The World Hates You!
Notes
Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
Have you ever had a moment in your life when you said,
“This isn’t what I signed up for?”
Maybe you started a business,
and then realized you also had to:
do administrative work…
be an accountant… and
deal with customers!!!
“This was not what you signed up for?”
Maybe you were an incredible parent… before you had kids,
and you thought having kids was going to be the easiest, best thing ever!
And then you realized they depend on you for EVERYTHING…
and take responsibility for NOTHING…
You still love them,
but maybe you didn’t realize what you were signing up for.
Maybe you can remember a time in the past,
where you were looking forward to the season you’re in now:
You couldn’t wait to be a teenager,
but now you realize you have to be responsible for your school and chores…
You couldn’t wait to be an adult,
but then realized you have to work to buy and enjoy things…
You couldn’t wait to have grown kids,
but then you realized they make their own decisions and you can’t stop them,
and having aging parents presents a whole new world of challenges!
In all these instances, you didn’t really know what you were signing up for!
You were excited at the opportunities,
and weren’t even thinking about the challenges,
or ways things could go wrong!
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I think that’s probably how the disciples felt!
When they first followed Jesus there was excitement!
They believed that Jesus was the promised Messiah,
and were willing to drop EVERYTHING to follow Him!
It was going to be an amazing experience to be a part of God’s plan,
as He became the leader of Israel,
raised an army,
defeated their enemies, and
restored the nation Israel back to all it’s glory!
But that’s not how the story would go…
Over the last few weeks we’ve been in the Upper Room Discourse,
which is Jesus’ teaching during His last evening with His disciples before He would die.
During that evening Jesus told them He is leaving them.
This would have been shocking to the disciples,
because from their perspective the prophecies of the Messiah haven’t been fulfilled…
He hasn’t restored the nation Israel yet!
And as we pick up this morning in John 15,
as if there’s not enough going on already, Jesus says to them:
since you are my disciples and follow me…
“the world hates you!”
In fact…
your own people will hate you!
WHAT?!?
“This isn’t what I signed up for!”
I was going to loved by my people,
for helping the Messiah restore our nation,
not hated by it!
Reason for Jesus’ Forewarning
Reason for Jesus’ Forewarning
But Jesus wants His disciples to know ahead of time what’s coming,
so that they are not surprised by it.
He wants them to have a realistic expectation what’s in store for them,
so that they can be prepared,
and remain steadfast through it!
Brothers and sisters, this is a truth we must grasp as well:
The World Hates You!
The World Hates You!
As we go through this morning’s passage,
we’re going to see why the world hates you…
The World Hates You
Because They Hate Your Saviour
Because They Hate Your Saviour’s Message
Because They Hate Your Saviour’s Mandate
If you’re going to follow Jesus,
you need to have a realistic expectation of what that’s going to look like.
Though Jesus’ words are surprising and alarming,
He intends them to be like an anchor that keeps us from shifting in the coming storm.
Prayer for Illumination
Prayer for Illumination
Scripture
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18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’ 26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning. 1 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3 And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
Transition
The first reason the world hates you is…
1. Because They Hate Your Saviour
1. Because They Hate Your Saviour
Jesus wants His disciples to know that the reason the world hates them,
is because it hates Him,
and so they hate His followers!
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He says this in…
18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Just prior to this,
Jesus had said if they abide in Him,
they will bear fruit.
Now Jesus reveals…
the fruit they will bear is going to cause the world to hate them!
Jesus wants His disciples to know,
that the world hated Him first.
It doesn’t make suffering hatred and rejection easy,
but would give them comfort to know
they are going through the same thing Jesus did.
Then Jesus says…
19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
If the disciples just fell in line and lived like the world,
the world would love them!
They wouldn’t have an issue with them!
But because Jesus chose His disciples “out of the world,”
that’s why the world will hate His disciples.
We must understand this hatred to be satanic.
Satan is behind the hatred the world has toward Jesus and His people.
Satan hates God, and seeks to steal, kill, and destroy,
by deceiving and blinding people into rejecting God and His people.
This is a battle between light and darkness.
