The Communion 4 - the Lord's Table — G.W. North

The Communion of Christ's Body and Blood

You will remember, if you were here on Sunday night, I can't go back over the hill for all of you, but if you were here last evening that we reached the great truth that is spoken of in 1 Corinthians 10, where Paul, speaking in verse 16, but before that, in verse 15, tells us that he's speaking to the wise.

Now, it's very possible to be completely foolish about the things of the communion. It's possible to think we know when we don't know. And so, when he speaks to wise people, he says this. Verse 16, The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?

The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we, being many, are one bread and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread. I don't know whether you have ever partaken of the communion with the thought in your heart that you should drink the covenant in the blood of Jesus Christ, or you've eaten the bread with the thought of becoming that body.

For that is exactly what Paul is saying, and it's a tremendous truth. And God insists that we get right hold of this in our hearts, and that we understand, because one of the things he bids us to do in this same letter is that we are to discern the body of Christ.

And the body of Christ has many, many forms. So may the Lord lead us into the truth that he wants us to know about it, in all its fullness, the communion. The thing with the Corinthians was this, that the communion had broken down, and it was entirely against God's will.

It wasn't that they didn't come together, and in some form or another go through the outward acts. And it didn't mean that some of them did not really commune properly. But generally, in the church, the communion had broken down.

And he attacks it right in the very beginning of the letter. If you keep your finger somewhere in that portion of Corinthians, and turn, first of all, to the first chapter. Well, we are told, very plainly, that God is faithful, verse 9.

Who has called us into the communion of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. It is precisely into the communion of Jesus Christ that we are called. That's the class of communion into which we are called. Did you understand it?

The Apostolic Communion and the Holy Ghost

That class of communion, he's called us into the communion as though you were one of the elect eleven that sat that night or reclined that night in the upper room, after Jesus had exposed and expelled the traitor, that no sinner should partake of the communion, and no one who had it in his heart to betray Christ should be there.

This is the communion you have been called as though you were one of the apostles. Amen. And there's no doubt about it, that when you read in Acts chapter 2, that when they were baptized in water and in the Holy Ghost, on the day of Pentecost, all they who came into a like experience as the eleven apostles, with the rest that made up the 120, the original foundation members of the church, all those, I say, who came into a like experience of them in the Holy Ghost, that is, all that were baptized in the Holy Ghost, no one else may partake according to God.

I mean, this is how it was founded. This is how it began. Men have reversed God's intentions. And look at the conditions in the churches. This is the tragedy. And it said that they all continued in steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and communion.

Actually, it's the word fellowship. If you're reading the King James like I am, always use it. They continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and communion and breaking of bread. You see, it's all there.

It's all there. They continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine according to the communion of His Son, which He partook of with the apostles originally. This is the blessedness. Always remember this, that God never loses the glory or the meaning of the first and original thing.

Never. Never. He establishes it as a thing, and it is that in His heart, and it never varies. Never. Into the life, into the body, into the doctrine. It was these apostles that laid down the doctrine, the breaking of the bread, the explanation, and, of course, prayers.

This, then, is the wonder of all that God did in the beginning. And you and I have been called into that communion. Keep your finger in chapter 1. And if you have that finger still in chapter 10, perhaps you'd better take that out, because I want you to look with me into the second epistle of Corinthians and note something that's very wonderful.

And this will explain to you why you must be baptised in the Holy Ghost if you want to know the communion. For in the very last verse of the second Corinthians, we read this. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost.

Now, if you've got the word be in there, it's italicised. It means it's not in the original. You can put in is. And when I say the grace, I always put in the word is. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost is with us all, evermore.

Amen. And so you see, the communion is associated with the Holy Ghost. Through the grace of Jesus Christ, and by the love of God, we are brought by that grace into the communion of love that those three glorious beings had and have in the eternity in which they live.

And for which he established time that he might break into the world of men and bring us into it. And this is the communion into which you are invited. He started with the communion. You've been called into the communion of his son.

Chapter one, first Corinthians, verse nine. The grace of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost is with you all. Amen. Second Corinthians, chapter 13, and verse, you're looking at it.

