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Matthew 26 Today we're going to be receiving communion as a church. And this. This has been a beautiful weekend. I'm sitting. I don't normally sit, but I'm preaching all five services this weekend and I'm tired. Amen. So I'm gonna sit, but if I get fired up, I'm gonna stand. And if I stand, you gotta stand with me. All right? And we'll have a little bit of church. Matthew 26 Also, I just want to say this real quick. Please be praying for us tonight. My wife and daughter and I will get on a flight at 11pm to Singapore. We'll be preaching for our dear friend and mentor, Pastor Joseph Prince. And it's going to be a beautiful time. I'll be preaching there Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, so pray for us if you think about us. Matthew 26 While they were eating, Joseph took bread. Jesus. Excuse me, think about Joseph. Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, take and eat, this is my body. Take and eat, this is my body. Then he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, drink. Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant. This is his covenant. This is his blood. This is his meal. This is his, which is poured out for you. Poured out for many. This is his covenant. Poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus said, take and eat. I want to preach about, don't forget to eat. Don't forget to eat. Elbow your neighbor. Tell them, don't forget to eat. Come on, tell them, don't forget to eat. Speak, Lord, we're listening. In Jesus name, everybody said, amen, Amen and Amen. The most repeated command in the Old Testament, the most repeated command from Genesis to Malachi is to remember or do not forget. Over and over and over again, God says, remember. Over and over and over again, God says, do not forget it. It's the most repeated command that you will find in the Bible. Remember the Lord. Do not forget the Lord. Do not forget what he's done. Remember, remember, remember. Do not forget. Because God knows that your faith for today and your faith for the future is going to be tied to what he's already done in your life that they overcame by their testimony. So God knows that if you forget your testimony that your memory is going to affect what you're able to receive from God in your future. Psalm 78, verse 41. Yes, again and again they tempted God. Now watch this. And they limited the Holy One of Israel, how do you limit the unlimited God? How do you limit the everlasting God? How do you limit the God that does not need us? How do you. How do you limit God? Well, I'm going to tell you how. Verse 42. They did not remember his power. So when I forget what he's done, I limit his power. For today. They forgot the day when he redeemed them from the enemy. They forgot their testimony. They forgot their salvation. They forgot the work of God in their life. They forgot the day that Jesus pulled them up out of the pit, place their feet on the rock. They did not remember his power. And every time that I forget the Lord, I limit what he can do in my future. In Mark, chapter six, Jesus is feeding the 5,000. The Bible said that he took two pieces of bread and, excuse me, two pieces of fish and five loaves. And he fed 5,000 men, not including women and children. So somewhere around 20,000 people were fed. Fed by this little boy's lunch. After he feeds them, the disciples get on the boat. And as they're going out into the water, the scripture said that a great storm hit, that there was wind and there was waves. The disciples are fearful. They say, we're going to die. It's over. Where is God? Jesus calms the storm and he rebukes his disciples. And he said, where is your faith? And now Mark is going to tell us how they lost their Faith. Mark, chapter 6, verse 52. For they had not learned the lesson taught by the loaves. Within every miracle is a lesson. Within every miracle is a message. Within every work of God in your life is a sermon. Within every miracle that God does is a prophecy. And if you don't learn what God has done, you will. You will not have the faith for what God is doing. And you go, well, what does bread have to do with wind? And what does fish have to do with rain? And what does God multiplying bread have to do with the calming of the storm? God is trying to teach you something. That if I've ever done anything for you, I can do anything for you. Don't make me stand. I just started preaching. If I've ever done one thing, I can do another thing. If you've ever seen God work in any way in. Oh, man, I'm about to. If God's ever done anything for you, you can believe him for what he's about to do. So when I'm facing the devil, when I'm facing sickness, when I'm facing this mountain, when I'm facing Discouragement. I've got to reach back and I've got to pull from my memory what God has already done in my life and go. God, if you did it once. All right, I got. I still gotta preach three more times, but if he's ever done it once, he can do it again. Don't forget to eat. High five. Your neighbor say, don't forget to eat. All right, relax. So remembering means learning the lessons of God's miracle working power. Communion is this sacred moment that we pause and reflect and remember what Jesus has done for us. Take and eat. Take and eat. This is his covenant, not ours. Salvation, the psalmist said, is of the Lord. You don't save yourself. It wasn't even your idea. Even for you who are like, yeah, you know, we probably need to get back in church. We probably need the Lord. That wasn't you. Dumb, dumb. That was a praying mama, that was a praying father, that was a praying friend, that was a praying preacher. And that was the work of the Holy Spirit, saying, wake up, wake up, wake up. Grace sets the table. Faith eats. Grace provides. Faith receives. Grace