The Lord's Recovery of Eating chapter 1

Message Title: THE LORD’S RECOVERY—EATING

The Bible reveals to us that God wants to enter into man to be man's life and everything. So God created man to be a vessel to contain Him. the way for man to receive and contain God is eating. after God created Adam, God put him in front of the tree of life, which indicates that Adam should eat this tree of life to take God in. 

John 6:48 I am the bread of life. 

John 6:54 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day. 

in order to achieve His purpose, God also came in Christ to be our bread of life, so that we can eat, digest, and assimilate God into our being. 

but man fell, and got distracted from God's original intention of taking in God, and even created his own culture and religion, which causes man to lose the Scriptural way of eating. so the Lord came in to recovery the matter of eating. 

Eating is not something we invented, but there has been a line of eating in the whole Bible. when Israel people left Egypt, they had to eat the passover lamb. when they were wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, God gave them the manna to eat everyday. in John chapter 6, the Lord Jesus was repeating and emphasizing the matter of eating Him as the bread life, the bread which came down from the heaven. even when we come to the Lord's table meeting, there is the matter to eat the bread and drink the wine, which shows us that the true worship we offer to God is to eat and to drink. 

Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and He broke it and gave it to the disciples and said, Take, eat; this is My body.

Matthew 26:27 And He took a cup and gave thanks, and He gave it to them, saying, Drink of it, all of you,

But after man developed and established the religion, the religion concept has become contrary to God's original intention. our human and religious concept always makes us to seek for more knowledge, more doctrine, and more teaching. in John chapter 3, Nicodemus, a very knowledgeable and religious man, came to the Lord Jesus for more teaching. but the Lord showed him the matter of regeneration. while the Lord was on the earth, He had so many conflicts with the religion people, such as healing the man on Sabbath day, letting the disciples to eat the grain on Sabbath day, which seems like the Lord cared for eating more then religion. 

Revelation 2: 7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God. 

even in the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation, the Lord mentioned the eating of the tree of life as a reward to the overcomers. the overcomers here, is not to overcome the temper, overcome sin or the world, but to overcome the degradation of the religion and return to God's original intention, which is to eat !!! why do we have so many problems in our daily life? because we are too short of Christ. if we eat and enjoy Christ enough, all problems will be solved, because Christ is the solution to all our problems, and Christ is the medicine to all our sickness. 

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter by the gates into the city. 

even in the eternity future, all we will be doing is still to eat the tree of life, which is such an eternal blessing to us. 

if we read Revelation chapters 2-3, doctrines or teaching is only mentioned a few times in a negative way; while eating is given as a promise, a reward in a positive way. here we can see that eating is versus teaching. Doctrines may help us to comprehend and understand, but they cannot supply us.

"What is the Lord’s recovery? Eating! What is the Lord’s way? Eating! What is it to be overcoming? Eating! What is it to be spiritual? Eating! Eating! Eating! Eating! "