SUNDAY MESSAGE: The Body & the Blood of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah

As we do each and every week around here, it’s time for your Sunday Gospel Message!

From our good friend Pastor Robb:

Pastor Robb Goodman:

The title of today’s Sunday message is:
The Body & the Blood of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

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Today we will dive into the topic of the body and the blood of Jesus.
Why was it necessary for Jesus to be crucified and to shed His blood?
This is the very foundation or the bedrock of our faith.
Jesus had to die, there was no other way around it.

When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane,
He struggled with the decision that He had to make.
His love for us was so pressing upon Him,
that His soul was in a state of literal torment.
He knew what He had to do.

There was no turning back.
He gave His will to His Father’s will.
You and I, as followers of Jesus, must do the same.
Every day, the decision is before us to take up the cross and to follow Him.
We must choose to die daily until we find real and true freedom.

My prayer for you today is that you will find true freedom in Him, Jesus the Messiah.
May you be encouraged and strengthened by this message today.
Whom the Son sets free is free indeed!
Jesus is the only key to the freedom of yourself.

Love & Blessings,
Pastor Robb Goodman
Sr Pastor of Zion Freedom Fellowship USA

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Pastor Robb:

Good morning everyone and welcome to today’s message. I am Pastor Rob Goodman, and I’m the senior pastor here at Zion Freedom Fellowship in beautiful Maryland, in the good old United States of America. Amen, glory be to God!

May the Lord bless you and pour out His Spirit upon you today, and may He minister to you in an abundant way. You know, God is full of grace. He is filled with grace, and Jesus established the eternal blood covenant that is established upon grace and mercy.

When God appeared to Moses on the mountain, He told him, “I am the Lord God, full of compassion and mercy.” Oh how wonderful God is! He is wonderful. He’s not this mean, nasty old thing sitting up — old grouch sitting up — on a throne in heaven waiting to judge you. No, He poured out judgment on His own Son so that you and I, as children of God, do not have to bear any judgment. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

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Well, let’s pray before we start today’s message. Today is Sunday, April 27th, and I think I got the right day, don’t I? I hope I do, I hope, I hope, I hope. Yes, today’s Sunday, April 27th, praise be to God. Well, God is good and His mercy endures forever.

Let’s pray.

Father, we thank You and we praise You, Lord, that we can come boldly and open face before the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in our time and hour of need. Lord, we are people filled with needs. We need You, Lord. We need You.

There isn’t an hour of the day that goes by that we don’t need You. And Lord, You’re always ministering to us. You’re always preparing a way before us, a way that is right in Your eyes. Lord, it might not be right in our own eyes, and it might not make any sense to us, but Lord, it’s right in Your eyes.

And the Lord will lead us, and He’ll lead us in the way that we shall go. He will guide us with His eye. God’s eye is filled with truth and blessed be His name.

Let Your word minister to us today. Pour out Your Spirit upon each and every person that’s hearing this message, Lord — whether it’s the present right now in April 27th of 2025, or you might be listening two years from today.

The Word of God is alive. It’s powerful. It’s sharper than any two-edged sword.

Father, let Your Word go forth with clarity and boldness today, I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Well, I’m so happy that you could join us today. I’m happy that you’re here.

I just want to give a shout out to all our pastors around the world, our Zion Fellowship International missionaries everywhere. Blessed be the name of the Lord!

We just got back from Pastor’s Convention in the beginning of April, and it was a wonderful, marvelous, glorious time. It was just splendid and beautiful. The Lord moved in a wonderful, wonderful way and we were all truly blessed.

I know my wife and myself were, my son was, and all the people that went from my church as well. It was a glorious, wonderful time.

So okay, let’s get into today’s message, right? Y’all ready? Y’all hungry for the Word of God today?

All right, the title of today’s message is The Body and the Blood of the Lord Jesus the Messiah.

The Body and the Blood of the Lord Jesus the Messiah.

Jesus taught us to partake of His body in remembrance of Him — His body and His blood. It’s vital that we celebrate the body and blood of Jesus as followers of Him.

The communion cup and the body, the communion cup and the body has a lot of power in it. There’s power to heal, as we will see scripturally. We will look at that scripturally today.

And the very first scripture that we’re going to look at is 1 Corinthians chapter 10, verses 15–17.

1 Corinthians chapter 10, verses 15–17.

Let me get a drink of my drink here.

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Ahh.

All right, this is Paul speaking to the church at Corinth.

“I speak as to wise men; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

For we, though we are many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread.”

So through the communion cup and the breaking of bread — which represents the juice or wine, whatever you use to take communion with — it actually represents the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And the bread that we break and partake of, it represents the broken body of Jesus.

And Jesus, as you know, at the Last Supper on Passover, He celebrated that with His disciples. Amen.

All right, let’s look at Acts 20:7–12.

Acts 20, verses 7–12.

Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread — they actually came together to break bread.

