I want to ask you something that I think most believers have never seriously considered. When was the last time you took communion and actually expected something to happen? Not as a ritual, not as a quiet moment of remembrance before moving on with the service.
I mean, when was the last time you broke that bread and lifted that cup with the settled conviction that you were participating in something legal, something living, something that was actively transferring the life of God into your physical body? For most believers, and I say this not to condemn, but because I lived it myself for years, the answer is never. Because nobody ever taught us that communion was anything more than a memorial, a looking back, a moment of reflection on what Jesus did 2,000 years ago.
And so we approach the table the way you approach a graveside service, quietly, somberly, thinking about someone who is no longer here. But Jesus is not dead. And the table he instituted was never meant to be a funeral service.
I remember the first time this hit me. I was sitting in a service and years into my Christian walk, someone who had studied the word seriously, and the communion elements were being passed around. And I was doing what I had always done, holding the bread, thinking about the cross, feeling appropriately solemn.
And then a thought settled into my spirit so clearly it almost felt audible. You are eating life right now. Do you understand what you are holding?
It stopped me completely because I realized in that moment that I had been treating the most powerful legal instrument available to the believer as a religious formality. I had been sitting at a table loaded with divine provision tell and leaving hungry every single time. That is the condition of most of the body of Christ today and E.
W. Kenyon, particularly in his book The Blood Covenant, identified why with a precision that I have never seen matched anywhere else. He said that the modern church has reduced the communion table to a memorial service and in doing so, it has robbed of access to one of the most powerful legal realities of their redemption.
John 6:53 Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves. Except ye eat, ye have not life in yourselves. " This is not poetic language.
This is not metaphor designed to create an emotional response. This is a legal statement about a spiritual reality. Jesus was describing a transaction, a transfer, a specific mechanism through which the life of God enters the physical members of the believer and the disciples who heard it understood immediately that he was saying something radical.
John 6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying. Who can hear it? " They were not confused about the poetry.
They were confronted by the claim. Because what Jesus was describing sounded impossible and yet he said it with the calm certainty of someone describing a law. Because that is exactly what it is.
Everything we cover in this teaching is drawn directly from E. W. Kenyon's Blood Covenant, the one of the most profound works on the covenant relationship between God and the believer.
And the revelation Kenyon built his entire understanding of the table on is this: Adam died by eating, and God, in his infinite legal wisdom, designed the solution to come through the same channel. Not through a feeling, not through a prayer, not through a spiritual experience that bypasses the physical through eating, through a specific, deliberate, faith-filled act of taking something into your body that carries the life of God and receiving that life into your physical members. Adam reached out his hand and took the forbidden fruit.
And in that moment, not symbolically, but actually, he consumed a nature. The nature of spiritual death entered him through his mouth, and from that moment, the entire human race was infected, spirit first, then soul, then body. Death working from the inside out.
And God looked at that legal reality we and designed a redemption that answered it on exactly the same terms. If death entered through the mouth, life would enter through the mouth. If a man ate and died, a ma- my man would eat and live.
That is the mystery of the table, and it is not a mystery designed to stay hidden. It is a mystery designed to be revealed to every believer who is willing to approach the table not as a funeral attendee, but as a covenant heir claiming what legally belongs to them. Today, we are going to show you exactly what that looks like, what the bread actually is, what the cup actually is, and how to take communion in a way that activates the full legal reality of what Jesus purchased for you at Calvary, starting with the law that governs it all.
To understand what is actually happening at the communion table, you have to understand the law that governs the entire human race, not a theological concept, a law as real and as consistent as the law of gravity, as inescapable as the law of sowing and reaping. The law is this: What you What What you consume, you become. Not in a nutritional sense, in a spiritual sense.
At the deepest level of your being, at the level of your spirit, you are shaped by what you take in. What you feed becomes your nature. What you ingest becomes your reality.
And this law was operating in the Garden of Eden long before any theologian gave it a name. Genesis 2:17, God said to Adam, "Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.
" Not, "If you eat it, I will punish you with death. " Not, "Eating it will make me angry enough to take your life. " "In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.