There it is. It's all within the communion. And of course, he doesn't mean it's in a service called communion. It's in the actual communion. That's where it all lies. Your salvation was brought out in the communion.

Communion as Making Common

And the communion service that we commemorate has to do with the fact, the act of making common. For as we said last evening, the Greek word that is translated communion or fellowship actually means the act of making common.

The God made common to men who are regenerate by his grace, the union that is common to God, that we should be brought into this glorious eternal union. And it should be as common to us as to God. Most precious, only available through the glorious blood, only available by the terrible death.

It's ours. And it's into this that we've been called. Now there is a great standard required, obviously. No wonder then that this man should write as he did to the Corinthians, with the love, with the grace, with the indignation of God against sin, and the things that broke the communion.

Amen. So then, if we go back to the first great chapter we looked at in 1 Corinthians chapter 1, this is how Paul goes on. He says this, and of course it's the thing that grieves his heart. And in verse 11, or shall we say in verse 9, 10, sorry, Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together.

Are you wanting this perfect union? That's the union of the Godhead. This is the perfect union. And that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment, for it has been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them that are of the household of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

And of course he starts right on the opposite to the communion division. The divisions, hallelujah. I'm ever so glad that it's on this mighty theme of the communion then that he comes. Not the keeping of a service at the moment.

He deals with it, but to keep this great truth firmly fixed in our hearts. There must be no divisions. None at all. For any reason, for any name, for any man. He makes it very clear. And the divisions, beloved, they always result from something like this.

We're going back on again, I mean, into the epistle. And this time we're in chapter 11. And in this great 11th chapter, 1 Corinthians, in the great 11th chapter, we read these words. Now verse 17, in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you. And I partly believe it for there must also be heresies among you. That they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

So they, by approving of men, one said, I'm of Paul. Another said, I'm of Apollos. Another said, I am of Cephas. By approving of men, they were in heresy. That's heresy. And division always comes because of heresy.

Now that may not be very palatable to us, but you'd better take the pill, even if it doesn't taste nice. Heresy. Heresy, of course, is a truth, partial truth, pushed too far. Coming probably through your favorite preacher.

Unity in the Trinity

Now we've got, we've got to get this absolutely right and settled. Hallelujah. God wants us to be in the communion, beloved. The great communion in the Godhead. Father doesn't say to the Holy Ghost, oh, I like Jesus better than you, Holy Ghost.

I think Jesus says marvelous things. Did you listen to that parable of the good Samaritan he told? Or did you hear that wonderful exposition on the bread that he broke and the fishes that he gave? Did you hear that?

Don't think much of you, Holy Ghost. It's Jesus I prefer. Or Jesus saying, don't reckon much of you, Father. My preference is for the Holy Spirit. So you hear people saying, he's got a Holy Ghost ministry.

Or he's got this ministry. Or he's got that ministry. God help us. God help us. We've got to be in the communion. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost co-equal. Amen. They all love one another in the Godhead, you know.

You've heard this before, I'm sure. You see, a father sent his son. And he says, now look, everybody look at Jesus. This is my beloved son, he says, in whom I'm well pleased. Jesus said, it's not me. It's my father.

You look at my father, you see. So he turned to the father. And then just before he left the earth, he said, now he said, I'm going to get out of the way. You look for the Holy Ghost. Keep your eye on the Holy Ghost.

Holy Ghost comes, he says, oh, not me. You look at Jesus. Now that's the way they go about it. That's humility. That's love. That's true. That's how God wants it. And that's how it's got to be. Among men.

It's so wonderful. Jesus said, the Holy Ghost proceeds from the father. Marvelous. On earth, he said, I'm going to send you the Holy Ghost. And he said, he's proceeding from the father. Oh, he couldn't take credit for anything.

Jesus wouldn't take credit for anything. Nothing. He took the blame for everything. No credit. He took the responsibility for what he did, but no credit. He said, it's all fathers. We were looking at this last evening.

That Jesus did not start to humble himself from the womb onwards and onto the cross. He humbled himself before he left heaven. You read Philippians 2. His humbling started whilst he was still up there in the spirit, for God is spirit.

Before he was ever manifest through the virgin's womb. Communion. The communion. Marvelous. I hope you're in it. For you and I, when we do come to what has been called, if you like, we'll look it up, shall we?

