1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:04,300 Once more, we welcome you to our sin League. 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:07,200 We Echo the feelings of appreciation that have already 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,900 been stated. We're thankful for everyone who 4 00:00:09,900 --> 00:00:12,000 is here. Now, we're not going to study 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,100 anything new tonight as has been the case in every part of our 6 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:20,400 services this week. But we want to study further and 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,700 maybe remind you of some things and maybe even teach you some 8 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:26,900 things, maybe that you have not thought about when we talk about 9 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:30,000 the history of the communion, the idea. 10 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,200 Of the communion is very interesting notice. 11 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,200 Now, First Corinthians chapter 10, now Paul is not necessarily 12 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,300 teaching on the communion in 1st Corinthians, chapter 10, he's 13 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:44,400 teaching a lesson about eating meat at the idols Temple, or 14 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,700 eating the meat that has been offered to Idols, but he uses 15 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:51,300 the communion The Establishment, and the practice of the 16 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:54,800 communion in the church at Corinth to illustrate and teach 17 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,600 the people a lesson about the theme of the subject that he 18 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,200 wants them to, Staying. And so we can take these verses 19 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,900 and we can infer some things that Paul suggests notice now, 20 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:11,600 1st Corinthians 10:16 the cup of blessing which we bless. 21 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,900 Is it not the communion of the blood of Christ, the bread, 22 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:17,200 which we break? Is it? 23 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,300 Not the communion of the body of Christ? 24 00:01:20,300 --> 00:01:24,300 For we though many are one bread and one body. 25 00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:27,900 For we all partake of that one bread. 26 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,100 So we have this word communion And now the word communion has 27 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:36,400 at its root, the word common. And so the idea that's being 28 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,400 suggested here is that there's something that is shared in 29 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,400 common. In fact, the lexicographer 30 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:47,000 defines the word communion as a having in common, a partnership 31 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Fellowship, it denotes the share, which one has an 32 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,300 anything? It participation Fellowship 33 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:56,200 recognized, and enjoyed. Now notice what Brian continues 34 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,400 to say in the same context. He says this word. 35 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:04,400 In 1st Corinthians, 10:16 of the sharing in the realization of 36 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,600 the effects of the blood. That is the death of Christ and 37 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,600 the body of Christ has set forth by the emblems in the Lord's 38 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,000 supper. Now, what we must realize is 39 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,600 that communion is not only vertical that is when I commune. 40 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,400 I'm communing with God, when you're commuting your communing 41 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,500 with God, but communion is horizontal. 42 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:30,400 Now, think about this people. Talk about individual, Onion, 43 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,200 that's a paradox. It's not possible to have 44 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,600 individual communion. And when we share in the body 45 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,500 and blood of the Lord, we're sharing it with each other, 46 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:44,900 we're having communion. Now, in order for a communion to 47 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:47,800 occur, the law of must be blessed. 48 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,600 And from the time that the loaf is blessed, every person in the 49 00:02:52,608 --> 00:02:55,100 assembly has to eat from that one low. 50 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:58,800 That's what Paul say in First Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 51 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,500 16. The unit of observance, for the 52 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:05,700 communion is a Congregation in fact, this is interesting 53 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:08,500 because this is what's Illustrated in First Corinthians 54 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:11,300 chapter 11. Lot of people do not understand 55 00:03:11,300 --> 00:03:14,200 this first Corinthians chapter 11 verse 18. 56 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:18,300 Paul says, for first of all, when you come together as a 57 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:22,000 church, that is when you come together in the assembly, I hear 58 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,500 that there are divisions among you. 59 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:28,500 And in part, I believe it, notice further what he says in 60 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:32,400 the 20th verse, therefore, he's talking about the same thing, 61 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,300 he's He's looking to the same subject he says, therefore when 62 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:41,400 you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's 63 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,200 Supper. So the unit of observance is a 64 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,900 congregation, that's why you don't choose to travel around 65 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:50,600 the world and commune in your home. 66 00:03:50,900 --> 00:03:54,500 Because when you commune it has to occur in a local church in 67 00:03:54,508 --> 00:03:58,500 order, for the communion to be observed, it has to be together 68 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:02,100 in a local congregation. That's the dictates of the Holy 69 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:04,900 Spirit. Now, notice I already mentioned 70 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:06,500 this, but I want to emphasize it again. 71 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,000 When the bread is prayed for, that's the beginning of the 72 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,800 communion of the body of Christ, and when the last person eats 73 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:20,300 from the bread, it's finished. Now suppose mom, suppose my wife 74 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:25,500 suppose that it was 25 years ago or actually maybe need to be 27 75 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:32,300 years ago, and our little boy had to go to the bathroom and 76 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:35,200 she took him out while we were observing. 77 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:38,700 The bread. Now what do you do? 78 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:43,700 She didn't eat the bread. I'll tell you what they do in 79 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:50,400 some places. when the service is over, they server the brand. 