Reply To: Healing School 2024/2025 Discussion Board 1

[Oziie]

Your essay offers a rich and reflective narrative of the verities involved in healing and health in the Lord’s Table, and I enjoy the parallels you drew between Old Testament Passover and New Testament Communion. It is powerful to see how the blood of the lamb in Exodus foreshadows Christ’s redemptive blood. You brought out so beautifully how the Communion is not just a memorial, but an experience of spiritual transaction—where believers re-affirm their healing, deliverance, and unity with Christ.

How you brought forth Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24 to demonstrate that healing is part of the atonement sticks to me. The fact that Christ purchased both sin and sickness on the cross provides such a great feeling of encouragement. And the bridge to James 5:14–15 is beautiful as it ties physical healing to healing spiritually, showing the completeness God wants His people to be.

Your statement in John 6:56, regarding taking Jesus’ DNA inside of us, is a real and intimate way of expressing the truth of Christ in us. Overall, your essay confirms that Communion is not only a memorial but really a sharing in the completed work of Christ, which is healing, forgiveness, and strengthening. Thank you so much for having such a Spirit-led understanding!