1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:14,040 All the dev Tom is love for me. Sing is love is love for me bro. 2 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:27,840 Jesus brought Jesus to earth as my dear is love is love for me. 3 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,480 Brought Jesus to die on the tree. 4 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:51,320 Sing His love, His love for me, His bringing me your heart to 5 00:00:52,320 --> 00:01:09,440 glory one day. One day, one day, 6 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:31,760 one day, one day no. Of the depth of His love for me. 7 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:43,600 Praise the Lord. There is another song which says 8 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,680 His love for me brought Jesus to act as my Savior. 9 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,640 His love for me brought Jesus to die on the tree. 10 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,920 His love for me is bringing me nearer to glory. 11 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,240 One day I will know of the depth of His love. 12 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,080 Amen. Amen. 13 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:09,800 We want to inform the House that by the grace of God, our 14 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:15,080 resident minister and their wife are in our Mace in the person of 15 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:23,440 Pastor Emmanuel and Mrs. Elizabeth or say Akorsa, Amen. 16 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,720 On this note, we want to humbly invite our dear Pastor to 17 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:30,760 minister the Word of God unto us. 18 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,520 Shall we welcome him? With a clap of 19 00:02:42,660 --> 00:02:43,820 May. The grace and peace for our 20 00:02:43,820 --> 00:02:48,780 Father and our Savior Jesus Christ be with us all and we 21 00:02:48,780 --> 00:02:53,340 thank God so much for the grace to be here and to also share 22 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:56,780 fellowship and to dine at the Lost table together. 23 00:02:56,780 --> 00:03:01,400 Amen. Before we dine with the Lord, we 24 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,880 are looking at the topic discerning the Lord's body, 25 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:12,720 discerning the Lord's body, discerning the Lord's body. 26 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:20,800 We read from First Corinthians 11/29, First Corinthians 11/29, 27 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:28,200 and we also read from Matthew 26, seven to 13. 28 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,160 That one is another story that I want to read. 29 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,280 There are a couple that will be reading as and when we go on, 30 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:52,920 but our main text is the First Corinthians 11/29 11:29, 1129. 31 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:57,000 So read from the NIV. Also read from the new King 32 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,120 James, there is a word that I will show you. 33 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:06,080 So from the and I for those who eat and drink without descending 34 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:12,000 the body of Christ, eat and drink judgment on themselves. 35 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:17,279 Let's pick it from the new King James, please, if you have it. 36 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:26,440 For he who eats and drinks in a worthy manner eats and drinks 37 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:32,240 judgment to himself. For not discerning the Lord's 38 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,240 body. The Lord's body, So for you eats 39 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:41,200 and drinks in an unworthy manner, eats and drinks judgment 40 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,840 to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 41 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:52,360 Amen. Let's go to Matthew 26, seven to 42 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,160 13. I read from the NIV. 43 00:04:56,280 --> 00:05:01,240 A woman came to him with an alabaster jar of an of very 44 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:07,560 expensive perfume which she poured on his head as he was 45 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:12,200 reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this, 46 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,840 they were indignant. Why this wastes? 47 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:20,040 They asked. This perfume could have been 48 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:24,240 sold at a high price and the money given to the poor. 49 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:30,000 Aware of this, Jesus said to them, why are you bothering this 50 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,680 woman? She has done a beautiful thing 51 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:39,360 to me. So here to you see why sometimes 52 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:46,720 we keep on switching some of the additions, some of them hide 53 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:52,080 things. OK so this one says that she has 54 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:58,000 done a beautiful thing to me. Look who captured in another. 55 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:02,240 So look at the new King James for she has done a good work for 56 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,240 me. Beautiful thing and good, good 57 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,560 work. Next verse please. 58 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,920 Next verse verse 11. The poor you always have with 59 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,320 you, but you will not always have me. 60 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:27,320 Go on, when she poured this perfume on my body, she did it 61 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:35,040 to prepare me for burial. Truly, I tell you, wherever this 62 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,040 gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done 63 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,680 will also be told in memory of her. 64 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:50,960 Amen. So the First Corinthians 11/29, 65 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,320 there is a textual difference there. 66 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:02,360 One of them says that descending the Lord's body, the other one 67 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:07,320 is saying the body of Christ. So when you read it, you may be 68 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:12,160 wondering, are you referring to the universal body of Christ as 69 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:17,280 the church or the literal body of Christ that was hanged on the 70 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,320 cross? These two, if you don't take 71 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:25,760 care, it can sound confusing. So theologians have agreed that 72 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:30,000 it could mean both. It could mean both. 73 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:36,000 So Paul was actually referring to either the body, the literal 74 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,960 body of Christ that was nailed on the cross, the body that you 75 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:48,880 and I, we have some, or the body as the Church of Christ. 76 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:53,720 But we will we will we will add both and then single. 77 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,360 There was an issue with the church at Corinth. 78 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,840 The church there at Corinth they were spiritually endowed, but 79 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:06,560 they had problems. There are lots of issues from 80 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,640 left to right. So poor had to write to set 81 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,600 things in order that these things you shouldn't do. 82 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:19,160 So the first thing that Paul was writing to correct about the 83 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:25,240 lost table was the one they did not distinguish the lost table 84 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,080 from the other table. Thank God that today we have a 85 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:32,000 lot of tables here. So my example were fit. 86 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,039 They didn't know the difference between this table and the other 87 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:40,120 one. So they were approaching the the 88 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:44,760 lost table as they would approach any other table. 89 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,640 So Paul was not saying that what they were doing was very serious 90 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:53,200 because to eat and not discerning the lost body means 91 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,280 that they come to the lost table and not honoring the Lord. 92 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,080 So the table set here is different from the table in 93 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,480 front of us that we will be doing because what will be said 94 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,920 before us, they are different and the reason for setting them 95 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:15,760 up to are different. So Paul was saying that you need 96 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:20,720 to discern the lost table. Don't come there and eat anyhow, 97 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:26,440 some were coming there to eat to, you know, feel their stomach 98 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:33,440 because then their bread was not this kind of small compressed 99 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,920 with fathered witty who they were doing proper bread. 