80 00:04:52,100 --> 00:04:55,400 Now, is that right? You see it's wrong. 81 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:59,600 It's bigger than a local church. And when she ate the bread, 82 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,100 after the service, it's no longer the body of Christ. 83 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,800 It's just bread. I remember when I was a boy. 84 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:14,700 Somebody missed the service like that, miss the communion, the, 85 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:19,400 the bread like that, and he didn't drink the cup. 86 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,300 So he did the wrong thing when he didn't drink the cup. 87 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Now, he might have been excused for missing the bread. 88 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,600 If it was a child that was sick or something that he had to take 89 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,900 care of, but when he was sitting in this assembly, and the cup 90 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:34,000 come by, he didn't drink from a cup. 91 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:39,200 He said, when he did that, Now, after the service is over, the 92 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,800 preacher said, well then, what you need to do is you need to 93 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,700 eat the bread and then you need to drink the cup that don't 94 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:49,700 work. Because the unit of observance 95 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:54,400 is a congregation, and when the bread is finished, when the 96 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,000 assembly has / taken to the bread, that is a communion of 97 00:05:58,008 --> 00:06:00,400 the body of Christ, and when that is finished, it's over, 98 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,300 it's no longer a special portion. 99 00:06:03,300 --> 00:06:08,000 It's no longer a representation of the body of Jesus, but the 100 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,200 unit of observance is the local church now, then let's continue 101 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:17,200 on in 1st Corinthians chapter 11, no less than five times of 102 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,700 Idea of the concept of coming together is suggesting. 103 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,900 Now when Jesus instituted the supper, we know that it was 104 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:27,000 during the Passover. So in order to really understand 105 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,700 what happened or what occurred in the in the, in the supper, we 106 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:33,300 need to talk a little bit about the Passover now. 107 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:36,900 Jesus had probably observe the Passover with the disciples, 108 00:06:37,100 --> 00:06:39,900 three different times. When he finally came to the to 109 00:06:39,900 --> 00:06:43,300 this observance, where he's going to introduce his body, 110 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:45,800 he's going to introduce his blood now. 111 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Luke of course, The cup before he mentions the bread. 112 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Why does he do that? Well, Luke often gets things out 113 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,600 of order, but I think David Lipscomb was right. 114 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,300 When he wrote In The Gospel, Advocate back in the 19th 115 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:00,800 century. He said what was happening was 116 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:03,300 is here. Jesus was doing something in the 117 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:05,300 supper that had never been done before. 118 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,800 You see, there was no drink element in the Passover. 119 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:11,900 Now, you may be sitting there and say, hold it. 120 00:07:11,900 --> 00:07:15,400 Wait a minute, preacher. There was a drink element of the 121 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,800 Passover no sir, with, not in the Bible, there wasn't now the 122 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,000 Jews traditionally had four cups, and some people take the 123 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,800 position that Luke 22, and Jesus mentions the cut the first time 124 00:07:26,900 --> 00:07:28,600 that was the fourth cup of the Passover. 125 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,600 But I don't believe that for one minute. 126 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:34,200 In fact, that would be an innovation, Jesus would have 127 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,700 changed the law that God had given under that old system in 128 00:07:37,700 --> 00:07:41,300 the Passover. There was no drink element but 129 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:46,500 now he's going to introduce His supper and so he explains to 130 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:49,900 them what the compass for. And then he observes the supper, 131 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:52,900 He blesses the love, he breaks to protect his, we're going to 132 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:56,300 see the moment he prays for the cup and its contents and he 133 00:07:56,300 --> 00:07:59,200 drinks from the cup and He commands the disciples to all 134 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,000 drink from it. Now, there's not two cups, and 135 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,800 Luke 6:38 would tell you but absent, but of course, there was 136 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,800 a reason why Luke mentions the cup twice. 137 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,600 So now, we need to think about the Passover now. 138 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,700 Interesting. Jesus was represented by the 139 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:20,200 Passover, Lamb. In fact, John the Baptist says, 140 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,400 Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the 141 00:08:24,407 --> 00:08:28,400 lamb had to be male, he had to be less than a year old and he 142 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,600 had to be spotless and without blemish. 143 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,400 And of course all of those things pointing to Jesus that 144 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:38,200 was to die on the cross notice. Now, the Passover pointed to the 145 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,299 cross, it did not necessarily point to the communion. 146 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:44,500 Sometimes people say that it doesn't necessarily A point to 147 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:46,400 the communion, it pointed to the cross. 148 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:52,500 The Bible says that Jesus is the Passover, it says Jesus is the 149 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:54,300 lamb in First Corinthians 5 or 7. 150 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,800 For indeed Christ. Our Passover was sacrificed for 151 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,900 us and what that means is, he's our Passover Lamb. 152 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:05,100 Now, what did Jesus do when he instituted the supper? 153 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,800 Now, there were many lows on the table, there are many breads on 154 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,500 the table because during the Passover supper, they were to 155 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:15,800 observe The eating of unleavened bread. 