe it, we can’t have it experientially.  And herein lies the crux of this issue: seeing this authority and power resident within us!  The problem is that we seek for signs or evidence with our natural eyes rather than the eyes of Holy Spirit.

George Robinson has a rather unique way of ministering healing to folks.  He takes them "to the bosom of Father" where there is no sickness, no disease, no infirmity, no organ failure -- in other words, where there is nothing broken and nothing missing!

That's the key, folks!  If we can see ourselves in Father; if we can see ourselves in Christ; if we can see ourselves in the anointing of The Anointed One, there is absolutely NOTHING that Jesus has paid for on our behalf that we cannot have!!

We will pick it up here next week.

Happy New Year and Blessings on you!

Regner

Regner A. Capener                                                            
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ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: APHIEMI HEALING, Part 9

Another Coffee Break:

Aphiémi Healing, Part 9

December 20, 2013

Since this will be the last Coffee Break prior to Christmas, let me first wish you all a very blessed and revelatory Christmas season.  In an email sent out earlier this week to some friends, I noted that we do not celebrate Jesus' birth on Christmas day, despite the centuries-old traditions.  We celebrate Christmas because this was the day on the Hebrew calendar when the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary.  This is the day when the Word became flesh and Mary spoke those fateful and faith-filled words, "Be it unto me according to Thy Word."

When we left off last week, we were talking about the fact that when Jesus broke bread with His disciples, he first breaks matstsah (flat, unleavened) bread, showing Himself to be the Passover Lamb.  Jesus again takes bread, and as He did when feeding the 5000 (and the 4000), he breaks it and begins to serve the disciples.  (See verse 26.)

The Greek word in this instance is not azumos (or matstsah), but artos: raised bread.  These two Greek words exactly parallel the two Hebrew words which describe both the unleavened bread (matstsah) of Passover, and the raised bread that was on display on the Table of Shewbread (lechem).  Jesus became the bread of Passover, fulfilling its purpose, and the bread of provision -- the Table of Shewbread -- that He promised in Matthew 6:33 and Philippians 4:19.

I know that many folks have questioned the idea that Jesus would have broken leavened bread with the Disciples, but there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of the picture of leaven.  Leaven can either be good (as it was in representing the wholeness of Jesus, His makeup, His character, and the essence of who He is), or it can be representative of sin and corruption (as it was in the case of the Pharisees and Sadducees).  Leaven is simply a picture of something which expands and grows the loaf.

Jesus made the statement to the Disciples (see Matthew 16:6), "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees."  That's one example.  But He also said (in Matthew 13:33), "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened."  In this instance, leaven represents the expanding power of the Kingdom of God."

Is that clear enough?  Good!  Let's move on.

Jesus' statement caused such great consternation among the people who heard him.  They only saw his comments within the framework of the Law of Moses, or from a purely physical standpoint, and because they treated His Word that way they were repulsed by them.

"This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.  I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world......  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.  For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.  He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.  This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live forever."  (John 6:50-51, 53-58)

Then we have John's observation of Jesus:

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."  (John 1:14)

Ever wonder how "the Word was made flesh" as John declares?  Consider the picture that unfolds in Luke 1:26-38.  The angel Gabriel appears to Mary and tells her that she is blessed and highly favored of God, and that she will conceive and bear a son who in fact will be the long-promised and prophesied Messiah.  Mary does not doubt the word that she is hearing but asks, "How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?"  The angel Gabriel responds, "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."

Bear in mind that the angel is simply a messenger of God sent with God's Word to her.  Here is how -- and when -- the Word is made flesh.  "And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word."  (Luke 1:38)

Get it?  Mary agrees with the Word of the Lord and speaks that agreement by saying "Be it unto me according to thy Word:" the Word of the Lord.  She is effectively speaking the same creative Word that God spoke when He decreed in Genesis 1:3, "Light be" (or as the KJV reads, "Let there be light!")  Thus the Word came into being instantly within her womb.  Sure, she had to carry Jesus for the normal nine-month term before He was actually born but He was instantly conceived when she spoke the Word herself.

