Once more, we welcome you to our sin League.
We Echo the feelings of appreciation that have already
been stated. We're thankful for everyone who
is here. Now, we're not going to study
anything new tonight as has been the case in every part of our
services this week. But we want to study further and
maybe remind you of some things and maybe even teach you some
things, maybe that you have not thought about when we talk about
the history of the communion, the idea.
Of the communion is very interesting notice.
Now, First Corinthians chapter 10, now Paul is not necessarily
teaching on the communion in 1st Corinthians, chapter 10, he's
teaching a lesson about eating meat at the idols Temple, or
eating the meat that has been offered to Idols, but he uses
the communion The Establishment, and the practice of the
communion in the church at Corinth to illustrate and teach
the people a lesson about the theme of the subject that he
wants them to, Staying. And so we can take these verses
and we can infer some things that Paul suggests notice now,
1st Corinthians 10:16 the cup of blessing which we bless.
Is it not the communion of the blood of Christ, the bread,
which we break? Is it?
Not the communion of the body of Christ?
For we though many are one bread and one body.
For we all partake of that one bread.
So we have this word communion And now the word communion has
at its root, the word common. And so the idea that's being
suggested here is that there's something that is shared in
common. In fact, the lexicographer
defines the word communion as a having in common, a partnership
Fellowship, it denotes the share, which one has an
anything? It participation Fellowship
recognized, and enjoyed. Now notice what Brian continues
to say in the same context. He says this word.
In 1st Corinthians, 10:16 of the sharing in the realization of
the effects of the blood. That is the death of Christ and
the body of Christ has set forth by the emblems in the Lord's
supper. Now, what we must realize is
that communion is not only vertical that is when I commune.
I'm communing with God, when you're commuting your communing
with God, but communion is horizontal.
Now, think about this people. Talk about individual, Onion,
that's a paradox. It's not possible to have
individual communion. And when we share in the body
and blood of the Lord, we're sharing it with each other,
we're having communion. Now, in order for a communion to
occur, the law of must be blessed.
And from the time that the loaf is blessed, every person in the
assembly has to eat from that one low.
That's what Paul say in First Corinthians chapter 10 and verse
16. The unit of observance, for the
communion is a Congregation in fact, this is interesting
because this is what's Illustrated in First Corinthians
chapter 11. Lot of people do not understand
this first Corinthians chapter 11 verse 18.
Paul says, for first of all, when you come together as a
church, that is when you come together in the assembly, I hear
that there are divisions among you.
And in part, I believe it, notice further what he says in
the 20th verse, therefore, he's talking about the same thing,
he's He's looking to the same subject he says, therefore when
you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's
Supper. So the unit of observance is a
congregation, that's why you don't choose to travel around
the world and commune in your home.
Because when you commune it has to occur in a local church in
order, for the communion to be observed, it has to be together
in a local congregation. That's the dictates of the Holy
Spirit. Now, notice I already mentioned
this, but I want to emphasize it again.
When the bread is prayed for, that's the beginning of the
communion of the body of Christ, and when the last person eats
from the bread, it's finished. Now suppose mom, suppose my wife
suppose that it was 25 years ago or actually maybe need to be 27
years ago, and our little boy had to go to the bathroom and
she took him out while we were observing.
The bread. Now what do you do?
She didn't eat the bread. I'll tell you what they do in
some places. when the service is over, they server the brand.
Now, is that right? You see it's wrong.
It's bigger than a local church. And when she ate the bread,
after the service, it's no longer the body of Christ.
It's just bread. I remember when I was a boy.
Somebody missed the service like that, miss the communion, the,
the bread like that, and he didn't drink the cup.
So he did the wrong thing when he didn't drink the cup.
Now, he might have been excused for missing the bread.
If it was a child that was sick or something that he had to take
care of, but when he was sitting in this assembly, and the cup
come by, he didn't drink from a cup.
