Welcome to Sherriff Foundation Baptist Church.
Thank you for coming to our Sunday evening service.
If you'd please find your seats and open your blue hymnals to page 180.
We're going to sing I Know That My Redeemer Liveth.
Page 180 in your blue hymn books.
I Know That My Redeemer Liveth.
Page 180 on the first.
I Know That My Redeemer Liveth.
And on the earth again shall stand.
I Know Eternal Life Begiveth.
And grace and power are in His hand.
I Know I Know That Jesus Liveth.
And on the earth again shall stand.
I Know I Know That Life Begiveth.
That grace and power are in His hand.
I Know His promise never faileth.
The word He speaks it cannot die.
Though cruel death my flesh assaileth.
Yet I shall see Him by and by.
I Know I Know That Jesus Liveth.
And on the earth again shall stand.
I Know I Know That Life Begiveth.
That grace and power are in His hand.
On the last I Know my mansion He prepareth at where He is.
There may be a wondrous love for me.
He careth in me at last will come for me.
I Know I Know That Life Begiveth.
And on the earth again shall stand.
I Know I Know That Life Begiveth.
That grace and power are in His hand.
Amen. Great to see you brother Harrington.
Sean Harrington. You want to open us with a word of prayer?
Thank you Lord so much.
Amen.
Page 59. We're going to sing Come Thou Fount.
I'm sorry, not page 59, 52. 52, Come Thou Fount.
Come Thou Fount of every blessing to my heart to sing Thy grace.
Streams of mercy never ceasing.
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious summons sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mountain, fix the planet.
Fount of Thy redeeming love.
Here I raise thine Ebenezer, either by Thy help I'm come.
And I hope by Thy good pleasure safely to arrive at home.
Jesus saw me when a stranger wondering from the fold of God.
He too rescued me from danger, injured post His precious blood.
Oh to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be.
Let Thy goodness, like a feather, bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart, oh take it, seal it, seal it for Thy courts of honor.
All right, good evening. Welcome back to Shore Foundation Baptist Church.
Let's take our bulletins and go through the announcements one more time today.
If you need a bulletin, I think we might still have some more. Do we have any more guys?
No? All right, well it's too bad. Anyway, our front cover, we have our verse of the week. It says,
but the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable,
gentle and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality,
without hypocrisy. James chapter 3 verse 17. Our service times are 10 30 a.m. for our Sunday
morning preaching and our Sunday evening preaching is at 3 30 p.m. We're taking a break from Exodus.
I was going to preach out of Exodus chapter 12, which would be perfect for the Passover,
but I decided I wanted to go with the really clear scriptures about this teaching. We just
we have a lot of people, new people in our church. I just wanted to make sure that people
understand the doctrine completely and extrapolate it out of an Old Testament teaching.
I'm still going to do it. I just prefer to do it from the most clear verses in the New Testament.
So I'm going to be preaching about the Lord's Supper tonight. Thursday, we're going to be back
in Hebrews chapter number 8. It's a short chapter. I'm sure I'll try to find a way to make it long,
but that's 6 30 Thursday night. Soling times. Do we have any salvations out soling today? Anybody?
One. Anybody else? So one over here. Was there anybody else? No. Okay. All right. Well, hey,
one's better than none, right? Amen. And we're having a good month. So the month's not over yet.
We have 33 salvations this month. So and then brother Ian messaged me. They had another baptism.
We had two baptisms today. We had two last week. We had seven salvations in Spokane last weekend.
So our churches are doing really well. And so even our church in Canada is doing really
well up there. I think they had eight salvations last week. So we had several, I think we had 12
salvations last week before, you know, obviously yesterday or today. But church is doing really
well. All of our churches are doing really well on the upcoming events. Again, next Saturday at 9 30,
I'll be having like a light breakfast here. And then we're going to go out so many at 10 30.
We'll go for a couple hours, we'll have lunch at one, one to two, we'll have lunch here at the
church building. Or if it's really nice, maybe we'll just have it on location someplace.
But we're gonna do so many marathon in the immediate Vancouver area. And if you can't
come up or you're out of town, you want to just go soloing in the town that you live in, because
we have a lot of people that travel from a long ways away at this church. So if there's someplace
else that you're going to go, just let me know what what your numbers are. If you get someone
to save, just please let us know because we want to count them. But for the ones that are in this
immediate area, please use the invitations that I'm going to hand out on Saturday morning. If
you're meeting on location that morning, it'll be posted in the WhatsApp group. But if you're
meeting on location, then we'll still use the invites that we're using just for that day only,
okay? And so we're going to try to get as many people as we can saved on April Fool's Day.
April 2nd, we're going to participate in the Lord's Supper. And that's the main reason why
I'm preaching those sermons. I always preach about baptism and the Lord's Supper every year.
I figure it'd be good to do it twice in one day. We had some baptisms. We're going to have some
baptisms tonight. And then we're also going to partake in the Lord's Supper next week. So it's
good to know why we do it, how we do it. We do do it differently than a lot of churches probably
would. There's close communion, which means, you know, they're not... Close communion means
that anybody in the church can take it, but they don't like do it on a different night or
something. But close communion is a really popular way of doing the Lord's Supper in this area
amongst Baptist churches. And that's where only people that are members on the roll are able to
participate and you get invited to a secret Lord's Supper meeting. I'm not kidding. It's by
invitation only. If you're not an official member of the church, then you just don't get invited to
participate in it. But a lot of churches will even do that on a Sunday night. Missionary Baptist
churches are close communion. And so if you ever see missionary Baptist, they're close communion.
And I've been in a church service where they said, hey, I know you're a visitor, but, you know,
now that the service is over, we're going to have communion and you need to go. So, but I've also
been to churches, a church in this town where they did it by invitation only. So you got like this
special Willy Wonka, you know, chocolate factory ticket or something that says you're invited to
the Lord's Supper and you did it on a separate night. So there's a lot of different ways people
do it. Open communion is basically just anybody that comes can take it. There's no,
nothing's spelled out. In close communion, it's usually church members only,
but other people can participate. It's not like policed like that. It's kind of like that here
in a way, but we also, we like to tell people and warn people about doing it improperly and
things like that. So I'll get into all that after I've preached this mini sermon. I'm going to
preach it later on in the sermon to come. So anyway, I'm just kidding, but I just want to let
you know there's a lot of different ways to do it. So I'm not getting down on people for
how they do it necessarily unless they just do it completely wrong. But anyway,
so we have that. We have the big soul winning push April 8th. We're going to be going to Portland,
doing some soul winning and then Easter Sunday. Of course, we're gonna have a pot look after the
morning service and family pictures will be available. We'll have like a backdrop here,
but if you just want to go out in the wild and the nature, if it's nice enough, then feel free
to do that. It's no pressure. I think Miss Annie is going to be taking pictures though on Easter
Sunday, maybe before and after the service. I'm not 100% sure, but we'll get that information to you
as it comes closer here. But April 11th is a OMSI homeschool field trip. Anybody's welcome to go
if you're a homeschooling family and it's 9 30 a.m. for general admission and planetarium show.
