So good to see everyone today. So good to be here again and
it's wonderful to see some new faces.
So I hope as we spend the day together that I get a chance to
meet you, if I don't already know you and I hope I get a
chance to reconnect with you. If we already know each other,
the song service was excellent and preparing our minds for
where we're going to go this morning.
This morning, as you can see, on the screen, we're going to
discuss the topic. I would just simply call
Discerning the Lord's body. This comes from First
Corinthians 11. We're going to back up to verse
23, here in a few minutes we're going to meet around the Lord's
table and we have an obligation. When we do this to do a few
things, the church at Corinth had messed this up.
The church at Corinth had stopped doing what the Lord
instituted and as Paul wrote to the church at Corinth, he says
we need to fix this. Now, I'm putting it in Gregg
branches terms, but that's that's how I would, I interpret
what he said, he said, he talked about what they did wrong, we're
not going to go into that right now, but if you don't see the
screen, we're in First Corinthians 11.
Beginning in verse 23, for I received from the Lord that
which I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus on the same
night in which he I was betrayed took bread, and when he had
given thanks, he broke it and said, take eat.
This is my body which is broken for you.
Do this in remembrance of me in the same manner.
Also, he took the cup after supper saying, this cup is the
New Covenant in my blood. This do as often as you drink
it. In remembrance of me for as
often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the
Lord's death, till he comes. Now, if you remember what he's
talked about prior to this, they had Turned the communion, the
observance of the Lord's Supper into something.
We might call a. Bring your own lunch.
It wasn't really potluck. Like we're going to have this
afternoon where everybody just brings it puts it on a common
table, and we share it. But it seems as though the
families, the people began to meet in their little groups,
they had what they had. And someone that brought a lot
and had plenty, they were just full and had plenty.
And if there was somebody in the group that, Don't have much or
anything, they would sit over there and just have nothing.
And I hope that just screams inside of us.
That's just not, right? Why wouldn't you invite them
over to at least share with yours but that didn't happen in
this church. And so some had a lot in some
had none and they certainly were not growing together.
He said this is how the Lord instituted it.
There was a common bread that was shared there was a common
drink that was shared. Now look, if you don't know me
Glenn am I remember this about me?
I'm not a drink Sharer. When Rachel and I started
dating, I had this tendency, I love to stop, just have always
have a soda with me. If she wanted somebody like will
get you one. I could kiss her but I didn't
want to share a soda with her. Now, children that kind of
changed a lot in my life. So what we're going to do here
in a few minutes is not natural, it's not like mad.
I cannot wait to share this cup with you but I won't think about
that. And then there's something
bigger happening with all this and the church they're needed to
know that he went on to say, therefore, whoever eats this
bread or drinks this cup of the Lord, in an unworthy manner,
will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
There's a way we need to participate in this.
There's a manner that as we go about this, Us here in a few
minutes, we need to consider how we're doing it because it's
possible, if I don't do it in the right manner.
I would be guilty of this body and blood, but let a man examine
himself and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup
for. He Who drinks in an unworthy
manner, eats and drinks judgment to himself.
Not Discerning the Lord's body. Remember, that's the title of
our study today. Discerning the Lord's body.
He said what they're doing wrong.
If they're drinking and eating dram nation and himself as they
failed to discern the Lord's body for this reason because
people were not Discerning the Lord's body for this reason,
many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep.
I don't know this congregation so I can say this freely and I
don't have to worry. Maybe Frank would get up here
and he's like, I can't say that because they know, I know, and I
don't know that, but here's what I'm kind of confident of in a
cup in an audience is sites. There's someone here today and
maybe more than one person that feels weak, but you came anyway.
You feel sick? Spiritually you came anyway.
It's not like covid. It's not like the flu.
It's like it's a spiritual sickness and you know what I'm
talking about. But you don't know why, you
don't know why you're growing week.
You don't know why you're sick. You don't know why you're
spiritually asleep. You're sleepwalking as it were
I'm going to submit to you today.
Suggest you today there's a good chance.
It's failure to discern the Lord's body.
It's somewhere in the midst of this.
In all we do and the obligation we feel and you're committed
even already to one cup and one loaf.
Perhaps, But you're still you don't know what's wrong, I
suggest. When it's happened to me, I've
filled the Discerning the Lord's body.
What does it mean to discern? The Lord's body literally comes
from a Greek word. That means to separate
thoroughly, I don't know about you, but I don't do a lot for
me. You break it out.
