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 Today's passage is from 1 Corinthians chapter 11. We're starting in verse 17.

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 But in the following instructions, I do not commend you, because when you come together, it is not for the better but for the worse.

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 For in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you.

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 And I believe it in part, for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

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 When you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat.

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 For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.

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 What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in?

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 Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing?

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 What shall I say to you?

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 Should I commend you in this?

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 No, I will not.

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 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you,

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 that the Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed, took bread.

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 And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said,

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 This is my body, which is for you.

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 Do this in remembrance of me.

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 In the same way, also, he took the cup after supper, saying,

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 This cup is the new covenant in my blood.

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 Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.

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 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,

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 you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

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 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord

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 in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.

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 Let a person examine himself, then,

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 and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

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 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body

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 eats and drinks judgment on himself.

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 That is why many of you are weak and ill and some have died.

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 But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.

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 But when we are judged by the Lord,

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 we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

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 So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat,

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 wait for one another.

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 If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home,

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 so that when you come together,

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 it will not be for judgment.

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 About the other things, I will give directions when I come.

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 This is the word of God.

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 Thank you so much, Karen.

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 Good morning, everyone.

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 Okay, that's not bad.

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 Great. Good morning.

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 My name is Chris.

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 I'm one of the leaders here at Watermark,

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 and it's just really exciting to be here

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 and to preach God's word as we're going to talk on communion,

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 which I don't think I have preached a sermon here at Watermark ever on communion.

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 So let's just start by praying

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 and asking God to just speak to us today.

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 Father, we thank you that your word is like a sword

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 that penetrates, that cuts between the very deepest parts of our soul

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 and our marrow and every part of our bones,

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 and it breaks through into areas of our lives

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 where we have kept hidden for so long,

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 and it wants to expose us so that it wants to heal us

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 and to make us truly the people you've made us to be.

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 And I pray this morning you would do that.

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 I pray wherever we've come from, wherever we are right now,

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 that your word would do its work in our lives

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 so that we might be the people you've called us to be.

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 We might live in the freedom you have bought for us,

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 and we might enjoy what it really means to be a redeemed,

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 loved, restored people of God who are your family together.

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 And we pray this in Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 Great.

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 So we're going through this series,

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 basically a back-to-basics series,

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 looking at why do we do what we do.

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 And we've said that if you lose your why,

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 then the what of what you do can become dry and lose its life.

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 But when you know why you're doing what you do,

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 then actually that can reinvigorate and bring freshness and life

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 to the things that we do on a regular basis.

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 And we've looked at why we gather on Sundays.

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 Last week, Kevin looked at why do we always talk about the gospel?

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 And today we're going to talk about why do we take communion?

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 Now, kind of before I start,

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 it's worth noting that food and meals shape culture.

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 Because the British eat to live,

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 but the Hong Kongers live to eat.

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 Because actually Hong Kong's got it better,

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 more biblical than the British actually,

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 because food is more,

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 and meals are more than gaining nutrients for life.

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 They're actually about strengthening relationships,

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 about forming identities together.

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 They're a communal thing.

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 You know, I've always been incredibly amazed

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 at how my wife's extended family,

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 at festivals, they all get together,

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 and at these restaurants,

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 where the food quality is really poor,

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 the service is terrible,

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 and yet they love it.

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 And it's overpriced as well.

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 Why? Because what's happening

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 is it's strengthening their sense of being a family together.

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 And when families stop eating together,

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 that's always a sign of dysfunction

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 in their relationships, right?

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 We know that.

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 Because who you eat with

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 displays who you identify with.

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 It displays where your loyalty is

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 and where your allegiance is.

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 And so this passage,

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 let me just talk a little bit about

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 the context of the passage

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 that we're looking at today in Corinth.

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 Because in the ancient world,

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 the meal tables you had,

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 eating was a chance to network.

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 It was a chance to get into certain social circles.

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 A chance to get benefits.

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 You know, like in mainland,

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 if you want to get some business deals,

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 you'll eat together and drink together

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 and form guanxi, won't you?

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 To be able to form those relationships.

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 Well, the same would happen in ancient world.

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 And often meals would take place at pagan temples

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 where the food was devoted to idols.

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 And Paul has already talked about this

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 in the book of Corinthians

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 because their meals in the world around them

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 were often self-serving,

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 they were self-indulgent,

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 and they were idolatrous.

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 And in Corinth,

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 many of the new Christians

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 who'd come out of that

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 were bringing the same thinking

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 of the pagan world into the church.

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 And here was a church made up,

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 this house church of about 15

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 to maybe 50 people maximum,

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 made up of rich and poor

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 who would gather together

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 and be hosted in the home

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 of a wealthy person.

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 I think we might have a,

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 do we have a picture?

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 Okay, here's a picture.

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 Of a kind of home

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 that they found in Corinth

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 of a wealthy person.

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 And what would happen is

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 the rich people,

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 they didn't need to work

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 so they would come early

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 and they'd get seated

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 in the kind of seated area

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 and there'd be nice food,

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 that would be served to them

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 and there'd be free-flown wine.

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 And it was a great time,

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 it was a party for them,

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 catching up with all their

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 kind of wealthy friends.

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 And then the slaves

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 and the lower classes

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 would come later

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 because they got off work

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 and then there'd be nowhere

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 for them to sit

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 so they'd just be

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 standing room only.

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 There'd be no food left for them

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 so they'd be hungry.

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 And all the time

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 then they'd have

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 their worship gathering together

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 where they were talking

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 about Jesus,

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 praying about Jesus,

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 they were taking communion together

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 and Paul basically

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 lays into them,

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 he's got pretty strong language

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 in this passage,

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 and he says three times,

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 when you come together,

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 guys,

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 and that's a technical term

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 for when you meet

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 as a church,

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 when you gather together,

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 he says firstly,

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 you can go back

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 to that slide,

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 firstly,

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 you actually do more harm

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 than good.

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 It's not for better,

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 it's for worse.

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 Secondly,

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 he says,

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 it looks more like

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 Lan Kui Fong

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 than the church of God.

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 Your divisions

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 between the haves

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 and the have-nots

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 reflect more your loyalty

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 to the way the world operates

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 than to the people of God

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 that God has created.

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 And he said,

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 thirdly,

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 in light of those two things,

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 when you come together,

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 it's not the Lord's Supper

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 you're taking

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 because your own behavior

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 is despising

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 the very people

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 Christ died

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 to bring into his family.

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 And he says this,

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 he says,

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 for in eating,

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 each of you goes ahead

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 with his own meal.

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 One goes hungry,

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 the other gets drunk.

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 What?

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 I mean,

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 I like how Karen said it.

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 What?

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 Can you see,

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 he's not a happy bunny

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 at this point.

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 What?

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 Don't you have houses

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 to eat and drink in?

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 If you want to have

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 a private party,

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 do it in your own time.

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 Don't despise

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 the church of God

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 and humiliate

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 those who have nothing.

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 What's he saying?

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 He's saying,

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 it is possible

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 to make a mockery

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 out of communion

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 if you don't get

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 what it's all about.

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 That's the point.

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 It's possible

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 to make a mockery

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 out of communion

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 if you don't understand

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 what it's about.

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 And so what I want us to do

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 is just go through,

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 firstly,

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 what is communion?

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 Okay?

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 Very briefly.

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 And then we'll look at

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 why we take communion

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 and then how

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 we are to take communion.

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 Because in verses 23 to 26,

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 Paul basically goes

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 back to basics

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 and says,

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 okay,

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 let me show you

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 what communion is.

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 Let me take you back

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 to the first communion

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 Lord's Supper meal

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 that Jesus instituted

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 and he says,

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 I received from the Lord

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 what I delivered to you

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 and he's then going to go on

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 and tell us about the meal.

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 But what's he saying?

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 Just spin this phrase.

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 He's saying communion

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 is not a man-made ritual.

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 It's not like a shot of grace

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 that's just infused

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 into you in some way.

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 It is a practice

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 that is commanded by Jesus.

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 And if Jesus commanded it

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 to his church

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 to be handed down

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 from generation

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 to generation

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 of believers,

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 you've got to believe

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 that this is important.

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 And just as we depend

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 on food and drink

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 to live.

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 So what communion

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 is proclaiming?

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 It is a tangible,

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 tasted proclamation

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 declaring that our very lives

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 and our community life

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 is entirely dependent

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 on Jesus.

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 Entirely shaped

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 by Jesus' life,

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 his death,

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 and his resurrection.

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 It proclaims

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 the Lord's death

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 and that's a catch-all

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 for the gospel.

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 That's what communion is.

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 It's a proclamation.

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 It's a proclamation

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 of Jesus

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 and all that he is

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 and that we depend on him.

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 So why do we take communion?

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 Like, what's the big deal?

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 Okay, it's a bit of bread,

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 it's a bit of wine.

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 Well, the main reason

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 that he gives here

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 is to celebrate Jesus.

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 And we're going to unpack this

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 in a little bit.

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 But it's to celebrate Jesus.

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 Here's what he says.

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 The Lord Jesus,

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 on the night when he was betrayed,

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 took bread.

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 When he'd given thanks,

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 he broke it

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 and he said,

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 this is my body,

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 which is for you.

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 Do this in remembrance

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 of me.

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 In the same way,

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 he took the cup

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 after Sava,

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 saying,

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 this is the new covenant

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 in my blood.

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 Do this as often

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 as you drink it

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 in remembrance

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 of me.

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 You see,

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 the Corinthians

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 had made the whole meal

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 about themselves

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 and they were

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 the host of the meal.

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 Basically,

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 they did things their way.

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 But in the Lord's Supper,

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 Jesus is the host

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 of the meal.

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 And you notice in here,

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 who's doing all the action?

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 It's Jesus.

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 Jesus,

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 he gave thanks.

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 Jesus broke the bread.

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 He is the one

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 who offers himself

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 to us

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 in the bread

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 and wine.

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 You see,

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 it's personal.

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 It's not just abstract.

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 It's personal

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 from Jesus

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 to us,

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 to the original disciples

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 and then to us.