The Lord's Table and the Lord's Supper

In 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 21. What has been called the Lord's table. Do you see it there? This is another lovely phrase. As we were thinking together, those people who believe the Bible in its original form, to be the inspired word of God.

And I do. If I said, put your hand up, all of you that believe that. I wonder whether we have a forest of arms waving about. I wouldn't like to think I was alone. But those of us who believe that the Bible as it came forth from God.

Came clear and pure to men and they put it down under the control and in the power and in the authority of the Holy Ghost. So that their own ideas did not creep in at all. Though their brains and their hands were being used.

Their memory called upon as well. But under the power of God. If I said, how many of you believe that? Would you be leaping to your seat to say I do? Well, those of us that believe that. We don't use these terms that churches or denominations established or unestablished make up.

For instance, we never speak about the Eucharist. We don't speak about the mass. We don't speak about those things. We use terms like the breaking of bread. We use the terms like the communion. We use the terms like the Lord's table.

Yeah, that's that's all the language we speak. Because we love the book. Don't we? The Lord's table. You have been called to the Lord's table. Amen. And if you look down into that great 11th chapter where we were reading.

When you come together, verse 20, into one place. This is not to eat the Lord's supper. When there's a terrible thing that when the true church is gathered together in one place. That should be if they're going to eat anything.

Should be exclusively to eat the Lord's supper. Not for somebody to bring their turkey. And somebody else have to live on dry bread. Not to display wealth to show up poverty. Not to show wondrous living for someone who has a job to make a living.

He said this is what you're doing. That's not the Lord's supper. The Lord wouldn't do that. I said this the other night. I don't know really whether we're ready to accept the real call of God. Especially in these days when we're having hearing much talk about apostles and prophets.

And what may not cropping up all over the place. The Lord Jesus Christ called men to level them down to his state of poverty. And when he fed them he gave them bread and wine. That's all he gave them.

If you think that Christianity is a means of getting blessing and getting rich quick. You're as deceived as all the occupants in hell are. The tremendous truth beloved is that God has called us into a state.

And God bring us all there where we having nothing yet possess all things. That's the condition into which he's calling us. It is the condition of the cross. Of the man on the cross. He had nothing there.

Last of all he never had a cry. Never had a drop of blood. And never had a breath. Hallelujah. It's marvelous. But you and I had better see the power and purpose of the cross. And know exactly this great call.

And let's get out of this affluent gospel shall we. That is that's preached on lines of affluence if you believe hard enough. And let's come into the place where we understand. That if you and I are going to live for God.

All in all and out and out. Then we're being called by this glorious man. We are being called into this chameleon. Do you want it? Do you want this? The glory of being free from everything else. But being in the life and the affluence of God.

The Conditions for Spiritual Flood and Communion

In vain the church calls out for power. In vain they call on all these things. For all these things. If they aren't prepared to fulfill the conditions. It doesn't suddenly drop out of the roof. Calling it an anointing in a meeting.

If you want a flood there are two conditions to fulfill. You can never depart from the principles of the bible. One. The fountains of the great deep must be broken up. And then the windows of heaven are opened.

Read it. Genesis 6. If we want this flood. The fountains of the great deep are broken up. It's a marvellous thing. Except the fountains of the deep in a man. And deep calls unto deep heights if you like.

The depths of God. And the ark came up. From the fountains under the deep. And the windows of heaven being opened. And there it floated. Clear. And free. That's the way it is. Don't manufacture from artificial ideas.

Bob, God does not give us artifacts. He gives us original principles. And we move in this gray realm of life. In the communion of God. Amen. And the Lord is calling us to his table. It's the Lord's supper.

The Lord's supper. Now we started off. You may remember. So much has happened since Saturday night. But if you can recall it. That's where we started. This simplest name in the Acts chapter 2. Where God calls it.

Or Luke under the inspiration of God calls it. The breaking of bread. And we thought of the loveliness and the simplicity. When God first breaks the news to our hearts. Of this New Testament feast. It's just like a father gathering his family around him.

And they all break bread together. Hallelujah. Which is the common term for eating. We're all in the feast of God. We're all in the feast of love. Amen. Is that right? That's simple. And then the next one.