We do need the head count by tomorrow. COB. What's that stand for? Close of business.
It's not midnight. It's not 11 59. What's COB? What's your COB? What's the deadline Miss Rachel?
Noon. So her close of business, she's done at noon. You better get her the numbers.
All right. The crochet class is going to be on April 12th. I believe that's a Tuesday or
Wednesday 3 p.m. See Mrs. Boda for the details on that. April 13th through 17th is the Detroit
sewing trip. April 29th is the so many marathon to Salem. And what's not in there is April 30th
is a men's preaching night for the evening service. So that got cut out of there somehow,
probably too much stuff in there. Men's preaching night. Oh, no, it is there. Hey,
what am I talking about? The date wasn't there. I'm like a robot. I have to go through.
So I guess I didn't read that in the last one. But anyway, King James Conference, May 25th through
28th, all the other stuff, you know, we're saying happy birthday to everybody. Let's go ahead and
move on with our service. We'll sing another song and receive the offering.
All right. Let's turn to page 320 in your blue hymn books. I'd rather have Jesus page 320.
I'd rather have Jesus.
Page 320 on the first. I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold. I'd rather be his than have
riches. I'd rather have Jesus than houses or lands. I'd rather be led by his help.
I'd rather have Jesus.
I'd rather be.
I'd rather have Jesus.
I'd rather.
I'd rather have Jesus.
I'd rather have.
I'd rather have Jesus.
First Corinthians, Chapter 11,
First Corinthians, Chapter 11. If you don't have a Bible, there's a Bible under your chair.
First Corinthians, Chapter 11. God's word reads,
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I delivered
them to you. But I would have you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the
woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man praying or prophesying, having his head
covered, dishonoreth his head. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered
dishonoreth her head. For that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered,
let her also be shorn. But if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
For the man indeed ought not to cover his head, for as much as he is the image and glory of God,
but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man. For this cause ought the woman
to have power on her head because of the angels. Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman,
neither is the woman without the man in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man
also by the woman, but all things of God. Judge in yourselves, is it not comely that a woman pray
unto God uncovered? Doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a
shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to
is given her for a covering. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom,
neither the churches of God. Now in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not,
that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. For first of all, when you come
together in the church, I hear that 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. When you come together therefore in one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper.
For in eating, everyone taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry, and another is drunk.
What? Have ye not houses to eat and drink in, or despise ye 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. For I have 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, do this in remembrance of me. After the same manner, when
also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood,
this do ye as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink
this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread,
and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the 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 drinketh 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 are judged,
we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. Wherefore,
my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger,
let him eat at home, that ye may come not together unto condemnation. And the rest
will I set in order when I come. Brother Chris, can you pray for us?
Amen. So I'm going to preach about the doctrine of the Lord's Supper tonight, and I'm going to
try to get through this as quickly as I can. I do have several pages of scripture, and I talked
about in the announcements about I was going to preach this out of Exodus chapter 12, because
Exodus chapter 12 is where the Passover is instituted. But we're not keeping the Passover,
so I wanted to just, because we have so many new people in our church, I wanted to just take my
time and teach this doctrine from the most clear passage, I think, that talks about it in the whole
Bible. Obviously, there's a lot of debate about some of the stuff that's in this chapter.
For some reason, people think when it's talking about hair length there, that it's talking about
wearing some kind of covering on your head or something. But the Bible's talking about
this ordinance about having men having short hair and women having long hair. And if a woman
doesn't want to, if she wants to keep short hair, he's talking about giving her a buzz cut. So
I mean, I don't know where you get head covering, as in some kind of veil that you have to wear on
your top of your head. But a lot of cultures, they think that that's what happens when people
that are unsaved get a hold of the Bible, and then they just don't understand what it's talking about.
But in verse number one, the Bible says, Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
So what's he saying? This is the Apostle Paul. Follow me as I follow Christ. So is it okay to
follow men? It is, as long as they're following Christ. Now I praise you, brethren, that you
remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I delivered them to you.
So these are two key verses in this passage, and he's going to teach us about some ordinances
to be kept. And he mentions the hair length because, I mean, if you think about it,
it is a picture. It's not a picture of the death, burial, and resurrection, but it is a picture
about who is in charge, basically. And so for people to think that Jesus had long hair, if you
get that Jesus had long hair, you think that he actually had long hair, why would the Bible say
it's a shame for a man to have long hair? Like, so you're saying Jesus had long hair, but he was
ashamed? No, we're supposed to have short hair as men so that we're not ashamed. And women are
supposed to have long hair to cover their head. That's what this passage is teaching. That is an
ordinance. Okay, but it's not an ordinance that pictures the death, burial, and resurrection.
That's what I'm talking about. The two ordinances today that teach, that we're supposed to keep as
a picture, these ordinances about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. That's
baptism. I preached about that this morning. And in the Lord's Supper, which is what I'm
going to preach about tonight. So the Lord's Supper represents the shed blood and death
of the sinless body of Christ, the breaking of his body. Obviously, his bones weren't broken,
but his body was beaten terribly, and his blood was shed. It was completely drained out of his
body over the course of that day. And so there are no other ordinances where we would take and
see a picture of Christ's death. Obviously, baptism is only something you have to do once,
unless, of course, the caveat to that is that you got baptized by some kind of freakish cult,
or you got baptized in a wrong way, in a wrong mode. So the mode is what? Buried in the
likenesses of our Savior's death, raised to walk in newness of life, right? So now, in the Old
Testament, there are multitudes of ordinances that represented these things. Of course, the Passover
is one of those things. The lamb, and then you strike the doorpost to make sure that God passes
over that house. That's a picture of salvation that the lamb—and obviously, I even read that
scripture in John where it says, Behold, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.
So Jesus Christ was that Lamb of God that was pictured as the sinless lamb that people were
supposed to bring once a year. So the Passover was done once a year. That's why we only do the
Lord's Supper once a year. Now, if other churches do it differently, I'm not against them because
it does say as oft as you do this. So how often do we do it? Once a year. So just like the Passover,
because we believe it is a continuation of the Passover. Now, I'll get more into that next week
about those specific things. Maybe not next week, but excuse me, the week after that.
Because next week when we come together to do the Lord's Supper, it's not going to be a preaching
service. We're just going to do the Lord's Supper. We're going to do it like Jesus showed us how,
and like the Apostle Paul is instructing us here tonight. So you're going to get the sermon about
it tonight, but next week is just going to be kind of a psalm assembly, and we're going to
do the Lord's Supper together as a church family, and then we're going to leave and go home. We're
going to sing a hymn and leave, just like they did the night that Jesus did it with his disciples.