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 And so that means

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 how we respond

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 to communion

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 is how we respond

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 to Jesus.

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 And how do we respond?

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 Well, he says,

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 we're called

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 to do this

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 communion thing

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 in remembrance

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 of him.

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 Now,

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 that's a strange thing

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 to say,

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 in remembrance,

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 because in the Bible,

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 to forget

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 doesn't mean

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 to go,

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 like to forget

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 some information.

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 Go,

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 Jesus,

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 yeah,

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 that kind of name

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 rings a bell.

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 That's not what

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 forget means.

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 Forget means

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 you turn in your heart

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 away from God.

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 That's what it means

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 biblically.

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 And so then,

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 to remember Jesus

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 is not to go,

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 oh yeah,

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 Jesus,

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 he died for me.

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 It's actually

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 to recall his life,

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 his death,

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 and resurrection

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 for the purpose

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 of celebrating

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 and rekindling

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 your love for him.

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 You know,

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 I had an elderly

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 friend once

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 who,

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 she had this little

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 pendant with her,

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 you know,

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 around her neck,

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 which had her

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 and her husband's

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 picture in it.

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 And she would

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 take it out

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 and every time

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 she'd recall

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 the memories

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 of her and her

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 husband together.

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 And as she did,

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 you could see

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 her face

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 kind of light up.

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 And that remembrance

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 warmed her heart

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 to her husband

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 and his love

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 for her

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 and it actually

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 strengthened

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 their marriage bond

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 in some kind of way.

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 We know that

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 when you rehearse

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 with like an old friend

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 and you go back

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 over the stories

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 and something,

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 it just carries

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 that bond together.

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 Well,

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 in some kind

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 of similar way,

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 when we take communion,

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 what it's meant to do

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 as we intentionally

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 recall how Jesus

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 has loved us,

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 you know,

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 you're meant to

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 intentionally do that.

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 It's meant to warm

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 your heart

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 and strengthen

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 your love for him.

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 You know,

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 one of the things

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 I do,

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 often before I take communion,

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 I recall how

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 I was in a period

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 of real darkness

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 for about four years

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 of my life

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 and Jesus brought me

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 out of that.

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 And a lot of that

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 was because of

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 my own sinfulness.

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 And as I stop

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 and think about that

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 and I think,

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 but Jesus died

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 even for me,

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 that then

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 refreshes

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 and makes me

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 delight again

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 and say,

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 wow,

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 isn't Jesus'

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 love incredible?

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 That's what it's

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 meant to do for us.

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 Because in a world

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 of performance

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 and a world

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 of busyness,

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 we often forget

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 his love,

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 don't we?

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 So it's to remember

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 Jesus,

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 to celebrate him

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 and to enjoy him

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 again.

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 But how do we do that?

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 What else are we

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 trying to remember

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 about Jesus

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 and what he's

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 done for us?

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 Well,

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 there's three things

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 that I think

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 we are to celebrate.

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 Firstly,

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 we're to celebrate

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 that Jesus died

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 to set us free.

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 I don't know if you know

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 this meal.

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 Who did the Seder meal

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 on Easter Thursday

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 with us?

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 Okay,

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 a few of you.

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 Some of you need to go

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 back next year

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 and do it again.

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 It was a great time.

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 But actually,

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 we celebrated

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 that kind of Passover meal.

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 It's a Passover meal

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 that Jesus celebrated

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 on that Lord's Supper.

00:16:09.580 --> 00:16:10.600
 And that Passover meal

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 was a remembrance,

00:16:12.059 --> 00:16:12.759
 a recalling

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 of how God

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 had rescued

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 his people

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 out of slavery

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 in Egypt

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 and brought them

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 into the Promised Land.

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 And Jesus

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 and his disciples

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 on that evening,

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 they recounted

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 the Exodus story

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 and they would say

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 as part of that,

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 we were slaves

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 and God

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 brought us out.

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 And you go,

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 hey,

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 but you guys

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 weren't there.

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 Like,

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 this was like

00:16:36.500 --> 00:16:37.459
 1,500 years

00:16:37.459 --> 00:16:38.139
 before Jesus

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 and his disciples.

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 But they themselves,

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 as every Jew

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 since has always done,

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 they see themselves

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 in the story

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 of God's deliverance.

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 Not just a past story,

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 but it's a present story

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 for now.

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 It's their story

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 prayed out

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 in real time.

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 Which means this,

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 they would break

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 the bread

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 and they say,

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 this is the bread

00:17:00.580 --> 00:17:01.580
 of affliction.

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 All who are hungry

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 take and eat

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 and celebrate

00:17:04.619 --> 00:17:05.579
 God's deliverance

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 for us.

00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:08.920
 But what does Jesus do?

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 He breaks the bread.

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 He changes

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 the narrative.

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 He says,

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 this is

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 my body

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 which is broken

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 for you.

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 That you

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 is plural

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 by the way.

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 It's his people.

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 But as part

00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:28.539
 of his people,

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 it's also personal

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 for every single

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 one of us.

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 He's saying,

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 I died

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 to set you free.

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 I died

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 for your freedom.

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 That's not freedom

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 from Egypt.

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 It's not freedom

00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:41.240
 from life's difficult

00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:41.960
 circumstances.

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 It's not freedom

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 for you to do you.

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 It's freedom

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 from the cramped world

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 of living for yourself

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 and your own self-glory

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 and self-reliance

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 and focusing on yourself

00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:53.300
 and being set free

00:17:53.300 --> 00:17:54.700
 so that you can live

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 in the spacious place

00:17:56.120 --> 00:17:56.660
 which is living

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 for God's glory

00:17:57.680 --> 00:17:58.740
 and learning to love

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 others more than yourself

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 and to find that

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 there is true life

00:18:02.040 --> 00:18:02.780
 found in him

00:18:02.780 --> 00:18:04.280
 no matter what

00:18:04.280 --> 00:18:05.019
 the circumstances

00:18:05.019 --> 00:18:05.800
 you're going through.

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 And so when you

00:18:08.500 --> 00:18:09.480
 come to communion

00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:10.840
 and maybe you're feeling

00:18:10.840 --> 00:18:12.440
 like,

00:18:12.560 --> 00:18:14.280
 will I ever break free

00:18:14.280 --> 00:18:15.160
 of this anger

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 or this selfishness

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 or this lack

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 of self-control

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 or this habit

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 that has enslaved me?

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 When you take

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 those elements

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 you're proclaiming

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 one thing in that.

00:18:29.140 --> 00:18:30.140
 You're proclaiming

00:18:30.140 --> 00:18:32.460
 that Jesus died

00:18:32.460 --> 00:18:33.480
 to set me free

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 from all of these things

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 and he will set me free

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 because he's moving me

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 on a road to freedom

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 and I can trust him.

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 That's the first thing

00:18:42.779 --> 00:18:43.259
 that communion

00:18:43.259 --> 00:18:44.240
 reminds us on.

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 He's died to set us free.

00:18:46.019 --> 00:18:46.720
 The second thing

00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:47.980
 he tells us

00:18:47.980 --> 00:18:50.400
 we celebrate

00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:51.279
 that he made us

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 his own people.

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 I love this part

00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:54.839
 because if you get

00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:55.400
 the story

00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:56.120
 of what's going on

00:18:56.120 --> 00:18:57.120
 God didn't just

00:18:57.120 --> 00:18:57.819
 bring his people

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 out of Egypt

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 for them just to

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 kind of wander

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 by themselves

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 in the wilderness.

00:19:02.019 --> 00:19:03.440
 He rescues them

00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:04.259
 from slavery

00:19:04.259 --> 00:19:05.519
 to bring them

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 to himself

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 and then he takes

00:19:07.120 --> 00:19:08.259
 them to this mountain

00:19:08.259 --> 00:19:09.259
 Mount Sinai

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 where he enters

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 into a covenant

00:19:12.299 --> 00:19:13.319
 relationship

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 with the people

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 there.

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 It's like a marriage

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 ceremony

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 and if you remember

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 the Ten Commandments

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 they start with

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 you remember

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 the Lord your God

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 rescued you

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 out of the house

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 of slavery

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 and then you've got

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 actually about

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 613 commandments

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 that kind of come

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 as part of this

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 covenant

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 and then at the end

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 of it most of what

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 people don't realize

00:19:34.419 --> 00:19:35.700
 in Exodus 24

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 is it's actually

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 a kind of

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 a ratification

00:19:39.740 --> 00:19:40.500
 ceremony.

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 There's a ceremony

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 where Moses

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 sprinkles blood

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 on the people

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 which was a sign

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 that if they broke

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 the covenant

00:19:49.619 --> 00:19:50.459
 commands

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 then they should

00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:52.579
 pay for that

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 with their own blood.

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 And then what happens

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 it says the elders

00:19:57.480 --> 00:19:58.159
 went up

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 and it says

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 they beheld God

00:19:59.699 --> 00:20:00.759
 and they ate

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 and drank.

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 Do you see

00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:03.259
 what's happened?

00:20:03.379 --> 00:20:04.099
 They had a meal.

00:20:04.740 --> 00:20:05.799
 They celebrated

00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:07.059
 their new identity

00:20:07.059 --> 00:20:08.099
 that now

00:20:08.099 --> 00:20:09.019
 they were kind of

00:20:09.019 --> 00:20:10.559
 married as God's people

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 to the creator

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 of the universe

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 and God

00:20:13.899 --> 00:20:14.500
 is the host

00:20:14.500 --> 00:20:14.980
 of the meal.

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 I mean wouldn't

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 you love to be

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 a fly on the wall

00:20:16.740 --> 00:20:17.279
 of that meal

00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:17.599
 right?

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 I wonder what

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 he served.

00:20:23.500 --> 00:20:24.379
 But in light

00:20:24.379 --> 00:20:24.859
 of all that

00:20:24.859 --> 00:20:25.399
 background

00:20:25.399 --> 00:20:25.920
 Jesus

00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:27.039
 picks up

00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:27.619
 the cup

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 and he says

00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:30.339
 this cup

00:20:30.339 --> 00:20:31.879
 is the new

00:20:31.879 --> 00:20:32.339
 covenant

00:20:32.339 --> 00:20:34.579
 in my blood.