The Lordship of Christ at the Table

Upon which we've spent so much time. The communion. But now you have to remember this. That the table you're sitting at. Is the table of the Lord. Not just your father. He is your father. But God gave you birth.

That you might come under his lordship. And he sits at the head of the table. And he regulates the family. And he has us all behaving properly. The Lord. And this is how Paul started. With his great unfolding of the truth.

In 1 Corinthians 11. He says this. I have received of the Lord. That the Lord Jesus. The same night in which he was betrayed. Took bread. The lordship of Christ. Nobody ought to sit at the communion table.

Unless they're prepared to say that Jesus. Is my Lord. Is he your Lord? Do you accept his lordship and dominion over your life? Are you a rebel? God's ways with rebels. Are shown us. In John chapter 13.

The rebel Judas. Was shown the door. He mustn't partake. The conditions for communion. Are play. Those who are born of God. Those who are in the communion. Of the Holy Ghost. With God. And those who know the lordship.

Born of the Father. In the communion of the Spirit. Under the lordship of Jesus Christ. Here you have the Trinity set forth. It is the Lord's table. It must be. This is the communion. It's the communion of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

The unbroken. Unbreakable communion. The eternal life. The eternal life could not exist. If Father were divorced from Son and the Holy Ghost. It only consists and is sustained in love. By the union of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost.

Break that in any way in your life. And you've broken the communion. Oh not in God. But in you. In your heart. That is why nobody was allowed to partake. Until they were baptized in the Holy Ghost. After the departure of Christ.

They never kept up a weekly communion service. From the betrayal night. Until the day of Pentecost. It started on the day of Pentecost. It was the Lord's day. When he came into his own. In his new body of men and women on the earth.

And the outward symbol of breaking the bread and drinking the wine. Was a complete statement understood by God and angels in heaven. And men and women on earth. And Satan and demons wherever they were at that time.

That they were in this. These people were in this glorious communion. By Jesus Christ. We're called into the communion of the Son. With the Father. By the Holy Spirit. We're called into this exclusivism.

I'm not preaching exclusivism amongst men. I'm preaching the exclusivism in God. Exclusivism amongst men creates division. The exclusiveness in the Godhead creates division too. He won't have devils in it.

And he won't have sin in it. And he won't have unblood washed men and women in it. We must understand this. And angels aren't even in it. They look on and adore. That's why we've got to consider the angels when we gather.

As 1 Corinthians 10 tells us. You should read that chapter very carefully. Because of the angels we join in the communion of God. Now you don't begin that communion. When you take your first communion.

You know one of you cannot divorce. And please now. I'm not speaking as from any particular denominational angle. If you want to know what church I belong to. Well it's called the Nothingites. If you want to belong to that.

You can come and join with me. That's a marvelous thing. But I want to face truth. I came into the world one single soul. And I face the things that I find in the world. And I take the book in my hand.

And I dissociate from every preconceived idea. And I say Lord show me. I can remember a night. Of course you'll all think I had cool teak. My wife who knows me very much. Has sometimes referred to me as I've had a big head.

But I trust it's shrunk now. If you had her for a wife. Your head would shrink. Your heart may swell. But your head will shrink. I can remember a time. In that old little old chapel down there. In the southeast of England.

In Kent. Where we used. Oh it was a great place to belong to. It was one of those Nothingite church. Churches. The building belonged to the. To the Congregationalists. We'd been Methodists. I had. The man who was the leader was a Plymouth Reverend.

So I don't know what we were. We were a real mixed old company. But there it is. We used to do all sorts of things. And one of the things we did. Or he did. Where we were young people. Was that he ran.

Examinations on the Bible. I tell you. We used to have to learn this book. That's why I. Pretty well know it from cover to cover now. You're. You've nearly lost your opportunity. If you haven't started you young people.

Start straight away. Start straight away. Don't you think baptism in the spirit. And having the gift of prophecy. And getting a vision or two. Will compensate you for your ignorance of the Bible. Don't you think that.

And. And. I remember. Anyway you'll know I've got a big head. Now. I used to win all the Bible examinations. Well I was born with it. God's had to stick pins in me. And let out this hot air. But. But.

