Understanding the Sabbath
Today’s Focus: Signs of the Sabbath Day: Eating Grain and Bread Part 2
Scripture: Philippians 3:8; John 1:14; Acts 2:42
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
We left off the last message knowing that the disciples have taken up 12 baskets full of fragments so that no bread is wasted. Hence there is bread that no man has eaten yet at that time. We also showed that this also represented the shewbread or the Bread of His Presence which had not been eaten by that generation at that time. Now let’s bring this home. Jesus comes into our lives on the 6th day of our existence to bring us into the Sabbath Day or the Day of the Lord. When he came, He brought enough bread for the 6th day and the 7th day. Sound familiar. Jesus was the fullness of the Bread of Life. The disciples collected 12 baskets full and when Jesus died on Calvary and said “It is finished” that ended the sixth day. And now at the new moon, the Day of the Lord is ushered in and Jesus the Sun of Righteousness. He is the light of this new day and season. Now you may ask what happened to the 12 loaves of uneaten bread? This is what happened”
Jesus put the remaining bread that can be ate in the Sabbath Day or Day of the Lord in the Twelve Apostles!
Listen, these 12 apostles would carry the remaining bread (or grace) to dispense in the earth. Now to take it a step further we said in the previous message that there is a correlations between grain and bread and doctrine and grace. Before bread is bread it is grain that is pounded out, put together and cooked to bring forth bread. Doctrine is pounded out within a person, aloud to bake and change the person and when it becomes bread it manifests as grace, power and authority. Hence you must have doctrine before you can have grace because doctrine precedes the dispensation of grace. Before Paul was an apostle and sent by the Lord, the Lord had to change His doctrine and thoughts about who God is.
Philippians 3:8: Yea doubtless and I count all things but loss for the Excellency of the KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and I do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.
Let me show you this scripture:
John 1:14: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
To be full of grace is to understand that this is the inward expression of the being and truth is the outward expression of something on the inside. So grace is the doctrine that becomes bread and when we live and walk in truth we show forth the grace of God that is working on the inside. One of the four elements of the culture of the Kingdom is the Apostles’ Doctrine (Acts 2:42). The Apostles’ doctrine is the current Word of God for this season but it is also the grace of God being dispensed by the apostolic to the Body of Christ. We as the sons of God are to be dispersers of God’s grace to the Earth because there is enough “bread” or grace to sustain us until the return of the Lord.
So in the Sabbath day we are to eat doctrine and allow it to change us from within and manifest as grace and truth into the Earth. When we share the Word of God we dispense grain to the Body of Christ, whether that becomes grace is a matter of the individual allowing the Word of God to lead them, guide them and change them.
In the next message we will wrap this series up with a summary.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