Vine says to distinguish your separate out.
So as to investigate so we're separating it out thoroughly
because we're trying to figure it out, we're investigating
something. What are we doing?
We're determining the Excellence or defects of a person or thing.
If you were to fight, you know, how they Define Greek words is
they go to other elements of literature from this same time,
period and figure out how they used it there.
And this would have been used in legal books.
It's like figure out the Excellence, or defects.
What's going on? Get to know this.
So I would like this morning for the next few minutes to
investigate. And I'm going to tell you, it's
the Excellence of Jesus, you're not going to find defect.
So cats out of the bag. But here's what I know, we need
to get to know him sometimes. This is somewhat of a memorial
service, right? The memorial of Jesus Christ, I
do a lot of funerals and what I have found that is most
effective for me and the family is, you tell me about this
person. I want to get to get with him.
I want to hear the stories and a lot of times it's things I
already knew before, but I have forgotten or maybe I thought I
knew. But there were details that I
just did. I never heard before?
Sometimes it's just reboot it's just opening back up these
things. We know about Jesus.
And one of the things about a memorial service that I like the
best is to try to pick up as young as anybody can remember
them. And take it through their life.
And for a few minutes, I want us to do that.
I want to consider first of all, Jesus, as a boy, Yes, he was a
kid. Is there any of you here today
that are about 12 years old, close to 12?
This is early on so maybe you can stick with me for a minute.
His parents. Jesus parents went to Jerusalem
every year at the Feast of the Passover and when he was twelve
years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the
custom of the feast 12 year olds.
That was the time that they finally got to go with Mom and
Dad. You're like man I've had to go
to church my whole life. This was different.
This was the Passover this was a big deal.
It only happened one time a year and they never got to go until
they were 12 perhaps but By 12, it was time that they went and
Jesus was going when they had finished the days as they
returned. The boy, Jesus lingered, behind
in Jerusalem and Joseph. And his mother did not know it,
but supposing him to have been in the company.
They went a Day's Journey and sought him among their relatives
and acquaintances. Now, you made call timeout on
this and say, how do people? They just think, just taking
themselves from a little town that they lived in.
They've gone to the big city Jerusalem.
All these people from all over, have Soldier into this time of
year. It would have been massively
crowded. How do you leave your kid behind
in Jerusalem? Mike Glenn is here today.
She has 14, other brothers and sisters.
So as I was growing up, not only were there, the 15 kids between
go to Grandma and Grandpa walls in the summer at time of harvest
or in the winter for the holidays.
If we went to town for something, it took carloads of
people. It was a lot.
I don't know. 30, some cousins at the time, I don't know.
Now, there's like 60 and all these families and I remember
one time that we got all back to the farm, got time for dinner
and started counting heads. And my cousin Robbie was
missing. And to remember that she's
laughing now, then Thomas was just a little hole-in-the-wall
town. I guess it had to stop sign, I'm
not sure. But there was some kind of a
little place near in town. They called down there and said,
is there a kid in the park? Arc and Robbie was still playing
all by himself. You see?
They thought he was with somebody else, that's how it
was. Now maybe you grew up in a
family like that. Maybe you've had situations like
that. That's what I picture Here with
Jesus. They just thought he was with
some of the other Kinfolk. They've got a full day's journey
and now they can't find him Panic sticks in 12 years old
back in Jerusalem so when they did not find him, they returned
to Jerusalem seeking him and now so it was after three days.
They found him in the temple is three days in the accident.
Pretty cool things happen. Over three days within the
scriptures, three days, they find him in the temple sitting
in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and
asking them questions question, where have they been looking the
other two days? Why did they go to the temple?
The third day? Scriptures.
Don't tell us but the parent in me says, they went to retrace
their steps because he wasn't in all the places they thought and
expected to find him. The other option is maybe if we
pray there and get a priest to pray with this, we can get some
guidance. What they found was a
twelve-year-old, Jesus sitting in the midst of them.
These leaders describes these Pharisees.
He's not only listening but he's asking them questions.
And they're asking him some questions and they're astounded
at his understanding and his answers to their questions, they
have a prodigy. Now, I realize the book of
Isaiah says that the Messiah will be quick to get the synth,
he would be of quick understanding Hebrew.
