Word Of Wisdom Ministries
By Cheryl Arnold

I just wanted to send a few facts about what we call communion, as believers.  It is very misunderstood so I thought I’d compile what the Bible tells us about breaking bread as believers.
The first thing to note is what the bread and wine are not:  They are not the eukarist.  This is a pagan concept that the apostles doctrine (which is the only doctrine we are to follow…and we find it in the Bible) would find repugnant.
The eukarist is a catholic concept that teaches that an ordained minister (not found in the Bible) prays over to make it holy and magically turns it into the actual body and blood of Christ.  This means that He is crucified all over again for our sins and if we ingest the eukarist, He enters our body again, and we are forgiven again.
They are not a means of spiritual power or ability.  The Bible simply says that it is an act of remembrance of His completed work on the cross and to do it as often as we want, until He returns.  It is simply a means of fellowship with one another in Christ and a focus on the fact that it is His death and resurrection that has saved us.  It is a remembrance and it is for our good.
It is not to be taken in the sorrowful mindset of a funeral, but as a joyful celebration of life everlasting!
It is not to be taken or observed by anyone but a true believer.  Unless a person has been born again, they have no fellowship yet in the body and blood of Christ until they have repented of sin and have been born again by faith in Christ.
It is not to be taken in an unworthy manner (1 Corinthians 11:24-30).  This is left open so it encompasses all manner of unworthiness.  The first thought is that an unbeliever is unworthy.  The second thought is that a believer who is harboring known sin in his heart and partakes of the bread and wine, is in danger of serious illness and even death.  It is a very serious matter and Paul warned us that some of us are weak, sick and dying because of this very reason.This is in no way saying that everyone who is sick or dies in Christ is in a state of sin.  Only God and the believer know that.  Paul and Tromphimus were filled with the Spirit and God’s will yet remained ill.  This is our precedent.
This means believers.  So this would be considered what John called a sin unto death.  It’s when a believer persists in known sin and God has given them time and space to stop it but they refuse. They remain in their old ways.  He will take them home.  Why?  Because a person with the seed of Christ in them cannot sin.  He won’t permit it.  1 John 3:9, 1 John 5:16 (The word for sin here refers to a known, intentional and continual siding against the will of God).
1 Cor. 11:24:  Jesus gives the only, the complete, the pure and the simple explanation of what communion is and how to observe it.  Anything additional was added to the scriptures by pagan Rome practices and remains in some of the church.  Because the church that first fell away after pagan practices did not and does not believe that salvation is by faith alone, they needed practices and works to save them.  This is how communion was first corrupted.  
“And when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, ‘Take, eat:  this is My body which is broken for you:  this do in remembrance of Me'”.
vs 25, “After the same manner also, the cup, when He had supped, saying, “This cup is the New Testament in My blood:  this do ye, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me'”.
Paul goes on to explain that as often as we do this we show the Lord’s death till He returns.  In other words, we remember or point to the Lord’s death.  We don’t re-create the Lord’s death.
The death of Christ was not a defeat but a victory!  It is accomplished!!!  Satan tried to prevent it.  He failed.   Jesus accomplished His death on the cross, and now death is swallowed up in victory!   Isaiah 25:8 “He shall swallow up death in victory…” 1 Corinthians 15:54 we see that Paul tells us the crucifixion was that prophesied victory!
John 6:48  “I am the bread of life…”  Jesus explains to many who gathered around Him that He is the bread of life.  He is claiming here to be the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.  He is trying to get them to see that He is the fulfillment of the passover lamb.  He Israelites were told that they must eat all of the Passover Lamb before morning and leave none of it.  It must be consumed.  What was left had to be burned. Jesus is telling them that the lamb was a foreshadowing of Him.  He tells them that unless they eat His body and drink His blood, they have no part in Him.  Many turned away at this thought.  They could not accept that the Messiah was that Lamb slain for the sins of the world.  We, as believers are also to consume Christ for every single need in life:  Take from Him, learn from Him, follow Him, dwell with Him, hide with Him in God…We can do nothing on our own.  We need Him for everything.  This is what it means to consume Christ.
Why couldn’t they receive it?  Because they wanted their own good works and rituals to save them, giving them merit. By eating the Lamb of God (coming to Him for salvation, whereby being washed in the blood of the Lamb, cleansed from sin) they would show complete poverty of spirit and total bankruptsy.  The proud do not want to admit that so they turn away to religion and ritual…which makes them feel worthy by what they do…appeasing God. 