makes, Faith takes. It's his covenant. It's his idea. It's his body, it's his blood. Take and eat. This is the power of the gospel, that this is God's covenant. Meal that heals, that restores, that brings provision. Receive it, enjoy it. Eat. Eat. There is plenty of food at the master's table. Eat. And in communion, we remember that Jesus died for our sins, that he rose from the grave on the third day, and that he will one day come again. First Corinthians, chapter 11, verse 23. Paul is now going back to what Jesus said in the scripture that we just read. For I received from the Lord on that day which I now deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the same night that he was betrayed, took bread. So this is what tradition calls Maundy Thursday. It's the Thursday before Good Friday. It's the night before the crucifixion. And when he had given thanks, he broke it. And he said, take, eat, for this is my body broken. For you. Do this in remembrance of me. Remember me. Remember me. In the same manner, he took also the cup after supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it. In remem, remember, remember me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes. By the way, as often as you eat and drink, you can do this whenever you want. You don't need a pastor or a priest or a minister to administer communion to you. You are a kingdom of priests and at your home. And many of you need to start doing this at home. You need to take some kind of bread and some kind of drink. It could literally be bread and water. It could be whatever you need it to be. And you need to have moments where you worship the Lord and you receive of his bread and you drink of his cup. You eat of the body and drink of the blood, and you receive forgiveness and healing. And you remember what God has done for you. Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup. Now watch this. An unworthy manner will be guilty of the but of the blood and the body of the Lord. Now, unworthy means you don't treat it as sacred. It's just, you know, it's just tradition. It's just. Okay, here we go. Now, you've got to treat this as sacred and holy and beautiful. Now watch this. You treat the body in the blood as worthy, not yourself. Some people go, oh, man, I've got sin in my life. I can't take communion. No, that's why you need to take communion. Oh, man, I cussed on the way to church. I can't. No. Repent and no, you need to do this. But if you treat the. It's not about your worth. It's not about your worthiness, not about how good you've been this week. It's about the worthiness of the bread and of the cup. It's about reminding yourself that this is sacred and beautiful. It's from God. But let a man examine himself. Which means you take time in communion to repent of your sin, to ask God to forgive you, to Lord, if there's anything in me, get it out of me. For every sin that I know about, I repent. For every sin that I don't know about, Lord, cleanse me for the sins of commission and omission. For the things that I know I'm doing, I don't even know I'm doing. For the hardness of my own heart. Lord, I May the words of my mouth, the meditation of my heart, be pleasing to you. O God of Jacob, give me clean hands and a pure heart. May I not lift up my soul to an idol that I may ascend the hill of the Lord. If you confess your sins to God first, John 1:9, he will be faithful and just to forgive you of your sin, cleanse you of all unrighteousness. You take a moment of communion to repent. And so let him eat the bread and drink the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner. Again, you're not treating this as worthy. What? Now, let me just context real quick. The reason Paul is being so aggressive here is because in their day, this was not just a piece of bread and a drink of juice. This was a community meal where the people would eat together. Communion is about the union of the body of Christ eating. And they would eat a meal and they would drink the wine. And Paul was saying, y' all are getting in gluttony. You're getting drunk. Some people are having two and three plates of food, while other people didn't even get any food. And he goes, you're treating this like a Las Vegas buffet when this is sacred. And so Paul says, you're eating this in an unworthy manner. You're not treating this as beautiful. And what's happening is because you're not discerning the Lord's body. In other words, you're not seeing Jesus in this. You're actually heaping up judgment for yourself. And it's for this reason that many are even weak and sick among you. And many sleep. That word sleep there literally means die. Here's. I'm not saying that if that God makes you sick or that God kills you. I don't. I don't believe that. And I don't see that in Scripture. Here's what I do believe. I believe Paul is saying this. You're missing out on the meal that heals. You're limiting the Holy One of Israel. You're limiting what God could actually do in communion. That you could actually be healed in the communion, that you could be forgiven in the communion, that you could actually have a moment where you receive from the Lord. But instead you're just treating it as a sleep. And it's made you spiritually and even physically weak and sick. And you're. And. And there's actually this blessing that could come to you in communion. And I believe, by the way, today I believe people will be healed today as we receive communion. I believe people who are weak are going to be strengthened today. I believe the plan of the enemy to bring premature death to your life is going to be broken by the meal that heals as we treat the communion in a worthy way. So here's what I remember. I said, don't forget to eat. Here's what we remember in communion number one. We remember that we are forgiven. We are forgiven