Satan is in control of the world,
causing hatred toward God’s people.
Jesus is telling His disciples this so that they’re not surprised.
He goes on to say in…
20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
Back in chapter 13, after washing His disciples’ feet,
He commanded them to follow His example and serve one another by washing one another’s feet, because…
“a servant is not greater than his master.”
This was a lesson of following Jesus’ example of humble service.
Now, Jesus uses the same phrase, “a servant is not greater than his master”,
to show that they will be treated the same way He was.
If Jesus is hated and persecuted by the world,
His disciples will be too.
SUMMARY
Jesus wants His disciples to be prepared.
He wants them to know exactly what’s coming.
The world hates Jesus,
and because Jesus calls His disciples out of the world,
the world will hate them too!
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As a disciple of Jesus,
you need to know this as well!
Brothers and sisters, the world will hate you as well… WHY?
because you follow Jesus.
This is because… the world hates Jesus!
Jesus was in the world, but not of the world.
He refused to follow the ways of the world…
He refused to follow man-made rules and traditions...
He obeyed God’s commands,
and the world hated Him for it!
And the reason the world hates you is because:
He chose you “out of the world”!
You no longer think like the world.
You are not conformed to the world’s way of thinking,
you have been transformed by the renewing of your mind!
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If you were of the world you would say:
“Abortion is a woman’s choice.”
But since you’re in Jesus you say:
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
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If you were of the world you would say:
“There are many different genders, because gender is a spectrum,
and each person gets to decide for themself what/who they are.”
But since you’re in Jesus you say:
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
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If you were of the world you would say:
“Sexual immorality is okay…
Adultery is okay…
Homosexuality is okay.”
But since you’re in Jesus you say:
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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If you were of the world you would say:
“The Bible is outdated and irrelevant.”
But since you’re in Jesus you say:
12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
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If you were of the world you would say:
“There’s many ways to heaven.”
But since you’re in Jesus you say:
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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And for all these reason, the world WILL hate you!
Because you don’t conform to the world,
but follow Jesus.
You must understand this is spiritual warfare!
Satan hates Jesus, and is the source of the world’s hatred toward Jesus’ people.
Satan is constantly attacking the church,
and so we need to be on guard.
One of the ways we stay on guard is by expecting the world to hate us!
This is what Jesus wants His disciples to be prepared for.
Part of the problem in our day, is we’ve become so comfortable,
that we see any form of disagreement from the world as a bad thing.
We mistakenly believe we can follow God,
and if we do it the right way, the world will love us for it.
This is simply not true!
The world is going to hate us when we speak the truth of God’s Word,
because the world hates Jesus,
because it lies in the power of Satan.
The fact that the world hates us,
shows that we are on the right track,
because we are no longer ‘of this world’.
SUMMARY
Don’t be surprised when the world hates you!
You can take the comfort of knowing it hated Jesus first!
This shows you’re doing something right.
Transition
The next reason the world hates you is…
2. Because They Hate Your Saviour’s Mission
2. Because They Hate Your Saviour’s Mission
The world hates you,
and that’s because they hate your Saviour, Jesus,
who you follow.
The reason they hate Jesus,
is because of His mission.
Through His words and works,
Jesus’ mission was to display the glory of God,
so that people would turn from their sin,
to life in Him.
But the world hated Jesus for it!
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Jesus continues by giving the real reason they hate Him…
21 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
The world is going to persecute God’s people because they hate Jesus,
and the reason they hate Jesus is because…
they don’t know God the Father!
This is shown in the fact that though Jesus came from God,
speaking the truth of God; and
doing the works of God…
they hated and rejected Him,
and therefore hated and rejected God!
This is what Jesus says in…
23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
To hate Jesus is to hate God the Father,
because they are One!
Jesus had continually taught that He and the Father were One.
By hating Jesus, they were showing their hatred for God.
Jesus then talks about their guilt because of their rejection of God…
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
Jesus is not saying that people would have had no guilt at all before God if He hadn’t come.
The Jews had God’s Law, and were accountable to it.
The point here is that humans are accountable to obey whatever God has revealed.