156 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,200 Now we know that it was unleavened because during the 157 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,000 Passover, they had to go 14 days without any leavening in the 158 00:09:22,008 --> 00:09:25,600 house without any East. Now, this is an interesting 159 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:31,400 because the word Levin always referred to a solid and the word 160 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:35,600 ferment always referred to a liquid, but it was the same 161 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,600 Hebrew word, or the same Greek word. another words, if it's 162 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:46,100 talking about grape juice and it uses the term leaven or 163 00:09:46,100 --> 00:09:49,800 unleavened, Then, it has reference. 164 00:09:50,900 --> 00:09:52,900 To bread. It wouldn't be talking about the 165 00:09:52,900 --> 00:09:56,100 grape juice, but if it says, fermented or unfermented be 166 00:09:56,100 --> 00:09:59,300 talking about the Jews because that's a that's that's a liquid. 167 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:04,800 Now, what's the point? The point is this there could be 168 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,700 no yeast in the house of any kind. 169 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,700 In fact, they had to do what we might call spring cleaning, they 170 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:13,300 had to open the cupboards, take everything out and make sure 171 00:10:13,300 --> 00:10:17,400 there was not one Speck of Levin was a reason for that. 172 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,100 It pointed to the fact that in the church should be signals 173 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:22,900 You'd be cleansed by the blood of Jesus and you wouldn't be 174 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:26,000 guilty of soon. You see, yeast represented sin 175 00:10:26,100 --> 00:10:27,700 so they were to get it out of their house. 176 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:31,800 Literally representing the spiritual sin or the sin that 177 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,200 was going to be spiritually, washed away from our lives and 178 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,000 our souls. We're going to be pure. 179 00:10:36,100 --> 00:10:41,300 Now, the bread was unleavened, we don't know for sure what the 180 00:10:41,300 --> 00:10:44,800 recipe is. Now, some people say has to be 181 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,300 wheat bread. But there is no recipe for 182 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:50,700 wheat, bread concerning the Passover. 183 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:53,700 Most Scholars. Think that the bread Jesus used 184 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:57,700 was made from barley flour. Now, there is a, there is a 185 00:10:57,700 --> 00:11:00,700 recipe in the Old Testament. When it's talking about a 186 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:04,300 certain sacrifice with the priests, where they used whole 187 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:07,300 wheat flour. But not when it comes to the 188 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:12,800 bread of the Passover. Now, there is a recipe but it's 189 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:18,300 not specifically the Passover, but it's a recipe for making 190 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:21,700 unleavened bread in the book of Exodus and it just says refined 191 00:11:21,700 --> 00:11:24,200 flour. Mingled with oil. 192 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:30,700 So in the Philippines you might eat a bread or loathe. 193 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:35,300 It's made out of rice flour in Africa when you get in the bush 194 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:38,900 they don't have access to wheat flour and so you may eat a loaf 195 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:43,500 that's made out of corn flour. You see the Lord didn't specify, 196 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,900 it just has to be unleavened. Now, whether you put a little 197 00:11:46,900 --> 00:11:49,700 salt in it, or you don't that don't change the fact of whether 198 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:51,500 or not it's 11. Now if you don't want to put 199 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:55,800 salt the bread don't do it. My wife doesn't do that. 200 00:11:56,300 --> 00:11:59,200 She didn't put any salt in the Levant, most of the time, she 201 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,200 doesn't even use any oil. But the Bible says that it was 202 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,000 me, that it was refined flour. Mingled with oil. 203 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:08,600 Now, the kind of love that they used, according to fair, was 204 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,900 either a square or round in shape and it was about the 205 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:14,600 thickness of one, son. I listen, it's not a cracker. 206 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,600 Listen to me sisters. If you magdalo, don't make a 207 00:12:18,608 --> 00:12:22,100 cracker and don't put dough on the table. 208 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:27,200 Think about it a little bit and make it like the Lord wanted it 209 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:28,900 to be, like he wanted us to make it. 210 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:31,900 I look at what he says here. Matthew 26:26. 211 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:37,500 And as they were eating, Jesus Took bread blessed and broke it 212 00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:40,200 and gave it to the disciples and said, take eat. 213 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:45,500 This is my body. So he takes a loaf of unleavened 214 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:48,400 bread and he calls it. His body take eat. 215 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,500 This is my body. Look, 22, verse 19 and he took 216 00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:55,800 bread gave thanks and And broke it and gave it to them saying, 217 00:12:55,900 --> 00:12:58,400 this is my body which is given for you. 218 00:12:58,700 --> 00:13:04,200 Do this in remembrance of me, the point is he's commanding 219 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:08,200 them to do. Whatever he did, whatever it is 220 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:12,400 that he did, he commands Peter, if he was sitting to his right, 221 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:17,700 he commands him, this do or do just as I have done, this bread 222 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:19,600 is my body. This do do this. 223 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,000 Keep on doing this, that's why you read. 224 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,900 Acts the second chapter verse 42 that they broke bread on the 225 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:29,500 first day of the church in Acts. 20 verse 7. 226 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,400 They're still breaking bread. In fact, this was a common 227 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:33,900 practice. Every time the church came 228 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:36,600 together on the first day of the week to break bread. 229 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,900 And of course it became a figure representing the Lord's. 230 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:42,000 Supper, when they said break bread, they meant they observe 231 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,100 the Lord's supper and even represented all of the parts of 232 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:47,100 service that they were to observe. 233 00:13:47,100 --> 00:13:49,200 Now, what did Jesus do think about this? 234 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,300 He commanded them To do as he did. 235 00:13:53,300 --> 00:13:57,500 So what did he do? Some think that he broke it in 236 00:13:57,500 --> 00:14:00,800 two. Now if I break that bread into 237 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,200 it, I hand it to tear. It can carry do that again 238 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:05,700 though. He can't do it. 239 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:08,600 It's impossible. Some believe. 