Phrase actually means. Understand means quick to get
the sin. If you're a dog guy, you got a
coon dogs, cold nose. This still tells us something
about Jesus, if you're here today, you're 12 years old.
Are you interested in what the Bible says about Jesus as a 12
year old? Are you interested in
understanding so that you can have a conversation with the
people of when they're talking Bible, ask them questions and
maybe be able to answer a couple of others.
That was the boy Jesus. He was an Iva.
So when they saw him, the parrots they were amazed.
And his mother said to him son. Why have you done this to us?
You look your father and I have sought you anxiously What were
you thinking? Do you know how we've been
worried about? Nothing parrot Clicks in.
We understand this three days and he's just acting like,
there's nothing wrong. What is Jesus say?
He said it then why did you seek me?
Did you not know that I must be about my father's business?
He gets it. Somebody says, I don't know if a
12 year old can get it, I know some twelve-year-olds, I know
some five-year-olds. That's like what?
How did you ask that question, right?
Twelve-year-old can get it. Don't give you don't give your
kids a pass because there are only 12 and if you're a
twelve-year-old, don't, you know, you know, stuff, don't
hide behind your age, he says, you know, I need to be about my
father's business. They did not understand the
statement, which he spoke to them, fascinates me, something
about human nature. ER look Mary and Joseph had
Angels speak to them. They've had divine intervention.
She surely hasn't forgotten that this isn't Joseph, son.
But our minds will do that. If we don't watch it, won't they
we can know something's right? We can know exactly what it is.
But the further we get away from reminding us of the truth of
God's word, we began to create our own world view and we get
away from God's designed worldview.
The 12 year old had to remind mom and dad.
Where this all came from. Then he went down to them now.
12 year olds. He didn't say, like, do I need
to take over now. Mom and Dad clearly, you don't
get what's going on. Know this 12 year old.
He went down with them and came to Nazareth.
He went home and was subject to them, but his mother kept all
these things in her heart and Jesus increased in wisdom and
stature and in favor with God and man.
He didn't say clearly, I know more than you do.
It's time for me to kind of run this house after all, you know,
I'm the king. He went and he was subject to
them. He minded them, he honored them,
he would increased in wisdom and stature not only with his
parents, but he did. So with God, and with mankind,
Jesus was a wonderful example of faithful Youth.
And today, if you're young here, if you're trying to decide what
expectation, you can sit for your youth, Jesus has provided
the path what a wonderful example.
Jesus baptism. You know, one thing I love to
know when I'm doing a memorial service for somebody.
That's been a Christian is, when were they baptized?
When were they born again? We know the day of their birth
and we know the day of their death that's like printed on
everything but the day they're born again is never printed on
stuff ardley. It's recorded that Jesus was
baptized. We're going to read in Matthew
chapter 3, verses 13 through 17. Jesus Came From Galilee to John
to the Jordan, to be baptized by him and John tried to prevent
him saying, I need to be baptized by you and you're
coming to me. I cannot imagine a little bit of
like to be John, the Baptist, John the baptizer.
It's hard enough. for me to feel like, who am?
I is kind of what goes through my mind.
I can relate totally the statement.
Jesus, I need, I need what you have to offer.
You can't ask me to do this for the son of God.
Jesus answered and said to him, permit it to be.
So now for thus, it is fitting to fulfill all righteousness if
for no other reason in the Bible, the other plethora of
examples of baptism, we only had this record This would be enough
for me to convince you and myself.
We need to be baptized and yet the predominant majority of
people that claim to follow Christ today and have
assemblies. Just like this one this morning
in Bakersfield and in Oakdale and throughout this world will
tell you, baptism is not necessary to fulfill all
righteousness to be saved. Jesus had a different opinion
about it even for himself. Did Jesus have any sin that
needed to be washed away? No, in fact scripture says he
didn't even have guile in his body, what's guile?
Geils that deceptive part that you don't want to outright lie
but you certainly don't want them to know the truth.
So you're going to try to structure your story or your
explanation. So they think something is one
way, when really it was another Jesus didn't even do that.
And he says, I have to be back at you.
Need to the King James says, suffer it to be.
So now, For thus, it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness.
Then he allowed him. And when he had been baptized,
Jesus came up immediately from the water behold.
The heavens were opened to him. He saw the spirit of God
descending, like a dove and alighting.
Come on lighting upon him. And suddenly a voice Came From
Heaven saying, this is my beloved Son.
