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Welcome to City Harvest sermon Podcast. Coming up is a word from Pastor
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Bobby Chow this evening.
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This weekend is Holy Communion weekend. It's our first weekend of the month,
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so later, we are going to partake
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the Lord's Supper, the bread and the cup together.
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In today's sermon, I want to take
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this opportunity to talk about the Lord's Supper, Holy Communion.
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Amen. What really happens when we partake in communion together? Let's begin with the story on the
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road to emmaus in Luke 24.
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Now, this story takes place on the very first Easter Day, the day of Christ's resurrection, a day that should be filled with hope, joy, and new life. But yet, instead of rejoicing, you will find two disciples were walking away from Jerusalem, the place of God's presence. Now, their hearts were heavy with disappointment and discouragement. Now, church, perhaps this is also your experience. You are here in church tonight on the Lord's Day, but yet your heart is weighed down like the disciples. Economic uncertainty, maybe a sudden illness or a crushing disappointment has drained that joy and hope from your soul. Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, you are wondering, Lord, where are you? So let's look at the story in verse 13. Here it says. Now, that same day, two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. Now, as they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them, but they were kept from recognizing Him. Wow. The Lord himself was standing right beside the two disciples, walking with them, talking with them, but yet they didn't even recognize Him. They assumed that he was a fellow traveler on the road to Emmaus. Now, something the Bible says in verse 16 that something was keeping them from seeing the reality. Jesus was really there. He wasn't invisible or silent. It was not a vision or a dream. Their hearts even burned within them as he spoke. But yet they couldn't recognize Jesus, not until that evening. So look at what happened that evening in verse 29. Now, the two disciples urged Jesus, stay with us, for it is nearly evening, the day is almost over. So he went in to stay with them. Verse 30. When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him at the table. At the table. In the breaking of the bread, their eyes were open. In that moment, they realized that Jesus had been with them all along. Something happened at the table. Every conversation they had, every step they took on the journey. Every scripture that Jesus had opened to them, that stirring in their hearts, suddenly makes sense. At the table. It all came together in the breaking of bread at the table. That encounter with Jesus changed everything. Though it was already dark, it was at night immediately. The Bible says they rose at once and returned to Jerusalem. Not the next day, the same night. The same disciples who walked away disappointed now hurry back with new life, with new hope, back to Jerusalem to proclaim that the Lord has risen. Something happened at the table. You know what church? The Lord's table is where you encounter Jesus. The Lord's table is where we encounter Jesus. And as we commune with Jesus in His presence, he turns disappointment into hope, discouragement into joy, despair into faith. But some people, when they come to the Lord's table, they are seeking only healing, provision or breakthrough. They miss the one, the One in whom every blessing is found. They pursue the gifts of Christ rather than Christ himself. But you know what? At the table, Jesus does not merely offer his gifts to us. He offers himself to us. That's why Jesus said at the table in Matthew 26, he says, take it, this is my body. He offers himself not just some gifts. He says, drink from it, for this is my blood. He gave himself to us. The supreme gift of communion is not what Jesus gives, but Christ himself, His powerful presence. That is the supreme gift of the communion.
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Won't you give the Lord a big hand clap?
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Somebody shout hallelujah. Let's turn to Acts 20. Now, in Acts 20, Paul was at Troas. Now he was there ministering to the church. Now something interesting happened. Let's pick up the story in verse 7. On the first day of the week, the disciples came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and. And because he intended to leave the next day, kept talking until midnight. Hopefully not tonight. But notice what brought the disciples or the believers together. They did not gather because of a celebrity preacher, Apostle Paul. They didn't come primarily for a powerful sermon, although it was very long. They came together to break bread. It says on the first day of the week, the disciples came together to break bread. They came together to meet Jesus, to commune with him at the table. Then the gathering took an unexpected turn. While Paul was talking until midnight, look at verse nine. Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep. Okay, so turn to your neighbor. Tell your neighbour, don't sleep now. So he was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he Fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. Was there. But then look at the next verse. Next verse, verse 10. Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. Don't be alarmed, he said. He is alive. Wow. Eutychus was dead, but yet God used Paul to raise him to life. What a church service it must have been. If something like that happened in our service tonight, what would we do? Well, we probably erupt into praise and spend the rest of the night celebrating what God had done. But what did the Christian enthroas did in their joy and their thanksgiving? They went right back to the purpose of their gathering. The breaking of.
