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Alright, we are in 1 Corinthians chapter number 11 and we'll begin reading in verse number 1 where the Bible reads here, Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. So the Apostle Paul begins chapter number 11 with this matter of being a follower, okay? And obviously he's referring to himself as an authority and how those at the church at Corinth should follow him and specifically he's referring to the rules that he's giving, right? Because obviously this letter is full of ordinances, it's full of rules and orders that he's giving And so he's telling him, hey, you need to be a follower of me even as I'm a follower of Jesus Christ. Now in 1 Corinthians chapter number 10 and verse 33 it says, even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my known prophet, but the prophet of many that they may be saved. So we see here that chapter 11 is now a continuation, it's a thought, a continuing thought from what he's referring to in chapter number 10. So what is he saying? Look, even as I'm trying to do my best to basically see people saved, you ought to follow me in that area, okay? You ought to have that same desire and share that same passion to go out there and preach the gospel. And let me say this, every leader desires followers like that and every follower should desire to have a leader who has a heart for souls. I mean, there's nothing worse than having a leader who's just cold when it comes to soul winning, when it comes to seeing people saved. When you have a burning desire to preach the gospel and reach the loss for the Lord, you know, it's nothing worse than having a leader who does not share that heart and vice versa. So he's saying there, hey, be followers of me, even as I am of Christ. Why? Because Christ came to seek and to save that which is lost, and I want to seek and to save that which is lost. Hey, you want to follow to seek and to save that which is lost. Now hold your place there, go to 1 Thessalonians chapter number 1, 1 Thessalonians chapter number 1. This isn't the first time he mentions something of this caliber right here, he's said this before in other passages. 1 Thessalonians chapter number 1 and verse number 5 is an example of that. It says here, for our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Ghost and in much assurance. As ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake, and ye became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Ghost, and so on and so forth. And actually, if you read later on in that passage, you see that those in Thessalonica were actually a great example to those all around the world in Achaia and Macedonia, for from then sounding out the word of the Lord. Well guess what? It's because they followed Paul, and Paul had a heart for souls, therefore they adapted that same heart, that same passion, and they became great soul owners as well. Go to 2 Thessalonians chapter number 3, 2 Thessalonians chapter number 3. So it goes without saying that we ought to be influenced by those who are doing the work for the Lord, right? We ought to not esteem theologians as, you know, being great men of God because they know the Greek and the Hebrew and, you know, they got their lexicons and they sound all smart when they talk and they preach from the pulpit. That's not the type of people we should esteem. That's not the kind of people we should allow ourselves to be influenced by. We ought to be influenced by people, obviously, who know the Bible, but who have a heart for souls as well. Why? Because that rubs off on us, doesn't it? When we get around people who have a love for souls, that type of zeal rubs off on us. We see that they want to sow in, that they're going out there and preaching the gospel, and we see what we lack in our personal lives. And it challenges us to go out there and want to preach the gospel. That means, I mean, it goes to show even in our movement that there's people who don't agree with us. They don't agree with us about the reprobate doctrine, about end times, or whatever it may be, but one thing they can't deny and they admire about our movement is that we have a heart for souls. And maybe that's why they follow us, you know, maybe that's why they continue to listen to our sermons is because they love souls, we love souls, and we have that common ground. Look at 2 Thessalonians chapter number 3 and verse number 6, it says, Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. So what does it mean to be disorderly? What it basically means to be without order. What is order? It's a command. In fact, it says there at the latter end of that verse, verse number 6, Not after the tradition which he received of us. So in other words, if there's someone in the church who's not willing to adhere to the orders being given out, the Bible says that we ought to separate from people like that, okay? Not be around people like that. Verse number 7 says, For ye yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we behave not ourselves disorderly among you. What does it say? We obeyed the orders that God gave us, therefore you guys should obey those orders as well. And anybody who box that authority, or they're not under authority, or they criticize the pastor, or criticize the evangelist, or say little stupid remarks here and there, we ought to mark that person. By the way, if anybody ever criticizes me in this church, to you, come tell me, I want to know about it. They say, man, I can't stand the way he walks up to the pulpit, or I hate his beard, I hate his part, don't you just hate the way that guy X, Y, and Z, you know, I hate the way he preaches, I don't agree with him on this, and they're kind of basically trying to draw you away from that authority. Come and tell me, I want to hear all about it. Okay, come and say, hey man, this guy is criticizing me. Why is that? Because they're walking disorderly, okay? Now as a leader, the apostle Paul, he set forth an example, but guess what, he also set forth rules. Because that's what a leader ought to do, right? Set forth an example, but also give rules, or orders. Now go back to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11. So he gave an example, he says, follow me as I follow Christ, I love people, I want to see people saved, and you ought to have that same desire, and adapt to that. But he also set forth rules within the churches that he established. Look at verse number 2. Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances as I deliver them to you. So I want you to notice there that ordinances is plural. So it's more than one, okay? And these ordinances that they're keeping, Paul is praising them for that. That means they're doing the right things, and therefore he's praising them for that. You guys see that? So ordinances is plural means it's more than one. He said, why do you bring that up? Well, for the simple fact that there's a lot of churches that have these practices, and they base them, they call, they basically have this ideology that the church only has two ordinances. And in fact, if you've been a part of an independent fundamental Baptist, they'll often have a doctrinal statement or a sheet of paper that says Baptist, and they have like acronyms. It's like a Baptist acronym. How many of you know what I'm talking about? Okay? They have, and by the way, my old church did it, and most independent Baptist churches do it, because they basically copy and paste what the other church does. Now what is the acronym Baptist? Well, they'll say this, B is for biblical authority. Amen. Amen. A is for autonomy of the local church. In other words, we're independent. Amen. Amen. All right? P is for the priesthood of the believers. We believe that. T is for two offices of the church, which is referring to the deacons and the bishops. Okay? And then it talks about individual soul liberty. All right? I believe that. Separation of church and state. But the one I don't agree with is T. You say, what is the last T? It's the two ordinances of the church. How many of you have ever heard that? And they'll say this, the two ordinances of the church is what? baptism and what? Communion. Yeah. Communion. Lord's Supper. And they'll say those are the two ordinances of the church. I heard it my whole