In whom I am well pleased, whatever you believe about the
godhead, you have to have a belief that's consistent with
this passage that God is in heaven speaking.
Thus, his spirit is Descending like a dove and could light up
on Jesus, but was not Jesus. And Jesus was the one that was
baptized and has just come up out of the water.
Three different presentations personalities.
Not the exact same being unified and purpose and in spirit, No
Doubt. But three different entities,
whatever, I believe Jesus, baptized all this happens.
Today, don't tell me, I don't need to be baptized, you know, I
know the church does that, but I just I like this church.
I'm going to start coming here because I just like everybody a
lot, but I don't need that baptism.
Then you're saying you don't need what even Jesus was willing
to show as an example of fulfilling righteousness.
Today, may we never have managed that I want you to know.
Another thing about Jesus is he loved children.
Absolutely, he did. In fact, the context I want to
share with you today is Jesus is just corrected.
The Pharisees unscriptural view of divorce and remarriage Now in
the generation I grew up in in Oklahoma.
This was the this was the debate topic.
Yeah. The Holy Spirit was kind of in
my teenage years and early 20s but from the time, I remember
sitting in the den and listening to my parents discuss things
with family members, or friends or other congregations, we'd
travel somewhere, and there it was, it was always after dinner
conversation and it wasn't always Pleasant.
Because people and some of you know this time period this is
what's just happened. And so as I think about the
passage we're about to read I think about that.
They're coming off the heels of this so much so and they're so
discouraged by what Jesus has taught them and that it's
changing their whole view of things, the cream of the crop,
his disciples when they got alone.
You remember what they said to him?
Jesus. If this is how it is with
divorce and remarriage, it's better off, not even to get
married. Now, this has been a hard thing
for them to take and they're thinking forget marriage
altogether. Put this context, any you name
the subject of you, whatever group, you've been discussing,
and everybody's worked up and heated.
Then little children were brought to him.
That he might put his hands on them and pray but the disciples
rebuked them. Have you been in one of those
the men have all been arguing about this debating, whatever
you want to call it and the kids run up.
Daddy, daddy, hold me. Let me get these kids out of
here. We don't everybody's they're
edgy. That's what happens with these
kids in the disciples rebuked them.
I don't know if the rebuking the kids or their mamas or the other
family that let them run into this little organization.
But what is Jesus say he says, let the little children come to
me and do not forbid them for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
And he laid his hands on them and departed from there.
I picture him just sitting down and seeing breathing in here.
This is what it's about and I gotta remember this as we think
about Doctrine and his weed earnestly contend for the faith
and we have to if we ever forget these little kids need attention
and love and hugs to even. Bye, dad and the preacher.
If we ever forget that, we're going to lose them.
Mama's having important part, and they just have a natural
affection and ability to see things.
That not enough of us guys. Do Jesus did.
And I want you to notice what he did after he laid his hands on
them after he gave them that loving attention.
He didn't say, okay, now, any more questions, Scripture says
any left. He left on a good note, he left
on a high note, he had already taught them truth and we can sit
there and we can keep rehashing the same arguments over and over
until we just can't stand one another or we can get our
attention back on the Kingdom of Heaven growing together and love
showing affection everywhere. It needs to be shown and move on
and keep moving. Does that to say he turned his
back on what he had just talked to him.
Absolutely not. In fact, I believe when Paul
writes to the church at Corinth he Says, Jesus already taught
this. I believe it.
It's still in force. Jesus.
Love children. Even in the midst of doctrinal,
arguments amongst the Brethren. You know, I want you to know.
Also thing about Carrick, Jesus characters.
He would like you even if other people didn't.
You didn't have to fit his mold. You didn't have to fit a social
Norm or expectation. In Luke chapter 19, it says
Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.
Now. Behold, there was a man named
Zacchaeus who was chief tax collector and he was rich and he
sought to see who Jesus was but could not because of the crowd
for he was of short stature. I remember this song is a little
kid. Zacchaeus Was a wee little man.
A wee little man. We'll see.
Grown man, rich man in town. He wants to see Jesus but it's
almost like a parade as Jesus comes through and they won't let
him up. They didn't like him for one.
Why would they like him? He was a tax collector.
We're going to find out a little bit more.
Reason of what they thought about him as we go, but he
couldn't. So what did he do?
Did he call and say, hey I you know who I am.
I'm rich pay people to move? No, he ran ahead of the crowd.