100 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:44,120 So people were now rushing, not thinking about what was said 101 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:49,840 before them or giving reverence to the Lord who's suffering 102 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,440 purchased the table for them. So they were just rushing, 103 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:57,880 rushing to get a bigger size of the bread. 104 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,840 So everybody was now rushing Chalimanian in Tema, their bread 105 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,200 could finish. So they were all rushing, 106 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,520 pushing that I, I want to get the bigger parts. 107 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,880 And by so doing they were dishonouring the Lord, and they 108 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:20,000 miss the good thing that had there and then the other side of 109 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,640 the body of Christ. They did not also descend 1. 110 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:29,160 School. Combines these two thoughts and 111 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:33,200 says that the other one, the body of Christ, they did not 112 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,640 descend the interrelationship between the believers in the 113 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,080 body of Christ. So there was some kind of the 114 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:43,840 poor should wait when the rich finished eating, then the poor 115 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,840 will come. So there was that segregation. 116 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:50,960 You are poor, Jinaha, you are rich. 117 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,920 Oh come, come, come, come. So Paul was in their thought. 118 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:59,840 They are saying that Paul was addressing the issues in two 119 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:02,360 folds. But thanks be to God that 120 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:09,800 nowadays is the same cup, is the same quantity, is the same small 121 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:15,160 compressed circular wafer. What I take is the same as 122 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:25,560 yours. No, it's the same thing. 123 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:32,000 So the Corinthian church, there was that behavior going on and 124 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:37,720 Paul wrote this to correct that the body of Jesus we should 125 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,000 descend. So whilst I was thinking about 126 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,960 someone who would give us a very good example of discerning the 127 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:52,640 Lord's body, then the woman who poured the perfume on the Lord's 128 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:58,400 body came to my mind. So the action by that woman by 129 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:03,080 breaking an expensive alabaster box could be seen as one person 130 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:08,480 who would truly descend the body of Christ of Jesus for barrier. 131 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,400 So As for the lost body, it is there many people encountered 132 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:17,480 him in several ways. But this woman's action, 133 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:23,520 thoughts, behavior, outcome could also give us a model that 134 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,720 we can follow even as we approach the table of the Lord. 135 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:34,120 To descend means that to separate, to distinguish, to 136 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:40,760 descend one thing from another. Another great theologian says 137 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:45,360 that the lost body for him, the lost body, he was referring to 138 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:52,160 the literal body, and we need to appreciate the body by receiving 139 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:57,080 or coming to the table with thankfulness and thanking him 140 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:01,440 and appreciating the selling. The lost body is also our 141 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,360 reverence response to the sacrifice of our Savior. 142 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,200 So to descend the lost body means that you don't come to the 143 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:14,920 lost table anyhow, but you come as a response. 144 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:19,000 Your expression is what reverence to what He has done 145 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,040 for us. So approaching the table, not as 146 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:27,200 any other table, but with reverence, much gratitude. 147 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,160 So when we come to this table, we are come with gratitude. 148 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:37,320 Lord, I thank you that once I was a Sinner saved by grace. 149 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,760 That should be our hearts that we express to the Lord. 150 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,680 We should also express our affection in response to the 151 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:50,840 death of the Savior. We should come and know that the 152 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,040 Lord has done something great for me. 153 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:59,400 Why I was Once Upon a time a Sinner condemned, nobody would 154 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,760 like you, but because of the death and the table he has 155 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,000 presented. Now we are called the beloved of 156 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,160 the law. This is how we should approach 157 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:14,480 and descend the law's table when we also approaching and 158 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,720 discerning, we acknowledge that the table has been set through 159 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,000 the death and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 160 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:28,720 This table has been set through the pains, excruciating pains, 161 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:33,240 through the sufferings, through the death that he established 162 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:37,960 this table for us. So it is not by ourselves, but 163 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:43,240 someone, our Savior did it for us and we need to be thankful to 164 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,680 him. Praise the Lord, Hallelujah. 165 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:55,640 Oh, I said Hallelujah one time, David, David, you let me also 166 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:02,880 link it to how you can draw that correlation between a table and 167 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:08,480 the toils of someone who has set it even at home when you come 168 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:17,000 home and your wife has toiled, someone has toiled us today we 169 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,440 are going to we have another table set before us to come and 170 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:28,200 sheer fellowship love feast the the team behind it. 171 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:32,240 They have worked, they have worked and after they have 172 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:36,880 worked, you come and you sit behind and you do your face 173 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:45,680 somehow and you dip a finger in the food and at a taste no salt. 174 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,160 And the one who told is standing there right beside you. 175 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,160 The way the person go look your hair, you don't take care. 176 00:15:55,160 --> 00:16:00,240 The person will slap you. Why the person has toiled. 177 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,240 Sometimes mines will cut our fingers. 178 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:09,680 The the saddest part is that you will cry without receiving any 179 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,080 lashes. Onions can make you cry. 180 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,960 Onions or you're very good the the moment you come through, no, 181 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:23,680 you cry or beyond mobile, you are crying in the kitchen and 182 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,640 look at this describing we have gas. 183 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:33,520 If you go to the to the villages and have the, the half the three 184 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:38,760 stones and they put in some wood and other things, the smoke 185 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,520 alone. The moment your wife is done 186 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:47,200 with the food, she will come with a perfumed body from the 187 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,720 hair to the clothes to the skin nuisance. 188 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:55,360 And after they have told and run around to present your food, 189 00:16:55,760 --> 00:17:00,400 just come and eat it with a heart full of gratitude. 190 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:06,920 Then at home my sons will come and see that mommy will not eat. 191 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:10,839 The movement could feel open pussy. 192 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:13,800 They will not eat. Come and see us of mommy. 