A NEW LIFE REQUIRES WEANING
TO EAT AND DRINK

December 30, 2001
MF Blume

Genesis 21:1-10  And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age. And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.


New Year's Day is approaching, and everyone thinks of the old and the new.   But this new life has more involved in it than simply becoming new. Abraham's son Isaac was a miracle child, as much as your new birth was a miracle. And the older child hates the younger child. Weaning, of course, is the time a child leaves the point of begin fed milk by the mother, and is able to eat and drink on its own. When you devour a teaching, it is a teaching you fully comprehend and benefit from. Until we eat and drink on our own, we are infantile and require milk.
  Hebrews 5:10-14  Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
 Isn't it interesting that Hebrews teaches us of the truths that a man named Melchisedek is involved with, that are meat compared to the simpler truths of the Bible that those not yet weaned can only receive. Being weaned speaks of a time when you are able to lay hands on people and claim healing, instead of seeing the preachers and others do it.
 
 Being weaned is a time when you start pushing the devil around and casting him out of your home and your personal struggles.
 
 Being weaned is the time when you don't let circumstances control you any longer.
 
 Being weaned is when leave the dishonesty and lukewarmness and take Christianity seriously to act right and treat your brothers and sisters properly.
 
 Since you are absolutely nothing on your own without Christ, being weaned is fully appreciating everything you are with Christ, which is a tremendous amount of something!
 Philippians 4:13  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
  "All things" is quite a lot of things!
 
 Israel went from having received manna for forty years to eating corn and manna, and then manna ceasing on the third day after the passover.
 Joshua 5:10-12  And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. And they did eat of the old corn {GRAIN} of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day. And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
  Passover was the time when the CORN OF WHEAT, JESUS, would fall into the ground and die.  They'd eaten manna for forty years. Another food they knew was there, that they had taken out of the land forty years earlier, was grapes.  Milk and honey – drink and food.
 
 Wine and Bread – drink and food.
 
 God is showing us how important the food and drink of the body and blood of Jesus really is!
 
 In the wilderness they fought with one another in bickering and arguing.  
 The day after Passover began, was the day the corn of the land was eaten.


 Only manna on Passover day one.

 In the Promised Land they were not fighting the childish fights between one another, but began conquering enemy tribes and nations that possessed their land.  The Passover Lamb in Egypt was what set them free and redeemed them.  A lot of Christianity can get the Passover lamb to you and preach about Christ.  This passover for Joshua and Israel was a monumental Passover.  Hebrews says those on milk are not skilful in the word.  But notice that the MEAT was obtained at a Passover in Canaan.  You mean we use the truth of the cross for more than just getting saved?
 
 YES!  Every blessing of God is like a piece of land in the Promised land. And a devil is standing on top of it.
 
 And only the bread and wine of the broken body and shed blood of Jesus' death on the cross can feed you and give you strength to defeat that.  You are His body, and He is the head.  On this same third day we read the elders ascending into the Mountain of Sinai.
Exodus 24:10-11  And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
 The nobles of Israel marched with Moses up Mount Sinai, and saw God.  On a third day they ate and drank.
 
 It was a third day that Christ rose from the death of the cross.
 
 It was the death of the cross that the bread and wine represented.
 
 Three days – bread and wine – they all speak the same point.  There is new birth, but there is also the weaning. It's the third-day revelation.

When we eat and drink, the Ishmael of our lives will be dealt with.

1 Samuel 1:21-28  And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow. But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever. And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him. And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young. And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli. And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD. For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him: Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
Samuel, a man in the Bible whose life story does not show us a single error he made, was dedicated to the Lord and brought to the tabernacle to live after he was weaned.

The weaning is a very pivotal point in the Bible.

There is a strong point God is trying to show us.

Of all thought in the Bible about eating, the bread and wine of Jesus body and blood stands out the most important.

Even the fruit of the tree of life or of the knowledge of good and evil was made on the THIRD DAY in Genesis.

Genesis 1:12 -13 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day.