240 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,700 That he took the loaf and of course we're pretending now. 241 00:14:13,700 --> 00:14:16,800 So don't go away and said to him permit or said that piece of 242 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,500 bread, a piece of paper was the bread because it's not some 243 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:26,300 believe that he took the love and he broke it into as many 244 00:14:26,300 --> 00:14:30,000 people in his many pieces as there were present. 245 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,800 Now if he did that and passed it to Terry, could Terry do that? 246 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:40,100 No, he couldn't do that. This is another position. 247 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:42,000 In fact, this is the position we hold. 248 00:14:44,100 --> 00:14:46,300 Some believe that Jesus Took the love. 249 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:51,700 He took one love. He called one loaf his body. 250 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:56,600 He blessed one loaf. He brought from one love. 251 00:14:56,900 --> 00:15:00,600 He ate from one low and he passed. 252 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:07,300 One love to the disciples and they all broke each to partake. 253 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:11,200 Now let's go back to 1st Corinthians chapter 10 and 16. 254 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,200 Look at this, the cup of blessing which we bless. 255 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,600 Is it not the communion communion of the blood of 256 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,000 Christ? The Bread that, which we break 257 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:22,600 is it? Not the communion of the body of 258 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,700 Christ? Notice now the bread, which we 259 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:27,100 break, who are the, we that break? 260 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:32,800 Well Paul's at Ephesus, and the unit of observance is a 261 00:15:32,808 --> 00:15:36,600 congregation. So this we would include Paul at 262 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,200 Ephesus and the church at Ephesus, it would include the 263 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,800 church at Corinth where he was writing. 264 00:15:43,300 --> 00:15:46,600 So it was a local church of symbol that broke the bread. 265 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:51,600 He says, we Break. Who was the one that broke? 266 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:59,100 For we though, many are one bread and one body. 267 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:06,500 Look at this for we the same way that breaks in verse 16 for we 268 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:11,500 all partake of that one bread, you see? 269 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:18,400 He took one bread, One Love And he broke it. 270 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:23,000 Why did he break it to partake? And he passed it to the 271 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:28,700 disciples and he commanded them to do, as he had done to do, 272 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,800 just as he had done. Now, this is interesting. 273 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,000 We've been, we're talking about the Passover with this was 274 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:38,800 during the Passover that this was observed. 275 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,600 And so there's some things that we learn about the communion 276 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,400 because it was the Passover, one of the things that we mentioned, 277 00:16:44,500 --> 00:16:48,200 it's we know that the Jews and the bread were A unleavened and 278 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,600 unfermented because no leavening was allowed in the house. 279 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:55,100 The grape juice had to be grape juice and we know that the 280 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:58,500 Ancients had at least six methods, that they used to 281 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:02,300 preserve fresh juice. The time that Jesus observed. 282 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:07,800 The supper was not the time of bearing grapes and so they would 283 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:10,000 preserve juice. One of the ways they preserved, 284 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:15,700 it was to mash the juice into some kind of container and then 285 00:17:15,700 --> 00:17:18,599 boil it down to where it was. A thick syrup. 286 00:17:19,099 --> 00:17:23,800 In fact it's known today that if you have a liquid that's more 287 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:28,300 than 60 percent sugar it's almost impossible to ferment. 288 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:34,500 In fact, it'll if it does spoil it all it'll spoil and become 289 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:40,300 vinegar, not liquor not wine. When I look at this, it's during 290 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:46,500 the Passover, every house had one lamb representing Christ on 291 00:17:46,500 --> 00:17:52,600 the cross during the communion, every house, has one bread 292 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,600 representing Jesus, on the cross, the lamb. 293 00:17:55,600 --> 00:18:00,600 And the Passover look forward to the cross The bread on the 294 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:06,000 table, looks back to the Cross. There was one lamb. 295 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:11,700 And so every house today has one loaf, one bread, and one body. 296 00:18:11,700 --> 00:18:15,600 For we are all for, we all partake of that one bread. 297 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,800 Well, again in Matthew 26 verse 27. 298 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:21,100 Then he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them 299 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,400 saying drink from it. All of you. 300 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,700 Now Jesus did Jesus. Use one cup? 301 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,600 It's clear that he did in Matthew 26 verse 27. 302 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,000 Did Jesus command us to drink from one cup? 303 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,600 Yes, he said drink from it. All of you. 304 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:41,000 That's a command listen to me. That's a command. 305 00:18:42,100 --> 00:18:45,100 And we're commanded to drink from the cup. 306 00:18:45,100 --> 00:18:47,400 Matthew 26. 27 is not an example. 307 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:51,500 It's a command. The example is in Mark 14. 308 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,100 When the disciples, the Bible says, they all drank from it. 309 00:18:55,100 --> 00:18:58,200 So what did Jesus do? Jesus took one cup. 310 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,400 Matthew 26, 27. Jesus prayed for one cup and I 311 00:19:01,408 --> 00:19:04,300 Think 26:37 Jesus drink from one cup. 312 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:08,100 Matthew 26, 29, Jesus commanded the disciples to drink from one 313 00:19:08,100 --> 00:19:10,800 cup. Matthew 26 27, what did the 314 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:12,700 disciples? Do I already mentioned that? 315 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:15,600 Then he took the cup. And when he had given, thanks, 316 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:22,700 he gave it to them and they all drank from it, Jesus took one 317 00:19:22,700 --> 00:19:26,100 cup. Now, listen to me, the cup of 318 00:19:26,108 --> 00:19:32,300 the Lord is not an empty cup. Sometimes in our Earnest desire, 319 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:36,600 to teach the truth, we almost leave the wrong impression 320 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:40,100 because the cup is nothing in and of itself. 321 00:19:41,100 --> 00:19:44,200 The cup and its contents, make up the cup of the Lord. 322 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,200 In fact, Paul says the cup of blessing which we bless is it 323 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,500 not the communion of the blood of Christ. 