Christian life. I mean, if you've been in an independent Baptist church long enough, you're going to hear something like that. The Baptist acronym, the church has two ordinances. Well, is that true? Does the church really have two ordinances? You know, the fact of the matter is that an ordinance is basically an order. So do we only, like when you guys come to church, do we only do baptisms and Lord's Supper? No. Right. In fact, we have all kinds of orders that God gives us. He tells us to go out and sow in to keep yourselves from safe to keep yourself sanctified and abstained from fornication. We ought to give tithes on the first day of the week, all kinds of orders that God gives us in his word. It's not just baptism and the Lord's Supper. Now you say, well, why do they do that then? Why do they say that there's only two ordinances in the church? And by the way, I preached that years ago as an independent Baptist years ago. I preached that many times that there's two ordinances, but I never really questioned it. But in actuality, we'll get into the Lord's Supper tonight because we're going to talk about that tonight. But in all reality, it's not two ordinances of the church. The root of this teaching is actually found in Roman Catholicism, and I'm going to explain to you why. You see, Roman Catholicism has an order of sacraments called the seven sacraments that one has to obey for salvation. Okay, you guys ever heard of the second sacraments or seven sacraments? How many of you were Catholics before? Okay. You know, how many did all seven? Did you guys have anybody do all seven? I think I did like two. All right. I think I went up to my like confirmation and that was it. Now the seven sacraments are baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, which is what we would call communion, repentance, anointing of the sick, holy orders, and matrimony. And they say, those are the seven things you have to do to get to heaven. Now there's a problem with that because holy orders is basically you becoming a priest. So do all the ladies go to hell or something or what? Like how does that work? But these are the seven sacraments. Now in the, there's something called the Protestant Reformation, okay? Where there's people who were within the Catholic Church that protested the Catholic Church, right? Came out of the Catholic Church and they basically said, no, we're Protestants. We're Protestant Christians. We're not Catholic. But here's the thing. Many of those Protestant Christians still adhere to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. They're a bunch of bastard children of the Catholic Church. There's nothing different about them. Okay? But the only difference is is this. They'll say, well, there's not seven sacraments. There's two sacraments. And they'll say this, communion and baptism. That's why the Protestants still baptize babies. You'll find throughout the years of, you know, the Congregationalists and all these bastard children of the Catholic Church still baptizing babies. Where do they get that from? From the Catholic Church. So the Protestants had two sacraments and they literally called it sacraments. There's only two. They said, no, there's not seven that you have to do to be saved. There's only two, communion and baptism. And then some idiot Baptist decided to say, well, you know, I like that idea, but we're not going to call it sacraments because it sounds too Catholic. We're going to call it ordinance. And it's not to save. It's just, you know, something that the church does. So that's how Baptists adopted that stupid teaching that there's two ordinances of the church. No. Jesus said, you know, because they'll tell you this, they'll say, well, you know, we only observe. There's only two ordinances that we observe. Jesus said to observe all things, whatever I've commanded you, along with you always. All things. Not just baptism. It's like, oh, we can't do that. It's only baptism and communion. That's the only thing we can observe. No. Observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you. And he commanded us a lot. Okay. There's a lot of commandments in the Bible. And so that's where that comes from. Do we only observe Lord's supper or just the baptism? No, we observe all things whatsoever God has commanded us. That's why we do our best in our church to preach the whole council of God, you know, and I'm doing my best to preach through the Bible. It's going to take years and years and years, but we're going to get it done. We want to get it done because God has commanded us to do so. Okay. So verses one and two, he's explained this matter of authority, how he has authority and that they should follow his authority in that area. Look at verse number three. Now he kind of switches gears here and he begins talking about hair, the length of hair. Okay. For women and for men. That's verses three through 16. Verse three says, but I would have you 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. Now when the Bible says that the head of man is Christ, it doesn't mean like our head is like the Lord. Okay. Head means authority. Okay. Our head, the one who's in charge of us is the Lord. And he says this, and the head of every woman is the man, you know, stick that in your pipe and smoking stinking feminists. That's what the Bible says. It says that the authority of the woman is the man, not just any man. Because there's churches that teach their people, it's like every man's your authority. No, only your husband. Now go to, hold your place here, go to Ephesians chapter number five. We'll see this concept reiterated there. Hold your place there because we're going to head back to 1 Corinthians 11. I want to show you this in Ephesians five. So the Bible tells us that the authority of the man is Jesus Christ and the authority of the woman is man. That is the order of things. You see, God doesn't want us to be a disorderly functioning church or even household. There has to be someone in charge, not a two-headed dragon. Okay. And we live in a society where everything is just 50-50. You know, the woman's in charge of a little bit and the man's in charge of a little bit. No, get that garbage out of here. The Bible says that there's an order to things. The man is in charge or you're just being a male chauvinist pig. No, I'm a male chauvinist hog. Okay. Hogs are males. Pigs are females. If you know that. Just give you a biology little lesson there. Okay. Look at Ephesians 5-22. It says, wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. So it tells us right there who they're supposed to submit to, their own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the savior of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands and everything. So three concepts we see here, words. We see submit, head, and be in subjection. So what does it mean to be the head? It means the person under there is subject to them, or they're in subjection to that person who is their head. They're supposed to submit to them. Okay. Now, this is not to say that you're supposed to submit to your husband to do sinful acts, or anything that's contrary to the word of God. Because there's a lot of ladies that go, are you trying to say that if my husband tells me to murder someone, I'm going to do it? Obviously not. That's a stupid illustration. And for you to ask such a stupid question just goes to show how mature you are. Your husband's not going to ask you to murder anybody. This is talking about just the man being in charge, and he's the one who's leading the flock in his home. He's in charge of his wife, he's in charge of his household. There's one ruler. Now go back to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11. So he sets the order there. He says that Christ is the head of the man, the man is the head of the wife. Look at verse number 4. Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoreth his head. Well who's his head? Jesus. So it says that if a man prays or prophesies, or in other words preaches, okay, having his head covered dishonoreth his head. We'll get into what that means in just a bit. Verse 5. But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered, uncovered, excuse me, dishonoreth her head. For that is even all one as if she were shaven. So the Bible says that the man, if he prays or prophesies with his head covered, he dishonoreth. If a woman does it uncovered, she's dishonoring her head or her husband, okay. Verse number, let's see, verse 6, let's read it again. 