Who is it that inherits the Kingdom of Heaven?  The poor in spirit.  Matt. 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven”.  
How do we know that The bread and wine are symbols and not the actual body and blood of Christ?  Hebrews and 1 Peter tell us.  Hebrews 9:28  “For Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many…” (He was offered to ALL, but only a few will take, this is why we see MANY; only a few will ever partake of Him though He dies for all and is offered to all).Jesus was offered once for all.  He is not re-crucified again and again for sin.  This is what the catholic church teaches as well as many denominations.  Hebrews 10:10 says it again.  He was offered once.
1 Peter 3:18 “For Christ has also suffered once for sins…”Hebrews 6:6 …If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance;  seeing they crucify to themselves, the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame.”
This is so serious.  This portion of scripture is explaining that once a person is saved by faith in Christ, he cannot fall away into a lost state.  If it were possible, then we would be saying that Jesus could be crucified again for us to save us again…and this is not only impossible but it is putting Him to an open shame…trampling Him underfoot.
So to take the bread and wine and to claim that it is the literal body of Christ, means that he has to be crucified again and again.  Jesus went out of His way to warn against such blasphemy.  “It is finished”  “Paid in full”.  Never to be done again…only remembered by His own who entered in through faith.He is put to OPEN SHAME the word says.  The eukarist, or the mass (where we get Christmas..it is Christ’s Mass), is a constant re crucifying of the RISEN Lord, the ASCENDED Lord, and the ONE who is seated on the throne in Heaven.  His death is accomplished, never needs doing again, and He is on His way now as the LION…not the slain Lamb.When He appears again He will be the Lion from the tribe of Judah and His vesture is stained with blood but not His (Isaiah 63).  It is the blood of the wicked, the unredeemed, the Christ rejecters.  
So clearly, communion is to be done simply, as a remembrance of Christ’s death, as often as we like and for the express purpose of examining our hearts before Him while we wait for Him to come get us.  This causes us to follow Him more closely by heart change, not magic.
The Nicolaitans were a group whose doctrine Jesus said He hated.  They lorded it over the others.  They established a hierarchy in the church which is not to exist.  Isn’t that what we see when we have self imposed higher ups in the church who have the “authority” to pray over and transform the bread and wine, to  have sole rights to administer the communion supper? I think so.
If we never partake of the bread and wine,we show ourselves to be outside the body of believers.  Jesus said to do this in remembrance of Me.  Do it with the right heart.  That’s our only instruction.  Any believers at any time they choose wherever and whenever they choose should enjoy the communion of the supper.  There should be no hubbub, no ceremony, not ritual,no solemnity, no hierarchy, no man-made ordinances and no hesitancy.  Any hesitancy shows that we are holding on to old ways and fear His judgement.  But we should instead examine our hearts and love His cleansing and follow Him, agree with Him.It should be done with a joy-filled heart and mind, with no fear that comes from man-made ideas about it. How much so many have missed because they have added to to word of God and have confused and complicated the simplicity that is in Christ!How many  have been misled into thinking that this is actually His body and blood that are re-cleansing them!  They have a false sense of security and continue in old ways against God because they believe this ritual takes care of it all.  They never change their minds and their ways and they suffer for it.  But if it were rightly known and followed, hearts would be changing into His image.  Thats the whole purpose…to keep us while we wait on Him to come get us.
I would encourage all of us to examine what our own churches teach.  Make sure they are not adding to the word.   Each one is responsible to God.  We have no mediator but Christ, the very Spirit of God who teaches us perfectly, and He teaches through the word of God an not any teacher preacher of church.  “…You have no need that any man teach you…” (1 John 2:26-27).   Here we see that John warns against being deceived by anyone.  The Holy Spirit within us teaches us and He does it first through His word and then for those who have labored in the word to know it, through spiritual discernment.I hope this gives us a fresh and exciting and joyful understanding of the incredible privilege we have at the Lord’s table!
Thanks for listening!  Have a blessed week in Christ!Love,Cheryl

Yes! If you are a believer, you will long to go to church. Why? for fellowship, edification, serving and most importantly to worship God with other believers.

