12. I Drink the Communion of Worship

We have been made to drink into one Spirit. This is an extraordinary statement, of which we have little comprehension.

I think we can say this about Paul, that in his grasp of the Gospel of Christ our Life, he held a number of very strong thoughts. Those include such things as “together with” Jesus in any possible way, “all” and “fulness” regarding anything of which he was exuberant, “Christ made complete in our human weakness,” and so on. Paul never explained these things nor tied them together as a teacher would, he just drew from them and cast them into whatever topic was front and center.

Receive One Another. Yet all of these varying thoughts had to do with God-with-us, being like God, and loving one another.

Paul’s discussion of the “Communion,” the “Last Supper,” the “Eucharist,” in Chapter 11 is rather confusing in the Greek. But I am convinced that the deeper thought he was trying to express was this – “Receive one another in exactly the same way that Jesus receives you” (Romans 14). In fact he said the same thing again in Chapter 12, much better than in Chapter 11, “having the same anxious care for one another.” True Communion is not an occasional ritual, but rather brethren eating and drinking meals together. Yet even that points to something far more real and substantial.

Bread and Wine. Eating bread together is a visible reminder that we are together the same flesh of Jesus. And drinking wine together is a visible reminder that we are together made to drink into one Spirit. We already drink one Spirit; we already share one Body. Acting as if it is not meaningful does not reduce it as our only and all-encompassing reality.

Bread – flesh – Word brings us into acknowledgement of what is already true. But Wine – spirit – Spirit brings us into worship together. We could say that the Spirit of worship is the self-awareness of God. Worship brings us into the Fellowship of God.

The Corinthians. The problem with the Corinthians is that they had lost sight of their true purpose for gathering together. They were big on speaking in tongues and the gifts of the Spirit, but they were inconsiderate, even selfish towards one another. In fact, some saw themselves as superior and refused to submit to those who were truly anointed of the Lord. Some came to the Communion table drunk. Others found no place provided for them at the table and went away hungry.

The Body of Christ is a living organism, far more real in God than the living relationship of spirit and physic in our individual bodies. I know of very few people who see the reality of this Living Organism expressed in Communion.

The Jesus Secret Page. Our page this time does not have a statements of faith section. But we have not yet included a ruling verse box, and so the first box on the page is “The Eleventh and Twelfth Ruling Verses of the Bible.” Then we have three more boxes. The first is “Made to Drink.” God created us specifically with the heavenly capacity of drinking the Spirit together. What does that mean? Next we have “Communion,” and finally a Webster’s definition box for “Worship.”

The Body of Christ is an actual LIVING organism, containing the living Soul of Jesus inside the self-awareness of the Spirit of Worship.

The Eleventh and Twelfth Ruling Verses. For just as the body is one, but has many members, yet all the members of that body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. – Christ is a many-membered body. – Indeed, we also inside of one Spirit were immersed into one body, whether Judeans or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and have all been made to drink one Spirit. – We share the same Communion of worship together. – For the body is not one member, but many. 

Read in Two Ways. “Made to drink” can be read two ways, first as “caused to drink” and second as “designed with the capacity to drink.” Both are relevant to us and both are past tense, already all.

Our body is said to be about 80% water. We can’t live much more than three minutes without air. The spirit and heavenly qualities of our human form are far more familiar and relevant to us than we realize. Just as we drink water through the day and breathe air with every breath, so we are MADE to relate with the Spirit of God in a far more substantial way than mere air and water. Just as it is the same air we breathe, much more, it is the same Spirit we drink, the Spirit that makes each of us personal.

Causing Us to Know. Paul has already established this thought and continues to write out from it. – Who indeed among men knows the things of the man if not the spirit of the man that is inside of him? Even so also, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. More than that, we have… received… the Spirit who is out from God, that we might know the things having been given to us by God (1 Corinthians 2:11-12).

When we say that the Spirit of God causes us to know God and even ourselves, we are speaking of intimate personal Fellowship, that is, Communion, that is, worship. The entrance of Jesus is fellowship, breaking bread together, “I will dine with him and he with Me.” The Spirit is the environment, the “atmosphere” of that fellowship.

Family and Fellowship. “Let Us make man in Our image.” “Us” means family; it means fellowship, Word inside of Spirit conveying Father. There is much word and many voices inside of Christ, but only One Spirit. If we drink of the same Spirit together, then we are members together of the same Living Organism, a living being that is Christ Jesus as His Church. This is real, it’s a BIG deal, and it goes far beyond what we can presently know.

But we begin with the acceptance that drinking of one Spirit together is what we are made for, our only natural capacity, and that drinking of one Spirit together is what being filled with Jesus causes us to do.

Made to Drink. I am made by God to share the same one Spirit with all who belong to Jesus, in one Communion as a shared worship. We share the same Spirit together. God has given me the capacity to drink His Devoted Spirit into myself as I drink water and as I breathe air. Jesus inside of me causes this continuous entrance of His Spirit into me. Yet I see that each one of my brothers and sisters is drinking and breathing the same One and Personal Spirit of Devotion into themselves, caused by Jesus. This Spirit is our shared knowing of God, this Spirit makes us together a living organism, the heaven-earth form of Christ Jesus. And as we drink the Spirit together, so we become Jesus’ own Soul.