So tonight I'm going to preach to you what our church believes about the Lord's Supper.
And again, I'm not against other churches that do it differently. Obviously, if they're doing it,
if they think that the body and blood is like the Catholic Church believes, that you say some
prayer, and then that wafer becomes the real body of Jesus, or it's called transubstantiation,
and they basically believe that when they say their hocus pocus prayer or whatever,
that it turns into the literal body and the literal blood of Jesus, and that they're eating
and drinking his body and blood. I mean, that's like cannibalism, right? That's what they believe,
though. They believe that that prayer, that they're eating Jesus every week. That's pretty
strange, isn't it? It is a symbol. It's not literal, all right? You're not literally eating
and drinking his blood, okay? So anyway, in this church, if you disagree with how we do it or maybe
some of the nuances of it, I would just say that you don't cause division about it. We're supposed
to be in unity in this church, and if you believe something different and you just secretly have
some different belief about it, just keep it to yourself. And is it really a big enough problem
where you would have to say something about it? I hope not, because as long as we're doing it as
close as possible as we can to what the Bible says, then I don't understand why there would be
a problem with it. But we want unity in this church. We don't want division. So if another
church or another pastor does it differently, I'm not against that person, as long as, you know,
you know, that's their church. At Sure Foundation Baptist Church, I'm going to teach you how we do
it here. So the first thing I want to look at tonight is in verse 17, and Paul rebukes the
church at Corinth for not doing the Lord's Supper correctly. So basically what you have,
starting in chapter 11, verse 17, is you have Paul. This is a corrective passage.
He's going to get on to them and rebuke them for not doing it right. So this is what it says.
So in verse 17, it says, Now in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not,
that you come together not for the better, but for the worse. For first of all, when you come
together in the church, so are they coming together in the church? Yes, they are. So that
means they're gathering together in the church, right? I hear that 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. So now heresies isn't always damnable heresies. I think I've
explained that quite a lot. But anything that just basically you believe about the Bible that's not
true I would think is heresy. Now there's obviously degrees of heresy, but damnable
heresy is when you believe something different about salvation or eternal security, the Trinity,
things like that. But isn't it true that if somebody believes something that's wrong about
the Bible and it's not true, it would be heresy, right? It's just wrong. So anyway, verse 20,
when you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper.
And people get tripped up by this verse a little bit, but he's already saying that they're coming
together. I'm not praising you in the way that you're coming together. And then he says here,
when you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper. He's saying
this, that's not what you're doing. You're doing it wrong. What's he saying in verse 21? For in
eating everyone taketh before other his own supper and one is hungry and another is drunken.
So basically what's happening here is that they're having a potluck and calling it the Lord's Supper.
And some people didn't bring enough. Maybe they didn't have, you know, they didn't have,
all they had was a couple of flakes of rice or something. I don't know. One's hungry and another
is drunken. And drunken here, it's not necessarily talking about that they're drinking alcohol.
It's talking about that they're overeating. Okay, so whenever you take in too much you're,
you know, you're drunken basically. It's not talking about alcohol in my opinion here.
But so they're treating it, they're treating the Lord's Supper like a potluck and the apostle Paul
saying this is not the Lord's Supper. This is not what you're doing. And so they're, what's he
saying? You're doing it wrong. You're doing it wrong. Look at verse 22. It says what? Have you
not houses to eat and drink in? So you see how that next verse is just telling us this isn't
supposed to be a meal. This is supposed to be something special. This is something different.
This is not to get full. This is not a meal that, you know, it might be called the Lord's Supper,
but that's not what they're supposed to be doing. Have you not houses to eat and drink in
or despise you 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 he's getting on to them, isn't he? He's upset
about how they're doing it. He's saying you're treating it like a potluck. Some people are
eating too much. Some people don't have enough to eat. You know, don't you have a house to eat in?
You know, when you're about to take the Lord's Supper, why don't you eat at home?
Why don't you eat your food at home? And then when you're coming here, you're taking the Lord's
Supper. When you're doing it, it's a special service. It's a special ordinance that you're
doing. So they're treating it like a meal. And he's saying to them, eat at home if you're hungry.
So that should tell you it's not intended to be a meal, right? Just these verses here should
just tell you that's not what it's supposed to be. And he tells them they're not coming together
for the better, but for the worse. What you're doing is not good. It's not right. And it wasn't
wrong for them to do it together. They are to do it together, but just to do it correctly.
That's the difference. So he's telling them you're doing it wrong, and then he's going to tell them
how to do it right. And how are they supposed to do it? The way that he told them how to do it.
The way that Jesus showed him how to do it. He's showing them how to do it. And then he's going to
tell us the correct way to do it. So the first passage there that we covered, verse 17 through
verse 22, he's correcting them on doing it wrong. Now the next verses, he's going to tell them how
to do it right. So number two, Paul corrects the Corinthian church on how to do it the commendable
or right way. Look at verse 23. It says, For I have 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. So
he's going to go through the correct way to do it right now. This is what he's doing. Verse 24,
And when he had given thanks, he break it, and said, Take, eat, this is my body,
which is broken for you, this do, in remembrance of me. So what is the purpose of the broken bread?
He's breaking it. It's a symbol of the fact that his body is going to be broken for them.
And he says, this do, in remembrance of me. So the purpose of the Lord's Supper is a remembrance
of the Lord, what he did for us, that he was beaten and that his blood was spilled for us on
the cross of Calvary. So notice that he's quoting the words of Jesus himself in the Gospels, because
if you notice that it's quoting it in the red letter edition, if you have that, it's quoting
exactly what Jesus said. So this is Paul saying, I'm correcting you. Here's what Jesus did. This
is what I want you to do. And verse 25, it says, After the same manner, also he took the cup,
when he had supped, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do ye,
as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me. So as long as you drink what? The cup of the Lord's
Supper. It's not just every time you drink a glass of grape juice, every time you have some
orange juice, you're like, I remember you, Jesus. I mean, you could remember him,
but then if it's orange juice, it's not the right picture, is it? Maybe tomato juice would be, but
the blood of the grape, yeah, tomato juice, I know you're like, ah, see? But I'm just saying that
he's telling us that as often as you drink this cup and as often as you eat this bread, you're
doing it to remember me, all right? So that's where I would say, people say, well, as often as
you do it. So if a church chooses to do it every week, that's their prerogative. If they want to
remember the sacrifice and blood, the blood and the broken body of Jesus every week, that's up
to them. But to me, I think that the reason why the Passover was done once a year was so that it's
special to people to do it once a year. And then if the Lord's Supper is the continuation of the
Lord's Passover, then wouldn't it make sense that you would do it once a year? I mean, obviously,
it doesn't command you to do it that way, but that's why we do it, because I want to make sure
that it's special to the people that come to this church and that we don't just treat it like it's
something common or something that we just... The more you do something, the less special it gets.