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 This is actually

00:20:36.940 --> 00:20:37.379
 amazing

00:20:37.380 --> 00:20:41.000
 because the entire

00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:41.800
 Old Testament

00:20:41.800 --> 00:20:43.240
 story is a tragedy

00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:44.680
 telling you

00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:45.940
 that the people

00:20:45.940 --> 00:20:46.460
 of God

00:20:46.460 --> 00:20:47.860
 broke his covenant

00:20:47.860 --> 00:20:48.760
 not just once

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 not just twice

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 but like every

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 almost all the time

00:20:51.520 --> 00:20:52.460
 constantly

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 time after time

00:20:54.760 --> 00:20:55.520
 they forgot

00:20:55.520 --> 00:20:56.340
 their God

00:20:56.340 --> 00:20:57.160
 they turned

00:20:57.160 --> 00:20:57.760
 to idols

00:20:57.760 --> 00:20:59.200
 and their blood

00:20:59.200 --> 00:20:59.800
 should have been

00:20:59.800 --> 00:21:01.080
 demanded from them

00:21:01.080 --> 00:21:02.080
 because that was

00:21:02.080 --> 00:21:02.600
 the deal

00:21:02.600 --> 00:21:03.340
 that would have

00:21:03.340 --> 00:21:03.860
 been fair

00:21:03.860 --> 00:21:04.360
 that would have

00:21:04.360 --> 00:21:05.020
 been justice

00:21:05.019 --> 00:21:05.559
 that God

00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:06.200
 would bring

00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:07.019
 and actually

00:21:07.019 --> 00:21:07.779
 the story

00:21:07.779 --> 00:21:08.339
 says we are

00:21:08.339 --> 00:21:09.079
 no different

00:21:09.079 --> 00:21:11.220
 but Jesus

00:21:11.220 --> 00:21:12.039
 is saying

00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:14.740
 to sinners

00:21:14.740 --> 00:21:15.500
 God doesn't

00:21:15.500 --> 00:21:16.319
 write us off

00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:17.680
 God doesn't

00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:18.319
 say that's it

00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:18.940
 you've had your

00:21:18.940 --> 00:21:19.299
 chance

00:21:19.299 --> 00:21:19.759
 I'm just going

00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:20.299
 to move on

00:21:20.299 --> 00:21:20.720
 now

00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:22.839
 our failure

00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:23.859
 reveals the

00:21:23.859 --> 00:21:24.700
 depths of

00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:26.200
 his faithfulness

00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:26.759
 to us

00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:28.240
 and what that

00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:28.759
 means is

00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:29.920
 he creates

00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:30.720
 a new

00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:31.240
 covenant

00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:33.259
 so that

00:21:33.259 --> 00:21:33.980
 you and

00:21:33.980 --> 00:21:34.639
 I and

00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:35.100
 we as

00:21:35.100 --> 00:21:35.540
 his people

00:21:35.540 --> 00:21:35.920
 can be

00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:36.640
 brought back

00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:37.420
 to himself

00:21:37.420 --> 00:21:38.400
 and in

00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:38.800
 the new

00:21:38.800 --> 00:21:39.200
 covenant

00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:40.040
 he places

00:21:40.040 --> 00:21:40.780
 his own

00:21:40.780 --> 00:21:41.480
 blood there

00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:42.220
 instead of

00:21:42.220 --> 00:21:42.500
 yours

00:21:42.500 --> 00:21:42.900
 that's why

00:21:42.900 --> 00:21:43.560
 he dies

00:21:43.560 --> 00:21:43.920
 on that

00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:44.380
 cross

00:21:44.380 --> 00:21:45.160
 his life

00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:45.720
 is poured

00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:46.060
 out

00:21:46.060 --> 00:21:46.620
 for the

00:21:46.620 --> 00:21:47.140
 forgiveness

00:21:47.140 --> 00:21:47.860
 of your

00:21:47.860 --> 00:21:48.440
 sins

00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:49.420
 that Jesus

00:21:49.420 --> 00:21:50.020
 paid it

00:21:50.020 --> 00:21:50.300
 all

00:21:50.300 --> 00:21:50.840
 all to

00:21:50.840 --> 00:21:51.060
 him

00:21:51.060 --> 00:21:51.540
 we owe

00:21:51.540 --> 00:21:51.980
 sin

00:21:51.980 --> 00:21:52.600
 your sin

00:21:52.600 --> 00:21:53.200
 my sin

00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:53.820
 had left

00:21:53.820 --> 00:21:54.440
 a crimson

00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:54.860
 stain

00:21:54.860 --> 00:21:55.380
 but he

00:21:55.380 --> 00:21:56.180
 washed it

00:21:56.180 --> 00:21:57.360
 white as

00:21:57.360 --> 00:21:57.860
 snow

00:21:57.860 --> 00:21:59.500
 and he's

00:21:59.500 --> 00:22:00.000
 made a new

00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:00.640
 way for us

00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:01.040
 to have this

00:22:01.040 --> 00:22:01.840
 marriage ceremony

00:22:01.840 --> 00:22:02.300
 with God

00:22:02.300 --> 00:22:02.620
 again

00:22:02.619 --> 00:22:04.339
 in deep

00:22:04.339 --> 00:22:05.199
 intimate

00:22:05.199 --> 00:22:06.000
 relationship

00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:06.359
 with God

00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:06.659
 do you know

00:22:06.659 --> 00:22:07.139
 God actually

00:22:07.139 --> 00:22:07.759
 wants a

00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:08.179
 relationship

00:22:08.179 --> 00:22:08.739
 with you

00:22:08.739 --> 00:22:10.239
 some of us

00:22:10.239 --> 00:22:10.719
 wonder

00:22:10.719 --> 00:22:12.839
 communion is

00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:13.139
 meant to

00:22:13.139 --> 00:22:14.000
 remind you

00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:15.219
 he's done

00:22:15.219 --> 00:22:16.039
 everything

00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:16.479
 that he's

00:22:16.479 --> 00:22:17.500
 he's running

00:22:17.500 --> 00:22:18.319
 to bring you

00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:18.799
 back to

00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:19.279
 himself

00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:22.299
 but here's

00:22:22.299 --> 00:22:22.679
 the thing

00:22:22.679 --> 00:22:24.259
 he died

00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:24.679
 to make

00:22:24.679 --> 00:22:25.139
 you own

00:22:25.139 --> 00:22:25.839
 but you

00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:26.719
 his own

00:22:26.719 --> 00:22:27.019
 but it's

00:22:27.019 --> 00:22:27.379
 not just

00:22:27.379 --> 00:22:27.679
 you

00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:28.440
 you and

00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:28.779
 Jesus

00:22:28.779 --> 00:22:29.160
 in a

00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:29.380
 kind of

00:22:29.380 --> 00:22:29.580
 little

00:22:29.580 --> 00:22:29.880
 love

00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:30.120
 in

00:22:30.120 --> 00:22:31.180
 okay

00:22:31.180 --> 00:22:31.779
 the

00:22:31.779 --> 00:22:32.440
 covenant

00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:33.380
 the new

00:22:33.380 --> 00:22:33.720
 covenant

00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:34.400
 isn't just

00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:34.720
 between

00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:35.060
 God

00:22:35.060 --> 00:22:35.620
 and you

00:22:35.620 --> 00:22:37.560
 the new

00:22:37.560 --> 00:22:38.019
 covenant

00:22:38.019 --> 00:22:38.539
 is between

00:22:38.539 --> 00:22:38.960
 God

00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:39.299
 and his

00:22:39.299 --> 00:22:39.860
 people

00:22:39.860 --> 00:22:43.100
 his

00:22:43.100 --> 00:22:43.560
 people

00:22:43.560 --> 00:22:45.400
 so

00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:46.039
 communion

00:22:46.039 --> 00:22:47.060
 proclaims

00:22:47.060 --> 00:22:47.620
 that Jesus

00:22:47.620 --> 00:22:48.140
 death

00:22:48.140 --> 00:22:48.980
 has broken

00:22:48.980 --> 00:22:49.440
 down

00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:50.220
 all the

00:22:50.220 --> 00:22:50.680
 social

00:22:50.680 --> 00:22:51.279
 all the

00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:51.860
 economic

00:22:51.860 --> 00:22:52.380
 all the

00:22:52.380 --> 00:22:52.779
 racial

00:22:52.779 --> 00:22:53.220
 all the

00:22:53.220 --> 00:22:53.880
 personality

00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:54.600
 divisions

00:22:54.600 --> 00:22:55.000
 that were

00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:55.240
 there

00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:55.380
 in

00:22:55.380 --> 00:22:56.220
 Corinth

00:22:56.220 --> 00:22:57.279
 and we

00:22:57.279 --> 00:22:57.660
 have

00:22:57.660 --> 00:22:57.920
 in

00:22:57.920 --> 00:22:58.200
 Hong

00:22:58.200 --> 00:22:58.519
 Kong

00:22:58.519 --> 00:22:58.839
 right

00:22:58.839 --> 00:22:59.120
 now

00:22:59.120 --> 00:22:59.500
 to

00:22:59.500 --> 00:23:00.059
 create

00:23:00.059 --> 00:23:00.480
 and to

00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:00.799
 bring

00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:01.039
 us

00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:01.380
 together

00:23:01.380 --> 00:23:01.620
 as

00:23:01.620 --> 00:23:01.799
 his

00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:02.259
 family

00:23:02.259 --> 00:23:03.140
 so your

00:23:03.140 --> 00:23:03.559
 worth

00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:04.400
 and value

00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:05.019
 in this

00:23:05.019 --> 00:23:05.579
 community

00:23:05.579 --> 00:23:06.200
 is not

00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:06.720
 determined

00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:07.380
 by your

00:23:07.380 --> 00:23:07.859
 titles

00:23:07.859 --> 00:23:08.200
 or your

00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:08.599
 status

00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:08.940
 or your

00:23:08.940 --> 00:23:09.500
 education

00:23:09.500 --> 00:23:09.819
 or your

00:23:09.819 --> 00:23:10.240
 clothing

00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:10.579
 or your

00:23:10.579 --> 00:23:11.059
 charisma

00:23:11.059 --> 00:23:11.539
 it's not

00:23:11.539 --> 00:23:11.900
 determined

00:23:11.900 --> 00:23:12.380
 by any

00:23:12.380 --> 00:23:12.720
