1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:09,400 Good morning to you guys. It's good to see you today. 2 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,400 If you're visiting with us today, I want to say, welcome to 3 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:14,900 you. My name is Kyle service lead, 4 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:18,300 Pastor here and I'm glad you're here like to hear if you have 5 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:21,800 your Bible with you would you please open to 1st Corinthians? 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:28,500 11:20 in chapter 11, we are next week going to begin a new series 7 00:00:28,500 --> 00:00:33,900 called the law and the gospel and subtitled that you must be 8 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:36,400 born again. And we're going to take a look 9 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,900 at the interaction between Nicodemus and Jesus and John. 10 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,400 Three. So I encourage you to read that 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,300 passage this week, John chapter 3, the interaction there between 12 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:51,600 Nicodemus and Christ and then we'll dive into a series on that 13 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,300 on what's taking place. I think it'll be will be really 14 00:00:54,300 --> 00:01:00,400 helpful today though, we're going to do a one-off sermon as 15 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,400 we might call it on the Lord's supper. 16 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:03,800 We're going to take a look at the Lord's Supper. 17 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:08,300 Today, I've never had a chance to actually preach a message on 18 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:10,300 the Lord's Supper. So I'm excited to be able to do 19 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:12,200 that. But here's what I want you to 20 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:13,700 know. If you're taking notes, you can 21 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:16,800 you can write this down, it'll be on the screen for a little 22 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,200 bit, so if I read it so fast, you can see it. 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,400 But the Lord's Supper strengthens our Union with 24 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,900 Christ. And communion with fellow 25 00:01:25,900 --> 00:01:27,600 Believers. It, strengthens our Union with 26 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,000 Christ and communion with fellow Believers. 27 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,200 Let me pray for us as we get ready to dive into this. 28 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,900 Heavenly father we thank you Lord for your word, we thank 29 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:38,100 you. Lord that we have it for our 30 00:01:38,100 --> 00:01:41,200 instruction. We have it for wisdom. 31 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:46,300 Lord, we have it for strengthening, we have it. 32 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:50,600 Lord given to us and such a way that not only reading words on 33 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,800 paper, but by the power of your spirit alive in us, we are Being 34 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,600 made more and more into the image of Christ. 35 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,000 As we read these words as we study these words. 36 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:05,500 And so we can't open this book without asking for the spirits 37 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:07,600 help to understand it. And so, that's what we do. 38 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,100 We plead with you, Holy Spirit, to help us today, to understand 39 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:13,800 the words that are here, to convict us, where we need 40 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:18,800 conviction to Grant repentance where we need repentance to give 41 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,900 us instruction where we may find a lack of wisdom. 42 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:28,300 Help us to walk as faithful men and women help us to walk Us. 43 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:32,500 Faithful, boys, and girls to your word to your commands. 44 00:02:33,100 --> 00:02:35,400 In Christ's name, we pray these things, amen. 45 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:40,500 Amen. I want to give you a very brief 46 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,000 history of feasting in scripture. 47 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,500 The Lord institute's to ordinances during his time on 48 00:02:49,508 --> 00:02:52,600 the earth. One of which is baptism the 49 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,200 other is the I'd suffer or you might have, you might know it as 50 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:59,800 communion, but it's baptism. The Lord's Supper in baptism, 51 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,800 you are meant to observe, or baptism. 52 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:08,700 Is meant to be observed, One Time by every believer, as a 53 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:12,900 public Declaration of their faith, in Jesus Christ for the 54 00:03:12,908 --> 00:03:17,000 Forgiveness of their sins, and their commitments, to follow him 55 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,400 with their whole life. Let me pause it. 56 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,400 A really awful place there and made it sound like Prism is for 57 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,700 the Forgiveness of sins, but you in baptism what you're saying is 58 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:31,400 I have placed my faith in Jesus Christ for the Forgiveness of my 59 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,300 sins. And now I'm committing to follow 60 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:36,700 him with my whole life that make more sense. 61 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:38,700 We want to want to recognize that baptism. 62 00:03:38,700 --> 00:03:41,700 Does not save you. Baptism is not a part of the 63 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:45,000 process of Salvation. Baptism is simply the 64 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,600 acknowledgement that as a believer in Jesus Christ. 65 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,200 I have been saved by him and I want everyone to know it. 66 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:55,000 So baptism depicts. The burial of the old man the 67 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 raising to life of the new man in Christ Jesus and that's what 68 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,900 the Apostle Paul says in Romans chapter 6, is he as he's 69 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:07,100 explaining the significance of the death, the Resurrection, the 70 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:10,000 death burial, resurrection of Christ to the believer. 71 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,100 And he says that in baptism you were buried with him in baptism 72 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:17,700 and you're raised to walk in newness of life just as Christ 73 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:21,800 was resurrected from the grave. And so it's meant to be one of 74 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:27,000 the very first acts of Radiance to Christ as a new Believers. 75 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,300 One of the first acts of obedience you do as a new 76 00:04:29,300 --> 00:04:31,900 believer. So that's baptism very briefly. 77 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:35,900 That's baptism the Lord's. Supper then is meant to be 78 00:04:35,900 --> 00:04:40,100 observed repeatedly by every believer throughout their 79 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:43,700 Christian Life, they're meant to do so alongside fellow Believers 80 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:47,300 within the local church as a sign of continuing fellowship 81 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:51,400 with Christ and with one another as his body. 82 00:04:52,100 --> 00:04:56,000 And so the question at least that I have is, why why use a 83 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,700 meal? What's the significance of a 84 00:04:57,700 --> 00:05:01,700 meal? Or feasting has deep roots in 85 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:03,700 scripture. And we here in the South, we 86 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:06,200 like feasting, right? We want Mills, we're okay with 87 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,700 Mills. The only complaint I've ever 88 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:10,900 heard about the Lord's Supper, is that, I think Mill enough, 89 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:13,800 right? It's it's tiny, it's small, its 90 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,400 bits and pieces, where's the mill? 91 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,600 That's kind of where we're at in the South. 92 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,500 We want more food. Not less food, but feasting has 93 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:23,400 deep roots in scripture, especially when it comes. 