You know, the first time you have a steak, a nice, good, juicy steak and it's salted up,
you're like, man, that's the best food I've ever had in my life, right? But then if you ate it
every single day, it would cease to be special to you. And as a matter of fact, you'd probably
get an aversion to it, like I'm never going to eat another steak as long as the world stands.
You know, and sometimes food, you know, you get a hankering for a certain kind of food,
and then all of a sudden you're sick of it. That's probably because you're just doing it too much.
So that's kind of the way I look at the Lord's Supper is that I want to make sure it's special.
I want to go by as much as I can off of what the Bible teaches to do, and I believe that the
Bible teaches that once a year they did the Passover, so I believe if this is the continuation,
which I do think it is, then I think that we should hold to that same tradition and do it
once a year. So that's just my personal belief. Easter, is it Easter every week?
It's once a year, isn't it? And that's, you know, basically the Passover week or whatever.
So it says in verse 26, for as often as you eat this bread, so it's not just talking about bread
in general, is it? But as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's
death telecom. So I think he's basically kind of helping us understand it's not just any common
bread. And as a matter of fact, it's supposed to be unleavened bread, all right? So Jesus Christ
had no sin. The picture is unleavened bread because unleavened bread is a picture of sin,
even though leavened bread is scrumptious and tasty. You know, we think that sin is scrumptious
and tasty too when we do it, because otherwise people wouldn't sin if they didn't enjoy it,
right? But the picture of leaven is sinful, so you don't eat the bread with leaven in it.
But I've sat at communion services and I was like to my family, no, we're not doing this. Like,
we were just visiting some other church, and it was a Baptist church. It wasn't an independent,
fundamental Baptist church, but it was a Baptist church. At that time, we just kind of didn't
really understand all the nuances of what types of Baptist, that there's several different types
of Baptist churches, okay? It's kind of like there's several different just kinds of Christian
churches in general, but at one point I kind of thought all Baptist churches were the same,
right? So when the drums came out and, you know, there was no smoke and lights or anything like
that, but it was kind of like a Southern gospel music thing. My uncle was like some banjo player
or something in it, but anyway, he invited us to do it, and then they did communion afterwards,
and a guy, there's two guys standing at the front. One guy has a box of Franza wine,
which is like cheap, you know, lush bum wine or something. I don't know. It's kind of mid-grade
or whatever, but they're standing there with that, and then the other guy is holding 11
giant loaf of French bread. So that's their picture. I mean, it just tells you what they
think of Jesus, that his blood had sinful things inside of it, because look, if you
drink alcoholic wine and are drunken, does that represent the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Wasn't his blood sinless? When you squeeze fresh, squeezed grape juice,
it's the pure blood of the grape. So that's what we believe that you should be partaking in.
And wine, grape juice is just called wine in the Bible. Fact. You have to look at the context of
what it's saying when it's talking about wine. Wine just means juice in our modern vernacular,
so it doesn't differentiate. So a lot of people think, well, Jesus just turned water into wine,
so it's just a big party afterwards. Everybody drank all the wine, then he just comes and goes,
ta-da, keep the party going. That's so blasphemous to think that. And especially since
being drunk is a sin, so you're putting Jesus as a sinner by saying that. You're saying that
he sinned and gave them more alcohol to drink after they already drank it all up. Are you
kidding me? But see, people that want to just excuse themselves to drink alcohol, that's what
they do. But the bread that we eat is unleavened bread, and we bake it fresh the night before.
So it's kind of chewy. It's not like that freeze-dried packs that you get at most churches
where they give you like a little square that looks like a mint or something,
and it's just like all chalky. You need the juice to wash it down because it's like stuck to the
insides of your mouth. But the kind that you're going to partake of next Sunday, it is a little
chewy, so take a little piece because it takes a while to chew it up. But at least it's fresh.
It hasn't been around since 1979 in some freeze-dried packaging. So we do do it fresh,
and it's unleavened bread, and we take grape juice, unfermented wine, and we partake like that. So
anyway, let me move on to point number three. Number three, Paul gives a warning to the
believers the consequences of doing it wrong. So he already corrected everybody for the way
they were doing it wrong, right? It's a potluck. That's what they were doing. And then he tells us
how to do it right. He says exactly how Jesus said to do it. And then he's going to say the
consequences of not doing it right. It's not the consequences of not being saved and partaking in
it. It's the consequences of a believer taking it in the wrong manner and in the wrong way.
So verse 27 says, Wherefore whosoever shall eat of this bread and drink this cup of the Lord
unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. So I guess it is whosoever, right?
It's whosoever. But what does that word unworthy mean? Well, it means not worthy. It means lacking
worth or excellence, beneath the dignity, not of adequate merit or character, not commendable
or credible, not deserving. And that's what I would think is, you know, that's a really good
definition there of not deserving, okay? So I would agree. Unsaved people should not partake
in the Lord's Supper. But I'll tell you what, over a billion people every week do this.
They're called the Roman Catholic Church. They take it every week. They do it wrong.
They do it with the wrong elements. They do it for the wrong reasons. They think it's saving them.
They think it's literally the body and blood of Jesus. But do they all drop dead when they do it?
No. So, I mean, I think that this is more of a stern warning against believers
that are partaking in it when they shouldn't be.
So I believe doing it without being serious or carelessly or wrong is definitely a correct
interpretation of this. So you're just not—because what's he getting onto him for? Not doing it
right. So they're doing it incorrectly. If they're treating the Lord's Supper like a potluck,
would that be irreverently? It would be, wouldn't it? So that's what I think he's talking about
here. But there is more. So I also believe it could be talking about your personal actions
and how you're living your Christian life. Because this is a serious matter to God,
this whole thing. Because why would he say, hey, don't take it unworthily? Don't do that. I'm going
to warn you. God takes time through the Apostle Paul here to warn us of why we shouldn't take
it unworthily. Why? Because he's about to warn us the ramifications of doing it incorrectly,
and unworthily. And look, nobody here is worthy of salvation. We all deserve to go to hell.
I understand that. We're all sinners in this room. But we're not all committing sins that
would be something that would be a sin that would have us kicked out of this church.
So I believe that if you're committing sins that you should be kicked out of this church for,
and you're knowingly staying here, knowing that you should be gone,
knowing that you shouldn't be partaking, and then you partake anyway, this is what
he's warning against. And I'll prove that to you. Turn to 1 Corinthians 5, verse 1.
What about sins that are punishable by death? Do you think that you should not partake because of
that? I mean, unworthily, again, nobody's worthy of salvation. Nobody's sinless. But not everybody's
committing adultery. Not everybody's murdering people on the outside. I hope nobody's murdering
anybody outside of here. Like, I'm a hit man. Nobody knew the whole time. Stuff like that.