" The eating itself would produce the death, not as a consequence imposed from outside, as a nature received from inside. And that is exactly what happened. Adam reached out his hand.
He took the fruit. He consumed it. And in that moment, not the next day, not gradually over time, but in that moment, spiritual death entered his spirit.
The life of God that had animated him from within was cut off. He became a different kind of being, a being ruled by his senses, a being governed by fear, a being separated from the Father at the deepest level of his existence. And every human being born after Adam inherited that same nature.
Romans 5:12, "Wherefore, as by one man sin [snorts] entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned. " Death passed upon all men, not because they all made the same choice Adam made, because they were all born into the same nature Adam produced by his choice, death by eating. Now, here is where Kenyon's revelation from the blood covenant becomes so precise and so powerful.
He said that God never changes his methods. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if death entered the human race through the physical act of eating, then God, in his perfect legal wisdom, would design life to re-enter the human race through the physical act of eating, not around it, not above it, through it, on the same terms, by the same mechanism, through the same channel.
And this is what Jesus was revealing in John chapter 6. When he stood before the crowd and said, "Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you. " He was not being dramatic.
He was not using shocking language to grab attention. He was describing the legal symmetry of redemption. Adam ate the nature of the enemy.
You eat the nature of the Father. Adam consumed death through his mouth. You consume life through your mouth.
The same law that opened the door to death is the law through which the door to life was designed to swing back open. John 6:54-57, "He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me. He also shall live because of me.
Not he shall go to heaven when he dies. He shall live, present tense, active tense, now. The same life that flows from the Father to the Son flows from the Son to the one who eats.
This is the Zoe life, the God kind of life, the life that is not subject to sickness, not subject to fear, not subject to the domination of the enemy. And it enters you the same way death entered Adam, through your mouth, through eating, through a deliberate, faith-filled act of receiving what God has provided at the table. Now, I want you to sit with the weight of this for a moment.
The entire history of human suffering, every sickness, every death, every generation born into the bondage of a fallen nature, traces back to one act of eating, one moment at one tree, one man reaching out his hand. And God's answer to all of it is another tree, another body, another act of eating. The cross was not just an event in history.
It was the legal counter to the garden. And the table, the communion table, is the point of contact through which that counter becomes personally real in your life. Every time you take that bread, you are reversing what Adam did.
Every time you lift that cup, you are receiving what the garden took away. That is not religion. That is the law of God working exactly the way he designed it.
So, now we understand the law, what you consume you become. Adam ate death, we eat life, but I want to get very specific now about what the bread actually is and what the cup actually is because this is where most believers are still operating in the dark and operating in the dark at the table is, according to Paul, one of the most dangerous places a believer can be. First Corinthians 11:29 and 30.
For he that eateth and drinketh eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself if he discern not the body. For this cause many among you are weak and sickly and not a few sleep. Weak, sickly, and some had died.
Not because they were unworthy, not because God was punishing them, because they failed to discern the body. They came to the table and saw bread when they should have seen a legal transfer of health. Let me say that again.
They saw bread when they should have seen a legal document signed in the body of Christ that said, "Your sickness has no more right to stay. " The bread is not a symbol of what Jesus went through. It is a point of contact with what he legally purchased for you through what he went through and there is an enormous difference between those two things.
Isaiah 53:4 and 5. Surely, he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. He was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed. He bore our griefs.
He carried our sorrows. He was wounded. He was bruised.
He was chastised. Past tense. Already done.
Already legally accomplished, which means when you take that bread, you are not asking God to heal you. You are claiming a healing that has already been legally purchased. You are making a demand on a transaction that was completed at Calvary.
You are saying, "Because his body was broken, my body is made whole. Because he was struck, I am released. " That is not arrogance, that is covenant.
And Kenyon was very clear about this in the blood covenant. He said that a covenant people never beg for what the covenant has already guaranteed. A soldier who has been given a legal right to occupy a territory does not ask permission to enter it every time.