 of that

00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:13.180
 it's only

00:23:13.180 --> 00:23:13.680
 determined

00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:14.259
 by one

00:23:14.259 --> 00:23:14.559
 thing

00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:14.880
 and one

00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:15.079
 thing

00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:15.440
 only

00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:15.980
 and that

00:23:15.980 --> 00:23:16.099
 is

00:23:16.099 --> 00:23:16.380
 Jesus

00:23:16.380 --> 00:23:16.779
 blood

00:23:16.779 --> 00:23:18.640
 we all

00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:18.940
 it's the

00:23:18.940 --> 00:23:19.600
 most democratic

00:23:19.600 --> 00:23:20.000
 thing in

00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:20.460
 the world

00:23:20.460 --> 00:23:21.220
 we all

00:23:21.220 --> 00:23:21.660
 come

00:23:21.660 --> 00:23:22.640
 leveled

00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:23.200
 on the

00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:23.500
 playing

00:23:23.500 --> 00:23:23.820
 field

00:23:23.820 --> 00:23:24.259
 because

00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:24.440
 there's

00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:24.880
 only one

00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:25.200
 way we

00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:25.580
 can come

00:23:25.580 --> 00:23:25.779
 it's

00:23:25.779 --> 00:23:25.940
 through

00:23:25.940 --> 00:23:26.320
 him

00:23:26.320 --> 00:23:30.759
 that's

00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:30.980
 actually

00:23:30.980 --> 00:23:31.320
 why you're

00:23:31.320 --> 00:23:31.759
 sitting next

00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:32.059
 to each

00:23:32.059 --> 00:23:32.240
 other

00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:32.500
 I don't

00:23:32.500 --> 00:23:32.660
 know if

00:23:32.660 --> 00:23:33.080
 you realize

00:23:33.080 --> 00:23:33.519
 that

00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:35.900
 because

00:23:35.900 --> 00:23:36.500
 communion

00:23:36.500 --> 00:23:38.160
 is like

00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:39.500
 a marriage

00:23:39.500 --> 00:23:40.160
 renewal

00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:40.860
 ceremony

00:23:40.860 --> 00:23:42.480
 it's like

00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:43.140
 a renewal

00:23:43.140 --> 00:23:43.660
 of your

00:23:43.660 --> 00:23:44.100
 marriage

00:23:44.100 --> 00:23:44.700
 vows

00:23:44.700 --> 00:23:45.799
 celebrating

00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:46.900
 how Jesus

00:23:46.900 --> 00:23:47.600
 has made

00:23:47.600 --> 00:23:48.320
 us his

00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:48.799
 own

00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:49.319
 people

00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:49.759
 again

00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:50.419
 we are

00:23:50.419 --> 00:23:50.659
 his

00:23:50.659 --> 00:23:51.179
 bride

00:23:51.179 --> 00:23:52.179
 he is

00:23:52.179 --> 00:23:52.339
 the

00:23:52.339 --> 00:23:52.720
 heavenly

00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:53.279
 husband

00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:56.099
 that's

00:23:56.099 --> 00:23:56.279
 actually

00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:56.619
 why you

00:23:56.619 --> 00:23:56.939
 can't

00:23:56.939 --> 00:23:57.139
 take

00:23:57.139 --> 00:23:57.480
 communion

00:23:57.480 --> 00:23:57.740
 by

00:23:57.740 --> 00:23:58.299
 yourself

00:23:58.299 --> 00:23:58.899
 that's

00:23:58.899 --> 00:23:59.039
 a

00:23:59.039 --> 00:23:59.500
 snack

00:23:59.500 --> 00:24:01.539
 because

00:24:01.539 --> 00:24:02.259
 communion

00:24:02.259 --> 00:24:02.839
 is a

00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:03.259
 family

00:24:03.259 --> 00:24:03.839
 meal

00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:06.259
 now can

00:24:06.259 --> 00:24:06.419
 I be

00:24:06.419 --> 00:24:06.779
 real

00:24:06.779 --> 00:24:07.179
 just for

00:24:07.179 --> 00:24:07.439
 a minute

00:24:07.439 --> 00:24:07.679
 here

00:24:07.679 --> 00:24:10.159
 I just

00:24:10.159 --> 00:24:10.559
 thought about

00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:10.939
 this quite

00:24:10.939 --> 00:24:11.720
 a bit

00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:12.099
 because

00:24:12.099 --> 00:24:12.859
 what I

00:24:12.859 --> 00:24:13.179
 think

00:24:13.179 --> 00:24:13.819
 most of

00:24:13.819 --> 00:24:14.119
 us at

00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:14.579
 Watermark

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 do

00:24:14.879 --> 00:24:15.539
 including

00:24:15.539 --> 00:24:16.019
 myself

00:24:16.019 --> 00:24:16.679
 at times

00:24:16.679 --> 00:24:17.879
 is when

00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:18.280
 we take

00:24:18.280 --> 00:24:18.600
 communion

00:24:18.600 --> 00:24:19.000
 we will

00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:19.320
 today

00:24:19.320 --> 00:24:20.380
 what we

00:24:20.380 --> 00:24:20.760
 do is

00:24:20.760 --> 00:24:21.100
 we'll

00:24:21.100 --> 00:24:21.340
 kind of

00:24:21.340 --> 00:24:21.820
 line up

00:24:21.820 --> 00:24:22.560
 like

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 no eye

00:24:23.520 --> 00:24:24.080
 contact

00:24:24.080 --> 00:24:24.920
 we kind

00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:25.180
 of look

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 forward

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 go and

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 get the

00:24:26.140 --> 00:24:26.540
 elements

00:24:26.540 --> 00:24:26.980
 go back

00:24:26.980 --> 00:24:27.560
 to my

00:24:27.560 --> 00:24:27.860
 seat

00:24:27.860 --> 00:24:28.100
 and it's

00:24:28.100 --> 00:24:28.440
 just me

00:24:28.440 --> 00:24:28.920
 and Jesus

00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:29.340
 in this

00:24:29.340 --> 00:24:29.760
 beautiful

00:24:29.760 --> 00:24:30.540
 kind of

00:24:30.540 --> 00:24:31.340
 communion

00:24:31.340 --> 00:24:32.000
 of one

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 how is

00:24:35.280 --> 00:24:35.640
 that a

00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:36.000
 communal

00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:36.400
 meal

00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:39.220
 that's

00:24:39.220 --> 00:24:40.320
 individualism

00:24:40.320 --> 00:24:41.940
 now there's

00:24:41.940 --> 00:24:42.440
 a moment

00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:42.820
 for you

00:24:42.820 --> 00:24:43.220
 and Jesus

00:24:43.220 --> 00:24:43.520
 and we'll

00:24:43.520 --> 00:24:43.920
 talk about

00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:44.280
 that in a

00:24:44.280 --> 00:24:44.440
 minute

00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:45.000
 but no

00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:45.580
 what you're

00:24:45.580 --> 00:24:46.360
 supposed to

00:24:46.360 --> 00:24:46.680
 do

00:24:46.680 --> 00:24:48.240
 is look

00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:49.059
 around you

00:24:49.059 --> 00:24:49.920
 you're

00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:50.580
 supposed to

00:24:50.580 --> 00:24:50.920
 look around

00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:51.279
 not just

00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:51.500
 in like

00:24:51.500 --> 00:24:51.860
 oh let me

00:24:51.860 --> 00:24:52.200
 find my

00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:52.559
 friends

00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:53.140
 but you're

00:24:53.140 --> 00:24:53.779
 supposed to

00:24:53.779 --> 00:24:54.360
 look around

00:24:54.360 --> 00:24:55.059
 and go

00:24:55.059 --> 00:24:55.720
 wow

00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:56.420
 isn't it

00:24:56.420 --> 00:24:56.980
 incredible

00:24:56.980 --> 00:24:57.900
 that I get

00:24:57.900 --> 00:24:58.460
 to sit

00:24:58.460 --> 00:24:59.000
 next to

00:24:59.000 --> 00:24:59.620
 this person

00:24:59.620 --> 00:25:00.000
 and that

00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:00.320
 person

00:25:00.320 --> 00:25:01.019
 they're in

00:25:01.019 --> 00:25:01.580
 the family

00:25:01.580 --> 00:25:02.100
 they're my

00:25:02.100 --> 00:25:02.660
 family

00:25:02.660 --> 00:25:03.860
 and you go

00:25:03.860 --> 00:25:04.400
 and you look

00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:05.080
 over and you

00:25:05.080 --> 00:25:05.440
 look at

00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:06.680
 he even

00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:07.279
 brought an

00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:08.240
 Australian like

00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:08.700
 Dan

00:25:08.700 --> 00:25:11.360
 into his

00:25:11.360 --> 00:25:11.779
 people

00:25:11.779 --> 00:25:12.279
 wow

00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:12.840
 isn't his

00:25:12.840 --> 00:25:13.259
 love way

00:25:13.259 --> 00:25:13.960
 more expansive

00:25:13.960 --> 00:25:14.599
 than mine

00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:16.440
 I don't know

00:25:16.440 --> 00:25:16.900
 why we always

00:25:16.900 --> 00:25:17.200
 pick on

00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:17.599
 Australians

00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:17.960
 I think

00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:18.279
 they've just

00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:18.700
 got thicker

00:25:18.700 --> 00:25:19.240
 skin than

00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:19.839
 everyone else

00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:20.099
 right

00:25:20.099 --> 00:25:22.759
 and communion

00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:23.480
 is meant to

00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:23.839
 not just

00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:24.680
 rekindle your

00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:25.079
 love for

00:25:25.079 --> 00:25:25.420
 Jesus

00:25:25.420 --> 00:25:26.079
 it's meant

00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:26.980
 to rekindle

00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:28.059
 the amazement

00:25:28.059 --> 00:25:28.680
 and your

00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:29.339
 love for his

00:25:29.339 --> 00:25:30.140
 church and his

00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:30.579
 people

00:25:30.579 --> 00:25:32.460
 did you know

00:25:32.460 --> 00:25:32.779
 that

00:25:32.779 --> 00:25:35.420
 that means

00:25:35.420 --> 00:25:35.819
 we need to