Are you beginning to get the picture?  The Word, spoken by Mary in agreement with the Word of the Lord which had been delivered to her, became flesh in her womb.  It was living.  It was eternity, invading time and space with the reality of God Himself!  Thus, the Word -- Jesus -- became flesh.  And John witnesses, "and dwelt among us (and we beheld His Glory, the Glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

Jesus walked and talked with His disciples.  He preached to the multitudes.  He broke bread with them, and He did it in a manner that would testify to them (and they would also be witness to) that He was the Word!

Consider the event that had unfolded (see John 6) just prior to Jesus' statement "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you."

"After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.  And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.  And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.  And the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh."  (This is an important point in view of what Jesus is about to do.)

"When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?  And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.  Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little. (Note: this is roughly equivalent to seven months' wages in those days)  One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, saith unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?  And Jesus said, Make the men sit down.  Now there was much grass in the place.  So the men sat down, in number about five thousand." (Note: By Hebrew tradition this number represents the married men only, not counting the unmarried men, all the wives, the women and children.  The actual number of those gathered on the hillsides would have been more on the order of 20,000 - 30,000.)

"And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.  When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.  Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.  Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world."

Before we continue with the rest of this picture, let's consider some of the issues that have already been presented.

First, John makes note of the fact that the Passover was "eggus":  "ready to begin, at hand."  Folks were ready for the seven day period in which they would eat of the unleavened bread.  They would break this bread and eat of it only -- no leavened bread at all.  (Both Orthodox and Messianic Jews keep this ordinance yet today.  They often refer to it as a "Seder" meal.)  With the Passover meal, they would drink water -- not wine.  The practice of wine with the Table of the Lord did not really commence until after Jesus turned the water into wine at the marriage of Cana in Galilee, although we see this covenant practice long before the days of Moses.

The point I'm making is that the Jews were ready to begin Passover with its unleavened flatbread (matstsah) -- symbolic of the fact that there was no leaven of Egypt in what they were eating.  In a parable that Jesus later shared, (and we've already noted this) He likened the Kingdom of God to leaven and said, "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened."  (Matthew 13:33)  In so doing, Jesus was clarifying the fact that the picture of leaven is that of a spiritual force -- whether for evil or for good.

In the miracle that unfolded in John 6 where Jesus fed the 5,000, as noted in the last Coffee Break, the loaves that Jesus broke and distributed were artos: raised bread, whole bread -- leavened bread.  There was an impartation of His life that took place which He was demonstrating.  There is a multiplying factor in His life; it is the leaven of the Kingdom of God which multiplies and causes the Word to grow and expand within us until we reach the place of being fully "raised" in Him.

Thus as the miracle of the loaves unfolded, Jesus was demonstrating what He would say to the people shortly thereafter, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

On many occasions, Jesus made statements such as the following:

"As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me." (John 6:57)

"I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 11:25-26)

"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6)

In his first general epistle, John writes, "For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us."  (I John 1:2)

The Table of the Lord -- which took the place of Passover -- provides us with a daily (or as often as we eat and drink of it) impartation of the life, the multiplication that comes in that divine life, and we receive for ourselves healing, health, wholeness, forgiveness and deliverance from, and eradication of, the bondage and oppression of the past (that's aphiémi), and the abundant provision of all that Heaven has for us.  Consider the event that took place when the Syrophenician woman came to Jesus.

"And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.  But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.  But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.  Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.  But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.   And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.  Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour."  (Matthew 15:21-28)

See the picture?  Are you understanding just how powerful the bread of life really is?  This woman was not even of the house of Israel.  Yet she understood the significance of the Table of the Lord.  She understood the picture of the Bread of Life, and she realized that just a dried-out crumb of that bread that had fallen under the Table would bring healing and deliverance to her daughter.

