Sermon Tone Analysis

THANKSGIVING COMMUNION SERVICE 2019

As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it.

Then He broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it, for this is My body."

And He took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it.

He gave it to them and said, "Each of you drink from it,

for this is My blood, which confirms the covenant between God and His people.

It is poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many.

INTRODUCTION

Good evening, Welcome to our annual Thanksgiving communion service!!

I want to talk tonight on Communion within itself.

So tonight we are going to break down these scriptures.

WHEN the Lord says this, He points out to us that His body is not so much His as it is ours, since He received it and suffered it to be broken on the cross, not for His own sake, but for ours;

And that He now also desires that we should look upon it and take it as our own possession.

And with His body, He gives Himself to us, and desires that we should take Him.

The fellowship of the Lord’s Supper is a fellowship of giving and taking.

Blessed giving: blessed taking.

Blessed giving: the person gives value to the gift.

Who is He that gives?

It is my Creator, who comes here to give what my soul needs.

It is my Redeemer, who, at the table, will give to me in possession what He has purchased for me.

And what gives He? His body and His blood.

He gives the greatest and the best He can bestow: yea, all that it is possible for Him to give—the broken body which He first offered to the Father as a sacrifice for sin, a sacrifice that filled Him with joy.

And what He offered to the Father, to put away sin before Him, He now offers to me, to put away sin in me.

And wherefore gives He this?

Because He loves me.

He desires to redeem me from death, and to bestow on me eternal life in Himself.

He gives Himself to me to be the food, the joy, the living power of my soul.

O blessed, heavenly giving of eternal love!

Jesus gives me His own body: Jesus gives me Himself

Blessed giving: the person gives value to the gift.

Who is He that gives?

It is my Creator, who comes here to give what my soul needs.

It is my Redeemer, who, at the table, will give to me in possession what He has purchased for me.

Blessed giving: the person gives value to the gift.

Who is He that gives?

It is our Creator, who came into our life to give what our soul needs.

It is my Redeemer, who at the table tonight and He will give to me in possession what He had purchased for me.

He giving His body and His blood.

He gives the greatest and the best that could ever be given, and all that is possible to give.

The broken body which He first offered to the Father as a sacrifice for sin, a sacrifice that filled the Father with joy.

The question must be why did the Father give me this gift?

It is so simple Because He loves me.

He desires to redeem me from death and to give me eternal life with Him.

He gives Himself to me to be the food, the joy, the living power power of my soul.

So Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you cannot have eternal life within you.

But anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise that person at the last day.

For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

I live because of the living Father who sent Me; in the same way, anyone who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

I am the true bread that came down from heaven.

Anyone who eats this bread will not die as your ancestors did (even though they ate the manna) but will live forever."

Jesus gave Himself.

Let’s us not forget, the blessed taking, just as i receive with my hand the bread that is intended for me and hold it before tonight as my own, so by faith in the Word in which Jesus gives Himself to me.

I take Him for myself and I know that He is really mine.

The body in which He suffered for sin is my possession: the power of His atonement is mine.

The body of Jesus is my food and my life.

How free is the taking, It cost me nothing, I think of my unworthiness, only to find in it my claim on Him, because the Righteous One died for the unrighteous.

What Jesus in His love would give so heartily and willingly, and so I will so heartily and freely take.

Where God gives, there is power and life.

And My taking does not depend on my strength, I have only to receive what my Savior brings to me.

Blessed giving, blessed taking.

In partaking of the blood of the New Covenant, it is important that we understand the full scope of communion in our lives.

I want to talk about five great principles of communion.

He gives Himself to us, and desires that we should take Him.

The fellowship of the Lord’s Supper is a fellowship of giving and taking.

Blessed giving: blessed taking.

WHEN the Lord says this, He points out to us that His body is not so much His as it is ours, since He received it and suffered it to be broken on the cross, not for His own sake, but for ours; and that He now also desires that we should look upon it and appropriate it as our own possession.

Thus, with His body, He gives Himself to us, and desires that we should take Him.

The fellowship of the Lord’s Supper is a fellowship of giving and taking.

Blessed giving: blessed taking.

Blessed giving: the person gives value to the gift.

Who is He that gives?

It is my Creator, who comes here to give what my soul needs.

It is my Redeemer, who, at the table, will give to me in possession what He has purchased for me.

And what gives He? His body and His blood.

He gives the greatest and the best He can bestow: yea, all that it is possible for Him to give—the broken body which He first offered to the Father as a sacrifice for sin, a sacrifice that filled Him with joy.

And what He offered to the Father, to put away sin before Him, He now offers to me, to put away sin in me.

And wherefore gives He this?

Because He loves me.

He desires to redeem me from death, and to bestow on me eternal life in Himself.

He gives Himself to me to be the food, the joy, the living power of my soul.

O blessed, heavenly giving of eternal love!

Jesus gives me His own body: Jesus gives me Himself.

And not less blessed taking, for it is so simple.

Just as I receive with my hand the bread that is intended for me, and hold it before me as my own, so by faith in the word, in which Jesus gives Himself to me, I take Him for myself, and I know that He is really mine.

The body in which He suffered for sin is my possession: the power of His atonement is mine.

The body of Jesus is my food and my life.

And how free is the taking.

I think of my unworthiness, only to find in it my claim on Him, the Righteous One, who died for the unrighteous.

I think of my misery only as the poverty and the hunger for which the festal repast is prepared, this divine bread so cordially given.

What Jesus in His love would give so heartily and willingly, I will as heartily and freely take.

And so real is the taking.

Where God gives, there is power and life.

In giving, there is a communication, a real participation of that which is bestowed.

Consequently, my taking does not depend on my strength: I have only to receive what my Saviour brings to me and inwardly imparts.

I, a mere worm, take what He, the Almighty, gives.

Blessed giving, blessed taking.

Blessed God, may my taking be in conformity with Thy giving; Thy giving, the standard and the measure of my taking.

What God gives, I take as a whole.

As Thou givest, so I also receive,—heartily, undividedly, lovingly.