193 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:19,440 I said I can't be a beshen when he brought me pray and said to 194 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,800 me, yeah, anyway, do you have any idea? 195 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,560 I don't like this food. I said, Crano Panason, you don't 196 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,200 like this food. Do you know how this table came? 197 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,520 And also of Miami would talk and talk and in the end we have to 198 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:42,200 come and convince them, hey, this food it has this, it has 199 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:43,640 that. This is the real food. 200 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:49,320 We Adrian via Candide and Papa eat this food. 201 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:52,480 So now your anger will turn into a lecture. 202 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,320 Then you have to lecture them as to why they then then after that 203 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:02,120 long back and forth, they will not attempt the endocrown you. 204 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,160 They will now going to attempt to see. 205 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,360 Then you look at the face and the face bites. 206 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:13,480 Oh the way they do their face. So it's the same thing Jesus had 207 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:20,440 to suffer not just a cutting of knives or with things. 208 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:27,440 Sometimes the vapor from the soup and the Stew, it can harm 209 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:33,520 your skin and any time I come home and I see salt on the body 210 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:38,760 of us of Mami, then it means that BBH Cheryl truly members 211 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:43,640 are all the vapor, all the the stove, all that and she has to 212 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:49,080 quickly get some salt and apply it so that it cannot spread 213 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:51,680 through the entire skin. Look at the extent. 214 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,680 So when I come and I eat, all that I have to tell my wife is 215 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:57,880 thank you. Why? 216 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:08,200 Because wow, me cooking is a well together, is a whole mood, 217 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:14,240 is a whole trip. I can be thinking about it for a 218 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:19,400 week cooking. So I find it very hard. 219 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,760 So if you cook for me, I have to thank you because you have 220 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:27,040 worked in the same way. The Lord has set a table before 221 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:30,200 us. This one he had to squeeze his 222 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,480 blood. This one, his body had to be 223 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:41,000 lacerated. The body got torn the back it 224 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,040 could have been that it was exposed to the point that you 225 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:50,080 could see sometimes the ribs Jesus had to wear crown of 226 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,840 thongs. Jesus had to suffer and and 227 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:58,360 nothing is that that day Jesus did not eat. 228 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,160 Why? Because of the table. 229 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,520 Look at the the beautiful thing Jesus told them that I will not 230 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,120 drink this wine with you. We'll be looking at the 231 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:13,160 eschatological implication of this table. 232 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,680 We'll get there and you see, so Jesus, that was the last food he 233 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,600 ate. The God is why some people say 234 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:24,960 the Last Supper and some to say the Lord's Supper. 235 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:33,480 So we are referring to this table when Jesus was presenting, 236 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:38,560 it was his last and it became a table. 237 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:45,640 So Jesus, he suffered, truly he suffered to present us this 238 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,640 food. At first when we got married, 239 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:52,920 anytime a most of mother would give me food, I would say thank 240 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:58,080 you, always thank you, always thank you. 241 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:06,960 Then one day she reminded me when we married, at first he was 242 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,000 saying thank you, even to the to some, yes. 243 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:17,200 But now you don't say thank you. I'm saying yeah, Ebu, I'm sorry. 244 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:23,560 Thank you for all the difficulties that she has been 245 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:27,080 through. So, men, when you come and your 246 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:31,440 wife gives you food, please thank her because she has 247 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,320 suffered. Amen. 248 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,560 Hallelujah. So that is the rationale behind 249 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,320 discerning the laws body. Now you will not see the 250 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:47,440 physical body now, but how you approach the attitude, the 251 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,080 gratitude, your perception, everything. 252 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,400 How you come to this table. Is this another way of 253 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:59,160 discerning the laws body and afterwards what you will do 254 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,440 after the laws table within the body of Christ? 255 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,480 It's also another way of discerning the law's body. 256 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,840 Let me give you example. David's mighty men. 257 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:19,320 One day David said that he wants the, he wants water from the 258 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:24,800 well at the gate of Bethlehem. You can find that text from 259 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:33,480 Second Samuel 2317. Second Samuel 2370 So it says 260 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:39,000 that, oh, how am I so long for the water at the well of the 261 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,240 gate of Bethlehem. By that time the Philistines had 262 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,480 occupied that gate. David, and so that ensued, 1 of 263 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,320 it. So Davis. 264 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:55,200 Three mighty men, they risked their lives, and they went 265 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,560 through and broke through. So when they came with the 266 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:04,840 water. Verse 17 David did not drink it, 267 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:11,360 and he said, OK, let's go to the vest before 16. 268 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,880 So the three mighty men broke through the camp of the 269 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,840 Philistines, drew the water from the well of Bethlehem that was 270 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,880 by the gates, and took it and brought it to David and brought 271 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,040 it to David. Nevertheless, he will not drink, 272 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:30,040 but pour it out to the Lord next verse. 273 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,440 For he said that far it be from me, O Lord, that I should do 274 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,480 this. Is this not the blood of the men 275 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,640 who went in jeopardy of their lives? 276 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,360 Therefore he will not drink it. These were done by the three 277 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,880 mighty men. So David is saying that by 278 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:52,720 extension, if I drink the water, it's like drinking their blood. 279 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:58,560 So whatever somebody risk his life to produce can be 280 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:02,160 equivalent to the life of that individual. 281 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:08,560 So by extension, the lost table is as precious as the body and 282 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:13,520 the blood from the cross. So the table here was purchased 283 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,680 through the blood and the body and the sacrifice on the 284 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,680 crossroad. If you come to the table anyhow, 285 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,480 you are not discerning the body of Christ. 286 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:28,440 That was the analogy or understanding that Paul brings 287 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,520 to us from first Corinthians 11 verse 29. 288 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:37,120 So this table is very important. And when we come to the table, 289 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,760 the VIP at the table is Jesus Christ Himself. 290 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,360 No other person. We don't matter. 