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Of bread.
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Look at the next verse. Next verse. Now notice this is after resurrection, after raising a man from dead who had just died. Verse 11, it says. Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. Wow. Because to them, the miracle of raising the dead was not the most important thing. The most important thing for them in a church service is to meet Jesus. Meeting Jesus was the most important, the most supreme gift of communion. No preaching, no matter how long or how impressive, no miracles, no matter how spectacular, could overshadow the Lord's promised presence at the breaking of bread. Church. Encountering Jesus and communion with Jesus is the primary purpose of why we gather here in City Harvest. Church. This is our supreme goal, to meet Jesus. Can someone shout Jesus City Harvest. This must be our story. Coming to church must never become a routine. Worship must not be just singing prayer must be more than words Preaching must not be just getting information or some inspiration time every time we gather. Our greatest desire must not be merely to get something from Jesus. But we are here to encounter Him. We are here to behold his glory. We are here to commune with our Savior, our Lord, Jesus Christ. Oh, won't you give the Lord a big hand clap tonight? Church. Somebody shout hallelujah. So how do we approach the presence of the Lord? How do we come to the table?
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This is what I want to walk with you tonight.
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Number one. Yield to the conviction of the spirit. Yield to the Spirit's conviction. You see, when Isaiah saw the Lord high and exalted, seated on a throne, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Isaiah 6. His first response was not to burst into a song of joy.
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Look at verse 5. Isaiah's first response was this Woe to me. I cried, I am ruined. For I am a man of unclean lips. I live among a people of unclean lips. And my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty. Now, in the presence of God's holiness, Isaiah became aware of who he truly was. The glory of the Lord's perfection exposed his imperfection. In the presence of Jesus, we become deeply aware of our shortcomings. But this is not a bad thing. It is a necessary thing. Because only those who see their sin will repent of it. Only those who recognize the weakness, their own weakness, will realize how desperately they need the Lord's grace. And those who see their impurity will long for the purity that only Christ can give. Just imagine. Just imagine. You have had a pain in your foot for weeks. You think it is just a sprain. But an X ray revealed a hairline fracture. Now, is that bad news? Yes, but it is also good news because what was hidden has now been revealed. And what is revealed can be healed. Imagine saying to the doctor, doctor, don't show me the X ray. Don't show me the X ray. But that wouldn't make the fracture disappear. It would only delay your healing. So when the Holy Spirit comes, that's what the Holy Spirit does. He lovingly reveals what is hidden in our hearts. Not to shame us, but to heal us. Not to condemn us, but to lead us into the presence of Jesus. Jesus said this, that the Holy Spirit will come and he will convict the world concerning sin. He opens our eyes to see what we could never see by our own self. And he draws us to Jesus, where we find forgiveness, repentance, and new life through faith. Now, so when the Holy Spirit convicts, and if today you were to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, don't resist him. Rather yield to him. Yield to the Spirit's conviction. Say, yes, Lord, I surrender. Have your way in me, Lord. Because his conviction is never meant to drive you away from the table. It is always an invitation to draw you closer to him. That brings me to point number two. You've got to examine your heart. Examine your heart in 1 Corinthians 11. Let's come to verse 27, Paul. Here he says, so then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. Now, examining ourselves is not about compiling a list of our sins. It's not God going through and list out all your sins that would keep you away from the Lord's table. No, it is not about questioning, am I good enough for God. It is not asking, am I worthy to come to the Lord's. Table because if that would be the requirement or the standard, none of us would have made it. We can't come to the table, but rather as we examine ourselves, we recognize our sins and then we run to Jesus at His table confessing our sins to Him. Notice the Scripture says examine yourself and then eat. Not examine yourself and then decide whether can you eat or not eat? No, Examine yourself and eat. That means Jesus wants you to come recognize your sins and if there are, you run to him at the table, you pour it out before the Lord and His precious blood cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:9 shall we read this great promise of the Bible together? 1 John 1:9 on the screen? Shall we read this together? 1, 2, 3. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. Amen. We can come boldly into God's holy presence by his precious blood. Isaiah 57:15 the Lord says this, I dwell in the high and holy place and I dwell with the one who has a contrite and humble spirit. Notice God wants to dwell with us. He welcome us those with a broken and contrite heart. Now the way into God's presence is
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the way of a broken and contrite heart.
