My mom's in rehab now, isn't she?
Good.
chapter number 13 also please still be in prayer for miss Sarah Gomez and then
as far as the preaching schedule pastor Bruce Mejia was scheduled to come preach
this Sunday however he has just a personal problem that's not gonna allow
him to travel at this time so if you just be in prayer for him and his family
and specifically his wife just some health issues and so if you just please
be in prayer for them and keep them in your in your thoughts and prayers but I
am still gonna have a guest preacher coming brother Jeff Goodwin who has
already come down here before he's gonna come down from Fort Worth he's me
preaching both services and he's a really good preacher I'm really excited
for him to come down here and kind of in a short time's notice but please make
sure to still come and thank him for coming out here and taking of his time
and his family's time to come and preach to you guys also May 31st brother Scott
Campbell from Revival Baptist Church he's gonna be coming out here and
preaching for us so really excited to have both of those men come out here
also for upcoming events there's a men's conference that's gonna be June 18th
through the 20th in steadfast Baptist Church area I still haven't got the
exact details hopefully I'll get to those pretty soon but all men of the age
of 16 and older are welcome to participate once I have the exact
details on the accommodations everything thing like that minors will
still most likely have to be chaperoned for the overnight with their parents or
whomever but they would be willing to they'd be able to participate in the
activities throughout the retreat one other announcement I was gonna make this
evening we would normally be going through our bio study in Psalms chapter
number three this evening but we're going to do a special service and the
title of the sermon this evening is how to observe communion and so I haven't
taught on this for the church yet but I have recently taught on this at
steadfast Baptist Church just most recently I preached a couple sermons on
that and I was gonna go ahead and preach a similar sermon it's not the exact same
sermon it is different but I am gonna teach on that and then next Thursday we
are actually gonna observe the Lord's Supper or communion as a church after
the evening service so next Thursday evening that will be partaking I'll be
here and so I just wanted to preach a sermon kind of about that this evening
just so you have some chance to think about it and then we'll actually observe
that next week on Thursday and you can check out the two sermons that I've
recently preached at steadfast to give you some idea of some of the things I've
taught but I'm gonna go through and teach a lot of things about that this
evening too that should be sufficient but I'm really excited about getting to
teach this and us doing this as a church so that's pretty much it for the
announcements this evening let's go and go to our third song 25
wounded for me there in the first wounded for me wounded for me there on
the cross he was wounded for me gone my transgressions and now I am free all
because Jesus was wounded for me dying for me dying for me there on the cross
he was dying for me now in his death my redemption I see all because Jesus was
dying for me risen for me risen for me up from the grave he has risen for me
now evermore from destiny I am free all because Jesus has risen for me living
for me living for me up in the skies he is living for me daily he's bleeding and
praying for me all because Jesus is living for me coming for me coming for
me one day to earth he is coming for me then with what joy his dear face I shall
see oh I praise him he's coming for me this time we'll turn our Bibles of 1st
Corinthians 10 brother Samson's gonna read for us 1st Corinthians chapter 10
and we will pass the offering plate we'll read the entire chapter 1st
Corinthians chapter number 10 all right 1st Corinthians chapter number 10 everyone
will turn there and find your place follow along with me as I read starting
verse number 1 1st Corinthians number 10 moreover brethren I would not that ye
should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud and all
passed through the sea we're all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in
the sea did all eat the same spiritual meat and did all drink the same
spiritual drink for the drank of that spiritual rock that founded them and
that rock was Christ but with many of them God was not well pleased for they
were overthrown in the wilderness now these things were our examples to the
intent we should not lust after evil things and they also as they also lust
it need to be you idolaters as were some of them as it is written the people sat
down to eat and drink and rose up to plate neither let us commit fornication
as some of them committed and fail in one day three and twenty thousand neither
let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of serpents
neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the
destroyer now all these things happen unto them for examples and they are
written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come wherefore let
him that think it he stand it take heed lest he fall there is no temptation
taking you but such as is common to man but God is faithful who will not suffer
for you to be tempted above that ye are able but will with temptation also make
a way to escape that you may be able to bear it wherefore my dear blood flee
from I idolatry I speak as to wise men judge you what I say the cup of the
blessing which we bless is 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
being many are one bread and one body for we all are partakers of that one
bread behold Israel after the flesh or not they which eat of the sacrifices
partakers of the altar what say I then that the idol is anything or that which
is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything but I say that the things which
the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to devils and not to God and it would not
that ye should have fellowship with Devils you cannot drink the cup of the
Lord and the cup of Devils you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the
table of Devils do we provoke the Lord to jealousy or
stronger than he all things are lawful for me but all things are not expedient
all things are lawful for me but all things edify not let no man seek his own
but every man another's will whatsoever he is sold in the shambles that eat
asking no question for conscience sake for the earth is the Lord's in the
fullness thereof if any of them that believe not bid you to a feast and ye be
disposed to go whatsoever set before you eat asking no question of conscience
sake but if a man saying to you this is offered in sacrifice unto idols eat not
for his sake that showed it and for conscious sake for the earth is the
Lord's and the fullness thereof conscience I say not thine own but of
the other for why is my liberty judge and another man's conscience where if I
by grace be a partaker why am I evil spoken of for that for which I gave
thanks whether therefore you eat or drink or whatsoever you do do all to the
glory of God give non-offense neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to
the Church of God even as I please all men and all things not seeking my own
prophet but the prophet of many that they may be saved by our head for a
quick word of prayer the other father will come for you and give you thanks
for your word and pray that you'll be with pastor Shelley this evening fill in
with your Holy Spirit that he teach a bold sermon to us and let us take the
lessons that he learned and the information from 1st Corinthians chapter
10 and apply it in our daily lives and we love you and we pray always in Jesus
night amen
like I said again this evening sermon is entitled how to observe communion and in
1st Corinthians chapter number 10 it starts off I and really the essence of
this chapter is about spiritual pictures or spiritual symbolism it says in verse
1 more of a brethren I would not that you should be ignorant how that all our
fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea and we're all
baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea and it all eat the same
spiritual meat and it all drink the same spiritual drink for they drink of that
spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was Christ so he starts off
the chapter by saying I don't want you guys to be ignorant what is ignorant
unaware unlearned you know it could even be someone who's stupid but it's not
really the fact that they're not in they don't have intelligence it's just that
they're lacking information maybe they've never been instructed they've
never been told or taught something and this context he's saying all of those