He enters it because the legal right has already been established. When you take the bread in that consciousness, something changes. The table stops being a funeral and becomes a legal proceeding, a covenant meal between a father and his child, a moment of legal exchange where you present the broken body of Christ as your legal ground for wholeness and receive what that body purchased.
Now, let us talk about the cup. The cup is even more staggering when you understand what Kenyon uncovered from the blood covenant. Most of the religious world treats the cup as a symbol of the blood of Jesus.
And even those who understand it goes beyond a symbol, often think of it in terms of forgiveness. The blood washes away sin. The blood covers transgression.
But Kenyon made a distinction that changes everything. He said that in the Old Testament, sin was merely covered. The word atonement in the Hebrew, kaphar, means to cover, like a temporary bandage over a wound.
The blood of bulls and goats placed a covering over sin, but it could not remove it. It had to be repeated year after year because it was never permanent. But, the blood of Jesus does not cover, it remits.
Remission means the stopping of being, the legal termination of existence. When you take that cup, you are not participating in a covering, you are participating in a remission, a legal declaration that the old nature, the sin nature, the death nature, the nature that Adam passed to every human being, has been legally terminated. Acts 20:28, "Feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
" His own blood. Not the blood of an animal, not the blood of a man. The blood of God himself, God manifest in the flesh, poured out to satisfy the claims of justice against the entire human race.
And Hebrews 9:12 says, "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. " Eternal redemption, not temporary, not conditional, eternal. When you lift that cup, you are participating in the blood that purchased eternal redemption.
You are declaring that the old man is legally dead, that the new creation is legally alive, that the claims of the enemy against your life have been legally dismissed because the blood of God himself has already answered every one of them. That is not a memorial, that is a legal proceeding, and you are the one making the claim. Now, I want to deal with something that I think is the most practical barrier between most believers and the full reality of what the table offers.
It is called sin consciousness. And it is the reason why most believers approach the communion table feeling unworthy. When the entire point of the table is to declare that the question of worthiness has already been settled.
Here is how sin consciousness works at the table. The elements are passed and instead of approaching with the confidence of a covenant heir, the believer approaches with their eyes down, mentally rehearsing every failure of the past week, every shortcoming, every moment where they fell short of what they know God requires. And by the time they take the bread and the cup, they have spent the entire communion moment in a state of spiritual self-condemnation.
And Kenyon identified this as one of the enemy's most effective strategies against the believer because sin consciousness at the table does not honor the sacrifice, it dishonors it. Let me say that carefully. When you approach the table with the primary focus on your own unworthiness, you are implicitly saying that the blood of Jesus was not sufficient to deal with your condition.
You are treating the blood of God as though it were no better than the blood of a goat, something that covers but does not fully resolve. Romans 8:1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
Now, no condemnation. Not no condemnation after you have sufficiently mourned your failures. Not no condemnation once you feel worthy enough to approach.
Now, no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. That is your legal standing and the communion table is where you declare it. Second Corinthians 5:21.
For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. He was made sin, you were made righteousness. That is the exchange.
That is the legal transaction at the heart of the new covenant. And when you take that bread and that cup in the consciousness of that exchange, everything changes. You are no longer approaching as someone hoping God will overlook your failures.
You are approaching as the righteousness of God in Christ. As someone who's standing before the Father is identical to the standing of Jesus himself. Kenyon wrote in the Blood Covenant that righteousness is not a feeling.
It is not an experience you manufacture in a long prayer session. It is a legal fact, a positional reality that exists whether you feel it or not. And the table is where that legal fact is declared and where the full benefit of it is received.
Now, here is where this connects to the reign that Romans 5:17 describes. For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Reign in life.
Not survive in life, not cope in life, reign. And the key word is receive. Those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign.
The table is the place of receiving. It is the place where you stretch forth your hand, not to take a piece of bread, but to receive the Zoe life that was purchased for you at Calvary, to receive the righteousness that gives you legal standing before God, to receive the abundance of grace that enables you to reign over every circumstance that tries to rise above the knowledge of God. I think about a man I knew once, a believer who had been carrying a physical condition for almost 3 years.