291 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:50,360 It is only Him who is the most important person, and to him we 292 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:53,480 owe everything. That is what the woman did for 293 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,760 Jesus at the table. She distinguished the Law's body 294 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:04,680 from any other body when Jesus visited them at the table. 295 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:10,120 We need to always give Jesus Christ our best and unknowingly 296 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:15,280 to her, what she was doing was a prebarrier, anointing and 297 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:20,040 preparing Jesus Christ for the tomb or for the cross. 298 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:26,200 So what the woman did was acknowledged by Christ. 299 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,360 So people do not simply give their valuable things unless 300 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,760 there is a cause or there is a motivation. 301 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:38,520 The woman in the story identified the conditions and 302 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:44,240 everything, and motivated by Jesus, his love for Him, she 303 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,320 offered it. So what does the lost table mean 304 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,880 to you? What does the lost table mean to 305 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,680 you? Let's examine the response of 306 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:58,280 the woman when she descend that the Messiah in Jesus. 307 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:03,960 At the table she offered her best to the body of Christ. 308 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:09,720 When she descended as her response, she offered her best. 309 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,680 When you're coming to the table, offer your best. 310 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:19,320 Even when you're invited by His Excellency Dramani Muhammad to 311 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:22,200 come for a lunch at the Jubilee House. 312 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,760 Everybody who here true of us, they're planning that will go 313 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:34,400 into the selection of the dress. For US men, it will take us a 314 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,560 day. For the women, take them one 315 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:42,520 month to plan an attack. You don't even sleep. 316 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,720 You wake up early in the morning or even be rehearsing. 317 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:51,520 If you are going to dine with Prince Charles or King Charles, 318 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,960 you have to be taught. You will be schooled on the 319 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,880 etiquettes how to dine with Royals. 320 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,960 You have to be taught and be groomed even how to greet the 321 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:09,320 king, how to bow, how to welcome him, how to turn your neck, how 322 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,320 to look at him. They will screw you. 323 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:16,840 Keno, how much more coming to the table of the king? 324 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,840 At the table the king is always there, because no king will 325 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,600 throw you a banquet and will be absent. 326 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,240 So when you come to the lost table, His name is there, so He 327 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,320 is present. The elements, you see that they 328 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,400 represent Him, but He comes, He shows up. 329 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,520 So when you are coming to the King, that is why we say the 330 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,360 Lord Supper, prayers, preparatory prayers. 331 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,520 Why do we do that? Because we prepare to dine with 332 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,240 the Lord everywhere in the Scripture, when the Lord was 333 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,840 descending to come into their midst, you say that they should 334 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,600 prepare to meet Him. Prepare to meet your God. 335 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:01,720 So in the same way, don't just come without consciously 336 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:07,040 preparing your mindset that I am going to the presence of a king, 337 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,760 I'm going to a table that was purchased by him and therefore I 338 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:16,760 need to go prepared. If going to meet His Excellency 339 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:22,120 Draman Mahama, you have to prepare and prepare and prepare. 340 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,280 Then coming to the lost table will require even much more. 341 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:31,120 Hallelujah. So offer your best, offer your 342 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:32,560 best. When you come, you need to 343 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,720 prepare. Come with a clean heart, 344 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:40,400 prepare, offer your best. Offering your best does not end 345 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,400 here or that does not come here. It goes to you everywhere you 346 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,800 are. And you need to offer your best 347 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:52,320 of character, your best of everything to the whole world. 348 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:58,280 The woman's expression of devotion when she descend Jesus 349 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,400 at the table. Let's look at how she expressed 350 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,280 her devotion. She brought out a beautiful 351 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:11,560 alabaster jar and the content was an expensive perfume. 352 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:20,120 The ESV described as pure nut or a perfume oil. 353 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:27,040 Those were used for solemn acts of devotion and it was used to 354 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,800 anoint guests. Some were used for many other 355 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,560 things. So when she descend the Law's 356 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:39,920 body, the Law's body, she came with a very pure thing. 357 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,000 May we come to the lost table with a pure heart. 358 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,240 That was from the ESV Steady Bible, please not, not from the 359 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,680 ESV text. Sorry about that. 360 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,120 So there were some hindrances in Ipano, Assam. 361 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,200 The disciples. This woman was a bold woman 362 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,960 because she has to breakthrough the the to go to a table 363 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:11,440 dominated by men and to identify Jesus at the table required so 364 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,760 much. Required so much. 365 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,680 Then the disciples, our fellow believers, especially Judas. 366 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,840 What a waste. He could have been sold. 367 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,400 What a waste. So she expressed her love after 368 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,560 discerning the Lord's body. Something will do you, you 369 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,760 express it. As for her, she expressed by 370 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:42,080 giving something special to Jesus after discerning the 371 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,160 Lord's body. You cannot live for yourself. 372 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,440 You must live for Jesus. You must do what? 373 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:54,560 Live for Jesus. That was what she did. 374 00:30:55,040 --> 00:31:00,040 And when you want to do something for the Lord, or after 375 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,440 descending the Lord's body, don't confer with flesh and 376 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,760 blood. Paul says that when he had the 377 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:12,000 call, he did not immediately confer with flesh and blood. 378 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,680 Why? Because they would discourage 379 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,600 you. That was from one of the 380 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,800 apostles of Jesus, Judas, the finance minister. 381 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,960 This the in fact discouraging the the woman from expressing 382 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:29,720 her love after discerning So after descending the lost body 383 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,920 here expresses. Some will come at you and say 384 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:37,120 the other with Tinuana. Don't mind them, you have seen 385 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:41,480 something they have not seen. When you encounter Jesus, your 386 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,280 output expressions will be different. 387 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,040 Hallelujah. Some have identified this woman 388 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:54,480 as Mary, the brother of Lazarus. It was that same man who sat at 389 00:31:54,480 --> 00:32:00,280 the feet of Jesus whilst Martha was busy preparing another 390 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,120 table. Mary was sitting with Jesus. 