HIS CUP BROKEN FOR OURS

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³⁸ And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.

³⁹ And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. ⁴⁰ Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? (Luke 11:38-40)

  “Cup” herein is a metaphor for the soul which is inside. With that said, the outside of the cup is the flesh. Jesus was chastising the Pharisees for keeping the flesh clean, but the soul going unwashed. Before we move on, rebirth is the washing of the inside of the cup, and baptism the outside, but testifying that the inside has been washed clean from sin. Of course, water and blood cleanses ALL the cup, but what is inside is Spirit.

⁶ This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. ⁷ For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. ⁸ And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. (1 John 5:6-8)

  The Pharisees did the ritual cleansing according to Mosaic Law. So far, so good. Jesus did not need to do that because He was pure inside and out. Jesus demonstrated that he didn’t come to clean the outside of the cup, but the inside! That cleansing was the fulfillment of the Law of Moses, according to the passage, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil” (Mat 5:17). The Jews washed the outside of the cup, but Jesus washes it within.
  Yesterday, I wrote about the Ten Commandments. They wash the outside of the “cup” and they are still binding (Mat 5:18). Jesus came to “fulfill” the commandments — to wash the inside of the “cup.”
  Jesus, speaking of his accuser and crucifixion said, “He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.” What was Jesus speaking of the psalm, “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.” (Psalm 41:9), but was alluding to another saying: “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Gen 3:15).
  Jesus first act of grace, or the Adamic Covenant, was that the Serpent’s heel would be bruised. (I believe that Jesus heel was bruised for the Serpent’s).  That may be metaphoric but could be reality as well. My book, The Skull of Adam, explains that literally, but for now take it metaphorically. Genesis 3:15 was the start of the covenant from which all the other covenants are substantiation. The Adamic Covenant was finished when Jesus died (John 19:30) and shed blood and water (John 19:34).
  The psalmist wrote about Jesus saying, “My familiar friend, in whom I trusted” would “lift up his heel against me.” That seems as if Jesus was speaking of Judas. Judas was a disciple, and by then, he was known quite well by Jesus, but was Jesus really speaking of Judas? I submit that He was not; He was speaking of the angel, Lucifer, who was once His friend in the beginning, but became His adversary. Jesus was speaking of the familiar Serpent who Lucifer had entered Judas as Satan: “And after the sop Satan entered into him (Judas Iscariot). Then said Jesus unto him, ‘That thou doest, do quickly’” (John 18:27).
  If Adam is indeed buried under the rock of Calvary, as Jews and I believe, then Jesus was referring to the Devil’s seed, sinful Adam, who would lift up his heel against Jesus and be bruised, as Genesis 3:15 indicates. Adam and the Serpent would exchange injuries on Calvary. At that time, the Word’s Covenant would be fulfilled, and the promise finished. The water and the blood would become available as it gushed forth from Jesus’s abdomen. Why is that significant? Because Eve did not come from Adam’s rib, but gushed from his side, if the original Hebrew is examined. Eve sinned first, and Adam paid for it.
  When Jesus died, the sacrfice was complete; it was no longer by water only as had been the case with Moses, but by the water and the blood. Jesus’s propitiation of His own blood (1 John 2:2) was the efficacious sacrfice, the blood of animals being insufficient (Heb 10:4).
  Moses regulations merely cleaned the outside of the “cup” but Jesus blood the inside. Afterwards, then the third substance imbues the cup then clean on the inside — the Holy Spirit.
  Some believe that the “water” means baptism. That is an ordinance, just as the Pharisees did. It is okay to clean the outside of the cup, but futile if the inside is not cleansed first. Rebirth (John 3:7) cleanses the inside, but baptism merely the outside. When is the Spirit imbued? When the inside is cleansed. Then the formality (ordinance) of washing the outside of the “cup” is done. Baptism without the cup being cleansed inside is an effort in futility and is like the Pharisees clean on the outside but not on the inside. (To be honest, neither internal cleansing nor baptism imbues sotiria, but rebirth is the commencement of the process for those who endure to the end, according to Arminian doctrine.)
  When Jesus breathed life unto Adam, yes, He IS Jesus who did that, Adam’s “cup” was filled. When he sinned his “cup” was broken. Jesus death and resurrection was the fix for Adam’s broken “cup” as Jesus provided His own cup in exchange for Adam-kind.  As Peter started to protect Jesus from persecution, “Then Jesus asked of Peter, ‘Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?” (John 18:11). He was speaking of sacrificing His entire cup: blood, water, and Spirit. In His agony, Jesus prayed, “O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done” (Mat 26:42). Jesus “cup” was to experience death of the flesh, of the mind, and of the Spirit — His entire cup and contents.
  Of course, Jesus’s cup was a triune death, but it was also His purpose. It was He who Satan would lift-up his heal against Jesus. Judas with Satan in him, just as the Serpent had Satan in him, turned Jesus into the authorities. Judas had his head bruised when he hung himself. It was not Judas (the Serpent) whose “cup” fulfilled the Covenant but Jesus’s “cup.” (Some sects of Islam accept Judas Iscariot’s sacrfice as efficacious but deny Jesus’s death at all.)
  Judas worked to relieve his conscience, but to no avail. Jesus asked of His disciples, “Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” (Mark 10:38). Jesus “cup was His own sacrificial death. Judas’s cup was not effective, and neither would none of the others be. Jesus “baptism” was God washing His Son’s entire cup within and without and emptying the “cup” of His Holy Ghost. They couldn’t do that; Judas tried but could not; only Jesus “cup” could be broken to save the cups of mankind. His cup was soon restored, and as His was, Adam-kind can have life breathed back into all the broken “cups” again.

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