Reference: Sacraments
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SACRAMENTS
1. The term.
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As they were eating Jesus took a loaf and blessed it, and he broke it in pieces and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it. It is my body!"
And I tell you I will never drink this product of the vine again till the day when I shall drink the new wine with you in my Father's kingdom!"
Therefore go and make disciples of all the heathen, baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy Spirit,
So they welcomed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people joined them that day. And they devoted themselves to the teaching and the society of the apostles, the breaking of bread, and prayer.
You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.
For I would not have you forget, brothers, that though our forefathers were all protected by the cloud, and all passed safely through the sea, and in the cloud and the sea all, as it were, accepted baptism as followers of Moses, read more. and all ate the same supernatural food and drank the same supernatural drink??for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which attended them, and the rock was really Christ??5 still most of them disappointed God, for they were struck down in the desert.
For until the Lord comes back, every time you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you proclaim his death.
This is a great secret, but I understand it of Christ and the church.
Through your relation to him you have received not a physical circumcision, but a circumcision effected by Christ, in stripping you of your material nature,