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. So this passage is clearly teaching that the covering is actually a reference to hair. Okay. Now, I'll prove it just a little bit, but shorn basically means, is the past participle of sheared, which means to be shaven. So they basically mean the shame thing. You guys get that? Okay. I'm trying to wake you up. I know it's hot in here. How's the AC in here? So it's talking, the covering is referring to hair. You say, how do you know? Look at verse 15, skip down to verse 15, it says, but if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering. So the same covering that we see in those prior verses is the covering that's referencing the hair. Now, you say, well, why are you making a big deal about that? Well, there's a lot of religions out there that teach that a woman literally has to be covered with like a veil or some sort of bonnet or something. You know, you have the Amish, the Mennonites, you know. I don't really know, what is it? Muslims do that. I don't really know too many about those religions as far as what they believe in that respect. But one that I'm very familiar with is LLVM, which is La Luz del Mundo. How many of you ever heard of La Luz del Mundo? It's an apostolic, charismatic, Pentecostal, hellbound religion. That's what it is. And they teach their women that once they enter into the doors of La Luz del Mundo, they need to have their hair covered. You say, what do they cover with? Like a doily or something. They put it like some sort of like veil that covers literally their hair. That's stupid. Okay. Now, you say you're just criticizing people. I went to LLVM when I was a teenager, okay. A girl invited me. That was my motivation to go. And I went there and I remember the girls would sit on the right hand and the males would sit on the left hand. And you know, they're dressed modestly and they would wear their dresses and whatnot. But they would have the doilies on top of their head, their head coverings. And they specifically will refer to 1 Corinthians 11 and say, it's because the Bible says that. But they neglect to read verse 15 where it says that the hair is given for a covering. So what are they covering with? With their hair, not a doily. And they say, well, you know, that's important because if they don't cover that, you know, they're praying or prophesying with their head, you know, uncovered. It's ungodly. No, it's not. What it's referring to when it's saying that it's a dishonor is if a woman has short hair. Amen. Okay. Now, get this in your mind that it is a dishonor. In fact, according to the Bible, it's sinful because if we're dishonoring God, right, dishonoring basically means we're standing against him. Okay. That means a woman is not only dishonoring the man, which is her husband. So what if she's not married? Then she's dishonoring God. By having short hair. And in fact, the Bible tells us that if a woman has short hair, God says, that's just as bad as if you're bald. Now look, I'm not talking about someone who just had cancer treatment. Okay. And you know, they had cancer treatment and they're being treated for that and they lose all their hair. And it's like, you're ungodly. What's wrong with you? Why don't you have hair on your head? I'm not talking about that. We obviously understand that those are exceptions that prove the rule. What God is talking about is when a woman willingly cuts her hair short or shaves off her head. He said, well, how can you say those are, I'm not saying those are the same things. God is saying that. He says for you to have short hair is just as bad if you were shorn or shaven. That's how God sees it. That's why it's that bad. Okay. So you say, what's the lesson there? Ladies grow your hair. Nothing wrong with having long hair. Now you ladies are like, you're telling me this in the middle of summer when it's stinking hot, you know, you know, put up your hair if you have to, whatever. I'm not telling you, I'm saying that this is what God's saying. Okay. And we are not to follow the trends of the world and what the culture is doing and say, Oh, but it looks so cute. God says, it's a shame that you're dishonoring. Okay. Why? Because a man is supposed to have short hair. And when you begin to have short hair, guess what you're doing? You're basically becoming an abomination. So why is that? Because you're looking like a man is what you're looking like. Okay. These stinking lesbians and dykes out there in this world who they, you know, they have a fade and they spike up their hair and it looked like a bunch of disgusting animals. That's dishonoring to the Lord, you know, and no Christian who's a lady ought to emulate herself according to these dykes and freaks. But the fade looks so good and God says, that's a dishonor. Okay. Why would you want to look like a dyke? Why do you want to look like a slooter? You know, look, I think it's beautiful when a woman has long hair. It just makes her look more beautiful. It just accentuates her beauty and who she is as a woman. That's a beautiful thing when a woman looks like a woman, not tries to look like a stinking butch. So verse five, it says, but every woman that prays to prophesy, and some people will look at prophesy and say, see, women are allowed to preach. You know, it's talking about soul winning. Okay. So look, if you're out there, you're like, well, I'm soul winning, you know? Well, it says that when you're soul winning, you're dishonoring God. Because it says, but every woman that prays or prophesies with their head uncovered dishonor with her head. And look, that goes to show you that if you're praying, this is ladies, if you're praying with short hair, guess what? God's not hearing your prayers because you're dishonoring. The Bible says if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. So don't think just because you're praying and you're saved that God's gonna hear you. Sometimes God stops his ears even at his own people. If we regard iniquity in our hearts, the Bible says. We need to make sure that our lives align to the word of God. Not to be perfect, not to be sinless, but look, as long as we're trying to obey as much as we know what we know, God is pleased with that. He doesn't expect us to be perfect. But you know what? If you're doing a sermon, if you're like, well, I'm still gonna, I still want to look like a dyke. I mean, I still want to look cute. You know, cut my hair just a little short because it's hot and all these things. Then you know what? Then you're dishonoring God and you know that's a fact because we just read it in the Bible. For you to deny that, you have to deny that we're reading the scriptures right now. Okay? And it says, for if a woman be not covered, let her also be shorn. So it's like if a woman's gonna have short hair, she might as well just be shaven. But if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. All right? First chapter 18. Hold your place there in First Corinthians chapter number 11. Make no mistake about it, there is a trend amongst Christian ladies. You know, they like to cut their hair short and they have the bowl look and all these, you know, they're basically copying Hollywood is what they're doing. You know, and they need to get off of Facebook and Instagram where they're getting the ideas from and just stick to the Word of God. Okay? Now look, there's plenty of ladies even in our church who have long hair and guess what? They're not complaining. You know, they're just dealing with it. Okay? And look, it's only one season. Summer. Okay? In the winter, you'll be happy you have long hair. Acts 18, 18. This is just to show that shorn means shaven because some people would say, well, shorn doesn't really mean shaven. You know what I mean? It just means short. No, shorn means shaven. And we're gonna prove that. Acts 18, 18 says, and Paul, after this Terry there, he had a good while and then took his leave of the brethren and sailed thence into Syria and with them Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Tantria for he had a vow. So the Bible says that he, having shorn his head for he had a vow. Well, what vow is that referring to? The Nazarite vow. And if you read the Nazarite vow, the qualifications of a Nazarite vow in Numbers chapter 6, it says that they had to be shaven. It says no razor, excuse me, in order for him to keep that vow, no razor should come upon their head. Don't cut your hair by shaving it, but with the razor. You know, when you take a razor to the head, you're shaving it completely off. So shorn means shaven. Because we see there in Acts chapter 18, that's what Paul, the apostle Paul did when he ended his vow. And that goes perfectly with Numbers chapter 6 where it says that no razor should come upon his head. Okay. Now go to, go with me if you went to Exodus 28, Exodus chapter 28. Look, look, and that's not to say that, you know, guys can't wear hats or whatever. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, you know, guys can't wear hats because you're covering your head. Because remember the covering is referring to hair. Okay. Acts 28, 40 says, and for Aaron's sons thou shall make coats and thou shall make them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them for glory and for beauty. And so there you go. The guys wore bonnets. Well that would be a contradiction of scripture because it says in 1 Corinthians 11, if a man prayeth or prophesyeth. Right? Well what is Aaron doing? He both prays and prophesies. But he's wearing the bonnet. The bonnet was a required garment or headpiece that he had to wear. That would be a contradiction of scripture. So we obviously know according to Exodus chapter 28, according to Acts chapter 18, according to Numbers chapter 6, that the covering is referring to just hair in general. It's not referring to a physical covering, a doily, or a bonnet, or anything of that sort. Okay. Now, go with me if you would. Go back to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11. I'm going to read to you from Ezekiel 44, 20 where it says, neither shall they shave their heads nor suffer their locks to grow long. They shall only pull their heads. The pull means to basically cut short. Okay. That's what that means. Now, I don't want to spend too much time on that, but that's important because you know these LLDM fools, okay, which I need to make a documentary on the LLDM, because they're big in East L.A. They have their stinking huge congregation there, and it's a cult. It's a cult through and through. I mean, their last apostle just died. He's burning in hell right now, but he was accused and confirmed pedophile like since his great-great-grandfather, the one who started the religion, and the guy who took over today is no different. Okay. I had a friend who was involved in that religion, and she said this. She said, Bruce, you don't understand. When I see the apostle, I see Jesus, and it's not like I see Jesus in him, the hope of glory, like he's just behaving like a Christian. No. She's saying she sees Jesus. She doesn't even see the apostle. Okay. I remember, and by the way, they believe. They preach more about the apostle than they do of Jesus. They talk more about the apostle than they ever talk about Jesus. I remember going to the services and just like, when are they going to talk about Jesus? I wasn't even saved, but I remember in those days, I wanted to know how to be saved, and I remember thinking to myself, I remember I asked one of the ladies in that church who was a friend of mine. I said, look, the one who invited me. I said, so are you trying to tell me that I need to believe in the apostle in order to be saved? And she said, yes, you do. Now, I didn't know any Bible. I just knew this is that I had read somewhere in the Bible that you just had to trust Jesus. Now, to be honest with you, if you were to ask me then, I still wouldn't have known what that really meant because I didn't have any person guiding me into the gospel. I just know that that's what the Bible said because I had read the Bible a couple times, not through and through, just certain passages. And I came across a passage like that where it talks about believing and trusting in Him. And I remember asking her that, I said, so let me ask you this. Let's say, for example, that I don't know who the apostle is. And let's say I only know who Jesus is, and I trust in Jesus as my Savior. Where do I go when I die? And she said, you'll go to heaven, but it's because the apostle knew you, not because you know who the apostle is. I was like, whoa, that's crazy. Who is this guy, you know? Now they're like, it's a major cold. There's all kinds of sick perversion that goes on in those churches, a bunch of sin runs rampant, they're wicked as hell. And I'm glad that I didn't stay there. But here's the thing, they teach that. They teach you have to put the doilies on your head as soon as you're entered into the doors. And they bring their little coverings with them. As soon as they step through the doors, they put that on. Well, read verse 15 of 1 Corinthians 11, and it'll just define for you what that covering is. Now, look at verse number 7, for if a 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. You know, Eve came from Adam's rib, okay? Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man. Now, a lot of people don't like to even read something like that. It's like, ugh, I hate when he talks about that. What's this right there? You know, the woman was made for the man. In fact, the Bible says that she was a help meat, okay? She was created for the man, right? And if you don't like that, you need to turn off the television, turn off Oprah Winfrey, and Dr. Phil, and all these other fools, philosophy fools, who are teaching you that it's 50-50. And look, I'm not saying that a woman is any less than a man. We all have equal value in the eyes of God. But God is a God of order, not anarchy, okay? There has to be order. You show me a dysfunctional family, I'll show you a household that doesn't have order. You show me a marriage that's constantly on the rocks, and they're fighting, and they just can't get along, I'll show you a household that doesn't have order. And I'm talking about the biblical order that the man is in charge, the woman submits, and the kids are in subjection, okay, with gravity. Why? Because that's the way it's supposed to work. You think God doesn't know what he's talking about? His formula works. And it doesn't matter what you've learned, or what your thea told you, or what your friends are telling you, forget that garbage, go with what God says, and understand that that's the order that you need. And look, if you're a woman, if you have a wife who's like all for that, and you're just like not getting on the program, bro, you need to jump on that program. That's a good program. That's God's program. Like, well, you know, I just don't, you know, dude, you need to like stop being lazy. Get in the word of God. Man up. Thank you. Man up and just take hold. Get your household in order. It says neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man. Now verse 10 is a verse that has always perplexed me. And it still does to this day. I don't know what it means. So don't ask me what it means because I don't know, right? I don't know everything. For this caused out the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. Now, this week, I was like studying this chapter and I'm like, I need to come up with an answer. I need to figure out what that means. And then at the end of the day, I was just like, I don't know what it means. So sorry. I don't know if that's what you came for. Like, man, I want to know what he says about verse 10. I ain't got nothing. Do you have something? Maybe you can tell me afterwards. Look, I know this much that obviously when it says for this cause, he's referring to verse eight and nine. And he says, out the woman to have power, which means authority on her head, which is, you see the context of what it's talking about versus one all the way through verse 10. And it says because of the, but the, because of the angels is really the confusing part. Now I've heard many interpretations of this and honestly, every single one of them, you can't really say dogmatically that that's what it is. You know, I've heard people say, well, you know, a woman