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Amen, our second song will be sung on our 62, All That Thrills My Soul
Song number 62 in your Blue Hymn books, All That Thrills My Soul
Song number 62, All That Thrills My Soul, let's sing it on the first
Who can cheer the heart like Jesus
By His presence all divine
True and tender, pure and precious
Oh, how blessed to call Him mine
All that thrills my soul is Jesus
He is more than life to me
And the fairest of ten thousand
In my blessed Lord I see
Love of Christ so freely given
Grace of God beyond decree
Mercy higher than the heavens
Deeper than the deepest sea
All that thrills my soul is Jesus
He is more than life to me
And the fairest of ten thousand
In my blessed Lord I see
What a wonderful redemption
Never can a mortal know
How my sandal red like crimson
Can be whiter than the snow
All that thrills my soul is Jesus
He is more than life to me
And the fairest of ten thousand
In my blessed Lord I see
Every need His hand supplying
Every good in Him I see
On His strength divine relying
He is all and all to me
All that thrills my soul is Jesus
He is more than life to me
And the fairest of ten thousand
In my blessed Lord I see
By the crystal flowing river
With the ransomed I will sing
And forever and forever
Praise and glorify the King
All that thrills my soul is Jesus
He is more than life to me
And the fairest of ten thousand
In my blessed Lord I see
So is Brother CJ and Miss Crystal, anybody else get one?
Okay, all right, they got their video game numbers going on,
so their Vancouver video game numbers, I'm just kidding.
So anyway, our praise report, you can see the salvations,
baptisms, and attendance totals, and then our upcoming events.
We have the Lord's Supper is coming up.
The 9th is actually, if you just kind of pencil in the 9th,
we're going to be doing a soloing marathon, so April 9th.
That is Saturday.
That'll be here in Vancouver, but if you live out of town,
then you're more than welcome to go soloing and do something
somewhere in your area.
And then, let's see, so we'll probably be providing some kind of
small breakfast and then lunch for that day.
And let's see, so the Lord's Supper will be the next day
on the PM service, so please be here for that.
And Easter Sunday is April 17th.
We're going to have a potluck, dinner afterwards,
and we're going to be providing the ham.
Yes, we're in the New Testament, ham, all right?
And if you want to bring some sides, we'd appreciate that,
and some desserts.
We'll have a men's preaching night that night,
so while you guys are preaching, I'm going to sit back
and sleep in my office.
No, I'm just kidding.
No, I'm looking forward to hearing the guys preach.
It's been a while.
April 22nd through 25th is the Detroit soul-winning trip,
and Brother Temo is heading that up,
and we have the deacon, Corbin Russell,
coming to preach for us that Sunday the 24th,
and there will be a hotel room, or not room,
but a hotel conference room that we're going to meet at
for the services that Sunday.
I'll be preaching at Shiloh Faith Baptist Church that day,
April 24th, in Boise.
June 1st through 4th is the church camp.
June 10th is the Northeast New IFBB conference night
in New Jersey, and I'll be preaching there
with Pastor Jimenez on Friday night.
We'll be doing some baptisms,
and also the next day is a soul-winning marathon,
and July 14th through 17th is the Red Hot Preaching Conference,
and we're a family-integrated church.
That means the children and infants are welcome
during the church services.
Please make sure to utilize those rooms as needed,
and I mentioned this morning about kids not getting
into the coffee and just all that stuff.
Let's just try to get a handle on those types of things
and make sure that we're watching our kids at all times,
all right?
And let's see, silence your cell phones,
if you would, please, at this time,
and then you can see all the giving information
is down below that.
And we sing Happy Birthday to Rebecca and Tim, Tim Tannick,
and so, but we forgot, well, we didn't forget Matthew.
Matthew just wasn't here on his birthday.
How old are you, Matthew?
Seven.
Did you just turn seven last week?
We're going to sing Happy Birthday to you.
Want to wake up?
If you're asleep, we can't sing.
All right, ready?
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday, God bless you
Happy birthday to you
All right, that's the best we're going to do for you, Matthew.
Go back to sleep now.
Okay, all right, that's all I got for announcements.
Let's sing another song.
We'll receive the offering.
All right, we're going to be doing a new song,
song number 31, in your blue hymnals,
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty.
Song number 31, in your blue hymnals,
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty.
Song number 31, praise to the Lord, the Almighty.
Let's sing it out on the first.
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty,
The King of Creation.
O my soul, praise Him,
For He is thy health and salvation.
All ye who hear,
Now to His temple drawn near,
Join me in glad adoration.
Praise to the Lord,
Who o'er all things so wondrously reigneth,
Shelters Thee under His wings,
Yea, so gladly sustaineth.
Hast Thou not seen,
How Thy desires e'er have been,
Branted in what He ordaineth?
Praise to the Lord,
Who with marvellith wisdom hath made Thee,
Dagged Thee with health,
And with loving hand,
Guided and stayed Thee.
How often brief,
Hath not He brought Thee relief,
Spreading His wings for to shade Thee.
Praise to the Lord,
O let all that is in me adore Him,
All that hath life and breath come now,
With praises before Him.
Let the Amen sound from His people again,
Gladly for I we adore Thee.
