<TITLE>09. Par 60-68</TITLE>L-60 Did you ever notice, in passing a church, they cross themselves, tip their hats, and so forth. It isn't the church; it's that wafer in there, that body that the priest has turned from a wafer to the literal body of Christ, where the rats and mice could pack it away. Why, you don't--can't think of civil thinking and think that a piece of bread would be a body of the Lord Jesus. It cannot be.
"Communion" is "to talk, and it talks back, something that you talk to." The very word "commune" means "to talk to, or be associated with something that's talking back to you." And God talks back to you: communion. And it's still bread and wine that we call communion.

L-62 Now, Jesus said here, as I read, "My body is meat and drink; My Blood, body and Blood is meat and drink."
Now, we want to think of Jesus and associate Him, what He was. What is His body? What is the body of Christ? It's the body of believers that's associated with Him in the Holy Spirit, not an idol, not a piece of bread, but a Spirit that's in the heart of the believer, and they are associated together, that when man and God can talk to each other, sons and daughters of God. Mortal man, through the shedding of the Blood bought remission of sin, and this man and this woman, boy or girl that has fellowship with Christ is communing with Him, the body.

L-64 As a husband and wife would set down and talk it over, or a boy and his girlfriend, Christ and His church is communing together. That's the reason we can hear from Him, and see the future before it gets here, and can tell the future that it's perfect, because that we commune with a God Who holds eternity in His hand. Communing one with another, the body of Christ, the mythical, spiritual body of Christ, not associated with any kind of an idol, or a bread or a--a wine, but in a--a spiritual form.

L-65 Now, Jesus said the same thing. You take St. John the 4th chapter, talking to the woman at the well, she was speaking on a thing such as, "Our fathers drank at this fountain, and--and dug this well, Jacob, and--and gave of his children and his cattle of this water, and You say, 'Worship in the--a certain city,' and others say 'In this mountain.'"
And Jesus as--as much as said, "Just a minute. We are Jews, and we understand what is, what worship means. But listen to this, woman. The hour is coming, and now is, that the true worshippers will worship God in Spirit and in Truth. (Thy Word is the Truth.) And the Father seeks such that will worship Him in Spirit and in the Word, the Truth. 'Thy Word is Truth.'" Now, He told that to the woman.

L-67 See, Christ... God is a Spirit. "Christ" means "the anointed one, a man anointed with God," which made Him the Christ. Now, Christ said, "I am Food and Drink," not a wafer, not a wafer that we take here. That isn't Christ. The wine that we drink at the altar is not Christ. It represents Him in a figurative way. But Christ is the Holy Spirit, the Anointing that's upon the Church; that is the Meat and the Drink.

L-68 The greatest cry that there is in all the world, I hope none of you ever heard it, but, if you ever did, there is no cry to equal the cry of hunger. When you see a mother with her baby, and she can't walk she's so weak, and the little baby dying, with its belly swelled out from hunger, hearing them sobs coming from that mother's heart, see that baby with its cheeks drawed in till they're skin and bones, and its little gums a-shining, and he can't make a noise, hardly, his little eyes bugged out. There's no cry like the hunger and the thirsty.


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