They cannot obey things God has not revealed yet,
and therefore are not accountable to it.
A few examples of this are:
Adam & Eve
The only command we know of that Adam and Eve had was:
Don’t eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
That’s what they were supposed to obey…
They didn’t have the 10 commandments yet…
Cain & Abel
By the time of Cain and Abel, there must have been some commands about sacrifices,
since Cain’s wasn’t accepted by God.
So that’s what they were supposed to obey…
But they still didn’t have the Law.
Law of Moses
Later God would give His Law through Moses,
and the people were called to obey that.
At each point in biblical history, God had revealed what He wanted them to know.
They were accountable to obey what they knew.
God is just, and wouldn’t judge them for what they didn’t know.
BUT NOW…
The Word…
Who was in the beginning with God…
Who made all things…
Who is light and the source of life…
Had come into the world:
teaching the truth of God;
performing the works of God…
and they hated Him for it!
Now that God had revealed Himself to His own people in this way,
and yet they still hated and rejected Him…
Now they have no excuse,
and are guilty of rejecting God’s own Son!
And yet Jesus tells His disciples this was a fulfilment of Scripture…
25 But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
This is believed to be a reference to Psalm 69,
where David is crying out to God on the verge of death,
because of persecution he is facing at the hands of his enemies.
He says in…
4 More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
His enemies have rallied around him:
WITHOUT CAUSE!
He has done nothing wrong,
nothing deserving what he’s facing.
Jesus is showing that this is ultimately fulfilled in the world’s hatred of Him:
WITHOUT CAUSE!
All He has done is shown them the light,
the truth of God’s Word,
so that they would be saved...
But they hated and rejected Jesus,
and so showed their hatred and rejection of the God they claimed to follow!
SUMMARY
The world hates Jesus because they hate God!
They show their hatred for God in that,
even though He sent His Son, Jesus, on a mission to save them
they rejected Him!
Speaking to His brothers back in chapter 7,
Jesus tells us why…
7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Jesus shines the light in the darkness.
He confronts sin and wickedness,
with the righteous truth of God.
Therefore, the world hates Him!
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Brothers and sisters,
this is why the world will hate you…
because it hates Jesus and His mission!
They hate Jesus because He, being God,
has the audacity to call out their sin!
But Jesus didn’t do this to condemn the world,
rather to save it!
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Which is what makes their hatred of Him make so little sense!
Jesus came to show them that by believing in Him,
they could be saved from their sin…
and their response was to hate and reject Him!
And this is why they will hate us…
because we stand on the truth of God’s Word!
We believe the Bible is the truth of God’s Word,
inerrant, and divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit,
and that all of it is profitable for instruction.
We believe that through:
History,
Law,
Poetry,
Wisdom,
Prophecy,
the Gospels,
the Epistles,
and Apocalyptic literature,
God has revealed Himself,
so that man can know and enjoy a relationship with the One and Only True God!
And this is the reason they will hate us!
Because all they see is book that makes them feel uncomfortable,
because it calls out their sin.
But what we see is the love of God on display,
who would be willing to send His own Son to earth,
to show us the path to God through His own example,
being willing to give His own life to pay our way to Him!
THIS IS THE REASON THE WORLD HATES GOD,
AND THEREFORE HATES US???
Brothers and sisters,
the reason we need to know that the world will hate us,
and that their hatred is rooted in their hatred of Jesus and the Father,
is so that we expect it!
It will be tempting for us to NOT believe the Bible,
because the world doesn’t believe it.
But we must continue to believe in it as the truth of God’s Word!
It is God’s revelation of Himself,
and therefore we must follow and obey it,
NO MATTER WHAT THE WORLD THINKS!
In fact, when the world rejects and hates the message of the Bible,
Jesus wants you to know that it’s because it hates Him,
and God the Father who sent Him.
And they will be guilty, not because they have sinned,
but because they loved their sin more than they loved Jesus!
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
Continue to stand on the truth of God’s Word,
even though the world around you rejects and hates Jesus!
Yes, it pierces your heart with the knowledge of your sin,
but comforts you with the promise that you can be saved by believing in Jesus!
