No opinions. No need to debate. Why? Because the same Word of God that has stood the test of time is still the Word of God today. Unchanging, in spite of the worldly attempts to revise the scriptures. Moreover, Jesus - who is the same yesterday, today, and forever spake these words just before the cross -- "I have given them Thy Word ... Sanctify them through thy truth: Thy Word is truth." (John 17:17)
Thy Word is truth.
Thy Word is our bread and wine.
"And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and He was the priest of the most high God." (Genesis 14:18-20)
"So also Christ glorified not Himself to be made an high priest, but He that said unto Him, "Thou Art My Son, Today Have I Begotten Thee." As He saith also in another place, "Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec" who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared; though He were a Son, yet learned He of obedience by the things which He suffered, and being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him -- called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec." (Hebrews 5:5-10)
"So also Christ glorified not Himself to be made an high priest, but He that said unto Him, "Thou Art My Son, Today Have I Begotten Thee." As He saith also in another place, "Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec" who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared; though He were a Son, yet learned He of obedience by the things which He suffered, and being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him -- called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec." (Hebrews 5:5-10)
"After the order of Melchisedec." (Hebrews 5:10)
"For it became Him for whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings, for both He that sanctified all of one; for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying: "I will declare Thy name unto my brethren. In the midst of the church will I sing praise unto Thee." (Hebrews 2:10-12)
This is why it is so critical that we understand who Jesus is.
"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God ... He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own but His own received Him not." (John 1:1-18)
"Then Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world."
Then said they unto him, "Lord, evermore give us this bread." And Jesus said unto them, "I am the Bread of Life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst." (John 6:32-35)
It was not a dream that God had but the mystery of godliness that was hid in God from the beginning of the world. Those who claim otherwise either do not understand the mystery that was hid in God from the beginning of the world, and therefore, use another approach to justify their false teachings, or they are -- as Jesus points out -- sadly, serving the father which is of this earth.
But Jesus said nothing would be hid from those whom He has chosen and ordained. Take time to study the following scriptures (and others as this list is far from exhaustive) as doth a workman, rightly discerning what is right and true. Remember, Thy Word is Truth, and as believers we are sanctified through Thy Word. Eat of the bread today, and drink of the wine that our Lord God and Saviour Jesus the Christ has prepared for us. Stand in the offering plate.
Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness ... "God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." (I Timothy 3:16)
And Jesus said to them, "Unto you it is been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but unto those them that are without, all things come in parables ... " (Mark 4:11)
"For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in." (Romans 11:25)
"Now to Him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began." (Romans 16:25)
"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory ..." (I Corinthians 2:7)
"Behold, I shew you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed ..." (I Corinthians 15:51)
"Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself ..." (Ephesians 1:9)
"How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) ..." (Ephesians 3:3-4)
"And to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God who created all things by Jesus Christ ..." (Ephesians 3:9)
"This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church." (Ephesians 5:32)
"And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel ..." (Ephesians 6:19)
"The mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints. To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you -- the hope of glory. " (Colossians 1:26-27)
"That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." (Colossians 2:2-3)
"Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds ..." (Colossians 4:3)
"Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience." (I Timothy 3:9)
"The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks which you saw are the seven churches." (Revelation 1:20)
"But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets." (Revelation 10:7)
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