Amen. Good to see you, Brother Ramon.
Could you bless the offering for us?
Thank you.
If I go ahead and turn to 1 Corinthians, chapter 5.
1 Corinthians 5, if you don't have a Bible, raise your hand.
One of the ushers will bring you one.
1 Corinthians, chapter 5.
1 Corinthians 5, the Bible reads,
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you,
And such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles,
That one should have his father's wife.
And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned,
That he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit,
Have judged already, as though I were present,
Concerning him that hath so done this deed.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
When ye are gathered together, and my spirit,
With the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
That the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Your glorying is not good,
Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Purge out therefore the old leaven,
That ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened,
For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven,
Neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness,
But with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I wrote unto you in 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 ye needs go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company,
If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator,
Or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer,
Or a drunkard, or an extortioner,
With such an one know not to eat.
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without?
Do not ye judge them that are within?
But them that are without, God judgeth.
Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
Brother Timo, will you pray for us?
Thank you Lord for bringing this back here Sunday.
Amen.
Okay, well the reason why I picked this chapter is because in verses 7 through 8,
And again I'm preaching, I'm finishing my sermon from this morning that I got halfway through.
So, anyway, that was a bad idea to do both ordinances in the same day,
But anyway, I got a little carried away this morning, so I was just going to finish off.
It was seven pages anyway, so I knew it was a long shot,
But anyway, we'll get back to Genesis next week,
Where I figured it was very important that we get this teaching every year.
I teach about this, about the Lord's Supper, and what we believe about it.
And this morning I preached about the two token ordinances,
And only got to the first token.
So anyway, this is the second token, and this is the ordinance of the Lord's Supper.
And so look down at your Bible at verse number 7, it says,
Purge out therefore the old leaven,
That you may be a new lump, as your unleavened,
Or even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven,
Neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness,
But with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Let's pray, Heavenly Father we thank you Lord so much for clear teaching in the Bible,
And we know you make it easy for us,
But Lord we need to still go back to the basics,
And understand the basic truths of the Bible,
And Lord I pray that you just help me.
I pray that this church would be filled with the Spirit tonight,
As the sermon is preached,
And Lord I pray that you fill me with your Spirit, Lord,
And help me to teach this according to your will,
And in spirit and in truth.
And we pray these things in Jesus' name, Amen.
Okay, so why did I pick these verses?
Well, because we believe at this church that the Passover has been changed to the Lord's Supper,
Or what we would call communion.
Now, it says right here very clearly that we're supposed to put away the old leaven.
Now, this chapter is talking about church discipline and people that should not be allowed to congregate in our church,
Or anybody that you should be hanging around even outside of church.
And when you hang around or let people into your church that are idolaters, extortioners, covetous,
You know, any of these, you know, railer, extortioner, drunkard,
You know, like the guy that was here this morning that had to be escorted out.
He, you know, we just cannot have that in our church.
So, but what is it talking about in verse 7? It's saying purge out that old leaven.
So, the Bible, you know, and here's the thing.
Like, what I'm going to teach tonight is I'm going to help you to understand what it's talking about when it's saying that you shouldn't do it unworthily.
Because not everybody that's a fornicator gets caught.
Not everybody that's an extortioner, you know, gets found out right away.
And so, sometimes those people are still within you, within the church.
And God will weed those people out.
You know, one way or the other, God's going to weed them out.
But the Bible's saying that we should not, you know, partake of this feast.
You know, the feast that it's talking about here is the Lord's Supper.
That we should not do that with this leaven amongst us.
And so, when I get into the teaching of 1 Corinthians chapter 11,
I want you to kind of keep these sins in mind when it's talking about the things that you shouldn't be, you know,
you shouldn't be in gross sin and partake of the Lord's Supper.
That's what I believe about it, and I think I can prove that pretty easily.
But before we get there, we'll come back to this verse here.
But before we get back there, and there's only one point tonight, and that's the token of the Lord's Supper.
And it pictures the broken body and shed blood of Christ.
And we only do it once a year, because why? Because the Passover was only done once per year.
So, now I'm not down on people to do it more than once a year.
That's their right to do that. The Bible doesn't say how often to do it in the New Testament.
But like, the Bible doesn't say not to kill, you know, the Bible doesn't tell us that, you know,
there's things in the Old Testament that we still keep that aren't necessarily spelled out for us.
So I would just say where it's not changed, that you just keep it the same.
So like the Lord's Supper, like if someone, you know, if it was kept once a year,
then I think that makes it more special if you do it once a year.
Now, there was instances where people that were ceremoniously unclean, you know,
maybe they had touched a dead body, or they were off, and they couldn't be there,
and there was kind of a makeup Passover. And we've done that before we did that.
When we came back in 2020, we weren't meeting at the building for a little while, and we ended up,
I wanted to wait until we could all be together as one group to be able to partake.
And so we did that. But, you know, in most cases, I just think it should be done once per year,
because that's what the Bible kind of had it in the Old Testament.
And I think that once a year makes it more special. There's churches that do it every week.
There's churches that do it, you know, every quarter.
And again, I'm not down on those churches necessarily, but it stops being special.
