Celebrating Christ’s Humanity at the Lord Supper
We have done an episode on #45 Reframing the Lord’s Supper
You can come to the Lord’s table with so many things to celebrate: 
BRIDE: You can declare the coming wedding feast! Loving on your bridegroom! Declaring all His excellencies!
HIS HEADSHIP and KINGDOM: You can declare that He is our savior and Lord. His ALL in ALLness!
FAMILY: That he is the firstborn, our brother, that we are sons and daughters of God. We can call him father. Thanking God for our new birth into His family.
Today we want to highlight His body and Life, His humanity as our own-
The Spiritual Man and the Natural Man- The Body of Christ by TAS
CHRIST EXCELLENT HUMANITY
“What is the interest? This loaf. What is this loaf? He says, “This is My body…” and it’s different from all others. It doesn’t belong to any other category, it is distinct and separate – something you need – there is not another Body like this. Of all the bodies in humanity, there’s not another Body like this. He said “A body didst Thou prepare for Me”, an act of God, a unique act of God, this Body. I repeat: there was no other Body like this one – a special act of God. His body from its birth was not an ordinary body; in its birth, was not an ordinary body.?” TAS
Something about this Man that you cannot understand; He’s different. And when taking the loaf as the symbol of His body, breaking it, and distributing it, accepting it as your own.
In the light of this discrimination in the types or kinds of humanity, what is He saying? 
“In taking My Body, you are declaring that you are a part of this other, different kind, or type of humanity”. You are saying that you have become a very part of this other order that Christ is, and that He has become a part of your being, that you are different from other people.” TAS
BREAD: His body, His Humanity
Breaking it and each taking a piece is saying we are Accepting, declaring, partaking of a new kind of Humanity- His body. 
We accept His humanity as our humanity- we are one flesh with Christ- Us in Him and Him in Us
“Is that what we mean every time we come to the Lord’s table, and every time we read 1 Corinthians 11? Is that really what we mean when we declare by this act that we are not of this world, we are not, in the innermost reality of our being, a part of this old creation?” TAS
Jesus offers us His humanity
Jesus offers us His humanity, which is a new humanity, to take on. We don’t try to imitate that humanity, we receive and express and live by that humanity. We become part of that new humanity. He has taken the old humanity away, but that’s the one we desperately try to cling to, that’s the one we love, that’s the one we want to celebrate — the old humanity. He is the new humanity. He gives us His body to partake of the new humanity. This new humanity is Himself expressed corporately through His body, the Church.
This new humanity is the one the Father accepts, not our old humanity, no matter how much it looks like His. It only looks like His, it isn’t His.
His humanity is the one that overcomes.
His humanity is the one that sits at the right hand of the Father.
His humanity is the one in the glory.
His humanity is the one the Father approves.
His humanity is the only one worth celebrating.
To try to see our humanity as something different, as something changed, more or better or more real because of Christ, without the context of actually having and living by His humanity is wrong. It is still a form of rebellion against the Father and His purpose.