things that happen in the Old Testament when they were talking about Moses and
dragging the children of Israel through the wilderness had spiritual pictures or
symbolism that was attached to that and he says I don't want you to be ignorant
of the spiritual picture that they were being attached to how that rock that was
gushing with waters was a picture about Jesus Christ is that rock and those
waters that are flowing in the picture of the living waters that we receive as
receiving eternal life so when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ we put
our trust in him he gives us water to drink of that will never thirst again
now what's the point of that well he then is going through the rest of this
chapter to explain some of the the problems that they have some of the
sins that they have and they're saying the sins that you guys have really are
no different than the sins of the children of Israel had you know
fornication that's just a common sin of all centuries every generation that's a
common thing also idolatry is something that's rampant under them and he's
trying to help them understand that idolatry is really bad because of what
it pictures what it symbolizes even though an idol is technically just a
piece of rock I mean from a carnal perspective an idol is nothing we
understand that it's nothing but it represents something spiritually and in
fact they're sacrificing unto a false god unto devils in a dark spiritual
realm so he uses a good spiritual picture to then contrast with the dark
spiritual pictures look what he says in verse number 15 I speak as to wise men
judge ye 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 being many are one bread and one body for we are all
partakers of that one bread so he brings up this picture saying hey when we eat
the bread of communion when we drink the drink of communion it's not just bread
and juice what it is it's a picture of Christ's body that was broken for us
it's a picture of Christ's blood and how we're a partaker of his death on the
cross so he's saying there's a spiritual significance to what you're doing here
there's also a spiritual significance to eating food sacrificed unto idols that's
having fellowship with devils and with idols now I just wanted to give you that
quick context of this chapter that's not really the focus of my sermon but I want
to put that in context of saying what there is a spiritual significance to the
Lord's Supper to observing what will be known as communion what does the word
communion mean well it simply means to share or having things in common so
you're having some kind of a group share something like that now I want to first
start by just explaining how you observe communion from a carnal perspective
before we get into those spiritual pictures go to Luke chapter 22 Luke
chapter 22 and this sermon is designed to help people understand exactly what
the Bible's teaching on communion how to observe it from a practical sense but
not only just a practical sense what it means and what it symbolizes what's the
importance of it well let's first understand the carnal aspect it says in
Luke chapter 22 verse 17 it's talking of Jesus Christ and he took the cup and
gave thanks and said take this and divide it among yourselves so if you
look in the book of John in chapter number 13 we actually realize the timing
of the Lord's Supper is a separate event from the meal in which they ate on
Wednesday night so on Wednesday night they had what would be known as the
first Passover meal it did not include the lamb the lamb was going to be the
following evening okay but this meal would have included unleavened bread
potentially juice they have something they're dipping their bread in otherwise
it wouldn't be called as a sop what's a sop a sop is basically some kind of a
soup you think of the word soup but it was probably just like oil or some kind
of a juice that they're dipping their bread in and in eating it but after the
meal is done it says in John chapter number 13 verse 1 and supper being ended
okay Jesus Christ then girds himself with a towel and he washes the disciples
feet then after washing the disciples feet he says hey one of you guys gonna
betray me and they're like who is it you know John's like whistles like who is it
he's like the one that dips with me in the dish and the first three Gospels in
the book of John he says the one that I dip the sop and hand it to him and it
says as soon as he dipped the sop and handed to Judas which was part of the
Lord's Supper the devil entered into Judas and he says that thou doest do
quickly okay so that's just kind of give you an idea of that timeline but let's
get the carnal at how did they actually perform the Lord's Supper is a separate
event from the actual just eating of a meal it was right after after he'd wash
disciples feet but he says in verse 17 he gave thanks so he starts off with
prayer then what he does is he takes the one cup that he had and he tells the
disciples to divide it amongst themselves so now they're gonna share
this beverage they divide it that does not mean they eat they drink in it yet
but they divided the cup so it was divided and it's ready to be consumed by
all of the disciples so the first step would be to pray the second step would
be having the juice already divided okay the third step is again let's look
at verse number 18 and keep reading fry saying you I will not drink of the fruit
of the vine until the kingdom of God shall come and he took bread and gave
thanks and break it and gave unto them saying this is my body which is given
for you this do in remembrance of me so he's generally giving thanks for the
ceremony they're gonna partake in the Jews has already been divided it's been
given to all the disciples then he says thanks again we notice and then he takes
the bread that he has any breaks it and that's has a spiritual significance and
we'll get into that but he breaks the bread and then he gives a piece under
the disciples so they now have the pieces he gave that piece to Judas
didn't he okay so Jesus is the one dealing out the food and he's broken it
and has that picture of being his body being broken for them how did it break
well it went on the cross okay it got beaten and smit upon and just all kinds
of horrible things Isaiah 53 tells us that his face was so marred you couldn't
even recognize him anymore and there was no beauty that we desire of him so it's
just it was a gruesome sight and you look at that perfect you know crack or
whatever you break it it's kind of rough looking all right so that's just kind of
a picture of what Jesus did for us so after they given it they all eat it and
then what does he say in verse 20 he says likewise also the cup after supper
saying this cup is the New Testament in my blood which is shed for you so in the
same manner they would have what given thanks partaken of the cup okay and that
was basically how they performed the Lord's Supper so as a quick review you
would have the juice divided you'd give thanks break the bread eat the bread
give thanks partake of the cup as a group that's how they performed it from
a carnal perspective now let's go back to 1st Corinthians and this time we're
going to go and look at verse chapter number 11 now 1st Corinthians chapter
number 11 addresses a few things and for sake of time I'm not going to preach
this entire chapter it's not necessary but if you are interested in more
detailed explanation of this chapter I did preach a sermon on Wednesday night
on the Lord's Supper and I just went pretty much just spent the whole time in
1st Corinthians chapter number 11 but I'm going to give you the major points
here now 1st Corinthians chapter number 11 starts out again 1st Corinthians is
just a constant just like you guys screwed up all right let me tell you all
the problems that you have okay and in chapter number 11 he's saying hey I'm
glad you keep the ordinances look at verse 2 he says now I praise you
brethren that you remember me in all things and keep the ordinances I
delivered them to you he says in verse 3 but okay so it's kind of like this is
how I articulate it it's like if you give your kids a task list maybe you
give them like 20 tasks to complete for the week or for the day and they do
everything on the list yet a couple of the things they did on the list they
didn't do it right okay they did it so you say hey clean your room and they
just take all of their toys and they just throw them in the closet or under
the bed and you're like well I'm glad you cleaned your room but you need to
put your toys up properly you need to put your clothes away properly and fold
them and all so this is how I view the the book of 1st Corinthians is basically
hey he gave him a list of ordinances they tried them all they tried it they
