The End of the Protest - The Beginning of Glory! Part 1

We all, who with unveiled faces encounter the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory,

By grace alone we are accepted by God through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. His goodness leads us to Him. He loved us first. We are saved, healed and delivered and filled with the Holy Spirit by grace through faith alone; by no effort or merit of our own. The protest is over. We are saved by His love and by the power of His love and we are transformed to do good. When others see the power of His goodness in our life - it draws them to His love that they might know Him and that we all may be one as His Sons and Daughters. The glory the Father has given Jesus, He has given to us that we may be one so that the world may believe! Alleluia! John 17

ITS THE GLORY OF JESUS CHRIST WE ENCOUNTER AT HIS TABLE THAT BINDS US TOGETHER! 2 Cortinthians 3:18, 1 John 1:1-4

It ended in 1999. Tony Palmer says he came to the Copeland organization “in the spirit of Elijah… to turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the hearts of the sons to the fathers…” ’Then Palmer talks about the agreement signed in 1999 by the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Lutheran Church, and five years later by the Methodist church, and he concludes, “This [agreement] brought an end to the protest of Luther. Brothers and sisters, Luther’s protest is over. Is yours?” he said. Then he added, “so, the protest has been over for 15 years… If there is no more protest, how can there be a Protestant church?  Maybe now we’re all 'catholics' again!”

We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

"If what was transitory came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which is eternal!" 2 Corinthians 3:10

From my heart to yours. Jesus is waiting for you. He awaits each of us every moment of every day. He told us where and how to encounter Him. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 6:35-61; Luke 24:30-31; John 13-17; 2 Corinthians 3:18, 4;18; Revelation 3:20; Revelation 19:10; Psalm 23 

Those led by the Holy Spirit are the children of God. Led by the Spirit from your table where He meets you (Revelation 3:20) your destination is the Table of the Lord. (Psalm 23). It is nothing more and nothing less. All activity of faith is secondary. All scripture reading and study is secondary. All other forms of worship are secondary. All doctrine, intelligentsia, academics are secondary. All conferences, seminars, assemblies are secondary if the focus is not on Communion with Jesus. Communion - literally - at His Table for the meal He has prepared for you! Just you and Him.  

Not communion as a gathering, not communion as a scheduled event or ritual, not communion as a memorial... eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Jesus at His Table is Communion. Then there is feasting on the presence of the Lord that transforms us (for we cannot transform ourselves)!

Your faith is nothing but a wavering faith if it is not rooted and grounded in a personal relationship with Jesus at His Table. That relationship will be as constant as the number of days you sit down and have Communion with Him personally. It takes all of five minutes. The "John 6" result of having Communion by way of the Body and the Blood of the Lord is this: ONE: You now have His Life in you; TWO: You have been given the  divine promise of eternal life; THREE:We have been given the hope and promise that He will raise us up in the last day! Do we want these things? Yes! How much? He wants to give you this fresh every day! Communion comes from being with Jesus at His Table eating the meal He gives us and feasting on His presence. It is the Miracle of CommunionFire! No other Communion will do. The only Communion is Communion with Jesus Christ, personally, at His Table, each of us alone with Him. All other Communion is only possible through this. This unity of the faith is founded on the revelation of Jesus Christ we each experience and encounter through Communion at His Table as often as we "do this" (as by the invitation of Jesus and no other). 

The protest is over and so is the division. If you want the unity of the faith, then understand it begins and ends at the Table of the Lord. Come to His Table. Feast on His flesh and drink of His blood. If you don't, Jesus said, "You have no life in you! If you do - you have His life in you, you have eternal life and He will raise you up in the last day!" Lifeless vs. Eternal Life: what is your choice? (He who made the stars and the angels and He who changed the water into wine by revealing His glory can just as easily change the bread and wine we offer to Him into His Body and Blood! That is just the beginning of the miracle. From there you encounter His glory personally and in what you see, hear and understand you are transformed by that glory from glory to glory into that same image - Jesus Christ full of grace and truth. If your encounter with others begins with your encounter with Jesus how do you think things will go?

That the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. Ephesians 4:12-16

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