It is crucial to be in a true church. If we have been born again then we have the Holy Spirit dwelling within us and He will lead us to a true church if we listen to Him.

A true church teaches the whole word of God in truth. They will preach the gospel. That is…Jesus Christ crucified, dead, buried and resurrected…all for sin.

If repentance for the remission of sins is absent in the gospel at the church we choose, then it is a false church. Its that simple. But God will lead a true believer to a true church. I didn’t say to a perfect church, but a true church.

John 7 says that if we obey God, He will teach us right doctrine; He will show us whether it is true or not.

The disobedient won’t hear.

There comes a point in the maturing of a believer when our going to church changes. At some point, God will nudge us to begin using our spiritual gifts and attend in that way. There comes a point where we are off milk and on meat, and will be out in the field so to speak; but still in contact and fellowship with the “church”…the people of God.

The Apostles and prophets, preachers, teachers were on task…not still sitting in the congregation learning.

Maybe it is teaching every week or whenever and where ever God calls. Maybe it is in visiting the sick and weary for counsel and encouragement. Maybe it is in mentoring younger, newer believers. Maybe it is in hospitality or some type of administration…on it goes.

So if we are new believers and even just young believers, we most likely should be in the congregation learning. But if we are mature, seasoned believers, we should be out…in the field…sent.

Now, this is not license to not attend church because we think we are grown up in the Lord. God will show us when it’s time to change the way we attend…and it might not be in any conventional way or in any way we have ever seen.

Paul traveled the world preaching the gospel, then sat in a prison cell to write.

What is He calling you to do? Listen hard.

In Christ Jesus today,

Amen!

The Lord woke me up around 12:00 am two nights ago and said this and told me to write it down so I would remember the next morning…

This is what He said: God will do what I ask of Him, in direct proportion to how much I do what He asks me. And what He asks me to do is found in His word.

So many wonder why God seems to not do what they ask. James tells us one reason and the rest of the word tells us another through principals, and that is what I heard from God at midnight.

“You have not because you ask not, and when you do ask you ask amiss so that you can consume it in your lust”.

So I know I should choose Gods will in everything I do and say but often choose my own way. So that means I am not doing what He asks of me and likewise, He won’t do what I asknof Him.

It all goes back to obedience. If I obey God, and that is what it means to love God with my whole heart, if I obey God…then I will find that all my prayers are answered.

If I go my own way and esteem Him in a very low way, then He won’t hear me.

The word tells us that everywhere.

Obeying God…doing what He asks… means Jesus Christ is being fully formed in me.

If Jesus Christ is formed in me in fullness then God does what I ask. Why? Because I will then only ask what He wills for me.

Good to know.

Luke 22…Do this in Remembrance of Me…

1 Corinthians 11:23-26…Proclaim the Lord’s DEATH until He comes…

Passover (14th of Nisan) Jesus was crucified for the sins of the world.

2019, April 20th was Passover which began at sundown April 19. Tuesday is Firstfruits, the very day of the resurrection…April 23rd this year.

God’s days are from sundown to sundown.

Feast of Firstfruits (17th of Nisan) Jesus was raised from the dead. He, as our High Priest, presented Himself to the Father as our Firstfruits offering…promising the rest of the Harvest when it was all ripe and ready. This is the first resurrection when the dead in Christ will rise and be caught up with Him in the air.

The Bible tells us that the man of perdition will seek to change times and seasons.

The first church until 300 ad, kept the Passover to recognize Jesus’ death and then resurrection. We don’t see Easter in the Bible.

Something happened, and our calendars and seasons were changed and now the church does not recognize the Passover that Paul said he must keep and the first church celebrated after Jesus ascended.

God will change them back.

Jesus never said “remember My resurrection”. He said “remember My death”. Why?

It is because there is no resurrection without first His death. When celebrating His death, the resurrection automatically follows.

