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Pastor Kok III's Private Eucharist Service

This evening, December 7, 2006, at approximately 8:00 p.m. (pst) on the 65th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack I conducted a private eucharist ceremony which I want to share with you. And if you wish I invite you to drink and eat with me and share in the body and blood of Christ with me  upon receiving this email and reading it. In so doing I encourage you to read the words aloud and use either wine or grapejuice to represent Christ's blood and a piece of bread or cracker to represent Christ's body.

 And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me." 

Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.Luke 22:19-20 NKJV

Commentary:
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.For - in proof that the Lord's supper is "in remembrance" of Him.Show - announce publicly [katangellete (NT:2605)]; not dramatically represent, but 'publicly profess each of you, the Lord died FOR ME' Wahl). Paul means, not literal presence, but vivid personal appropriation by faith of Christ crucified in the Lord's supper(Eph 5:30: cf. Gen 2:23): realizing that we ourselves are "members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones," 'our sinful bodies made clan by His body (once for all offered), and our souls washed through His most precious blood' ('Church of England Prayer Book'). "Show," or 'announce,' applies to new things (cf. Ex 13:8). So the Lord's death, and all the saving blessings resulting from it, ought always to be fresh in our memory (cf. in heaven, Rev 5:6). That the Lord's supper is in remembrance of Him, implies that He is bodily absent, though spiritually present; for we cannot 'commemorate' one absent...1 Cor 11:26\

(from Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft)

Till he come - when there shall be no longer need of symbols, the body itself being manifested. The Greek [no, an (NT:302), before elthee (NT:2064)] expresses the certainty of His coming. Rome teaches that we eat Christ present corporally "until He come" corporally!-a contradiction in terms. The showbread, literally, bread of the presence, was in the sanctuary, but not in the Holiest place (Heb 9:1-8); so the Lord's super shall be superseded in heaven, the antitype to the Holiest place, by Christ's own bodily presence: then the wine shall be drunk "anew" in the Father's kingdom by Christ and His people together, of which heavenly banquet the Lord's supper is a spiritual foretaste (Matt 26:29; Rev 19:9). Meantime, as the showbread was placed anew every Sabbath on the table before the Lord (Lev 24:5-8), so the Lord's death was shown (announced afresh) at the Lord's table the first day of every week in the primitive Church. We are now "priests unto God" in the dispensation of Christ's spiritual presence, antitypical of the HOLY PLACE: the perfect dispensation to come when Christ shall come is antitypical to the HOLIEST PLACE.Christ our High Priest alone in the flesh as yet has entered the Heavenly Holiest (Heb 9:6-7; 12:24); at his coming, believers too shall enter (Rev 7:15; 21:22). The super joins the consummations of the Old and New dispensations. The first and second comings are two phase of one coming; whence the expression is not 'return,' but "come" (cf., however, John 14:3).1 Cor 11:26
(from Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft)

Prayer:

Dear God, Thank you for this special moment which I can share with others whom are part of the Body of Christ. Let this moment--the breaking of the body (bread/cracker etc) and the shedding of the blood (wine/grapejuice/other) be a moment of truth for all of us. Let us remember our own finite abilities compared to Your infinite greatness, and Your compassion towards us all. Let us become more and more like You--the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit, in each and every moment of the day. We, now,  are the Blood & Body of Christ !

Thank you for sharing this moment with me, my friends.

J.P. Kok

Pastor Kok III