Reference: Sacraments
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SACRAMENTS
1. The term.
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While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf and blessed it; then He broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take this and eat it; this is my body."
I tell you, I will never again drink the product of the vine till the day when I drink the new wine with you in my Father's kingdom."
Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptize them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
So they accepted his message and were baptized, and about three thousand persons united with them on that day. And they devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship with one another, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
You must clean out the old yeast, that you may be a fresh lump, as you are to be free from the old yeast. For our Passover Lamb, Christ, has already been sacrificed.
For I would not have you, brothers, to be ignorant of the fact that though our forefathers were all made safe by the cloud, and all went securely through the sea, and in the cloud and the sea they all allowed themselves to be baptized as followers of Moses, read more. and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink -- for they continued to drink the water from the spiritual Rock which accompanied them, and that Rock was the Christ --
For every time you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes again.
This is a great secret; I mean this about Christ and the church.
And through your union with Him you once received, not a hand-performed circumcision but one performed by Christ, in stripping you of your lower nature,