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Communion
Here at First Community Church, we do communion the first Sunday of every month and today is that day.
We welcome everyone that has accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior to take with us in remembrance of His sacrifice and its implications.
I will pray us in, and during this time of prayer, I will pause, so we can allow the Holy Spirit to search our hearts, so we take the bread and cup in a worthy manner to the Lord.
To come to the table in a worthy manner, means we do not cling to our sin.
It means that we seek forgiveness and even repent.
For to take in an unworthy manner church, means we dishonor the body and blood of Christ and the sacrifice He gave for us.
So please, let us take of the bread and cup, in a way that honors our Lord and Savior, our Father, King, Redeemer, Deliverer, Comforter, Provider, Protector, and Best Friend.
After we pray, please come to the table as the Holy Spirit Leads, grab the bread and the cup and return to your seats and we will take as a family.
Let’s Honor Him Now as we pray
Prayer
Gracious Heavenly Father ,
Today we gather together as brothers and sisters in Christ to remember the exsacrifice You made in sending Jesus, Your beloved Son to be with us.
We thank You for the grace and love he bestowed, and for his actions and obedience to suffering on the cross for us and for the whole world.
Lord, it is our hearts desire here at First Community to take of the bread and cup in a worthy manner, so please examine our hearts now.
PAUSE
Lord, we come to You now to ask for forgiveness for any thoughts, words or deeds that have not honoured Your name.
We are also truly sorry for the times we have chosen to live selfishly rather than heed Your calling.
We invite you to inhabit our hearts now as we take communion.
As we share this meal, come bind us together as one family, filled with Your love.
Thank You Lord for Your grace that is at work in our lives.
In Jesus Name, We Love You! Amen.
Here in Mark we Jesus celebrating the passover with his disciples as he is about to be betrayed by Judas and headed to the cross.
Passover is a Jewish festival celebrating the exodus from Egypt and the Israelites’ freedom from slavery to the Egyptians.
Jesus became the Passover Lamb.
Let us read the text:
TAKE OF THE BREAD
TAKE OF THE CUP
PRAYER
Lord, we thank you for your broken body and poured out blood for us, because without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.
Our desire Lord is to know you more every-time we meet, and every-time we come to the table.
Thank you for the cross, for your Word, and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Please meet with us now and make us more like Jesus.
Fill us with a double portion of your Spirit and grant unto us the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation that Paul prayed for the the church at Ephesus as we study your Word.
In Jesus Name, We Love You! Amen and Amen!
We have come as far as Matthew 5:38, so let’s open our Bibles there.
Read Matthew 5:38-42
We have come to the fifth illustration that Jesus gives with regards to the Law and how the Rabbis of old interpreted it.
Remember, Jesus said that he did not come to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfill them.
Why?
Well, I would like to suggest that he knew the hearts of the people.
He knew that the religious leaders were thinking just this.
If you stop for a moment, or if you have reflected over the last few weeks, you are probably thinking that there is no way that I can do what Jesus is teaching.
And that’s Jesus point, YOU CAN’T!
But He can, and we need to let him.
Judaism was a self-system of external performance, rather that inward obedience church.
This system had become meaningless, it was full of ritual and going through the motions church, but there was no real connection to the Lord, the people were empty!
BUT GOD! Who is rich in mercy, grace, and love, sent Jesus to draw he chosen people back to himself.
And He doing the same for us.
Without the brokenness that Jesus taught when he said:
We will remain self-sufficient and live a defeated Christian life.
Did you know that brokenness if the avenue that leads to surrender?
It is here that Christ in us, through the power of the Holy Spirit will enable us to keep the commands that Jesus left us here is the greatest sermon ever preached.
And when we fall short, and we will, we can run to the Father because of his great and precious promise he gave here:
Last week there was a shift from our vertical realtionship, to our horizontal relationships.
And we learned that we must think before we speak and people of integrity and our word.
It means we must be people of commitment and when others ask us to do something that we follow through on our promise.
Should we not fulfill our obligations with others church, there will be a violation of trust and a break down in relationship.
Remember, that Jesus said to not swear falsely, but that we should perform our oaths to the Lord.
This means that our profession should match our lifestyles.
Are we the same here as at home and in the community?
Jesus knew the thoughts and the intents of the hearts of his listeners.
So here, we see him address another law that actually comes out of Exodus 21, Leviticus 24, and Deut 19.
This was a Law that every Jew was familiar with and Jesus decided to correct the wrong interpretation of it by sharing God’s heart on what He meant when he gave this to His people.
The Pharisees were a back to the Bible movement that lost it footing and created loop holes in the Law, to convince themselves they were righteous.
And we need to be careful that we do not do the same thing.
The concept of “an eye for eye,” sometimes called the lex talionis which is Latin and it means the “Law of Retaliation” ,
This is part of the Mosaic Law used in the Israelites’ justice system.
It was meant to be used in civil law and to be administered by the judges of the day
The principle behind the law is the punishment must fit the crime and there should be a just penalty for evil actions.
The punishment matched, but was not to exceed the damage done church.
Justice should be equitable; excessive harshness and excessive leniency should be avoided.
“An eye for an eye” was intended to be a guiding principle for lawgivers and judges; it was never to be used to justify vengeance or settling grievances personally.
The reason why Jesus is correcting the teaching of the day is because the Pharisees and scribes had taken the “eye for an eye” principle and applied it to everyday personal relationships.
They taught that seeking personal revenge and retaliation was acceptable.
If someone punched you, you could punch him back; if someone insulted you, he was fair game for your insults.
The religious leaders of Jesus’ day ignored the judicial basis of the giving of that law.
Theses were the scholars church and they misinterpreted the Law, BUT GOD who is rich in mercy came to correct them, just like he does US.
So what Jesus is teaching us is that we do not have the right to retaliate, in fact he is teaching we do not have any rights at all if we are crucified with Christ, because is no longer I who lives, but Christ lives in me!
Amen!
Personal self-sacrifice displaces personal retaliation; for this is the way the Savior himself went, the way of the cross.
And the way of the cross, not notions of “right and wrong,” is the Christian’s principle of conduct.
D. A. Carson
In the remaining verses Jesus teaches on relationships and how we should behave and respond to those who mistreat us, to those who take from us, and treat us wrong.
he teaches us that we do not retaliate.
Know that He is not teaching being a pacifist or allowing people to walk all over us, but helping us understand how to share His kingdom with others.
He gives us 4 examples in the text to come, but before I expound these I wanted to share the Apostle Paul exposition of this text:
I remember the story of Hudson Taylor who, standing on a riverbank in China one evening, hailed a boat to take him across a river.
Just as the boat was drawing near, a wealthy Chinese man came along who did not recognize Hudson Taylor as a foreigner because he had dressed like the Chinese.
So when the boat came the wealthy Chinese man pushed Taylor aside with such force that the Hudson fell into the mud.
Hudson Taylor, however, said nothing; but the boatman refused to take his fellow-countryman, say, “No, that foreigner called me, and the boat is his, he must go first.”
The Chinese traveler was amazed and astounded when he realized he had blundered.
Hudson Taylor did not complain but invited the man into the boat with him and began to tell him what it was in him that made him behave in such a manner.
It was the love of Christ that constrained him.
Needless to say, Taylor had a wonderful opportunity to witness for Christ to this wealthy Chinese man.
Can you see that Paul taught that we are not to retaliate?
But to bless our persecutors and feed our enemies?
Let’s see what Jesus has to say:
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