Brother!  I sometimes marvel that the body of Christ -- who is supposed to have a grip on what it means to be seated at the Table of the Lord -- has yet to understand what it means to eat of the Bread of Life.  David certainly had the picture.  Remember the 23rd Psalm?

"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies."  Who is preparing this table?  Hello!?!  The Lord Jesus Christ, of course.  And what are the enemies in whose presence this Table is spread?  Hmmmmm ........ Let's see, now ....... Sickness, disease, infirmity, death, poverty, bondage of every kind, demonic oppression, fear, doubt, unbelief ..... shall we go on?

Yet, for the most part, the body of Christ today still treats the Table of the Lord as anaxios: to treat irreverently, to treat as commonplace and ordinary.  There is nothing, and I do mean NOTHING about the Table of the Lord that is commonplace or ordinary.  This is not a ritual.  This is not some duty to keep.  The Table of the Lord is a way of life, a manner of living.  Eating of the Table of the Lord takes a person out of this time-space, sin-and-sickness-based, death-imposed realm and transports them into the eternity of eternities -- the Kingdom of God!

When we eat of the Bread of Life, we are eating of the Word Himself.  But we have to do it with revelation and understanding.  Otherwise it becomes just another "thing to do" as a Christian.  Personally, I dislike -- no, I'll make it even stronger than that -- I detest the form and ritual that has turned our sacred Communion at the Table of the Lord into crackers or wafers and dinky little "communion cups" (so that folks don't transmit or catch some disease by drinking from a common cup).

When Dwain and I were still at Long Beach Christian Center back in the 1970's, we stopped the "crackers-and-grape juice-in-communion cups" ritual and went to breaking a whole loaf of bread and drinking from a common cup or chalice.  It began the transformation of my understanding of what it means to partake of the Lord's Table.  That was some 40 years ago, and you couldn't pay me to go back to the old ritual!  I've yet to see someone "catch something" by drinking of a common cup at the Table of the Lord.  It just doesn't happen!  That would make the Table of the Lord a lie -- and there is nothing but truth that emanates and is imparted when we eat and drink with revelation!

Whewww!!!  We've just begun to scratch the surface.  There's a whole lot more to go just dealing with the covenant picture of the Table.  Let me wrap up with this observation:

The Lord has set a table before us that is fit for kings and priests -- and we are both in Him!  We have a feast set before us designed to help us function as kings who rule and reign, and priests who worship and come before God's presence in boldness and joy.  Health, wholeness, strength, healing, restoration, deliverance, prosperity -- they are all set before us on this Table!

Merry Christmas and Blessings on you!                                                 

Regner

Regner A. Capener                                                            
CAPENER MINISTRIES

RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
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ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: APHIEMI HEALING, Part 8

Another Coffee Break:

Aphiémi Healing, Part 8

December 12, 2013

 

For those of you who have been calling in to our Monday, Wednesday or Friday healing calls each week at 7:00 PM Eastern, Monday the 16th of December will be the break point for the Christmas and New Years period.  We will have our call on Monday the 16th, take a break, and resume on Monday, January 6th, 2014.  Once again, the number to call is (805) 399-1000.  Then enter the access code: 124763#.

We have a fistful of ground to cover today, so without any ado let's get started.

Beginning in 2008 and into 2009 Holy Spirit instructed me to begin sharing Sunday after Sunday after Sunday after Sunday on the Table of the Lord.  Just when I thought we'd about gotten the full revelation of what takes place, the Holy Spirit would download a whole new picture.  Hence, for some 40 weeks or so in succession, the Lord peeled layer after layer after layer away so that we began seeing and hearing an entirely new and expanded dimension of this covenant act.

If you've grown up in and around the church, you've likely had pretty much the same routine I've had where we would take Communion the first Sunday of every month.  Frequently you will hear the pastor or church leader say something like the following -- particularly after reading the passage of Scripture from I Corinthians 11 that reads like this:

"Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." (I Corinthians 11:27-30)

You've likely heard something like this: "Now be careful!  Examine yourself!  If you have sin in your life, don't partake of Communion -- not until you repent and make things right with God.  If you do, you could be eating sickness and death to yourself."

