# 122 It's Not Called HOLY Communion For Nothing

The Book of Genesis Day 122 Ge 15:11 And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. God has told Abram to prepare animals for the making of a covenant. A heifer, a goat, and a ram have been cut in half , their pieces set opposite each other and forming a bloody walkway. Note what happens next. The vultures arrive! Why not? There’s a real feast of dead meat lying before them! I can picture Abram frantically chasing them away like a beach goer shooing the seagulls away from a bag of popcorn! But unlike that bag of popcorn, this is holy meat. This meat has been sanctified by the Word of God and is not to be treated as carrion. This meat is meant to be a vital part of the covenant God is about to make with Abram. A covenant that coupled with faith, promises Abram, the land of Canaan. (A picture of heaven!) I can’t help but think of another covenant that God has made with His people. We call it the Lord’s Supper. It is a means of grace in which God promises the forgiveness of sins, through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, who gave up His body and blood for us, that we might inherit heaven! Jesus is our bloody walkway to heaven! His Body and Blood are not to be taken lightly in this Sacrament of the church! It is not to be treated as something common! Jesus said in Joh 6:53-55, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. 54 "Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 "For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.Further, on the night in which He was betrayed, Jesus instituted the covenant of the Lord’s Supper and made it plain that in His blood, there is forgiveness of sins! "For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (Mt 26:28) It is the church’s responsibility to keep this meal holy, and not treat it as something common as we read 1Co 11:23-32, “ For I 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; 24 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." 25 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." 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes. 27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. This personal examination, and the corporate examination by the church, (the withholding of the Lord’s Supper from unrepentant sinners) is the equivalent of Abram keeping the vultures away. Hey, it’s not called HOLY communion for nothing! Pray: Lord, God, let us rightly discern Your Body and Blood in this Holy Sacrament, always acknowledging our sinfulness with repentant hearts and receiving Your promised forgiveness!