ought to have authority, be under the authority of her husband, just as the angels are an authority to God. I've heard others say that, you know, like in Ezekiel and Isaiah chapter six, where it talks about how the, the seraphims and the cherubs, they they're the ones that cover, you know, the wings do cover. And that's almost like a symbolic of how a woman had to cover her head. We can't really say dogmatically, you know, and I don't know if I'll ever find out this side of eternity. Now you may be like, Hey, I've been meditating on this for 10 years and I got the answer. Then show me afterwards. And I'll tell you, where were you before my sermon, you should have told me beforehand so I could explain to the people, but I don't know. And that goes to show you that no one knows everything. Okay. And by the way, I check with resources who are very valid resources. I mean, these people have read their Bible scores of times and guess what they told me? I don't know. And doesn't mean that we don't know the Bible, just means there's certain portions of scripture that are just very cryptic and you know, we don't know, maybe 10 years from now, we will, you know, I just last, like for, for example, last Saturday, I was on my way to, to Arizona. I was reading my Bible and I came across a passage that made me think of another passage that I was really struggling with. For years, I've struggled with this passage and then like, I understood it. And I remember I taught through that passage very, like, I just kind of glazed over it because I didn't know what I was really, what I was getting at, but I understood it at that moment. And then it's like, it was, it was Hebrews chapter three, verse six, I believe. You don't have to turn there. You know, I'll preach on it probably this Sunday or something, but I remember I learned that I was just like, oh, I get it now, but you know how long it took me just to get that one passage? It took years. So sometimes you're going to run across a passage and you're just like, I know that's not teaching works-based salvation, or I know that's not teaching this and that because the rest of the Bible teaches something different, I just don't know what it's teaching. Just move on, you know? And sometimes it takes you reading the Bible over and over again to get familiar with other principles and doctrines of the Bible that will ultimately lead you back to that one verse and then you understand it, right? So you say, what's the principle there? Sometimes we just don't know. Okay. Sorry. No refunds. Verse 11. It says, nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither 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. And what it's saying there is this, obviously Eve came from Adam through his rib, but don't we see a cycle that even after that, who do we come from? We come from our mothers who are what? They're females. So it's, you know, we come of the woman because they give birth to us, but ultimately every woman came of the rib or excuse me, Eve came of the rib of Adam and so on and so forth. And so, and then it kind of, he kind of finishes it off at the end of verse 12 and says, but all things of God. Judge in yourselves is it commonly 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. Okay. Now, let me just park it right here for a little bit. Okay. Because the Bible obviously gets on the ladies for a while, right? It's like, don't have short hair, don't have short hair. It's a shame. Well, you know what? On the flip side of that, men ought not to have long hair. You say, well, what do you consider to be long? Well, I heard a really good way to determine what the Bible says when it says, doth not nature even teach you? In other words, our hairline stops right here. Okay. Now everyone has a different hair length or excuse me, hairstyle or hair type of hair. I'm talking about guys. So everyone has different hair obviously, but at the end of the day, put it this way. Do you look like a woman? That's it. So, but even if it's short, well then do you look like a dyke? If that's the case, then you need to cut your hair and don't have long hair. I mean, and I hate the fact that this, these liberal churches like Calvary Chapel, these surfer dudes and all these guys are just like, who Jesus had long hair. That goes to show you who to know squat about the Bible for you to think that Jesus had long hair. You think the apostle Paul is just expressing his own opinion here and just saying, yeah, I mean the Lord, I agree with everything, but that hair had to go. That Pantene Pro-V vitamin type hair that he had, that long luxurious hair, that has to go. No, he didn't have that. And by the way, Jesus wasn't white either. You see people have this image of him with long hair because they're looking at this Roman Catholic reformation, whatever painting that they made about this, this Renaissance painting that they made about him to make him look like some faggoty white guy with long hair, golden white hair. He was probably dark. I can't believe you said that. Yeah, he's Middle East. He's probably under the sun a lot. He probably had a big tan. Okay. Probably had short hair. It might've been a little nappy. I don't know. We don't know. Probably had a beard. Amen. Okay. But at the end of the day, we need to understand that the Bible tells us, look, you don't even need the Bible for this. Nature teaches you that if a man have long hair, it's a shame unto him. Okay. And that's sinful. Because why is that? It says shame. It doesn't say sin. Well, earlier in the passage, we see that we dishonor God, which goes back to the concept that we sin against God when we do that. Verse 15 says, but if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair has given her for a covering. But if a man seemed to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. And at the end of the day, when we look at this, here's the principle you take away from this. Ladies, grow your hair. Now, look, I've seen some cholas, okay. If you live anywhere in Los Angeles or East LA, you'll run into some cholas who have like hair down here. Okay. How many of you have ever seen something like that? Okay. I've had cousins and stuff, and they have long hair. I'm not saying you got to go to that. Now, if that's what you want to do, that's your prerogative, whatever. You know. But at the end of the day, long hair, make yourself look like a woman. Okay. Men, don't look like a woman. Make sure you look like a man. Make sure you cut your hair. Make sure you don't, you never grow out your hair, okay, to the point where you look like a woman. Okay. Now, he's going to switch gears here, but obviously it's all under the context of authority and the ordinances he's provided. He's going to get into the concept of the doctrine of the Lord's Supper or communion. Look at verse 17. Now, in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not. Okay. This goes to show that the Lord's Supper wasn't, isn't one of the two ordinances of the church. Because in the beginning of the chapter, he says, I praise you for these things. And then for the Lord's Supper, he's like, I'm not praising you for this. Why? Because they're doing it wrong. They 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. Now, before we get into verse 20, verse 19 is very important. Because he's saying that there has to be heresies among us. Now, I hate heresy. I hope you hate it too. But the Bible's promising us and it's telling us, there must be heresies among you. So as much as we want to fight it, we need to come to the conclusion that heresies will arise in the church. And it gives us the reason why it says, it says there that, let me read it says that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. What does that mean? In other words, those who have the gall and the stones and are just, you know, standing their ground, they're going to come out. And those who are phonies and fakes, they're going to hit the road. You know, I love everyone here and I'm thankful for every single person in our church. But I want to know who's going to be here when the sodomites come protest. I want to know who's going to be here when some contention breaks out and some heresy breaks out of someone in the church and they get booted out. Maybe like your best