324 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,300 Now in the Old Testament, there's a passage in the book of 325 00:19:55,300 --> 00:19:58,900 Isaiah, that tells us that when you take the cluster and you 326 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:04,400 squash the cluster that you destroy the blessing or the 327 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:09,500 blessing will come out. Now Paul says, the cup of 328 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:13,000 blessing, you see the Jews understood that he was told 329 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:17,100 about a cup of grape juice. It's the cup of the Lord that we 330 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:20,100 bless. Now, it's true that he said, 331 00:20:20,100 --> 00:20:23,000 this fruit of the vine is my blood. 332 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,300 It's true for Corinthians 11:25. He says this cup is the New 333 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:29,400 Covenant there, no doubt about that. 334 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:34,200 But the Covenant and the blood are inseparable, you can't have 335 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,600 one without the other. You can't have the But a lone 336 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,900 exclusively any more than you can have the Covenant without 337 00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:43,800 the blood, without the blood of Jesus, we could never be 338 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,100 forgiven. So, the cup of the Lord is both 339 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:49,700 the container and it's context. Jesus Took a cup. 340 00:20:49,700 --> 00:20:53,700 It was not an empty cup, but a cup containing grape juice and 341 00:20:53,700 --> 00:20:56,000 all of the disciples Drake from that cup. 342 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,100 Now, there is no departure from this pattern in all the New 343 00:20:59,100 --> 00:21:02,300 Testament. Christ, used, 1 cup, Matthew 344 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:06,500 used 1 cup, Mark, used 1 cup, Luke did Paul did the Church of 345 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:08,500 Jerusalem. Absalom did the church at 346 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:10,400 Corinth. Did there was no departure from 347 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,300 this pattern. Now, this is kind of an 348 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:14,800 interesting tidbit. Some of you might not have known 349 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:21,400 this in 1908, when the gospel was first carried to Zambia. 350 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,200 They used one cup to distribute through the line. 351 00:21:28,100 --> 00:21:32,500 It wasn't our Brotherhood per se. although it was because the 352 00:21:32,508 --> 00:21:36,600 division on communion hadn't, come yet, In 1908, when the 353 00:21:36,608 --> 00:21:39,900 Church of Christ first went to Zambia one loaf and one cup to 354 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:43,000 distribute the fruit of the vine was introduced to be used in the 355 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:48,500 communion all churches of Christ before the before 1914. 356 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:53,400 The 1920s just about all churches of Christ, used 1 cup, 357 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,400 a few used more than one or two, when the crowd was large. 358 00:21:57,500 --> 00:21:59,100 Now, what changed? All this. 359 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:03,200 Well, there's an interesting man, he was a micro biologist 360 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,500 and he lived from 1820 to 1895 he's the first fella. 361 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:11,100 That was able to devise a microscope that he could look 362 00:22:11,100 --> 00:22:13,700 down into that microscope. And see those little squiggly 363 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,000 bugs. Crawling through the water. 364 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:23,500 He found germs. And when he found those germs. 365 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:29,200 He literally created a germ Mysterio at America. 366 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,600 Now none of us remember that because as a long time ago, that 367 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:37,600 is in the 19th century. He created a germ hysteria but, 368 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,100 you know, we still have a problem with that attitude. 369 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:44,100 People that still I'm convinced that still one of the main 370 00:22:44,100 --> 00:22:47,300 reasons that people don't want to use one container and eat 371 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:51,000 from one bread. It's because of the germs that 372 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,300 they might get. I'm going to tell you something. 373 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,000 If I die during one cup, so be it. 374 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,700 You think Paul could have denied Jesus Christ. 375 00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:02,200 So they wouldn't chop his head off. 376 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,900 Absolutely not. He allowed him to chop his head 377 00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:11,100 off. He would never deny his Lord. 378 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,000 And if it's, if I'm going to die from drinking one cup then, so 379 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,600 be it. In the first place. 380 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,400 God is the one that made the germs. 381 00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:25,200 We act like that because we discovered something, God didn't 382 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,600 know it already. And as far as I know, there's 383 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:34,000 nobody. That's ever died from drinking 384 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,600 one cup. My great grandpa. 385 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,400 I'll drink for 80 years out of one cup and I guess he maybe he 386 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,900 did die from some disease. He got from drinking one cup 387 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:47,400 because he died at the young age of 96, And you know what? 388 00:23:47,900 --> 00:23:51,000 It was three weeks after his wife died, tell his wife died, 389 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:58,400 he wasn't even sick. Well. 390 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,100 The scientists introduced germs. Will call this fellow the 391 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:10,700 inventor JG Thomas. Now he was a presbyterian and he 392 00:24:10,700 --> 00:24:17,500 was a he was a preacher as well as a as a doctor and it stated 393 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,500 by his children, individual Community cups were first 394 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:25,200 invented and patented by John G Thomas who's both a preacher to 395 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,300 doctor. He states the purpose of his 396 00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:29,700 invention. The object of this invention is 397 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:33,000 to provide an agile or separate cup for the use of each person 398 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,000 at the celebration of the Lord's. 399 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,700 Supper brother, Miller in 1950, received this letter from his 400 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:42,700 family, who stated this very same truth that their 401 00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:45,100 grandfather. John G Thomas, who was both a 402 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:47,300 physician and a minister invented. 403 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:51,300 The first individual communion outfit, the first patents were 404 00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:55,500 issued to him in 1894. The Market Street Presbyterian 405 00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:58,400 Church of Lima. Ohio is believed to be the first 406 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,400 church to use individual communion. 