See this little guy, just grown man running up ahead of people.
He climbs into a sycamore tree to see him for, he was going to
pass that way. He could tell the direction that
this whole crowd was going, and he sees a sycamore tree down
there, he's like, I'll see him grown man runs down there climbs
up in the tree and when Jesus came to the place he looked up
and saw him and said to him, Zacchaeus make haste and come
down for today, I must stay at your house Now, look, he just
wanted to put eyes on this Jesus.
Can you imagine the thrill of his heart?
Nobody here likes me. I just wanted to see this guy
and now he wants to come to my house.
So he made his haste and came down and received him.
Joyfully he was thrilled, he was excited, but when they all saw
it, the people that were with him.
They all complain saying he's gone to be a guest with the man
who's a sinner like I thought he was a tax collector.
See, the people looked at tax collectors in that day as
thieves now in our society. If you tell somebody, I work for
the IRS, it automatically makes me go home.
What are you do? Right, audit, do you check in my
taxes? You, you make in my life hard.
But now, this was a whole nother level to them.
In fact, it was commonly reported that many of these Tax
Collectors would take a little more than they should have so
that they could pad their own pockets.
These people looked at Zacchaeus as the Common Center may be a
worse sinner than others, Zacchaeus stood and said to the
Lord. Look look, Lord, I give half my
goods to the poor. Stop time out real quick.
Do you think he's saying look from now on just to make this
all even I will take, well, I'll give half of my goods to the
poor or do you think he's saying look, Lord, I'm not who they
say, I am half of what I have my goods.
I give to the poor. Has he been doing it already?
Or is he saying? You'll do it from this day in
this day forward. Interesting question.
Look Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor.
I'm Not Who these people think I am.
I'm not a sinner. I don't steal from them.
I give to them half of what I have.
And if I have now he's talking in the past tense, if I have
taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore it
for fold. You know, a four-fold is 4 times
if I took an extra thousand dollars from your taxes.
He says I want to give you 4,000 if I took an extra 500 from you,
I'm going to give you 2000. Now, here's my opinion of this
because the scriptures don't tell us anybody coming to
collect or making an accusation against him.
I think Zacchaeus new, I don't know, buddy.
You're going to stand up and have an accusation.
I haven't done that. You know, it happens sometimes
that people are falsely accused people gossip just because they
think whatever they think and they really don't know.
Somebody ever having buddy, say stuff about, you know, I kind of
the even say that I don't know which it is, but here's what I
know is a Kia said, look that's not me.
That's not who I want to be. And here's what I'm willing to
say. Would you, would you give half
of what you have? The people who are poor.
Like whoa, Greg. I'm not rich.
If you were Rich, would you give half of what you had two people
who are poor? you might say if I was rich, I
would I'll only believe that if you're doing what you can with
what limited resources, you have now, some of them most giving
people I have ever met or some of the poorest people, I have
known. There's a rich man saying what
he have and put it in our day and term.
He had a million. Would you take 500,000?
So I'm going to distribute that to the poor.
This guy's character is something and yet the everybody
in town thought, horrible things about him.
Jesus said to him today, salvation has come to this house
because he also is a son of Abraham for the son of man has
come to seek and save that, which was lost, Jesus loved him,
even when nobody else cared about it, Okay, you might feel
like you're just the one that nobody really cares about.
Jesus would love to you. That Jesus does love you.
I want you to know this thing about Jesus sometime in all
these good characteristics. Jesus gets painted like a milk
toast master. But he had he take a stand when
he needed to. Don't doubt it for just a second
fact, John Chapter 2, it says the.
Now, the Passover of the Jews was at hand.
This is older, he's not 12 anymore.
He's grown up. 18 plus years later.
Pastor of the Gees Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem and he found in the temple.
Those who sold oxen and sheep and doves and the money
changers, doing business. And when he had made a whip of
cords, he drove them all out of the temple with the sheep and
The Oxen, and poured out the Changers of money and overturned
the tables. You see what he just said.
He made a whip of cords. And drove them all out of the
Temple. Oh, and the sheep and the oxen.
Now, I'm not suggesting he hit any of those men with that whip
but I am suggesting it was used to drive those people and the
livestock out of the Temple. And he said to those who sold
doves, take these things away. Do not make my father's house, a
house of merchandise, Then his disciples remembered that, it
was written Zeal for your house. Has eaten me up, that's found in
Psalm 69 and nine. You know what that word.