tinted them all and most of them they did a good job but a couple things they
have issues with the first issue is guys need to get a haircut okay and then the
women need to let their hair grow long okay but then the second thing that he's
going to bring up is a problem with the Lord's Supper specifically he says in
verse 17 now in this that I declare on you I praise you not they come together
not for the better but for the worse now he's not praising them so this is a
contrast so yeah they kept the ordinance but they're doing something wrong they're
screwed up somehow and in fact they're so screwed up that it's worse they're
worse off doing what they're doing then not doing it at all he's saying whatever
you got the way you guys are doing this is really bad okay he says in verse 18
for first of all when you come together in the church I hear there be divisions
among you and I partly believe it for there must be also heresies among you
that they which are approved may be made manifest among you he's saying that
there's division in the church which if you study the book of 1st Corinthians
division is a major point brought up over and over one says I'm a Paul the
other says I'm a Paulist you know I'm a Cephas I'm a Christ is Christ divided
and the reality is we should only be here for one person and that person is
the Lord Jesus Christ you don't come for me you don't come for your kids you
don't come for your wife you come for Jesus Christ alone and since you're
coming for Jesus Christ there's no reason not to come you know the pastor
could let you down the preacher could let you down your kids could let you
down your spouse could let you down but if you say you know what the only reason
I'm going to church is because Jesus is there and I want to worship and serve
him then there's never a motivation not to go to church you say well I don't
know who's gonna be preaching this Sunday well Jesus is gonna be there
anyways you know where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I
in the midst okay you know I don't go to church you're thinking like well if so
and so is not going I'm not going you know I'm going even I had to preach to
the wall you know I'm like I'm gonna still gonna preach the Word of God and
so that should be our attitude and they have division in this church he says one
of the reasons why they have this division that he's speculating okay is
he's saying heresy and heresy does cause division in the church that's why it's
so important that we're all unified we believe the same things we we teach the
same things sometimes me or my friends that you know believe the same will get
accused of being this cult because we don't allow heresy to just creep into
our church if we start spotting heresy we'll just kick people out or throw them
out it's interesting how a cult is constantly throwing people out I thought
cults are trying to keep people in at worst you could call me like an elitist
you know but we're not a cult there's the door get out now I mean it's it's I
don't think when I'm preaching sermons like how many keep them in I'm thinking
if I preach that they're gonna all leave you know I got to figure out a way to
word this that's not gonna offend every single person right so again we need to
make sure that we're preaching the Word of God and the Word of God is gonna
divide okay but we should be divided divided from the world we shouldn't be
divided amongst ourselves we should all be rallied around the Lord Jesus Christ
we should all be rallied around in the King James Bible we should all be
rallied around the gospel when it comes to the core essentials of the faith you
must have unity otherwise your church has major problems and a church where
people have different views on the core doctrine is a church with heresy that's
in fact why there's so many churches in this area and every area of the United
States because of heresy why is it that I won't go to the Pentecostal Church over
here well first of all they speak Spanish second of all because they
believe heresy all right and I'm not gonna go to a church that believes rank
heresy I'm not gonna go to church where they have the wrong Bible it's just not
gonna happen I'm not gonna go to a church where they have a different
gospel I'm not gonna go to a church where Joyce Meyer's getting up and
preach me the Bible because only thing's gonna come from her mouth is heresy so
we have to guard ourselves and we have to be on the same page we had to preach
the fundamentals we have to believe in the fundamentals and then when we see
people attacking them we have to mark and avoid them otherwise we're not gonna
be rally together our church won't be strong and usually you can measure a
church strength when it goes through a problem when it goes through a
difficulty that's when you kind of see where everybody's at what is everybody's
faith built on is it built on a man is it built on superficial means you know
in our church has gone through some you know interesting paths and some
interesting highs and lows and really it really didn't affect very many people
and that was because from my perspective we're a very healthy Church because it's
built on Jesus Christ it's not built on a person it's not built on a cult it's
not built on certain relationships it's built on one thing and that's the rock
of Jesus Christ okay and that's how it should stay that's what's gonna keep it
a healthy Church okay now he's saying there's heresies amongst them and that's
causing problems and of course here is using to cause problems what does heres
he do causes division do you want to have a lot of division when you're
having the Lord's Supper no you want to have unity you want to be you want to
have things in common so he says in verse 20 when ye come together therefore
what's the therefore because of the division when y'all are coming together
therefore into one place this is not to eat the Lord's Supper now this is a very
interesting verse it's one that I personally have struggled to fully grasp
for a long time yet studying this chapter in depth I've come to what I
believe is the correct interpretation of this verse there's a few ways you could
look at this and I think that there's three ways you could say what the
problem is here because he's saying there's a problem when he uses the
phrase this is not to eat the Lord's Supper what does he mean there I think
it could be first of all it could be a problem with the location okay because
he brings up that right when you come together therefore into one place this
is not to eat the Lord's Supper meaning the location could be the problem okay a
second possibility is the purpose he's saying when you come together therefore
in one place this is not to eat the Lord's Supper meaning there's a
different purpose right that's not the right purpose or that's not the main
purpose okay or the third possibility is when he says when you come together
therefore in one place this is not to eat the Lord's Supper because you know
what they're doing is different basically the execution is wrong okay
now let me address the purpose for first because that's the easiest one to
discard no one really believes that the main purpose of Church is the Lord's
Supper okay maybe if you're Catholic I mean Catholics they've always had the
Lord's Supper every single Sunday and they don't do a lot of preaching so
maybe from their perspective they would think like the main purpose of Church is
the Lord's Supper but that's kind of a straw man argument I don't think you
really find anybody that would say like that's the main purpose so that
interpretation really wouldn't make very much sense and with the text it doesn't
really flow with what's problem why because of division hey because of
division you're screwed up on the main purpose of Church like having the Lord's
Supper it's like that doesn't really jive or fit well let's take the first
definition location maybe there's a problem with the location well look at
verse 33 he says wherefore my brethren when you come together to eat tarry one
for another and if any man hunger let him eat at home they come not together
unto condemnation now in verse 34 the word wherefore means for the cause of or
for the reason of and he just brought up the Lord's Supper so because of the
Lord's Supper when you come together to eat tarry one for another what does it
mean when he comes together well he already said in verse 20 when you come
together therefore into one place he says in the previous verse when you come
together therefore into the church so that's been consistent we're talking
about a church he's saying for the cup for that cause my brethren when you come
together what to eat eat what would be the question I mean isn't this saying
that sometime when you're together in the church or eating something otherwise