He had prayed about it, he had been prayed for, he had done everything the church told him to do, and nothing had shifted. When I sat with him and asked how he took communion, he described exactly what I expected. He would take the elements quietly, think about what Jesus had done, feel grateful, and move on.
He had never once approached the table as a legal proceeding. He had never once taken that bread and said, "Because his body was broken, my body is made whole. " He had never once lifted that cup and declared, "The life of God is in my blood right now.
Sickness has no legal right to remain in a body filled with Zoe. " When he began to take communion daily in his home, alone, with full understanding of what he was doing, things began to shift. Not overnight, but they shifted because he stopped eating bread and started eating life.
That is the difference the table makes when you discern the body. So, how do you actually do this? How do you take communion in a way that activates the full legal reality of what we have been talking about, rather than simply going through a religious motion that leaves you exactly where you started?
Because this is the part that most teaching on the communion never gets to. It explains the theology, and then leaves you with no idea what to actually do differently the next time the bread and cup are passed. Kenyon was very specific about this, and I want to be specific with you.
The first thing you have to understand is that you do not have to wait for a church service to take communion. The table is available to you every single day in your home, alone, before the demands of the day get their hands on you, before sense knowledge gets the first word. First Corinthians 11:26.
"For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. " As often as, not once a month, not once a quarter. As often as, every day is an invitation to the table.
Every morning is an opportunity to sit before the Father as a covenant heir and receive what belongs to you. The second thing is to prepare what you say before you take the elements because the table is a legal proceeding and a legal proceeding requires a specific declaration. You are making a covenant declaration, speaking the legal realities of your redemption into the atmosphere, giving voice to what the body and blood of Jesus purchased.
Here is what that declaration sounds like when you take the bread. You hold the bread and you say, "Father, I thank you that the body of Jesus was broken for me. Isaiah 53 declares that by His stripes I am healed.
I discern the body of Christ right now. I am not eating bread. I am eating life.
I receive the Zoe life of God into every cell of my body. Sickness has no legal right to remain in a body that carries the life of God. Every symptom that has tried to establish itself in my physical members, I command it to leave now in the name of Jesus.
Because His body was broken, my body is made whole. And then you eat deliberately, consciously, as an act of legal reception. And when you take the cup, you say, "Father, I thank you for the blood of Jesus.
This blood did not just cover my sin, it remitted it, legally terminated it. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. There is no condemnation standing against me.
The old nature, the Adam nature, the death nature has been legally destroyed. I am a new creation. I receive the life that is in this blood right now.
The same life that raised Jesus from the dead is flooding my spirit, my soul, and my body at this moment. Romans 8:11. But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his spirit that dwelleth in you.
Give life to your mortal bodies now through the spirit that is already inside you. And then you drink deliberately, consciously, as a covenant heir receiving what the blood of God purchased. Now I want to speak to someone who has been carrying a physical condition, a sickness, a symptom that has refused to respond to prayer, to declaration, to everything you have tried.
I want you to hear this clearly. You have not been failing. You have been eating bread when you should have been eating life.
You have been taking the cup as a memorial when you should have been lifting it as a legal instrument. Start taking communion daily in your home with full understanding of what you were doing. Hold the bread and declare your healing rights.
Lift the cup and declare your righteousness. Do it every morning before your circumstances get the first word, and do not measure it by how you feel in the moment. Measure it by what the word says is happening in the spirit every time you discern the body and receive the life because something is happening every time you eat at this table.
Something that your physical senses may not immediately report. Something that is working from the inside out. Spirit first, then soul, then body.
The same way death worked from the inside out through Adam, but this time in the opposite direction. Life working from the inside out. Zoe flooding your members.
The God kind of life asserting itself over every symptom and every report that contradicts what the body of Christ purchased for you. That is the mystery of the table. That is what Adam could not access in the garden, but what you have legal access to every single morning of your life.
Type one, eat, and live in the comments right now as a declaration that you are done approaching the table as a memorial, that from today you are a covenant heir sitting at a covenant table, eating life, receiving righteousness, and reigning in life through Jesus Christ. Adam ate and died. You eat and live.