There is no salvation without death. There are people celebrating the resurrection who have never entered in through His death. They have come in over the wall.

We have to first be confronted with our sin and our dead nature because of our sin before we can partake of His resurrection.

Today, few acknowledge they are sinners and dead in sin, whereby remembering His death at the Passover. They just admire Jesus and run to the resurrection. But they have no part in it if they haven’t come to Him first in death because of sin. Only then does then resurrection truly belong to the person.

All men are once born. They are dead in sin. In order to know God and enter Heaven they must be born again or Spirit born. Born twice.

How can a man be born again? Jesus said that which is born of flesh is flesh. That which is born of Spirit is spirit. Only the Spirit born know God.

So how are we spirit born? We must come to Jesus in repwntance for the remission of sins. Then immediately we are Spirit born and enter Heaven forever.

The resurrection is a by product of Jesus’ death. Without His death there is no resurrection. But if there is His death in our hearts then suddenly the resurrection wells up in the heart and belongs to us.

Simple truth. Thank You Lord Jesus. Amen.

What is a rhema word? Is this just some charismatic curch concept or is it scriptural?

It’s scriptural.

The Bible is written in 2 languages originally. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew.

The New Testament was written in Greek. Why? Because the OT was given to the Jews in order to establish a covenant people, who would then show the whole world who God was…that’s why, : )

The NT was written in Greek because the whole world was under Greek speaking Roman control when it was written and it shows that the whole word now was given to the whole world…The Jews first, then to the believing Jews and gentiles.

Around 260 years before Jesus came to us the first time, the OT had already been translated into Greek, which is the Septuagint. Jesus quoted not from the Hebrew original but from the Septuagint!!! Fascinating!

Why? Because now, God’s message has come to the whole world and Rome was basically the whole known world then.

The word used in the OT for what English speaking people would use as “word” is the same through out the entire OT. It is “dabar”. It means speech. Communication. It has no further meaning which is also extremely fascinating.

Why?

It’s because The Holy Spirit was given in an indwelling way after the ascension of Jesus and the word “word” now has many meanings.

Genesis 1 we see that God spoke the world into existence.

In John we see Jesus Christ is the “word” and He created everything that there is. He is God, Creator God. But the word used here for “word” is not “dabar” or it’s equivalent. It is rather, “Logos”. It means, the expression of a thought and not just an object.

So we see that Jesus is the word made flesh who walked among us. And that word spoke everything into being because He is God. Paul says same thing in Collosians.

So we see in the NT that when “word” is used and Logos is the Greek word used, it refers to just this, the expression of God’s word.

Then there is “Rhema”. This greek word is used when we see “word” used to differentiate between the actual expression of the written word of God, and a different kind of communication from The Holy Spirit who is God, to the individual.

It will never contradict the “dabar”, word or the “logos” word. But it will take that part of the written word of God and speak it in a very specific way to an individual who is reading His word.

It happens constantly to the one seeking God with their whole hearts. Here is an example:

I was praying and weeping one day for my children’s salvation if they were not really saved yet, and or for their sold out walk with Jesus if they were. God interrupted me and told me clearly to get up and stop crying and go pick up my Bible and read where I left off in Jeremiah the day before.

I did and I received a clear word, “rhema” from God in direct answer to my prayer, He does this constantly.

I read, Jeremiah 31:16-17. “Thus says the LORD. Refrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears. For your work will be rewarded says the LORD. They shall come again from the land of the enemy. There is hope in your end, says the LORD, and your children shall come again to their own border”.

I knew it would come to pass and a few years later it did!

This is a “rhema” word.

I am so sad when I hear my favorite teachers err so greatly here. They joke about this work of God and attribute the work of the Spirit to nonsense. But they are ignorant here. God does speak using His word with a very direct message to believers.

Now can we apply Jeremiah 31:16-17, or any other verse, as speaking to Egypt instead? To another group instead. NO!! Scripture is not up for private interpretation. We can’t say, oh you see Israel as being spoken to here but I see He is speaking to Egypt, or whomever. It has one correct contextual meaning and that never changes and can’t be one meaning to you and another to me. That would be private interpretation..wrong. It was to Israel as it was spoken historically. Period.