407 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,900 UPS in a communion service. Now this occurred in about 1890 408 00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:09,600 for until this time even in all the religious World they used 409 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,400 one container to distribute the fruit of the Vine. 410 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,800 A few exceptions were they would use two cups to speed or hasten. 411 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,000 The communion up, sitting it down one side and down the 412 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,500 other. But even the denomination's used 413 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,100 1 cup until this change occurred. 414 00:25:27,100 --> 00:25:29,300 Now, we'll call this fellow the innovator, he was a great 415 00:25:29,300 --> 00:25:33,100 preacher, he did a lot of good for the church but he also led 416 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:37,800 the church into digression. His name is Jessie Brewer and he 417 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,400 is the one of the ancestors of the movement that we call the 418 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,700 digress of movement. He said I think I was the first 419 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:46,700 preacher to Advocate, the use of individual communion cup and the 420 00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:49,000 first church in the state of Tennessee that adopted. 421 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,700 It was the church for which I was preaching the Central Church 422 00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:53,700 of Christ. At Chattanooga, Tennessee, 423 00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:55,600 didn't meeting in the Masonic Temple. 424 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:59,100 Now, it's hard to know for sure who started. 425 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,600 He takes credit for it, but it won't in his book, 40 years in 426 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,000 the firing line, the introduction. 427 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,300 But that doesn't necessarily mean that he did start it, but 428 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:12,300 he's one of the first. Now, it's interesting because 429 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:16,400 David Lipscomb, who lived at that time, who is editor and 430 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:21,700 publisher of the Gospel, Advocate adamantly opposed 431 00:26:21,700 --> 00:26:22,800 individual. UPS. 432 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:26,700 He fought GC Brewer, tooth and toenail. 433 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,400 But, of course, later he changed his mind, he thought GC Brewer 434 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,200 and, and even took him to task publicly in the religious 435 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,800 Journal JW, garbled, garbage, stood for the truth, stood, for 436 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,600 one bread, and one cup on the table. 437 00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:45,000 Now, this is an interesting fellow. 438 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,300 JT can't, you know I live in Cleburne Texas and he's Graves, 439 00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:52,900 is it Cleburne Texas. In fact, he used he grew up as a 440 00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:58,700 boy in the church where I'm at. And a lot of history that 441 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:02,400 little, that old building effect Ronnie Wade as a boy, was taken 442 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,800 to church at that particular place, dr. 443 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,500 Trott, a man that we're going to mention just a moment held 444 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:13,300 meetings there and even debated the communion issue in that 445 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:15,500 building. Well, the point is, this man 446 00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:19,500 believed you had to use one bread, and he's old CERN book 447 00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:22,700 called The Gospel x-ray. I used to have it in my library 448 00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:26,000 till I shipped it to America or to his from America is in India. 449 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,500 Got lost in process and seen it since about eight years ago. 450 00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:36,600 But in his sermon book, The Gospel advocate, he preached a 451 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:42,000 sermon on the Tabernacle and he showed how that because there 452 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,900 were 12 families. There were twelve Loaves on the 453 00:27:43,900 --> 00:27:45,900 table. But today, we only have one 454 00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:47,600 family. So we only use one loaf on the 455 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,700 table. But what's interesting about and 456 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:53,300 what's intriguing about his position, even though he 457 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:56,100 believed you had to use one loaf, he thought it was. 458 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:57,700 All right. Right to use individual cups. 459 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,200 Sort of a contradiction course, all of his family. 460 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:06,500 Now have have taken in with the digressive movement HC, Harper, 461 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:10,700 Florida, stood for the truth, and, and fought the Innovation 462 00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:12,200 dr. Trott of money. 463 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,100 Texas also Fought The Innovation Homer King and her more 464 00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:17,900 gay-friendly 7. Missouri stood tall and helped 465 00:28:17,900 --> 00:28:21,200 to mold our Brotherhood and up to develop our Brotherhood in 466 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,000 the way that it is been developed. 467 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,600 All of these men stood for the truth, at least in the 468 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,300 beginning. But some of Of course, changed 469 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:35,500 that the vision came in spite of all the efforts. 470 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:39,600 In spite of everything that was done, five division came, the 471 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,600 Brotherhood was split again. All because of a German stereo 472 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,300 men divided the church because of fear of doing God's will 473 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:49,000 God's way? This is one of the modern ways 474 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,500 that they buy their bread, it comes in waivers. 475 00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:56,700 This is another way, this is something that started doing not 476 00:28:56,700 --> 00:28:58,200 too long before I went to Zambia. 477 00:28:58,300 --> 00:28:59,700 You notice that little Look up there. 