00:25:35.819 --> 00:25:36.599
 start thinking

00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:36.960
 and doing

00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:37.379
 communion

00:25:37.379 --> 00:25:38.019
 differently

00:25:38.019 --> 00:25:40.059
 in our

00:25:40.059 --> 00:25:40.500
 hearts and

00:25:40.500 --> 00:25:41.220
 our minds

00:25:41.220 --> 00:25:42.559
 hearts and

00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:43.120
 because we

00:25:43.120 --> 00:25:43.579
 are God's

00:25:43.579 --> 00:25:43.900
 covenant

00:25:43.900 --> 00:25:44.460
 people

00:25:44.460 --> 00:25:45.720
 together

00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:47.460
 so we

00:25:47.460 --> 00:25:47.940
 celebrate

00:25:47.940 --> 00:25:49.039
 that Jesus

00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:49.779
 died to set

00:25:49.779 --> 00:25:50.279
 us free

00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:51.259
 we celebrate

00:25:51.259 --> 00:25:52.380
 he died to

00:25:52.380 --> 00:25:53.140
 make us his

00:25:53.140 --> 00:25:54.259
 own people

00:25:54.259 --> 00:25:55.299
 thirdly

00:25:55.299 --> 00:25:56.720
 under why do

00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:57.279
 we celebrate

00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:58.279
 he died so

00:25:58.279 --> 00:25:59.319
 that we can

00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:00.000
 celebrate

00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:02.079
 that he is

00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:03.079
 also resurrected

00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:03.900
 and he's coming

00:26:03.900 --> 00:26:04.600
 again to

00:26:04.600 --> 00:26:05.279
 restore all

00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:05.839
 things

00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:07.699
 you see

00:26:07.699 --> 00:26:08.019
 he says

00:26:08.019 --> 00:26:08.339
 this in

00:26:08.339 --> 00:26:09.099
 verse 26

00:26:09.099 --> 00:26:09.480
 he says

00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:10.199
 as often

00:26:10.199 --> 00:26:11.379
 as you

00:26:11.379 --> 00:26:11.939
 eat this

00:26:11.939 --> 00:26:12.339
 bread

00:26:12.339 --> 00:26:13.240
 and drink

00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:13.799
 the cup

00:26:13.799 --> 00:26:15.099
 you proclaim

00:26:15.099 --> 00:26:16.119
 the Lord's

00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:16.579
 death

00:26:16.579 --> 00:26:18.419
 until he

00:26:18.419 --> 00:26:19.359
 comes

00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:22.439
 you know

00:26:22.439 --> 00:26:23.000
 in Corinth

00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:24.059
 in the Roman

00:26:24.059 --> 00:26:24.659
 Empire

00:26:24.659 --> 00:26:26.980
 many meal

00:26:26.980 --> 00:26:27.419
 tables

00:26:27.419 --> 00:26:28.459
 many gatherings

00:26:28.459 --> 00:26:29.179
 would at some

00:26:29.179 --> 00:26:30.019
 point have to

00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:30.859
 proclaim

00:26:30.859 --> 00:26:31.779
 Caesar

00:26:31.779 --> 00:26:32.339
 the Roman

00:26:32.339 --> 00:26:32.799
 Emperor

00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:33.480
 is Lord

00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:35.140
 when the

00:26:35.140 --> 00:26:35.559
 church

00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:36.000
 gathered

00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:36.599
 in their

00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:37.120
 homes

00:26:37.120 --> 00:26:38.000
 they were

00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:38.299
 doing

00:26:38.299 --> 00:26:38.759
 something

00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:39.220
 utterly

00:26:39.220 --> 00:26:40.180
 revolutionary

00:26:40.180 --> 00:26:41.299
 they were

00:26:41.299 --> 00:26:41.940
 proclaiming

00:26:41.940 --> 00:26:42.539
 Jesus was

00:26:42.539 --> 00:26:43.019
 a king

00:26:43.019 --> 00:26:43.339
 of a

00:26:43.339 --> 00:26:43.660
 different

00:26:43.660 --> 00:26:44.059
 kind

00:26:44.059 --> 00:26:44.200
 of

00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:44.539
 kingdom

00:26:44.539 --> 00:26:45.460
 and while

00:26:45.460 --> 00:26:46.019
 the world

00:26:46.019 --> 00:26:46.500
 might look

00:26:46.500 --> 00:26:46.779
 as if

00:26:46.779 --> 00:26:47.240
 it's ruled

00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:47.960
 by powerful

00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:48.519
 people

00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:49.400
 ultimately

00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:50.220
 they're all

00:26:50.220 --> 00:26:50.599
 under the

00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:51.079
 authority

00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:51.400
 of the

00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:51.740
 one who

00:26:51.740 --> 00:26:52.019
 is going

00:26:52.019 --> 00:26:52.400
 to come

00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:52.819
 back

00:26:52.819 --> 00:26:53.380
 the one

00:26:53.380 --> 00:26:53.680
 who is

00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:53.839
 going

00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:54.440
 to restore

00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:55.200
 and return

00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:56.019
 and rebuild

00:26:56.019 --> 00:26:56.680
 and bring

00:26:56.680 --> 00:26:57.000
 in his

00:26:57.000 --> 00:26:57.339
 kingdom

00:26:57.339 --> 00:27:00.019
 and so

00:27:00.019 --> 00:27:00.559
 for those

00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:00.900
 of us

00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:01.240
 who are

00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:01.740
 suffering

00:27:01.740 --> 00:27:02.360
 right now

00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:03.799
 maybe you're

00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:04.139
 hurting

00:27:04.139 --> 00:27:05.259
 maybe you're

00:27:05.259 --> 00:27:05.679
 lonely

00:27:05.679 --> 00:27:06.839
 maybe there's

00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:07.899
 just struggles

00:27:07.899 --> 00:27:08.339
 that you're

00:27:08.339 --> 00:27:08.879
 going through

00:27:08.879 --> 00:27:10.319
 for those

00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:10.579
 of us

00:27:10.579 --> 00:27:10.879
 who are

00:27:10.879 --> 00:27:11.599
 sojourners

00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:12.139
 like Kevin

00:27:12.139 --> 00:27:12.779
 talked about

00:27:12.779 --> 00:27:13.539
 you just

00:27:13.539 --> 00:27:14.199
 feel that

00:27:14.199 --> 00:27:14.559
 sense of

00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:15.059
 waiting

00:27:15.059 --> 00:27:15.519
 that sense

00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:16.259
 of restlessness

00:27:16.259 --> 00:27:16.719
 that sense

00:27:16.719 --> 00:27:17.559
 of uncertainty

00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:18.379
 with where

00:27:18.379 --> 00:27:18.859
 you are

00:27:18.859 --> 00:27:19.240
 right at

00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:19.679
 this time

00:27:19.679 --> 00:27:20.259
 in life

00:27:20.259 --> 00:27:21.199
 weighed

00:27:21.199 --> 00:27:21.659
 down by

00:27:21.659 --> 00:27:22.259
 the pressures

00:27:22.259 --> 00:27:22.619
 of the

00:27:22.619 --> 00:27:22.839
 world

00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:23.219
 around

00:27:23.219 --> 00:27:23.619
 you

00:27:23.619 --> 00:27:25.139
 communion

00:27:25.139 --> 00:27:26.319
 proclaims

00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:26.740
 that Jesus

00:27:26.740 --> 00:27:27.179
 has not

00:27:27.179 --> 00:27:28.419
 only inaugurated

00:27:28.419 --> 00:27:28.779
 a new

00:27:28.779 --> 00:27:29.139
 kingdom

00:27:29.139 --> 00:27:29.719
 but he's

00:27:29.719 --> 00:27:29.939
 going to

00:27:29.939 --> 00:27:30.439
 come in

00:27:30.439 --> 00:27:31.219
 to establish

00:27:31.219 --> 00:27:31.559
 it

00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:32.200
 and that

00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:32.740
 means your

00:27:32.740 --> 00:27:33.240
 future

00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:33.940
 is utterly

00:27:33.940 --> 00:27:34.500
 secure

00:27:34.500 --> 00:27:35.879
 that means

00:27:35.879 --> 00:27:36.500
 no believer

00:27:36.500 --> 00:27:36.960
 needs to

00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:37.259
 live with

00:27:37.259 --> 00:27:37.839
 FOMO

00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:38.220
 ever

00:27:38.220 --> 00:27:40.179
 because

00:27:40.179 --> 00:27:40.779
 Christ

00:27:40.779 --> 00:27:41.519
 has come

00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:42.039
 and you

00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:42.359
 and I

00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:43.299
 has come

00:27:43.299 --> 00:27:43.779
 and is

00:27:43.779 --> 00:27:44.259
 coming

00:27:44.259 --> 00:27:44.879
 and you

00:27:44.879 --> 00:27:45.179
 and I

00:27:45.179 --> 00:27:45.819
 are included

00:27:45.819 --> 00:27:46.279
 in that

00:27:46.279 --> 00:27:46.879
 and you

00:27:46.879 --> 00:27:47.399
 know in the

00:27:47.399 --> 00:27:47.879
 last book

00:27:47.879 --> 00:27:48.099
 of the

00:27:48.099 --> 00:27:48.379
 Bible

00:27:48.379 --> 00:27:48.659
 in the

00:27:48.659 --> 00:27:48.940
 book of

00:27:48.940 --> 00:27:49.440
 Revelation

00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:50.559
 what happens

00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:51.119
 to those

00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:51.480
 of us

00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:51.819
 who are

00:27:51.819 --> 00:27:52.240
 part of

00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:52.519
 God's

00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:52.819
 people

00:27:52.819 --> 00:27:53.359
 who have

00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:53.839
 trusted

00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:54.200
 him

00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:54.819
 through the

00:27:54.819 --> 00:27:55.240
 storms

00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:55.779
 of life

00:27:55.779 --> 00:27:56.240
 and have

00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:56.740
 held on

00:27:56.740 --> 00:27:57.220
 to Jesus

00:27:57.220 --> 00:27:57.799
 all through

00:27:57.799 --> 00:27:57.960
 it

00:27:57.960 --> 00:27:58.839
 what happens

00:27:58.839 --> 00:27:59.099
 in the

00:27:59.099 --> 00:27:59.480
 last book

00:27:59.480 --> 00:27:59.679
 of the

00:27:59.679 --> 00:28:00.000
 Bible

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:01.539
 there's a

00:28:01.539 --> 00:28:01.859
 meal

00:28:01.859 --> 00:28:03.599
 there's a

00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:04.359