there's no other way to interpret it but what does he say in verse 34 and if any
man hunger let him eat at home so he's making a distinction between two places
one's at church one's at home what is it that he's saying you do when you're
at home you satisfy hunger okay so what is it so if that's true then what would
you not do at church you would not satisfy hunger at church now let me help
I'm gonna make this really simple okay I'm covering all our bases what is
church is church a building no church is when we all come together gather
together with a with a preacher he's preaching the Word of God so this does
not mean you can't eat food in a church building okay it's not saying
fellowships are bad but fellowships aren't Church either if I go and have a
fellowship with someone that wasn't Church me and my family eating dinner
every night is not Church you say well you're the pastor you know it doesn't
matter that's not Church okay when we cut assemble together we sing the hymns
and we preach the Word of God that's Church okay that's us coming together
in one place to preach the Word of God so in that setting you would not use
that setting to satisfy hunger okay that would be the wrong setting in order to
satisfy some kind of a carnal need when we come together this is not to satisfy
your carnal needs this is not the time to sleep this is not the time to nap
this is not this is not about carnal things this is about spiritual things
you say way it's kind of hot in here well we're not here to satisfy your
obviously want to make it comfortable okay I'm not against that but this is
not we're not coming here to satisfy any kind of carnal sensation it's here for
spiritual needs and the Lord's Supper is something spiritual not carnal so if
let's say they were satisfying carnal needs that wouldn't be partaking in the
Lord's Supper would it that would be a bad execution so let's read verse 20
with 21 now and see if that matches the context when you come together therefore
into one place this is not to eat the Lord's Supper for an eating everyone
take it before other his own supper and one is hungry and another is drunken so
he makes a distinction here he's saying when y'all are coming together this is
indeed the Lord's Supper y'all are concerned about your own supper that's
what he's saying there okay and that's it's worded in a way that's a little bit
unique to how we would maybe say it but it makes perfect sense when you
understand the context of the passage that he's saying y'all aren't coming
together have the Lord's Supper you guys are coming together to have your
own selfish barbecue basically he's saying you're coming you're coming with
food that you brought hey I got a steak and potato for me I hope you enjoy
watching me eat this I mean that's weird how is that the Lord's Supper what did
Jesus do he broke the bread and said take right he gave them food he's
sharing his food with him and again it wasn't to satisfy some kind of a hunger
need it was to picture Jesus Christ now all the pictures of the Bible are not to
satisfy carnal needs if if you say hey pastor show I need baptized I haven't
taken a shower in a week I'm saying you got it wrong that this is not about
washing your body okay it's about the symbol of what Jesus Christ did for us
okay all the things we talked about chapter 10 were spiritual pictures okay
we're not here to satisfy some kind of a carnal need just like circumcision in
the Old Testament even though it's physical it wasn't for any kind of
medical benefit or some carnal benefit because the Bible says circumcision
avails nothing it was to picture the circumcision of your heart that you've
been circumcised unto Jesus Christ and you've removed the foreskin from your
heart which is the sin the iniquity the the darkness and you've now accepted
Jesus Christ that's the picture that it was supposed to illustrate so again all
the pictures we have in the Bible are always for a spiritual need not a carnal
need so therefore when we have the Lord's Supper we're not going to just
sit here and pig out you know we're not gonna have some big meal and we're
certainly not gonna do it selfishly taking before other look what it says in
verse 21 one is hungry and another is drunken meaning one gets nothing how did
that guy partake the other guy is completely stuffed the other person is
completely full the word drunken can just mean full took to fill up okay it's
not what we think of someone being drunk okay it's talking about someone
being full and it says in verse number 22 what have you not houses to eat or
into drinking or despise of the Church of God and shame them that have not
what shall I say to you shall I praise you in this I praise you not so notice
he's saying if you want to satisfy hunger where do you do that at your
house do you not have a house to eat in a drinking and what are you doing coming
you're shaming people by having all this food and they have nothing it's
like hey I'm I'm eating all this food what are you doing you know that would
be rude that'd be very selfish and it could possibly be shaming other people
that's not the purpose of the Lord's Supper the purpose of Lord's Supper is
have all things common to have unity to be sharing of that picture and that
symbol of Jesus Christ it would be weird if we all went to church and this half
eats and this half doesn't eat that would be weird that's going to cause
more division we want to have all the same things and be doing the same things
he says in verse 23 for I received of the Lord that which also I delivered
unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took
bread and when he had given thanks he break it and said take eat this is my
body which is broken for you this due in remembrance of me so what's what's the
number one point okay the number one point is at first they have a problem
division okay there's division in the church that division is causing them to
come to church and not really be thinking of other people just selfishly
eating their own supper not partaking in the Lord's Supper okay and not
ultimately doing it thinking of Jesus Christ so that division is causing
problems in the church if we're all unified thinking of Jesus Christ then
we're going to be partaking Lord's Supper thinking of him sharing and doing
the way that he instructed us not to satisfy some kind of carnal need so I
have four points this evening that I'm going to quickly go over number one was
we have to think of Christ how to observe communion well I went through the
practical steps okay of what that looked like but what does that mean when we do
it from the spiritual picture well we need to be thinking of Jesus Christ if
I'm thinking I hungry food eat that has nothing to do with spiritual matters I
do that every single day we all do that every single day if you hand me a like a
juicy ribeye I'll be honest I'm not thinking of Jesus Christ either okay
this is oh I'll thank him I'll be like you know this is a great creature
nothing to be refused if we receive with Thanksgiving you know I'm like praise
the Lord for this steak but I'm not really thinking about his death okay and
again you can think of Christ whenever you want I'm just being honest that in
our carnal nature if I'm really enjoying the food I'm kind of thinking about the
food I'm kind of thinking about satisfying my own loss my own carnal
desires so when you're having unleavened bread which is literally flour and water
okay you're not like wow this is the best thing I've ever eaten okay that's
why you'd take something like that and you eat it why because you're trying to
think about Jesus when you're partaking of this element and I can't think of a
better element there's so many reasons why and we're gonna get to that in a
minute but we need to be thinking of Jesus look what he said in verse 24 we
just read this do in remembrance of me the whole purpose of the Lord's Supper
is thinking of Jesus Christ okay so if we do anything if our observance in any
way is taking away from that by carnal means we need to fix it now keep your
finger here because I'm gonna come back to it probably in a little bit but go
through it to John chapter 6 John chapter number 6 so number one point of
how to observe the Lord's Supper is we need to think of Christ number two is we
need to understand the spiritual verses of the carnal so we're eating a piece of
bread why eat a piece of bread well look at John chapter 6 we're gonna go through
a couple passages here it says in verse 27 labor not for the meat which
perishes but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life which the
Son of Man shall give unto you for him hath God the Father sealed so Jesus
Christ says hey don't labor for just physical food you need to be going for
the spiritual food which is ultimately everlasting life he says in verse 28