Now, in my church, we don’t celebrate the breaking of bread or the drinking of the cup every Sunday. A lot of churches do. A lot of denominational churches do.

But we do it on a basis where we really want to focus on not just take it for granted, not just do it because it’s a religious thing to do.

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You know, religion will kill you. It’s funny because my wife and I were talking this morning and we were speaking about, you know, when you get a vaccination you get enough of the real thing to keep you from getting the real thing, right?

That’s true. Well, religion will do that to you. You get enough of it that it keeps you from getting the real deal.

And the real deal is a relationship with Jesus Christ, where you are born again and filled with His Holy Spirit, and you become one with Him.

You are no longer lord or master over your own body, your own desires. You yield your life to Him.

And it’s not a set of religious rules that you’re commanded to follow, but you do it out of love for the Lord because you want to live your life in a way that’s pleasing to Him.

Communion will bring you into divine relationship with Jesus Christ, and miraculous things can truly happen when you partake of communion.

So we should be expecting when we partake of the body and blood of the Lord Jesus that miracles will take place and happen.

I truly believe that with all of my heart.

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When the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.

Woo, do you believe that? Okay, so he started in the morning and he continued his message into midnight. That was a long preaching, wasn’t it?

Brother Paul got a little long-winded. Brother Paul was high on the Holy Ghost and he went on forever and ever.

Well, something happened. There were many lamps in the upper room where they were gathered together, and in a window sat a certain young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep.

Now come on, don’t put the brother down, don’t put him down. Many of us have fallen asleep listening to long messages.

I remember when I went to Bible college, Brother Norvel Hayes — boy, he would go on for a long time, you know, two and a half to three hours sometimes. But he kept you motivated and excited.

But when it was late at night and you’d been at school all day or working or whatever you were doing, sometimes you get a little sleepy, you know. And unfortunately, I’m telling you.

So don’t put down the brother. Eutychus was tired, okay? He’d been there all day, he might have been hungry, and he sunk into a deep sleep.

He was overcome by sleep, and as Paul continued speaking, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

Woo, well that was not a good thing. And I think Brother Paul got a little bit upset about it because he’s like, “Not on my watch! Ain’t nobody going to die under my preaching.”

Now, in defense of the gospel, if you’re out there and you’re being persecuted and you wind up giving your life as a martyr witness for Jesus, well so be it, Lord. But Brother Paul is saying, “Not on my watch, not on my watch.”

But Paul went down and fell on him — in other words, he covered himself with his body — and he embraced him and said, “Do not trouble yourselves, for his life is in him.”

Now when he had come up, he had broken bread and eaten, and talked a long while, even until daybreak, and then he departed.

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Man, the guy got raised from the dead! Eutychus was not a stinkus!

[Laughter]

Eutychus was not going to turn into stink, and rigor mortis did not set in.

You know, you all know I love my Baltimore Orioles, right? I posted online the other night, because every day I post the scores on Facebook, and people like to look at that and comment about the games and things like that.

But I asked everybody, “Do you think that rigor mortis has set into our Baltimore Orioles?” They looked pretty bad. But last night they won by one run.

So now they play Detroit, playing tonight — well, today I should say — and hopefully they’ll win this series.

So anyway, we’ll leave it at that, right?

So Eutychus was there until daybreak and then he departed, and they brought the young man in alive, and they were not a little comforted.

Wow, how about that? Brought the man in alive — he was fine.

Truly amazing. So miracles can happen when we break bread. Expect miracles to happen. Expect them!

Amen. Blessed be the name of Jesus. Hallelujah.

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All right, let’s look at our next scripture.

So on the first day of the week, in that scripture we just read, Acts 20:7–12, the disciples gathered and broke bread together.

Miracle and resurrection power is released when we break the communion bread together. This is proof of that.

All right, let’s go to Mark chapter 14.

Mark chapter 14, and we’re going to start with verse 22.

Mark chapter 14, and we are going to look at verse 22.

All right.

“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them and said, ‘Take, eat; this is my body.'”

So truly, scripture teaches us that the communion bread that we bless, it represents the body of Jesus Christ. It really does.

So when you remember — like Jesus said, “Do this in remembrance of me” — when you remember what Jesus did for you, you will be happy.

It’ll bring up sometimes thoughts of sorrow because of what He did. You know, there’s a lot of times when we sing about the cross at church, I get really weepy and teary-eyed, and sometimes I can’t even sing.

I’m just filled with so much emotion and thankfulness and gratefulness to the Lord for what He did for me.

He did it because He loved me.

Man, that’s powerful stuff, brothers and sisters. That is some powerful stuff.

Then He took the cup, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.”

This is my blood of the new covenant.

And the Messianic Jews call it the Brit Hadashah — the New Covenant.

“Assuredly, I say to you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the Kingdom of God.”

And when they had sung a hymn, they then went out to the Mount of Olives.

And we all know what happened then — this led up to the crucifixion, the scourging, the beating, the mocking of what Jesus went through.