94 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,400 To redemption in the beginning before the fall of mankind. 95 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,200 Adam and Eve. Enjoyed perfect fellowship with 96 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:32,600 God. They enjoyed the presence of 97 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,800 God. In every move they made, he was 98 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,800 always with them and they feasted literally on his 99 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,500 creation. He gave them the plants and and 100 00:05:42,500 --> 00:05:45,400 all of their produce for their sustenance. 101 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,900 And so every meal that they enjoyed was enjoyed in the 102 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:51,600 presence of Christ. It was enjoyed or in the 103 00:05:51,608 --> 00:05:53,200 presence of God. It was enjoyed. 104 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:57,000 With their Covenant. God and that is until the aid of 105 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,400 that one tree which he said not to eat of, right? 106 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,000 The tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. 107 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,400 God forbid that. And in his forbidding, they 108 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,800 disobeyed they disobeyed God. And took of the tree of, which 109 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,300 God said do not eat. And so from there, they're cast 110 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:16,800 out of the Garden of Eden less they eat of the tree of life 111 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,700 which is an important distinction because in Genesis 112 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:21,600 chapter 3, you have Genesis chapter 2. 113 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,600 It's mentioned also but you This tree of life that shows up and 114 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,400 God is creating put in the midst of the garden. 115 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,400 He cast them out of the garden, says less. 116 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,500 They eat of the tree of life and live forever. 117 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:34,400 In their sins is what he's getting at the forever in this 118 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,200 Fallen State. God didn't want that to happen 119 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,500 so he cast them out. He guards the gardens where no 120 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:44,700 one can get into it until a future dates and wrote and 121 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:48,500 Romans Revelation, 21 and 22. We have the appearance of the 122 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:51,300 tree of life again in the new heavens and new earth where 123 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:56,000 Christ has brought together. Either his people for a final 124 00:06:56,300 --> 00:07:01,400 Feast, I'm kind of getting ahead of myself in my notes here, but 125 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,800 there will be a feast and you will eat one day of the Tree of 126 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,400 Life in the new heavens and new earth and which you will live 127 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:10,400 eternally in the presence of God. 128 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,800 Amen. So from Genesis to Revelation, 129 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,600 you have feasting, you see it as early as Cain and Abel who were 130 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,400 offering food sacrifices, as obedient worship to God, just 131 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,400 before God deliver the Israelites from Egypt. 132 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,200 During The Exodus, he instituted the Passover meal. 133 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,900 The Israelites were instructed to eat unleavened bread and 2, 134 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:33,900 and the cook to slaughter and cook a lamb. 135 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:36,900 And after they spread the blood of the Lamb over the doorpost, 136 00:07:37,100 --> 00:07:39,900 they would enjoy this meal together. 137 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,800 Now, the purpose of spreading, the blood of the doorpost was so 138 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,400 that the angel of death, the final plague that God was 139 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,200 bringing to Egypt, would pass over their home. 140 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,400 It's What's called the Passover feast Passover meal. 141 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,000 And so he would pass over their home, as he put to death the 142 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,200 firstborn from every son, firstborn son of every family 143 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:01,800 and he even mentions animals livestock there. 144 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,500 And so God commands though the Israelites to keep this Feast to 145 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:11,000 continue remembering this. Why? 146 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,300 So that, they remember their deliverance from Egypt. 147 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:17,500 So they remember the Covenant that God made with them. 148 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,300 So if they remember their Redemption by his strong hand, 149 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:25,500 and again at the end of all time, there's this wedding 150 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:30,800 supper of the Lamb that we are patiently awaiting at our hearts 151 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,700 are filled with hope as we wait this moment where we will be 152 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:39,900 reunited with Christ in glory surrounded by other brothers and 153 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:45,700 sisters from across time. We will join with us in feasting 154 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:49,300 with the Lord Christ. When he institute's, the Lord's 155 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:52,300 Supper in Matthew 26, he mentions there. 156 00:08:52,300 --> 00:08:56,600 That he will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until 157 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:01,400 the day when he drinks it, new with his people in his father's 158 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,700 Kingdom. So Christ is forgoing the cup. 159 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:09,600 Now, awaiting the day that he returns in glory and we are 160 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,400 reunited together forever. Amen. 161 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,300 Really incredible. And so that time that moment 162 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:20,200 where we eat with Christ will be a time of great rejoicing in the 163 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:26,000 presence of our Lord Jesus. There are many other examples of 164 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,800 Feasts throughout scripture surrounding many great events 165 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:31,900 and we just don't have time to meet. 166 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:34,700 You can do a whole series just on the feast you see and their 167 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:38,000 significance. But what we do understand 168 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,500 through what we see in Scripture that God time and again 169 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:44,900 instituted, holy Mills for remembrance and ongoing 170 00:09:44,900 --> 00:09:48,300 spiritual strength for his redeemed, people for remembrance 171 00:09:48,300 --> 00:09:51,700 and ongoing spiritual strength. This was the purpose of many of 172 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:55,200 these Feast, many of these Mills that were shared, one of the 173 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,100 great joys of the supper of the Lord's. 174 00:09:57,100 --> 00:10:01,600 Supper, as we receive it today is that we can eat and drink in 175 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,700 the presence of the Lord alongside each other as we are, 176 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,000 As We Gather in the Name of Christ for worship, we know that 177 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,700 he is spiritually present with us, as Christ himself, said 178 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:16,800 where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in their 179 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,800 midst, Matthew 18:20. That is also true as we receive 180 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,900 the Lord's Supper today. We know that the presence of 181 00:10:23,900 --> 00:10:29,800 Christ is with us. Amen, me read to you, Paul's 182 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,700 instructions. For the Lord's. 183 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:36,900 Supper, the Paul is writing to the Corinthians. 