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Eat the bread, ye people of the Lord:
Praise His name, for He has made us one.
Now we come to eat in one accord
As the church which He has made His own.
Praise His name, for He has made us one.
Now we come to eat in one accord
As the church which He has made His own.
Eat the bread and drink the wine, ye saints!
We are one in Him fore’er.
Stand in oneness on the local ground,
Eat and drink in oneness there!
We are one in Him fore’er.
Stand in oneness on the local ground,
Eat and drink in oneness there!
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Drink the wine, ye people of the Lord:
We’re the church His precious blood has bought.
We’re redeemed to be in one accord—
This the goal for which He long has sought.
We’re the church His precious blood has bought.
We’re redeemed to be in one accord—
This the goal for which He long has sought.
Eat the bread and drink the wine, ye saints!
We are one in Him fore’er.
Stand in oneness on the local ground,
Eat and drink in oneness there!
We are one in Him fore’er.
Stand in oneness on the local ground,
Eat and drink in oneness there!
3
Stand as one, ye people of the Lord:
Not as individual grains are we—
We are one, we’re blent in one accord
As a loaf in each locality.
Not as individual grains are we—
We are one, we’re blent in one accord
As a loaf in each locality.
Eat the bread and drink the wine, ye saints!
We are one in Him fore’er.
Stand in oneness on the local ground,
Eat and drink in oneness there!
We are one in Him fore’er.
Stand in oneness on the local ground,
Eat and drink in oneness there!
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We are one as people of the Lord;
We declare that we are really one!
Not just word, but life in one accord
Testify what God in us hath done.
We declare that we are really one!
Not just word, but life in one accord
Testify what God in us hath done.
Eat the bread and drink the wine, ye saints!
We are one in Him fore’er.
Stand in oneness on the local ground,
Eat and drink in oneness there!
We are one in Him fore’er.
Stand in oneness on the local ground,
Eat and drink in oneness there!
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Eat the bread, ye people of the Lord:
Praise His name, for He has made us one.
Now we come to eat in one accord
As the church which He has made His own.
Praise His name, for He has made us one.
Now we come to eat in one accord
As the church which He has made His own.
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THE DECLARATION OF THE BREAKING OF BREAD
1. “As often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you declare the Lord’s death until He comes” (1 Cor. 11:26).
The word declare means “display” in the original Greek. The apostle says that every time we eat the bread and drink the cup, we display the Lord’s death. This means that we display His death for all to see. The bread symbolizes His body, and the cup symbolizes His blood. The cup placed beside the bread indicates that the Lord’s blood is outside of His body because it flowed out of His body and has been separated from His body. A person dies when his blood is separated from his body. Therefore, when we break bread and place the cup beside the bread, it displays the Lord’s death by spreading out His death before the universe for God, the angels, Satan, the demons, and all creation, including us, to see. (This is the reason that the bread and cup should not be covered by a cloth. ) Every time we see the bread and cup, we see a display of the Lord’s death. Although we break the bread in remembrance of the Lord, we also display His death. During the bread-breaking meeting our hearts remember the Lord, our spirits enjoy the Lord, and our eyes should look upon His death.
The Lord’s death is the center of His work of redemption. The Lord’s redemptive work was accomplished through and is based upon His death. His death solves the problem of sin, satisfies the requirements of the law, and quells God’s righteous wrath, causing us to be reconciled and acceptable to God. The Lord’s death resolves the problems of the old man, the flesh, and the old creation, delivering us from sin, the law, and all the bondage and slavery of the old creation. His death also solves the problem of the devil, Satan, and the world, causing us to boast in triumph over them. The Lord’s death is all-inclusive. Everything that is opposed to God, incompatible with God, apart from God, or not of God, including sin, the flesh, Satan, the world, and the old creation, was terminated in this death. When we break bread by placing the bread and cup separately on the table, we display to the universe the all-inclusive death of the Lord, which solved all the problems between us and God. As we display the Lord’s death, we also display everything that the Lord accomplished through His death to God, to the created things in the universe, and to ourselves.
Crucial Truths in the Holy Scriptures,
Volume 2 CWWL, 1932–1949, vol. 3
Chapter 20 (LSM)
Houston, United States
Praise the LORD all ye saints, all though we are many grains, we are one loaf, we eat in one accord, not as individual grains, we testify what God has done in us.
Come, let us eat the bread, let us stand in one accord, let us testify that God has made us one!
Oh, LORD Jesus we love you!
Houston, Texas, United States
Amen! Ye eat the bread!
Shoreline, WA, United States
Eat the bread! Drink the wine! Why not just say “you people of the Lord! ” Ye is crazy, but I am a crazy lover of Jesus! So ye people of the Lord!! Praise the Lord!
Mansfield, Ohio, United States
The bread and wine at the table meeting are symbols. The reality is Christ the true bread of life. The bread symbolizes Christ the Spirit. Now we eat Him by believing and receiving in His word. Eating Christ, doesn’t that sounds heretical. The pharisees could not take it. You must believe!
Oh if I could just continue to take you in as the bread of life. I don’t want to be so complicated. I just take your word at face value and believe it which is to receive it. The Lord said “take eat this is my body”. By this we have Christ as our very life! It is by this faith we are made one. We must care for this oneness above all else. The Apostle Peter calls it like precious faith. It is.
Seattle, WA, United States
We are one!
McKinney, TX, United States
YE people of the Lord!
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
We come to eat you Lord as one! Your name be praised forever!
New Orleans, LA, United States
Praise his name, for He has made us one!
Glenfield Auckland City, AKL, New Zealand
Praise the Lord!! We Eat the bread and drink the wine, ye saints!
Hallelijah!! We are one in Him fore’er. !!