We’ve been talking about the nutrients our humanity needs to proper.  A few years back I was getting bad calf cramps every time I tried to run.  Turns out I had a mineral deficiency so my muscles werent functioning properly.  They were cramping up after only a mile.  There were certain minerals my muscles needed to function properly. 

I remember in 5th grade they taught us the food pyramid and all the different food groups we need to be strong and healthy.  We need certain things to prosper in this world.  We need certain things to be strong and healthy and of a sound mind.  Jesus taught us to look to the bread the Father gives for the nourishment we need.  Jesus wasnt talking about worldly food, he was talking about the meat that doesnt perish but endures unto everlasting life.  The Our Father says give us this day or daily bread.  The Father gives Himself to us; He shares His divine nature with us through the flesh of the only begotten Son.  The divine nature is our daily bread.  The divine nature is the nourishment our humanity needs to prosper not only in the world to come but in this world.  

It’s called daily bread because we need it daily just like we need oxygen and food and water.  Christianity isnt meant to be a box you check on your to do list so you can move on to the next thing on the list.  Christianity isnt something we do once a week or for special holidays.  We’re not meant to say a magic prayer and then spend our days wandering aimlessly trying to get answers and manifestations.  Certainly we will get both answers and manifestations as we grow in the knowledge of the Son of God, but that’s not our daily bread.  So what’s it all about?  It’s about partaking of the divine nature.  It’s about being stirred up daily through the remembrance of the communion of the father, son, and holy spirit, and how our humanity has been immersed in their divine nature through the flesh of the eternal Son, Christ Jesus.  

Php 2:12  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Salvation isn’t only a one time event.  It’s not only about your eternal destination.  Yes, salvation is something you partake of at one moment in time when you call upon the name of the Lord, and your translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of the eternal Son.   But salvation is also something we’re meant to partake of everyday.  It’s something we need everyday.  It’s meant to have a continuous ongoing effect in our lives as we walk in this world, and the world tries to conform us through the weakness and infirmities of these mortal bodies.  

Working out your salvation isnt about behavior modification.  Paul isnt saying we need to bring forth our own salvation by performing thou shalts and thou shalt nots.  He’s not saying we have to produce our own salvation by observing sabbaths and new moons or holy days.  Working out your own salvation is about partaking of the health and safety and deliverance and preservation thats come to you through the flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ.  It’s having communion with the Lord through his body and blood.  The word salvation is soteria in the greek and it talks about deliverance, safety, health, and preservation.  Thats why we need salvation everyday.  Everyday our humanity needs deliverance.  Everyday our humanity needs safety, and health, and preservation.  

We have this great salvation, but how does this salvation work itself out in our daily lives.  Paul says we work out our own salvation through fear and trembling, but that’s a passive action.  It’s God who produces the fear and trembling in us.  Fear and trembling is what happens through beholding God manifest in the flesh.  Thomas was filled with fear and trembling when Jesus came in the midst of the disciples, telling Thomas to put his finger in the print of the nails, and put his hand in his side.  Thomas saw Jesus and said my Lord and my God.  Paul was filled with fear and trembling when he encountered the glorified Christ on the road to Damascus.  The apostles saw Jesus with their natural eyes.  We behold God manifest in the flesh through the eyes of our understanding.  We touch and handle and see God in the flesh through faith.  

Paul says in Titus 2 … the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all people …..  Paul goes on to talk about the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ …. Isaiah 9 says the people walking in darkness have seen a great Light.  The great light is the appearance of salvation.  We were walking in darkness; we were walking in sorrow and despair … 1st John says God is Light.  Christ is the uncreated Light.  Salvation appeared to all people in the person of Jesus.  Salvation appeared to all those who dwell in flesh and blood through the deified flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ.  The Lord Jesus Christ is God come in the flesh to nourish our humanity with His Salvation.  

Salvation is our daily bread.  Working out your salvation is about partaking of the table the Father prepared for us.  The Father gave us his divine nature through the flesh of His only begotten Son.  The Father feeds us with salvation through the flesh of his eternal Son .  The Fulness of deity that dwells in Jesus bodily is the table the Father prepared for us, and his divine nature is our salvation.  

Our salvation is worked out of us as we behold the flesh of the Godman Christ Jesus.  We have communion with salvation through the remembrance his deified flesh.  We see our salvation in the flesh of Jesus.  We see the corruption and the weakness and infirmity that so easily besets these mortal bodies overcome in the flesh of Jesus.  We see wholeness in the flesh of Jesus.  We see the strength we need in the flesh of Jesus.  Theres no sin in his flesh.  Theres no spots or blemishes in his flesh.  Theres no weakness or infirmity in him.  We see every remnant of sin and death and corruption and disease consumed to the uttermost in his flesh.  We see the fullness of deity loosed in his flesh, having warring against that which afflicts us.  We behold Christ, the eternal Son, come in the flesh, and we see theres an inseparable union between our humanity and the divine nature.  

That stirs us up by way of remembrance.  It communicates His salvation to our humanity.  It perfects his love in our hearts.  It calls forth His wholeness in us.  As we partake of the divine nature through remembrance; through the discerning of the Lord’s body; that calls forth deliverance and health and safety from within our humanity.  We have blood transfusions.  Well there’s a transfusion of his divine nature into our humanity.  Theres an iv of his divinity that flows to our humanity through the remembrance of his flesh.  And of his fulness we receive.  The uncreated grace of Christ flows to our humanity out of the fulness of deity that dwells in him bodily .. the fullness of deity that dwells in Jesus communicates his grace to both our inner man and our outer man ….. He saves us from the weakness and infirmities that so easily besets us through these mortal bodies.  He pours out of his flesh into our humanity; his uncreated grace; animating our mortal bodies with his grace, giving us a sound mind, and a heart perfected by his love.  

This is what the Christian life is all about.  It’s about beholding God manifest in the flesh.  Beholding the God-man serving you with His divine nature through his flesh.  This is how your salvation from the corruption and the sin and death in the earth is worked out in you.  This is the fear and trembling that came upon Paul on the road to Damascus.  This works our salvation out in our humanity daily.  It keeps us from temptation.  It becomes unto us our nourishment; our strength.  It’s our endurance in the midst of a perverse generation.  It causes us to despise the shame the world brings to us through the weakness and infirmities of these mortal bodies.  It keeps our hearts an our minds looking to Christ Jesus through the glory set before us in his flesh.  It stirs us up by the remembrance of Gods mercy towards us and our humanity.  It tames the power of lust in our members.  Our bellies and our appetites are no longer our god.  Our God is the Lord Jesus Christ, who came in the flesh, to nourish our humanity with the grace that emanates from His divine nature.

2Pe 1:3  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8  For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9  But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Forgotten … communion is the remembrance of the body and blood .. reminding you that you’ve been purged from your sin and made partakers of the divine nature.  Memorial in the Old Testament was to give people communion with the work of God through remembrance.  The Lord’s body; his deified flesh and bone, is our memorial.  It stirs us up through remembrance.  It gives us communion with the divine nature through remembrance.  

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