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Jesus, Lord at Thy Birth

2008 December 11

This thought comes out of this Christmas / Advent season.

Jesus dwelt among his people as word tabernacling in the midst of the camp (John 1.1-14).

He came to us as a baby.

In his first years, the infant years, the irony of communion is that to commune with him meant to COMMUNE with an infant.

He was able to communue in a way that shows joyous spiritual connection with John the Baptist, his cousin, while both were still in utero (Lk 1.39-45). Both Lord and Communicant member of the covenant were infant.

But, “out of the mouth of infants and nursing babes, you have ordained praise.” (Ps 8)

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1 Corinthians 10.1-6

For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.

POINT #1 - Notice here that Paul wants us to see NT theology in the Exodus - that all covenant members were Baptized, and in correspondence, all covenant members were communing with Christ himself in the Manna and Water from the Rock.

POINT #2 - Examination for sin was necessary in the OT times when children were clearly included. Paul is (v.6) actually using this to teach examination to the Corinthian church. So examination is not new, and cannot newly exclude children (1 Cor 11.27-32).

Jesus, Lord at Thy Birth

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