then said they unto him what shall we do that we might work the works of God
Jesus answered and said to them this is the work of God that you believe on him
whom he has sent so how do I get this spiritual meat that he just told me
about believe exactly amen someone's reading the Bible and understanding it
so it's very clear what we have to do he says in verse number 30 they said
therefore in him what sign show us thou that we may see and believe thee what
does that work so they even kind of get it at first they're like okay what do I
have to believe what do I have to do right what's going on here he says in
verse 35 and Jesus said to them I am the bread of life he that cometh to me
shall never hungry and he that believeth on me shall never thirst so notice he
puts it in the boat hey it's eating and drinking but you know what it really is
symbolizing believing on Jesus Christ that's what it means to eat and to drink
okay that's what's taking place it says in verse number 40 and this is the will
of him that sent me that everyone would see at the Sun and believeth on him may
have everlasting life and I'll raise him up with last day so in John chapter 6
verse 40 what do I have to do to everlasting life I believe on him okay
it's by faith it's by believing he's already said that just plainly stated it
okay he's not like trying to hide things okay but this should just show you how
blind unsaved people are you can quote John 3 16 to them and they still are
just like do works be a good person go to church okay because they have to have
spiritual eyes and ears and understand this it says in verse 51 Jesus says this
again I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this
bread he shall live forever and the bread that I will give is my flesh
which I will give for the life of the world so he's saying that that bread
that he's talking about is picturing him personally he's saying this is my body
which I'm going to give for the world how they gonna give it he's gonna die on
the cross for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son and
what sense did he give his son it wasn't that he was just born on this earth it
was the fact that he died on the cross that was the giving he gave him he
delivered him for our offenses and was raised again for our justification so
his death was the picture of him giving his life his flesh for the world and
it's going to be broken so that we can partake in his death and have
forgiveness of sins now it says in verse 58 this is that bread which came
down from heaven not as your father's did eat manna and are dead he that eateth
of this bread shall live forever so notice he's saying when you eat the
bread you live forever meaning what you have everlasting life you have eternal
life so when he's bringing up the eating what does he mean you get everlasting
life well what did he say earlier how'd you get everlasting life you believe on
him he already said that okay but did they did the Jews get this no they
couldn't understand in verse 52 we back up it says the Jews therefore strove
among themselves saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat they were
getting out a fork and a knife thinking they had to eat his arm or something the
cannibals and this should just show you look there's no new thing under the Sun
the Catholics today believe you have to literally eat his physical body and
drink his physical blood to be saved that's why they have transubstantiation
for their communion service and they literally believe that that cracker
turns into his physical body okay I don't know they actually believe this
but that's what their doctrine teaches okay a lot of them are probably
delusional or they'd probably they're incredulous because they're just a
pedophile anyways but they they teach that that cracker somehow turns into
Jesus body you're eating his body when you kneel down and take that crack and
you're drinking his blood even though the Bible constant tells you to never
drink blood it tells you that obviously eating a number of persons flesh is a
sick disgusting perverted concept okay and it's blasphemy because they basically
try to teach that you have to re crucify Christ every single Sunday for the
Eucharist so it's very blasphemous doctrine but the Jews are the ones that
came up with the Catholics didn't come up with it the Jews are thinking like do
we have to eat this guy no what did it mean to eat it meant to believe didn't
now look at verse 63 it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth
nothing the words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life so
he's saying look it's my words that have the life in them what does he say in
verse 64 but there are some of you that what that believe not so notice he's
bringing it up again what's the answer was that you don't believe he says in
verse number 67 then Jesus said on the 12th you also go away a lot of people
got offended this teaching says in verse 68 then Simon Peter answered him Lord to
whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life now that's a profound
statement if you put it in context this chapter because he keeps saying hey that
bread gives you everlasting life it's that bread that you eat that is for the
last night and he says hey you have the words of everlasting life noticing he's
connecting the two dots they realize it's by faith and Jesus Christ and where
does the faith come from faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
so and we think about Jesus himself what is Jesus the Word became flesh and
dwelt among us he is the Word of God he is that bread of life and we need that
kind of bread to survive if I eat physical bread I will die but if I eat
the bread of life I'll never die now obviously bread is a great example why
because if I don't eat physical bread I'll also die quickly we need that
sustain our life we have to eat food you can't survive without food and you
can't survive the second death without spiritual food we have to have that
bread of life which is Jesus Christ which is his words and we receive that
by faith so when we break that bread what is it picturing well it's picturing
his body being broken for us being crucified being killed on the cross so
that we could believe in him and receive eternal life if he never died on the
cross you could never go to heaven he had to be broken his flesh had to be
broken just like me not breaking the bread you can't eat it if we're all
gonna eat it it's got to get broken and the greatest thing that I that I believe
is about this chapter okay we think about this is in this same chapter you
have this cool parable about the feeding of the five thousand and how did Jesus
do that well he just kept breaking up a piece of bread it was it ever gonna run
out no and Jesus tasted death for every man his sacrifice is enough to cover for
every single person whosoever will may come and drink of the water of life
freely I mean there's it's not gonna run out his sacrifice is a full sacrifice
he's the propitiation for our sins not for us only but also for the whole world
there's no way his sacrifice can't cover all and so all you have to do is just
come to that tree of life you just come and drink of those those living waters
and you just get that bread of life okay now go if you would to back to Luke 22
for a second to slip to the right so this is a spiritual sacrament or
spiritual ordinance or a spiritual ceremony in which we would perform okay
and it's something that we observe not for any carnal means I don't have to eat
this little cracker or drink this little juice for anything carnal it's a
spiritual picture for me to think of Jesus Christ his sacrifice and what he's
done for me and so our observance needs to be spiritual and needs this be
spiritual not something carnal and we accept the bread we consume it and it
brings us nourishment and physical sense right if I take a face piece of bread
and I accept that you know I accept the bread I consume the bread it'll bring
nourishment to my physical body that's the same spiritually whenever I accept
this sacrifice and I consume his sacrifice by believing on it it brings
me that spiritual nourishment praise the Lord it's forever praise the Lord it's
everlasting nourishment so we've talked about that is spiritual not carnal I'm
gonna get a little bit more of the symbolism okay we've already kind of
talked about the bread what about the juice itself it says in Luke 22 verse
number 18 so I said flip right and I did it I was meant to flip left okay
Luke 22 look at verse 18 for I stand you I will not drink of the fruit of the
vine until the kingdom of God shall come okay and he says in verse 20 likewise
also the cup after supper saying this cup is the New Testament in my blood
which is said for you so that bread pictures his physical body the juice
pictures his blood and his blood was truly shed for us now what's
