Friday, February 11, 2022

Sermons from Good News: communion

 

Church 2/5/2022


Sermon thesis: communion

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

It is important to receive holy communion with the right attitude.

Exploring the question: why would Jesus ask us to receive holy communion?

If we do it it will bless us and strengthen us.

To understand communion we need to understand the Passover meal.

Celebrating the Passover means remembering when God delivered the Israelites out of Egypt. Similarly, holy communion is to remember Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for our sins.

Point #1: Jesus gave thanks at the first communion.

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd. “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”

Point #2: Jesus knew His body would suffer

and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.

who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness— by whose stripes you were healed.

Point #3: Jesus knew the cup represented His blood

In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Point #4: communion is a great time to make adjustments

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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