Communion Service

Human memory is a marvelous gift from God. With it we are able to see, hear and think about the past in ways that influence and impact the present. It is unimaginable to us that we could live without the memories of yesterday or without hope for to- morrow.

Philippians 4:8–9 (KJV 1900)

8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

The Day that the Lord came into my life, when I was baptized in his name and God filled me with His Spirit was the Greatest and single most important day of my existence.

There is nothing truer,

there is nothing more honest, more just,

there is nothing purer, nothing lovelier or with a better report,

neither is there anything with more virtue or that could receive more praise

then the day that Jesus saved me from my sins

There is power in remembering what God has done for us

My mind goes to those songs about remembering what God has done, like

“I get joy when I think about (what He done for me)” 4X

and

1 Corinthians 11:26 KJV 1900

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.

Song “When I think about the Lord”

When I Think about the Lord

How He saved me, how He raised me

How He filled me, with the Holy Ghost

How He healed me, to the uttermost

When I Think about the Lord

How He picked me up and turned me around

How He set my feet on solid ground

It makes me wanna shout

Hallelujah

Thank you Jesus

Lord, your worthy, of all the glory, and all the honor

And all the praise

When I think of his Goodness and what he done for me when I think of his goodness and how he set me free

Key Points

Communion Started with deliverance by the blood

The Blood on the door post

Exodus 12:1–12

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s passover.

12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.

So God Delivered his people by the blood

The Day of Atonement

Once a year the high priest would enter into the holy of holies to apply the blood of the sacrifice to the mercy seat, but that was a temporary fix

Hebrews 10:4–6

4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

God postponed the punishment of sin and death by the blood of goats and bulls

Blood of Jesus Christ

To understand the significance of what Jesus has done for us

We need to understand just who our lord is

Isaiah 9:6 (KJV 1900)

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: And the government shall be upon his shoulder: And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 53:3–7

3 He is despised and rejected of men; A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: And we hid as it were our faces from him; He was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, And carried our sorrows: Yet we did esteem him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: The chastisement of our peace was upon him; And with his stripes we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned every one to his own way; And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, Yet he opened not his mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth. The shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ is seen as representing the giving of his life as an atoning sacrifice for the sins of humanity.

The blood of Jesus does for us what we could not do ourselves

And what the blood of animals could not do

Jesus suffering was the path to our redemption

Conclusion

Let us search ourselves

LET A MAN EXAMINE HIMSELF

1 Corinthians 11:28

When we examine others we justify self, but when we examine self we are more disposed to justify others. Let a man—

1. Examine his company (Psa. 1; Prov. 13:20). Fowl of a feather flock together.

2. Examine his habits (1 John 2:15).

3. Examine his thoughts (Psa. 10:4). “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he” (Prov. 23:7).

4. Examine his affections (Col. 3:2). To be carnally minded is death (Rom. 8:6).

5. Examine his motives (1 Cor. 10:31). Are they acting for self or God? (Col. 3:17).

When we partake of this holy Communion we are saying that we will be the body of Christ in which the saving Blood of Jesus flows to the lost

Implication and Application

We do this to remember what Christ has done for us

When we partake in communion we become the body of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:24–29

24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.

11:26. The Lord’s Supper was a visible sermon that proclaimed “the message of the Cross” (1:18, 23; 2:2, 8), that is, the reality of the Lord’s death, and also the certainty of His return (until He comes)

We shew, we proclaim that by the power of the cross we can be free from the power of sin and death.

We should preach and teach and proclaim this message emphatically until the Lord returns

27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.