interesting you know about this is a lot of people say Jesus drunk wine but the
King James Bible never uses that phrase it actually says the fruit of the vine
now if you have a proper definition of the word wine you could say that's
technically accurate however it does not say that it says that he drank of the
fruit of the vine so what does that mean well it's basically taking some
kind of a fruit off of the vine or the tree okay and you're squeezing the juice
out of it into a cup and drinking that that's therefore in order to observe the
Lord's Supper or communion it can't be alcoholic yet virtually majority of
people is very Lord's Supper today are doing it with alcohol the Catholics the
Episcopalians I mean the Lutherans a lot of these churches I think even some
Baptist out I I don't know but that's scary
Baptist having alcohol and observance of the Lord's Supper this is a no-no this
is wrong okay and when it comes to things that cross the line for me on the
Lord's Supper this is one of those if I showed up at a church and they were
gonna have the Lord's Supper with alcohol I would refuse it I would not
partake in it now me personally I'm pretty much gonna observe whatever the
church I'm going to is communion the way they do it but that's a line for me and
let me show you why go if you would to Genesis chapter 40 Genesis chapter 40
now some people say this oh you're so ignorant pastor Shelley maybe if you
went to Bible College you would realize they hadn't even invented juice until
like the Middle Ages or the most you know the last few hundred years you know
juice wasn't even a thing pastor Shelley and it's like you're stupid you're an
idiot if you think that juice did not exist until the last few hundred years
okay and let me just prove it from the Bible how stupid you are okay
Genesis chapter number 40 look at verse 11 and Pharaoh's cup was in my hand and
I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup and I gave the cup in a
Pharaoh's hand juice I mean it's not that hard it's not that difficult a
concept and in fact this is the first mention of the word cup in your King
James Bible the first time you in mentions cup you know what's put in it
juice I'm all juice wasn't invented until the last few hundred years you're
an idiot if you believe that okay how did let's just stop for a second okay
how in the world would you get alcoholic juice if juice hadn't been
invented they had to even get the juice in the first place to make it alcoholic
they're like oh there was only alcoholic juice it's like it starts out
non-alcoholic it's called squeeze a grape squeeze any kind of juice okay this
is the logic that Christian pastors will use they'll say well you so there's this
theory out there there's different kinds of wine and some people so ignorant will
say that they're you know juice well you know there was non-alcoholic juice back
then but it hadn't even been invented and it's like how could you even listen
another word of the guy's mouth after saying that what a fool what am you know
and this is why I get so adamant about it or so angry about it because they're
saying Jesus drank alcohol which would have made him a sinner according to the
Bible let me prove this even further that it's non-alcoholic go to Proverbs
chapter 9 Proverbs chapter number 9 if that wasn't enough for you I mean you're
probably brain dead at this point but Proverbs chapter number 9 look at verse
number 1 wisdom hath builded her house she hath hewn out her seven pillars she
hath killed her beasts she hath mingled her wine she hath also furnished her
table now this is super profound okay because Proverbs chapter 9 is saying who
mingled wine wisdom itself okay keep your finger here because we're gonna
come back go to Proverbs 20 verse 1 now if you don't believe that there's
multiple kinds of wine you're gonna have some major problems in the Bible it's
basically because you're drunk probably while you're reading it but look at
Proverbs 20 verse 1 wine is a monker strong drink is raging and who serve as
deceive thereby is not wise so you know what that verse would do it would say
that wisdom is not wise if it was if wine is only means the same thing or you
could just take the realistic understanding that says the wine in
chapter 9 is not the wine mentioned in chapter number 20 okay why because the
wine in chapter 20 is an alcoholic beverage the wine in chapter number 9
verse 1 or 2 is mentioning a non-alcoholic beverage okay and what
does it mean to mingle it just means the mix now most of the juice that people
drink today if not majority is always mingled usually if you look at any juice
you go to the store and you buy juice it'll say a hundred percent juice you
know it's the first ingredient on all of them water or filtered water if you got
a good one okay it'll say water why cuz they mingle it most people it's
expensive juice is very expensive it's a it's a process that takes a lot of effort
and energy and it's seasonal because obviously it's fruit that's coming in so
most orange juice grape juice apple juice I don't care what it is that
you're buying at the store the majority of it is water with a little bit of juice
mixed in and you know what they did back in the Bible times they would mix a lot
of water with a little bit of juice you know why cuz you can water it down it
still tastes very good it preserves it it lasts longer it's now cheaper if you
buy pure yeah this have word it 100% juice 100% pure juice it's like it's
like how many times I have to say that for it to mean it you know but it's very
expensive you know I recently bought some for our you know communion that we
performed it in steadfast and it's like seven dollars for a jar like this big
it's like seven dollars and so you know pure juice is very expensive it is not
easy to find necessarily why because you have to understand what they do and if
you look up research a lot of times what they do with fruit is they would boil it
down into a SAP okay and then it become concentrate and they could preserve that
concentrate in a multiplicity of ways you know if you bury stuff under your
ground and like a cellar it's actually acts kind of like a freezer or cooler or
whatever and so they could keep that SAP and then they could re-boil it or
whatever or they could take some that SAP mix it with some water just like you
take frozen concentrate juice and mix it with water people do it all the time
look there's no new thing under the Sun it's not like well we've just have all
this new stuff you know we might have a cell phone but you know outside a lot of
things like that it's always the same the same problems the same issues the
same juice okay and alcohol might got a little bit more potent but it's still
the same strong drink and it's wicked okay go to Proverbs 23 and let me show
you the wine that you're not supposed to have this is another evidence of juice
okay now in Proverbs chapters 9 that wisdom she's furnishing her table she's
mingling that wine but what if you just let it sit for a really long time what
have you just let juice just sit by itself you don't touch it you just let
it just figure out what's going on it's going to ferment everybody knows it's
going to firm it and then it will turn into an alcoholic beverage now what
happens if I just take bread and I just set it on the counter and I don't do it
touching it for a long time you know rot okay now who likes eating rotten bread
moldy bread isn't that just kind of stupid to eat rotting food so if a
beverage turns into a poison after you leave it alone for a long time why would
I drink that you wouldn't now if I eat moldy bread what's gonna happen to throw
up and I'm gonna feel sick nobody wants that necessarily but if I drink the
poison beverage it's gonna make me kind of feel good and I'm gonna lose some my
inhibitions and people do like doing that but you know it's the same thing
drinking poison and eating poison is the same thing it's bad it's wrong the Bible
always says this and it defines it for us Proverbs chapter number 23 look at
verse 31 it says look not thou upon the wine when it is read when it giveth its
color in the cup when it moveth itself aright so it's saying hey this this juice
is just sitting there and then eventually it starts moving itself you
know juice doesn't just move itself okay just for no reason it does when it
starts fermenting though it starts bubbling it starts kind of spinning and
turning but what happens before that happen could I drink it yeah it's called
juice another proof that juice existed before alcohol okay this you're an
idiot if you believe that that it juices never existed until the last 300 years
okay but you're not supposed to drink it after it's fermented why why am I not
