What Is Lame May Be Healed

Hebrews 12:13

"....and make straight paths for your feet, so that WHAT IS LAME may not be dislocated, but rather be HEALED"

Notice Paul did not say that we might be lame, rather inferring that we are. Importantly, Paul warns also that from that lame state we might become dislocated.

Paul reminds us that it is an exhortation to us to receive and endure the chastening, even the scourging of the Lord.(v. 5,6) It appears that it is our decision, once receiving the understanding regarding His chastening, whether we will press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus: learning how to eat the bread so we are able to drink the cup that IS the new covenant! 

"No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able (although He will allow us to be tempted to that point), but with the temptation (or as the temptation comes, for God, Himself, does not tempt) will also MAKE THE WAY OF ESCAPE, that you may be able to endure it." (1 Corinthians 10:13) Making the way of escape is an empowerment to persevere, just as our Master did!  We, In His name, to the glory of God. 

But with most of them (Israel) God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness." (1 Corinthians 10:5) Although they all experienced God's supernatural deliverance from the bondage in Egypt, many, not all, lusted after evil things in their freedom. Clearly, instead of learning to worship God in the wilderness, many chose to persist in what would result in dislocation from Him. Just as clearly, He makes the way of escape for healing us, through and through!  

Eat, And Drink, For Elimination

Matthew 15:17

"Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is ELIMINATED?" 

"As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven- not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever." (John 6:57,58)

"and when He had GIVEN THANKS, He broke it and said, 'TAKE, EAT, this is My body which is for you; DO THIS in remembrance of Me.' In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in My blood. THIS DO, AS OFTEN AS YOU DRINK IT, in remembrance of Me.' For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, YOU PROCLAIM the Lord's death till He comes." (1 Corinthians 11:24-26)  He is coming at that point for resurrection life to those who obey Him!

"For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls"...(Hebrews 12:3) THIS IS WHERE WE DRINK OF HIS CUP!

Paul informs the Corinthian church what Jesus told the original twelve disciples: partake worthily of communion with Him by eating the bread "which came down from heaven" and makes for everlasting life. Eating this living bread, the bread of God, makes us ready to drink His cup. As we learn to eat, and drink in Jesus name (because of, through and with Him), we will be empowered as we understand to ELIMINATE sin as it approaches; in ourselves first and then for a testimony for others. 

"What Do You Want Me To Do For You?"

Mark 10:35-52

"Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Him, saying, 'Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask.' And He said to them, 'What do you want Me to do for you?' They said to Him, 'Grant us that we may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left, in Your glory.' But Jesus said to them, 'You do not KNOW what you ask....." (verses 35-38)  

Enough said. If we do not KNOW what we are asking for, that request will lead to correction from the Lord. In this case, the desire for exaltation apart from the formation of overcoming perseverance that results from the cup that He drank from and the baptism that He was baptized with. 

"Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, 'Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!' Then many warned him to be quiet, but he cried out all the more. 'Son of David, have mercy on me!' So Jesus stood still and COMMANDED HIM TO BE CALLED. Then they called the blind man, saying to him, 'Be of good cheer. Rise, HE IS CALLING YOU.' And throwing aside his garment, he rose and came to Jesus. So Jesus answered and said to him, 'What do you want Me to do for you?'  The blind man said to Him, Rabboni (My Great One), that I may receive my sight.'  Then Jesus said to him, 'Go your way; your faith has made you well(Lit. saved you).' And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road." He received his sight to follow!(verses 46-52)

What are we asking Jesus to do for us?  My Great One! That I may receive what you know I need to see to follow you!  All glory to the Father!

To Become Guiltless of His Body and His Blood

 1 Corinthians 11:23-29

"For I (Paul) received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, 'Take, eat, this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.' In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup IS the new covenant in My blood. This do, AS OFTEN AS YOU DRINK IT, in remembrance of Me.' For AS OFTEN AS YOU EAT THIS BREAD and drink this cup, YOU PROCLAIM the Lord's death till He comes."

"Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner WILL BE GUILTY of the body and the blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgement to himself, not discerning the Lord's body."

To be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord could mean that one is not unable, but unwilling, to respond as our Master, Jesus Christ, when he was betrayed. The Jews betrayed Him to the Roman authorities; Judas Iscariot did the same but to the chief priests; Peter denied Him and the others of the twelve, excepting John and the Marys, dispersed. Those betrayals didn't keep Jesus from pressing toward the goal for prize of the upward call of His Father. He had been called to a work and He finished it. 

Guiltlessness regarding the body and the blood of the Lord is formed in those of us who are willing to let the Father, in the name of the Son, Jesus Christ, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, show us how to partake WORTHILY of communion with Him: as often as we eat the bread and drink of the cup. His cup IS the new covenant to the Father. Not religious laws but His life sown for the salvation of man. The idea is for His church to be multiplied in this manner, through His cup, for those who are outside to see.