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I often practice self examination by praying through the ten Commandments which I shared with you, allowing the word of God, allowing the the character of God to shine a searchlight into my heart, allowing the Holy Spirit to bring conviction into my soul. Commandment number one. You shall have no other gods, so I give God my affection. I will ask myself, have I gave God my affection? Is there anything I love more than the Lord? Number two. You shall not make for yourself a carved image. Give God my imagination. How about my imagination, my thought life? Are there impure thoughts I surrender to the Lord? Number three. Have I honoured God's name in my words and my actions? Self examination? Number four. Have I kept the Sabbath day and keep it holy, giving God my time? Is God still in my life's equation? Number five. Have I honoured my parents and treat others with respect? Number six. You shall not murder. Am I angry? Have I been patient with people? I allow the Holy Spirit to shine that light into my soul. Number seven. You shall not commit adultery. Have I kept purity in relationship with others? Number eight. You shall not steal. Am I honest with others? Number nine. You shall not bear false witness. Did I bet bite, gossip, lie, mockery? I will repent before the Lord. Number 10. You shall not covet Am I content? Is Jesus enough for me? Are there jealousy or envy or strife? Now if there are areas where I fall short, I would run to Jesus. I would pour my heart before him, confessing my sins to Him. Practicing self examination, yielding to the Holy Spirit. Allow the Holy Spirit to inscribe his law into my heart. Self examination. How should we approach the presence of the Lord? How do we come to the table number three?
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You must forgive others. Everybody say with me, forgive others.
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Turn to your neighbor. Tell your neighbour, please forgive me.
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Look at one John.
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One in one John, one John said this. We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with. And our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy complete. Now notice what John said. Fellowship or communion has two dimensions. Now, first there is a vertical dimension. It is our fellowship with the Father and the Son. But then there's a horizontal dimension. Now this is our fellowship with one another. And our fellowship with one another flows out of our fellowship with Christ. Because the more we feast on Christ, the more we commune with Christ, the more his love, his joy, his peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, faith flow out of our lives into the lives of our family members and others. And the more you practice love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, the more you imbibe in Christlikeness, you imbibe in the Lord Himself. In other words, communion with Christ is
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inseparable from communion with Christ, others with his people.
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That is why if we come to the Lord's table holding bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness towards your brother or your sister, it only damages this rhythm. It damages our relationship with one another. Because it flows from the vertical to. To the horizontal, from the horizontal back to the vertical, it hinders our communion with the Lord. So when we come to the table of communion, we cannot separate fellowship with Christ from fellowship with his body. Jesus said this clearly in his teaching on the Sermon on the mount. In Matthew 5, verse 23, Jesus said this. Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there, remember that your brother or sister has something against you. Leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them. Then come and offer your gift. Wow. So are you holding on to anger? Is there unresolved offense in your heart? Each week at the altar, we are to present our whole life to God as a living sacrifice. Our whole life. But if we cling on to bitterness and unforgiveness, and we Cannot let go. Instead of bringing them to the cross, we are holding back part of ourselves from the Lord. You are not pouring your entire life on the altar. Forgiveness is letting go. Forgiveness is letting go. What is going on in your heart? As such, every day we must pray. Forgive us our sins, for we also
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forgive everyone who sins against us. Several years ago, we had an overseas SOT student. Now she shared a hostel unit with three other much younger students.