It stops being something intimate. It stops being something that people take seriously when something's done all the time.
If you had your birthday every day, you know, it would get old.
You know, and people look forward to their birthdays every year, don't they?
You know, you get all the things that you asked for, hopefully, and, you know,
it's a time to celebrate the time that you were born on this earth, and it's kind of a special thing, you know, in your life.
And so I don't think there's anything wrong with celebrating your birthday.
I think it's fine. We sing happy birthday to people.
But if every day was your birthday, I think I watched this Donald Duck thing one time.
It was like Huey, Dewey, and Louie wished it was Christmas every day.
I'm not trying to get you to watch it, okay? I'm just saying it's an example, okay?
But anyway, they said, we wish it was Christmas every day.
And so then every day they woke up, it was like Groundhog's Day or whatever.
Every day they woke up and they did the same exact things, and Christmas stopped being special to them.
So anyway, the moral of the story here is that if we do it too much, it's just going to stop becoming special.
And so that's why I think it's important that we just reverently partake once per year.
Now let's turn to Exodus, chapter number 12, and we'll see the Old Testament teaching on the Passover.
Now when the children of Israel were slaves in Egypt, they were freed, and the Lord instituted the Passover when they were freed.
Now look at Exodus, chapter 12, verse number 1.
Now in this chapter, the tenth plague is put upon the children of Israel, excuse me, on Egypt, and the firstborn dies.
And they're supposed to strike their doorposts with the blood of a perfect lamb so that God would pass over them and not kill their firstborn, okay?
Look at Exodus 12, 1, it says,
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months.
It shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speaking unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house.
So it says, Take to them every man a lamb.
Now, I think it's very important we understand the symbolism here.
Each person has to take, you know, it's saying it was for each household, but every man represented that family, right?
But each person had to partake of that lamb in that household.
The lamb was supposed to be big enough for the eating of that household.
And so, but that, what is that picture?
It pictures that every person has to personally choose Christ as their savior, okay?
The lamb of God that's slain before the foundation of the earth, the lamb, the perfect lamb of God without blemish, without spot, is a picture of the innocent Lord Jesus Christ who was sinless and died for our sins.
And rose again the third day, justifying us and being able to, so that we could be resurrected also.
So, a lamb for a house, look at verse 4.
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls.
Every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
I think that's kind of a good picture to show that we should love our neighbor as ourselves too, right?
You give the gospel to your neighbor and give that the lamb, you know, your neighbor deserves to be saved too.
Your neighbor deserves to have the lamb, right?
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year.
Ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats.
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
So the whole congregation of Israel, the whole assembly of the congregation shall kill it in the evening.
So this is a picture of course of when Christ was killed and, you know, outside the camp he was taken and crucified.
But it also shows that everybody put Christ on the cross.
It's a picture of everybody, you know, that they shall kill it because of us and because of our sins.
That's why Jesus had to die on the cross in the first place.
That's how he took our place because he had to in order to save each and every single individual in this room for all your wicked sins.
And everybody in this room is a wicked sinner, okay?
So don't just think that you're better than everybody else, you're a wicked sinner just like everybody else.
And I say wicked because I'm sure that everybody in this room has done something that's wicked, okay?
And sin is wicked, alright?
So sometimes we forget just how bad we really are.
But if you stop and take inventory just of one single day of your life, you're going to see that you're not perfect.
You're going to see that you have sin in your life.
And I always challenge people with this that I'm giving the gospel to.
And I say, why don't you try just, you know, as an experiment to live one perfect day.
You know, and I don't think anybody can do it.
I just don't think anybody can live a perfect day.
Now, here's what I think would actually happen if someone actually tried to live a perfect day.
I've never tried to live a perfect day.
This is just an experiment, but why don't you all just try to live a perfect day tomorrow?
And the first thing you do will probably be a mistake.
You know, it's just like when you want to have a special diet, you want to go keto or whatever.
And you're like, I really could have a piece of cake.
It's just like you just start craving whatever you can't have right away.
So I think that your body would just try to instantly sin if you tried to live a perfect day.
I don't know, but let's try. Let's do that. Let's have an experiment.
We'll have a private conversation. I won't tell anybody.
We won't stream it to YouTube, okay?
But anyway, I just think it's really important that we understand that we're sinful.
The reason why Christ was on that cross is because of us.
Not just us. You know, it's easy to also be corporate with that and say because of us.
And it is true, but it is because of you as an individual also.
And I think that if only one person in this room was a sinner, Christ would have got on that cross and died for you also.
And so it is an individual thing, just like the Lamb of God was an individual thing in the Old Testament.
Each person had to partake of the Lamb.
And what did the Bible say? If you don't do it, you're cut off from among your people.
And you know what's going to happen if someone doesn't accept Christ in this room?
You're going to be cut off from among your people, you're going to die, and you're going to split hell wide open when you die.
That's what's going to happen.
So what verse was I on? Let's see.
Verse 7.
Now, so here's a picture also that you have to have the blood of Christ applied to your heart, applied to your life.
You know, because if you don't, then you are going to be under the wrath of God.
You know, God's not going to look past.
