Kwiicawa ezininzi, the wine has been replaced by grape juice. The use of grape juice has become so common, loo nto (umncinci) Christians don’t know any better than to use grape juice instead of wine. But what many Christians don’t know is the hidden meaning of wine. If you knew the symbolic meaning of wine, then you would know, why the wine has been replaced by grape juice in the church. Because today’s communion and the wine replaced by grape juice symbolize the state of the Body of Christ; iBandla. What is the what does the wine represent in communion? The wine represents the blood of Jesus, wherewith He has cleansed us from all our sins and iniquities. The New Covenant is in the blood, through which we have access to the Father. By drinking His blood, we not only become partakers of His inheritance, but we also become partakers of His passion and death, nto leyo ethetha ukuba sifanele die to our flesh.
Do followers of Jesus Christ die to the flesh?
Sisenokuthi, that the church is carnal and lives in sin and iniquity. The church uses the love and the grace of God, as an excuse to stay carnal and to keep sinning. Most believers are not willing to give up their old ‘self’.
It happens often, that when a believer notices that another believer lives in sin, the believer uses love and the grace of God, to make the sin of that person all right. Believers don’t confront and correct each other anymore.
Even the leaders of the church don’t confront and correct the members of the church anymore, but they allow everything. Iicawe ezininzi zigxile kakhulu kwimpumelelo nakumanani ngaphezu kokugxila kwimeko yokomoya yecawa.
Abayenzi susa izono kubomi babo nasebandleni kwakhona, kodwa banyamezela kwaye bamkele zonke izono kunye nobugwenxa.
Ngenxa yokuziphatha, ibandla liye laba buthathaka kwaye alinamandla xa lithelekiswa nebandla lokuqala kwiNcwadi yeZenzo.
Iwayini ithathelwe indawo yincindi yomdiliya ecaweni
Kwiicawa ezininzi, umnqamlezo negazi likaYesu akusashunyayelwa. Ngelixa umnqamlezo kunye negazi likaYesu yeyona nto ibalulekileyo, kwaye akufuneki ashiywe ngaphandle. Ngegazi lakhe, sihlawulelwe, kwaye siye sahlanganiswa noThixo uBawo wethu. Akho amandla egazini likaYesu. Ngaphandle kwegazi likaYesu, akukho nto. Siphila kuMnqophiso oMtsha, nto leyo itywiniweyo ngegazi likaYesu.
ICawe igalele amanzi ewayinini, ngokoqobo, kwaye ngokomfuziselo. Kulungile, ngokwenene asiyonyani leyo. ICawe ayikhange igalele amanzi ewayinini, kodwa ithathe indawo yewayini ngencindi yeediliya, eyona nto imbi.
Kule mihla, ibandla lizenzela eyalo imithetho, kwaye wenza uhlengahlengiso kwimithetho nakwiLizwi leNkosi. Itsho phi, ukuba sithathe incindi yomdiliya? Uyithetha phi uThixo lento okanye uYesu uyithetha phi lento?
Inkqubo yokubila ifuzisela ukufa nobomi
Ukufa, ubomi busewayinini; endala kunye nendalo entsha. Ngenkqubo yokubilisa, Incindi yeediliya iyajika ibe yiwayini. Le nkqubo yokubilisa yenza iwayini ibe yekhethekileyo, kwaye kungenxa yoku kubilisa, ukuba iwayini iyazahlula kwincindi yomdiliya.
Inkqubo yokubila ifuzisela ukufa, nokuvuka kukaYesu Kristu (incindi yomdiliya yajika yaba yiwayini).
Ngexesha lokuvutshelwa, the yeast cells convert the sugars, into alcohol, and when they have nothing left to feed on, they die in their dirt. Just like Jesus died in our dirt, and took all our sin and iniquity upon Himself, so that we could become indalo entsha.
When we drink of the wine, we participate in the passion and death of Jesus Christ. By becoming a partaker, we identify ourselves with Him; with His death and His resurrection.
Oko ikukuthi, that just like Jesus, kufuneke si die and lay down our flesh, before we can become indalo entsha.
The grape juice symbolizes indalo endala. But the wine symbolizes the old creation, who has become the new creation (sugars turned into alcohol). We die in our filthiness, which means that we die to our flesh, and we become the new creation; born in the spirit, through the Holy Spirit of God.
Dying to self isn’t preached anymore
In grape juice there is no fermentation process, that takes place. There’s no process of dying, and that’s exactly what happens in most Churches, and in the lives of many Christians. Believers stay indalo endala kwaye uphile kanye njengehlabathi.
Abayenzi yifela enyameni, but they keep walking after the flesh and use the love and grace to make it all right. Ewe, they use ‘love’ and ‘grace’ to justify themselves, so that they won’t feel guilty (Funda kwakhona: ‘Ngaba ungahlala esonweni kwaye usindiswe?‘).
But there’s no one, who can change the spiritual law. There’s no one, who can do anything about the commandments and the will of God, even if they are being changed by people.
Because God will always stay the same, izolo, namhlanje, kwaye ngonaphakade. That’s why He and His words are reliable and you can trust Him.
Intando yakhe, Umthetho wakhe, Imiyalelo yakhe, which the Word made known to the people, will always remain the same.
The written law doesn’t have any power. The Lord God gave them out of His Spirit (out of the spiritual world) and translated them into human language.