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Now, due to differences in habits and lifestyle, there were frequent misunderstandings and tensions. Over time, the hurt she carried grew into anger and resentment.
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Eventually, she developed high blood pressure and hypertension.
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Because of this tension during worship, prayer and lesson time, this student found that. That they found it very difficult to concentrate, cannot focus anymore. Then one day while worshiping in class, that time we were using Jurong. Whereas before, while worshiping class, suddenly she collapsed, fainted halfway. During worship, we carried her to the back room. And then she was hyperventilating and we were calming her down. And she asked me, pastor, what's happening to me? I said to the sister, I said, sister, you need to forgive. Let go of all the hurt and anger. Let Jesus heal your heart.
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That Sunday when she was in service,
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she wept before the Lord, forgave all her housemates, and released the bitterness to the Lord. You know what? That same week, her blood pressure returned to normal and she was healed of hypertension just like that. The amazing thing is she was reconciled with her housemates and they became good friends. At the table. At the table. As we come to the table of the Lord today, as we come to
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the Lord's table, you must decide.
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You must decide.
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You must decide to forgive and to let go. Because your relationship, communion with the Lord, communion with one another.
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It is a flow, a rhythm, a flow of divine love. And if you hold on to bitterness
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and resentment, your communion with the Lord will be hindered. If you want to come and approach the presence of the Lord at the table, forgive others. Amen. Won't you give the Lord a big hand clap?
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Number four.
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Pray with expectation. Pray with expectation.
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You see, before Jesus broke bread, he
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prayed and gave thanks to the Father.
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Now we see this pattern throughout the Gospels. We see this happening at the feeding of the 5,000. In Matthew 14, we see this again in the feeding of the 4,000. And then on the road to Emmaus. We read the story earlier and most significantly, at the Last Supper. Look at Luke 22. Look at verse 19. Jesus took bread, gave thanks, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples. So when we come to the Lord's, table. As we pray, when you pray, as we come to church, when you come into his presence, when you pray, you are joining in Jesus prayer of thanksgiving to the Father. And his prayer is powerful. Five loaves, two fish fed 5,000. And together with Jesus, we often pray the Lord's Prayer because that was his prayer. Every time when we pray the Lord's Prayer, we are joining ourselves. We join, we participate in his prayer. And in his prayer, there are tremendous
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blessings that will be released.
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And in Matthew 6, 11, in the Lord's Prayer, it talks about the bread. Shall we read verse 11 together? Familiar verse together, 1, 2, 3, give us today our daily bread. Can we say it out, out loud? Three times louder together, 1, 2, 3, give us today our daily bread. Now this verse is rather interesting because why both today and daily, it's like, give us today already say today. Then you say, daily bread. Daily bread is today bread. So yeah, have you thought about this? Right. It says, give us today our daily bread. Now, when Jerome was translating the Bible to Latin, he found it difficult to translate it as today and daily. So in the Latin Bible, in the Latin vulgate, he rendered it this. Give us today our super substantial bread. Gave us today our super substantial bread. Alluding to the picture of Israel in wilderness. There was a daily bread. There was a special brand of bread, not bread talk, but called daily bread that comes from heaven, manna that comes from heaven, that is supernatural, that's beyond normal substance. And he said, give us today that kind of bread, super substantial bread. In other words, Jesus teaches us to pray not only for bread that sustains our body, but he's saying, when you pray, ask for bread from heaven. Ask for the bread that sustains your soul. Ask for the bread that can sustain you. Super substantial bread. So when we pray, so when we pray, we pray for both the physical provision and also the spiritual nourishment. Our daily bread is not merely food. For today that bread from heaven, Jesus says, it is me. I am the bread of life. I am that bread that comes from heaven. So he is saying this when you pray, give us today my daily bread. You are saying, give, give me Jesus. It is Jesus, the bread of life, who nourishes us at the table. It's about encountering the presence of Jesus himself. It is Jesus giving of himself to us, not the gifts. The gifts are wonderful, but it is Jesus. So every time when we pray the Lord's Prayer, we are not only asking
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God to meet our daily needs, we are asking God more of you, Jesus More of you, Lord Jesus. More of you, Lord, where are you? More of you, Lord. That is the cry of Matthew 6:11.