184 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,300 The Corinthian Church is notorious for having everything 185 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,800 upside down. They're notorious for getting 186 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,500 everything backwards, getting everything wrong and largely. 187 00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:49,500 It was due in this specific case, it's due to their own 188 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:53,300 selfishness. Their own idea of what on how to 189 00:10:53,300 --> 00:10:55,700 enjoy the Lord, how they are to live. 190 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:59,200 They're following their own stomachs so to speak. 191 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,100 And So what had happened is the Corinthian Church was doing so 192 00:11:04,100 --> 00:11:05,800 they were receiving the Lord's Supper. 193 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:11,200 Kind of it was very sinful, there were some who had plenty 194 00:11:11,500 --> 00:11:14,100 and they weren't sharing with those who had nothing. 195 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:17,400 And so those who had nothing we're going without and those 196 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,600 who had plenty were over indulging becoming gluttonous, 197 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,700 they were using the Mills and opportunity for gluttony The 198 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:28,200 Lord's Supper was received with wine. 199 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,900 They're using the opportunity to become drunkards also so their 200 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:35,800 gluttonous and their drunkards as they're receiving, the 201 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,700 Lord's, Supper in a mill. That's meant to be inclusive of 202 00:11:39,700 --> 00:11:42,600 the whole body, the whole local church there. 203 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,800 And not only that, but they were going on ahead without others. 204 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,600 Some were running behind or weren't showing up on time, or 205 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,200 they were starting earlier just doing it without one, another 206 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,800 not making announcements. And so, you had all kinds of 207 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:02,700 factions for me. In the church at Corinth and all 208 00:12:02,700 --> 00:12:08,400 of this Paul is now going to rebuke them on and First 209 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,700 Corinthians 11. He begins his rebuke there. 210 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:14,400 We're going to just pick up where he talks about how to do 211 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,100 it, right? And then we'll read some verses 212 00:12:17,100 --> 00:12:20,600 after that on the warning for not getting it right? 213 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:23,100 And then we'll receive the Lord's Supper today. 214 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:28,800 And First Corinthians 11, 11 23 he says for I received from the 215 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,600 Lord Lord would also delivered to you at the Lord. 216 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,900 Jesus on the night. When he was betrayed, he took 217 00:12:33,900 --> 00:12:36,200 bread. And when he had given thanks, he 218 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,200 broke it. And said, this is my body, which 219 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,300 is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. 220 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,600 In the same way. Also, he took the cup after 221 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:50,700 supper saying, this cup is the New Covenant in my blood do 222 00:12:50,700 --> 00:12:54,600 this, as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. 223 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,300 And so, what Paul is quoting here is something he the 224 00:12:58,300 --> 00:13:01,600 received personally from the Lord somehow Paul was not 225 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,500 present on the night. Christ was betrayed Paul was one 226 00:13:04,500 --> 00:13:07,800 of the early persecutors of Christians and so he wasn't 227 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,500 there that night with the disciples as the receiving it. 228 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:15,500 So either received it personally from the Lord which he She says, 229 00:13:15,500 --> 00:13:19,000 I received from the lord. It's also possible that he just 230 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,800 means he received it from the Lord, as the apostles received 231 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:25,000 it from the Lord, and He to as an apostle has received this 232 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,600 instruction. And so, what he's doing though, 233 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:32,200 is saying here's how this supper came about and here is its 234 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,200 purpose. Here is its intention and here's 235 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,400 how to observe it correctly. So Jesus Christ on the night, he 236 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,800 was betrayed, he sitting there with his disciples in the upper 237 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:47,300 room and It's the time of year for the Passover feast that same 238 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:50,700 Feast we talked about earlier, a lamb had been prepared. 239 00:13:50,700 --> 00:13:55,400 The bread is present the, the compass there and and they are 240 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,100 ready to receive this. And so Christ takes the bread 241 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:01,600 and he breaks it. And he says this is my body 242 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,200 which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me and 243 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:10,500 then he takes the cup and he says, this is the cup of the New 244 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:15,000 Covenant. In my blood do this, as often as 245 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,300 you drink it in remembrance of me. 246 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:22,800 And so Christ is now saying this old Covenant is passing away and 247 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:24,800 this is the cup of the New Covenant. 248 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,200 The old Covenant was a covenant built largely on works and it 249 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,700 was a covenant that Israel failed time and time again. 250 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:36,000 To follow. Israel was always guilty of 251 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:41,300 Disobedience to God. That's why they endured so much 252 00:14:41,300 --> 00:14:43,200 hardship throughout the Old Testament. 253 00:14:43,900 --> 00:14:46,500 And so Christ now sitting with his disciple says, this is the 254 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:49,500 Covenant. This is the cup of the New 255 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:53,000 Covenant in my blood and so no longer was it going to be about 256 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:58,800 the blood of goats or Lambs it was going to be the blood of 257 00:14:58,900 --> 00:15:01,600 Christ which this New Covenant was built on. 258 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,800 It's as far as often in verse 26. 259 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,800 We read for as often. As you eat this bread and drink 260 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,200 the cup you proclaim, the Lord's death until he comes as a writer 261 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,800 by the name of David. Matthew Mathis David Matthews. 262 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:25,300 He also rides some things. None of which are Christian. 263 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:28,800 So, Not even that Christmas song. 264 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,800 Okay? David Mathes offers a helpful 265 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:36,100 outline for how we think about the Lord's supper and he, he 266 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:38,400 mentions these four categories, the past, the present, the 267 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,600 future, and the gravity past, the present, the future in the 268 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,400 gravity. And so I'm just going to I'm 269 00:15:43,408 --> 00:15:46,700 going to use his outline here because I thought it was really 270 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:49,100 helpful in the past. What he's saying, is we 271 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:52,400 rehearse, the gospel as we come to the table, as we come to 272 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:53,900 receive the Lord's supper together. 