We'll go back there to 1 Corinthians
11. I think I'm just going to talk
to the children this morning. You young people and you old people
can listen in. And I hope you can take notes
and apply this to yourselves and learn something. But I want
to be real plain. Today, we're going to observe
the Lord's table. At the end, when I get through
preaching, I'm going to ask some men to come up and they're going
to hand out these elements. One's going to walk on one side
of the aisle. Pay attention to me. One's going to walk on the
other side of the aisle and they're going to hand it out and you're
going to pass it down the row. And everybody, if you hopefully
learned something, you either take it today, and if you unworthily,
don't take it. But if the Lord be with me, I'll
teach you what that means. And we'll pass it by everybody,
and nobody's gonna get left out, and those men aren't gonna make
any comment to you. They're not gonna give you any
instruction. If you take one and not the other, I hope I can
un-muddy that water too. They're gonna be silent and they're
just gonna hand it out because they're gonna be servants. That's
all they're gonna do, okay? But we do this every month, don't
we? And why? Why? Why do we take the Lord's
table? It's his table, ain't my table.
It ain't San Diego Grace's Fellowship's table. It ain't nobody else's
table. It's his table. We observe it,
that means we conduct it. Why do we take the Lord's table?
The Lord told us to. Why are believers baptized? Why? He told us to. If you hear the
truth, if you baptized in the false gospel and you did it 15,
20 times, I ain't worried about all that. But when you hear the
truth, the Lord says, be baptized. And a believer, that new creation
in us says, okay. Why, it's embarrassing. I'm old,
or I'm young, or I'm this, or I'm that. It don't matter. That
new creation don't care. And the Lord said, be baptized.
When you know me, you're going to confess me, not confess a
false God in the past. You will confess me. And a new
heart says, yep, I'll do it. And the Lord told us, he said,
as often as you do this, you know how often we're supposed
to take the Lord's table? It doesn't matter. He doesn't say,
well, not go too long without it. I know a congregation one
time went 12 years, and that pastor didn't do have a Lord's
table for. And I know some congregations
that do it every Sunday. And as the Lord allows, we're
going to start doing it at night, because it's supper, not dinner.
It ain't the Lord's breakfast. And he took it at night, and
we're going to take it at night, if the Lord allows us to have
a Sunday evening service down the road. But we do this because
he told us to. And he told us why we're going
to do it. He said, so you remember me. You remember me. Do you all remember my mom? Do
you remember my mom? You don't because you never met
her. You remember my mom because you met her. That's your grandma.
You know her, don't you? You can't remember somebody you
don't know. You get that? So if we know him, if he's revealed
himself to us and he says, do this in remembrance of me, we
do it. Why? To remember Him. That's
it. Nothing special happens. There's
people that say, I don't care who says it, boys, and my children,
if I say it today according to this word, I don't care if it's
mommy and daddy, grandma and grandpa, whatever, some fellow
on TV, if they tell you different and it's not with the word of
the Lord, don't believe them, they're lying. They're vipers.
But whenever you take that bread and the wine, it doesn't become
Christ in you. And it's not a sacrament. That's
not something that this is a means by which we receive grace. By
doing this, God's going to be gracious to us. That's a lie.
That's not so. He says, you're going to remember
me. When you know what that bread is and you know what that wine
is, you can only see him. And he said, now take and eat.
Now do it. Do it. Why do we use unleavened bread?
That means there's bread with no yeast in it. It's just flour. I might get my recipe wrong.
Flour, salt, and water. Okay. It's flour, salt, and water.
I didn't write that down. There's no yeast in it. There's
nothing to make it rise up. All throughout the scriptures,
you know what leaven is? That's yeast. That's how we make soft
bread. It makes bread puffy. And it's
always pictured as sin in the scriptures. And you know what
sin does inside of us? It makes us puffy. It puffs us
up. And we think we're just a little
bit bigger than what we are. We think we're a whole lot bigger
than what we are because we ain't nothing. And that's like the dropsy and
stuff. It's all poofed up. And the Lord healed him of the
dropsy. He's going to heal every one of his children of the dropsy.
He's going to take the wind out of you. But leaven shows sin. It's always used to show us about
sin. The Lord said, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.
And they weren't bread makers. They were preachers. You watch
out for them. They're just a little bit of
leaven gets in there, boys. It's going to get a hold of the
sugar and it's going to multiply. And the byproduct in the not
to get too anaerobic respiration is alcohol. or carbon monoxide,
and it swells up. That's why the bread gets puffy,
right? And it's gonna keep reproducing. It's gonna keep going until all
that sugar's consumed up, all that sweet stuff. We just think
we're so sweet. Oh, hello, sweetie pie, we always
say. Oh, bless your sweet little heart and all these things. We
think we're so sweet. It's sugar. Sugar will kill you.
Get you a good quality medical book. Sugar's bad for the human
body. Lord gave it sparingly in nature, didn't he? It's gonna
kill you. And we just think it's so good.
We buy it by the dozen, don't we? Baker's dozen, get 13 of
them. Sweet stuff, we think sweeten
us is bad. And sin's gonna get in there and it's gonna make
us puffy. And an air's gonna come out our mouths. All bad
like it. Christ our substitute. We use
this unleavened bread with no yeast in it. because it shows
Him. He had a body made for Him, and
He come to this earth, and there was no sin in Him. There's so much sin in us, we
can't distinguish anything. We drink it like water, the Bible
says. Not Him. He was born of a woman. He came
here, the body was made for Him, and He had no sin. There was
none in Him. He was unleavened. Why? Because our blood and our bodies
ain't good enough. Or in Hebrews 10, it says, for
it's not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take
away sin. That ain't going to work. We'll have sacrifice. Those
old priests, they was in knee deep blood and it didn't take
away one sin. But they were doing that over
and over and over. God pointed to Christ, the unleavened bread. He said, I'm the true bread.
Is that what we looked at Wednesday? The true bread. He's the true
vine. And when he's coming to the world,
The Lord said, and burnt offerings, sacrifices, I had no pleasure.
But he comes, he said, lo, I come in the volume of the book, all
the book, it's written of me to do thy will, O God. This unleavened bread, thee bread
from heaven, thee true manna from heaven, he came without
sin to do the will of God to be broken. That's what that bread
is. We don't have saltine crackers,
like, well, that's close enough. If you know what that is, and
you know how much leaven you have in you, you'll say, Lord
said do it this way, we're doing it that way. There's no division. You can divide all you want to,
God says so, that's what we're doing. We're having that. That body was perfect, and it
was perfectly born, perfectly seeded by the Holy Spirit to
be put under the law for us. Paul said in Galatians 4, when
the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son made of
a woman, made under the law, that woman with no sin in him.
Why? To redeem us when he's broken.
To redeem us that were under the law that we might receive
the adoption of sons. He's going to make us God's sons
by doing so. Because there's no sin in him. And he had to
be made sin for us. There's a whole lot of controversy
and people think they're so big for the britches they can explain
that stuff away and they're wrong. He had to be made us, we're the
living, that we be made His righteousness. We had to be made Him. And that's
when the body was broken. That perfect sinless God-man
came to the earth and it was broken. That's why we use unleavened
bread. It says in verse 23, Paul was teaching them here, because
they didn't know. 1 Corinthians 11, 23. For I have received of
the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus,
the same night in which he was betrayed, he took bread. And
when he'd given thanks, he prayed for that bread, said, thank you
for this, Father. And he'd break it. He'd break it. Nobody else
broke it, he broke it. And said, take, eat, this is
my body. which is broken for you, this
do in remembrance of me." The Lord said, take and eat. Those are simple words, right?
You know what take means? It means take it. What's eat
mean? Eat, right? He said, take and
eat. He did not say, now, if you would
like some, you can have some. I got a big pile of unleavened
bread, and I got a gallon of wine, and if you want a little
bit, you can come get it. And if you don't want all of
it, if you just want part of it, take that part, or you can
take not that part. We have some gluten-free options
over in the corner. No. He broke it, and he said, take
and eat. It's a command, isn't it? Who was he talking to? That's
his disciples sitting around him. That was the 11 we'd been
looking at at John on Wednesday night. Judas had already been
sent away. I'm sorry, Judas was there with them. Judas was there
with his 12 of them. And the Lord talked to his people, he
said, take, eat, take it. Who broke that perfect sinless
body? He did. Acts 2 tells us him being delivered
by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Wicked
hands crucified, we did it, we were the main Jews. But this
is purposed by God the Father. He said, I'm gonna send my son
in perfection to live a life these people could not live and
would not live. And he's going to be broken for
them. He's going to bear all their punishment. And he's going
to give him a righteousness that cannot be turned away. He's given
a holy nature. Holy. Who was this one without sin
broken for? Us, who are nothing but sin. We've been given a great example,
haven't we? Peter said that. Christ also suffered for us,
leaving us an example that we follow in his steps, who did
no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, ever. When he was
reviled, he reviled not again. Why does it say that? Why was
he dumb before his shearers like a sheep? Because he was guilty.
He bore our guilt. Did he have any sin in him? No.
Did he have guile in his mouth? No. Did he open his mouth and
say, this is unjust? No, because it was unjust. Not
just men plucking his beard out, Almighty God turning his back
on Almighty God. He was perfect, but he bore our
sin. And he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to
him that judges righteously. He committed himself to God,
not Pilate, not to Nero. He committed himself to God.
Boy, if I could do that. He did it because I can't, and
he did it because I won't. Lord help me. who his own self
bear our sins and his body on the tree, that we being dead
to sin should live unto righteousness, live unto him, Christ our righteousness,
by whose stripes you're healed. For you were a sheep going astray,
but now you're returning to the shepherd and bishop of your souls. That's who we're looking for.
Why do we drink wine? We have unleavened bread, because that
picture's Christ's unleavened body, his sinless body. And we drank wine. when we take
this table. We don't drink grape juice. We
don't drink purple Gatorade. We drink the fruit of the vine.
Why? How you make wine? You gotta
take some grapes and you gotta crush them. Put them in a wine
press and you crush the grapes. He had to be crushed. His body
had to be crushed, didn't it? What comes out? Wine does, doesn't
it? People say, well, I'm just not
into that. Our Lord drank wine. And when we go to glory, we're
gonna drink wine. He said so. That was the first miracle he
performed, wasn't it? In his public ministry, he went to that
wedding at Cana, and they said, we're running out of wine. And
his mother comes to him and said, woman, my hour's not yet come. He was looking to that hour when
he was going to shed his blood. And nevertheless, he suffered.
And he turned two or three firkings. And I looked that up one time,
last time we looked this couple of years ago, that's between
60 and 120 gallons of wine. And the governor said, this is
the best stuff. Normally people have the good stuff in the beginning,
and they give you the cheap stuff after, right? You drank the Coors
first, and you have the Natural Light later, or whatever. Jack
Daniels first, and the Black Velvet later. And I said, y'all
did it the opposite. That other stuff's okay, but
boy, this is the best. This is the best. It was wine,
just like bread. How you make wine, you learn
that in biology class and chemistry class. They always teach you
how to make alcohol. That yeast goes in there, that sugary substance,
those crushed grapes, that crushed grape juice. Yeast gets in there
and it eats all the sugar and it makes alcohol, right? And
whenever it's done, the dead yeast that falls to the bottom,
that's called the lees. Still to this day, that's the
term. That yeast eats up all the sugary stuff, and it's all
dead. It starves to death, and it goes down the bottom, and
then that good wine, well refined, off the leaves, there's no more
yeast in it. There's no more potential for
yeast in it. It'll never have yeast in it
again. You could put all the yeast you want in it, it's just
gonna die and settle at the bottom. that can't eat on it. That's why we
have wine. And, oh brother, or brother,
mister, doctor, Dr. Welch. That's how I have Welch's
grape juice. He was a teetotaler. And he said,
well, Christians can't have wine, so I'm gonna do you a favor.
We're gonna pasteurize grape juice. And you have that at the
Lord's table. Now, it just so happens he sells a lot of it
every year, right? Filthy lucre, right? That's why
he started promoting Welch's grape juice. And if I find an
article from Brother Moose Parks, I'll send it out to you. He has
a better history lesson on it. But I got to looking up fermented
pasteurized, or pasteurized grape juice. Can you ferment it? If
I take grapes, still got sugar in it, right? If I put yeast
in that, what's going to happen? It's going to turn to wine. It
don't matter. Unless it has potassium sorbate
in it. Unless it's got a preservative in it. If man's preserved it,
that'll prevent it from becoming wine. How appropriate is that?
If we put our hand to it, we're going to mess it up. The Lord gave us wine. He says
in Isaiah 26, and this mountain shall be called the Lord, a host,
making to all his people a feast of fat things, a feast of wine
on the lees with no yeast in it. All that sin has been put
away and fat things full of marrow, marrows in the bone, good stuff
all the way to the bone and wine of the lees well refined. That's
why we have wine, because it pictures his blood that's shed,
that there's no sin in it. And what did it do? It killed
all the sin. It covers all the sin, and there's no remnant of
it. If there's some more sin on there, it's just going to
sink to the bottom. It ain't going to do. He satisfied everything. Wine shows
us the blood of Christ. It says in Hebrews 9, and almost
all things in the law are purged with blood, but without the shedding
of blood is no remission of sin. There must be blood. And knowing
that it was His blood that was shed, and Him willingly laying
down His life, Him breaking His bread, Him shedding His blood,
we know we have our sins washed in the blood. That God the Father's
accepted us. He provided the lamb, and He
accepted it. And that body He broke for us,
it was perfect, and it was accepted. And that blood He shed, it's
perfect, and it's accepted. The Lord said, take, eat, take,
drink. He didn't say, come look at it.
He didn't say, come paint a picture about it. He didn't say, draw
a little cartoon about it. He said, take it, consume it.
Why did he say that? We have bread that's sinless,
his sinless body broken. Oh, didn't that get you? Broken
for us. We have that wine, no leaves. No yeast in it, just like a bread.
Shed for us. His blood shed for us. And he
said, take it and eat it. Why? Whenever you eat something, there's
no closer relationship on this earth you can have with it because
it becomes a part of you. It's in you. Goes through your
body. Some of it's going to stay there
forever, isn't it? we consume him. What's that mean? In John
six, we looked at it several months ago. The Lord said, verily,
verily, I say unto you, unless you eat the flesh of the son
of man and drink his blood, you shall have no life. Are they
talking about cannibalism? No, he's not. He said, you have
to be made one with me. Every fiber of my being and your
being has to be knit together for eternity. And whoso eateth
my flesh and drinketh my blood, that's what you have to live
on. How am I going to live? I want to be in him and him in
me. How am I going to do anything
that's except to the Father? He's going to be in me. I want to be one
with him. Whosoever eateth my flesh and
drinketh my blood, they hath eternal life. Hath. You always have in him. You do
now and you're going to. And I will raise him up to the
last day for my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink
indeed. And he that eateth my flesh and
drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him." That intimate
relationship of eating food, that intimate relationship of
drinking a glass of wine. He said, that's how I'm gonna
be with my people. My people is gonna be with me
and I'm with you forever. That wine and that bread don't
do nothing for that. That picture's when we remember
the one that did it for us. You hold that breeze, boy, his
body was broke for me. You hold that little thimble
of wine. That was shed for me. He did it willingly, willingly
laid down his life. This isn't a sacrament. It doesn't
physically become the body and the blood of our Lord. How do
I know? He said, do this in remembrance of me. And it was unleavened
bread. Luke 22, you can read that when
you get home. It was the day of unleavened bread when the
Passover must be killed. The feast of unleavened bread.
And he come and he sat down with the 12 apostles. That ought to
tell us something about a hedged table. I'll get to that at the
end. But the Lord gave the Lord's table to Judas and he knew which
one was the devil with him. This ain't San Diego Grace Fellowship's
table, it's the Lord's table. It ain't Kevin Thacker's table,
it's the Lord's table. And so every man a judge of themselves.
He said, I've desired to eat this Passover with you before
I suffer, before I prevail. Remember that last hour with
Rachel? He's going to go be man of sorrows
for us. He's going to die, body broken
and bleed for us. And he said, I've desired to
eat this with you. Down the road, you're going to
do this again. You're going to think of me because I'm with you. Can you
imagine that? He willingly did this, and we
do it willingly. If we take the Lord's steps,
it's not because we have to, because that's what everybody else said. Well,
everybody else is taking it. No, we take it willingly. He said,
for I'll send you, I'll not eat any more thereof until it be
fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And he took the cup and he gave
thanks. He said, take this and divide it among yourselves. For
I'll send you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until
the kingdom of God shall come. There in verse 23, Paul tells
them, he said, I've received of the Lord that which also I
delivered unto you. that the Lord Jesus, the same
night in which he was betrayed, he took bread, and he gave thanks,
and he break it. And he said, take, eat. This
is my body, which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of
me. After the same manner, also,
he took the cup when he had sucked, saying, this cup is the New Testament
in my blood. Remember the old covenants? Remember that law we couldn't
keep, that law that did nothing but show us we ain't nothing
but sin? There must be blood, or there'll be no remission of
sins. He goes, this is my blood. Remember that. You take a glass
of wine, you take a sip, you remember me. This cup is the
new testimony of my blood. This do ye, as oft as you drank
it in remembrance of me, or as oft as you eat this bread and
drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death until he come. If
we want to show our death, you know what we'd have? Leaven bread.
If we wanted to show our blood, you know what to do? Sugar-filled
juice, sweet as sugar, nothing but sin and potential for sin,
potential for more sin. That's all it'd ever be. But
we show his death, his body, his blood. Now, who's to take
this table? You who remember Christ. How
do you remember somebody? You know them. Most people, they
know a Jesus, they know a Christ, they don't know the almighty
God of heaven and earth, of everything. That purpose that we could not,
that offends man's pride, doesn't it? Not the doctrine of total
depravity, but we ain't nothing but sin and you can't do nothing. God won't have you apart from
his son. Well, that hurts my pride. It
hurts our intelligence too. This gospel, this God-man comes
to his people through the preaching of the gospel only. They hear,
they give them faith, and Christ is revealed. You can't figure
him out. You can be an armchair theologian
until you throw up on yourself down in your basement reading
a bunch of books. And if God don't send a preacher to come
tell you, you ain't gonna figure it out. Well, my intelligence
is much greater than this. I can figure it out. Like, naming the leper. This
great general had lepers. Went to God's prophet, and God's
prophet sent one of his little servant fellas out. Go talk to
him. I ain't talking to him. I got stuff to do. I'm studying for
Sunday. I ain't talking to that fella. Go tell him to jump down
to Jordan and dunk seven times. Boy, he got mad. He didn't even
come out and talk to me. I thought he was gonna come pray
for me in person. We was gonna get down and kneel
together and hold hands. Put on a big religious show.
He told me to go get in that nasty river. He said, we got
good rivers back where I'm from. Thankfully, he had a certain
understanding. He said, if he told you to do something great, wouldn't
you have done it? And he said, yeah. He said, well, go get in
the water. And he did. Leprosy took away
from him. What does our Lord say? Take him to table. Take
and eat. Who? Those that know him. Those
that know him, those that he's revealed himself to. He showed
us what we are and who he is. It says in verse 27, wherefore,
whose service shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the
Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and the blood of
the Lord. I'll tell you two things about
this. One, this is serious business. This ain't something we do. We
willingly observe him. That's what we're doing. But
it doesn't say those that are unworthy, does it? If you're
unworthy, you can't take it. It says unworthily, the manner
in which we're all unworthy. That's what the Lord shows us.
He had to be broken. He had to bleed. It's my guilt
that sent his body to that tree. It's my guilt that he had to
shed his blood for my sin, my iniquity, my transgression. I could spend a long time dividing
the three. All the bad stuff, that's me. That ain't him. That's
why I had to shed his blood. We're all unworthy. If you think
you are worthy, don't you dare take it. God may kill you right
where you sit. But take it unworthily. By nature,
we're born. None of us are worthy of taking
this bread and this wine. Christ is our worthiness. He's
it. In verse 29, it qualifies this
unworthiness. It says, not discerning the Lord's
body. What is it to discern his body? One, we have to know him,
right? Not about him, him, one-on-one, before we take his table. He
told us to, that's why we do it, and we remember him. But
we don't discern, we do this unworthily, we're not discerning
who Christ is. He's God. Our God is God. We spend about three and a half
weeks figuring that out. We might know something. He sits on his
throne. He does all things right. He's
holy. He's the Lord. He's our King.
And that whole Godhead was formed in this man, the God man, the
Lord Jesus Christ. That's the one who was broken.
That's who he is. That's who Christ is. And to
take the table unworthily, that's not discerning what he did. What
happened on that cross? What happened? Did Christ satisfy
and honor God's justice on that cross or did he try to? Did he have good intentions of
doing it? Well, we wanted to. No, he did. It's satisfied. The
whole world went dark, didn't it? Did he put away sin? All
of it? Or is it mostly finished and
you got something left to do? Did he give us his righteousness,
his sanctification? Did he redeem us? Is this wise? We're going to clean up outside
the cup and we got our own wisdom. We can figure this out. Did he redeem his people? Did
he? He tried. No, he didn't. He did
it. He's finished. It's complete.
It's done. It's sure. To say Christ died for all people
is not discerning the Lord's body. Drinking unworthily. You don't know who he is. You
can't drink that. That's talking unworthily. Discerning his body
is also declaring where he is now. Benjamin, the son of my
right hand. He's on his throne. He's on his
throne. Awful lots go out right now,
and the fire department's out there, and the fire alarm's going
off. Take his table anyway. He sent it. It'll be all right.
Put sticky fingers in here. He's on his throne. That's where
he is now. He's making intercession for his people. He's a successful
savior. We have an empty tomb. We're not like Buddha where he's
buried in the ground. We're not like the Muslim prophets and
all this other garbage. He's on his throne in heaven.
Our high priest is. And his body was the sacrifice
and his blood, and it was a full atonement for his sheep. Atonement. Payment's been paid. We were
separated from God and Adam, and we were separated from God
by our nature that Adam gave us, and we were separated from
God because we woke up and we hated him. He made us at one again. There's no hedge table. No communion. You examine yourself. Verse 28
says, but let a man examine himself. You look at your faith. Is it
yours or his? You look at your repentance. Well, I decided to
repent. Or did God repent you? He snatched you up and turned
you? Because you wouldn't. Do you believe Him? That's the only hedge on the
table. Do you believe God? Same with baptism, wouldn't it?
Ethiopian eunuch said, I believe what hinders me from being baptized.
Appears there's some water. Let's go get in it. Right then.
Or Philip. That blind man. Is Christ able? Of course he is. He said, you're
able if you're willing, Lord. He said, so let him eat of that
bread and drink of that cup. The Lord says through Paul, let
everyone examine themselves, not each other. Well, I don't
think you cut the mustard, so I don't know if you can take
the Lord's table yet. That ain't my business. And that ain't your business.
That's between individuals and the almighty God of heaven and
earth. So let them eat and drink. Verse
29 says, For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and
drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
I want to know about that body. I want to know about the one
that was in that body. I want to know about that blood he willingly
shed. Do you? For this cause, because people
don't discern the Lord's body for this cause, many are weak
and sickly among you and many sleep. Why do I get wrinkles? I'm getting older. I keep getting
cut. I don't know how I cut myself.
Sin. Why is my body breaking down?
Sin. Why are you getting older? We
ain't getting so ripe we're going to float all up to heaven. No,
sin's destroying this body, isn't it? For this calls many weak and
sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we judge ourselves, we
should not be judged. When I judge myself, I'm going
to tell you all I see is sin and death. And I have to have
Him. Not I pick the right denomination.
Not I pick the popular pastor that everybody likes as a preacher.
I need Christ. I need Him. But when we are judged,
verse 32, we're chasing of the Lord. When we judge ourselves,
the Lord has shown us, hasn't he? He handles his house, he
handles his children. He might make them sick, he might
make them sleep, but we're to judge our own selves and not
others. That we should not be condemned with the world. Therefore,
my brethren, when you come together to eat, tarry one for another. Be long-suffering one for another.
Be supportive of one another. And if you don't know how to
be supportive, be quiet, pray for them. I'm gonna be 43 years old this
year. I ought to know how to deal with people in this world,
shouldn't I? I don't think I need to go people's old enough to
be my grandparents to say, hey, y'all ought not do this. Just Terry,
wait. Shut up and wait. Hush. Be still. Behold your God. That's good
advice, isn't it? Just wait. Terry one for another.
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home. That ye not come
together unto condemnation. And the rest I set in order when
I come. We observe the Lord's table today
in remembrance of our Lord. And if you believe the Christ,
you take and you eat and you drink both. I'll say it plainly. You take both. People say, well,
I've got a gluten intolerance. I think the Lord can handle 0.2
ounces of gluten. Well, I used to be an alcoholic
too. You think the Lord's going to
use a thimble of wine off a lease to turn his child into something
horrible from honoring his word? If we honor the Lord, he'll honor
us, won't he? We take both. The Lord commanded it. He can
sustain it. He will, won't he? If you do not know who God is,
you don't know that Christ is God. You don't know that he finished
salvation in totality, not us. If you think you're going to
sanctify yourselves, make yourself a little holy, I'm telling you right now, don't
take this table. Leave it alone. Ask God to teach you something.
And you don't know where he is, real one in raining, don't do
it. But if you know him, he says, real simple, take and eat. Nothing
else. Take and eat. That's it. Brother
Trevor, if you will, Cass, if y'all come hand out the elements.