 wedding banquet

00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:05.740
 that his

00:28:05.740 --> 00:28:06.400
 people

00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.220
 are finally

00:28:08.220 --> 00:28:09.259
 reunited with

00:28:09.259 --> 00:28:09.859
 their husband

00:28:09.859 --> 00:28:10.740
 Christ

00:28:10.740 --> 00:28:13.440
 because communion

00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:14.400
 is just a little

00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:15.859
 taste that this

00:28:15.859 --> 00:28:16.559
 is we're looking

00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:17.259
 forward it's like

00:28:17.259 --> 00:28:17.900
 the hors d'oeuvre

00:28:17.900 --> 00:28:18.720
 before the main

00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:19.759
 meal it's like

00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:20.200
 we're looking

00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:21.680
 forward to him

00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:23.019
 coming as our

00:28:23.019 --> 00:28:23.519
 husband and

00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:25.160
 restoring all

00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:25.820
 things

00:28:25.820 --> 00:28:30.100
 communion

00:28:30.100 --> 00:28:32.279
 celebrates that

00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:32.740
 he set us

00:28:32.740 --> 00:28:33.080
 free

00:28:33.080 --> 00:28:34.300
 it celebrates

00:28:34.300 --> 00:28:34.680
 that he's

00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:35.000
 made us

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:35.500
 his own

00:28:35.500 --> 00:28:35.980
 we're to

00:28:35.980 --> 00:28:36.660
 remember and

00:28:36.660 --> 00:28:37.360
 celebrate that

00:28:37.360 --> 00:28:37.820
 he's coming

00:28:37.820 --> 00:28:38.440
 again to

00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:39.160
 restore all

00:28:39.160 --> 00:28:39.700
 things

00:28:39.700 --> 00:28:42.060
 and so then

00:28:42.060 --> 00:28:42.480
 in the light

00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:42.840
 of all of

00:28:42.840 --> 00:28:43.480
 those things

00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:44.440
 in the light

00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:44.740
 of this

00:28:44.740 --> 00:28:45.820
 declaration

00:28:45.820 --> 00:28:46.279
 and this

00:28:46.279 --> 00:28:46.920
 proclamation

00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:47.460
 that we're

00:28:47.460 --> 00:28:47.880
 doing as

00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:48.279
 we take

00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:48.700
 communion

00:28:48.700 --> 00:28:51.820
 how should

00:28:51.820 --> 00:28:52.460
 we celebrate

00:28:52.460 --> 00:28:53.440
 how should

00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:53.840
 we take

00:28:53.840 --> 00:28:54.300
 communion

00:28:54.299 --> 00:28:56.200
 it's my

00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:57.519
 third thing

00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:01.680
 I remember

00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:02.839
 going to

00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:05.559
 Puyo

00:29:05.559 --> 00:29:06.700
 for the

00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:07.299
 first time

00:29:07.299 --> 00:29:09.099
 anyone been

00:29:09.099 --> 00:29:09.559
 to Puyo

00:29:09.559 --> 00:29:12.119
 and the

00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:12.500
 first time

00:29:12.500 --> 00:29:12.899
 I went

00:29:12.899 --> 00:29:14.180
 it was like

00:29:14.180 --> 00:29:14.480
 I was like

00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:15.139
 wow this is

00:29:15.139 --> 00:29:15.639
 amazing

00:29:15.639 --> 00:29:15.980
 there's just

00:29:15.980 --> 00:29:16.619
 the mountains

00:29:16.619 --> 00:29:17.180
 and there's

00:29:17.180 --> 00:29:17.839
 the beach

00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:18.079
 and it's

00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:18.919
 just incredible

00:29:18.919 --> 00:29:20.000
 and I spoke

00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:20.559
 to my friend

00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:21.000
 who lives

00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:21.259
 there

00:29:21.259 --> 00:29:23.519
 and I

00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:23.859
 said to

00:29:23.859 --> 00:29:23.940
 him

00:29:23.940 --> 00:29:24.240
 wow

00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:24.960
 you must

00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:25.599
 wake up

00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:26.140
 every morning

00:29:26.140 --> 00:29:26.519
 thinking

00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:27.180
 you're just

00:29:27.180 --> 00:29:27.519
 the most

00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:28.259
 luckiest

00:29:28.259 --> 00:29:29.039
 person alive

00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:29.759
 you're just

00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:30.559
 amazed

00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:30.859
 at just

00:29:30.859 --> 00:29:31.339
 living here

00:29:31.339 --> 00:29:31.900
 and he

00:29:31.900 --> 00:29:32.480
 turned around

00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:32.839
 to me

00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:33.079
 and he

00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:33.380
 said

00:29:33.380 --> 00:29:34.660
 huh

00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:36.559
 actually

00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:37.740
 I guess

00:29:37.740 --> 00:29:38.000
 I've just

00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:38.400
 got used

00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:38.799
 to it

00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:40.180
 because

00:29:40.180 --> 00:29:41.039
 you know

00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:41.480
 I've just

00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:42.000
 been here

00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:42.420
 so long

00:29:42.420 --> 00:29:42.700
 it's just

00:29:42.700 --> 00:29:43.460
 so familiar

00:29:43.460 --> 00:29:43.839
 with me

00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:44.299
 and actually

00:29:44.299 --> 00:29:45.460
 you reminding

00:29:45.460 --> 00:29:46.160
 me right now

00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:46.779
 actually is

00:29:46.779 --> 00:29:48.259
 really helpful

00:29:48.259 --> 00:29:48.839
 to remember

00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:49.279
 that actually

00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:49.779
 this is really

00:29:49.779 --> 00:29:50.160
 beautiful

00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:53.060
 because

00:29:53.060 --> 00:29:55.120
 familiarity

00:29:55.120 --> 00:29:56.000
 breeds

00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:56.680
 contempt

00:29:56.680 --> 00:29:57.140
 doesn't

00:29:57.140 --> 00:29:57.420
 it

00:29:57.420 --> 00:29:58.259
 sometimes

00:29:58.259 --> 00:30:00.660
 and I

00:30:00.660 --> 00:30:01.180
 think

00:30:01.180 --> 00:30:02.160
 and I

00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:02.660
 speak also

00:30:02.660 --> 00:30:03.279
 personally

00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:04.160
 but I

00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:04.519
 think for

00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:05.040
 many of

00:30:05.040 --> 00:30:05.360
 us

00:30:05.360 --> 00:30:06.660
 we can

00:30:06.660 --> 00:30:07.040
 be so

00:30:07.040 --> 00:30:07.660
 used to

00:30:07.660 --> 00:30:08.019
 taking

00:30:08.019 --> 00:30:08.519
 communion

00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:09.560
 that we've

00:30:09.560 --> 00:30:10.100
 lost the

00:30:10.100 --> 00:30:10.440
 wonder

00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:11.120
 of communion

00:30:11.120 --> 00:30:13.000
 I don't

00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:13.240
 know if you're

00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:13.900
 honest for a

00:30:13.900 --> 00:30:14.080
 minute

00:30:14.080 --> 00:30:14.940
 but I wonder

00:30:14.940 --> 00:30:15.640
 how many of you

00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:16.380
 actually look

00:30:16.380 --> 00:30:17.660
 forward to

00:30:17.660 --> 00:30:18.140
 coming and

00:30:18.140 --> 00:30:18.820
 taking communion

00:30:18.820 --> 00:30:20.560
 some of us

00:30:20.560 --> 00:30:20.840
 were going

00:30:20.840 --> 00:30:21.240
 oh let me

00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:21.960
 just hear the

00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:22.340
 sermon and

00:30:22.340 --> 00:30:22.940
 then we rush

00:30:22.940 --> 00:30:23.240
 out

00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:23.960
 and we don't

00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:25.700
 most of the

00:30:25.700 --> 00:30:26.640
 church's history

00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:28.040
 communion has

00:30:28.040 --> 00:30:29.060
 actually been the

00:30:29.060 --> 00:30:29.840
 center point of

00:30:29.840 --> 00:30:30.620
 the church gathering

00:30:30.620 --> 00:30:31.060
 I don't know if

00:30:31.060 --> 00:30:31.680
 you know that

00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:33.400
 the preaching is

00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:34.160
 meant to lead

00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:35.000
 you into

00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:35.440
 communion

00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:38.980
 but what that

00:30:38.980 --> 00:30:39.420
 means is

00:30:39.420 --> 00:30:39.900
 and I think

00:30:39.900 --> 00:30:40.860
 as a church

00:30:40.860 --> 00:30:41.220
 I mean I

00:30:41.220 --> 00:30:41.500
 think we

00:30:41.500 --> 00:30:42.360
 we can think

00:30:42.360 --> 00:30:42.820
 more about

00:30:42.820 --> 00:30:43.480
 how can we

00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:44.360
 change things

00:30:44.360 --> 00:30:44.840
 up to make

00:30:44.840 --> 00:30:45.600
 things fresher

00:30:45.600 --> 00:30:46.380
 I think there's

00:30:46.380 --> 00:30:46.700
 a lot of

00:30:46.700 --> 00:30:47.220
 things like that

00:30:47.220 --> 00:30:48.200
 just you know

00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:49.620
 taking just a

00:30:49.620 --> 00:30:50.160
 wafer and a

00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:51.180
 cracker you know

00:30:51.180 --> 00:30:51.940
 a cracker and a

00:30:51.940 --> 00:30:52.660
 juice it doesn't

00:30:52.660 --> 00:30:53.339
 feel like a

00:30:53.339 --> 00:30:54.039
 meal does it

00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:54.960
 doesn't even feel