You know, because when he looks at you, he doesn't look, you know, when he's looking, passing over you for judgment,
he's not looking, you know, he's not looking at your blood, he's looking at Christ's blood.
So our blood is required for the sins that we've committed. Right?
So your blood is actually required for the wicked sins that you've done, but Jesus took our place,
and he took his blood, and he puts it to our account.
So when you accept Christ as your savior, when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
that blood is applied to your doorpost, and when God sees you, he looks past you,
and doesn't put that judgment of the wrath of God, of going to hell on your account.
He sees his son. He sees the blood of his son that's perfect upon you because that's how it works.
It's called imputed righteousness.
Okay, so hopefully that makes sense to you.
Look at verse number nine. It says,
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire.
Now I'd say that this pictures the fact that Christ was in hell for three days and three nights.
Every sacrifice that was sacrificed was to be sacrificed with salt,
and it was to be roast with fire.
So why would that be the case?
If Jesus didn't have to go to hell for three days and three nights,
why would the picture be of someone being roast in fire?
Why?
Can anybody actually give me an explanation of that?
Because the people that have backtracked on this issue,
people that used to be friends of ours,
and even just a lot of Baptist churches today,
they say that what we teach about this is blasphemous.
But the reality is that if he paid for our sins,
and I'm not teaching like,
obviously Christ died for our sins on the cross,
and when he said it was finished,
the things that he had to do on this earth were finished.
But what is our punishment for sin?
It's to go to hell, isn't it?
So Jesus went to hell for three days and three nights.
Jesus went to the heart of the earth.
You know, as Jonah was three days and three nights in a whale's belly,
so shall also the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
What is in the heart of the earth?
Fire, magma, lava, hotness.
And it's actually hell.
That's what it is.
And so that one day is going to be removed and put someplace else,
and it'll be called the lake of fire.
But that's still hell.
Okay, so, and look what it says.
It says, but roast with fire his head and his legs,
and with the pertinence thereof,
and ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning,
and that which remaineth of it until the morning shall ye burn with fire.
So, you know, what's the semblance of the fire?
If it's not that, what is it?
Please somebody tell me.
I'd really like to know how they explain that away.
But anyway, let's look. Skip to verse 39.
It says, and they baked unleavened cakes
of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt,
for it was not leavened,
because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not tarry,
neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
So, here's the picture of the unleavened cakes.
So, leaven represents what?
Sin, right?
Leaven represents sin, so we can't eat the bread that's leavened,
because that would show that that body was sinful, right?
That's the picture that it represents.
So, when I said that this is, you know,
that these are pictures of what would happen,
so in the Old Testament it was still, it was a picture of things yet to come, right?
So, but once Christ died on the cross,
and he changed the Lord's Supper,
I mean, he changed the Passover to the Lord's Supper,
now we partake of it differently, don't we?
We partake of it, we still do it,
but we partake of it differently.
We partake of the juice, or the new wine,
or the fruit of the vine, as it calls it in the Bible.
It actually is very careful not to call it wine.
I think that's interesting.
It says, I will not drink, Jesus said,
I will not drink of this fruit of the vine.
So, and then we've already talked about,
I went on a big rant about alcohol not too long ago,
where the butler squeezed the grapes into Pharaoh's cup,
and that was called wine, right?
He squeezed the wine into his cup.
So, wine and juice is kind of an interchangeable thing,
it depends on the context,
but one thing I know about Christ is that his blood was sinless.
The Bible tells us that very clearly,
so again, I don't want to go crazy on this,
but I already said it this morning,
that the juice represents the sinless blood of Christ,
and the unleavened bread represents the sinless body of Christ
that was broken for you.
It says in the baked unleavened cakes of dough,
which were brought forth out of Egypt,
or was not leavened,
because they were thrust out of Egypt,
could not tear you.
So, this is when the Passover is instituted, okay?
The very first time it's instituted,
and God said you're supposed to keep it,
verse number 43, skip down to there.
It says in the Lord's son to Moses and Aaron,
this is what, what's it say it is?
The ordinance of the Passover.
So, what was I preaching about this morning?
The two token ordinances, okay?
So, it is an ordinance,
and it was an ordinance then,
and it's an ordinance now.
The ordinance of the Passover,
there shall no stranger eat thereof,
but every man's servant that is bought for money,
when thou has circumcised him,
then shall he eat thereof.
A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.
In one house shall it be eaten.
Thou shall not carry forth aught
of the flesh abroad out of the house,
neither shall you break a bone thereof.
All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
All of them, everybody had to keep this, okay?
So, again, picture of what was to come.
The sinless lamb of God was going to come
and die for the sins of all mankind,
which is Jesus Christ,
and, you know, if you don't,
if you don't make Jesus your savior by believing on him,
then you're going to go to hell
unless you accept the fact that the lamb died for you
and believe in him.
So, let's look back at our text
in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 7.
So, the Bible clearly teaches this.
Now, Paul's talking about church discipline.
1 Corinthians 5 verse 7.
He's preaching on church discipline,
and in the middle of his talking,
he just puts these verses in there.
Purge out therefore the old leaven,
that you may be a new lump as your unleavened,
for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for you.