He said, when he did that, Now, after the service is over, the
preacher said, well then, what you need to do is you need to
eat the bread and then you need to drink the cup that don't
work. Because the unit of observance
is a congregation, and when the bread is finished, when the
assembly has / taken to the bread, that is a communion of
the body of Christ, and when that is finished, it's over,
it's no longer a special portion.
It's no longer a representation of the body of Jesus, but the
unit of observance is the local church now, then let's continue
on in 1st Corinthians chapter 11, no less than five times of
Idea of the concept of coming together is suggesting.
Now when Jesus instituted the supper, we know that it was
during the Passover. So in order to really understand
what happened or what occurred in the in the, in the supper, we
need to talk a little bit about the Passover now.
Jesus had probably observe the Passover with the disciples,
three different times. When he finally came to the to
this observance, where he's going to introduce his body,
he's going to introduce his blood now.
Luke of course, The cup before he mentions the bread.
Why does he do that? Well, Luke often gets things out
of order, but I think David Lipscomb was right.
When he wrote In The Gospel, Advocate back in the 19th
century. He said what was happening was
is here. Jesus was doing something in the
supper that had never been done before.
You see, there was no drink element in the Passover.
Now, you may be sitting there and say, hold it.
Wait a minute, preacher. There was a drink element of the
Passover no sir, with, not in the Bible, there wasn't now the
Jews traditionally had four cups, and some people take the
position that Luke 22, and Jesus mentions the cut the first time
that was the fourth cup of the Passover.
But I don't believe that for one minute.
In fact, that would be an innovation, Jesus would have
changed the law that God had given under that old system in
the Passover. There was no drink element but
now he's going to introduce His supper and so he explains to
them what the compass for. And then he observes the supper,
He blesses the love, he breaks to protect his, we're going to
see the moment he prays for the cup and its contents and he
drinks from the cup and He commands the disciples to all
drink from it. Now, there's not two cups, and
Luke 6:38 would tell you but absent, but of course, there was
a reason why Luke mentions the cup twice.
So now, we need to think about the Passover now.
Interesting. Jesus was represented by the
Passover, Lamb. In fact, John the Baptist says,
Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the
lamb had to be male, he had to be less than a year old and he
had to be spotless and without blemish.
And of course all of those things pointing to Jesus that
was to die on the cross notice. Now, the Passover pointed to the
cross, it did not necessarily point to the communion.
Sometimes people say that it doesn't necessarily A point to
the communion, it pointed to the cross.
The Bible says that Jesus is the Passover, it says Jesus is the
lamb in First Corinthians 5 or 7.
For indeed Christ. Our Passover was sacrificed for
us and what that means is, he's our Passover Lamb.
Now, what did Jesus do when he instituted the supper?
Now, there were many lows on the table, there are many breads on
the table because during the Passover supper, they were to
observe The eating of unleavened bread.
Now we know that it was unleavened because during the
Passover, they had to go 14 days without any leavening in the
house without any East. Now, this is an interesting
because the word Levin always referred to a solid and the word
ferment always referred to a liquid, but it was the same
Hebrew word, or the same Greek word. another words, if it's
talking about grape juice and it uses the term leaven or
unleavened, Then, it has reference.
To bread. It wouldn't be talking about the
grape juice, but if it says, fermented or unfermented be
talking about the Jews because that's a that's that's a liquid.
Now, what's the point? The point is this there could be
no yeast in the house of any kind.
In fact, they had to do what we might call spring cleaning, they
had to open the cupboards, take everything out and make sure
there was not one Speck of Levin was a reason for that.
It pointed to the fact that in the church should be signals
You'd be cleansed by the blood of Jesus and you wouldn't be
guilty of soon. You see, yeast represented sin
so they were to get it out of their house.
Literally representing the spiritual sin or the sin that
was going to be spiritually, washed away from our lives and
our souls. We're going to be pure.
Now, the bread was unleavened, we don't know for sure what the
recipe is. Now, some people say has to be
wheat bread. But there is no recipe for
wheat, bread concerning the Passover.