But look at 1 Corinthians 5, verse 1. And most people that have been going to this church for
a long time understand this doctrine of being kicked out for things that you shouldn't be
doing. It says,
So this is an extreme version of fornication. It's so bad that he said even the Gentiles don't
do weird stuff like this. This is something that's unnamed among the Gentiles that a man would have
his father's wife. This is pretty weird. It's pretty disgusting. And it says,
What does leaven do? It puffs up bread, doesn't it? It puffs things up. And so that's what he's
saying. You're puffed up. You're filled with leaven. You're allowing this leaven to come in here
and create problems in our church. And you're making it seem like it's just okay and to just
cover it up and just be okay with it. But what's being done here is very wicked and very weird.
It says in verse 3,
So the person that's done this, Paul's about the judge's person. It says,
Do you gather together to do the Lord's Supper?
So if someone is doing something like this, they're to be kicked out of the church.
And then Satan, they're delivered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh. That means what?
He's going to pull, he's going to do whatever he wants to. Whatever God allows him to do to you
outside of church, that's what he's going to do. That's why it's so dangerous to be outside of the
church. And it's not like a cult thing at all. It's just like a, hey, you better follow God thing.
That's what it really is. You're like, well, you just always harp on people going to church. Yeah,
because what happens if you're outside of church? That you're delivered to Satan for the destruction
of the flesh. That the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glory is not good.
Know you not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. So why is he saying they're puffed up?
Because they're allowing leaven to leaven the whole lump. It's infesting the church.
It's taking over the church. Purge out there for the old leaven, that you may be a new lump
as you're unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. So it references to the
Passover, doesn't it? And Jesus Christ is our Passover lamb, and then when we're partaking
the Lord's Supper, it's in remembrance of what he's done for us. So if someone is committing
these types of sins that it's about to list here, then that person might be getting dealt with by
God. Because here's the thing, if I don't know something's going on, and someone's doing one
of the sins that are on this list, or other sins that might possibly be bad too, then God is the
one that judges that person. And so God is not going to just allow someone to partake of this
particular ordinance and just get away with it. And you're like, well how do you know that? Well,
I'll show you here in just a few minutes, but let me read on here. It says in verse 9,
I wrote unto you an epistle not to keep company with fornicators, yet not altogether with the
fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters, for then must
he needs go out of the world. But now I've written unto you not to keep company if any man
that is called a brother, so a saved person, be a fornicator, number one, or covetous,
or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such and one no not to eat.
So you're not supposed to eat with them. Isn't that what it says specifically?
What are you doing when you're partaking in the Lord's Supper? You're eating, aren't you?
You're eating with them. You're gathered together with them and eating. And so God's saying those
people should be gone. But I'm not a mind reader. I can't read your hearts. I can't read your minds.
Other people don't know what you're doing necessarily outside of these walls. But you
know who does know? God knows. And so that's what I would find that the things when it says
you're unworthy to partake, well, isn't this passage saying that you're not supposed to eat
with these people? So if they're secretly here amongst us and they're partaking in these sins,
then there's going to be ramifications for that. Now look at verse 12. So verse 12 says,
So it's calling someone that you kick out for these reasons a wicked person.
Now does that mean they're unsaved all the time? No, it doesn't always mean they're unsaved.
Sometimes it does. But they're a wicked person regardless and that person needs to be out of
here. Why? Because they're leavening the rest of the church. They're bringing sin in. And there
are churches where the pastor will allow people to get divorced and then he will personally remarry
them. That is wicked. That is not what the Bible teaches. It's wrong. It's wicked. But it happens.
There's pastors that won't say anything about someone committing fornication in the church.
That is wrong. That is wicked. That needs to be called out. Now let me just say this. I'm not in
the business of just throwing people out of here that they never could come back or driving their
name into the mud so they can never come back or they can never feel welcomed again. If someone
does one of the sins on this list of things and they're repentant, then they can stay. But if they
continue in those things, that's when you soup it up to the next level. What's the next level?
You bring it before the church. So if someone wants to continue to sin or be in fornication
or to be an idolater or to covet or to continue to drink and be a drunkard, and it's found out
that that person has not stopped or refuses to stop or is not repentant, then that person needs
to go and then the rest of the church needs to know why. So that you can have no company with
that person. Because as the pastor, it's my job to get up and say, hey, don't hang out with this
person anymore because they're wicked, because they're thrown out. This is why. And it's like,
you know, most churches don't do this. Most churches will not get up and kick somebody out.
They'll kick you out for believing in a post-trib pre-wrath rapture. They'll kick you out for not
believing the Jews are God's chosen people. But you know what they won't do? They won't kick you
out for the things that the Bible actually says to kick you out for. So weird. Get out of here,
you Andersonites. It's like, you've got a Calvinist right there. What are you talking about?
That person's not even saved. So weird. Anyway, sorry. I'll jump off my hobby horse there. But
let's see, where was I at? Okay, so if we're to throw out people involved in this state,
doesn't it make sense that if a believer is still in the church doing such sins and we don't know
about it, I don't know about it, that they should get those things right before they partake of the
Lord's Supper? Do you think that the Bible's teaching that? I mean, I think it's pretty clear.
Now go back to 1 Corinthians chapter 11. Let's look at verse number 28.
Verse 28. But let a man examine himself. Does it say examine other people? It says,
let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
Notice how it specifically calls it, you know, that's not a normal way of saying things, is it?
So let him eat of that bread. It's a specific bread he's talking about, isn't it?
And drink of that cup. It's the cup of the Lord's Supper, the bread of the Lord's Supper.
What are you examining? Are you examining whether the pastor is doing it right?
No, you're examining yourself. So you're examining whether you are worthy at that point of eating it
or not. And the reason, and normally I would preach a sermon like this well before, but kind
of just time and chance has happened to me and this is where we're at. So you got a week to get
yourself right with God, okay? But I do want people to think about this and dwell upon this stuff
because it is kind of a serious thing. It's not something to be taken lightly. And when God warns
us, when the Apostle Paul's saying you could die from this, this is a serious issue. Now look at
verse 28. Let a man examine himself. So let him eat of this, oh sorry, verse 29. So you're supposed
to examine yourself. Verse 29, for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh the
damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. So now people will go, well, so what? You
lose your salvation? As I explained this morning, damnation doesn't always mean damnation to hell.
Salvation doesn't always mean salvation of your soul. So belief or faith doesn't always mean the
faith that's saving you, okay? So damnation here is also not talking about the damnation of your
soul. Now it is a picture of that, but obviously if you're already saved, you can't lose your
salvation. So that can't be what this is teaching because the Bible says once you believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, you have eternal life. You have everlasting life. So that can't be the damnation
it's talking about. There's other examples in the scripture that talk about damnation
and that aren't also talking about damnation of the soul. So this is a physical damnation.
Remember that Satan would have destruction of the flesh? So can he destroy your soul?
Can the devil steal your soul when you're already saved? Can he take it out on your flesh though?