478 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:04,200 You pick the there, there, little little places, at the, 479 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,100 take your seat, where you have your cup set before the service 480 00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:10,000 starts. And when it's time to wait on 481 00:29:10,008 --> 00:29:13,500 the table, the man stands up at the table and says, it's time to 482 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:16,600 eat the Lord's body he prays and he says, everybody take your 483 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:21,000 little plastic container and after he prays, he says to peel 484 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,700 off the top and you can eat your body, you need the body of the 485 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,500 Lord, you think it's the body of the Lord? 486 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,600 And then after they eat the body, the Lord, he prays again 487 00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:38,400 for the juice and he says, peel the second layer off and eat and 488 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:43,500 drink, you cut JuJu's. That's where people have come 489 00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:46,300 from the gone to. That's what happens when he 490 00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:51,800 opened the door of digression. Now, in the Passover, every 491 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,900 house had a lamb representing Christ on the cross. 492 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,500 Now, in the communion, of course, every house has a bread 493 00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:02,200 representing Jesus on the cross. Now, look at this, passage in 494 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,500 Exodus 12 where the, where the Passover with it was instituted, 495 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:10,600 then Moses called for the Elders of Israel and said to them, pick 496 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,500 out and take Linens For yourselves according to your 497 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:15,900 families and kill the Passover Lamb. 498 00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:18,900 Now again, remember the Passover Lamb represented. 499 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:24,300 Jesus verse 22 and you shall take a bunch of hyssop different 500 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:29,300 in the blood that is in the Basin and strike the lintel and 501 00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:33,600 the two doorposts with the blood that is in the Basin and none of 502 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,800 you shall go out of the house or out of the door of his house 503 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,000 until morning. The Lord will pass through to 504 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,600 strike the Egyptians. When he sees the blood on the 505 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,500 lintel, and on the doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door 506 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,300 and not allow the Destroyer to come in. 507 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:53,300 Your house has to strike you. Now clearly, the Bible says that 508 00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:56,200 every house had a lamb but guess what? 509 00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:01,900 Every house had a container and in that container was the blood 510 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,900 of that one. Lamp in that incredible. 511 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,400 Amazing. Here, we're talking about an 512 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:16,200 event that occurred 1400 years before Jesus ever came. 513 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,300 Do you think that Moses and the children of Israel had any idea 514 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,200 what they were doing? They had one. 515 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:31,200 Container. With the blood of that one land 516 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,900 that they slated each Heist, an incredible yet, gets an 517 00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:40,400 accident. In the Passover one house, one 518 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:46,000 lamb one basin. In the communion one house, one 519 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,400 bread, one cup. Scholars, who are supposed to 520 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,600 do? Tell us that the word in the 521 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:53,900 Hebrew. That's translated. 522 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:56,500 Basin is the cold equivalent to the word? 523 00:31:56,500 --> 00:31:58,500 That's translated cup in the Greek. 524 00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:03,500 Interesting. You think it's an accident? 525 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:07,400 But we have breath and who ruled that picture? 526 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,600 You see, we have the shadow of Jesus, on the cross. 527 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:15,300 We have what God ordered organized, one of the Old 528 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:17,200 Testament that points to the cross. 529 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,100 And today we have the legislation of Jesus that points 530 00:32:20,100 --> 00:32:22,100 back to the cross. It did incredible. 531 00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:27,300 How closely these compare? How closely those work. 532 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:29,400 Well, who calls the division tonight? 533 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:34,700 Is it the person who opposed the Innovation? 534 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,900 Alexander Campbell said, it was the man who made the golden calf 535 00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:43,000 that rock confusion and Israel, you know, they'll say, they'll 536 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,100 tell us why you've people believe you can only observe it 537 00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:49,600 one way you believe that only one cup can be used and when we 538 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,900 use more than one cup, you believe that we're wrong, we 539 00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:56,600 sin, you've caused a division. We believe you can worship 540 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,500 either way. But the truth of the matter is, 541 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:03,400 the person who brings in the new innovation, is the one that 542 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,800 causes the division. Is the one who sins. 543 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,300 The one who is right, is the person who stays with the tried 544 00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:13,200 and true. That's why Jude says, earnestly 545 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,100 contend for the faith. That was once delivered to the 546 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:18,700 Saints. As I've stated previously, this 547 00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:21,700 idea of the faith has to do with the gospel. 548 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:25,400 When you see the article before faith in the Bible, it always 549 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,800 can be interchanged with the term God. 550 00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:31,600 People he says that we're to earnestly contend for the gospel 551 00:33:31,700 --> 00:33:36,600 that has once been delivered to all the saints. and it's in the 552 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:43,800 gospel that Jesus instituted his communion and he says, To eat 553 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:47,800 from one bread and to drink from one cup. 554 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,300 Now here, he tells us that we're to Mark now the word Mark and 555 00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:55,900 that passage means that we observe them. 556 00:33:56,700 --> 00:34:02,100 Now, how long do we observe someone who teaches fits, how 557 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:05,200 long do we observe someone that causes a division? 558 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:10,800 Well in Titus Chapter 3 Paul says a man that is in heretic 559 00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:13,900 after the first and second admonition, reject him. 560 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,600 In other words, if a man does not believe the true Doctrine 561 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,199 and he's teaching anybody privately or talking about it to 562 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:27,100 anybody individually or even from the pulpit, he can be he 563 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:31,000 can be admonished twice and then it's to be rejected. 