Most Scholars. Think that the bread Jesus used
was made from barley flour. Now, there is a, there is a
recipe in the Old Testament. When it's talking about a
certain sacrifice with the priests, where they used whole
wheat flour. But not when it comes to the
bread of the Passover. Now, there is a recipe but it's
not specifically the Passover, but it's a recipe for making
unleavened bread in the book of Exodus and it just says refined
flour. Mingled with oil.
So in the Philippines you might eat a bread or loathe.
It's made out of rice flour in Africa when you get in the bush
they don't have access to wheat flour and so you may eat a loaf
that's made out of corn flour. You see the Lord didn't specify,
it just has to be unleavened. Now, whether you put a little
salt in it, or you don't that don't change the fact of whether
or not it's 11. Now if you don't want to put
salt the bread don't do it. My wife doesn't do that.
She didn't put any salt in the Levant, most of the time, she
doesn't even use any oil. But the Bible says that it was
me, that it was refined flour. Mingled with oil.
Now, the kind of love that they used, according to fair, was
either a square or round in shape and it was about the
thickness of one, son. I listen, it's not a cracker.
Listen to me sisters. If you magdalo, don't make a
cracker and don't put dough on the table.
Think about it a little bit and make it like the Lord wanted it
to be, like he wanted us to make it.
I look at what he says here. Matthew 26:26.
And as they were eating, Jesus Took bread blessed and broke it
and gave it to the disciples and said, take eat.
This is my body. So he takes a loaf of unleavened
bread and he calls it. His body take eat.
This is my body. Look, 22, verse 19 and he took
bread gave thanks and And broke it and gave it to them saying,
this is my body which is given for you.
Do this in remembrance of me, the point is he's commanding
them to do. Whatever he did, whatever it is
that he did, he commands Peter, if he was sitting to his right,
he commands him, this do or do just as I have done, this bread
is my body. This do do this.
Keep on doing this, that's why you read.
Acts the second chapter verse 42 that they broke bread on the
first day of the church in Acts. 20 verse 7.
They're still breaking bread. In fact, this was a common
practice. Every time the church came
together on the first day of the week to break bread.
And of course it became a figure representing the Lord's.
Supper, when they said break bread, they meant they observe
the Lord's supper and even represented all of the parts of
service that they were to observe.
Now, what did Jesus do think about this?
He commanded them To do as he did.
So what did he do? Some think that he broke it in
two. Now if I break that bread into
it, I hand it to tear. It can carry do that again
though. He can't do it.
It's impossible. Some believe.
That he took the loaf and of course we're pretending now.
So don't go away and said to him permit or said that piece of
bread, a piece of paper was the bread because it's not some
believe that he took the love and he broke it into as many
people in his many pieces as there were present.
Now if he did that and passed it to Terry, could Terry do that?
No, he couldn't do that. This is another position.
In fact, this is the position we hold.
Some believe that Jesus Took the love.
He took one love. He called one loaf his body.
He blessed one loaf. He brought from one love.
He ate from one low and he passed.
One love to the disciples and they all broke each to partake.
Now let's go back to 1st Corinthians chapter 10 and 16.
Look at this, the cup of blessing which we bless.
Is it not the communion communion of the blood of
Christ? The Bread that, which we break
is it? Not the communion of the body of
Christ? Notice now the bread, which we
break, who are the, we that break?
Well Paul's at Ephesus, and the unit of observance is a
congregation. So this we would include Paul at
Ephesus and the church at Ephesus, it would include the
church at Corinth where he was writing.
So it was a local church of symbol that broke the bread.
He says, we Break. Who was the one that broke?
For we though, many are one bread and one body.
Look at this for we the same way that breaks in verse 16 for we
all partake of that one bread, you see?
He took one bread, One Love And he broke it.
Why did he break it to partake? And he passed it to the
disciples and he commanded them to do, as he had done to do,
just as he had done. Now, this is interesting.
We've been, we're talking about the Passover with this was
during the Passover that this was observed.