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And that is exactly how Paul prayed
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for for the church.
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Look at Ephesians, Ephesians 3:16.
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Paul said this.
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I pray. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through his spirit, that Christ may dwell in your heart. More of you, Jesus. He was praying for all the believers. In other words, this promise is for all. Turn to your neighbor. Tell your neighbor it's for you and for me. For you. For me. He prays that through the Holy Spirit they would experience Christ dwelling even more and more each day in their hearts a deeper reality.
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The real presence of Christ encountering Jesus at the table. And Jesus promised this in Luke 11, 9. Now this is right after he taught the Lord's Prayer in the Gospel of Luke, verse 9. Jesus said this.
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So I say to you, ask and
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it will be given to you.
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Seek and you will find.
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Knock and the door will be open to you. Church, you know what? Your healing will come. Your provision will come. Your breakthrough will come.
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There is power in prayer. Not because our prayers are powerful in themselves, but because the God to whom we pray is all powerful and at the table, He Himself gave Him Himself to us. And in his presence, healing will come. He is Jehovah Rapha, the Lord, our healer. In his presence, the provision will come because he's Jehovah Jireh, the Lord, our provider. In his presence, the breakthrough will come because he is Jehovah Nisi, the Lord, our banner. The presence of Jesus is the reason
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why we gather for church service. Won't you give Jesus a big hand?
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Clap somebody. Shout Hallelujah.
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Finally, number five. How do we come into his presence?
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How do we approach the table?
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Number five.
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Receive by faith.
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Receive by faith.
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You see, when Jesus broke bread, he not only prayed and gave thanks to
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the Father, he also spoke words of blessing.
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He spoke blessings. And when Jesus speaks his blessings, powerful things happened. Remember, he broke bread, the five loaves and two fish. He spoke his blessings, five loaves and two fish. And they fed 5,000 men. Besides the women and the children. Not only was everyone satisfied, the Bible says there were 12 baskets of leftovers. He spoke blessings at the table. At the wedding in Canaan. So he had the bread, he had the wine. At the wedding in Canaan, the host ran out of wine. Jesus simply spoke and water was turned into wine. And not just any wine. But the best wine. Something always happened when he speaks. Then a royal official came begging Jesus to heal his son. In John 4. I want you to see this powerful scripture here. John 4:49, the royal official said, sir, come down before my child dies. Verse 50, Go. Jesus replied, your son will leave. Look at the next sentence. The man took Jesus at his word and departed. The man took Jesus at His word and departed. And. And the exact hour his son was healed.
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There is power in his blessing.
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Jesus word not only heals, not only multiplies. His word even gives life to the dead. Later, in John 11, you read of the story of Lazarus. Lazarus was already dead for four days. The Bible says his body decayed. But yet, look at verse 43. Jesus called in a loud voice, lazarus, come out. And the dead man came out alive, came out alive by his spoken blessing.
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Then in the upper room, at the Last Supper, at the Last Supper, Jesus took the bread and took the wine.
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And he spoke these words into the bread and wine. He said, this is my body, this is my blood. What was he doing? He joins the bread and the wine with his words. He promised us that every time we partake of the bread and the wine and the cup, he will be present. Because this is me. I will be there.