The Wine of Communion. Drinking the same One Spirit together is “Communion,” it is the Eucharist, the entrance of God into the fabric of our beings, spirit, soul, and physic. God enters His Body, His visible form, you and me together, as the speaking of good grace, the speaking that is Jesus. Yet that Word is the Bread of Communion. The Wine of Communion is our shared Spirit, part of the fabric of each of us, of our present humanity, birthed out from God. Drinking that Wine together causes worship.

Worship is the joint recognition of God in our midst, God inside of creation, God’s Person made known as us. (We must repeat these things in every different way.)

Koinonia. Communion, fellowship, community, sharing together, these are all the same word – koinonia. Yet it is inside the meaning of “communion” that transubstantiation and metamorphy take place, Jesus transferring His substance to us until we become His visible and recognized appearance.

This is not something that can happen to isolated individuals, nor can it happen in the level of “church service” partaken of by most. Becoming the face of Jesus together happens only inside of daily commitment to one another, Christ Community, reflecting His image to one another.

The Holy Grail. Worshipping together, eating together, overcoming together, and working together, Spirit, Soul, and Body, are the full expression of the Lord Jesus Christ made visible. “Together” is the form, the “holy grail,” one might say, but worshipping, eating, and working are the energeia of life inside that form.

We had a taste of these things in my community experience with a dim understanding, but we had no real idea of what we actually were, what was actually happening to us – because we still mixed good and evil together as “God.” Fellowship together IS the real and only “holy grail.”

Communion. We break the bread and partake of the flesh of Christ together. We are His physical form. We take the cup and drink of the Blood of Jesus together. We are His spiritual form. The life of Jesus, Jesus Himself, flows through all our interaction together. Our fellowship together is the communion, the Soul and personality of Jesus made visible among us. It is the Spirit that gives life to our fellowship; we drink of the same Spirit.

As I drink of the same One Spirit with my brothers and sisters, so I know the Father together with them. I comprehend the full extent of God as I share with them. As I see the Lord Jesus in the face of my brothers and sisters, so I become just like Him. It is inside of this Communion that Jesus transfers His substance to me and I am metamorphosed into His same image. We worship together, eat together, overcome together, work together, the visible expression of Jesus.

Worship (partly from Webster’s 1926). I treat with God inside the deep reverence due to His value, honor, and worth. I respect God my Father; I give honor to Him. I adore and venerate the Father. I honor God with my extravagant love and fully yielded submission. I receive from Him that which He gives to me, His Word as Seed inside of His Spirit, that I might be just like Him, that I might bring forth the life of His knowledge into creation. And in all these things, I share the same worship with my brothers and sisters.

Yet our worship together is something even more. As we worship together inside the same Spirit, drinking together of One Spirit, rivers of Spirit, the travail of the Spirit, so the very Spirit-awareness of Himself that is God enters into our togetherness. God’s Spirit self-awareness becomes our worship together, and God’s story of self is woven through the fabric of our expression together. Nothing is more devoted than the place we give to God inside our shared worship. For through our worship, God becomes known by all.

The Entrance of Truth. I’m afraid that I’m now inserting a far deeper level of knowing God into the flow of the Jesus Secret pages from Paul. That is as it must be and I trust that the same Spirit will cause each reader to receive what is for them.

I am finding my own knowledge of God and everything else to be changing dramatically. The reason is that all shadow of placing evil upon God is gone, and God can be what He truly is in my knowing. Yet at the same time, I recognize that every way in which I now know God is considered to be the rankest of heresies by our brethren. But here’s the thing. Once a knowing enters into our shared Spirit, all are now drinking of the same Truth.

Let’s Pray Together. “God, our Father, we worship You together inside of our shared Spirit with You, in all honor and adoration for the entrance of Your Word into us. Father, as we worship You inside of Rivers of Spirit poured out, so we know that Your own consciousness of self is found in our midst. You are with us, oh God and Your Person is reflected in ours in our interactions together.

“Father, You are Love, and our interactions together are the Love of Your Person revealed. Father, we are Your Body, your physical/spiritual form in all heaven-earth. We yield ourselves together to You that You might be Yourself inside of creation.”

“And Father, as we worship You together inside of Your Spirit-Consciousness, so we know that this same knowing of You is going forth into the worship of all our brothers and sisters together across the whole earth. Just as we know You together, so they also are drinking of that same knowing, even if at first they are not aware.

“Yet Father we are aware that our worship together right now is very limited. We wait upon You, oh God, in veneration, that You would gather together with us those specific brothers and sisters whom You have appointed to be part of our lives. We know, Father, that when we are gathered together for real, we will know You as we never have imagined.

“Be our worship together, Father. We know that You are.”