God alone knows Godself

 

Day 2   Admonition  1b   Of the Lord’s Body.   For neither is the Son, (inasmuch as He is equal to the Father), seen by anyone other than the Father, other than by the Holy Spirit. So, all those who saw the Lord Jesus Christ according to his humanity, and did not see and believe according to the Spirit and the Divinity, that He was the Son of God, were condemned.   In like manner, all those who behold the Sacrament of the Body of Christ (in the form of bread and wine, which is sanctified by the word of the Lord) upon the altar in the hands of the priest, and who do not see and believe according to the Spirit and Divinity that it really is the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, are condemned..   The Most High having declared it when God said, “This is My Body, and the Blood of the New Testament” and “those that eat My Flesh and drink My Blood have everlasting life.”

God alone knows Godself       Unless we see Christ and therefore the Father through spiritual eyes, we do not see God at all.   Those that did see Jesus, physically, Nicodemus, his disciples and all others who saw him, were condemned unless they perceived his deity through the gift of the Holy Spirit.   When we behold the holy Sacrament of the Altar and, through the eyes of the holy Spirit, believe it to be the Flesh and Blood of our Saviour then we are not condemned.       The Lord’s Supper Instituted         26While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” 27And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; 28for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.

Matthew 26:26-28 NASB