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Well, let's turn in our Bibles 
tonight to Matthew chapter 26. 

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Matthew chapter 26. 
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Times Now, obviously this is 
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easily just become something 
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something that we do and oh, 
it's the same every time. 

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And, you know, it's, it's 
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it seriously, if we don't see 
the importance of it, we can get

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to the point where it's just 
something we do because this is 

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what we do. 
But the Lord's Supper in Matthew

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chapter 26 was, was instituted 
as a, as a memorial. 

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And of course, the night before 
Jesus Christ went through 

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everything that he was about to 
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And it just, he said, he said, 
and we'll read later on in First

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Corinthians that we should do it
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But I, I always try to think 
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through the passage and, and try
to give you something that, that

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will make us think a little bit.
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of, of what I preached on this 
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many times before about the fact
that, you know, very often it's 

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easy for us to pretend that 
everything is OK to everybody on

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the outside, right? 
It's very easy for us because we

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know the, the drill. 
Most of us have been in church 

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for a long time and we know 
it's, it's very easy to to fool 

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the people around you into 
thinking that your heart is 

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right with God, that you are 
having a, that you have the 

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relationship with God, that you 
are walking with the Lord, that 

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you are doing all the things 
that that's being preached, that

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you that you're doing all the 
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because you're a Christian and 
all of those things. 

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But here's I think The thing is,
Judas was actually very, very 

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good at that exact same thing. 
Because look what the Bible says

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in Matthew chapter 26 and verse 
#20 Now when the even was come, 

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he sat down with the 12. 
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verily I say unto you, that one 
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And they were exceeding 
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of them to say unto him, Lord, 
is it I? 

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You know what that tells me? 
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Judas and Jesus said, one of you
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what? 
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right? 
Everybody would have looked at 

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Judas because they knew it was 
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But Judas had learned how to 
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every one of them started 
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It can't be any of the other 11 
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one of those. 
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Am I the one that's going to be 
trained to the point where they 

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were questioning that themselves
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actually going to be the one 
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Because Judas had learned to 
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He blended in so well. 
He fits so well with the other 

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11 disciples. 
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Jesus Christ that the other 11 
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because they never thought it 
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as the one that was going to 
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And then it wasn't long after 
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Then verse 23 he answered and 
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with me in the dish, the same 
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The son of man goeth, as it is 
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that man by whom the Son of man 
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It had been good for that man if
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Then Judas, which betrayed him 
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I? 
He said unto him, Thou hast said

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Now Judas, if you, if you go 
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passage to verse number 141516, 
he had already set up the 

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payment. 
He had already arranged to 

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betray Jesus when he asked that 
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Lord, is it I? 
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one that was going to betray 
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I don't know what he was trying 
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I don't know if he was testing 
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it really was, but it just 
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Christ knew his heart and he 
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everybody else. 
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well with everybody else. 
He could have fooled all the 

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rest of them, but he didn't fool
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Is it me? 
You said it, It's you. 

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And I wonder how many times we 
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comes to taking communion. 
We sit down at the table 

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together and everybody's sitting
in here and I and we look around

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and there's not one person that 
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person must be ready to betray 
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They're pretending that they 
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They're pretending that they 
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They're pretending that their 
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But boy, that person right 
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there's none of that nobody in 
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single out and say that about 
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We've all learned in many cases 
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Judas played, right? 
But in your heart you are 

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saying, Lord, is it I? 
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answer is. 
You already know it's you and he

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already knows it's you. 
You're not fooling him. 

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You're not fooling him. 
You're not getting one passed on

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him. 
Well, maybe I can just maybe I 

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can slide through this time and 
I can take communion and, and I 

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can take it unworthily and I'll 
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everybody else thinks I'm all 
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Doesn't matter what everybody 
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It matters what God thinks. 
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He knows your thoughts. 
He knows what you've got going 

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on in the background that nobody
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And it's very, very important as
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doing here, that you get your 
heart right with God at the same

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time. 
And so the apostle Paul, well, 

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And as they were eating, Jesus 
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break it, and gave it to his 
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this is my body. 
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thanks and gave it to them, 
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For this is my blood of the New 
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many for the remission of sins. 
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drink henceforth of this fruit 
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I drink it new with you in my 
Father's Kingdom. 