273 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:57,600 One of the things that we are doing is rehearsing the Hospital 274 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,200 Jesus Christ. And so what we see here with 275 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,000 Paul is as he's instructing the Corinthians on the supper, the 276 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:09,100 Apostle Paul twice says do this in remembrance of me which is 277 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:13,900 what Christ told the disciples there in the Last Supper in Luke 278 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:18,000 22. So the Lord's Supper is no less 279 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:22,000 than a memorial meal that recounts, the Covenant of Grace 280 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,100 that we've received in Christ. And we received it in Christ 281 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:29,100 because it was Dated on the cross of Calvary. 282 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,400 And then we receive this New Covenant. 283 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:36,000 Because Christ becomes, the final sacrifice Christ is the 284 00:16:36,008 --> 00:16:40,300 great high priest. Christ is the one who now reigns 285 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:45,100 forever in heaven Christ, there is now an end to the sacrifice 286 00:16:45,100 --> 00:16:47,900 which there would have been no end to had Christ. 287 00:16:47,900 --> 00:16:52,300 Not come at Christ, not come. We would still be offering bulls 288 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:56,700 and goats and doves and all sorts of other animals for 289 00:16:56,700 --> 00:17:00,200 repair. Needed forgiveness of sins. 290 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:04,400 We would have to be Christ died. Once for all his Hebrew, says, 291 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:08,599 the nth there's coming into that, and the perfect sacrifice 292 00:17:08,700 --> 00:17:11,099 has been made, which is the god, man. 293 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:14,300 Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, Son of God, and so is Christ 294 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:20,099 gives himself up for us. We receive in him, grace and 295 00:17:20,099 --> 00:17:23,800 mercy, where we should have received wrath and condemnation 296 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,300 in Christ as we place our faith in him. 297 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:31,300 We Sieve life, whereas we should have received death, but Christ 298 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:35,100 took death for us so that we might have life. 299 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,900 And so the Lord's Supper gives us a rhythm in church life and 300 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:45,000 in a local church to remember and to recall and to proclaim 301 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,500 the Redemption of Sinners that is found only in the death 302 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:52,200 burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 303 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,000 It's found only by faith in Christ alone. 304 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:00,800 It's very similar to baptism in the sense. 305 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:05,800 The supper is a, it's a visual representation of the Gospel. 306 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:10,200 The broken body and Spilled blood of Christ for Sinners. 307 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:15,600 And the Lord's Supper is an act of New Covenant renewal its 308 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:20,600 continuing Fellowship, its ongoing perseverance in our 309 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:25,500 Embrace of the gospel. And David Mathes offers this, he 310 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:27,500 says it helps us hold fast to the word. 311 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:30,900 According to First, Corinthians 15 to, and to continue in the 312 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:35,900 faith, stable, and steadfast not shifting, from Hope to the 313 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:39,100 gospel. In the Colossians 1:23. 314 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:44,600 So one of the misconceptions I think of the supper is that you 315 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,600 have to have it all together. Spiritually before you can 316 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:53,600 receive the supper. Now this comes with the idea of 317 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:55,500 fencing the table. If you've grown up in church, 318 00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:57,300 you may have heard this terminology of fencing the 319 00:18:57,300 --> 00:18:59,100 table. Now, they have fencing. 320 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:03,000 The table is that you set a hedge of protection, in a sense 321 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,900 around the table that only those who receive the Lord's supper or 322 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:10,100 Those who are walking Faithfully with the Lord. 323 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:16,800 But as with anything, we can be too strict in fencing. 324 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,400 We can be too concerned with exactly who qualifies and who 325 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:24,400 doesn't. And so we can end up limiting 326 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,100 the Lord's Supper to only the religious Elite. 327 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:31,900 Or those who, look religiously Elite. 328 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,200 And this is not the idea of First Corinthians 11. 329 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,000 I'll get into those verses later. 330 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,900 That really get at this idea of how we fix the table correctly. 331 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:44,400 But for now, what you must understand about, the Lord 332 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,900 suffers that, you're rehearsing the gospel. 333 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,000 And as you receive the Lord's Supper, you're remembering that 334 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,800 Christ died for your sins. Christ died for your sins. 335 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,000 Amen. And you're proclaiming that 336 00:19:57,100 --> 00:20:01,100 until the Lord's, Lord comes your proclaiming his death until 337 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:03,900 he comes again, which means we're not forgetting the 338 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:07,100 resurrection, which means we're not forgetting that Christ is 339 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:10,700 going to come again as the Lord of lords, the king of kings and 340 00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:13,900 set everything, right? Amen. 341 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:16,900 There will be a judgment of the living and the dead those who 342 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:19,800 are under the righteousness of Christ, because they Place their 343 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,700 faith in him, will go on to eternal life. 344 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,400 Life and those who are under the Judgment of God because they 345 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,900 placed their faith in their own righteousness, will go on to 346 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:33,700 condemnation in Hell forever. These were the two realities 347 00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:37,900 that we come to as we look at the Lord's, Supper Christ died 348 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:41,000 for the sins of all who will call on his name. 349 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,900 And Christ is coming again to set everything, right? 350 00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:50,800 But what this means for us, Is that all of us who were 351 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:55,300 depending on the grace of God, for salvation must not forget 352 00:20:55,300 --> 00:20:57,500 the grace of God as we come to the table. 353 00:20:58,300 --> 00:21:01,500 And so it can't be true that you have to have everything together 354 00:21:01,500 --> 00:21:05,400 because none of us ever has everything together. 355 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,000 None of us is ever walking without sin. 356 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,700 None of us is ever walking perfectly with God, right? 357 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:18,400 My alone in this. Okay, I am never walking 358 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,100 perfectly with the Lord and so I'm going to receive the supper 359 00:21:21,100 --> 00:21:24,100 today, whether you guys do or not, right? 360 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,200 But I suspect you will because you're depending on the same 361 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,900 grace of God that I'm depending on You're depending on the same 362 00:21:30,900 --> 00:21:32,900 Mercy from God, that I'm dependent upon. 363 00:21:33,300 --> 00:21:36,400 And so when you come to the table, it's a declaration that 364 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:40,500 not by my strength. Not by my will not by my 365 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:44,100 righteousness, but by the righteousness of Christ Alone in 366 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:47,700 my saved, amen. And so, you're exercising a 367 00:21:47,700 --> 00:21:51,200 dependence Upon Jesus Christ and not yourself. 