Zeal comes in the Greek. It literally means Heat.
The fire for your house. The heat, the passion for the
house of God. He says, he could not take it.
It ain't never have some. Eat you up inside, what is
commonly reported as he's Changers of money?
Would sell people would come from a long way to Jerusalem for
the Passover and they could bring money, but you couldn't
bring the livestock you needed for the sacrifices.
And so people would be there to sell it, but maybe the currency
from where you came from, would not buy you anything in
Jerusalem, so they had money. Changers there too.
And they were commonly known to not give a good exchange rate.
You see it wasn't that they were trying to assist people with the
sacrifices. They were making this a profit
Center. And Jesus says, get him out
everybody out and he drove them out of the Temple.
Jesus did not have patience for Hypocrites.
That's what these people represented.
What is a hypocrite? Anybody that demands that we
follow what the Bible says? No, that's not a hypocrite.
A hypocrite, is somebody that demands that you follow what the
Bible says, but they themselves won't do it.
They're just, they're acting that it's just, they're playing
the part but that's not really them.
That's a hypocrite. Do not let people make you think
that looking at the Bible and having faith in reading it and
seeing what it says in doing, it makes you a Pharisee.
No, a Pharisee was someone that knew what the law says, but they
were always trying to find loopholes trying to bind heavy
burdens on other people that they themselves wouldn't carry.
Jesus said about those people who says, do what they say, but
don't do what they do, they're saying the right thing but they
themselves are not that Jesus had no no patience with people
who pretended to be a Christian, who pretend in this case we want
Christianity, it would have been Judaism who pretended to follow
God, but in reality they were just there for the money.
We had a business opportunity and weren't about to miss the
convention, Jesus had no patience for that.
We have to know this about our loving savior, the one who likes
people, nobody else likes who has time for children, who will
stand for truth and Doctrine. if we think we're going to skirt
through this life and pretend like, we're all this here at the
church and Bakersfield, or anywhere else, and then in our
real heart, and our other life, Play the part of the sin.
Jesus sees right through that he won't have anymore patience with
us than he did with them. May we turn our hearts.
Again, the last thing I'd like to remind you this morning
happened at the very end of Jesus life.
I don't know if he was a mama's boy as much as he just took care
of everybody but there was something that took place in the
Book of John beginning. Verse 25, it says now there
stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother.
Jesus has now been gone through this mock trial.
He's been tortured, he's been nailed to the cross.
All these things, taking place, thinking about a dying thief, on
a cross cooked next to him. and by his cross is his mother's
Sister Mary, his mother, his mother's Sister Mary, the wife
of clopas and Mary Magdalene when Jesus, therefore, saw his
mother and the disciple, whom he loved standing by, he said, to
his mother, Woman, behold your son.
Said to his disciple, behold your mother.
And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home and you
can go to the end of Book of John and you'll find out that
John reveals. He's the one that he's been
referring to as the other disciple.
And so I'm going to put this in my words he looks and says You
look at this word woman and sometimes in our culture, you
say, hey woman, that's not really a good thing.
This was not like that. That's not the way this.
This is, this is literally he's talking to his mother.
He says, I want you to go with John and John.
I want you to take care of my mom.
This is a fascinating thought for me, because we know that his
brother James was still around would be eventually.
Jesus had a special relationship and he appears to have a special
confidence in John. And he needed his mom to get
that kind of confidence as you read the Gospel of John compared
to Matthew, Mark and Luke. There's just a different tenor
to it. There's a there's a love that
comes out in it. That compassion was that what
Jesus want, me wanted his make sure his mom had what we know
when, if you can picture anything as you close your eyes
and think about as you suffering dreadfully, And seeing your mom.
If they can, somebody please get her out of here.
Somebody needs to care, my mom. That's the passion Jesus had for
his mom. It was just a callous
cold-hearted. Hey, I came here to a job.
I got to get home. Like a Palace of Gold in heaven.
No. He gave John a responsibility.
He gave made sure his mom was protected and after this, Jesus
knowing that all things were now accomplished that the scripture
might be fulfilled. Said, I thirst.
They were been thirsty. I remember times just hoping
they would get some, can we just stop and get some water?
It was work or whether it was to a days or whether it was just a
day. That's so hot.
Jesus thirsty. Today you get to determine the
Excellence or defects of a person or thing.