So, the Bible teaches very clearly
that Jesus Christ was the Passover lamb.
Therefore, let us keep the feast,
not with old leaven,
neither with the leaven of malice or wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
So, keeping this in mind,
when we go through these passages here in 1 Corinthians,
go ahead and turn to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11.
1 Corinthians chapter number 11,
and we're going to go through the instruction
that Paul said that we were supposed to do
and keep all these things, right?
So, in the beginning of chapter 11, verse number 1,
it says, be followers of me,
even as I also am of Christ.
Now I praise you, brethren,
that you remember me in all things
and keep the ordinances as I deliver them to you.
So, now Paul's going to,
after he gets done talking about how long,
you know, the length of your hair and all that stuff,
men are supposed to have short hair,
women are supposed to have long hair.
Then he goes into talking about the Lord's Supper.
In verse number 17,
so what we have in verse number 17 is a corrective passage.
This is Paul telling them,
you're doing something wrong.
And remember the church at Corinth was doing a lot of wrong things.
So, even in chapter 5 that we read in our reading,
you know, he's talking about this fornicator
that was fornicating with his father's wife
and how wicked it is and how you need to kick that guy out.
And so, in here he's talking about how they're doing the Lord's Supper wrong.
They're actually not even doing it correctly.
Now, I would say there's two things that people can do wrong with this.
Well, number one, you could do it irreverently.
Just like without care, like it's just not a big deal.
And then you could just do it flat out wrong.
Okay, and I think that they were kind of doing both.
Look at verse number 17.
This is the corrective passage from verse 17 to verse 22.
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
I hear that there be divisions among you and I partly believe it.
But 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.
Now some people will take that and say,
well you're not supposed to eat the Lord's Supper in one place.
But that's not what it's saying.
It's saying that they're not doing it.
They're not eating the Lord's Supper.
What they're doing is something different.
It explains in verse 21.
For in eating everyone taketh before other his own supper
that's not the Lord's Supper, that's their own supper
and one is hungry and another is drunken.
So they're basically making it into a potluck
and everybody's kind of bringing their own thing
and they're calling it the Lord's Supper but that's not what it is.
What they're doing is they're doing it wrong
because when Jesus supped with them
he took a sip, he didn't like guzzle down a thing of grape juice
and then fill it back up and then the next guy guzzled it down.
They just partook of a little bit.
They took a sop and he broke it and gave it to them.
This isn't supposed to be a feast.
This is supposed to be your partaking of a small amount.
When it says drunken, I believe it's talking about you're just eating too much.
You're taking too much. You're drinking too much.
It's not necessarily that they're getting wasted.
I don't think that they're using the wrong kind of thing.
I think they're just doing it wrong completely.
Because it says, one taketh before other his own supper
and one is hungry, another is drunken.
So one doesn't have enough and the other one has too much.
Verse 22, what?
Have ye not houses to eat and to 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.
So Paul is definitely correcting them here.
He's saying, hey, what you're doing is wrong.
You're having some kind of a feast here.
That's not what it's all about.
And then he's going to go on and he's going to instruct us in the next verse.
He's going to instruct us how to do it right.
How to do it right.
So this is an instructive passage in verse number 23.
This is how it should actually be done.
So he says, you're doing it wrong.
I'm going to teach you how to do it right.
Because isn't that how it started off?
Keep the ordinances, right, to keep them as he taught them to do it.
So he's going to teach them again because they obviously didn't get it the first time.
Verse 23, 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 saying here, you know, he received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you.
So he's saying, I received this teaching from Jesus.
I delivered it unto you. Right?
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 do, in remembrance of me.
So just unpacking this verse a little bit.
So he gave thanks, he break it.
So what does that mean? That he only gave them pieces of it.
Not the whole thing.
So the amount, and I'm not saying that there's a specified amount, it doesn't have a specified amount,
but whatever that piece of bread was, he broke it up and gave it to his twelve disciples.
Okay, so they didn't eat the whole piece of bread.
The whole flattened, whatever, you know, piece of bread.
He break it and said, This is my body which is broken for you, this do, in remembrance of me.
So here he's instructing them exactly how Jesus did it.
So we're supposed to do it as close to what the Bible says right here as we possibly can.
And if you've taken the Lord's Supper here, before you know that we try to do it exactly how the Scripture explains it.
So I actually break the bread up here, and then I have people distribute it out little pieces.
Now it's not that freeze dried stuff that you get like at a, you know, I'm sure you've had the chalky kind at some other Baptist Church before,
and it's just like, this is a little chewy though.
We do do fresh bread, but, so it is a little chewy, so you can't take too big of a piece.
But anyway, the point I'm telling you here is that it wasn't some giant piece of bread.
They weren't having a meal as in, you know, they did have a meal, but the part where they did the Lord's Supper is not, you know, this full meal.
He's saying having houses to eat and drink in, he's saying if you want to eat and get full and whatever, that's separate from what we're doing here.
This is a picture of something that he said, this do in remembrance of me.
This is a time where we actually take time to remember what Jesus did for us.
And he said that the bread that he breaks and passes out, you know, it even is a picture of his body being broken, and he said this do in remembrance of me.
After the same manner, verse number 25,
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.