friend or something, you know, because at the end of the day, that is what approves us. That's what that's what makes manifest the people who are maturing the Lord. And I would hope that if someone ever gets booted out of the church for some heresy, that you'd be behind it. You'd be like, yeah, amen. You know, I love that guy. But you know what? If he's teaching this heresy and he's trying to lead people astray, then forget him. He needs to get out. You know, we're booting him out or whatever, you know, and take that stance, okay? That's important. Now, look, it may not even happen this year, it may not even happen for 20 years. We don't know. The, I mean, the Judas Iscariot could be in this room right now, you know? Who is it? Clue. You know, we don't know who it is. Obviously, we ought not to live in suspicion of everyone, you know, and there should never be an attitude in this church where you're just always suspecting someone of being the reprobate or being the false teacher, okay? You need to get your heart right if that's you, okay? We need to make sure we give everyone the benefit of the doubt and trust the Lord and believe that the Lord can reveal it unto us and can show us and can protect us from these things, but at the end of the day, there will, heresies will arrive. And when that happens, hey, may you be the person that says, no, I want to stick around. I want to make sure that I'm holding my ground and support the authority, support the pastor and not sympathize with heretics. And look, if you're one of these people who sympathize from people who get thrown out of other churches, then I hate to think what happens when someone gets thrown out of this church. If you're sympathizing with someone from another state who you only know through Facebook, you're trash. You're not worth any amount of Christianity, okay? Because you can't even seem to hold your ground even with a person from a different state who you only keep in contact with through Facebook, you know? I want to know what you're going to do when the heretic arises in our church, okay? And they get up and look, don't sympathize with heretics. Don't give them the benefit of the doubt. I don't care who they are, how long they've been around or how long their church has been around or how long he's supposed to have been a Christian, no sympathy because this book's been around longer than they have at the end of the day. So we all have to sympathize with them. Now verse 20 says, when you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. Isn't that crazy? Now look, I'm going to be transparent with you, okay, because I did not believe this doctrine. In fact, I didn't even know this doctrine existed as far as not having the Lord's supper in the church. I came from an independent Baptist church that I personally love, okay? I love that church. That's where I got saved. That's where I learned about the King James Bible. That's where I learned about soul winning. That's where I learned how to be a dad. That's where I learned to be a husband. That's where I learned a lot of ministry principles. And I'm very thankful for that church and I'm thankful that my pastor, though we don't get along, you know, he's a saved man. I love him and I'm thankful for his leadership, his friendship and everything that he's taught me throughout the years. I'm thankful that he's a saved man, okay? We may not agree on everything, but you know what? He's a saved man who God has chosen to be at that church and I'm thankful for him. But here's the thing, many independent Baptist churches actually get this wrong and I got this wrong. I'm going to be very transparent with you. I was wrong on this. I was a part of the church plant that we started and I actually administered the Lord's Supper even in our own church. I believe in it strongly. I had a heart tied to it because it was a time, you know, the Lord's Supper in different churches is just a time of reflection where you examine yourself and you basically remember the Lord through taking the Jews and also the bread. But you know, at the end of the day, we need to see what the Bible says and if we're wrong, we're wrong. And guess what? I was wrong. And you say, well, that means that you're not qualified or whatever. No, it just means that we're growing. Okay. And we're going to find out throughout the years that we're wrong about a lot of stuff, you know, and we just got to correct it. Here's the difference is the person who knows he's wrong and he admits it or the person who knows he's wrong and still decides to stay in it, you know, look, don't take my word for it and study yourself. But you know, one of the very glaring verses that disprove it says in verse 20, when you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper. And that one place, if you study the scriptures in Acts chapter two and different portions of scripture, when it talks about coming together into one place, it's actually referring to church. When you come inside the church congregation, you're with one another, it says this is not to eat the Lord's Supper. Okay. Now go to Luke chapter 22. I'm going to spend some time on this because I think this is important for us to know. And if you believe differently, then you know, you're not a bad person. No one's a heretic. Like, I don't think my old pastor is a heretic for believing that the Lord's Supper should be administered in the church. I don't believe anybody's a heretic for doing that. It's a matter of you having a preference in regards to it. But here's the thing. This is what the Bible teaches. You say, well, you're just saying that because that's what Pastor Anderson believes. Okay. Then come in 14 months when our church goes independent and you'll see that I'm still believing this. And look, I agree with like probably like 95 to 98% of everything that Pastor Anderson believes. Okay. And if you don't believe that, then come in 14 months and improve me. See if that's true or not. You're just saying that because you're working for him. Well, you know what? Yeah. I agree with him on a lot of stuff and I obey him and a lot of stuff. You know why? Because he's my boss and anybody who criticizes anybody for adhering to what the boss wants is a wicked person and needs to read the beginning of first Corinthians chapter number 11. There's nothing wrong with following a man and doing it the way he wants it done. You know what? Thankfully, I agree with the way he wants it done. That helps. Because if I didn't like the way he did it, I would still do it. And then in 14 months, I just do it the way I want to do it. But guess what? The way he does it is actually the way I want to do it too. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that. You're butt kissing. No. I want to know what the Bible says and I want to obey what God says. And if that's, look, if it was a matter of like, yeah, that's kind of sketchy Pastor Anderson. Because I called him. He's like, that's sketchy Pastor Anderson. I don't know if I agree with you on that. To be honest, he'd be perfectly fine with it. He'd be like, well, you know, you're okay to disagree with me. We don't have to agree with him on everything. There's a couple things that him and I don't agree with on, but they're not big things. But here's the thing. I do agree with him on this. And he's right. You know, and look, I've never met any church that has done it this way. But does that disqualify the fact that it's still biblical? No. In fact, because it's in the Bible, regardless of what anybody else does, we don't do what the majority does. And just because the majority does, it doesn't mean it's true or it's right. Okay. We need to go back to what the Word of God says. Okay. Now, Mark 14, where did I have you turn? Luke 22. Mark 14 is also a portion of scripture, I'll read you from verse 22, it says, And as they did eat, Jesus took bread and blessed and break it and gave to them and said, Take, eat, this is my body. And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank. And he said unto them, This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many. Verily, I say unto you, I would drink no more of the fruit of the vine until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God. And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives. Luke 