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Let's go over to 1st Corinthians
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first Corinthians and we'll look
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very plainly tells us that the 
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This do in remembrance of me, he
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He said ye do show the Lord's 
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It's a picture of the Lord's 
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And so the Lord's Supper is not 
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That's why that's why we don't 
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that you just take it every time
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building, right? 
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ritual. 
It's not something that you do 

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just for the sake of doing it. 
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Jesus didn't institute the 
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obligation. 
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moment for his people to 
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redemption. 
He did that for us and it was a 

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great price. 
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the table, we're reminded that 
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It was purchased by the broken 
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Christ. 
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great, great price to pay. 
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that Christianity is not built 
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It's not built on on church 
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It's not built on tradition. 
It's not built on any of those 

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things. 
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Jesus Christ. 
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are some requirements to those 
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the Lord's Supper. 
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that an individual must be born 
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First Corinthians chapter 10 and
there's other verses. 

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I was looking looking back at 
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and a couple days ago. 
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though, is a great, a great 
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verse #16 the cup of blessing 
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communion of the blood of 
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break? 
Is it not the communion of the 

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body of Christ? 
For we being many are one bread 

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and one body, for we are all 
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Obviously the Bible says that 
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And when you've partaken of that
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life that's going to last 
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But that's what salvation is. 
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part taken of the bread of life.
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let's turn over to Acts chapter 
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And again, we have some great 
examples there of the first 

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church and what they did and, 
and things that we can use to 

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follow after their example. 
And there's a lot of different 

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things that they did. 
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the Lord's Supper then is to be 
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Acts chapter 2 and verse #41 
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received his word were baptized,
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unto them about 3000 souls. 
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in the apostles doctrine and 
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bread and in prayers. 
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baptized, they were added to the
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the communion. 
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Bible says there in First 
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It's the communion. 
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it's a communion of the body of 
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It's the communion of the blood 
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But then the the third thing 
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believe, just as important as 
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Obviously you have to be saved 
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one is that you should be in 
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You must be in fellowship with 
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striving every single day to 
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and and and in obedience to what
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the Bible. 
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confessing our sins before him. 
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you'll turn over there, First 
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we've been talking about this in
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Bible, our discipleship course, 
our Bible study that we've been 

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going through about the 
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to a body, joining yourself to 
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you that, that not the 
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what's the word I'm thinking of 
the but the fellowship. 

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Why is the word the 
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That's what I'm trying to think 
of the accountability, the 

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accountability. 
It's a really big word. 

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That's why, but it gives you 
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else, right? 
It's you're not just an 

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individual floating out there 
just trying to do the best you 

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can and hoping that one of these
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everything's going to be good. 
You make yourself accountable to

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a church body. 
You, you keep yourself clean 

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because you need the church 
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You need the church and 1st 
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#11 says, but now I have written
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If any man that is called a 
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Now you're not calling him a 
brother unless he's what saved, 

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right? 
So this is talking about people 

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who are saved who, who, who 
should know better and who 

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should be walking in the Spirit 
close enough that you're not 

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doing these things. 
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Don't keep company with these 
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If he's a Christian, if he's a 
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covetous or an idolater or a 
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extortioner with such and one 
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That's it. 
That's a strong statement, but 

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it's an important statement. 
Don't let somebody that is one 

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of those things take part in it 
right now, here's the problem. 

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It's very easy to see somebody 
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drunkard, right? 
Or somebody who is, who is a 

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fornicator. 
It's very easy to see those 

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things. 
But there's a lot of times when 

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we have those things in our 
heart that nobody knows anything

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about. 
And it could be that pride, it 

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could be that bitterness, It 
could be something that you're 

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doing when nobody else is 
looking and nobody, you haven't 

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been caught yet because you will
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haven't been caught yet. 
And so nobody knows, oh, this 

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guy needs to be excluded from 
the Lord's table. 

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This guy needs to be disciplined
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woman's got this issue and she 
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discipline needs to be involved 
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There's a lot that that is is 
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right? 
But what he's saying here and 

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what is obvious is that you 
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Supper with sin in your life. 
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obviously there's so many of 
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There's no way that he could 
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But in First Corinthians Chapter
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couple pages, he's saying, he's 
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Corinthians Chapter 11, verse 
#27 Wherefore whosoever shall 

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eat this bread and drink this 
cup of the Lord unworthily shall

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be guilty of the body and blood 
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But let a man examine himself, 
and so let him eat of that bread

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and drink of that cup. 
For he that eateth and drinketh 

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unworthily eateth and drinketh 
damnation to himself, not 

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discerning, not caring about the
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For this cause many are weak and
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sleep. 
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we should not be judged. 
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say that only perfect people can
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If if perfection was what was 
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be able to participate. 
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partake. 
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perfection. 
It is honest confession. 