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My body and my blood, I will be there.
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It is a blessing.
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He gave us church. He gave us his blessing that each time when we come to the table,
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he will be dead. And when you receive it by faith, I say, I believe, Lord. In his presence, sickness gives way to healing. In his presence, mourning turns to dancing. In his presence, sorrow turns, becomes joy. In his presence, even what seems dead
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can come alive again.
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Every spiritual blessing is available at the Lord's table because Jesus Himself, the source
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of every blessing, meets us there and feeds us with his life, the bread and the wine. So in conclusion, Church, each week when we gather for a service like that, don't take it for granted. Our focus is not to get something out of the service. We are here to meet Jesus.
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Even when there's spectacular miracles that's happening. Don't lose the focus when someone rises from the dead. Just get up, go up to the table, take the bread, go back to the purpose.
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Focus on Jesus. We are here to meet Jesus rather than being distracted. Come to the table to encounter his presence. Come to the table and commune with Him. This is why we do church. This is why we gather every week to meet with our Lord Jesus Christ. Give me Jesus. More of you, Jesus. So how do we approach the presence of the Lord? How do we come to the table? Five things I shared with you. Number one, yield to the Spirit's conviction. Number two, examine your heart. Number three, forgive others. Four, pray with expectation. Number five, receive by faith. I can sense God's presence here because we are coming around the table right now, right here, right now, on your seat. There's an element. I want you to take the cup and the bread in your hand. Give me Jesus. Jesus said, this is my body, this is my blood. He promised to be here. If you believe in Jesus, no matter how far you have fallen away tonight, run back to the table. Come back to the table. Examining our heart. It's not to hinder us. It's not a barrier to stop us from coming to the table. It's to highlight what's going on so that we can come back and entrust ourselves into the loving arms of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Shall we declare the Apostles Creed together? And let's declare our faith in our Lord together, in unison. Let's say I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. Born of the Virgin Mary, he suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried.
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He descended to the dead. On the third day, he rose again.
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He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of the saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen. I want you to close your eyes. Won't you say this together with me? Jesus, I'm here to look for you. I'm here to meet you more of you. Lord, As the Lord taught the disciples to pray. Shall we say the Lord's Prayer together tonight? Together? Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins as we forgive others who have sinned against us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. I want you to take a moment, close your eyes and examine your heart. Let the Holy Spirit shine his light into your deepest thoughts. Search my heart, O God, and see if there's any offensive ways, any wicked ways.
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See if there's any.
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Anything that's out of line. And if there are areas that you have sinned against God
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in any way,
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would you confess them right now? Tell the Lord Forgive me Lord I'm here for your Jesus. Jesus, I surrender. I surrender my all to youo. Cleanse me, purify me Surrender every anger and bitterness. If there's someone that you need to forgive won't you tell the Lord right now? Lord, I forgive this person. Help me Lord Give me the grace to love. Today. If you are sick in your body Jesus is here in his presence there is healing if you're anxious and worried won't you give him all your fears he's your Prince of peace. Lord tonight we have come Lord that's why we come every week Jesus that's why we come every week we sing praise, we worship we stay through the preaching of your word Lord, to look for you Jesus to look for you. So here we are sitting at your table. Thank youk for your promise. Thank youk for the bread. Thank youk for the cup.
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Thank youk, Jesus,
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For giving us yous presence. Thank youk for giving us yourself. Tonight we receive by faith. Tonight we commune with you in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Friends, the night in which the Lord Jesus was betrayed, he took the 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. Won't we shall we all partake of the bread together. In the same manner Jesus took the cup and say, this cup is the
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new covenant in My blood.
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As often as you drink it, do this in remembrance of me. Brothers and sisters, the blood of Jesus was shed for you want to drink it all in. Drink it all in.
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We hope you've been blessed by the message.
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