22, verse 15 says, And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. You see, the New Testament teaching of the Lord's Supper and Communion is simply a New Testament teaching of what the Old Testament did in regards to the Passover. They're both synonymous one with another. It's only one was doing it before Christ came, and we who are doing it now are doing it after Christ already came. Now it says there, what verse are we on? Verse 17, And he took the cup and gave thanks and said, Take this and divide it among 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 is due in remembrance of me. Likewise, also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the New Testament of my blood, which is shed for you. So just a couple quick teachings regarding the Lord's Supper. What it is we're doing to do the Lord's Supper is to do it in remembrance of Christ. It's not the Catholic teaching of transubstantiation, which what they teach is this. When you take when you drink wine, which their wine is actually alcoholic and they take the little cracker, that the cracker turns into Christ's flesh and the wine actually turns into his blood. I mean, they become cannibals, okay? That's that's false. And here's the stupid thing about this is that wine obviously in the Bible is not always referring to alcoholic beverage. But okay, so in the Old Testament, the Passover was eaten with what? Unleavened bread. Well, what is leaven? Yeast, right? And yeast is the picture or leaven is a picture of what? Sin. So therefore, the reason we have to eat unleavened bread is because Christ is without sin. See what I'm saying? You know, he had made him to be sinned who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. He was tempted in all points as we are yet without sin. So that's why we're supposed to eat the bread without any yeast. Okay, well, alcohol is made with what? With yeast. So why would you drink wine as a means to observe the communion if it has yeast in there when the when the Bible specifically refers to yeast being leavened, which is sin, okay? They're basically saying that Christ has sinned, which I've met Catholics who believe that. Those say, you know, Jesus Christ sinned when he rebuked his mother. Stupid stuff. So the fruit of the vine symbolizes the sinless blood of Christ. The unleavened bread symbolizes the sinless body of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the Old Testament teaching of the Passover, and the New Testament teaching of communion and the Lord's Supper is a continuation of that. Now go with me if you want to Acts chapter number two. Now this is important because anytime you see the phrase breaking of bread, it's actually referring to unleavened bread. It's not sourdough bread, you know. You know, obviously people use that in modern, with their modern vernaculars, hey, break bread, man, break bread. In other words, it'll break you off a piece. Not the Kit Kat, but you know, just like, break me off some bread, some food or some money. But when it says breaking bread, it means that the bread is unleavened, because unleavened bread breaks. Okay, does that make sense? So look what it says in Acts chapter two, verse 41, then they that gladly received this word were baptized, and the same day they were added unto them about 3,000 souls, and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in prayer. Skip down to verse 46, and they continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Now go with me if you would to, let's see here, I'm gonna skip a lot of, go to 1 Corinthians chapter number five. So I was gonna show you some other verses in the Bible where it talks about breaking bread, but I think that's pretty obvious, right, is referring to unleavened bread. But the thing that really got me is that in Acts chapter two and verse 46, it says breaking bread from house to house. And that's not referring to the fact that they're meeting in church, or excuse me, that the church is meeting there at the house. The church is meeting together in Acts chapter one, but after that obviously it grew too big and then they're, you know, obviously they're meeting in different places, but it says that they're breaking bread from house to house. So that actually works great with 1 Corinthians chapter 11 where it says when you guys come together it's not to eat the Lord's Supper. So where are we supposed to observe the Lord's Supper? Well, according to the different verses that we're gonna look at, you're actually supposed to do it at your house. Okay. You say, man, I don't know about that, brother Bruce, that seems a little off, you know. Who's gonna administer it? You know, there's no pastor there. Well, where in the Bible does it say the pastor has to administer the Lord's Supper? Okay. Now, where do I have you turn? First Corinthians five. Verse six says, your glory is not good. This is in reference to the man who committed fornication in the church and the apostle Paul is basically telling him, hey, you guys need to discipline this guy, get him out of the church. Know ye not that a little leavened, leavened at the whole lump. Purge out therefore the old leavened 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, now with old leavened, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Now here's the thing is that in the Old Testament during the Passover they were supposed to eat unleavened bread as well as the Passover, right? But in the New Testament Christ is already our Passover. He already sacrificed himself for us. So now in the New Testament we eat the unleavened bread without the actual sacrifice, okay? Now here is the straw that broke the camel's back for me in regards to this teaching where it's just like, okay, that makes complete sense. Go to Exodus chapter 12, please, because here's the thing is if we're not supposed to do it in church and the Bible's saying it's leading to believe in the New Testament that we're supposed to do it in houses, why would that be? Well, remember, the New Testament teaching of communion or the Lord's Supper is just a continuation of what they were doing in the Old Testament. So therefore we would need to see what the Old Testament saints, how they were observing the Passover, okay? And that will give us a clue how we're supposed to do it as well. Look at verse number one. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron 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, now congregation was congregation church, right? Saying in the 10th day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, and a lamb for and house. So every person was supposed to take a lamb for the house, okay? 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. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year, it shall take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the 14th day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it even into the evening, and it shall take of the blood, so on and so forth, okay? But it says the blood is supposed to be put on the posts of the doors. But what I'm trying to show you there is that in Exodus chapter one, or chapter 12, excuse me, it's saying that the Passover was supposed to be eaten in the houses, okay? Very important. So the continuation of that in the New Testament is that they're breaking bread from house to house. I think that's pretty simple to see that, right? Now, go with me if you would to go back to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11. There's people that want to separate over this, I don't think it's a big deal. I can see someone who has done it the other way for years and get offended at something like this in the comments section, I can't believe you're doing it like that. You're desecrating the Lord's Supper and all this stuff. But are we really? Am I doing that? You know, especially with the evidence that we saw. Now, obviously, there's not a whole lot of teaching in this in regards to the Lord's Supper because the Apostle Paul is writing to the church at Corinth, basically telling, abrading them for doing it wrong. But he doesn't give the right way to do it, unfortunately, you know what I mean? Now, here's the thing, in Mark and in Luke, the examples we saw where the Lord ate the Passover with his disciples, how many people were there? Twelve. But there's more people in the church during that time, right? But he only ate it with the twelve. You see what I'm saying? So the whole church was not there, and in fact, it was in the upper room where they had that, okay? Now, verse 21 says, For in eating, everyone taketh before his own supper, and one is hungry and another drunken. What have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? For to despise thee 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 I also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night which he was betrayed, took bread. And I'm going to skip some of this, skip down to verse number 27, 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. 