The Bible says that. The Bible says that he can take it out on your flesh. The Bible says that you
are given over for the destruction of the flesh. It's exactly what it says, that the soul may be
saved. So God's allowing that person's flesh to be destroyed for the sins that they're committing on
this earth and we teach this, hopefully you teach this at the door when you're soul winning,
that yeah, we can be punished here on earth for the sins that we commit
and sometimes he's going to let the wicked do those things to us just like he let Babylon go
destroy Israel. But he'll also allow the devil to destroy our flesh if we're outside the walls,
if we're outside of God's will, outside of his grace and we're just living our life and
committing fornication and being drunkards and whatever else it says. So I mean that
should make sense. Hopefully that makes sense to you. So now here's the consequences if you
take it unworthily. Verse 30 says, for this cause many are, what does it say? Weak and sickly among
you and many sleep. So that's a little bit to take in there. Weak, sickly, sleep. It's not
talking about that you're falling asleep during the service, all right. It's talking about your
body's weak, physically you're weak and you're sickly. Now just because people get, now listen,
okay, just hold on a second. You're like there's a lot of families that have been sick around here.
Well it is the cold and flu season, okay. And let me just tell you something, when you have a lot of
kids you get sick a lot. The kids get sick a lot, the parents get sick a lot, they pass it off to
other people. It's just the way it is. But it could be that. I'm not going to say it's not,
but I don't, here's what I don't want us doing. Because remember it says examine yourselves,
all right. It says examine yourself. Not take the Lord's Supper and go, three, two, one, they're
sick. Here's my countdown, this family's going to be sick. I mean, just examine yourself, okay.
Don't be going around trying to judge what other people are going through. Now if someone just
drops dead after the service, I mean, you might wonder like, you might wonder what's going on.
All right, they were sick and then they died. I mean,
I'm being funny, but this is serious. So this is the consequences though of partaking unworthily,
right. So, and notice he's not talking about killing or making sick the unbeliever necessarily,
but the believer that is in major sin. Because who's Paul talking to here? Is he talking to
the unsaved here or is he talking to the church? He's instructing the church. He's telling the
church this is what you did wrong, this is how to do it right, here's the consequences for doing it
wrong, right. Verse 31, let's look at verse 31. For if we would judge ourselves, we, he's put
himself what? In the same boat with him, right. We judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
So when we judge ourselves, when we go to God and we get right with him, we confess our faults to
him, our sins to the Lord, then he has mercy upon us and he forgives us. But if it's something that
you're just unrepentant about, you don't care, then, and you're just like, I don't care, only
God can judge me. And it's like, you better be careful when you say something like that,
because he just might. As a matter of fact, I think he probably would. When you say something
really ignorant and just stupid like that, you're just asking yourself to get judged. It's like,
here's the Titanic, the ship that could never sink, oh, what happened? Not even God could sink
it. Oh, yeah? I mean, look at this great Babylon that I have built. We're going to build a tower
so high that it's going to reach to heaven. No, you're not. So God, look, God's going to
base those types of people. So if you're very flippant and flamboyant about your sin,
just if you don't care, well, just prepare to get judged. If you're saved and you fall into this
type of wicked sin, you just know that if you're in here pretending to not be this person,
then your sin's going to find you out. God is going to know that you're into this stuff,
and he's going to punish you for it. That's what it's talking about, right?
And how do I know that? Well, that's what the Bible says. So it says,
but when we are judged, verse 32, we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with
the world. So we are chastened. Who does he chasten? He chases saved people. Does he whip
the devil's kids? I mean, in hell he does for all eternity, but that's afterwards. But they seemingly
live these great lives that we're just like, I can't believe they get away with that stuff,
and they have all this money, and their life seems great. But in reality, they're living their only
life now. Not their best life now, their only life now. And if that includes some kind of rewards
of serving their master, the devil, or if they're just regular, just unbelievers,
they don't get chastened like we do. But God expects his children to live correctly.
And when we don't live correctly, he's going to correct us. And how does he do that? In our flesh.
In our bodies. So it says, now how do I know it's talking about believers? Look at verse 33.
Wherefore, my brethren, what would you say? He's talking to believers right there. Wherefore,
my brethren, when ye come together to eat tarry one for another. So is he talking about Christians
or not? Yes, he is. It's very obvious. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home,
that ye come not together unto condemnation, and the rest will I set in order when I come.
So this is Paul laying it out very clearly for us. This is how you're doing it wrong. You're
doing it irreverently. You're doing it like it's a potluck. Here's how you do it right. And then
he just basically quotes Jesus on how to do it right. Then he says, if you continue to do it
wrong, these are the consequences. Punishment. And I'm going to kind of break this down,
that verse 30 where it talks about being weak, sickly among you, many sleep. Because
these people are believers, and God's going to chastise his children. He's not going to chastise
other people's children. You don't spank other people's kids, I hope.
Otherwise, you might be getting a black eye by somebody. But it says these are believers. So
sometimes God kills believers for transgressions, too. Now, obviously, we shouldn't pray for
believers to be killed. There is a sin that's unto death. I don't say that you should pray for it.
So we shouldn't be praying for other Christians to die. We should probably be praying for
other Christians that are saved to get right. I mean, that's kind of extreme. Like, kill them,
Lord. It's like, you don't know what spirit you are of. I mean, that's just not right.
Now, obviously, if someone is doing you really dirty and they are saved, then you could pray
that God just helps you out. And however God chooses to do that, then that's it. But if you're
just actively praying for all these believers to die, you've probably got something wrong with
your spirit, okay? Now, turn to 1 Thessalonians 4. Now, when it says,
some are asleep. Some fall and many sleep. What's that talking about? Well,
verse 13 kind of helps us in 1 Thessalonians 4.13. It's to kind of help us understand. It says,
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep,
that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus
died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain under
the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. So this is very
clear multiple times. It's talking about people, believers being asleep. And then it says in verse
16, For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
So it's saying sleep, sleep, sleep. Then it says dead in Christ. Then verse 17,
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. So God calls the
dead in Christ asleep in three passages here, three verses. So they're not reprobates, right?
Reprobates are not asleep. They are twice dead. So there is a teaching that I've heard people say
that the people that's talking about that are going to die in this passage are talking about
reprobates that take the Lord's Supper. Now Judas took the Lord's Supper and went out and betrayed
the Lord Jesus, and yes he did hang himself the next day. So I mean there is something to that,
but and obviously that reprobate died, but I mean I don't know that it had to do with that,
it had to do with the fact that he was a reprobate already. He betrayed the Lord Jesus.
So I'm not saying it's because of that necessarily, and it's very clear he's talking
about believers in those other passages. I think I pretty much nailed that down, right?