According to Vines today, we could do this over and over.
We could just keep going through stories about Jesus, but it's
time for you to decide what you're going to do with Jesus.
And as Christians, we need to make sure we discern the body of
Christ, as we come around this table to meet him.
According to Romans 10:17, faith comes by hearing and hearing
comes from the word of God. We tried to share the word of
God about Jesus today. If you have faith in this you've
heard it. And you believe Hebrews 11 and 6
says that we must believe that he is and we need to believe
these, the rewarder of those who diligently seek him today.
Are you ready to come into your life that you believe in this
Jesus? And You're going to seek Him
diligently. That's the kind of faith.
We talked about and acts 17 and 30.
The disciple says that there was a time God winked at ignorance
but now commands all men everywhere to repent.
What does repentance mean? Repentance.
Means Greg, you can't just do life.
Like you think you need to do life, Frank can just figure out
his own path, but we have to surrender, our self will to
God's will. Whatever this book, says,
whatever we read in the Bible, that's what that's repentance
and all men everywhere. That includes you and me.
That's repentance in, Romans, 10, and 10, we understand that
our faith comes that with the heart man.
Believes unto righteousness with our mouth.
Confession is made unto salvation.
The Ethiopian nobleman in Acts 8 said, I believe Jesus Christ is
the son of God. What do you believe today?
We know that when Jesus was talking to his disciples who do
people say I am and they said, well some say you're this profit
or that and says, who do you say I am.
Was Peter that spoke upright and he says, Thou Art the Christ,
the son of the Living. God, And what did Jesus say?
That's a good one. Anybody else got another No.
Jesus said bless you Peter for Flesh and Blood did not reveal
that until you receive that from the father.
There is no greater confession, you can make today than Jesus
Christ. Is the Son of God.
One that was blessed by Jesus one that I believe you feel
being noblemen made. But that is the essence today of
a confession that we need to make regarding our Christ and we
need to be baptized Galatians 3:27.
So it has many of you has been baptized into Christ, have put
on Christ Can you imagine going through life without Christ?
Paul told the church in galatia. Time out real quick.
You know people will say, well, why are is all the baptisms?
Mostly in the book of Acts then you hardly read about it in the
rest of the gospels? Think about it, the book of
Acts, what was it? It was the Acts of the Apostles.
It was what the apostles did is they went from place to place
spreading the gospel and they were baptizing people because
they were converting people. What was the letter of wrote to
the Romans about Corinthians Galatians, it was two
congregations that now existed from people who've been
converted. And you don't go telling people
that are part of a congregation. Oh, be baptized, you don't keep
saying the same message. That's what it's not full of
telling them, but what you will find like in Galatians is
reminders. That when you were baptized,
that's how you put on Christ. And you read that in the book of
Ephesians, he reminds him. There was one baptism.
So the gospels letters, written to churches are not void of
baptism, but that's not their purpose.
It's to write to people who had been baptized about how to Now
function, as a church, it's a beautiful picture.
When you think, like, don't let people sell the only place
you'll find book is baptism hardly in the book of Acts will
say, well, of course, that's where people are converted
today. We talked about Jesus.
There's absolutely no reason. If you've never been Today for
the remission of your sins as Jesus described it in Matt.
In the end of The Book of Matthew, in the name of the
father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Then we'd love to assist you in that if you're like hey Greg I
mean you seem like a nice guy. I hear your Wade's dad.
That's great but I've really been studying with Frank or
Terrier. One of the other guys I was
hoping they'd baptized me and I'm going to tell you I am
thrilled. That's perfect.
That's the best way it could be. I just want to encourage you to
take that step if you're a Christian today and as you
prepare to meet around the Lord's table and you want the
manner that you do this Memorial to be right, you saying what I
got some things I need to fix. You don't have to be baptized
again. That's been done.
If you've already done it, you need to pray to God.
First John 189 that he'll forgive you and first John Waite
and 9 it says he is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse
us of all unrighteousness as a child of God, you can pray To
God and he will forgive you. But as a child of God, sometimes
we want the prayers of others. And according to James 5:16 if
we confess our faults, one to another and pray one for
another, that the effective fervent prayer of a righteous
man availeth much. So today is you prepare to meet
around the Lord's table, if you desire, the prayers of the
church and we want to pray with you and for you, if you're here
and you feel compelled to respond to the gospel,
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