of our sin. That for all who are in Christ, you are Forgiven. How did Jesus forgive you? 1st Corinthians 15:3. Christ died for our sins. Christ died for our sins. That on the middle tree, the middle cross, Jesus died for us. Jesus died because of us. Jesus died as us. Jesus died in our place. Took on the judgment that we deserved so that we could be free. He. He did it on the middle tree. Galatians 3 says that he hung on the tree and was cursed. On the tree. On the tree. On the middle tree. That reminds me of another tree that was in the middle. The Bible said in Genesis that there was a tree called the Knowledge of Good and Evil that was in the middle, in the midst of the garden. And it was there that Adam and Eve committed high treason against God. They rebelled against God. They rejected God. And they. God said, if you eat of that tree in the middle of the garden, you die. And that day they died. Not physically, but spiritually. And in the tree in the middle of the garden, death began. And now a new tree in the middle of two thieves. Jesus the second Adam. Paul called him in Romans. The second Adam now dies for us. Adam and Eve died because of their sin. But now Jesus would die because of our sin. And he pays. The ultimate price for the wages of sin is death. The payment of sin is death. The paycheck you get for sinning is death. I just want you to notice that anything that involves wages and death is not from God. Some of you are here today. You're here to pay a debt. You're here to please the man upstairs. It's been a tough week. I better get to church. I better slip a 10 in those boxes on my way out. He's not Tony Soprano. You're not paying him off. This is not the Godfather. Anything that has to do with wages. Anything that has to do with a debt you owe, that is of sin and of religion. Well, I better get. I better get back into church, you know, so that. No, no, no. We are not here today to celebrate our own righteousness. We are not here today to turn God's heart towards us. We are not here today to try to get God on our side. No, no, no. We are here today to thank God. We're here today to honor God. We're here today to worship God. We're here today to praise God. We're not here to pay a debt that we owe. We're here today to celebrate that the debt has been paid. Go. Go back to the Bible. Go back for the wage. I'm about to stand again. I see you standing. Stop. I got two more services right now. I'm hyped by the 115. I'm going to be slurring my words, so I gotta calm down. The gift of God. The gift of God. Now, notice that's Christianity. Religion is wages. Christianity. True Christianity is a gift that you take and eat. You didn't pay for this meal. You couldn't buy. This meal you take and eat is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. For our sake, he made him to be sin, who knew no sin. The perfect, sinless Son of God became sin on the cross. Why? So that in him we might become the righteousness. Now think about this. Of who? Not of Abraham. Not the righteousness of Moses. Not the righteousness of Elijah. Not the righteousness of John the Baptist. Not even the righteousness of Mary. The righteousness of God. When you've been washed in the blood of Jesus, you are as righteous as Jesus. Oh, man. That made you nervous. You stand before him. Colossians said, without a single fault. Why? Because you've been washed. We sing it today. I've been washed in the water. Washed in the blood. I'm as good as new. And because I didn't earn it and I didn't deserve it. And there's none of my works that prove it. But because of what Jesus did for me, I am now the righteousness of God. By the way, that's why we sing all those songs celebrating Jesus, not celebrating us. Powerful. Powerful. I remember that my sins are forgiven. Number two. We remember that we have new life in Christ. So now we remember that we're a new creation. Therefore, from now on, we regard. This is woo. This is powerful. I'm gonna take my time right here. Let the 11:45 wait in the street. Let the parking lot be jammed, because I don't want to miss this. Now, Christians. Christians. Wave your hand if you're a Christian. Okay? Okay. Look at this. Look at this. If you're not yet, give me 15 minutes. You'll be one from now on. Watch this. Christian. We regard no one according to the flesh. I have to now see you spiritually in Christ, not just after your flesh. Let me break it down for you. The longer you attend this church, and the more you know me, the more you're going to see me after the flesh. And I'm no longer Pastor Jabin, the man of God that God's brought into your life to bring the Word. I actually. Why is this. Jabin. And you have to fight. And don't let this get awkward, okay? We're not Going to receive an offering from me at the end of the service. Don't worry. You have to fight, though, to not just see me after the flesh, or you'll miss what God is doing now. No, no, no, no, no. But here's where the Lord smacked me this week, and he does spank me, and he did this week. I have to make sure that I don't see you after the flesh because I will get to know y' all so well that I'll miss the God thing on your life, and I won't see the gift and the grace on you. So I'm going to tell you how this worked for me this week. It's Wednesday night. I'm in Dallas, Texas, and dear friends of mine just built a building very similar to ours. It's beautiful. And they just moved in and they wanted me to come preach. And I'm preaching, and, man, the power of God came on me. I start praying and prophesying, and I go, we're gonna pay this building off in the name of Jesus. And then I start saying, if you're a business owner, if you're an entrepreneur, if I want you to stand right now, I'm gonna pray for you. And I. And this phrase, it's like a burp just came out of me. I said, you're gonna be a kingdom millionaire. That's what I said. And I said, and God's gonna bless your business, and he's gonna bless your life, and we're gonna pay this building off, and we're gonna pay this debt off, and we're gonna start new locations. I'm just going. I'm just, ah. And they're like, ah. And I walk off the stage, and God is my witness, I'm standing there, and the Lord goes, why don't you pray for your people like that? And I went, get thee behind me, Satan. I rebuke thee. I'll tell you why. Because I was so fatigued from moving into this building that I lost that little. Y' all think I'm bold now. You should have seen me in the high school. I was a psychopath, and I kind of lost that. And here's why. Because out of 10 people, nine would give sacrificially and beautifully and believe God with us to do this. And yet I'd listen to the one who would, you know, javin just wants our money. It's all about the money with that guy. And I let that voice get in me, and it. And it kind of stripped me of that. That thing that I actually believe because I know that's not true. You know what I'm saying? Like, why would I even let that voice get in me? I don't even. I know me. And why would I, why would I, why would I calm down and get scared over the person that left when the, the nine out of ten who are, who are with us and who sacrifice big time? Why, why am I not speaking to them? I'm an idiot. So at the end of this service, I'm going to pray for entrepreneurs and business leaders and business owners and I'm going to pray God makes you a kingdom millionaire. Because I just kind of got beat up in this whole thing and I got so tired moving into this building that I kind of just backed down. And the Lord's like, why are you backing down? Why are you praying for them for a debt free building? Cause I used to say that if you were with us in the high school, I'd get up and be like, and we're gonna move in that building debt free. I just stopped talking that way. All you new people started coming. I got all scared. I was like, well, if you like being here today, we're just glad you're here. Is this too real? You're like too real. Okay. Oh my God. That took way too long. Watch this, watch this. It's going to get bigger. It's going to get even bigger. So you can't see me after the flesh. I can't see you after the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, now we can even see Jesus only in the flesh. You know that the whole kind of progressive movement of our, of the west is basically Jesus was just like just kind of this hippie dude who fed people. Yeah, we made him a carpenter. We made him a, we made him a guru. We made him a self help guy. We just made him this nice guy that would feed people. And did he feed people? Yes. Is he nice? Yes. Should we also feed people? Yes. But be careful that you don't just make him your yoga instructor. Don't just know him after the flesh, we must know him thus no longer. In other words, he was 100% man and 100% God. He is 200%. But listen, don't just know the humanity side. He is God Almighty. He is Yahweh. He is the everlasting God. He is him who sits on the throne and under the lamb be blessing and honor and praise forever. He is God. He'll heal your bodies. He'll restore your mind. He'll put Your heart back together. He'll make a way where there's no way. He's God. Don't just know him. After the flesh, and therefore anyone who's in Christ, they're a new creation. Old things that pass away. Behold, all things have become new. I've been crucified with Christ. This is now Galatians 2:20. It's no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me now, the life which I now live in the flesh. So I have an earth suit. I'm not in denial of that. I'm a human. But now watch this. I don't live it by the flesh. I live by faith. Okay? So now here's number four. Okay? You can't see me after the flesh. I can't see you after the flesh. We can't see Jesus after the flesh. Number four. You can't see yourself after the flesh. You got to see yourself by faith, because you'll pray and you'll read the Word and you'll get baptized. You'll get filled with the Holy Ghost, and you'll speak in tongues and you'll tithe and you'll. But then you still look in the mirror and go. And you, Numbers 13 will tell yourself, I'm just a grasshopper. That's what the Bible said. Am I preaching the truth up there? I hear you. I hear you in the rapture section, and it looks like humility, but in reality, it's just flesh. Communion reminds me I have new life in Christ. Lastly, Team Come, we remember, we have hope. For as often as you eat this bread, drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death. Watch this. That's past till he comes. That's future. Jesus is coming back. Jesus is. Is literally physically coming back. And communion reminds me that heaven is my home. Communion reminds me that whether I live here for 30 years, 80 years, 100 years, that is nothing compared to eternity. The Bible. The Bible says it's like a vapor. It's like a mist. It's like. It's. It's like the dew that's on the. On the grass in the morning. It's there and then it's gone. It's. And communion reminds me heaven is my home. The great. The great Reverend Dr. Billy Graham, the great evangelist to the nations. He said, one day, you're going to grab a newspaper and you're going to read the headline, billy Graham is dead. He said, don't believe a word of it. I haven't died. I've just changed addresses. Whoa. Heaven is our home. Where he will wipe every tear from their eye. Where there will be no more death, no more mourning, no more crying, no more pain. This old order of things, it will pass away. And communion reminds me. Don't just live for the here and now. It reminds me he's coming again. And whether he beats me here or I beat him there, Heaven is my home.