So I don't think it's talking about that, but there is a danger in thinking that there's a
process where you can pin the tail on the reprobate in the church or something,
that if they take the Lord's Supper and die, then they're not false prophets. That's a very bad
theology, number one. Like I said, there's a billion Catholics that do this once a week,
so you know they don't die and drop dead. Now I just think that that's just a bad way of picking
out someone. The Bible says that tares are going to be sown in among us, and then we will grow
together with them until the time of the harvest. So there are going to be some people that are
just entrenched into churches that are like Judas that will stay that long. Now there's nowhere that
I've seen in the Bible where it says make them take the Lord's Supper then find out whether
they're the reprobate in your church. It is a dangerous way to think. It's a dangerous way
to go, and then you're like, well, they took it, they lived, so they're not reprobates,
and then maybe they are. Maybe they are, and they don't die. So I mean, you see how that
could be damaging to your... you could think something that's not true or you can think
something that's not true. Either way, both aren't true because that's not what the Bible says to do.
So, and obviously you have the story where Lazarus is asleep, the Lord Jesus tells them,
hey, you know, we're going to wake him up out of his sleep, and then he plainly tells them that
Lazarus is dead. So the point of me telling you this is that when the Bible says that people are
asleep, those are people that are saved. So when it's talking about the condemnation that you get
from taking the Lord's Supper irreverently or unworthily, it's saying that some are weak and
many sleep. Reprobates don't sleep. Reprobates are awake in torment and fire. They awake in hell with
their eyes wide open, screaming for all eternity. So maybe they get a little reprieve of the judgment
and then they're thrown right back into the fire. So obviously it is talking about saved people.
The Bible doesn't use the word sleep when it's talking about someone that's dead and going to
hell, some reprobate or something. So, and then, you know, let's turn to 1 John 1 verse 6.
And I would say this also, I mean, just in verse 31 in our passage, it says,
if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. So when Paul is saying we,
he's putting himself in the same boat. So he's adding himself into the group of Christians that
he's talking to. And if we judge ourselves and we know when we've messed up and we need to get
right, then God's not going to judge us at least as harshly as he would have had we just been
obstinate and just, you know, you just continue to do what you're doing and you don't care.
Because there's some sins that you probably do that you do over again.
Maybe you battle with them for a while and you can stave them off,
but then they creep up back around and you're like, man, why did I do that? Like,
what's wrong with me? You're a sinner. That's what's wrong with you. But see,
the attitude that you have towards it is, you know, I messed up again, God.
But that's why he ever liveth to make intercession for us. Because he has to. Because there's so much
wrong with us. You know what I mean? And if we live forever and just, I mean, just think about
all the sins. I don't, you know, don't think about them, but I'm just saying just think about the
fact of all the sins you're going to commit from the time you're a little kid to the time
you're old. It's a lot. It's probably multiple per day. So we got a lot of problems, people.
But if we would judge ourselves, see, God gives us that 1 John 1.9. You know, if we confess our sins
he's faithful and just forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness, right?
So 1 John chapter 1 verse 6. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness,
we lie and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship
one with another in the blood of Jesus Christ. His son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we
have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. See, that's where you're in danger
right there. I don't have any sin. What are you talking about? If you say you have no sin,
you're deceiving yourself. You are in deception. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now, I don't want people
to be confused about this because there is a doctrine where people will say,
well, you have to repent of every sin you do or you're not still saved. That's a bad
doctrine. That's not what this is talking about. Now, if you are told to clean your room by your
parents and you throw everything under the bed—I use this example out so many times—you throw
everything under the bed and you go, Mom and Dad, I cleaned my room. And then they come up and it's
all under your bed. It's all in the closet. You've hidden everything. You haven't organized anything.
And then sometimes your parents will really check up on you and sometimes they won't. Sometimes they
go, oh, it looks great. Cool. Good job. And then later on you're like, you've been putting away,
you've been throwing the folded clean clothes underneath the bed this whole time?
And you know why I know about that stuff? Because my kids do that stuff sometimes.
And then they get in trouble. And Ms. Cherry is the one that cracked down on that kind of stuff.
But I'm just saying that when you are told to do something and you don't do it right,
there's going to be some kind of beef between you and your parents. It's the same thing with God.
Like, if we have all this sin that we have unconfessed, then you know your relationship
isn't right. And then for some reason we kind of get it into us that we're like,
well, I'm not going to read the Bible because I'm just in sin. I'm not going to pray to God because
he doesn't want to hear from me right now. You just don't want to humble yourself. That's what
it really is. And you're ashamed. Why did Adam and Eve hide in the garden? They're ashamed of
what they've done. And we should be ashamed of what we've done, but instead of hiding
those things, we need to go to God with those things. And the Bible says he's faithful and
just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
All right, let's go back to 1 Corinthians 11, verse 32.
I've read this many times. I'm going to read it again.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned
with the world. So, again, that word chastened is talking about getting beaten with stripes,
basically, getting chastised, being spanked. And only children of God get this type of chastisement,
not reprobates. All right, turn to Proverbs 3, verse 11.
Actually, go ahead and turn to Hebrews 12, verse 5. I'm just going to read Proverbs 3,
verse 11. It says, My son despises not the chastening of the Lord,
neither be weary of his correction. For whom the Lord loveth, he correcteth,
even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. So, does God love his children? He does. And when
he does love them, he corrects them. A good parent is going to correct their children when
they're doing something wrong. Hebrews chapter 12, verse 5, the Bible says, And ye have forgotten
the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children. My son despises not the chastening of
the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth,
and scourgeth some of the sons he receiveth. Or does it say every son?
So, if you're one of his children, does he chasten you? He does. So, every person sins. That's why
that doctrine of, you know, I don't sin anymore or whatever, it's just garbage. Every saved person
gets spanked. Because, you know why? Because we all do wrong stuff. That's why. It's pretty simple,
isn't it? And it says, So he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening,
God dealeth with you as sons. For what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
So, when you're a son of God, he's going to spank you. And what he's talking about in
1 Corinthians, that if we would judge ourselves, but when we are judged, we're chastened of the
Lord, that we would not be condemned with the world. So, what is God saying? Don't take it
unworthily. Don't take it irreverently. Don't take it in the wrong way. He says,
do it the way I showed you. What did Paul say at the very beginning? Follow me as I follow Christ.
And do the ordinances as they were delivered unto me. He's going to deliver them unto us. He already
has in this passage. Turn to, let's see, Hebrews chapter 10, verse 30. Hebrews 10, 30.
It says in Hebrews 10, 30, For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me.
I will recompense it the Lord, and again the Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to
fall in the hands of the living God. Why am I beating this up so much? Well, because we got
a lot wrong with us people. And when we're going to take the Lord's Supper, we just need to make
sure that we examine ourselves and that we judge ourselves. And when we partake together of this,
that we're right with God. That's why I'm harping on this. And why did Paul harp on it? Because he
doesn't want people to get weak. He doesn't want people to get sickly. And he doesn't want people
to die. And I don't want that either. And that's why when I get up and before we do the Lord's
Supper every year, I do this every time. Because I want you to understand how serious it is.