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It's not sinless perfection. 
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It's being honest with the Lord 
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and getting it right with Him. 
That's what the Lord's Table is 

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about when it comes to this, 
this part of the this part of 

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the Lord's Table. 
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against those who struggle, it's
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examine themselves. 
None of us are perfect. 

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there wouldn't be any bread and 
there wouldn't be any juice in 

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there because nobody would be 
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But it's about honest 
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I have to be honest with myself.
I have to be honest with God. 

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I have to call sin what it is, 
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it out by the root. 
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So the only way to be in 
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be honest with ourselves about 
our own sin. 

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Is there any known sin that I'm 
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Is there bitterness that I have 
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Is there pride that I have not 
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Have I been walking closely with
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Is there somebody that I need to
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I mean, the list goes on and on 
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we've got to make sure that we 
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we're going to take the Lord's 
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And so there you are in First 
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I want to give you, as we always
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Lord's Supper and the importance
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And the first one, of course, is
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It causes us as believers to 
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Christ. 
He is the source of our 

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salvation. 
Without His cross, without His 

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blood that was shed, without His
body that was broken and and 

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beaten and whipped and tortured,
there would be no salvation. 

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Blood had to be shed in order 
for us to be saved. 

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Without the shedding of blood, 
there is no remission of sins. 

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First Corinthians Chapter 11 and
verse #24 says, and when he had 

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given thanks, he break it and 
said, take, eat. 

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This is my body which is broken 
for you. 

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This do in remembrance of me. 
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took the cup when he had Sup 
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Testament in my blood. 
This do ye as often as you drink

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it in remembrance of me. 
We were we when we when we look 

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back at Calvary, we're reminded 
of the fact that Jesus did not 

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just die. 
He died for us. 

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He died from my sins. 
He died for your sins. 

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He died for the sins of the 
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The bread reminds us that his 
body was was was. 

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He gave his body to those who 
were going to torture it. 

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He gave his the the cup reminds 
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his blood. 
He didn't just, it didn't just 

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happen by accident. 
He he did it on purpose for us. 

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And the cross reminds us that 
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that it cost him everything. 
That's the backward look. 

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And then of course, we have the 
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Verse #25 He says, This do ye 
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This do ye as often as ye drink 
it in remembrance of me. 

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For as often as ye eat this 
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show the Lord's death till he 
come. 

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We're, we're, we're reminded 
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And that's why we've been 
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the, the membership idea, 
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You need the church. 
We are a body. 

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We're a family of believers. 
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which is why it doesn't work for
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and, and break your own bread 
and, and take your own juice 

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and, and take communion by 
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It's, it's all part of the body 
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Communion is, is, is a way to 
remind ourselves that we are not

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walking this Christian life 
alone. 

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This is this, we're all in this 
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Before we, before we take the, 
the, the, the, the bread and, 

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and, and, and drink the, the, 
the cup, look around and just be

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reminded that these are your 
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Sometimes in some cases your 
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But we are brothers and sisters.
We're in this together. 

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We are part of the family of 
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So we rejoice with those who are
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We bear the burdens of those who
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We have to guard the unity in 
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Communion is is a very personal 
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We do this together and so then 
we see the forward look for as 

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OFT as you eat this bread as 
often as you eat this bread and 

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drink this cup. 
Verse 26 you do show the Lord's 

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death till he come. 
It causes us to look forward to 

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the coming of Jesus Christ and 
to be mindful of the fact that 

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we need to be ready at all 
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Well, he could come back before 
we finish this up tonight, and I

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hope He does. 
Wouldn't that be a great thing 

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if if we're doing this thing 
right, if we're doing this thing

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right and you, your heart is 
perfectly right before God? 

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Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing
if he came back on? 

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Your heart was just right with 
him. 

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You just got everything 
confessed before him. 

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Everything was exactly the way 
that it should be. 

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And then He comes for us. 
Man, that'd be a that'd be a be 

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a tremendous time for him to 
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But every observance of the 
Lord's Supper is a rehearsal for

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the table that is going to come.
One of these days we're going to

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be sitting together at the 
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One day our faith is going to 
become sight and we won't have 

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to worry about doing, doing the 
communion and all of those 

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things because we will be able 
to worship face to face with the

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one who died for us. 
That's what this is all about. 