I used to win all the Bible examinations. I used to ask for prizes. They were given by a very gracious lady. Who lived on an estate. Not very far from us. And she used to put up the money for the prizes.

And I can remember. I asked at that time. I wanted to get down to the book. You know. In those early days. I was just about in my teens. That's all I was. Early teens. And. I asked. When I don't know what book she would have asked for.

If you won a prize. I think I could have up to 15 shillings then. That would probably be worth 15 pounds now. I'm as old as that. But. But there it is. And I was asked. What prize I would have. At all.

Every time. I used to want Dr. Campbell Morgan's expositions of the Bible. They're the ones. And I can remember. When I read through his great exposition of Jeremiah. If you've never done it. Acquaint yourself with it.

It's much better than a lot of these other things. With paper covers on them. And. And I can remember asking for his great exposition. On the gospel according to Luke. And people who got second prizes.

Used to ask for books like. The heart and the holiness of God. It's an exposition of her seer. And somebody else. Used to ask us for Graham's. Croggy's expositions on so and so and so and so and so and so.

You know. But anyway. They didn't want cheap little books. That told you to jump up and start praising. Or something like that. They wanted to get down to meat. They wanted to get their feet on solid rock.

And they did. You're sure when God latterly set the match to us. We were like kindling wood. We went like that. You see then. Now I talk about fire risk. We were a definite risk. As soon as the baptism and the Holy Ghost reached us.

We were gone. Oh I tell you. Hallelujah. Well I can remember I got hold of this. This great exposition. I can see it now. I went up into my little room. And I knelt down by my bed. And I held this book in my hands.

In the presence of God. And closed it. And said Lord. You know you listen to the cheek. You know I had a big head. I said if you can do that for that man. You can do it for me. If you've read Dr. Campbell Morgan.

You will know what a gutter snipe I am. But listen. Where do you stand in these great things of God? Are you in the communion? The church you see. Has got itself all mixed up about the two great ordinations.

Baptism. And the Lord's Supper. And so. If a child. Has been sprinkled when it's about a fortnight old. And it goes through something else when it's about 12 years old. It takes its first communion. So they say.

And it's as far from the communion. As the east is from the west. And damnation is sown by parents. And priests. And prelates. In the hearts of young people. Their lives are crippled from the womb. Last night I was saying this.

Worthy Participation in Communion

If you aren't in the great communion. Of the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Don't you dare touch that cup. Don't you dare. Last night we had the bread here. Last night we drank the cup together. And if I may.

Without wearying those who were here last night. You must forgive me. Body of the conference. I want to say this again. In 1 Corinthians 10. You read in that 16th verse. The cup of blessing. Which we bless.

Is it not the communion of the blood of Christ. The bread which we break. Is it not the communion of the body of Christ. And you will have read that verse. Perhaps many a time. And wondered why in the world.

The cup was put before the bread. When Jesus broke the bread first. And gave them the bread. And afterwards gave them the cup. It isn't that Paul is being revolutionary. And trying to instruct us in a new method.

Of taking the communion. It's because. You in spirit can only get into the communion. By first drinking of the covenant that's in his blood. He's putting the order in which you come into spiritual life.

He's not putting a revolutionary new order. Superseding the method of Jesus Christ. Before the Corinthian church. He's not doing that. He's telling you. That you have to go to precious Calvary. And take the cup of the covenant.

Of the life in his blood. The true communion. Where the communion that kept body and soul. And spirit together in Jesus of Nazareth. Was broken. And his spirit went winging from his body. And his soul cried out unto God.

And the breath left his lungs. And his body hung lifeless. The communion was broken in Christ. For you can only live as the blood flows through your body. It is a communion. And God broke the communion.

You have to go there. And you start by drinking the cup of blessing. And bless God for the blessing. Then you can come to break the bread. Then you can come and say. I'm a member of his body. By baptism in blood.

By baptism in blood. As it is held now in the Holy Ghost. By the great life-giving purifying baptism. That brings you into this wondrous communion with God. God does not hold communion with anybody outside of the body.

The church of Jesus Christ. He has a gospel for them. He gives them a call. But no communion. Comforts for them. Healings for them. Blessings for them. Stories for them. A Bible for them. Blessings innumerable.