368 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:55,200 Now there are wrong ways and I'll get into those, there are 369 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:59,400 wrong ways to approach the table, the wrong ways to receive 370 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,700 the Lord's supper and we'll get into those in a moment. 371 00:22:02,700 --> 00:22:04,500 But let's keep let's keep tracking with where we're 372 00:22:04,500 --> 00:22:06,500 headed. So that's the past. 373 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:10,800 We're rehearsing the past. We're rehearsing the gospel. 374 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,000 We're rehearsing. What Christ has done on the 375 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,900 cross? What he did in his resurrection, 376 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:19,500 how we've received New Life in him? 377 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,500 And the present were proclaiming his death. 378 00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:27,000 First Corinthians, 11:20 6, we read therefore, as often as you 379 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,000 eat this bread and drink the cup you proclaim, the Lord's death 380 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,400 until he comes. And so in this moment as we 381 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,600 receive the Lord's Supper were, proclaiming the death of Christ, 382 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,400 right? As we hold a piece of bread, 383 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:44,100 which is meant to remind us of the broken body of Christ as we 384 00:22:44,108 --> 00:22:48,000 hold a cup, which is meant to remind us of the spilled blood 385 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:53,200 of Christ, we are remembering That and we are currently 386 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,500 presently. Proclaiming his death. 387 00:22:55,500 --> 00:23:01,700 We were saying the Lord did die. The Lord did receive my 388 00:23:01,700 --> 00:23:05,600 punishment. The Lord did take my place on 389 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:10,900 the cross, the Lord took my sin. He who knew no sin became sin 390 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:14,700 for me that I might become the righteousness of God. 391 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:17,400 Amen, this is what we're proclaiming. 392 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:22,900 As we Proclaim his death, the gospel proclamation of this is 393 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:27,200 meant to strengthen you. And it is a means of Grace to 394 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:33,600 those who receive it. In the 1689 confession of Faith 395 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:39,100 written in 1689. Chapter 30 paragraph. 7 says 396 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:43,300 this, it says worthy recipients, who outwardly partake of the 397 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,800 elements. In this ordinance, the bread and 398 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:51,300 the cup Worthy, recipients, who partake of this, also, by faith 399 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:56,700 inwardly receive and feed on Christ crucified and all the 400 00:23:56,700 --> 00:23:59,900 benefits of his death. So, outwardly, we're taking of 401 00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:04,300 the bread and the cup inwardly. We are receiving the benefits of 402 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:09,200 Christ crucified, amen! Which means we're receiving 403 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,900 righteousness. We're reminding ourselves of 404 00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:14,700 this. Righteousness, were receiving 405 00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:18,100 presently spiritually. The righteousness of Christ were 406 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:22,600 being strengthened in Ridley. It goes on to say this, they do 407 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,400 so really, and truly, yet not physically and bodily. 408 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:31,300 So the reason that's in there is the Catholics, the Roman Roman 409 00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:36,600 Catholicism has a doctrine of transubstantiation. 410 00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:41,100 They believe that as the priest holds up the cup, Up in the 411 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:44,300 bread and says, a special blessing over it that the bread 412 00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:49,300 and the cup literally literally become the body and the blood of 413 00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:52,300 Christ Jesus. And so you're a feasting on what 414 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:56,100 looks to you like Bread and Wine but you are feasting on the body 415 00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:59,100 and blood of Christ. Now, the problem with that is 416 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:05,900 it's the it's a doctrine of of re crucifixion, you're having to 417 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:09,000 crucify Christ. Every time you receive the 418 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,300 supper, we don't crucify. For Christ again. 419 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:15,800 Amen, this is contrary to what scripture tells us to do 420 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,100 especially in Hebrews. We don't we don't recruit safai 421 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:24,300 Christ and so they wrote this in an attempt to say this is not we 422 00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:27,100 don't mean this physically in bodily, what we mean is 423 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:29,800 spiritually. The body and blood of Christ are 424 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,300 not present bodily or physically in the ordinance but spiritually 425 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:36,100 to the faith of Believers, just as the elements themselves are 426 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:40,200 present to their outward senses. So as you taste the cup as you 427 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,900 taste The bread as you chew that down. 428 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:47,300 And as you as you drink the cup, you're sensing that physically, 429 00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:49,700 right? I mean your your taste buds are 430 00:25:49,700 --> 00:25:53,100 working your eyesight's working. You're feeling it in your hands, 431 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:55,900 as it's happening. Physically, you sense what's 432 00:25:55,900 --> 00:26:00,500 taking place? Spiritually though, there is 433 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:04,000 something just as real taking place in you, you're receiving 434 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,600 the benefits of Christ crucified, you're being 435 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,100 strengthened in your spirit, your being reminded. 436 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,800 Of the the Cross of Christ and of his death, you're proclaiming 437 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,700 to yourself. I'm not worthy if this Christ 438 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:23,600 died for me, he made me righteous where I am. 439 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:28,200 Unrighteous I'm depending In This Moment On the grace of God, 440 00:26:28,300 --> 00:26:32,500 the mercy of God, which I see in the face of Jesus Christ. 441 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,400 Amen. And so we don't come haphazardly 442 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,500 become saying, let me receive spiritual nourishment today. 443 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:43,600 It's much in the same way we ought to approach. 444 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,400 The singing of songs in church or singing songs about the 445 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,500 gospel. We ought to got to think about 446 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:52,200 those things. And as we're taking in that as 447 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,000 we're seeing it out loud, that it's renewing us to some degree. 448 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,400 It's strengthening our Spirits as we hear the word proclaimed 449 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,500 as we hear the gospel preached, hopefully correctly, rightly 450 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,300 you're being strengthened in your spirit. 451 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:10,200 You're being fortified, you're going on the perseverance in 452 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:14,800 Christ. And so, in this way, the supper, 453 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:19,000 the Lord suffrages, his baptism just as we won't go there. 454 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,700 But just, as baptism is also, the supper is a powerful tool. 455 00:27:23,700 --> 00:27:26,900 This ordinance is a powerful tool for strengthening your 456 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:31,700 faith for deepening, your faith for sustaining your faith, 457 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:35,700 especially as you do it in the presence of other believers. 458 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,400 Have a quote here from Wayne grudem's Systematic Theology. 