However, God can take that exact verse and tell a believer reading it that this message or arrangement of words is a private message to them and to apply it to their lives.

…not as we wish, but as the Spirit miraculously speaks it, as I gave the example. It doesn’t contradict or give another contextual meaning to the verse. It just says by the Spirit, Yes, I am talking to you right now.

Now it is not a ‘rhema” word if I just read it in passing and said….God said my children would return to their own border!!! Yay!

NO! That is a private interpretation. He might not be saying that to you. You have to know because He has made you know through miraculous events like I described. The words were exact and direct and detailed answers to my exact prayer at that exact moment and I knew He was about to answer that prayer with His exact words when I did just what He told me to do.

Now Vines says it beautifully: loose quote… the difference in the NT between logos and rhema is that a rhema refers to personal instruction by the Spirit. He brings the word of God to mind in time of need with a personal message.

This is a glorious “rhema” word from God.

Hallelujah! Jesus Christ be praised!

There is a sin unto death the Bible says.  This is a sin worthy of death that God alone has determined must happen and no praying will change it.The sin unto death belongs to the believer and not to the non believer.  John says that we who see such a thing happening should not even pray about it.  It has to happen.We as believers when we read this scripture and meditate upon it should get sick to our stomachs to a degree…not for the sake of hopelessness because hopelessness has no place in the believer’s heart.  But we should feel the tinge of sorrow that is brought on by the fact that sin has been so grievous in a certain believer that God has no choice but to end that believer’s life on earth and take them home.John is the apostle given this message to give to the church as a warning.  He has said that the one who has the seed of Christ in him cannot sin.The actual rendering is this:  The one who has the seed of Christ in him (a true believer) cannot continually walk in opposition to God’s will.If he does, he will commit the sin unto death.”A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 “describes it so brilliantly.  He says that a shepherd who has a sheep that just keeps wondering off will give her many, many chances to obey his instruction and stay with the flock.  If she continues to wander off, he will first break her leg and bind it up then carry her on his shoulder until the broken leg is healed and she has a chance to change her wandering ways.  If, after her leg is healed and she is allowed to walk on her own again, she still wanders off, and is now leading other sheep to follow her in her wanderings, he will take out his knife and kill her.  He loves her and she was his sheep, but she would not stop wandering and was now risking the life of others and the walk of others.It is exactly the same within the church.If a believer continually chooses the wrong path, ignoring the small voice of God warning them not to… they will be taken home.  They lead other sheep watching to do the same thing.  They corrupt their testimony.  They lose rewards.  They exhaust God with continual disobedience.  They remain willfully immature.  God says that the branch that has no fruit is cut off and tossed into the fire.  This is not damnation.  We can’t over analyze a parable.  We have to taste it to get the gist of it.  A branch is a believer and believer’s cannot lose their salvation so they cannot be damned.  That’s our first truth.  But the pruner, God, only prunes His children.  If a branch is producing no fruit but putting a drag on the rest of the tree He has to cut it off.  This is the sin unto death.  If a believer won’t abide in Christ, he will be cut off.
How many times I’ve seen it.Why does God say that this should no be prayed for?It is because He knows the end of it.  He sees that it must happen because repentance of the willful sin will not happen.  So a prayer for repentance and renewal in certain cases is useless.  The wayward believer won’t respond.
Sin unto death: 1 John 5

Cut off branch: John 15:6

To know and follow hard after You. Psalm 63:8.

This is what it look s like to know God and to follow HARD after Him: Rock solid assurance in Him in all things, and persecution.

Be prepared to hear things like this slung your way or slipped in very smoothly by those who may or may not even know they are slinging them… high minded, proud, self righteous, legalistic, intellectual, difficult, judgemental, and so on…

But Jesus said if you love me men will hate you and persecute you. Why would we expect anything else. They hated Him first.

Oh that this generation of believers would truly seek You instead of seeking themselves and the best version of themselves they can imagine.

There is a famine in the church today of the word of God. Few know it or care to. Instead we see man worship all around.

Have mercy Lord on Your church and open hearts to Your word I pray. In the great name of Jesus Christ I pray, Amen.