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. Now verse 30, For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. So here's the thing, okay, is this is more the reason why we should do it in our homes, okay? Because unsaved people are not allowed to take the Lord's Supper, or children, you know, people who are not saved yet, whatever it is. But if you have a large church, how do you monitor that? I mean, even in my old church, I saw people who weren't supposed to take the Lord's Supper. You know, children or whatever, people would just sneak it in, just because they think it's cool or whatever, or a brand new person comes, you don't even know if they're saved, and they say, yeah, I'm saved or whatever, but they, you don't check it, and they just take it. Well, that's taking it unworthily. You see, whereas if you're at your house with your wife and your children, you know, you can basically examine yourself, you're there, you can monitor who's saved and who's not. Okay, you see what I'm saying? You could drink it worthily, is what I'm saying. But another reason for this is that, and it says because people do this, a lot of people are sick, and many are asleep. What does that mean? It's not like they just went to sleep, you know, they basically died. God killed them, is what happened, which is more of a motivation for us to do it the right way. It's like, yeah, I don't want to die, you know, for doing it wrong. Now look, you say, after this, now that you know, you see what I'm saying, now you're going to be conscious of it. It's just like, okay, I definitely not going to do it that way, because now I know that I can die from this. Okay, it says, for if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged, but when we are judged, we are chased into 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 come not together unto condemnation, and the rest will I set in order when I come. So let me give you a couple things here. When to take the Lord's Supper, okay, or excuse me, how to take it, all right. Now because you're saying, well, you tell us what not to do, okay, so what am I doing? Look, I know I'm going a little long tonight, but this is important, okay, and if you feel like you need to leave, then take off, hit the road, Jack, all right, and you can still come back on Sunday. But this is important so you know, because we're not going to do it here, okay, but this is something that we're supposed to observe, this is something we're supposed to do. Now I don't agree with the fact that my church, now I don't agree with the fact that my old church did it at the church, but I do agree with how they administered the Lord's Supper, okay, because it doesn't give us an exact template to follow. So there's a way the churches have done it for many years, and I think it's great the way they do it, it's just the fact that they were doing it at the church wasn't the way the Bible says it, okay. So let me just give you a couple things how you can do it, and you say, well, I'm not ordained. It doesn't say you're supposed to be ordained, okay. It doesn't say that. It says that they ate it at their house, maybe the Father administered it. So this is the way I'm going to do it at my household, okay. By the way, you don't have to sound a trumpet at church, like, hey, Lord's Supper tonight. Anybody want to come over? I got the juice and the unleavened bread. Call me up, shoot me a text, Instagram, DM me if you want to be a part. Don't put it on your Instagram story, you know. Lord's Supper tonight, DM me if you want to be a part of it or something. So this is something that's supposed to be intimate. So it's in your houses with your family or even church members that you invite over. You need to go to somebody and say, hey, I'm having Lord's Supper tonight. I want to see if you want to come over tonight, you know, and say, all right, yeah, I'm down to go. This is the way we would do it is at my old church, they would sing a hymn, okay. And it typically was, you know, there is a fountain or at the cross, which are good songs that talk about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, how he was crucified. We would sing like, we would sing at the cross. I think it was there is a fountain first and then we would take the bread, okay. And what we would do is we would read from 1 Corinthians chapter number 11, okay. We would read from verses 24 with the bread and we would read that and then we would give thanks unto the Lord for breaking his body for us, okay. And then we'd all eat it, okay. And then we'd sing another hymn. And by the way, when the Lord took the Lord's Supper, what did they do? They sung a hymn. Amen. All right. So I think that's a good method. That's a good template to go by. Then we would sing at the cross. After we would sing at the cross, we take the juice, okay, juice, grape juice. And then we would read verse 25 and then we would examine ourselves and say, Lord, you know, Lord examine my heart. Is there any sin? Have I done anything wrong? And by the way, this is one thing I love about the Lord's Supper is the examination part of it. Because it really is an intimate time where you just really just search your heart, see if there'd be any wicked way in you and you kind of just cleanse yourself. Obviously, we're supposed to do that every day. But this is a special time when we do it to remember the Lord, okay. So after we do that, then we're done. So you can write that down or listen to the sermon afterwards to find the instructions, but it's really quite simple. Okay. You say, how often should I do it? As often as you want. Okay. You can do it every week if you want. It doesn't give us a specific amount of times that we're supposed to do it. It's just as often as you would, okay. So I want to leave you with that and we'll just leave it off on that. So what's the message for today? Order. There needs to be order. But even in this matter, I'm trying to give you order, even in something that you can do at your own home, because obviously we're not going to do it here. You say, so what am I supposed to do? Well, let me go ahead and give you orders so you know how to do it at home. Does that make sense? So it's like, and if you don't want to do it, then that's up to you. You know, you're not a bad person if you don't. I do know this though, is that this is one of the orders that God gives to us to remember him. Okay. So this is the order that I'm giving you, right. You could modify it as much as you want, but this is something that we ought to do in our homes and not at the church. Amen? Amen. All right, let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father, we thank you so much for 1 Corinthians chapter 11, filled with so much truth and regarding authority and order, I pray that you'd help us, Lord, to resist the culture and especially as ladies and men who are saved, Lord, that we would adhere to the word of God and not adhere to stupid philosophies and vain deceits and things that desire to spoil us, Lord, from the word of God. And I pray that, Lord, you would help us to have a humble heart, to examine ourselves, Lord, and to really administer the Lord's Supper appropriately, Lord. And forgive me, I didn't know. And Lord, I had to learn, and I'm still learning a lot of things. And I'm thankful for your mercy and your grace, and I pray, God, that you'd help me, Lord, and help us all to observe the Lord's Supper appropriately and biblically as well. We love you so much. We thank you and pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.