564 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:37,600 The Bible says, so the idea of observing are marking listen to 565 00:34:37,607 --> 00:34:40,699 what he says. Now I urge you Brethren note in 566 00:34:40,699 --> 00:34:44,199 the new King James version is the replacement for Mark. 567 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:46,600 Not those who Division and offenses. 568 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,600 You do that once and twice and then you rejected the see Titus 569 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,000 Chapter 3 Verse 10 contrary to the doctrine, which you have 570 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,500 learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do, not 571 00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:02,100 serve our Lord, Jesus Christ. But their own belly, and by 572 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,900 smooth words, and flattering speeches deceive. 573 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:10,200 The hearts of the simple, Haven't we been to see through 574 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:16,000 the years so many times? Just because a person worships 575 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,900 scripturally does not mean that we are in fellowship with them. 576 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:26,300 He clearly says here that a man who teaches something, contrary 577 00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:31,200 to the doctrine of Christ. Where to Mark him would observe 578 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,200 him and then we're to avoid him if he will not repent. 579 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,900 Clearly that passage teaches us here. 580 00:35:37,900 --> 00:35:41,600 We had the observance of the Passover pointing to the Cross. 581 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,000 We have the observance of the communion pointing back to the 582 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,100 Cross. Very similar analogy. 583 00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:50,300 This loaf is my body, Matthew 26:26. 584 00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:53,600 This fruit of the vine is my blood Mark, 14 verse 24, this 585 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,000 cup is the New Covenant First Corinthians 11:25. 586 00:35:57,100 --> 00:36:00,500 Now in conclusion, I want you to listen, I don't get you 587 00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:03,400 handbook. You'll notice the Man's 588 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,500 painting, the door posts in the header. 589 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,700 Same thing in this picture. You see? 590 00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:14,300 They did that. We know why they did that so 591 00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:18,900 they could escape death. Because the Destroyer was coming 592 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:24,200 through the land. and every house where there was a child or 593 00:36:24,207 --> 00:36:30,000 a firstborn animal found, There was going to be a death both in 594 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:36,000 Israel and in Egypt. But God told Moses he extended 595 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,600 his grace to the people of God and he says, you slay the lamb. 596 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:44,500 You take the blood of that lamb in the basin. 597 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,400 And you brush the blood on the upper door post and the side 598 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,200 posts. And when the Destroyer passes 599 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:57,600 through the land and he sees the house marked with blood, He'll 600 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,100 Passover. Now, I'm asking you tonight, are 601 00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:03,600 you in the house that is marked with blood? 602 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:10,900 Are you in the house? That can save you from the 603 00:37:10,900 --> 00:37:15,400 Destroyer. I'm telling you tonight examine 604 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:21,600 yourselves, whether you be in the faith, every one of us has 605 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,900 to stop and think about where we are and who we are and what we 606 00:37:25,900 --> 00:37:30,200 have been and we need to make sure we're in the house. 607 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,500 That is marked with blood. Therefore, take heed to 608 00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:35,600 yourselves. And to all the flock among which 609 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,800 the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to Shepherd the Church 610 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:43,800 of God, which he that is. Jesus Christ, purchased With his 611 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:49,500 own blood. Paul says. 612 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,700 That we are baptized into Christ. 613 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,200 And when were baptized into Christ, that puts us in contact, 614 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,600 with his death, in Colossians 2 verse 12. 615 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:08,900 The Bible says that were buried with him in his death. and see 616 00:38:08,900 --> 00:38:13,800 these death, he shed his blood and when you obey that gospel, 617 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:19,200 when you obey from the heart that form of Doctrine, your made 618 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,700 free from sin. When you made free from sin, 619 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:25,200 you're added to the church, you're baptized into Christ. 620 00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:31,300 Your added to the house. That is marked in blood. 621 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:35,900 And tonight if that's not the case in your life, we urge you. 622 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:41,400 We beseech you to stop and consider it because we don't 623 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:45,500 have Assurance of Tomorrow. We only have Assurance of right 624 00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:48,500 now and James asked the question. 625 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:51,400 He proposes the question, what is your life? 626 00:38:52,700 --> 00:38:57,700 It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and 627 00:38:57,700 --> 00:39:01,500 then vanisheth away. Man where have the years could 628 00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:09,000 gone come and gone? I remember when I was 15 years 629 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,200 old, I came down here and gave it a talk at a Labor Day beating 630 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:18,900 the Brundage Lane was holding. We're Where Have All These Years 631 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:21,600 Gone? 40 years ago. 632 00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:31,600 I don't know how much time I got left. but, The one with whom we 633 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:36,500 have to do nose. And I'm going to do everything I 634 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:41,600 can within my power. Just stay within the goodness of 635 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:48,900 his. Love. and tonight, if you're not 636 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,800 on the Lord's Side, If you're not on the in the house, it's 637 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:57,700 marked with blood, we beseech you, we urge you to do, whatever 638 00:39:57,700 --> 00:40:00,400 you have to do to get in that house. 639 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,100 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 640 00:40:04,100 --> 00:40:09,800 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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