What gets missed in the translation is the last phrase of Paul's admonition, "not discerning the Lord's body."

If you were part of the Charismatic Renewal, you likely did something like I did.  I would try to discipline my thoughts and imagination and try to imagine Jesus' body hanging on the Cross; and I would say, "Oh, Lord, I see you.  I see you hanging on the Cross.  I see your body.  I see what you did for me."

Nice.......but stupid!  That was NOT the body Paul was speaking of!  He didn't expect us to screw up our willpower and try to imagine Jesus hanging on the Cross.  That word "discerning" in the Greek text is diakrino, which means: to make a distinction, to discriminate, to separate thoroughly.

But Paul uses an interesting Greek word in the statement, "Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord."   That word "unworthily" is translated from the Greek anaxios, which literally means: to treat irreverently, to treat as commonplace.

The use of those two words greatly affects how we understand this command.  Let me explain.

When we treat the Table of the Lord as a ritual, a once-a-month event we are required to keep (and we do it as a religious duty), we've totally lost sight of what Jesus commanded, and we are treating this as "commonplace," as "ordinary."  Once the Table of the Lord, or partaking of Communion becomes a religious duty and not a covenant act with revelation and understanding of what is taking place, it simply becomes "another thing to do" for us as Christians.

We waste our time, we waste God's time, and....worse....our treating this Table so cavalierly results in our opening a door of opportunity to Satan to afflict us with disease, steal from us and even take our lives prematurely.  It is critically important for us to remember that Jesus paid the TOTAL PRICE for our wholeness.  He erased, He eradicated from existence, He remitted (aphiémi) every single sin and ever single cause for disease, sickness, infirmity, affliction, poverty and death -- everything that came into being as a result of Adam and Eve eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

When He rose from the dead He made available to all who received Him, redemption from the curse of sin and partaking of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  It is intrinsic to His body, and every member of His body has access to the totality of what Jesus paid for!

The "discernment" Paul is speaking of refers to discerning -- understanding with true revelation -- all that Jesus' body represents at the Table.  This is not eating of a wafer and drinking an ounce of grape juice.  This is not crackers and juice, or a piece of bread and wine.  This is the body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Yes, it is!

That said; let me take you to a few foundation scriptures that will unfold the covenant nature of the Table of the Lord.

Before I do, however, let me say something that might surprise you.  Literally everything that Jesus said, every miracle He performed (that we have recorded in the Gospels), everything He demonstrated to the disciples was rooted and founded in His Table.  In the coming weeks, my objective is to help you see this unfold and radically change your understanding of what takes place each time you break bread and drink of the cup.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made." (John 1:1-3)

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." (John 1:12-14)

"This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.  I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.  ....

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.  For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.  He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.  This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live forever."  (John 6:50-51, 53-58)

You may not see the foundational aspect of these Scriptures, yet, but stand by.  It will become clear as we progress.

Jesus' statement caused a great stir -- both in the Jews generally, and amongst those that considered themselves His disciples (not the twelve) and followed Him.  It was a statement that was designed to separate those who could only see and hear in the natural realm from those who understood the spiritual significance of what He was revealing.  For those whose reference point was the Law of Moses, it created consternation and even nausea.

John tells us (see John 6:66), "From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him."  It was simply more than they could handle.

They were only seeing things through legalistic eyes.  God had made some very specific and direct commands concerning the drinking of blood as we see in the following references.

"Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." (Genesis 9:3-4)

"Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people." (Leviticus 7:26-27)

"And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood." (Leviticus 17:10-12)

And that's just a drop in the bucket.  There are a host of Scriptures which emphasize the fact that one does not eat (or drink) blood because all life is in the blood.  But Jesus wasn't talking about eating His literal flesh or drinking His literal blood.  He was referring back to the prophecy all Jews should have been well aware of -- the prophecy of Passover.