So both verses he says, hey, this is what you're supposed to do to remember me.
And so he said, as oft as you drink it, this do in remembrance of me.
This is the cup of the New Testament.
So he took the cup and had supped.
A supp to me was probably like a sip, right?
He didn't take like a big giant drink and then hand it to somebody else.
So you see both instances, he's giving people a piece of the bread.
He's giving someone a sip of the drink.
And I know Josh is probably grossed out right now because he wouldn't want to have to drink after somebody else.
But, you know, nobody wants to drink after a little kid.
Especially a bottle, you know.
You see the little floaties floating up to the top of it, you know what I'm talking about?
Anyway, sorry to give you that visual.
Anyway, verse 26.
It says, for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he come.
So what is the purpose of it?
That as often as you eat this bread, what bread?
The specific bread for the Lord's Supper.
And drink this cup, the cup that we bless, we pray, we hand that stuff out.
You do show the Lord's death till he comes.
And it says show, we show it.
It's a picture, okay?
It's not the literal body and blood of Christ like the Catholic Church likes to teach.
They say that they do some abracadabra or whatever, and then it turns into the literal body and the literal blood of Jesus.
And they'll say, see, you know, when it says, you know, unless you eat this flesh and drink this blood, you know,
and then they act like you literally have to do that, like we have to become cannibals or something.
But that's just a false doctrine.
The Catholic Church is wrong about a lot of stuff.
They're not even really Christians, okay?
And they'll even say that if you ask them at the door, are you a Christian? No, I'm Catholic.
So they know.
They know they're not Christians, okay?
They might say that they are, some might say they are, but they're really not.
So we've seen the first passage is the corrective passage where he gets onto them and says, hey, what you're doing, the way you're doing it is wrong.
Not only is it wrong, it's also irreverent because some don't have enough and some have too much.
Some are drinking too much and eating too much and some don't even have enough.
And so he says, shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
And then he goes on to instruct them, this is how I received it, I'm giving it to you, I've already given it to you, but let me just explain myself one more time.
And he tells us exactly how it was done.
And so what is he saying? He's saying at the beginning of the chapter, he's saying do it like I showed you.
Do it like, keep the ordinances like I taught you to do it.
Follow me as I follow Christ.
Alright, it's pretty simple stuff, right? But they just did not get it at this church.
Now we're going to go into the warning passage.
So he's told us how they're doing it wrong and then he's saying how to do it right and now he's going to give us some words of warning.
Verses 27 through 32, he's going to warn us of the consequences of doing it improperly without reverence or unworthily.
So look at verse number 27, it says,
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
So it's talking about, it's saying whosoever does this, whosoever means anyone, right?
If you drink this cup or eat the bread unworthily, you're going to be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
And it says, verse 28, But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
So the Bible is telling you, and again, who's this written to? Is this written to the Catholic Church?
Is this written to unbelievers? No, it's written to the church at Corinth.
He's talking to believers, so keep that in mind.
The context is that he's instructing believers of how to take the ordinances correctly, right?
So he's saying, Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
But aren't you instructed to examine yourself? What are you supposed to examine?
Well, it says, For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
So, if you're unworthy to do it, if you examine yourself and you realize,
Hey, I'm fornicating, I'm committing adultery, I'm doing some wicked sin,
then you're supposed to not do that because what's going to happen is you're going to drink damnation to yourself.
Now this is not talking about going to hell. I don't believe that for one second, it's the damnation of your body.
And here's why I believe that. Well, it could be you just dying, but it's the destruction of your flesh.
What happens when you get kicked out of a church for being a fornicator?
What happens if you get kicked out of the church for being, you know, all those things in the list of 1 Corinthians 5?
What happens to you? That you're turned over to the devil for the destruction of the flesh.
So when you're inside the church and people don't know that you're one of these things,
that you're doing one of these things and you examine yourself, you're sitting here and we're doing the Lord's Supper
and you're doing one of those sins and it's on that list, then I would not partake.
And you're like, well Pastor Thompson, that's kind of scary. It is kind of scary. That's why it's warning you.
That's why it's saying don't do it if you're unworthy to take it.
Now, I'm not saying if you lied yesterday or something or, you know, obviously you examine yourself
and that's a time for you to get right with God. Okay?
That's what I believe that when it's saying to examine yourself, hey, and that's why I preach this a couple weeks before we do it.
So if there's something that you're dealing with in your life that you need to get right, you better do it now.
Because if you partake of the Lord's Supper unworthily, then you're eating and drinking damnation to yourself, not discerning the Lord's body.
Because the Lord's body is supposed to be what? Purged of leaven.
So that's why it's saying let us therefore heap the feast not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice or wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
It's talking about not partaking with people that are in this gross type of sin.
That's what I personally believe. I think that's what the Bible is teaching here.
Because it's not just any run-of-the-mill sin. Because I just talked about this a little while ago.
We all sin. We all sin every day. We all have problems in our lives.
But when it's talking about things that you should be thrown out of church for, that's the unworthy thing that I think it's talking about, okay?
So, and it says, not discerning the Lord's body, look at verse 30,
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Well, why is that? Because you've eaten and drink in damnation to yourself, and so what's the Lord do?