459 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,200 And he says this, he says participation and the Lord's 460 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,700 Supper is very clearly. A means of Grace, which the Holy 461 00:27:48,700 --> 00:27:51,100 Spirit uses to bring blessing to his church. 462 00:27:51,900 --> 00:27:55,600 We should expect that the Lord would give spiritual blessing as 463 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,200 we participate in the Lord's, supper and faith. 464 00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:00,500 And in obedience to the directions laid down in 465 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:03,100 scripture. And in this way, it is a means 466 00:28:03,100 --> 00:28:07,300 of Grace which the Holy Spirit uses to convey blessing to us. 467 00:28:07,900 --> 00:28:10,200 There was a Spiritual union, among Believers. 468 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,500 And with the Lord, that is strengthened and solidified at 469 00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:17,700 the Lord's supper, and it is not to be taken lightly. 470 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,400 Amen. Amen. 471 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:22,400 Next, I want to talk about the future. 472 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,100 It's in the past, the present, the future. 473 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:28,600 What are we saying about the future? 474 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,700 As we receive the Lord's Supper? When you receive the Lord's 475 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:35,100 Supper by faith, you were receiving, spiritual, 476 00:28:35,100 --> 00:28:37,900 nourishment, and growth. As we said at the beginning of 477 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:39,700 this, the Lord's Supper strengthens our Union with 478 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:43,400 Christ and our communion with fellow Believers. 479 00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:46,600 And what we're saying in the Lord's Supper is that for as 480 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,300 often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the 481 00:28:50,300 --> 00:28:55,500 Lord's death, what until he comes, we're not only looking at 482 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:58,600 the past, we're not only looking at the present, we're looking at 483 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,100 our future hope that Christ is Returning. 484 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:06,000 We're saying until he comes again. 485 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,500 Mathis, is helpful here? He says, here at the table we 486 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:11,900 hear the voice of Christ. We have our savior zir we 487 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:17,000 commune with his body. We receive a fresh, his gospel. 488 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,700 We respond in faith. We knit our hearts together in 489 00:29:19,700 --> 00:29:22,800 the bread and cup we share and in doing. 490 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,900 So we look not only to the past and remember what he's done. 491 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:28,200 Not only to the present or future are growing Union with 492 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,500 him, but also to the Future and the full Feast the come. 493 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:38,000 You see the full Feast to come in my best understanding the 494 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,200 Lord's Supper is meant to be a meal, it's meant to me a bit. 495 00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:45,600 Meant to be a meal because it foreshadows a meal. 496 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,400 It foreshadows a time. When all believers will dwell 497 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,100 together in the new heavens, and new earth, and receive this with 498 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:57,600 their savior, And so that's that's one of the Great Hopes as 499 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,100 we receive this as a local body, I had a brother text me this 500 00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:05,600 morning, he pastors a church and the Falcon area and he texted me 501 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,500 this morning, I guess he saw my post on Facebook earlier and he 502 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:11,100 just said I'm praying for you guys. 503 00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:14,000 Today, we here at our church of receiving the Lord's supper 504 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,700 together to and what a cool thing to think that we have 505 00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:20,200 brothers and sisters. You know, a few miles from here, 506 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,600 receiving the Lord's. Supper also there may be others 507 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,900 in the town now who are receiving This meal together 508 00:30:25,900 --> 00:30:28,800 today. Also, there's Brothers across 509 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,100 the world who brothers and sisters across the world, who 510 00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:35,800 receive this Mill regularly also, we are united with all of 511 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:40,500 them because we too are saved by the grace. 512 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:47,800 Of God through Jesus Christ. We become his body as we Feast 513 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,700 on his body. Amen. 514 00:30:51,700 --> 00:30:55,900 We walk in the New Covenant of his blood as we drink his blood. 515 00:30:57,500 --> 00:31:02,500 and so we are not alone and so I do think this is meant to be a 516 00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:08,800 meal and I think that tradition has somehow got us into thimble 517 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:13,400 cups and bits of bread but And there may be ways to recover the 518 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,900 Lord's. Supper this, it's worth 519 00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:16,700 exploring, it's worth talking through. 520 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:18,100 It's worth were thinking through. 521 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,200 But the Theologian, John frame. He offers a good reason for us 522 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,100 to continue using small cups and bits of bread. 523 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,800 He makes a good case for why this is helpful. 524 00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:32,900 He says, we eat only little bits of bread and drink little cups 525 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:35,400 of wine for. We know that our fellowship with 526 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,700 Christ. In this life, cannot begin to 527 00:31:37,700 --> 00:31:40,400 compare with the glory that awaits Us in him. 528 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:43,800 So if In else. It's like so many other things 529 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,300 in life. It's a foreshadowing. 530 00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:51,900 It's a for Taste, if you will. Of that day when our taste will 531 00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:58,100 be when we will taste and see that the Lord is good perfectly, 532 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:05,500 you know. and so that day is coming, we remember the future 533 00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:10,100 as we receive I'll talk to you for a second about the gravity 534 00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:14,700 of the Lord's Supper. Blessing or judgments are on the 535 00:32:14,700 --> 00:32:17,400 table. When you see the bread and the 536 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,200 cup, their blessing, your judgment and First Corinthians 537 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,200 11:27 3:30. Let's read this. 538 00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:28,700 Whoever therefore eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord, 539 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:33,200 and an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and 540 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,400 blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself 541 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,900 then and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup for anyone who 542 00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:45,100 eats and drinks without Discerning the body eats and 543 00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:49,700 drinks judgment on himself. That's why many of you are we 544 00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:52,600 can deal and some have died. Wow. 545 00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:59,800 Wow. What's up? 546 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:02,500 It's pretty sobering passage, you know. 547 00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:05,700 So this is why churches feel the need pastors often feel the need 548 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:09,500 to fence the table. It's why many churches will say 549 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:13,200 only members can take the suffer because they feel like, in some 550 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,800 way we've got control over, who takes the supper with us. 551 00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:23,600 When that time comes, ultimately, what Corinthians is 552 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,300 laying out with Paul is laying out here? 553 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,900 Is that it's not, it's up to the church. 