And so there's some things that we learn about the communion
because it was the Passover, one of the things that we mentioned,
it's we know that the Jews and the bread were A unleavened and
unfermented because no leavening was allowed in the house.
The grape juice had to be grape juice and we know that the
Ancients had at least six methods, that they used to
preserve fresh juice. The time that Jesus observed.
The supper was not the time of bearing grapes and so they would
preserve juice. One of the ways they preserved,
it was to mash the juice into some kind of container and then
boil it down to where it was. A thick syrup.
In fact it's known today that if you have a liquid that's more
than 60 percent sugar it's almost impossible to ferment.
In fact, it'll if it does spoil it all it'll spoil and become
vinegar, not liquor not wine. When I look at this, it's during
the Passover, every house had one lamb representing Christ on
the cross during the communion, every house, has one bread
representing Jesus, on the cross, the lamb.
And the Passover look forward to the cross The bread on the
table, looks back to the Cross. There was one lamb.
And so every house today has one loaf, one bread, and one body.
For we are all for, we all partake of that one bread.
Well, again in Matthew 26 verse 27.
Then he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them
saying drink from it. All of you.
Now Jesus did Jesus. Use one cup?
It's clear that he did in Matthew 26 verse 27.
Did Jesus command us to drink from one cup?
Yes, he said drink from it. All of you.
That's a command listen to me. That's a command.
And we're commanded to drink from the cup.
Matthew 26. 27 is not an example.
It's a command. The example is in Mark 14.
When the disciples, the Bible says, they all drank from it.
So what did Jesus do? Jesus took one cup.
Matthew 26, 27. Jesus prayed for one cup and I
Think 26:37 Jesus drink from one cup.
Matthew 26, 29, Jesus commanded the disciples to drink from one
cup. Matthew 26 27, what did the
disciples? Do I already mentioned that?
Then he took the cup. And when he had given, thanks,
he gave it to them and they all drank from it, Jesus took one
cup. Now, listen to me, the cup of
the Lord is not an empty cup. Sometimes in our Earnest desire,
to teach the truth, we almost leave the wrong impression
because the cup is nothing in and of itself.
The cup and its contents, make up the cup of the Lord.
In fact, Paul says the cup of blessing which we bless is it
not the communion of the blood of Christ.
Now in the Old Testament, there's a passage in the book of
Isaiah, that tells us that when you take the cluster and you
squash the cluster that you destroy the blessing or the
blessing will come out. Now Paul says, the cup of
blessing, you see the Jews understood that he was told
about a cup of grape juice. It's the cup of the Lord that we
bless. Now, it's true that he said,
this fruit of the vine is my blood.
It's true for Corinthians 11:25. He says this cup is the New
Covenant there, no doubt about that.
But the Covenant and the blood are inseparable, you can't have
one without the other. You can't have the But a lone
exclusively any more than you can have the Covenant without
the blood, without the blood of Jesus, we could never be
forgiven. So, the cup of the Lord is both
the container and it's context. Jesus Took a cup.
It was not an empty cup, but a cup containing grape juice and
all of the disciples Drake from that cup.
Now, there is no departure from this pattern in all the New
Testament. Christ, used, 1 cup, Matthew
used 1 cup, Mark, used 1 cup, Luke did Paul did the Church of
Jerusalem. Absalom did the church at
Corinth. Did there was no departure from
this pattern. Now, this is kind of an
interesting tidbit. Some of you might not have known
this in 1908, when the gospel was first carried to Zambia.
They used one cup to distribute through the line.
It wasn't our Brotherhood per se. although it was because the
division on communion hadn't, come yet, In 1908, when the
Church of Christ first went to Zambia one loaf and one cup to
distribute the fruit of the vine was introduced to be used in the
communion all churches of Christ before the before 1914.
The 1920s just about all churches of Christ, used 1 cup,
a few used more than one or two, when the crowd was large.
Now, what changed? All this.