But no communion. Until you come by solid spirit of you. Fancy calling a spirit solid. But that's what the Bible speaks of. In chapter 10 that we read. These children of Israel all drank water of the spirit to a rock.

But follow them. There you are. You've got solidity and spirit. Put together. A solid rock. The spirit. The spiritual rock. And you with all the solidity now. Not the hare-brained emotional things. Not the divided schizophrenic approach.

Half of you clamoring for the world. Half of you wanting to make your eternity secure. Half of you lusting for sin. And half of you. Or perhaps a tenth of you. Wanting something better. There has to come by the grace of God.

That marvelous grip of God. That cohesive faculty from heaven. That makes a man aware of his state. And a woman ready to flee from all. And come in and drink, drink, and drink, drink. As though his blood could substitute your own blood that's pulsing through your veins.

As though his body should become your body. That you could eat him. Drink him. Think him. Imagine him. Love him. Take him. Utterly. These are the conditions. I said to a man as he sat in a chair. A man whose life had come to rags and tatters around him.

Wanting God Rather Than God's Benefits

A man, one of the most brilliant men in the British Isles. I won't say more than that. That is in the world then. In his line. One of the most brilliant men. Few of you know him. And he sat in a chair.

And I saw him shattered. An alcoholic. He'd lost everything. Out of his job. His wife had gone. His bands had gone. Everything had gone. His job, his self-respect. Living on national assistance. Trembling like a leaf as he was coming out of his latest alcoholic bout.

Smoking cigarette after cigarette to try and soothe his nerves that could never be soothed. And I said to him. Listen. You can't use God. I want you to say tell me this before we go a step further. We talked some time and shared in the sympathies of God.

But sympathetic as you may be with a man. And pity him. And have compassions upon him. Even the great God of heaven knows no other way to reach him. Or her. Whoever they may be. Then we come at the end to start reality.

And don't deviate. And I said to him. Listen. You come to talk to me. What is it you really want? You just want to sort of be helped so that you can get your wife back. Get your family back. I said I know.

I know you need it. I said I know you do. But do you just want your wife back? A restoration of self-respect. To have your family around you. And make a fresh start. Or do you want God? He lit another cigarette.

And in his trembling hands he thought his brain was not dimmed. Even though his body was shaking like a jelly. Under the effects of alcohol. He smoked through half a cigarette. And I heard him reasoning out in his own mind.

I want God. You can have him. People want to use God. That's what they want. They want to use his potential for blessing. They want to use his power for healing. They want to use his riches for wealth.

They want to use his world for themselves. God. Get God out of your life. Do you want the devil gone? What is it you want? I need sympathy. No greater sympathy than the man who on his way to the cross.

Turned to some that followed him and said. Don't weep for me. Weep for yourself. If they do these things to me. What will they do to you? That's not quite the way he said it. But that's what he meant.

No greater sympathy than the man who when he hung on the cross. Said mother behold thy son. And she looked at him. The sword finished its last plunge into her heart. As Luke says. Then he turned to John and he said.

Son behold thy mother. No greater sympathy than that. No greater love than that. If that's what you want. But face it. Deep. Real. If you have never faced it before. This is the answer to your need. Is it God you want?

You gotta drink this great new testament in his blood. It is God's oath to bring you into all his fullness. And you come under the lordship of Jesus Christ. You sit at the lord's table. It's the lord's.

The Supper, Obedience, and Walking in the Light

New. Wonderful. As we know it followed the supper of the ancient ritual. The Passover. And the lord disposed of that. And then he instituted the supper which was his. Like a man officiating at his own funeral.

He broke the bread. And he said. It's my body. He took the cup. He gave it to them. He handled his own body. He handled his own blood. Oh. God. May it never be cast into the ground. Oh God. May it never be burned.

This body of mine in the valley of the son of him. Oh God. Let me give myself to my own father. You who are his own. Do you want him? Do you want him as your food? Do you want him as your drink? Do you want him as the staple diet of your life?

How do you want him? Way on a throw? How do you want him? You've gotta want him where father wants him. That's where he is. And if you don't want Jesus in your bosom. And not in a sentimental way of thinking.