391 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,480 No wonder she was moved. You can see that probably the 392 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,200 way Jesus loved them and brought their brother back, back to life 393 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:17,640 and what she saw in Jesus listening to her motivated her 394 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:23,800 to do what she did for Jesus. So she was motivated by her love 395 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,960 for Christ. And as a result, Jesus says that 396 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,600 wherever the gospel is preached, what this man has done will also 397 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:37,120 be said that she did it. The purpose for expressing her 398 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,600 sacrifice of her sacrifice was to prepare the body of Jesus for 399 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,400 barrier. That was where she descended the 400 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,400 body. She descend the body. 401 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:52,280 You need to look beyond this small table and it's not about 402 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:58,000 the size of the table. Our table can be small, but the 403 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,520 weights on the table is what really speaks. 404 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:06,520 So the purpose is to prepare Jesus for his barrier, to 405 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,080 prepare Jesus for his barrier. Look, not this. 406 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:16,440 Jesus is the anointed 1 Messiah. Anointed, in fact he was. 407 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:23,000 He was filled with the Holy Spirit in the womb and Jesus 408 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,640 took the form of body from a woman. 409 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:33,520 And no wonder that to let the body go through suffering, she 410 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:38,560 was anointed by a woman. So there was somebody who needed 411 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:43,080 to anoint him to prepare his body, but who would catch that 412 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,720 revelation to do it? It was someone who descend the 413 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,360 lost body. Who did that? 414 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:54,640 May we descend the lost body. Oh, if you're here, give me a 415 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,040 bigger Amen. Amen. 416 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,920 So Jesus himself said that she has poured this perfume on my 417 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:06,160 body to prepare for barrier. So his body needed to prepare 418 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,719 for barrier because his body will not decay. 419 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:16,520 The other woman went there on the Sabbath day on the first day 420 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:20,679 of the week to go and then perfume his body again. 421 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:22,920 But when they got there, they were late. 422 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,560 Anything you have to do for the Lord, do it fast, because the 423 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,000 opportunity may not be there forever. 424 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:35,280 Mary caught that opportunity and she did it and anointed the body 425 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:40,120 of Christ before her for for His barrier. 426 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:44,320 Jesus said that the woman has done a good thing for him, a 427 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,440 good thing for him Today you may not see his physical body, but 428 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,280 whatever you are doing for someone in the body of Christ, 429 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,520 you are also doing a good thing for the body of Christ. 430 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,800 Do something good and Jesus will thank you to today. 431 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:03,160 You may not see him and anoint him with with the expensive one, 432 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,640 but as you are doing it for the the least amongst us, you are 433 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:12,240 doing a good thing for Him and Jesus will thank you for that 434 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:13,800 good thing. Hallelujah. 435 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,000 Let the good thing that you are doing for Jesus be the good name 436 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:23,160 you portray out there. Do a good thing for the Lord, Do 437 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:29,000 a good work for the Lord. The occasion was just once was 438 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,640 rare. It will not be OK when Jesus 439 00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:33,880 said that. As for the poor, you always 440 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,960 have, but As for me, you will not have. 441 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,000 So the woman identify and seize the moment. 442 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,560 And she did it. She broke her expensive 443 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,640 alabaster jar and she did it for the Lord today. 444 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:57,120 Don't hoard it, break it. Oh, you didn't hear me today. 445 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,840 Don't hoard the good things you have, break them in the name of 446 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:05,200 the Lord, and the Lord will bless you to you. 447 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,640 Jesus, he did not. He did not keep his life to 448 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:12,040 himself, He broke it. So anyone who follows his 449 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:16,640 example of sacrifice and given you, move him to your behalf. 450 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,480 Sacrifice, then give him. May we continually sacrifice 451 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,880 even the tables before us. If you go to our page, some 452 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,760 people sacrifice for this table to be here. 453 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,600 True or false. You see the name there? 454 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:36,080 Elder and the dickness Unni. Elder and Unni and I must be 455 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:42,800 human and I'm in Kahun and I'm minister of Mami Kahun. 456 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:48,440 The way to rejoin. So when we are sacrificing every 457 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,920 day. So even this table, somebody 458 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,240 took money from the pocket for it to be here. 459 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,120 Jesus, He didn't just take money, He took his life to make 460 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:04,560 the table a reality for you. So may we thank Him and descend 461 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:09,840 as Mary did for her. Hallelujah. 462 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:17,400 Oh, I said Hallelujah. So now when we descend the 463 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:25,120 Lord's body, let us offer a sweet smelling aromatic memorial 464 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,880 sacrifice to the Lord. Amen. 465 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,960 Oh, I said Amen. Because of our time, I will run 466 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:39,000 to is quite a longer 1, so I will run to the final part. 467 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:45,080 The eschalogical eschatological implication of the laws table. 468 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:52,320 Implications of the laws table. Let us read from Luke chapter 469 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:59,000 2215 following Luke 2215 following. 470 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,480 Let's take this one from there, NLT. 471 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,040 There's a particular way there I want to have ambly bring to 472 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,200 attention. Then you end, Jesus said. 473 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:15,560 Listen to this as I try to end, Jesus said. 474 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:24,680 I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you 475 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:32,120 before my suffering begins. Let's go on, for I tell you now 476 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:38,200 that I won't eat this meal. Look at the this referring to 477 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:46,160 that day, this meal again until its full meaning is fulfilled in 478 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:54,160 the Kingdom of God. Then he took a cup of wine and 479 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:59,840 gave thanks to God for it. Then he said, take this and 480 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:09,080 share it among yourselves, for I will not drink wine again until 481 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:13,360 the Kingdom of God has come. Next verse please. 482 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,280 He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. 