Well, there's an interesting man, he was a micro biologist
and he lived from 1820 to 1895 he's the first fella.
That was able to devise a microscope that he could look
down into that microscope. And see those little squiggly
bugs. Crawling through the water.
He found germs. And when he found those germs.
He literally created a germ Mysterio at America.
Now none of us remember that because as a long time ago, that
is in the 19th century. He created a germ hysteria but,
you know, we still have a problem with that attitude.
People that still I'm convinced that still one of the main
reasons that people don't want to use one container and eat
from one bread. It's because of the germs that
they might get. I'm going to tell you something.
If I die during one cup, so be it.
You think Paul could have denied Jesus Christ.
So they wouldn't chop his head off.
Absolutely not. He allowed him to chop his head
off. He would never deny his Lord.
And if it's, if I'm going to die from drinking one cup then, so
be it. In the first place.
God is the one that made the germs.
We act like that because we discovered something, God didn't
know it already. And as far as I know, there's
nobody. That's ever died from drinking
one cup. My great grandpa.
I'll drink for 80 years out of one cup and I guess he maybe he
did die from some disease. He got from drinking one cup
because he died at the young age of 96, And you know what?
It was three weeks after his wife died, tell his wife died,
he wasn't even sick. Well.
The scientists introduced germs. Will call this fellow the
inventor JG Thomas. Now he was a presbyterian and he
was a he was a preacher as well as a as a doctor and it stated
by his children, individual Community cups were first
invented and patented by John G Thomas who's both a preacher to
doctor. He states the purpose of his
invention. The object of this invention is
to provide an agile or separate cup for the use of each person
at the celebration of the Lord's.
Supper brother, Miller in 1950, received this letter from his
family, who stated this very same truth that their
grandfather. John G Thomas, who was both a
physician and a minister invented.
The first individual communion outfit, the first patents were
issued to him in 1894. The Market Street Presbyterian
Church of Lima. Ohio is believed to be the first
church to use individual communion.
UPS in a communion service. Now this occurred in about 1890
for until this time even in all the religious World they used
one container to distribute the fruit of the Vine.
A few exceptions were they would use two cups to speed or hasten.
The communion up, sitting it down one side and down the
other. But even the denomination's used
1 cup until this change occurred.
Now, we'll call this fellow the innovator, he was a great
preacher, he did a lot of good for the church but he also led
the church into digression. His name is Jessie Brewer and he
is the one of the ancestors of the movement that we call the
digress of movement. He said I think I was the first
preacher to Advocate, the use of individual communion cup and the
first church in the state of Tennessee that adopted.
It was the church for which I was preaching the Central Church
of Christ. At Chattanooga, Tennessee,
didn't meeting in the Masonic Temple.
Now, it's hard to know for sure who started.
He takes credit for it, but it won't in his book, 40 years in
the firing line, the introduction.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that he did start it, but
he's one of the first. Now, it's interesting because
David Lipscomb, who lived at that time, who is editor and
publisher of the Gospel, Advocate adamantly opposed
individual. UPS.
He fought GC Brewer, tooth and toenail.
But, of course, later he changed his mind, he thought GC Brewer
and, and even took him to task publicly in the religious
Journal JW, garbled, garbage, stood for the truth, stood, for
one bread, and one cup on the table.
Now, this is an interesting fellow.
JT can't, you know I live in Cleburne Texas and he's Graves,
is it Cleburne Texas. In fact, he used he grew up as a
boy in the church where I'm at. And a lot of history that
little, that old building effect Ronnie Wade as a boy, was taken
to church at that particular place, dr.
Trott, a man that we're going to mention just a moment held
meetings there and even debated the communion issue in that
building. Well, the point is, this man
believed you had to use one bread, and he's old CERN book
called The Gospel x-ray. I used to have it in my library
till I shipped it to America or to his from America is in India.
Got lost in process and seen it since about eight years ago.
