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Originally Posted by Jo S
This is the reason in bringing up mysticism, StG.
The Old Covenant consisted of daily sacrifice.
The New Covenant was one sacrifice once and for all.
The point in bringing up mysticism is that this approach to spirituality is the way of the Old Covenant. Because with a daily sacrifice there's daily eating and drinking as your thread title states. With Christ's sacrifice, there's one meal that satisfies to eternal life.
Watchman Nee and Witness Lee taught daily sacrifice. Understand that legalism can be spiritualized as well.
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It's not that the sacrifice is daily, it's that the eating is constant (that's what eternal means), although sometimes we focus on it more than other times.
Peter said desire the pure milk of the word. That's ongoing eating. Jesus said his food was to do the will of God. That's also ongoing.
You are correct if you are saying we don't have to re-sacrifice. You are incorrect if you are saying we don't have to continue eating. Offering the sacrifice and eating it are two different things. And the New Testament clearly shows that eating and drinking are ongoing. Eph 5:18 says literally, "be being filled in spirit." That implies an ongoing, active filling (that is drinking, because Paul contrasts it with drinking wine).
Yes, the food is already available. We don't have to work for it, but we do have to accept it, that is eat it, in an ongoing fashion. Faith is active and in the present. So is obedience, and Jesus said that to obey is also to eat.