He judges that person that's inside also for partaking in something they know they're not supposed to be partaking of.
Does that make sense? Hopefully that makes sense to you because that's what the Bible teaches,
that many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep.
So, do believers sleep or do they die?
We die, but in the sense that our body dies.
But if you're saved, you don't really die. Your body dies. It's resting in the ground. The Bible calls it sleep.
It's not soul sleep. When you go, when you die and you're saved, you go straight to heaven.
And you're with the Lord. So, it's saying many are sickly, weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Talking about people that die in the Lord, okay?
So that's why I don't believe it's talking about unsaved people.
Because there's a billion Catholics in the world right now that every week they take communion, don't they?
And they don't drop over dead. So, that to me is not what it's talking about.
There's all kinds of different false Christian churches and they do this every week. They don't die.
But look, when you're saved, you're in a church that believes the truth and teaches the truth
and is a literal church that Christ sees as a real church.
And you're doing these things and you're just like, well, nobody knows about it.
You know who does know about it? God knows about it.
So, I just like to warn people about this because if you are doing one of these sins,
and let me just list through them right now, so you know that you can write these down.
Like, am I doing this? Yes, I am. No.
So, it says, I wrote unto you an epistle not to company with fornicators, okay?
Fornicators are people that are going to bed with other people that are not married.
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters,
for then must you needs go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company with any man that is called a brother,
so that someone is saved, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard,
or an extortioner, with such an one know not to eat.
For what have I do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within?
But them that are without, God judge it, therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
So, God judges them when we throw them out, right?
And we are supposed to throw people out that are doing these sins.
Now again, when someone is just in and you don't know, you can't kick them out because you don't know.
And so that's when I think that this applies as far as God disciplining that person inside the church
because they know they're not supposed to be here, or they know that they're doing this sin,
and that they know that I don't know about it, or anybody else knows about it, because if they did, they would come tell me.
So then I'm supposed to kick that person out. So if that person is just hiding here, and they're doing these sins,
then they should probably just remove themselves out of the church, right?
Or just, you know, they need to be out.
So, but here's what God's going to do. He's going to take you out himself.
He's either going to make you get sick, he's going to make you weak, or it says, and many sleep.
And this is a punishment from God. This isn't like the punishment from the devil.
The punishment from the devil comes out here, but God still judges those people that are without.
But what's the purpose? To get them right. That we want them to get right and come back.
It's not like I just want to kick people out and say, don't ever come back.
There are some people that I would never want to come back, like reprobates, like child molesters or homos, or whatever.
Some false prophet. I don't want a false prophet in our church. I don't want them to come back.
But anybody on this list, you know, anybody, you know, any of these sins, somebody that's saved can do these things.
Right? So that's why I think this is God's way to weed out the ones that are still doing these sins and nobody knows about it.
So it says, for if we would judge ourselves, then we should not be judged.
So that's why it says examine yourself. Judge yourself what you're doing.
If we would judge ourselves, we wouldn't be judged. If you get it right, then you don't have to leave.
And God won't kill you when you take the Lord's Supper. God won't destroy your health, you know, when you take the Lord's Supper.
And it says in verse 32, but when we are judged, you know, and I say we, when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord.
Do non-believers get chastened by the Lord or do believers get chastened by the Lord? Believers get chastened by the Lord.
There, you know, there's no, you know, every son whom he receiveth, he chasteneth. Right?
So that means God's going to spank your butt, so to speak, for, you know, for this sin and it's a harsh punishment.
Because you already should be out. That's kind of the point. Right?
So, and I'm just stating this as a warning. This should, you know, if you're afraid of God, this should make you afraid of him.
Because it's a big deal. Right? So it says, but when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world.
That's why he punishes us here in this world and not, because he's not going to send us to hell.
So we have to be punished here in this world because there is no condemnation, you know, if you're in Christ Jesus. Right?
Does that make sense? Hopefully that makes sense to everybody.
It says, wherefore my brethren? So he's saying my brethren. So are they brothers and sisters in Christ that he's talking to?
Yes. It's not the Catholic Church. Wherefore my brethren, when you come together to eat.
So here's him talking about when you do come together to eat, the Lord's Supper is what he's talking about.
Tarry one for another. So we're supposed to tarry for another, one for another, you know, maybe there's, you know, just a time where we're reflecting upon our, you know, and examining ourselves.
But again, I want to do this, I want you to do this self-examination over the next couple weeks so you have time to get these things right.
Because, you know, you don't want to do it, you know, while you're eating it.
I mean, isn't that kind of what the Bible's teaching here? Don't do it if you're not right with God in these ways.
So otherwise, because nobody's worthy to be saved. Alright? We're all unworthy of salvation.
But not everybody's worthy to be in church. Okay? Does that make sense? I hope it does.
Look at verse 34, it says, and if any man hunger, let him eat at home. Let him eat at home that ye come not together unto condemnation.
So, you know, and I've taught this at other times in more detail. Last year I preached a sermon about this and I kind of went really into detail about how in the Old Testament they partook together of the bread.
They partook together of the Passover. They killed the Passover together, you know, in the second year when they came out of the land of Egypt.
