[maryz]

and the flesh is no help at all.

Even the Body (which is of course flesh) of Christ which was given up for us?

[MHGinTN]

Jesus said it. John 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. 64 "But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him> right there Jesus says eating His flesh is of no profit because you cannot eat the spirit into you.

God's Life, the Spirit of Life comes in not by mouth, eating the flesh, for Jesus explained to His disciples that the entire scene in John 6 is not about the flesh but the spirit: eating the flesh, as He used in sarcasm with the ones He knew were not going to stick with the mission, eating the actual flesh profits nothing. It is the Spirit Who makes alive. And He said His words are spirit and truth.

Humans have inherited a dead spirit from Adam. By the blood of Christ shed in His death, the atonement Has been made for all forever. That atonement allows The righteousness of God to be deposited in your suddenly clean human spirit by the presence of the Holy Spirit spark. You cannot eat that spark into you. Only God puts His life in anyone. See the example of this phenomenon at the day of Pentecost preaching and in the House of Cornelius.

God's Spirit comes into those believers because they did something very similar if not exactly like what Moses prefigured with the brass snake in the desert, to heal the poisonous bite of vipers killing Israelites.+- And we may be certain this is to be seen as comparative because that is the lesson Jesus gave to Nicodemus in John 3.

[Elsie]

1 Corinthians 11:23-26  New International Version (NIV)

 ²³ For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you:

The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴ and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said,

“This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” ²⁵

 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying,

 “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

²⁶ For whenever you eat This bread and drink This cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

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Is ANYONE in this thread REALLY doing it like Jesus did it?