supposed to it says in verse 32 at the last it biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder thine eye shall behold strange women and thine heart
shall utter perverse things it's saying if I drink this beverage I'm gonna say
perverted things and I'm gonna start having more lustful thoughts than I was
originally having now who's that apple juice and that happened to them right
after that apple juice grape juice yeah what kind of great juice you guys have
it lemonade I mean look that doesn't happen when you drink juice but you know
what it does happen to people when they drink alcohol look at Proverbs 31
Proverbs 31 and look at verse number four it is not for Kings o Lemuel it is
not for Kings to drink wine nor Prince's strong drink they say what kind of wine
is this well look at verse 5 lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the
judgment of any of the flicted notice they have memory problems when they're
drinking this wine so is that Welch's is that apple juice no I've never had a
memory problem after drinking fruit juice you know who does have fruit or
memory problems drunks people that were drinking alcohol and any kind of
beverage that's intoxicating that's what causes them to say perverted things make
perverted judgments to forget things the blacking out they just lie at the top of
a mast they fall down in the sea they just hurt themselves and they wake up in
the morning and they seek it yet again is what the Bible says and to say that
Jesus Christ drank this is blasphemy and proves you're an idiot you're a moron
because the Bible says wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging and whosoever
is deceived thereby is not wise and if you're not wise that means you're stupid
so anybody that thinks that Jesus drank alcohol is literally stupid that's what
the Bible says and that's what I say too because that's what the Bible says
alright because that's my authority now go if you would to 1st Corinthians 11 go
back so we have the Lord's Supper we're gonna have what unleavened bread and
we're gonna have juice we're not gonna have alcohol what a blasphemous thing to
do and in fact that Jesus had drink alcohol he would have sinned he would
have not been right with God there's countless passages that say that it
would have been wrong how about just Proverbs 31 it's not for Kings well I
thought Jesus was the king of Kings therefore he's not allowed to drink that
beverage is he on top of that he's not even supposed to look at is what the
Bible says so it's multiple passages saying that have been wrong for him it
said he was deceived by it he's not wise but we know he's infinite in wisdom he's
God in the flesh he is the Word of God okay and you can't convince me the Word
of God was ignorant of these passages you know when he's walking around here
he is the word he's quoting the Bible constantly okay he knows all things he
knew that he was going to be betrayed that night before it even happened okay
now 1st Corinthians chapter number 11 is going to bring up one more aspect of
this so we've talked about three aspects one in order to observe the Lord's the
Lord's Supper communion we need to think of Christ number two we need to make it
spiritual not carnal number three we need to understand the symbolism of what
that bread represents a bread presents his body and that juice represents his
blood which was perfect it was precious it's what cleanses us from our sins
you're not going to take a sinful liquid and cleanse me of my sins no it takes
the pure blood of Jesus Christ the unleavened blood of Jesus Christ which
again to have an alcoholic beverage it has to have that leaven to even ferment
in the first place so it destroys all the pictures of you use alcohol but
number four the Bible warns about people partaking of the Lord's Supper
unworthily okay and so in order to observe communion we have to make sure
that we're not partaking Lord's Supper unworthily it says in verse 27 where for
whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be
guilty of the body and blood of the Lord but let a man examine himself and so let
him eat of that bread and drink of that cup for he that eateth and drinketh
unworthily eateth and drink of damnation to himself not discerning the Lord's
body for this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep for if
we would judge ourselves we should not be judged but when we were judged we
were chasing the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world so in 1st
Corinthians chapter 11 it brings up the idea of someone eating or drinking
unworthily now I think there's three ways to understand someone who's drink
who's partaking unworthily okay and it's three S's all right I'm trying to make
this simple all right number one way there how you can avoid being oh this is
being saved okay if you're not saved you're unworthy you're not worthy
partake in the Lord's sacrifice his death you're picturing his death how
could you sit there and eat and drink of his you know flesh and blood when you
don't even believe in his sacrifice for salvation so in order to partake in the
Lord's Supper you have to be saved and you have to be saved the way we say you
have to be saved which is by faith alone in Jesus Christ and you can't lose
your salvation if you don't believe that doctrine do not take the Lord's Supper
with us because we we don't want you to here okay and taking that that sacrament
because you're unworthy and you could have problems okay what happened to
Judas when he took on worthily oh yeah the devil entered his body immediately
okay so if you want Devils to inhabit your body take of the Lord's Supper
unworthily all right but if you're saved greater is he that is in you than he's
in the world you can't be possessed with the devil the devil can't come inside
you and take over your body that's for the unsaved okay number two though would
be that you're not taking it soberly okay what does sober mean it means that
you're serious okay it means that you're thinking clearly so if I'm not thinking
soberly that means I might not realize what I'm doing is about Jesus right I
could be taking it in a carnal way or in a selfish way not really thinking of
Jesus Christ wasn't that pretty much the whole essence of this chapter people
that were taking before other their own supper they're doing with the vision and
strife thinking of themselves he's saying when you partake of the Lord's
Supper you need to be thinking of me do this do in remembrance of me so if we're
doing the Lord's Supper irreverently not thinking of Jesus Christ making it a
flippant just execution then that could cause the Lord to be displeased with us
imagine when about Nadab and Abihu they enter into the the Lord's tabernacle and
they offer strange fire under the Lord it wasn't that the fact they were
offering a sacrifice was the problem it was that they were executing that
sacrifice wrongly their execution of the worship of the Lord was wrong and in the
same breath he brings up that you're not supposed to drink strong drink or wine
unless he kills you so imagine me using alcohol God could severely judge us okay
and to whom much is given of him shall much be required obviously the Catholics
are doing this wrong every single day and nothing's really seems to happen to
them but I think that God's just like you know doesn't care what they're doing
they're just heathen pagan you know God's long suffering to the unsaved and
to the wicked and whatever so don't take his mercy on the unsaved as a license
for us to just how live however we want just because he doesn't judge the
fornicators of this world and the murderers and the adulterers of this
world don't think that you as a Christian can get away with it and don't
think just because they observe the Lord's Supper blasphemously that we can
just do it however we want no judgment must begin at the house of God okay now
there's a third way that I believe someone could partake of the Lord's
Supper unworthy and this is important because when you look at verse 30 he
says for this cause many are weak and sickly among you many sleep sleep is
only in reference to save people okay so he's definitely talking about save
people coming under severe chastisement one way we're not doing it very
seriously we're not being sober okay but there is another way I believe that this
could take place go to chapter 5 just flip back to chapter number 5 and look
at verse number 1 it is reported commonly there's fornication among you
in such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles that one should
have his father's wife and you're puffed up and if not rather mourn that he that
done this deed might be taken away from among you for I verily is absent a body
but present a spirit of judge already as though I were present concerning him
that has so done this deed in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when you're