I won't recount the entire portion of Scripture here that relates to the Passover (you can read it in Exodus 12), but to summarize, God was preparing to bring Israel out of centuries of bondage in Egypt and take them to the Land of Promise He had covenanted to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  The Egyptian Pharaoh wouldn't release the Israelites, despite the fact that God had given him sign after sign after sign, so God was going to send the Angel of Death across the land.

For Israel (living in Goshen) to be free from the death angel's power enabling him to "pass over" them, they needed to eat from a Table that God was going to prepare especially for this event.  They were commanded to take a yearling lamb from their flocks, kill it, collect its blood and apply it to the lintels and doorposts of their dwelling places, roast the lamb and eat it along with cakes of unleavened bread.  Once again, they were not to drink of the blood; they were to apply it to the lintels and doorposts of their homes.

God's promise to Israel was, "And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt."  (Exodus 12:13)  But it didn't stop there.

"And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.  Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

“And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.  And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever." (Exodus 12:14-17)

I can see the wheels turning for some of you.  OK, so where is there a prophecy in this? you ask.  Glad you asked.  I can't take the time in this series to deal with all of the feasts Israel was commanded to keep, but each of these feasts -- beginning with Passover -- was a prophecy, a picture of a future event in time -- to be fulfilled by and for the coming Messiah.

Notice that this very first feast (as was every feast Israel kept) began with the eating of a specific meal.  They didn't have a drink specified at this meal/table (that came later as God spelled out the various offerings to Moses) because of the specific application of the blood.  However, wine was later specified in the place of blood as an offering to the Lord (Exodus 29:40) and whenever the covenant Table was kept in Israel, wine became the substitute for, and symbol of, blood.

Israel would have the picture of the Table of the Lord continually before them once the Tabernacle of Moses was established.  What we know as the "Table of Shewbread" was established as a permanent part of the furnishings of Moses' Tabernacle, and God's promised provision was constantly on display as twelve prophetic loaves.

Passover was the promise of what was to come.  Jesus fulfilled that promise.  And just as Jesus ate of the Passover meal with the disciples on the night He was betrayed -- becoming the once-and-for-all sacrificial "Lamb that was slain before the foundations of the world" (and forever completing the prophecy and picture of Passover) -- He also became the bread of provision displayed on the Table of Shewbread.

Take a quick look at Matthew 26 where we have a picture of the Last Supper.  In verses 17-20 we see them eating of the unleavened bread.  The Greek word which describes unleavened bread is azumos.  But following the final celebration of Passover, Jesus again takes bread, and as He did when feeding the 5000 (and the 4000), he breaks it and begins to serve the disciples.  (See verse 26.)

The Greek word in this instance is not azumos, but artos: raised bread.  These two Greek words exactly parallel the two Hebrew words which describe both the unleavened bread (matstsah) of Passover, and the raised bread that was on display on the Table of Shewbread (lechem).  Jesus became the bread of Passover, fulfilling its purpose, and the bread of provision -- the Table of Shewbread -- that He promised in Matthew 6:33 and Philippians 4:19.

Yet the Table of the Lord was actually manifested centuries before with Abraham.  Remember when Melchizedek came out to greet Abraham after the slaughter of the kings' armies when he went to retrieve Lot following his capture?  He came out with bread (lechem) and wine, and declared the Blessing upon Abraham.

This may seem a bit heavy, but I wanted to get these foundations laid in your understanding before we really begin to see and understand just how significant was the Table of the Lord.  Let me say something here before we get back to Jesus' very controversial statement.

The only way true change will come to us, then to the body of Christ and finally to the world, is when we stop setting our own agendas and begin to agree with everything God says.  We must respond to what He desires to do in us -- no matter whether it crosses our doctrinal understanding or not.

Hmmmmm..... I think I need to stop here and pick it up at this point next week.  We're getting ready to open up a very large discussion, so this is a perfect place to pause.

Blessings on you!                                                        

Regner

Regner A. Capener                                                            
CAPENER MINISTRIES

RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
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