00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:55.600
 like a starter

00:30:55.600 --> 00:30:57.299
 sometimes and so

00:30:57.299 --> 00:30:57.819
 there's we're

00:30:57.819 --> 00:30:58.480
 obviously fighting

00:30:58.480 --> 00:30:59.160
 against certain

00:30:59.160 --> 00:30:59.880
 things just because

00:30:59.880 --> 00:31:00.640
 we have to do it

00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:01.380
 because of the

00:31:01.380 --> 00:31:02.240
 the way you know

00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.480
 150 people we

00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:04.160
 can't have like a

00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:04.740
 full-blown meal

00:31:04.740 --> 00:31:05.319
 every Sunday

00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:08.140
 but in spite of

00:31:08.140 --> 00:31:11.039
 all that I think

00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:12.839
 we can still learn

00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:14.160
 how to love Jesus

00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:15.279
 more and appreciate

00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:16.600
 the wonder by not

00:31:16.599 --> 00:31:17.459
 just mindlessly

00:31:17.459 --> 00:31:18.039
 coming to

00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:18.859
 communion but

00:31:18.859 --> 00:31:19.480
 actually learning

00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:20.039
 how to have

00:31:20.039 --> 00:31:21.279
 reminders every

00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:22.079
 time we come so

00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:22.859
 this meal really

00:31:22.859 --> 00:31:23.559
 does what it's

00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:24.119
 meant to do in

00:31:24.119 --> 00:31:24.679
 our hearts and

00:31:24.679 --> 00:31:25.139
 our community

00:31:25.139 --> 00:31:28.559
 life and so

00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:29.179
 how should we

00:31:29.179 --> 00:31:29.919
 come and celebrate

00:31:29.919 --> 00:31:32.219
 communion I've got

00:31:32.219 --> 00:31:34.480
 two things first

00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:35.639
 thing we should

00:31:35.639 --> 00:31:36.299
 celebrate it

00:31:36.299 --> 00:31:37.919
 seriously not

00:31:37.919 --> 00:31:40.099
 flippantly okay

00:31:40.099 --> 00:31:41.419
 now listen to me

00:31:41.420 --> 00:31:43.180
 by seriously I

00:31:43.180 --> 00:31:44.539
 don't mean like

00:31:44.539 --> 00:31:46.039
 not smiling okay

00:31:46.039 --> 00:31:46.640
 I don't mean that

00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:47.700
 kind of seriously

00:31:47.700 --> 00:31:49.880
 okay I mean

00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:50.539
 there's there's

00:31:50.539 --> 00:31:51.120
 there's like a

00:31:51.120 --> 00:31:52.380
 weightiness to it

00:31:52.380 --> 00:31:53.180
 you know with your

00:31:53.180 --> 00:31:55.120
 wedding vows okay

00:31:55.120 --> 00:31:56.279
 even if the renewal

00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:56.740
 of your wedding

00:31:56.740 --> 00:31:58.100
 vows you you don't

00:31:58.100 --> 00:31:58.700
 just go in there

00:31:58.700 --> 00:31:59.560
 kind of lightly and

00:31:59.560 --> 00:32:00.539
 flippantly do you

00:32:00.539 --> 00:32:01.700
 do you go in there

00:32:01.700 --> 00:32:02.279
 with someone going

00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:03.240
 well do you take

00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:04.279
 this this woman to

00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:04.880
 be your wife and

00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:07.680
 you go well I guess

00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:08.039
 there aren't any

00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:08.820
 other better options

00:32:08.819 --> 00:32:10.339
 so why not right

00:32:10.339 --> 00:32:11.299
 that's not what you

00:32:11.299 --> 00:32:12.500
 do right you you

00:32:12.500 --> 00:32:13.659
 think about it you

00:32:13.659 --> 00:32:15.200
 prepare for it because

00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:16.279
 you know that that is

00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:18.819
 a serious moment and

00:32:18.819 --> 00:32:19.519
 you're declaring

00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:20.359
 something that is

00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:24.579
 serious and Paul says

00:32:24.579 --> 00:32:25.439
 here to the

00:32:25.439 --> 00:32:26.539
 Corinthians he says

00:32:26.539 --> 00:32:28.159
 in verse 27 whoever

00:32:28.159 --> 00:32:29.980
 eats the bread or

00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:31.039
 drinks the cup of the

00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:32.460
 Lord in an unworthy

00:32:32.460 --> 00:32:34.059
 manner will be guilty

00:32:34.059 --> 00:32:35.500
 concerning the body

00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:36.359
 and blood of the

00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:36.679
 Lord

00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:39.779
 do you know what

00:32:39.779 --> 00:32:40.840
 an unworthy manner

00:32:40.840 --> 00:32:44.420
 is it's it's when

00:32:44.420 --> 00:32:45.420
 you're treating Jesus

00:32:45.420 --> 00:32:46.880
 sacrifice so lightly

00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:49.000
 by the reality of

00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:50.299
 your life lived for

00:32:50.299 --> 00:32:51.940
 yourself in every

00:32:51.940 --> 00:32:52.840
 other area of your

00:32:52.840 --> 00:32:53.600
 life or you just

00:32:53.600 --> 00:32:54.779
 come and you are

00:32:54.779 --> 00:32:56.100
 treating his church

00:32:56.100 --> 00:32:57.039
 you're treating other

00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:58.799
 people with with the

00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.820
 contempt the

00:32:59.820 --> 00:33:00.680
 Corinthians were

00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:01.660
 treating others in

00:33:01.660 --> 00:33:04.140
 the church without

00:33:04.140 --> 00:33:05.320
 repentance without a

00:33:05.320 --> 00:33:06.440
 desire to change it

00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:07.240
 just kind of walking

00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:11.059
 in and that makes a

00:33:11.059 --> 00:33:12.259
 mockery of what

00:33:12.259 --> 00:33:13.259
 Christ died to

00:33:13.259 --> 00:33:16.600
 create you know you

00:33:16.600 --> 00:33:18.320
 you don't say all I

00:33:18.320 --> 00:33:19.460
 have is yours in your

00:33:19.460 --> 00:33:20.380
 wedding vow and then

00:33:20.380 --> 00:33:21.759
 just be treating your

00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.039
 spouse like like dirt

00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:25.460
 with no desire to

00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:26.120
 change without

00:33:26.120 --> 00:33:29.039
 consequences and God

00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:30.400
 says I will not be

00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.140
 mocked by my people

00:33:32.140 --> 00:33:37.340
 you're serious and he

00:33:37.340 --> 00:33:38.759
 ramps up the level a

00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:39.500
 little bit more and we

00:33:39.500 --> 00:33:41.600
 need to hear this he

00:33:41.600 --> 00:33:42.460
 says this he says

00:33:42.460 --> 00:33:44.300
 anyone who eats and

00:33:44.300 --> 00:33:45.860
 drinks without discerning

00:33:45.860 --> 00:33:47.800
 the body eats and

00:33:47.800 --> 00:33:49.220
 drinks judgment on

00:33:49.220 --> 00:33:51.160
 himself this is why

00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:52.520
 many of you are weak and

00:33:52.520 --> 00:33:54.620
 ill and some have died

00:33:54.620 --> 00:33:58.720
 just just listen to that

00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:00.380
 for a minute like let the

00:34:00.380 --> 00:34:01.820
 gravity of that sentence

00:34:01.820 --> 00:34:03.360
 just sink for a minute

00:34:03.360 --> 00:34:05.840
 he says you can drink

00:34:05.840 --> 00:34:07.960
 judgment on yourself and

00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:10.240
 some of you are sick and

00:34:10.240 --> 00:34:11.880
 you've even died because of

00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:12.180
 it

00:34:12.180 --> 00:34:16.460
 some of us actually today

00:34:16.460 --> 00:34:17.680
 you need to hear that

00:34:17.680 --> 00:34:22.059
 because maybe your career is

00:34:22.059 --> 00:34:24.840
 your God and you think you

00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:26.619
 can just kind of play around

00:34:26.619 --> 00:34:27.799
 with God in your own life

00:34:27.799 --> 00:34:28.839
 with Christ in your own

00:34:28.839 --> 00:34:31.400
 life and what he's saying

00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:32.960
 here and this is I mean I

00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:33.559
 was kind of a little

00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:34.699
 disturbed by this but this

00:34:34.699 --> 00:34:35.859
 is what he's saying he's

00:34:35.859 --> 00:34:38.239
 saying God is able to

00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:40.639
 devastate your career in

00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:42.619
 one instant he's able to

00:34:42.619 --> 00:34:44.019
 devastate the most precious

00:34:44.019 --> 00:34:45.219
 things that you are looking

00:34:45.219 --> 00:34:47.380
 to apart from Christ in one

00:34:47.380 --> 00:34:50.440
 instant not to be harsh but

00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:52.699
 to wake you up to avoid you

00:34:52.699 --> 00:34:54.500
 actually facing eternal

00:34:54.500 --> 00:34:57.079
 judgment in hell and so

00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:58.819
 that you can come in out of

00:34:58.819 --> 00:35:00.279
 slavery to self into the

00:35:00.279 --> 00:35:01.799
 freedom that he died for you

00:35:01.799 --> 00:35:04.879
 to bring you into it's

00:35:04.879 --> 00:35:06.339
 actually his grace that wants

00:35:06.339 --> 00:35:09.839
 to wake you up you know there

00:35:09.839 --> 00:35:11.359
 are people in watermark who I

00:35:11.359 --> 00:35:12.879
 know that have experienced

00:35:12.879 --> 00:35:15.079
 that and God is so grateful

00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:16.719
 they are so grateful that God