gathered notice this together and my spirit with the power of Lord Jesus
Christ to deliver such in one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh of the
Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus so the Apostle Paul saying
there's somebody in your church that's an open fornication and really bad
fornication and he's saying you guys when you come together toss them out
have nothing to do with him now it is addressing the church I don't think that
Corinthians the first Corinthians Church they may not have had a pastor at this
point in time okay so that's why he's just kind of having the church and it's
probably why there's so many problems okay they're just like it's a it's a
free-for-all and they have a multiplicity of preachers and they have
women preachers you know they have all kinds of stuff that's going on in this
church people don't believe the resurrection I mean it's chaotic in this
situation okay but they still need to exercise church discipline and cast that
guy out and say get out of here we have nothing to do with you now he says in
verse number seven purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new
lump as you're unleavened for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us
therefore let us keep the feast now with 11 neither the leaven of malice and
wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth so he says you
coming together with this sin is like bringing leaven into the unleavened
bread that we're supposed to be partaking in so what are we supposed to
do when we have the Lord's Supper supposed to be unleavened bread
physically but also spiritually so how can we just have a bunch of fornicators
and drunks and extortioners amongst us partaking in the Lord's Supper when
they're not even supposed to be there okay let alone you know the fact they
have their own issues so here's my second or my third point you need to be
saved to take the Lord's Supper you need to be sober about it but the last one is
you need to be sincere isn't that what he says in verse number eight with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth now what's sincere okay well if you're
showing up to church and you're an open fornication you're not taking the things
of God sincerely and in fact any of these sins on this list what does he say
in verse number in 10 or verse 11 but now I've written unto you not to get
company if a man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or
idolater or a railer or a drunkard or extortioner with such and one notice
this know not to eat he's saying don't eat with these people so then how am I
supposed to eat the Lord's Supper with someone I'm not even supposed to eat
with all right so therefore we got to get rid of those people in order to
partake in the Lord's Supper so we're not doing it unworthily God's gonna be
very upset with the guy that's just in open fornication eating in the
congregation the Lord's Supper of all things when he's not even supposed to be
there okay it's like an aggravated transgression when you're partaking
Lord's you're not supposed to be in church and then on top of that you're
taking the Lord's Supper it's like you're just counting the blood of the
Covenant where with your sanctified is an unholy thing and doing despite to
the spirit of grace and you know what there's a fiery indignation to those
that would just you know thumb their nose at God willfully go on sinning an
open rebellion now these sins while I know about them I will deal with them I
don't always know I can't know if you're in fornication necessarily I can't know
because people don't commit fornication in public okay people don't do some of
these things in public right but you know and God knows so like you should
exam yourself and say am I on this list because if I'm in this list I need to
throw myself out of church okay or fix it I'd prefer that you fix it right I
don't want anybody to find a church that's not the goal that's not the
intent but at the end of the day we need to worship God in sincerity and in truth
and when people are in these you know sins they need to repent of them they
need to get right with God so that they are in church sincerely not just making
a show but not being an infiltrator not being someone that should be disciplined
and just because someone's in one of these sins doesn't make them any worse
than you or me it just means they need to fix it okay we you know a lot of
people probably in this room have been on this list at some point in their life
okay so and if you've been if you cleaned yourself up you're appended of
it you know what it's not it's an active sin that someone's involved in okay so
if you are not in that list you know you're saved and you're gonna take it
seriously then I believe you should partake in the Lord's Supper but there
is that warning of taking it unworthily so let me wrap up how to observe
communion well number one we need to think of Christ it's all about Jesus
Christ okay that's the point of the Lord's Supper number two we need to
think of the spiritual aspects not the carnal aspects number three we need to
think of the symbolism that's attached to what the bread means and what the
juice symbolizes and then number four we need to examine ourselves and just make
sure that we're right with God in the context that we're saved we're taking it
seriously and we're sincerely you know showing up to church and wanting to
serve him and I think the blessing comes with the Lord's Supper is it helps us
continue to take the things that Christ has done for us seriously his blood I
mean his blood was not shed in vain it's a serious thing and not only is it
washes from our sins and a sense of going to heaven but it also is a daily
thing you know we need to find grace to help in time of need daily we need to
constantly confess our sins daily and forsake our sins daily and I think when
you take of the Lord's Supper it helps remind you of the seriousness of what he
did for us and how we needed to take our Christian walk seriously so let's close
in prayer thank you father so much for this great series that we got to go
through all these chapters and all this the symbolism of what your son has done
for us that his body was broken for us and that his blood was shed so that we
could go to heaven not based on anything that we've done but solely on
his righteousness and his free gift and I just thank you for not only purging
us from all of our sins so that we go to heaven but also giving us grace daily I
pray that we would not take that lightly but rather we would take the Christian
life seriously Bible says that you've purchased the church with your own blood
and I thank you so much for the church I pray that we would all take church very
seriously and that you'd bless the Lord's Supper as we take next week and
that you just bless everyone in this room in Jesus name we pray amen let's
go to our final song for the evening song 27 if for some reason you have any
questions about the Lord's Supper you can always call or email me or something
but I'd also recommend you listen to other sermons that I preached on it
recently one other thing before we sing it I didn't get account for the soul
winning this evening was there any salvation to report on here was that who
are you with okay so y'all had y'all had one as a group okay you had one and
y'all had I was great okay so we had nine for that's great praise the Lord on
that song 27 the old rugged cross and the first on a hill far away stood an
old rugged cross the emblem of suffering and shame and I love that old cross
where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain so I'll
is the old rugged cross till my trophies at last I lay down I will cling to the
old rugged cross and exchange it some day for a crown oh that old rugged
cross so despised by the world has a wondrous attraction for me for the
dear Lamb of God left his glory above to bear it to dark cavalry so I'll
cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last I lay down I will
cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it some day for a crown in the
old rugged cross stained with blood so divine a wondrous beauty I see for twas
on that old cross Jesus suffered and died to pardon and sanctify me so I'll
cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last I lay down I will
clean to the old rugged cross and exchange it some day for a crown to the
old rugged cross I will ever be true it's shame and reproach gladly bear then
he'll call me someday to my home far away where is glory forever I'll share
so I'll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last I lay down I
will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it some day for a crown thank
y'all so much for coming y'all are dismissed
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