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"This speech is shocking; who can listen to it?".... tee-hee!

**oh, sorry, i guess you want an answer. Do you want to know about the new covenant, and who are directly involved in it? And what that covenant does, and how the rest of us are benefiting from it?

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CHRISTIANS are commanded to observe the Memorial of Christ’s death. This observance is also called “the Lord’s evening meal.” (1 Corinthians 11:20) What is so significant about it? When and how should it be observed?

Jesus Christ instituted this observance on the night of the Jewish Passover in 33 C.E. The Passover was a celebration held just once a year, on the 14th day of the Jewish month Nisan. To calculate that date, the Jews evidently waited for the spring equinox. This is the day when there are approximately 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness. The first observable new moon nearest to the spring equinox marked the beginning of Nisan. Passover came 14 days later, after sunset.

Jesus celebrated the Passover with his apostles, dismissed Judas Iscariot, and then instituted the Lord’s Evening Meal. This meal replaced the Jewish Passover and therefore should be observed only once a year.

The Gospel of Matthew reports: “Jesus took a loaf and, after saying a blessing, he broke it and, giving it to the disciples, he said: ‘Take, eat. This means my body.’ Also, he took a cup and, having given thanks, he gave it to them, saying: ‘Drink out of it, all of you; for this means my “blood of the covenant,” which is to be poured out in behalf of many for forgiveness of sins.’”—Matthew 26:26-28.

Some believe that Jesus turned the bread into his literal flesh and the wine into his blood. However, Jesus’ fleshly body was still intact when he offered this bread. Were Jesus’ apostles really eating his literal flesh and drinking his blood? No, for that would have been cannibalism and a violation of God’s law. (Genesis 9:3, 4; Leviticus 17:10) According to Luke 22:20, Jesus said: “This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood, which is to be poured out in your behalf.” Did that cup literally become “the new covenant”? That would be impossible, since a covenant is an agreement, not a tangible object.

Hence, both the bread and the wine are only symbols. The bread symbolizes Christ’s perfect body. Jesus used a loaf of bread left over from the Passover meal. The loaf was made without any leaven, or yeast. (Exodus 12:8) The Bible uses leaven as a symbol of sin or corruption. The bread therefore represents the perfect body that Jesus sacrificed. It was free of sin.—Matthew 16:11, 12; 1 Corinthians 5:6, 7; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 2:1, 2.

The red wine represents Jesus’ blood. That blood makes valid the new covenant. Jesus said that his blood was poured out “for forgiveness of sins.” Humans can thus become clean in God’s eyes and can enter into the new covenant with Jehovah. (Hebrews 9:14; 10:16, 17) This covenant, or contract, makes it possible for 144,000 faithful Christians to go to heaven. There they will serve as kings and priests for the blessing of all mankind.—Genesis 22:18; Jeremiah 31:31-33; 1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 5:9, 10; 14:1-3.

Who should partake of these Memorial emblems? Logically, only those in the new covenant—that is, those who have the hope of going to heaven—should partake of the bread and the wine. God’s holy spirit convinces such ones that they have been selected to be heavenly kings. (Romans 8:16) They are also in the Kingdom covenant with Jesus.—Luke 22:29.

What about those who have the hope of living forever in Paradise on earth? They obey Jesus’ command and attend the Lord’s Evening Meal, but they come as respectful observers, not partakers. Once a year after sundown on Nisan 14, Jehovah’s Witnesses observe the Lord’s Evening Meal. Although only a few thousand worldwide profess to have the heavenly hope, this observance is precious to all Christians. It is an occasion when all can reflect upon the superlative love of Jehovah God and Jesus Christ.—John 3:16.

I'm assuming you got one of their invitations to the Lord's evening meal and you are a devoted Catholic who believes that the wine and bread turns into Jesus' literal blood and flesh?

I presume that this is why people say the bible contradicts itself, because the people who interpret it actually does the contradictions because of their lack of understanding. If in fact the transubstantiation is fact, then this would mean that jesus was promote cannibalism for one, and he was also breaking God's law abstain from blood. Actually Jesus compared his flesh and blood that would be sacrificed to atone for sin to the literal bread and wine that the jews usually ate - in fact what they were eating at the time. remember now, the passover was celebration the jews held many years before Jesus came to earth, when God saved their first born from the angel who killed all the first born in Egypt during the time the Israelites were under slavery and good came to the rescue. They were have this mean every year as a remembrance. but it was significant to the true blood that would save them for all time, that being of Jesus. And the lamb they ate symbolized jesus sinless body.

Take a closer look at verse 63 my friend...Jesus obviously was speaking symbolically and cleared up what he meant after some were being stumbled and were shocked because they thought he meant his literal flesh and blood.

He said, " It is the spirit that is life-giving, the flesh is of no use at all. the sayings that i have spoke to you are spirit and are life.

If you want to understand this more clearly then you should attend the memorial, if you have noble intentions.

Eating Bread...Symbolic Of Following MESSIAH...

Drinking Blood...Symbolic Of Following The Spirit...

Those of us who have been selected for heavenly life partake of the Lord's Evening Meal, which represents their future in heaven under the New Covenant. The Bible tells us in Rev 7: 4-10 that there are 144,000 people who will have that hope. So most Christians are not a part of this new covenant (although we benefit from it vicariously). That means most Christians don’t partake.

Hebrews 3:1- "Consequently, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest whom we confess—Jesus"

If you do not have the calling of the 144,000, you do not partake. Also, if it was meant for all, why didn't Jesus have all his followers there to partake of it? Why just his disciples? They would be with him in heaven, whereas the rest of us have the hope of everlasting life on Earth.

Forget Roman heresy, expurgation and perversion of Christianity.

I don't know of many people raised by the Catholic church who don't suffer some kind of mental illness.

The decline of the Roman Empire led to the Spanish Inquisition > People deluded by heretics accusing people of being heretics, which lead to the worst torture of human beings imaginable.

In 1209, Louis VIII of France through Pope Innocent III in Bezier raised Catholic forces and massacred 20,000 Gnostic’s who made every effort to follow the teachings of Jesus.

They believed that there were two "gods" — one malevolent in charge of all visible and material things held responsible for all the atrocities in the Old Testament, and a benevolent god responsible for the message of Jesus.

God is alive, God is the seed and the Kingdom within.

A real living God.

Your tree so bare good fruit.

I would guess God within Is: Loving-Kindness-Humility, Conscious minds – consciousness, Conscience, Might, Virtue, Victory, Wisdom, Beauty, Understanding and Acknowledgment.

Ps. 17:15

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

<< Matthew 6:1 >>

"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Matthew 6:3 (King James Version):

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Well,(not a JW) but I'll say two things to this, one the Jw will say this is for the apostles,(not true)and not for everyone. second, I will say that it's not the act of doing this that saves you, we can all be saved by what Jesus accomplished on the cross and believing in that, that bread and the wine are just our special time to commune with the lord when we do it. that's like saying baptism, saves you, none of these saves you, if is by your faith you have been saved