He ‘translated’ them out of the spiritual world, into the realm of the senses. The law was given for man’s benefit, not to punish people, and put restrictions upon them, but to warn them, and help them, to not become a prisoner of the devil (umchasi kaThixo). God only wants the best for you!
The lies of the devil uncovered
Many excuses and reasons are being given as to why the wine has been removed from many churches and congregations, and why it is better to drink grape juice. Here are some reasons:
“We have to consider ex-alcoholics who are sitting in Church, we may not lead them into temptation. By drinking wine, they will be tempted to start drinking again”
A convert, who used to be an alcoholic ibe sisidalwa esitsha. The person has been delivered from the addictive umoya wotywala. The person has died in Christ to the lusts and desires of the flesh. The spirit of the person is raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit walks and now the person walks as a new creation, emva koMoya. When this person drinks of the cup, which is filled with wine, it will not make the person addicted again. Because the addictive spirit, who was active in the flesh can no longer manifest himself, because the flesh has died in Christ. The power of alcoholism was broken, at the moment the person was delivered andwazalwa kwakhona. Therefore the power of alcoholism doesn’t have any power over the person anymore (Funda kwakhona: ‘Ukuhlangulwa kumandla otywala‘).
Njengendalo entsha, umntu reigns over the powers and forces of the darkness, instead that these powers and forces reign over the person.
When we replace wine with grape juice, due to this reason, then we make people the center of the church and the congregation, endaweni kaYesu.
We let the flesh reign above the Spirit, and we adjust the commandment of Jesus, to a human being. Which is a bad thing to do.
This also says a lot about the state of the church. Because people have become the center of attention.
The church is focused on people instead of Jesus. It looks a lot like iminyaka entsha, where everything revolves around people and themselves.
"Ewe, but when we changed the wine into grape juice, we experienced many (ukuphilisa) miracles during communion”
The devil wants to remove the blood from the Church, so he also wants to remove the wine. It reminds him of his defeat. The devil can also do miracles and wonder, look at satanists, abakhafuli, amagqwirha, amagqwirha, njl.
Nasezicaweni, where the devil has taken his place, he performs many signs and wonders. Even among Christians, when believers bear the fruit of the flesh, but perform miracles, you have to be extra cautious.
Jesus warns His followers that there will be many abaprofeti bobuxoki, who will do great signs and wonders. It will look like these prophets are sent from Him, but they aren’t. Everything looks so real, that even the followers of Jesus could be deceived(Mat 24:24)
“Ewe, but in the old days the wine differed from the wine we have nowadays; the wine didn’t contain as much alcohol, as it does now”
Ngokwenene? Let’s have a look at Genesis 9:21. We read about Noah, becoming drunk on wine. If the wine was indeed different, and if it indeed didn’t contain that much alcohol, how did Noah become drunk?
And not only Noah became drunk on wine. KwiGenesis 19:33, were read about Lot, nendlela iintombi zakhe ezimnxilisayo ngayo, nge……. isiselo somdiliya.
Umnikelo othululwayo kumnqophiso omdala
Xa sijonga umthetho wamaJuda, sifunda kwi-Eksodus 29:40, ILevitikus 23:14, Amanani 15:5-10, Amanani 28:7,14 ukuba basebenzise iwayini njengedini elithululwayo, bangabi sisiselo seediliya.
Igama lesiHebhere lewayini lithi yah’-yin (nr 3196 I-concordance eqinile) kwaye kuthetha: isiselo somdiliya (njengegwele); ngokubanxilisa: (ukwenza isidlo) (isiselo somdiliya) isiselo somdiliya (-ibhibha)
Sinokutsho size sigqibe kwelokuba iwayini inentsingiselo ekhethekileyo kuyo yonke iBhayibhile. Akukho ndawo eBhayibhileni apho iwayini ithatyathelw’ indawo yincindi yomdiliya.
Singawutshintsha njani umthetho kaThixo,
emntwini?
Masi guqukani ukusuka kwesi senzo Ukuvukela uThixo newayini uyibuyisele endaweni yayo: eCaweni; uMzimba kaKristu. Xa sinobudlelane neNkosi uYesu, lize ke lonke ibandla libe nenxaxheba kwinkanuko nokufa kwaKhe, nentlawulelo uYesu ayizisileyo kuthi ngegazi lakhe. Xa sisela indebe, singamadlelane nokufa kwaKhe, ngokufa enyameni yakho.
Iwayini incasa iyakrakra, kwaye yiloo nto ukufa kwenyama. Ayimnandi kwaye imnandi, njengejusi yomdiliya, kodwa kukrakra.
Masenze uYesu iNtloko yeBandla, ngaphandle kwe ekhupha uYesu ebandleni. Masihlale sithobela uYesu kwaye sigcine imiyalelo yakhe. Endaweni yokulungelelanisa imiyalelo Yakhe nentando Yakhe kwiminqweno neenkanuko zabantu.
Isilivere yakho isuke yaba ligwebu,
iwayini yakho ixutywe namanzi:
Abathetheli bakho baziinjubaqa;, kunye namaqabane amasela:
wonke umntu uyazithanda izipho, kwaye ilandela emva kwemivuzo:
abazigwebi iinkedama,
netyala lomhlolokazi alifiki kubo
(uIsaya 1:22-23)
‘Yiba yityuwa yomhlaba’