554 00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:32,900 It's up to the elders in the church to teach rightly 555 00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:36,600 concerning the summer, but it's up to the members to discern 556 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,200 their own body, to discern their own lives to discern themselves 557 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,200 spiritually. In to say, I am in a place to 558 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,100 worthy. Lee receive the supper today 559 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,400 That doesn't fall on me. I cannot know your heart. 560 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:54,600 Only God knows your hearts and then only God knows the state of 561 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,500 where you sit currently spiritually with him. 562 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,100 And so again, Mathis offers this, he said great things are 563 00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:07,500 at stake when the church gathers at the table of her Lord, 564 00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:10,400 blessing and judgment are in the balance. 565 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,300 There's no neutral engagement. Our Gospel is the aroma of 566 00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:16,800 Christ to God Among those who are being saved and among those 567 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,199 who are perishing to want, it's a fragrance from Death to death 568 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:22,400 and to the other, a fragrance from life to life. 569 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,400 That's a second Corinthians 2:15 through 16. 570 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,699 And so he goes on, he says so also the visible sermon of the 571 00:34:30,699 --> 00:34:34,600 supper leads from life to life or death to death, you're still 572 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,300 proclaiming the gospel and so it's either an aroma of death or 573 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:42,699 an aroma of life. And as with gospel preaching he 574 00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:46,000 says the table will not leave us unaffected but either closer to 575 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,900 our Savior or more callous to him. 576 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:52,600 And so, it's clear and Corinthians that the way they 577 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:57,300 were coming to the table. I was wrong, they were being 578 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:02,000 rebuked for it. So the question becomes when 579 00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:06,300 when can you take communion and when should you refrain from 580 00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:10,800 communion? First of all, we'll cover when 581 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,900 to take, when do you take communion the pattern for 582 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:18,000 scriptures that you take communion as a believer in 583 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,600 Christ Jesus? When I say a believer in Christ, 584 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,100 Jesus the way, scripture defines a Believers that you've trusted 585 00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:27,700 in the death burial and Resurrection for the Forgiveness 586 00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:31,300 of your sins and you have committed yourself to follow 587 00:35:31,300 --> 00:35:33,800 Christ. And his teachings, you're 588 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,400 committed to obedience And so, you're trying to do that, you're 589 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,000 walking with the Lord, You're depending on the holy spirit for 590 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,400 help throughout your day to overcome sin. 591 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:49,400 So be aware of sin to know your sins to confess sin, but also to 592 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,400 walk and faithfulness to know wisdom and to know Grace and 593 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,500 peace and joy. To be the Light of Christ in the 594 00:35:57,500 --> 00:36:00,300 world. So you're a believer in Christ. 595 00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:03,000 Which means that you have repented of your sins, you place 596 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,400 your faith in Jesus for the Forgiveness of those sins and 597 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,800 now you are following him by faith. 598 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:16,300 And so you come to the table in that same manner, you come with 599 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:20,100 a repentant heart, you come as someone who is desperately 600 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:25,500 depending on the grace of God. Found only in Jesus Christ. 601 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:28,700 And that's what the Lord's Supper. 602 00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:33,100 So, loudly proclaims is that God has shown us, great mercy, and 603 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:37,900 Grace, in the death of his son. And so you come with that 604 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:42,500 attitude that I'm depending on Christ for my salvation. 605 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:47,100 I'm depending on Christ for my sanctification that growth in 606 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:49,100 godliness that growth in Christ likeness. 607 00:36:49,300 --> 00:36:53,000 And I'm depending on God on Christ for my glorification. 608 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,800 I'll Stand One Day in heaven with the Lord because of Jesus. 609 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,800 Amen. That's who we Proclaim. 610 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,900 So when not to take, I think it becomes clear when we Define 611 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:10,900 when to take when you shouldn't take, you shouldn't take. 612 00:37:10,900 --> 00:37:15,000 If you're in unrepentant, sin. You shouldn't take if you're in 613 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,800 unbelief. Unbelievers are in unrepentant, 614 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,300 sin, unbelievers of not Place their faith in Jesus Christ. 615 00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:24,600 Unbelievers are forbidden scripture here to take, this 616 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,700 would be in an unworthy manner because you are receiving 617 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:29,800 something that you have no conception for. 618 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,700 You have no idea about you don't understand a right, the gospel 619 00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:39,000 that you're eating and drinking and so you would be coming in a 620 00:37:39,008 --> 00:37:42,800 state of ignorance. An unbeliever would be coming to 621 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,000 the table without understanding. And in. 622 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000 So doing would take in an unworthy manner. 623 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,600 But there are believers there are people who say they are 624 00:37:56,607 --> 00:37:58,900 believers, people who are Christians, who would say I'm a 625 00:37:58,908 --> 00:38:02,500 Christian trusting in Christ and him crucified for the Salvation 626 00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:06,600 of my sins. if you ask them, I don't know that they would 627 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:15,000 verbalize that who are not just plain and simple there, they're 628 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,800 likely grew up in church. No Christian. 629 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,700 He's how to say the right things speak the right words and so 630 00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:25,500 they take when the time comes because that's just what they've 631 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:28,800 always done. But if you're an unrepentant 632 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:34,000 sin, And you're defiling the stable. 633 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,200 You're not depending on the grace of God, received in the 634 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,200 death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 635 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:43,200 You're depending on your own righteousness. 