483 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,200 Then he broke it in peace and gave it to the disciples, 484 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:28,640 saying, This is my body, which is what given to you. 485 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:36,200 Do this to Remember Me. After supper, he took another 486 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:46,880 cup of wine and said This cup is the new covenant between God and 487 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:53,080 his people, an agreement confirmed with my blood, which 488 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:59,520 is poured out as a sacrifice for you. 489 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,920 There is a story here. So you will be wondering how 490 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:08,800 many cups did Jesus speak or you didn't see it? 491 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:15,480 I intentionally read this Boko so that you will see it. 492 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:20,440 He took a cup. The first was a cup, then he 493 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,080 took another cup. OK, this same text. 494 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:27,560 Let's read it from the new King James and see. 495 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,840 Look at how the King James qualified the cup. 496 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:37,040 King James says the cup, so it means there was a particular cup 497 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:40,720 there. If you read the historical 498 00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:46,200 things behind the table, they were expecting the Messiah to 499 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,840 come. So whenever they eat the 500 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:54,000 Passover meal, there is always a particular cup that is tanned 501 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,120 Yebutuno. So there are other cups, there 502 00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:02,320 are several cups, but there's a particular cup that is always 503 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,520 turned upside down. And when Jesus had given them 504 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:12,200 the initial drink with any cup, then he, he broke the bread for 505 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:17,280 them, referring to himself. Then finally he took that cup, 506 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:22,000 the cup that is always, I don't know if it's always set in the 507 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,200 middle or in the left or right, but there's always a cup there 508 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:31,120 referring to the Messiah's cup. So when Jesus took the cup, he 509 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:36,480 was referring to himself that I am the Messiah who has come. 510 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:42,160 So the table that Jesus was setting 1. 511 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:43,920 He says that I've been very eager. 512 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:49,120 This, this was not the first time he was eating the Passover. 513 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,480 He had been eating probably for that. 514 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,440 This would have been the third one or who knows. 515 00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:02,440 And he would say that he was eager to eat this last one with 516 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:07,520 the why? Because he was fading away the 517 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:13,680 Passover and he was instituting a new covenant in his blood. 518 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:21,760 Also, he was eager because that will be the last one he's going 519 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,680 to eat with them. That will be the last meal. 520 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,480 I will not eat this meal again. Meaning that he had been eaten 521 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:33,280 until his meaning has been fulfilled in the Kingdom of God. 522 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:39,880 So eschatologically, it means that if this is the last one 523 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,400 Jesus is eating, then there will be a first one in the Kingdom 524 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,840 who will eat with Him. So if you don't participate in 525 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,720 this table, this one is a dress rehearsal. 526 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:59,120 We are rehearsing on earth how to dine with him in the Kingdom, 527 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,240 and there's a table there he has set for us. 528 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:09,440 So you will not eat this meal again until in the new Kingdom. 529 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,040 And then he also said that he took the cup and gift us and say 530 00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:14,720 that take this share among yourself. 531 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,960 I will not drink wine again. I will not. 532 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:25,760 So there's another wine we will drink with the Lord. 533 00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:30,440 So we will not drink earthly wine at this table forever. 534 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,280 Need to be any of this wine. A day's coming, we'll be going 535 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:40,720 to taste the eternal, the heavenly wine. 536 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,240 I don't know how it will feel when it's going down your 537 00:43:44,240 --> 00:43:47,160 throat. I don't know the feeling it will 538 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:51,720 create in your mouth. I don't know how it if it will 539 00:43:51,720 --> 00:43:59,920 create a it will be sweet. A bed upon a bed upon the reason 540 00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:06,040 why these little guys love Christmas and those nice things 541 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:09,160 that the food and the atmosphere, everything, it 542 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:13,280 creates a memory in their mind and they want to really leave it 543 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,800 again. So Jesus was saying by this last 544 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:17,760 time there's going to be another one. 545 00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,840 That one, when you taste it, you enjoy. 546 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,800 So as we come here eschatologically, we are 547 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:30,400 thinking that we are doing this in anticipation of a better wine 548 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,720 that is yet to come. We are tasting this bread, but 549 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:38,960 there is a bread in eternity in heaven, where Jesus is going to 550 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,680 give to us. So when you are coming to the 551 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:46,360 table, prepare your mind eschatologically that a day is 552 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,960 coming. It will be your Last Supper. 553 00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:52,040 Help improve. A day will come, everybody. 554 00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,680 This table might be your Last Supper before you die. 555 00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:01,920 So that is why sometimes when people are sick at home they see 556 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,040 that, bring me some, let me eat some. 557 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:09,040 Probably that will be the last one before the transition to 558 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:13,600 meet the original 1. The original 1 is there, and 559 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,480 Jesus would give to us to have a bite and a taste. 560 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:22,160 So this table is not saying that I will not drink it again. 561 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:28,320 He was facing out, the old was going away and was instituting 562 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:32,960 the Lost Supper for us. May we come with this heart that 563 00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:36,240 we are thanking Him eschatologically. 564 00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,600 It's also important that as we die at the Lost Table, we are 565 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,680 thinking of the glorious feast in heaven. 566 00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:48,600 That table is set. The chairs are there. 567 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,920 Our names have been put on a chair. 568 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,640 The chairs have been labeled. What is waiting is that there's 569 00:45:55,640 --> 00:46:01,280 somebody at the gates waiting to hear the trumpet call so that 570 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,760 they will assemble all the Saints together to enter that. 571 00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,400 Hall. And to go and dine with the Lord 572 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,280 Jesus, that when Jesus was sit at the table, at the head of 573 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,120 that table. So what we are doing here is in 574 00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,000 anticipation. So if you don't come to this 575 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,520 table, do you think you can go to that one up there? 576 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:25,360 I had the Akran Ujani Nasro. So don't run away. 577 00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,520 Descend it well and come and do it. 578 00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:35,360 A word of caution to those at the table. 579 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:43,160 Judas too came to the table. Judas Iscariot, he was also 580 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:47,600 present at the table on Earth. So another word is that the fact 581 00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:51,680 that you come to this table does not guarantee your position at 582 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,760 the table in heaven called Judas. 