But in his sermon book, The Gospel advocate, he preached a
sermon on the Tabernacle and he showed how that because there
were 12 families. There were twelve Loaves on the
table. But today, we only have one
family. So we only use one loaf on the
table. But what's interesting about and
what's intriguing about his position, even though he
believed you had to use one loaf, he thought it was.
All right. Right to use individual cups.
Sort of a contradiction course, all of his family.
Now have have taken in with the digressive movement HC, Harper,
Florida, stood for the truth, and, and fought the Innovation
dr. Trott of money.
Texas also Fought The Innovation Homer King and her more
gay-friendly 7. Missouri stood tall and helped
to mold our Brotherhood and up to develop our Brotherhood in
the way that it is been developed.
All of these men stood for the truth, at least in the
beginning. But some of Of course, changed
that the vision came in spite of all the efforts.
In spite of everything that was done, five division came, the
Brotherhood was split again. All because of a German stereo
men divided the church because of fear of doing God's will
God's way? This is one of the modern ways
that they buy their bread, it comes in waivers.
This is another way, this is something that started doing not
too long before I went to Zambia.
You notice that little Look up there.
You pick the there, there, little little places, at the,
take your seat, where you have your cup set before the service
starts. And when it's time to wait on
the table, the man stands up at the table and says, it's time to
eat the Lord's body he prays and he says, everybody take your
little plastic container and after he prays, he says to peel
off the top and you can eat your body, you need the body of the
Lord, you think it's the body of the Lord?
And then after they eat the body, the Lord, he prays again
for the juice and he says, peel the second layer off and eat and
drink, you cut JuJu's. That's where people have come
from the gone to. That's what happens when he
opened the door of digression. Now, in the Passover, every
house had a lamb representing Christ on the cross.
Now, in the communion, of course, every house has a bread
representing Jesus on the cross. Now, look at this, passage in
Exodus 12 where the, where the Passover with it was instituted,
then Moses called for the Elders of Israel and said to them, pick
out and take Linens For yourselves according to your
families and kill the Passover Lamb.
Now again, remember the Passover Lamb represented.
Jesus verse 22 and you shall take a bunch of hyssop different
in the blood that is in the Basin and strike the lintel and
the two doorposts with the blood that is in the Basin and none of
you shall go out of the house or out of the door of his house
until morning. The Lord will pass through to
strike the Egyptians. When he sees the blood on the
lintel, and on the doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door
and not allow the Destroyer to come in.
Your house has to strike you. Now clearly, the Bible says that
every house had a lamb but guess what?
Every house had a container and in that container was the blood
of that one. Lamp in that incredible.
Amazing. Here, we're talking about an
event that occurred 1400 years before Jesus ever came.
Do you think that Moses and the children of Israel had any idea
what they were doing? They had one.
Container. With the blood of that one land
that they slated each Heist, an incredible yet, gets an
accident. In the Passover one house, one
lamb one basin. In the communion one house, one
bread, one cup. Scholars, who are supposed to
do? Tell us that the word in the
Hebrew. That's translated.
Basin is the cold equivalent to the word?
That's translated cup in the Greek.
Interesting. You think it's an accident?
But we have breath and who ruled that picture?
You see, we have the shadow of Jesus, on the cross.
We have what God ordered organized, one of the Old
Testament that points to the cross.
And today we have the legislation of Jesus that points
back to the cross. It did incredible.
How closely these compare? How closely those work.
Well, who calls the division tonight?
Is it the person who opposed the Innovation?
Alexander Campbell said, it was the man who made the golden calf
that rock confusion and Israel, you know, they'll say, they'll
tell us why you've people believe you can only observe it
one way you believe that only one cup can be used and when we
use more than one cup, you believe that we're wrong, we
sin, you've caused a division. We believe you can worship
either way. But the truth of the matter is,
the person who brings in the new innovation, is the one that
causes the division. Is the one who sins.
The one who is right, is the person who stays with the tried
and true. That's why Jude says, earnestly
contend for the faith. That was once delivered to the
Saints. As I've stated previously, this
idea of the faith has to do with the gospel.