636 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,700 Your own conception of righteousness, actually, you're 637 00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:48,500 saying that? Yeah, I need that. 638 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:50,900 But only for certain parts of me, the parts of me that are in 639 00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:57,700 open Rebellion to God. Well, that's fine. and so, if 640 00:38:57,700 --> 00:39:02,800 you're in unrepentant sin, I don't feel the need to continue 641 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,100 to fight defining that. I think the holy spirit will 642 00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:14,000 inform you, if that's you If that's you then you don't 643 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,400 receive today. Not without repentance. 644 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,900 And remember, repentance is not just saying God forgive me and 645 00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:26,300 then going on about your life. Repentance is saying Lord, have 646 00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:31,100 mercy on me a sinner, forgive me of my sins. 647 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:37,300 Help me turn from those Wicked Ways and to the righteous way 648 00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:42,800 that you have granted. It's not just asking forgiveness 649 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,300 as a child. May ask forgiveness. 650 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:51,000 In a moment of discipline. Say I'm sorry and then they just 651 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,100 go on and you know when your child's sorry, and when your 652 00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:54,500 child, sorry? Right? 653 00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:59,900 You sense the difference? We're we often approach God and 654 00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:01,600 much the same manner. I'm sorry. 655 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,500 God. Here's the Lord saw. 656 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,200 But that's not repentance. That's just going through the 657 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:13,500 motions. and so if the Lord's Supper is going through the 658 00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:18,300 motions for you, Because it comes around once every month, 659 00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:20,500 on the second Sunday here at New Life Community Church. 660 00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:22,700 And this is just kind of the regular pattern of things. 661 00:40:22,700 --> 00:40:27,800 If you just going through the motions today, I beg you, I beg 662 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,100 you to reconsider that. Don't just go through the 663 00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:34,600 motions today, think about the cup, think about the bread and 664 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:39,600 their significance, for your life and Christ do this in 665 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:45,700 remembrance of Jesus. Proclaim his death over your 666 00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:47,900 life. Remind yourself, and all those 667 00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:53,000 around you, that Christ died for us while we were still sinners. 668 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,400 That we might have real life with him. 669 00:40:57,500 --> 00:41:02,900 Amen, that's one of the beauties of taking the supper together is 670 00:41:02,908 --> 00:41:06,000 that were reminding. One another, with the grace of 671 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,700 God, reminding one another, the mercy of God, you all come from 672 00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:14,500 different backgrounds, different, histories, different 673 00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:16,800 families, different relationships. 674 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:23,400 You come with all sorts of baggage to the cross and then In 675 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:27,700 Christ in the grace of God has redeemed. 676 00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:30,800 You and so, we are brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus. 677 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,300 And we have Fellowship together. We understand one another, in a 678 00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:38,600 way that no one else understands us outside of this. 679 00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:44,100 And so when we come to the table, we don't come just us and 680 00:41:44,100 --> 00:41:48,200 our chair with our cough and our bread focused. 681 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,600 Only on the Lord. We come knowing that I'm in the 682 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:56,700 presence of many whom, the Lord has saved, and I don't even know 683 00:41:56,700 --> 00:42:00,100 their story, but I know that Grace has become real for them 684 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,700 and they're trusting in Jesus Christ in the same way I am. 685 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,700 And so I'm not alone. I'm a part of the body of 686 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:10,800 Christ, as a feast on the body of Christ. 687 00:42:11,300 --> 00:42:13,400 Amen. Amen. 688 00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:21,400 Let's receive the Lord's Supper today and you close your Bibles 689 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:35,100 would stand to your feet. When I offer a prayer now for us 690 00:42:35,100 --> 00:42:38,000 as we get ready to get into the instructions of this, let's 691 00:42:38,300 --> 00:42:41,700 let's pray together. Heavenly Father, we thank you 692 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:47,800 Lord for what we've received from Christ in this ordinance. 693 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:55,100 We call communion supper the Eucharist, whatever Lord, we ask 694 00:42:55,100 --> 00:42:57,600 now that you would prep our hearts and Minds for the 695 00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:05,300 receiving of this meal together. Father, help us forbid us from 696 00:43:05,300 --> 00:43:08,100 eating and drinking in an unworthy manner today. 697 00:43:10,700 --> 00:43:15,700 Help us Lord to be mindful of our Disobedience to you that if 698 00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:20,900 you have said not to do this or to do this and we have done the 699 00:43:20,900 --> 00:43:24,100 opposite of your commands. We are in Disobedience to you. 700 00:43:28,300 --> 00:43:31,200 Lord help us to be mindful of that as we stand here today. 701 00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:34,500 Join together with brothers and sisters in the Lord. 702 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:42,000 Help us not to defile. This moments. 703 00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:48,500 Help us not to fool ourselves into thinking, we are receiving 704 00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:54,100 spiritual nourishments. when we receive rightly from your hand 705 00:43:54,100 --> 00:43:57,000 spiritual discipline, if we drink in an unworthy manner 706 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:04,700 today, Lord. We we love you and we can't 707 00:44:04,700 --> 00:44:08,100 approach the stable apart from you. 708 00:44:08,100 --> 00:44:11,600 Jesus Christ we can't separate the elements from you. 709 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,600 We can't make this a ritual and a tradition. 710 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:22,400 It's simply not that. It's not lifeless at all, its 711 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,800 life-giving, it's not bear a fruit. 712 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:30,300 It's full of fruits. And as we eat and drink today, 713 00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:33,200 if we will do. So, in a way in which we have 714 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:38,800 submitted ourselves to your reign in our lives, as Lord, if 715 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:44,000 we were walking as a obediently, as we depend on the Holy Spirit 716 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,600 as we can. If we're aware of our sin and 717 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:52,000 we're not willingly pushing sins to the back of our minds as we 718 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,800 think about the Lord's Supper today, if we're trying to push 719 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:59,400 conviction down so that we feel a bit of Peace In This Moment 720 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,000 Lord, if we're not doing those things, if we're coming today, 721 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,600 right lie? Before you Then this is a moment 722 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,600 of spiritual nourishment for us as we see in your word. 723 00:45:12,500 --> 00:45:15,100 It's a matter of great importance and so we ask that 724 00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:16,600 you bless this time that we have. 725 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:23,300 Now we thank you that in this moment Christ is with us not 726 00:45:23,300 --> 00:45:28,600 physically not bodily in that sense spiritually. 727 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,300 So you're near to us your nourishing us Christ and we 728 00:45:32,300 --> 00:45:35,300 praise you for it. We couldn't go on in this life. 729 00:45:35,500 --> 00:45:38,700 Outlets. And so we thank you Lord for 730 00:45:38,700 --> 00:45:41,300 these holy moments that we have together as a church family. 731 00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:44,700 We ask that you bless them now. You Christ's name we pray. 732 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:45,200 Amen.