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Luke 18 31-34 KNOWING THE THINGS THAT ARE SPOKEN OF HIM 06 The broken body of Jesus
📖 Luke 18:31-34
21Oct2020 - *The broken body of Jesus* - _Luke 18:31-34_ - KNOWING THE THINGS THAT ARE SPOKEN OF HIM 6 – Bible reading: _Romans 8:3-4_
Yesterday, we saw the chaos of man’s situation and in the midst of the complete disorder and confusion, God displays His great love and wisdom in the centrality and the pivot of the cross of Jesus.
The Lord longed for the disciples to be one with Him in what was taking place but the disciples were nowhere close to embracing the enormity of what was happening.
We, on the other hand, have the benefit of an understanding of all that the disciples missed. We are now able to see the full picture of God’s great plan for all of His creation, that through the cross, God was reconciling all of creation back to Himself and to His kingdom. The cross was necessary for the re-establishing of His kingdom rule here on earth.
_Luke 18:31-33 Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished. (32) For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon. (33) They will scourge Him and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again."_
Jesus was scourged. His body was broken. What is the significance here?
_I Corinthians 11:24 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."_
We are to consume the broken body of Jesus, symbolically, by faith, as we partake of the bread at communion. Jesus came in flesh, the same flesh that Adam and Eve had in the beginning, before the fall. The flesh that was potentiated to live victoriously over sin, yet man chose to go his own way and sin against God.
Christ was without sin in His flesh. He is making His flesh available for us by accepting our sin in His flesh and His flesh having to be broken for us. _I Peter 4:1-2 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, (2) that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God._
God has made it possible for us to now live for the will of God by not going our own way, through His flesh, which we consume by faith.
_I Peter 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed._ We are now able to live for righteousness, for He has borne our sins in His own sinless body.
_Romans 8:3-4 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, (4) that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit._
By our flesh, we are not able to meet the righteous requirement of the law. God did this, through Jesus and thereby condemned sin in the flesh. The stranglehold that sin had over us in our flesh is broken by Jesus in His flesh.
We are now able to live victoriously over sin in the flesh, for we appropriate, what Jesus has done for us, by faith and we also are now those, who live not by our potentials but in the potential of His Holy Spirit.
Jesus’ body was broken for us so that He may present us holy, blameless and above reproach in His sight. He is meeting in us His expectations. He just does not give us His expectations and then forsakes us but He through His broken flesh, empowers us. _Colossians 1:22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—_
This blessing we have from Him not only as individuals but this is the blessing for the Church, His body, His bride. _I Corinthians 10:16-17 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? (17) For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread._
*Thought to ponder*
```Are you still trying to please God by your flesh? This is not possible for the solution has been provided for us, as we live by His Holy Spirit.```