And it was necessary.

Oh Jesus, it was necessary that He went through that because He loved us.

If He didn’t love us, He even told them, “I could have called 12,000 legions of angels.”

And I looked up the other day how many angels that was. I think a legion might have been like 12,000 Roman soldiers.

Can you imagine? Can you imagine if Jesus would have called them? They would have come.

But He said, “Not my will, Father, but Your will be done.”

Oh my. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee.”

He told them exactly what He was going to do.

Then Peter said to Him, “Even if all are made to stumble, yet I will not be.”

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you that today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”

You know, none of us can ever see ourselves denying Jesus.

But I believe that if we have grace, we won’t. If we truly trust Him.

If a blade or a sword is held at your neck and you’re told to deny Jesus, do you have the strength to say:

“It doesn’t matter. It just doesn’t matter whatever you do to me. I don’t fear the sword or the one who can put me to death, but I fear my Father who is in heaven.”

That’s powerful stuff, folks.

So we all know what happened to Peter. We all know exactly what happened to him.

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Let’s look at 1 Corinthians chapter 11 starting with verse 23.

1 Corinthians chapter 11, starting with verse 23.

“For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread;

and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, ‘Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.'”

Folks, I have a hard time talking about this because it’s so moving. Look how much Jesus loved you.

I’m talking to you. Yes, I’m talking to you.

You know, you might be really struggling with your faith and doubting God right now. In fact, I believe I’m speaking to somebody right now.

You’re really doubting your faith because God has not answered your prayers the way you think He should have answered them.

He loves you. He knows what’s best for you. He cares about you so very much.

Trust Him. Take His hand. Take His hand. Let Him lead you and guide you the way that He wants to.

And don’t doubt Him. Just trust Him.

Oh, He would never lead you or steer you wrongly. He knows exactly what He’s doing, and He will lead you in the way that you are to go.

He will guide you and bless you. Yes, He is good. His mercy will endure forever.

Thank you, Lord.

“This is My body which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of Me.”

In the same manner, He also took the cup after supper, saying,

“This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

So He says as often as you drink it — there’s no limit. There’s no limit on how many times you can do communion and share it with your family, with your wife, with your children.

Take the body and the blood of Jesus and apply what He did to your life.

Apply what He did and allow Him to work in you and to bring about change — the kind of change that He wants you to experience.

“For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.”

In other words, you say, “I identify with Jesus.”

Now you’re not talking about identification and pronouns and all that kind of stuff. I identify with Jesus. I identify with His death, His burial, and His resurrection.

He is faithful, and He is good, and His mercy will endure forever in your life.

“For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.”

Hallelujah.

“Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.”

So in other words, there are many people — I’m not putting anybody down — again, thousands of people go to church every Sunday and they religiously do this because it’s what you’re supposed to do.

But does it come from the heart?

Is it coming out of here?

Are you identifying with what Jesus did for you?

Or are you saying, “Lord, I’m willing to give You my everything. I am willing to allow You to have access to everything in my life. I love You, Lord. And because I love You, You love me. I am going to yield my life to You no matter what it takes, no matter what it means, and no matter what it costs. I am willing to yield my life to You.”

Amen. Hallelujah.

So he says here if a man eats or drinks in an unworthy manner, he drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

So in other words, you’re not really understanding what Jesus actually did for you. You have no clue what He did for you.

And because of that, you are eating judgment to yourself. You’re guilty of the body and blood of the Lord Jesus.

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Well, thanks be to God, you know what? We all really are.

But because we accept — we accept what He did for us, and we are willing to live according to what He has prescribed for us, we will not be held accountable for what Jesus did.

But instead, we receive loving kindness and goodness and mercy.

Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Isn’t that wonderful? That is so powerful and wonderful.

So let’s discern the Lord’s body, and let’s, every time we take communion, let’s really meditate on what this is about.

Why did Jesus do this? How do I respond to Him? Am I allowing Him? Am I allowing Him to have His way with me?

Good question, right? Amen.

When we partake of the communion, we remember what Jesus did and what He went through for us.

It brings a fresh awareness of what Jesus’ death and burial did for all of us.

We must never forget what Jesus did, and we can apply it to our lives every day.

The Apostle Paul, writing in the book of Hebrews, said:

“Now faith is.” Faith is now — it’s right now, today.

Faith without works is dead, being alone.

Hallelujah.

All right, let’s go to John chapter 6, starting with verse 44.

We’re going to read a lot of scripture here.

Jesus spoke these powerful words to the people. He spoke openly about His body and about His blood. He did.

There are some very powerful words here that Jesus spoke to those who followed Him, but many chose not to follow Him any longer because of what He said.

All right, John chapter 6, and we’re going to start with verse 44.

John chapter 6, verse 44.

Thank You, Lord.

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.

I am the bread of life.

Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?”

Again, they were thinking in their natural, carnal minds. They could not comprehend what He was saying.