Transition
The next reason the world hates you is…
3. Because They Hate Your Saviour’s Plan
3. Because They Hate Your Saviour’s Plan
Jesus is going to shine some light on what His plan is following His death:
The Holy Spirit is going to come and…
BEAR WITNESS TO JESUS!
And His disciples, through the help of the Spirit are going to…
BEAR WITNESS TO JESUS!
Since Jesus is:
The way, the truth, the life… and
No one comes to the Father except through Him…
The plan is to spread the name of Jesus to the ends of the earth,
so that all people can hear and believe the Good News:
that Jesus died for them!
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In the face of all the fear and worry the disciples might have had at this point,
Jesus gives them the promise again that He will send the Helper…
26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
Jesus is talking about the third person of the Trinity…
The Holy Spirit.
I want to draw our attention to two things we learn about the Holy Spirit in this verse:
Where the Spirit comes from
What the Spirit does when He’s sent
Where the Spirit comes from
Jesus - “I will send to you”
Father - “proceeds from the Father”
The Holy Spirit is sent by the Father and Son.
This clearly shows us three individual “persons”.
Yet they are One, which can be seen back in
23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
The Spirit is the third person of the Trinity,
who proceeds from/is sent by the Father and the Son.
3. Because They Hate Your Saviour’s Plan
3. Because They Hate Your Saviour’s Plan
The next thing we learn about the Holy Spirit in verse 26 is…
(Where the Spirit comes from)
What the Spirit does when He’s sent (3 Things)
He’s the… Helper - one who helps, advocates, or comforts someone on behalf of another.
The Holy Spirit, living in His people, will help them… advocate for them… comfort them.
He’s the… Spirit of truth - He testifies to, and teaches the truth.
The Holy Spirit is going to help keep His people rooted in the truth.
He will… bear witness about Christ - He points people to Jesus.
The Holy Spirit’s role is to point people to the person and work of Jesus.
The Holy Spirit is the person of the Trinity through whom GOD lives in you!
This is incredible!
And would have been incredibly comforting to Jesus’ disciples!
Though they have the knowledge they will be hated and persecuted because of Jesus,
they will have Helper with them.
And it’s through the Helper that Jesus then says…
27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Jesus is specifically going to use the disciples to bear witness to His life and ministry,
because they were with him from the beginning.
The disciples had:
seen Him, and His miracles…
heard Him, and His teaching…
touched Him, and walked with Him…
They were going to be the ones to bear witness to Him.
But we know that they will only be able to do this,
through the help of the Holy Spirit.
They’re about to run away from persecution,
abandoning their Master who will be led to His execution.
But after they receive the Holy Spirit,
they will be bold, courageous witnesses to Jesus life and ministry!
Then Jesus says…
1 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.
Jesus is teaching His disciples all these things…
to keep them from falling away!
Jesus’ words, through the Help of the indwelling Spirit in them,
are going to keep them standing strong in their faith in Jesus,
in the face of the hatred and persecution that is coming their way.
Jesus then tells them what that persecution is going to look like…
2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
The main thing Jesus needed to forewarn His disciples about,
was that they would be rejected…
BY THEIR OWN PEOPLE! (Jews/Israelites)
This would have come as a shock to the disciples.
The Jews who were God’s people:
He chose them from all the nations to be His people…
He gave them His Laws and commands…
He dwelled among them by His own presence…
and yet they didn’t know the God they claimed to worship.
Instead they will show how much they HATE GOD,
by killing the Son of God who came to save them,
and persecuting and killing His people.
Jesus even makes the stunning statement that,
they think they are “offering service” OR “worship” to God!
But, Jesus says…
3 And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
The fact that they will be able to kill God’s people,
will show they don’t know God or Jesus at all,
and that they don’t have Him living in them through the Holy Spirit.
Then Jesus says in…
4 But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
Jesus didn’t say these things to the disciples before,
because He was with them,
and all the world’s hatred would be directed toward Him.
But now that He will be leaving them,
the hatred will be directed toward His disciples,
although we’ve already seen it’s really Jesus they hate.