You're like, well, if it's that serious, maybe I won't partake. No, why don't you just get right?
Don't have that attitude. Have the right attitude about it. Just say, hey, you know,
I need to fix this. And if you need to fix something, fix it.
So last thing is Paul gives the Corinthians, number four, more corrective instruction. So
look at verse 33. Wherefore, my brethren. So the first thing he does is tells them what they're
doing wrong. He gives them corrective instruction. Then he tells them what's going to happen if they
don't do it right. And then at the end, he just wraps it all up with a bow and says,
Wherefore, my brethren. Again, save people. When you come together to eat, tarry one for another.
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home, that you come not together unto condemnation,
and the rest will I set in order when I come. So that part, will I set in order?
Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 14, let everything be done decently and in order.
So there should be an order of the way we do things. And I kind of mentioned it in the sermon
this morning about being baptized before you would partake of the Lord's Supper.
If you're saved, if you've been baptized, then I think you're good to partake. If your children
are not saved yet, don't let them partake. Use it as a teaching time to show your children what
salvation is all about. And I'm sure that there's parents in here. I seem to remember
that parents have come to me and said, Well, after we did the Lord's Supper,
I was able to get my kids saved. And that's a good thing. So because they want to be involved,
they want to partake. And it's like, then that's your time to explain to them what salvation really
is. And we should want to get our children saved. That is the most important thing,
is to pass it on to the next generation. So you don't want to get the whole world saved,
then your whole house goes to hell. We want to get our children saved. So use it as a time.
Don't give in to them because they just want to drink the juice and they want to eat the bread.
Don't do that because then you're teaching them something that's out of order, aren't you?
You're teaching them to partake of the elements that belong to someone that's saved. So anyway,
last verse I'll have you turn to is Luke chapter 22. So I'm just kind of tying everything together.
Paul is very obviously teaching this to the church.
We should partake together, not separately at our own houses. If you're hungry, eat at home. Don't
make this into a feast where everyone's getting full or drunken. One piece of bread and your own
small allotment of juice. The Lord's Supper should not be a litmus test on whether someone is a
reprobate or not. If you follow that logic to the end, it's just bad logic and it's just not
something that the Bible teaches us to do. So I would avoid that at all costs. And if someone
doesn't want to take it for conscience sake, they're accused of, or we don't want to take,
if someone doesn't partake, we don't want to say they're probably reprobates because they
wouldn't take the Lord's Supper. Maybe they're just not right with God. Maybe they just don't
feel right about it. That's why you examine yourself. That's why you judge yourself. And
if someone else looks around you, if that's the attitude that people have when we partake,
it's a bad attitude to have. Let's have a good attitude.
And then we believe that the Lord's Supper is a continuation, number five,
and this will be quick, a continuation of the Passover done once a year. Luke 22 verse 7 says,
And then came the day of unleavened bread, when the Passover must be killed.
And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the Passover that we may eat.
And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare? And he said unto them, Behold,
when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you bearing a pitcher of water. Follow
him into the house where he entereth in. And ye shall say unto the good men of the house,
The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guest chamber? Where I shall eat the Passover with
my disciples. So what are they meeting together to do? To eat the Passover.
And he shall show you a large upper room furnished, there make ready.
And they went and found as he had said unto them, and they made ready the Passover. And this is
where the Lord institutes the Lord's Supper. He changes the Passover to the Lord's Supper right
here. Luke chapter 22 and 14 says, And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles
with him, and he said, With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
For I say unto you, I will not eat any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of
God. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it amongst yourselves.
For I say unto 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 you see Paul taught us in 1 Corinthians 11
these exact same words in me. He took what Jesus instituted here and he calls it the Lord's Supper.
He doesn't call it the Passover in 1 Corinthians chapter 11. So look as Christians we are not to
partake in the Passover because the lamb has already been slain. The lamb has been slain for
all time and he only had to do it once. He walked in that one time, placed the blood on the altar,
and that was a done deal. For all eternity that was enough to pay for all of our salvation.
So why do we believe it's a continuation of the Passover? Because they're at the Passover and then
he's like this is this do in remembrance of me. So he changes it to remembering what he did for
them because he is the Passover lamb. You understand that? And it says in verse 20, likewise
also the cup after supper seen the cup this cup is the new testament of my blood which is shed
for you. I know that was a lot. Oh man, I could have done it in an hour. We still have two baptisms.
I know you're all retired but it is important for us to understand these doctrines and if you
haven't gone through them in a while you know once a year you probably forgot a lot of the stuff I
already said last year didn't you? Maybe not but at least you know. These are things we need to know.
Why do we baptize? Well God said for us to get baptized after we're saved and it's a picture.
Why do we take the Lord's Supper? We do it in remembrance of what Jesus did for us. It's very
important. It's a psalm assembly and it's serious business and if you're in really super wicked sin
you should just not partake and you should get your life right and then maybe partake next year
or something like that. So I think it's very clear he's talking to believers. It's not some
reprobate doctrine thing. That's not true. That's false doctrine. So anyway, let's pray. Lord we
thank you so much for what you've done for us. Lord I pray that we would be thinking about these
things as we go throughout our week and Lord that everybody would make it a big deal to come
to the service next Sunday night and partake together as a church family. Lord I pray if
there's anything that's hindering us from doing these things or maybe we have some some things
that we need to get out of our lives and things we need to judge ourselves I pray that you'd help us
to do that so that you don't have to judge us harshly for partaking when we shouldn't be and
Lord I just pray that it would be a sweet time of fellowship for us next week, a psalm assembly
and we would take the body and blood of the Lord seriously
in that service and we pray all these things in Jesus' precious name. Amen.
All right let's sing our last song. Let's turn to page 550 in your Blue Hymn books. 550 face to face.
Page 550 face to face.
Page 550 on the verse.
Page 550 face to face.
What will it be?
When with rapture I behold Him.
Jesus Christ you died for me.
Page 550 face to face.
I shall behold Him far beyond the starry sky.
Page 550 face to face in all His glory.
I shall see Him by and by.
Only faintly now I see Him with the darkling veil between.
But a blessed day is coming when His glory shall be seen.
Page 550 face to face.
I shall behold Him far beyond the starry sky.
Page 550 face to face in all His glory.
I shall see Him by and by.
What rejoicing in His presence when our banished grief and pain.
When the crooked ways are straightened and the dark things shall be played.
Page 550 face to face.
I shall behold Him far beyond the starry sky.
Page 550 face to face in all His glory.
I shall see Him by and by on the glass.
Page 550 face to face.
Oh, blissful moment.
Page 550 face to face to see and know.
Page 550 face to face with my Redeemer.
Jesus Christ who loves me so.
Page 550 face to face.
I shall behold Him far beyond the starry sky.
Page 550 face to face in all His glory.
I shall see Him by and by.