Renewal By CommunionFire - An Online Dialog

Sometimes those of us who spend time at the Table of the Lord dialog in various ways with each other. Last night my friend of 30 years and dear brother in the Lord Tom Swartz and I had just such an encounter. With his permission I thought to share this with you as it was such a blessing to both of us. The sparks of CommunionFire were flying between us. The Early Church Fathers called this the "hot coals of communion that burn within". 

Bob Bonnell
Yesterday at 2:24pm
What does Jesus mean when He invites us to "Do this in remembrance of me" ?
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• Tom Swartz " This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate... as a perpetual institution." Ex 12:14
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• Bob Bonnell These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him. john 12:16
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• Bob Bonnell But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. John 14:26
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• Bob Bonnell But He was speaking of the temple of His body. So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken. John 2:21-22
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• Bob Bonnell Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. John 21:25
  
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• Bob Bonnell Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. John 20:30
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• Bob Bonnell BREAD: He broke the bread and said, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember me. 1 Corinthians 11:24
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• Bob Bonnell WINE: He also took the cup and said, "This cup is the new covenant established by My blood. Keep doing this, as often as you drink it to remember Me." 1 Corinthians 11:25
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• Bob Bonnell The Word made flesh - we are to eat His flesh to partake of His life so that the life we now live we live by the faith of Jesus. Every time we have the Bread of Life - we feed upon His presence. As we do something new occurs. Memories are being made in our relationship with Him. We encounter Jesus personally and now His story becomes our story. We are transformed from glory to glory.
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• Tom Swartz He is the bread of life. The new Manna from heaven. He has come to bring us Life, so we shall never die.
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• Bob Bonnell The fruit of the Vine - the Wine of His Blood speaks! When we drink in the Life of His Blood we drink in the new wine of the Spirit. We are renewed and revived. In His presence the Lord who is the Spirit whispers, breathes and speaks the Logos. He breathes the life the Logos into us. He reminds us of all that Jesus wants to say to us every time we sit at His Table. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead quickens our mortal Body. Its no longer us that live but Christ who is alive in us!
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• Tom Swartz Amen! Amen!
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• Bob Bonnell The Great Feast made of a small piece of bread and a sip of wine becomes a meal that, once eaten, feeds us forever! In John 6 Jesus said The New Manna (His flesh) and the Blood (1) gives us life now, (2) gives us the promise of eternal life (which we taste now) and that (3) He will raise us up on the last day! (Now thats one powerful meal! The bread never never goes stale and continues to feed us every day in addition to any other meal we have had at His Table. The wine never loses it power to intoxicate us with the renewing powerl of the Holy Spirit and its vintage continues to improve (in) us from glory to glory.
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• Tom Swartz The sacrificial Lamb of the New Messianic Covenant. The new Moses, the New Passover, the New eternal Covenant.
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• Bob Bonnell Memories are made with Jesus when we share His Table. He meets us where we are, as we are for who we are and He shares His life with us as He is where He is for who He is to us at that moment. It is a personal, eternal, life giving, deliriously joyful, love-filled, super peace experience when we are hidden in His presence. The Holy Spirit will bring all these moments to mind - we will remember them any time and every time He wants us to. Taste and see the Lord is Sooooo Gooood!
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• Tom Swartz The sacrificial Lamb of the New Messianic covenant
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• Bob Bonnell Amen Tom! Jesus is the CommunionFire!
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• Bob Bonnell The Holy Spirit leads us into 'all truth' = the true presence of Jesus, just as David sang about the Good Shepherd who has one destination in mind: The Table He has prepared for us where He is the meal! When we eat He opens our eyes to recognize (anoints our head with oil) and then drinking His Blood from His Cup, (The cup of our heart pumps and overflows with new life!)
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• Bob Bonnell "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. 18"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you".…John 14;16-18
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• Bob Bonnell Sharon: I think this is where you talk about Heaven's adoption!
  
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• Bob Bonnell For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day." John 6:40
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• Bob Bonnell "When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father--he will testify about me." John 15:26
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• Bob Bonnell "But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." John 16:13
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• Bob Bonnell "As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit--just as it has taught you, remain in him." 1 John 2:27
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• Bob Bonnell There's a fire and its burning in my heart... There's a fire and its making me a part... of the Love of Heaven given me! Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gifts! They are beyond all we can ask or think! Alleluia!
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• Bob Bonnell Ah, Dearest Jesus, Holy Child
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• Tom Swartz We worship in the company of all the angels and Saints.
  
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• Bob Bonnell Make Thee a bed, soft, undefiled...
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  Bob Bonnell Within my heart, so it may be....
  
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  Bob Bonnell A quiet chamber, kept for Thee!
  
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• Bob Bonnell Good to worship with you Br. Tom!
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  Bob Bonnell  Love U and all who share His blessed warmth!
  
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• Tom Swartz It is good to share the brotherhood of Christ with you, Bob.
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