00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:19.460
 did that because they see how

00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:21.079
 where their life was going you

00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:22.099
 know you can say God can take

00:35:22.099 --> 00:35:23.779
 away your health he can take

00:35:23.779 --> 00:35:25.639
 away your relationships he can

00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:27.619
 even take away your life

00:35:27.619 --> 00:35:30.579
 there's a sense of a fear of

00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:33.179
 God here right and we talk

00:35:33.179 --> 00:35:34.759
 about the grace of God all the

00:35:34.759 --> 00:35:36.819
 time and we need to right but

00:35:36.819 --> 00:35:38.539
 sometimes I think we can take

00:35:38.539 --> 00:35:40.539
 that casually and we don't see

00:35:40.539 --> 00:35:42.420
 the fear of God and God's

00:35:42.420 --> 00:35:44.039
 disciplining judgment for those

00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:48.559
 who mock his grace and we mock

00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:52.320
 his grace when we just treat

00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:57.719
 him flippantly and by the way

00:35:57.719 --> 00:36:02.059
 let me put a caveat here don't

00:36:02.059 --> 00:36:03.579
 take this as if I've just said

00:36:03.579 --> 00:36:05.000
 hey you know if you take

00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:06.799
 communion today and then

00:36:06.799 --> 00:36:08.559
 tomorrow you get COVID that

00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:09.799
 that's kind of the judgment of

00:36:09.799 --> 00:36:11.460
 God has come on you and whatever

00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:13.000
 I mean it could be but I'm not

00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:14.119
 we're not going there because

00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:15.400
 this is a broken world and

00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:16.380
 there's there's different

00:36:16.380 --> 00:36:17.380
 things I mean we don't be

00:36:17.380 --> 00:36:20.079
 simplistic about that the point

00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:22.240
 here is that communion is a

00:36:22.240 --> 00:36:24.460
 health check to examine

00:36:24.460 --> 00:36:27.460
 yourself that's what Paul says

00:36:27.460 --> 00:36:29.380
 examine yourself so you discern

00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:31.740
 the body and by that he means

00:36:31.740 --> 00:36:33.980
 you discern the body of Christ's

00:36:33.980 --> 00:36:35.720
 broken few what Jesus has done

00:36:35.720 --> 00:36:39.140
 for you you think about his love

00:36:39.140 --> 00:36:41.140
 you ask yourself each time what

00:36:41.140 --> 00:36:44.119
 has Christ done for me how am I

00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:47.119
 treating him and then you think

00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:48.940
 about the body of Christ which is

00:36:48.940 --> 00:36:51.159
 his people and you go how are my

00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:52.940
 relationships how am I treating

00:36:52.940 --> 00:36:55.859
 the church around me this is what

00:36:55.859 --> 00:36:57.119
 communion is meant to do it's

00:36:57.119 --> 00:36:58.699
 meant to be like an ECG like a

00:36:58.699 --> 00:37:02.019
 heart monitor check you know Kevin

00:37:02.019 --> 00:37:04.779
 can share with me about an Anglican

00:37:04.779 --> 00:37:07.559
 church in Australia where I think

00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:08.900
 they said they take communion about

00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:11.199
 once a month or so but but before

00:37:11.199 --> 00:37:12.799
 they do that they message all the

00:37:12.799 --> 00:37:14.399
 members and they say hey listen

00:37:14.399 --> 00:37:15.239
 we're going to take communion

00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:16.199
 you've got to get all your

00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:17.759
 relationships in order as far as it

00:37:17.759 --> 00:37:19.119
 depends on you before you come

00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:22.119
 I wonder if we should actually do

00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:23.899
 something like that because then

00:37:23.899 --> 00:37:25.500
 you begin to see this actually means

00:37:25.500 --> 00:37:28.099
 something you know I've have you

00:37:28.099 --> 00:37:29.439
 ever been this I've done this where

00:37:29.439 --> 00:37:31.079
 you come to church and I've just

00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:32.919
 had a big fight with my spouse with

00:37:32.919 --> 00:37:35.079
 Fiona or you know you've you've got

00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:37.699
 issues with someone in your CG and

00:37:37.699 --> 00:37:40.059
 it's cold war and you come in and

00:37:40.059 --> 00:37:42.559
 you know like this and I'm right I'm

00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:43.759
 not gonna do anything and then it

00:37:43.759 --> 00:37:45.940
 comes to communion do you know for

00:37:45.940 --> 00:37:48.519
 me if I know communion is coming up

00:37:48.519 --> 00:37:52.500
 I'm going oh flip I've got to deal

00:37:52.500 --> 00:37:55.500
 with this I've got to either apologize

00:37:55.500 --> 00:37:57.299
 I've got to move towards that person

00:37:57.299 --> 00:37:59.880
 and I should never take communion if I

00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:01.759
 have not resolved in my heart to

00:38:01.759 --> 00:38:03.279
 actually move towards whether it's

00:38:03.279 --> 00:38:06.340
 broken relationships it doesn't mean

00:38:06.340 --> 00:38:08.380
 you have to fix everything but it

00:38:08.380 --> 00:38:10.780
 means where's your heart moving are

00:38:10.780 --> 00:38:12.420
 you coming in repentance to God are

00:38:12.420 --> 00:38:14.720
 you asking God to just work in you

00:38:14.720 --> 00:38:17.039
 are you resolving that I need to move

00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:20.539
 towards this because that's what

00:38:20.539 --> 00:38:23.960
 communion is to do and by the way if

00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:26.940
 you are a Christian not a Christian we

00:38:26.940 --> 00:38:29.660
 actually don't take communion not

00:38:29.660 --> 00:38:30.960
 because we're trying to be mean but

00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:32.180
 because we don't want you to be a

00:38:32.180 --> 00:38:34.099
 hypocrite and proclaim something in

00:38:34.099 --> 00:38:36.579
 your life that is not true of you we

00:38:36.579 --> 00:38:38.759
 want you to actually come and hear

00:38:38.759 --> 00:38:41.079
 about who Christ is so that you can

00:38:41.079 --> 00:38:42.900
 take communion and delight in all he

00:38:42.900 --> 00:38:47.259
 has done for us so we don't come

00:38:47.259 --> 00:38:50.259
 flippantly we take it seriously we

00:38:50.259 --> 00:38:52.679
 confess where we need to we confess

00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:54.579
 how am I treating the church around me

00:38:54.579 --> 00:38:56.980
 but then in the light of that we don't

00:38:56.980 --> 00:39:00.380
 stay at that point okay because you know

00:39:00.380 --> 00:39:02.320
 what happens straight after you've done

00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:05.940
 the wedding vows people don't go oh

00:39:05.940 --> 00:39:12.000
 they go right you celebrate the set

00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:14.400
 this the weightiness then transforms

00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:16.660
 into joy not a kind of guilt not a

00:39:16.660 --> 00:39:19.900
 not a somberness the idea is that you

00:39:19.900 --> 00:39:21.740
 know in some churches they call this

00:39:21.740 --> 00:39:23.740
 the Eucharist Eucharist means

00:39:23.740 --> 00:39:26.480
 Thanksgiving it's meant to overflow that

00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:29.400
 you know if we've examined ourselves and

00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:32.300
 if we've seen and brought our sin to

00:39:32.300 --> 00:39:34.920
 Christ then we can come confidently

00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:38.180
 here not because we have anything to

00:39:38.180 --> 00:39:40.539
 offer of ourselves but because we know

00:39:40.539 --> 00:39:42.380
 that we don't get judgment when we come

00:39:42.380 --> 00:39:46.800
 to Christ we get unending mercy because

00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:49.019
 this meal is for people who have not

00:39:49.019 --> 00:39:50.700
 got everything right this meal is for

00:39:50.700 --> 00:39:52.900
 people who are not adequate this meal

00:39:52.900 --> 00:39:55.480
 is for people who just have screwed up in

00:39:55.480 --> 00:40:01.240
 so many ways I mean just look around you

00:40:01.240 --> 00:40:07.780
 some of you look great others also look

00:40:07.780 --> 00:40:13.800
 great but you know if you've experienced

00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:15.300
 let me just say this is if you've

00:40:15.300 --> 00:40:17.059
 experienced hurt from someone in the

00:40:17.059 --> 00:40:20.880
 church what you can do sometimes is you

00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:25.079
 look around and you go how can they like

00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:26.480
 what right have they got to take you

00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:31.559
 meaning like you know don't you know what

00:40:31.559 --> 00:40:35.559
 they've done but if you've examined

00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:40.760
 yourself first you realize that somebody

00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:46.400
 else could say that of you and yet you are

00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:51.700
 invited by the host of the meal who is

00:40:51.700 --> 00:40:56.300
 Jesus himself because his blood was not

00:40:56.300 --> 00:40:57.840
 poured out for people who've done it all

00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:01.019
 well it's poured out for people who know

00:41:01.019 --> 00:41:02.900
 they haven't but know they need the grace

00:41:02.900 --> 00:41:05.720
 of a savior and when you come and

00:41:05.720 --> 00:41:09.000
 experience that you know that there is

00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:11.900
 freedom for you you know that you are his

00:41:11.900 --> 00:41:13.920
 and nothing can separate you from his love

00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:16.340
 you know that your future is secure with

00:41:16.340 --> 00:41:19.960
 him and you can celebrate Jesus and what

00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:24.700
 that does is that then leads you as you

00:41:24.700 --> 00:41:27.659
 look around and you look around the church

00:41:27.659 --> 00:41:33.440
 and you go wow what a bunch of sinners but

00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:36.500
 what a bunch of saints saved only by the

00:41:36.500 --> 00:41:38.880
 blood of Jesus and that looks meant to lead

00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:42.260
 you to love the church even more than you do

00:41:42.260 --> 00:41:46.000
 right now that's why we take communion

00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:46.840
 you