Blending as Seen in the Meal Offering: Eat Christ to Become a Corporate Meal Offering

Blending is seen in the meal offering; today we can eat Christ to live the life of a meal offering and become a corporate meal offering!

We need to see a portrait and revelation of the necessity and significance of blending so that we may eat Christ as the meal offering and live a life of the meal offering for God’s satisfaction and man’s supply in the church life today.

Blending is something we see in the Bible both in the Old and the New Testament, and blending is what God is doing today, for He has blended the body together (1 Cor. 12:24).

On one hand, He is blending the Body together, giving more abundant honour to the member that lacked.

On the other hand, we believers in Christ need to learn to blend, to allow the Lord to blend us, for in this way we build up the church as the Body of Christ.

To blend doesn’t mean merely that we visit another locality to meet with them or that we go to a conference called, a blending conference.

To blend is to allow the Lord to work Himself into us, even to mingle Himself with us, and to allow Him to mingle us with the saints in spirit.

Blending is something in the spirit. We need to exercise our spirit and deny the self, take up the cross, and do all things in spirit and by the Spirit so that we may minister Christ to others for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.

Blending involves visitation and getting out of your comfort zone in the place where you are to be with others whom you have not yet met so that you fellowship with them.

However, blending is much more. To be blended is to learn to stop and fellowship with the Lord and with the saints.

It means that you realize that you are a member of the Body and you need the other members.

We need to learn to fellowship with the saints the Lord put us with so that we may be coordinated together in one accord and blended for the Lord’s move.

Paul blended the churches together when he asked the saints in Collose to read the letter he sent to Laodicea, and those in Laodicea to read the letter he sent to Colosse.

He also blended the saints in Romans when in Rom. 16 he mentioned and greeted so many saints with so many details.

The saints were on his heart and, even though he was in prison, Paul still lived in the blending life of the Body of Christ.

Today with the modern means of travel and the convenience of communication, there is no reason for us not to blend.

We need to open to the Lord and be blended together in the Body so that the Lord would have a way to build up the church as His organic Body for His corporate expression.

First, we need to be blended with the Lord, mingled with Him as the Spirit; then, we need to be blended with the saints, mingled with them in spirit, so that the Lord may gain a blended Body for His expression on the earth.

The Necessity and Significance of Blending as seen in John 12:24 and 1 Cor. 10:17

Two verses in the New Testament portray and reveal the necessity and the significance of blending.

John 12:24 speaks of a grain of wheat that fell into the ground and died and bore many grains.

This grain of wheat refers to the Lord Jesus who, as the unique grain of wheat full of the divine life, fell into the ground to die, and He produced many grains in His resurrection.

Christ as the divine seed died and was resurrected to produce the many believers in Christ as the many grains.

All those who receive the Lord Jesus as their life become His many members to constitute His organic Body (Eph. 1:22-23; 5:30).

Christ did not come to be praised by man outwardly or to do a great work for God; He came as the grain of wheat to die and bring forth in resurrection many grains.

We as the many believers in Christ are the many grains produced and brought forth in the resurrection of Christ.

Now we are being ground and blended into flour to make a loaf, which signifies the Body of Christ.

This is what we see in 1 Cor. 10:17, the second verse that unveils and portrays the necessity and significance of blending in the New Testament.

We as a grain of wheat need to allow the Lord to ground us to powder so that we become the fine flour to be mingled with the oil (the Spirit) and be a loaf of bread, the Body of Christ, for His satisfaction and man’s enjoyment.

We should not remain as whole grains; we need to be broken and ground into fine flour so that we can be blended with others for making a loaf (1 Cor. 12:12-13, 27; Eph. 2:16; 1:22-23).

This loaf is the Body of Christ.

Christ took the lead to go through death and resurrection so that He may produce and bring forth many grains, the many believers in Christ.

Now we need to allow the Lord to operate in us and break us, ground us, and blend us together.

Through His resurrection, Christ produced the many grains; through our experience of His death and resurrection life, we are produced as the one loaf of bread to be the church, the Body of Christ.

If we remain as individual grains, there will not be the loaf, the church. God’s desire is to gain a bread, the one loaf of the Body of Christ, for Him to enjoy and for man to be satisfied.

Paul’s thought in 1 Cor. 10:17a is that the church is blended into one bread, one Body.

He did not come up with this concept by himself; rather, this was taken from the type of the meal offering in Lev. 2:1-16.

In the Old Testament, we see the meal offering, which was of fine flour mingled with oil, for God’s food and man’s food.

Every part of the fine flour of the meal offering was mingled with oil; this is the blending (vv. 4-5).

Christ’s life and our individual Christian life issue in a totality – the church life as a corporate meal offering composed of believers who have been broken, ground, and blended (vv. 1-2, 4; 1 Cor. 12:12).

This is the church life as the corporate meal offering for God’s food and for man’s supply. This is the significance of blending.

We need blending so that we may become the one meal offering, a corporate meal offering.

On one hand, in the church life, we see man with human living, but on the other hand, this man with human living is mingled with the Spirit so that God would be expressed through man.

Christ is our meal offering to supply us for our nourishment.

As we eat Him, we become a corporate meal offering for God’s nourishment and man’s supply.

May we eat the Lord more and more to be blended with God and mingled with Him for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.