And then, you know, they go home with the lamb and then partake there.
But there is no more lamb. There is no more killing of a lamb. The lamb has already died and been brought back to life.
So that's why it's changed. Alright? And so it says, and the rest will I set in order when I come.
You know, I just picture Paul with like a big stick. He's just like, I'm going to put the rest of this in order when I come.
But, you know, Paul, you know, he said, do you want me to come, you know, in peace or with the rod?
And so Paul, you know, he didn't take any, you know, guff off anybody. So, and you know, we're not supposed to either.
You know, when someone needs to be thrown out, we need to throw them out.
And that's not what this sermon is about, but I just do want to give you a word of warning.
Now, I'm not going to police the Lord's table. I don't believe that's my job. It says, let a man examine himself.
So I've given you the warning. I've given you the instruction from the Word of God.
How to not do it. How to do it. What the consequences are if you do it wrong or if you do it, you know, in an irreverent way.
If you're in gross sin or unworthy, you know, and then at that point it's up to you whether you partake or not.
Alright? And if your children aren't saved, don't let them partake.
You know, and that's pretty, and you know, kids, and I say this every year, but kids are very curious about it.
They want to do it too. But, you know, don't let them trick you into saying that they're saved so they can partake.
Right? Make sure that they really are saved. And then, again, my belief is that you should be baptized.
So, because the Bible says they that gladly received his word were baptized.
It doesn't say that they that gladly received his word ate the Lord's Supper and then they got baptized.
So we want to do things in the order that God wants us to do them.
And, you know, David made that cart, that new cart to carry, you know, the Ark of the Covenant.
And God, you know, somebody died because of that. Because the cart moved, and Uzzah went to grab it, and God did what?
He zapped him. Right? I don't know exactly how he killed him, but it says that there was a breach upon him.
A breach means that, you know, there's a split. You know, that's where you get the term breaches. There's a split.
So God killed him in a very, you know, probably a very gruesome way because he didn't seek to do the things after the due order. Right?
The due order. So, you know, it's very important, you know, some things are left to interpretation a little bit,
but when the Bible's very clear about how to do something, that's how we should do it.
Because that's how God wants it to be done, otherwise he wouldn't have said to do it that way.
Does that make sense? I mean, that's not real hard to figure out, right?
So, again, you should be saved. You should be baptized before you partake of it.
And, you know, if you are a major sin, you should not partake until you get right with God on that issue.
And, you know, if you don't want people to know that you don't want to partake, then just don't come to that service or something.
Because when we do it in a couple weeks, we're not going to have a big preaching service here on Sunday night.
It'll be a really, a fairly short service, a serious psalm service, and we're going to sing some songs,
and then I'll go through some instructions, we'll partake, and then we'll go home.
So, now these ordinances, again, are the two token ordinances or two pictures of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ,
which is baptism, and then of the blood and body of Christ, which is the Lord's Supper.
The Lord's Supper we continuously do from year to year, and baptism should be done once.
And, you know, obviously, again, the caveat to that is, if you got baptized at the Jehovah's Witness Church, the Kingdom Hall,
then that person, first of all, you probably weren't even saved, you know.
And so, I will have someone that wasn't saved when they got baptized get re-baptized.
Why? Because you're supposed to get baptized after you're saved.
Again, seek things after the due order.
Alright, so we need to keep the ordinances like we are instructed.
Let's strive again to get our converts baptized, and then fellowship with us in Christ, partaking of the Lord's Supper together.
And everybody wants to get that home run, you know, salvation where, you know, you get them saved, they get baptized,
they get in the church and stay in the church, and then they start going soul winning and bringing forth fruit also.
That's like the home run Christian, right? So that's the home run convert, actually, that we want to get.
So, we're going to do this on the 10th again, like I said, in the evening service.
And so, you all got a real short service tonight.
You're welcome. Have a nice night driving home.
Alright, let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, so much for the clear teaching of the Bible.
And Lord, I pray that if there's anybody that has any questions about this, Lord, they just come and talk to me about it.
And I just pray that you would help us to understand how serious it is.
But at the same time, we want to fellowship with you and show your suffering and death, tell you come, Lord.
And we pray, Lord, that you'd help us as a church to, Lord, try to do things the most right way that we possibly can, Lord.
And if we're doing something wrong, I pray you'd help us and give us some mercy and grace while you teach us how to do it the right way.
And Lord, I know that we're not a perfect church, but we do love you and we love your kingdom and we desire to see your coming, Lord, in the clouds.
And we just pray that you would bless this church and the people that got saved today and take us home safely, please.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Our last song is the song number 70, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty in your blue hymnals.
Song number 70 in your blue hymnals, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty.
Song number 70 is Holy, Holy, Holy, let's sing it out on the first.
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
Holy, Holy, Holy, merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity.
Holy, Holy, Holy, all the saints adore thee, casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea.
Cherubim and seraphim, falling down before thee, which word and art hand evermore shall be.
Holy, Holy, Holy, though the darkness hide thee, though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see,
only thou art holy, there is none beside thee, perfect and power in love and purity.
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, all thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea.
Holy, Holy, Holy, merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity.