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Breaking bread at new Grace.

Breaking bread at new Grace.

And what I want us to do and and how I'm going to go about this is I'm going to Simply do this, I'm going to explain the Lord's supper and I want to give three words that start with the letter e.

This is what we're going to talk about now, this is on the back of back, your bulletin as well.

I'm going to do the first word is explanation.

I'm going to explain why.

Exactly we have the Lord's Supper, while we're preparing, our hearts for communion, but we need to understand why we're having it.

The second word is examination.

the Bible says we are to examine ourselves in other words, can any and everybody take the Lord's Supper whoever shows up Can can anyone take the Lord's supper and let me say no.

If it's only for a select few, And we'll talk about that.

And then the last word is expectation and we're going to look at what we can expect and what the Lord expects.

So, we're in First Corinthians chapter 11.

And what I want you to do is I'm reading now the King James, this morning and I want you to follow along as I read the first two verses of chapter 11 in a 1st Corinthians.

And this is what the Bible says be. Ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Now, this is Paul speaking.

I watch what he says now.

I praise you brother that you remember me and all things and keep keep the W, the ordinances.

Keep the ordinances as I delivered them.

Unto you.

Now what we need to ask is what are the ordinances?

For our church for a Southern Baptist Church.

What are the ordinances?

Where we have to One is the Lord supper, which is what we're going to talk about today and what's the other ordinance?

Albino.

No. Say that again.

Baptism, baptism bats.

The two ordinances of the church is the Lord's supper and baptism.

And so, That's the two institutions.

If you will that the Lord has given us to keep us in spiritual Focus.

The two ordinances of the New Testament Church and Paul says that it is praiseworthy if we keep them if we keep them the same way, the Bible says, Paul says, as I delivered them until you, so that's the two ordinances that we follow and it's very important for a church and for individuals to keep the ordinances.

So let me say this.

If you're here this morning and you are a born again, Christian, you've been saved.

but if, but you haven't been baptized You need to be baptized.

That's an ordinance.

An ordinance is an order and who's the order come from comes from God.

So if you're here and you're safe, but you never been baptized, you need to get saved.

I mean, you need to get baptized You say well that's not going to send me to have a no that's already decided.

If you're saying you're going to have in your names written in the Lamb's Book of Life, you are sealed with the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption that has nothing to do with your salvation, but it is symbolic of what Christ has done as he was buried.

And he arose for you, we go under the water and then we come out and we walking in newness of life.

If you've never been baptized with your saved, you need to get baptized because you're disobeying God by not getting baptized you say what if I go out today because I'm getting ready to get killed?

Am I going to heaven?

Absolutely, if you're saved.

Yes baptism.

Doesn't send you to have in or keep you from Heaven.

It's just symbolic of your new life is kind of like the custom just think of a custom that we do.

This is God custom he said this is what I want you to do.

I want you to show the world in a public way that you are a follower of me and we do Through baptism and we do that through the Lord's supper.

And so these are ordinances that are very important.

So it's just, as important for the Christian, to take the Lord's.

Supper, we do not want to minimize what God in 4 sizes.

And this is a memorial meal, if you will, and it's necessary for your maturity.

For our fellowship.

And it's also a part of your Christian witness.

We are witnessing when we partake of the Lord's Supper so we cannot be a successful Christian by eliminating or minimizing or overlooking what the Bible and God has or Dane God has ordered it and therefore it's an ordinance.

So I want to give you three words that start with the letter e, to help you tune your heart to get ready for what we going to do here in a few minutes and the first one of course is explanation.

What is the Lord's Supper?

What do we do, what do we do when we partake of the Lord's Supper?

So explanation, number one, This is what we do.

We congregate.

We congregate, these are five things that we need to understand that we do.

We congregate looking verse 20 of chapter 11 The Bible says, when you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper.

That sounds like he's telling us not to eat the Lord's Supper.

No, that's not yet at all.

What Paul is saying, here he is scolding the people of the Corinthian Church, because they would come together in one place, and they wouldn't eat the Lord's Supper, they would do everything, but that, they, they would have these big meals before and even people in the church was getting drunk in the church before the Lord supper.

And so they were handling it all wrong and so he is scolding them.

And you see the Lord's Supper is a family meal and I've heard some people so, you know, I would like to have the Lord's supper at my wedding.

What should you have the Lord's supper at a wedding?

Well.

No. Probably because you going to have a lot of lost people there.

You going to have, it's just for a specific family.

It's not something to be added to a wedding ceremony.

It's a family meal and the emphasis is on the family coming together.

Hence the word we congregate.

We are, we are, we are congregating this morning, we have a bunch of people here like-minded believers, who come to this place, and we congregate together.

It's speaking of the unity of the family, all we all know.

The Lord is our personal savior in, that shows Unity.

Now About all the scriptures.

I'm going to show you today is in chapter 11 but let's do turn back to 1st Corinthians.

Chapter 10 and I want you to look at what verse 16 says.

The cup of blessing which we bless speaking of the Lord's Supper, it is not the communion of the blood.

Is it not the communion of the blood of Christ, the bread, which we break?

Is it?

Not the communion of the body of Christ?

He's saying, these are the people that those who know the lord, it's about his body is about his shed blood.

So today our church family ought to be in unity as never before because we're coming before the Lord to partake of the Lord's Supper we congregate.

That's the first thing we do number 2. We consecrate.

We consecrate not look at it and verses, 23 and 24.

Well, 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 took bread.

And when he had given things, he break it and eat.

This is my body which is broken for you.

This do in remembrance of me, the Lord's, Supper is a token or a sign for us.

Where we recognize his absolute authority over us.

In other words, we are consecrated to the Lord Jesus.

And so, the Lord suffer is only for those Who have bowed the need to Jesus and have crown him, Lord of their life.

That's the Lord's.

Supper is for those people.

Again, I want you to look in chapter 10 in verse 21 what the Bible says.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord Lord's table and the cup of devils.

He says, you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table of the Lord's table, and the table of devil, So you can't come in this church and partake of the Lord's supper and you're saved and all and then you go out and just live like the world and it during the week you partake of the devil's cup.

So don't come in here and partake of this if that's the way you going to live your life.