When you see the article before faith in the Bible, it always
can be interchanged with the term God.
People he says that we're to earnestly contend for the gospel
that has once been delivered to all the saints. and it's in the
gospel that Jesus instituted his communion and he says, To eat
from one bread and to drink from one cup.
Now here, he tells us that we're to Mark now the word Mark and
that passage means that we observe them.
Now, how long do we observe someone who teaches fits, how
long do we observe someone that causes a division?
Well in Titus Chapter 3 Paul says a man that is in heretic
after the first and second admonition, reject him.
In other words, if a man does not believe the true Doctrine
and he's teaching anybody privately or talking about it to
anybody individually or even from the pulpit, he can be he
can be admonished twice and then it's to be rejected.
The Bible says, so the idea of observing are marking listen to
what he says. Now I urge you Brethren note in
the new King James version is the replacement for Mark.
Not those who Division and offenses.
You do that once and twice and then you rejected the see Titus
Chapter 3 Verse 10 contrary to the doctrine, which you have
learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do, not
serve our Lord, Jesus Christ. But their own belly, and by
smooth words, and flattering speeches deceive.
The hearts of the simple, Haven't we been to see through
the years so many times? Just because a person worships
scripturally does not mean that we are in fellowship with them.
He clearly says here that a man who teaches something, contrary
to the doctrine of Christ. Where to Mark him would observe
him and then we're to avoid him if he will not repent.
Clearly that passage teaches us here.
We had the observance of the Passover pointing to the Cross.
We have the observance of the communion pointing back to the
Cross. Very similar analogy.
This loaf is my body, Matthew 26:26.
This fruit of the vine is my blood Mark, 14 verse 24, this
cup is the New Covenant First Corinthians 11:25.
Now in conclusion, I want you to listen, I don't get you
handbook. You'll notice the Man's
painting, the door posts in the header.
Same thing in this picture. You see?
They did that. We know why they did that so
they could escape death. Because the Destroyer was coming
through the land. and every house where there was a child or
a firstborn animal found, There was going to be a death both in
Israel and in Egypt. But God told Moses he extended
his grace to the people of God and he says, you slay the lamb.
You take the blood of that lamb in the basin.
And you brush the blood on the upper door post and the side
posts. And when the Destroyer passes
through the land and he sees the house marked with blood, He'll
Passover. Now, I'm asking you tonight, are
you in the house that is marked with blood?
Are you in the house? That can save you from the
Destroyer. I'm telling you tonight examine
yourselves, whether you be in the faith, every one of us has
to stop and think about where we are and who we are and what we
have been and we need to make sure we're in the house.
That is marked with blood. Therefore, take heed to
yourselves. And to all the flock among which
the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to Shepherd the Church
of God, which he that is. Jesus Christ, purchased With his
own blood. Paul says.
That we are baptized into Christ.
And when were baptized into Christ, that puts us in contact,
with his death, in Colossians 2 verse 12.
The Bible says that were buried with him in his death. and see
these death, he shed his blood and when you obey that gospel,
when you obey from the heart that form of Doctrine, your made
free from sin. When you made free from sin,
you're added to the church, you're baptized into Christ.
Your added to the house. That is marked in blood.
And tonight if that's not the case in your life, we urge you.
We beseech you to stop and consider it because we don't
have Assurance of Tomorrow. We only have Assurance of right
now and James asked the question.
He proposes the question, what is your life?
It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and
then vanisheth away. Man where have the years could
gone come and gone? I remember when I was 15 years
old, I came down here and gave it a talk at a Labor Day beating
the Brundage Lane was holding. We're Where Have All These Years
Gone? 40 years ago.
I don't know how much time I got left. but, The one with whom we
have to do nose. And I'm going to do everything I
can within my power. Just stay within the goodness of
his. Love. and tonight, if you're not
on the Lord's Side, If you're not on the in the house, it's
marked with blood, we beseech you, we urge you to do, whatever
you have to do to get in that house.
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