583 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,720 He was at the table, but he betrayed Jesus Christ. 584 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,080 So a word of question. If you don't take care, you will 585 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:04,400 taste the earthly table, but you miss the heavenly table. 586 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:09,360 May we not miss it? Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 587 00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,720 At the table, opportunities abound. 588 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,920 It was at the same table that Judas was looking for 589 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:21,520 opportunity to betray Jesus. Whilst people were looking for 590 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:26,240 opportunity to anoint His body, Judas was looking for the 591 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:32,840 opportunity to betray the Lord. It was at the same table that 592 00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,800 Jesus taught the disciples. He washed his their feet. 593 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:39,880 He washed the feet of all of them. 594 00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,640 Peter said the Lord don't do not just my feet, the whole body and 595 00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,520 Jesus said that anyone who has taken a bath does not need to 596 00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,320 bath again, but to wash the feet. 597 00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:54,080 So the preaching and everything they had heard from Jesus meant 598 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:57,440 that they were clean and was teaching them that do same. 599 00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,000 You called me master, master, master, you called me teacher 600 00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:02,720 and I'm doing this. Make sure you do that. 601 00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:06,960 So at the last table, if you descend him very well, we serve. 602 00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:11,200 We serve at the table of the Lord. 603 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,720 We don't go there to Lord it over. 604 00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:16,760 He said that the people of this world, they Lord it over their 605 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:20,320 followers, but not here. Jesus said I'm not here and 606 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:25,360 Yamaha may hide the over some. So he told them that go and do 607 00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,680 likewise. Go and do what? 608 00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,480 Likewise. So at the table when you dine 609 00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,840 with him, you have to go and serve. 610 00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,080 After dining, you must be unleashed. 611 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,840 Oh, you didn't hear me. After dining. 612 00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,920 He taught them a valuable lesson to serve one another. 613 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:51,840 So after dining, the effects from the table is that you have 614 00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:56,200 nothing but to go and save. Husbands will save our wives. 615 00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,840 Wives will save our husbands. Children will serve parents. 616 00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:03,520 Parents will serve children. Church members will serve God 617 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,040 well. We will serve God at our 618 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,560 workplaces. We will serve God when we are 619 00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,200 looking at the figures before us. 620 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,840 We will serve God when we are fixing prices on our product. 621 00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:17,000 We will serve God by doing everything right. 622 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:21,560 We will serve God by not selling bad things to people in the name 623 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:25,840 of class. Adya Otaman and your parents. 624 00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:30,200 Not one more final. Are you serving God? 625 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,920 Let us serve God who end with Paul. 626 00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:38,400 He say that anyone who eats and drink this cup in an unworthy 627 00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:43,520 manner eats and drinks judgments upon themselves. 628 00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:49,960 So Paul was emphatic that that is how many people are weak and 629 00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:53,320 I'll for not descend. So if you don't descend the lost 630 00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:59,320 table, well, you will be judged, you will be judged, you will be 631 00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:03,600 judged. So eventually Judas who spoke 632 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:09,560 against the woman who descend the lost table, was the one who 633 00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:14,240 could not descend the lost table, that the Lord's body and 634 00:50:14,240 --> 00:50:18,120 betrayed him with pieces of silver. 635 00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:24,200 So if you feel to descend the Lord at his table, you will 636 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:28,320 betray him. Look at the example of Judas. 637 00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:31,880 And even now Paul is saying that that is where many are weak and 638 00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,680 people have even died. So people have even died. 639 00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:40,960 So if you come to the lost table and you don't take it serious, 640 00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,920 the Lord is serious. The Lost Supper is not to be 641 00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:49,640 taken lightly because it's a new covenant that cost Jesus his 642 00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,400 life. Enacting the new covenant, It 643 00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,840 cost him his life. Don't let us come as a 644 00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:59,680 meaningless ritual every month. Be a cause. 645 00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,400 So now people have used it as their first. 646 00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,520 Oh, this is the first Sunday. Also today we'll go to the 647 00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,000 luster. Also today we'll do this. 648 00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:10,560 So now it's becoming a ritual. So the moment you go, just make 649 00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:15,720 yourself pious, sanctimonious. Don't let your feet even touch 650 00:51:15,720 --> 00:51:25,760 the ground. He wants a good heart from you. 651 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:27,920 So it's not how you walk. So pious. 652 00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:32,840 Oh, Jesus. Oh, Sokoto. 653 00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:34,800 Mama. No, no. 654 00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:39,920 He wants your heart to be that. He wants your heart to be 655 00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,880 humble. He wants your heart to come to 656 00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:47,360 him with reference. And the fear that this table. 657 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:53,640 Jesus, Oba, I've told you that no king throws a banquet and 658 00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,560 he's absent. He comes, he shows up. 659 00:51:57,240 --> 00:52:00,360 Shall we be on our feet? Shall we be on our feet? 660 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:07,760 May the Lord help us so that this table here, the essence is 661 00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:12,160 to strengthen our faith. The key thing is what? 662 00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:16,640 Strengthen our faith. So if you are coming and you are 663 00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,800 not coming in a wealthy manner because you're not descending 664 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:25,000 the lost table and his body, well, we are praying to the Lord 665 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:29,800 that Lord forgive us if we have not descend your body and we 666 00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,920 have behaved anyhow, have mercy upon us. 667 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,960 Lift up your voice and you know, pray to the Lord, begin to pray 668 00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:40,080 to the we are asking God to forgive us that many a times we 669 00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:44,800 don't even prepare ourselves. We don't plan, we don't come 670 00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:48,160 with a prepared heart, a heart of gratitude and thankfulness. 671 00:52:49,240 --> 00:52:53,680 Let us ask God, forgive us Lord, have mercy over us. 672 00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,200 Have mercy over us. The number of times we have not 673 00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,520 come to your table well prepared. 674 00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:03,520 We don't descend you at the table that it is through your, 675 00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:08,120 the purchase of your blood that you have purchased this for us. 676 00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,280 Forgive us Lord, forgive us Lord. 677 00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,640 We want to thank the Lord that He has done this for us. 678 00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:22,160 We are discerning the Lord's body by thanking Him, by 679 00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:28,680 acknowledging that He paid it. He paid the price for us to have 680 00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:31,760 this table. The Lord set this table before 681 00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:36,280 us by offering His only Son as a sacrifice. 