9/27/2023 0 Comments In remembrance of me sheet music![]() This is to enjoy Christ with a contrite heart and a broken spirit (Psa. In our experience the enjoyment of Christ as life is always accompanied by such a real repentance. Before God we may feel that everything concerning us is wrong. While we are thanking the Lord for being everything to us, we may also be confessing with tears how sinful, worldly, fleshly, and full of the self and the natural man we are, and how much we are for ourselves and how little we are for God. The more we enjoy Christ, the more joy we will have, and also the more bitterness we will have. In fact, the more we enjoy Christ, the more we will sense that we are sinful, worldly, natural, fleshly, soulish, and very much against God. The proper way to experience Christ as life is, on the one hand, to be sustained, strengthened, nourished, and supported and, on the other hand, to sense that we are sinful. While we are eating the flesh of the lamb and the unleavened bread, we need to experience bitterness also. But it is quite significant that in the type of the passover there are bitter herbs. We often speak of how sweet it is to receive Christ, and a number of hymns use this expression (see Hymns, #221, 554, 1143, and 1157). We may wonder why it was necessary to eat the unleavened bread with bitter herbs. Christ as life to us is the sustaining and strengthening power. Whether we eat the flesh of the animal life or the unleavened bread of the vegetable life, we will be strengthened and nourished. However, both the redeeming and the generating aspects of Christ's life are for sustaining, nourishing, supporting, energizing, and strengthening. Christ was the grain of wheat that fell into the earth, died, and grew up to produce many grains (John 12:24). The vegetable life is the generating life and typifies Christ's life in the aspect of generating. Hence, the animal life typifies the redeeming aspect of the life of Christ, a life that redeems us continually (Rev. ![]() The animal life has blood that can be shed for redemption. In the Scriptures these two kinds of lives typify two aspects of Christ's life. In these three items-the flesh of the lamb, the unleavened bread, and the bitter herbs-there are two kinds of lives: the animal life and the vegetable life. ![]() We also need to eat the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs (Exo.
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