The End Of The Protest - The Beginning Of Glory! Part 2

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:6
"For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ."

When Jesus turned the water into wine in Cana at the wedding feast it was because his Mother Mary said, "They have no wine!" How did He do it? The miracle happened because for the first time (away from the guests and only before a handful of waiters, the first 4 disciples and Mary) Jesus revealed His glory! 

When Jesus shares His glory, miracles happen! His presence, His love, His passion and His mercy is the glory of God! It is a consuming fire. When Jesus revealed His glory, the water became heaven's vintage wine. It was over 120 gallons! When His Mother said, "They have no wine", it almost feels to me like she is pointing to the majority of the Church today! Where is the Communion? The people of God have run out of wine!

How important is the Lord's Table? How important is Communion? I want to shout the question from every housetop! Where is the Lord's Table? Do you know how to find it? When was the last time you responded to Jesus invitation to "Do this to remember Me!" When was the last time you had Communion with the Lord? 

We need the glory of the Lord now, today! We need our lives to be transformed like the water into wine! We need to stop looking at the natural and start being consumed by the fire of His eternal presence. We need to come to the Lord's Table to allow His love to transform us one by one. We behold the eternal glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. When we look upon Him the miracle of transformation begins. He gave us His Body so we could feast on His presence. He gave us His blood that we might drink in His life. When the body and the blood combine inside us we receive His life. Jesus is alive inside you! The same Spirit that raised Him from the dead quickens your mortal body by the presence of His Body.

John 17:22-24 
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one - I in them and you in me - so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

We cannot make Communion happen. We cannot earn the right to have Communion. We cannot read enough scripture, pray enough prayers or make ourselves worthy enough to stir up the power of Communion. Communion is not within our range of capability. Communion with the Lord or one another is totally outside our reach. Jesus is praying for it to take place in John 17 right after He explained that He was sending the Holy Spirit to lead us. Where? Into His presence by way of His Table through the gift of His Body and Blood. Why? Because through feasting on His Body and drinking of His Blood the veil of the temporary is drawn back to reveal the eternal. Feasting on the presence of the Lord takes place through the feast He provides us at the Table. He prepares us as He turns the bread into His flesh and the wine into His blood! Jesus said, "This is real food and real drink! If you don't have it you have no life in you!" (You have no wine!) "If you do partake then you have My life in you; you have eternal life and I will raise you up at the last day!" 

The Miracle of Communion is Encountering CommunionFire

Communion happens in the miracle of the love feast. Each time we sit down with Him and feed upon Him we deepen our personal Communion with Him. When we do we can see each other more and more the way He sees us. Then the miracle of Communion deepens among us and between us. It all stems from our personal Communion with Him! It is not communion with nature or creation or communion we attempt through prayer or communion we try to trigger through scriptures or corporate worship. It is Communion as He designed it to be. It is eating the bread and drinking the wine He blesses so that we might feast on His Body and drink of His Blood. It is the same glory that provided the miracle of water into wine! 

Romans 8:29
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

2 Corinthians 4:4
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ.

It is in the face of Jesus Christ we see the glory of God displayed! When we see Him we are transformed by that same image from glory to glory! He gave us Communion as His provision for us to meet with Him to see Him, hear Him, feel His touch, and become absorbed by His love. The more we encounter Him through Communion the more His love absorbs us, the more His fire consumes us and the more we are transformed to become the person He designed us to be. 

1 John 3:2
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

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