682 00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:40,080 Let us thank Him. Open your mouth and begin to 683 00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,200 thank the Lord. Open your mouth and will thank 684 00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,760 the Lord to us. Let the Lord hear that you are 685 00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,400 so. Lord for thank you, Lord. 686 00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,600 For what I have done for. You Lord for. 687 00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,680 We are forever thankful. Father sending holy thank. 688 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,000 You Lord to. Come and die for us. 689 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,320 Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. 690 00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,240 Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. 691 00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:00,880 Thank you, Lord. Father, we appreciate. 692 00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:02,120 Lord, if I. Thank you. 693 00:54:02,240 --> 00:54:04,680 We thank you, Father. We thank you, Lord. 694 00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:10,200 We thank you, Lord, we thank. You, Father. 695 00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:13,400 Lord, we thank you. Lord, we thank you, Father. 696 00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:15,080 In the name of. Jesus. 697 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,640 We are praying to thank the Lord for what He has done for us by 698 00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:59,200 sending His holy begotten Son. For God so loved the world that 699 00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:04,840 He gave us His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him 700 00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:07,880 will not perish, but have everlasting life. 701 00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:13,040 So they won't be intentional in thanking God for his only Son, 702 00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:17,000 that through Him we have access to the table, through Him we 703 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,080 have access to Him. Let us lift up our voice. 704 00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,920 I'm going to thank the Lord. Let us appreciate with the heart 705 00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,080 of gratitude. Thank Him. 706 00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:41,160 Thank you, Lord, we thank you. Lord, We thank you. 707 00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,640 Lord, we thank you, Lord, we thank you. 708 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:54,120 In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, shall we 709 00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:57,480 be seated? Please, shall we be seated? 710 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,720 Mayweja Party War crystal. Moon. 711 00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:01,760 When Mary descend the body of Christ, she expressed it. 712 00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:05,880 We too know that we have descend His body. 713 00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:09,000 What is the form of your expression? 714 00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:15,400 After descending the Lord's body, anyone who descends his 715 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,840 body, descend his body. There was an expression. 716 00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:26,960 Mary brought forth her expensive perfume and anointed Jesus the 717 00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:30,200 body of Christ. Today, what is your expression 718 00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:34,800 towards the body of Christ? You may say medium, me, 719 00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:40,720 Bonidina, my day, Madonna. Today I want you to form a new 720 00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:44,840 expression that we have descend the body. 721 00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:48,160 Even if you have not descended the body by this word, you have 722 00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:52,680 descended up to some point. What are you going to do after 723 00:58:52,680 --> 00:59:00,360 discerning the body of Christ? Judas Iscariot criticized and he 724 00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:05,760 was ostracized from the Kingdom. He was expelled. 725 00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,640 He lost his place and was given to somebody else. 726 00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:18,000 May we not be critics at the table, but may we appreciate the 727 00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,480 Lord and focus on Him. Form your expression. 728 00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:28,520 Form your expression. Form an expression that, O God, 729 00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:33,200 after I descend your body, I will also serve. 730 00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:37,720 That is what we have to do. From leaving His table, He 731 00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:41,000 commissioned to go and save today. 732 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,040 What are you doing in response? After thanking Him? 733 00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,440 What other thing do you want to do? 734 00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,760 That is what we are going to possess the nation with the 735 00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:54,040 gospel and with the power of the Holy Spirit. 736 00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:57,920 We are going to transform society and it starts with you 737 00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:02,360 and I, our form of expressing our faith. 738 01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:06,120 After the descend, the body of Christ would touch a life 739 01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:10,920 somewhere, would touch a family somewhere, will bring 740 01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:15,640 transformation to somebody, will bring somebody to the Kingdom. 741 01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:21,840 Lord, Lord, allow the Holy Spirit to minister to you. 742 01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:26,440 Mary give her beautiful Alabastaja. 743 01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:33,320 With content so expensive as her form of expression after she 744 01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:37,080 descend the body today, after you have descend the Lord's 745 01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:39,360 body, how are you going to express it? 746 01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:43,280 Paul says that proclaim the lost death until he comes. 747 01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:48,760 There's another form of expression, evangelizing. 748 01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:50,800 Witnessing is a form of expression. 749 01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:55,120 After you have descend the body, you will not sit down, but you 750 01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:59,120 go forth. Oh God, Father, in the name of 751 01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:05,480 Jesus, we thank you that today you have reminded us that we 752 01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:09,840 need to discern your body. Mary, discern your body and 753 01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:15,440 prepare your body for barrier. And it was a good thing, you 754 01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:16,680 remark. That was a good thing. 755 01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:22,200 Lord, may our expression after descending your body through 756 01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:29,400 your table that you are the VIP in our life, help us so that we 757 01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:33,360 also do good thing to the body, to the body of believers. 758 01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:37,080 We also do good things to each other. 759 01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:42,000 We will love one another and we will love you dearly. 760 01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:46,880 Thank you for your work today as we come to dine with you. 761 01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:51,320 Lord, we pray the Lord let grace abound unto us. 762 01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:55,840 We wash ourselves in the blood of Jesus and let the blood speak 763 01:01:55,840 --> 01:02:03,000 for us and cover all weaknesses. We thank You that in the 764 01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:09,080 Kingdom, when all is fulfilled, we are going to taste a heavily 765 01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:14,960 bread and a heavily wine with you, and there you are going to 766 01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:19,400 comfort us. Thank you Lord, as we live in 767 01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:22,320 readiness in anticipation of that day. 768 01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:27,320 May that understanding and thoughts dominate our lives so 769 01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:29,880 that we'll not leave for ourselves, but we'll leave for 770 01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:36,440 you in Jesus name, Amen. Let us read from First 771 01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:40,840 Corinthians where we we just finished off as a way of 772 01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:43,120 reminding ourselves before we dine with the Lord. 773 01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:49,120 First Corinthians 11. We'll take it from the 23rd 774 01:02:49,480 --> 01:03:02,120 verse following 23rd verse First Corinthians 1111 from verse 23 775 01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:12,400 following Can we get the new King James and then the new For 776 01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:14,840 I received from the Lord.