But Jesus wants His disciples to know these things in advance,
so that they are not surprised when they happen.
They can rest knowing Jesus knew it was coming.
SUMMARY
Hatred and persecution was going to come from people the disciples might not have expected it.
But they will be able to stand strong in the midst of it,
knowing that Jesus knew it was coming,
and through the strength and help of the Holy Spirit!
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The thought of hatred and persecution coming from those closest to us…
that’s probably one of our biggest fears!
You can take persecution from someone who doesn’t know you,
or doesn’t care about you, but:
what about your family?
what about your friends?
what about those who claim to follow God?
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And this hits real close to home for some of you.
maybe you were kicked out your church… or
shunned by your friends… or
disowned by your family.
You knew that following Jesus would mean hatred and persecution from those closest to you.
But you counted the cost, and
knew that following Jesus was worth it!
Once again, you need to see that the world’s hatred toward God’s people is spiritual warfare.
It’s Satan’s strategy to try and silence Christians,
because He hates Jesus!
You need to know that following Jesus WILL MEAN being hated and persecuted!
You need to know that,
so that when it happens you’re not surprised by it.
Jesus knew it was coming!
But the world needs to hear about Jesus!
Remember, that’s the plan.
Jesus is the ONLY way to the Father,
and there are many people who don’t know that.
And Jesus’ plan is for us as his disciples to tell the world about Him!
But the only way we’re going to have the courage to do this
is through the Holy Spirit… the Helper!
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That was the only way the disciples were able to do it!
Before the Holy Spirit came, the disciples were cowards who:
abandoned Jesus in the garden…
left Him to die alone…
were hiding and afraid after His death…
were ready to give up and go back to fishing…
But after the Holy Spirit, the Helper, came they:
boldly preached the Word of God…
willingly endured the hatred of the Jews:
being slandered, beaten, whipped, and killed…
were committed to going to the ends of the earth with the Good News of Jesus!
They are the reason we have received the message of salvation 2,000 years later.
But they wouldn’t have been able to do it without the Helper, the Holy Spirit in them!
SUMMARY
This is Jesus’ plan for us as well:
to spread the Good News of His sacrifice for all mankind.
You need to know the world will hate you for it,
but through the power of the Spirit living in you,
God will bear fruit for His kingdom through You!
Closing
Closing
Point to Christ (How does the Gospel speak to this?)
Point to Christ (How does the Gospel speak to this?)
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
As Pastor Jonah said last week in his sermon,
Jesus has never/will never ask us to do something He Himself wasn’t willing to do.
Yes, He calls us to endure the world’s hatred,
but He bore more than just the hatred of the world…
HE BORE THE WRATH OF GOD!
He Himself was spotless, sinless, perfect,
but He willing stood in our place,
dying for the sins WE committed.
Transition
This morning we remember that sacrifice through the…
Lord’s Supper
Lord’s Supper
Fence the Table
If you have put your faith and trust in Christ alone for your salvation,
and have been baptized on that confession of faith,
I invite you to take out your wafer/juice and participate with us.
If you did not receive one put up your hand and an usher will bring you one.
The wafer is a remembrance of Jesus’ body given for us,
and the juice is a remembrance of Jesus’ blood spilled for us,
and when we partake of these things we are saying we have a share in Christ…
SO… if you have not trusted in Jesus,
or have not been baptized to publicly declare your trust in Jesus,
we ask that you DO NOT participate.
For those who eat and drink in an unworthy way,
not showing honour for Jesus’ sacrifice,
eat and drink judgement on themselves,
and we are trying to spare you that.
Partake
I invite you to join me in opening the top portion and taking the wafer…
23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
Let’s pray:
Jesus, we thank You for Your humility in willingly sacrificing your body to be broken for us,
bearing the wrath of God in our place.
We eat this bread in remembrance of your sacrifice!
Amen!
I invite you to join me in opening the cup…
25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Let’s pray:
Jesus, we thank You for willingly allowing Your blood to be shed,
paying the price our sin demanded,
offering forgiveness for our sins.
We drink this juice in acceptance and remembrance of Your sacrifice!
Amen!