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Looking forward to the day that 
Jesus Christ is going to come 

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back for us. 
What a wonderful thing that is. 

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And of course, the last part of 
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First Corinthians Chapter 11 and
verse #28 But let a man examine 

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himself, and so let him eat of 
that bread and drink of that 

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cup. 
For he that eateth and drinketh 

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unworthily eateth and drinketh 
damnation to himself, not 

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discerning the Lord's body for 
this cause. 

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Many are weak and sickly among 
you and many sleep for if we 

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would judge ourselves, we should
not be judged. 

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Well, that's I don't think we 
take that serious enough 

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anything about all the people 
who just do community every 

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single week, right? 
Just for the sake of doing it, 

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because this is what we do. 
Walk in, you grab it, eat it. 

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You're having a conversation 
with somebody else while you're 

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doing it and everything else and
you don't take it seriously. 

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For he that eateth and drinketh 
unworthily eateth and drinketh 

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damnation to himself. 
Not discerning the Lord's body. 

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That word, not discerning the 
Lord's body, that phrase means 

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not caring about it. 
Just whatever, It's just another

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thing that we do. 
No, it's not just another thing 

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that we do. 
This is a, this is a very sacred

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thing that we do. 
And so this self examination is 

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not meant to drive us away from 
Christ. 

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It's meant to drive us toward 
him, right? 

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A community should not produce 
that that fear in US. 

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It should produce humility. 
It should produce repentance. 

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It should produce that renewed 
fellowship. 

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That's what this is all about. 
I, I need to be back in 

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fellowship with God and this is 
the time, this is the 

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opportunity for me to do that. 
I want to be right with God, and

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not just that, I want to. 
I need to. 

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I need to think about if, if if 
if this was labeled damnation. 

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Would you go eat it? 
Of course you wouldn't, right? 

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Because who's going to eat 
damnation or drink damnation, 

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right? 
But that's, that's what the 

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Bible is saying when you take it
unworthily, when you are not in 

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fellowship with the Lord, when 
you are not in fellowship with 

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other believers, and you eat the
bread and you drink the cup, you

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are literally eating and 
drinking damnation to yourself. 

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That's how serious this is. 
This is not something to just do

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because this is what we do. 
This is something that we take 

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very, very seriously. 
And it's the, it's the inward 

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look. 
And so the Lord's Supper reminds

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us as believers of the, the, the
sacrifice that Jesus Christ made

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so that we can be redeemed back 
to God forever. 

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And that's a, it's a wonderful, 
wonderful word forever. 

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Once you're saved, you're always
saved, right? 

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But we're going to have a time 
of invitation before we partake 

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in the, of the bread and the 
cup. 

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There's something very serious 
that we do before God and we're 

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commanded to do it, but we're 
commanded not to do it 

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unworthily. 
So really, you don't have an 

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option if you're a Christian. 
If you've been saved and you've 

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been baptized, then we're 
commanded to do it. 

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You can't just say I'm not going
to do it now because I don't 

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really feel like getting right 
with God, or I don't really have

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time to get right with God or 
whatever else. 

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Right? 
You don't really have an option.

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He's commanded us to do it, but 
he's commanded us not to do it 

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unworthily. 
If you're saved but you're 

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carrying unconfessed sin, it's 
time to lay it down at the 

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cross. 
There's a broken fellowship with

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God, maybe with some other 
believer. 

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It's the time to get it 
restored. 

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See, I believe God did this 
instituting communion to give us

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a time where we force ourselves 
to look inside and make sure 

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that everything is right. 
Right. 

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And, and I've said this many, 
many times before, the the 

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chances that you don't know 
what's in there is very, very 

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small. 
You know, you know what the sins

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are that are that are holding 
you back. 

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You know what you have between 
you and the Lord. 

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Let it go, let it go, get it 
right, and let this be the let 

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this be day one of living a life
that's pleasing to Him. 

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So I want to give us an 
opportunity right now to take a 

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few minutes and to make sure 
that your heart is clean and 

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right before God. 
I asked you to do that this 

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afternoon a little bit, but I 
want to give you an opportunity 

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to do that tonight as well. 
So we'll have the piano, Miss 

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Becca come up to the piano and 
as she plays, you take a few 

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minutes. 
You can kneel there at your 

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seat. 
You can come up to the front at 

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the altar, but we'll take a few 
minutes and make sure that our 

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hearts are right before God. 
None. 

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The. 
The. 

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The. 
The.