Lord Jesus, thank You for coming as the grain of wheat to fall into the ground and die to produce us as the many grains in Your resurrection. Hallelujah, we believers in Christ have been regenerated in Christ’s resurrection to be the many grains, and now we are being broken, grounded, and blended to be the one loaf, the Body of Christ! Amen, Lord, we open to You; we open to Your breaking, grinding, mingling, and blending. Have Your way in us. Blend us more with the Triune God as the Spirit and blend us with the saints. We want to eat Christ as the meal offering so that we may become a corporate meal offering, the meal offering church life. Mingle Yourself with us a little more today for the producing and building up of the church. May there be more of the Spirit mingled with us in the church life so that the church as the one Body of Christ would be built up and blended together! Hallelujah, we are many believers but there is one loaf, the Body of Christ!

Eat Christ as the Meal Offering to be Blended with God and Live a Life of the Meal Offering

The thought of blending is at the centre of God’s economy; it is seen both in the Old and in the New Testament, and it is so applicable to our experience today in our Christian life and church life.

First of all, Christ is the real meal offering, for He as the grain of wheat was broken, grounded, and mingled with the Spirit to be for God’s satisfaction and for our supply.

As we, the believers in Christ, eat Christ as the meal offering, we are blended with God and we live a life of the meal offering.

We even become the meal offering and live the meal offering church life for God to be satisfied and for man to be supplied.

Lev. 2 reveals that we can enjoy the church life as a corporate meal offering.

The meal offering can be in the form of fine flour mingled with oil (vv. 1-2) which typifies the individual Christ and the individual Christian, or in the form of a cake (v. 4) typifying the corporate Christ, the church (1 Cor. 12:12).

The church life today is a corporate meal offering; it is a life of humanity mingled with the Holy Spirit, fine flour mingled with oil.

Also, the church life involves the cross (the reality of the salt), it has the fragrance of Christ in His resurrection (the reality of frankincense), and has no sin (no leaven) or natural affection (no honey).

The more we eat Christ as the meal offering, the more we are blended with God and with man, and the more we live a life of the meal offering.

We eat Christ as the meal offering and we participate in Christ as the meal offering; the result is that we become a corporate meal offering.

May we eat Christ as the individual meal offering by daily coming to Him in His word and by allowing the Spirit to mingle us with God so that we may become the corporate meal offering, the corporate Christ – Christ the Head with His Body the church.

Day by day we need to eat Christ in His word and allow God to mingle us with the Spirit.

On the negative side, the Lord is faithful to arrange situations and circumstances for us to be broken, grounded, and blended with the saints.

On our side, on the positive side, we need to say Amen to the Lord’s arrangement and operation, and we need to seek to be blended with God and with the saints.

May we eat the Lord as the meal offering every day so that we may live a life of the meal offering and become a corporate meal offering.

In the New Testament, from Matthew to Revelation, we see the meal offering life.

The four Gospels unveil the Lord Jesus as the reality of all the offerings (John 7:15-18; 1:29; 3:15; 4:15-18), and in particular, He is the reality of the meal offering.

He lived a life with the perfect and uplifted humanity mingled with the Spirit, having the fragrance of resurrection, under the cross, and with no sin or natural affection.

The remaining books of the New Testament show us how we can live a meal-offering Christian life and a meal-offering church life.

The church life today is the totality of Christ’s life and the Christian life of each individual believer.

As each one of us eats the Lord as the meal offering and lives a meal offering life, together the aggregate of the many meal-offering Christian lives is the church life as a corporate meal offering.

Such a meal offering church life is food for God’s satisfaction and nourishment, and it is also food for the saints and those around us who see it.

We need to feed on Christ as the individual meal offering, and we need to also feed on the church life as the corporate meal offering.

In particular, the meal offering Christian life and church life have the reality of the elements seen in the meal offering in Leviticus.

It has the fine humanity of Christ mingled with the Holy Spirit, it has the fragrance of Christ’s resurrection and the cross of Christ, and it has no sin and no natural affection, which can spoil it.

May the Lord work this out among us.

May He gain a corporate meal offering, the aggregate of our enjoying Christ as the meal offering and living a meal-offering Christian life, so that both God and man may be supplied, nourished, and satisfied!

Lord Jesus, we want to eat Christ as the individual meal offering so that we may live a meal offering Christian life and church life. Amen, Lord, we come to You to eat You and partake of Your humanity, be mingled with the Spirit, have the experience of death and resurrection, and deny the self with the natural affection. Mingle Yourself more with us today. Keep us eating Jesus as the meal offering so that we may become and live out the meal offering church life. Amen, Lord, gain the meal offering Christian life and the corporate meal offering church life for Your satisfaction and man’s supply. Gain the meal offering church life so that we may all partake of Christ as the individual meal offering and of the church as the corporate meal offering. We want to eat the perfect and fine humanity of Jesus, be mingled with the Holy Spirit as the oil, and live a life through the cross and in resurrection, having no sin and no natural affection. Gain this in us and among us in the church life so that God and man may be nourished, supplied, and satisfied with such a corporate meal offering!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1988, vol. 3, pp. 297-298, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord’s Recovery Before His Appearing (2023 July Semiannual Training), week 4, entitled, Blending and the Reality of the Body of Christ.
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