Sermon Tone Analysis

You guys have a good Halloween?

I found out to something breathtaking one point in time, in my life.

And it was that's some holidays change like days of the week and others don't couple of people.

I recently told me.

What Thanksgiving is on Thursday this year?

Use Flash, Thanksgiving always on a Thursday and I know the conversation I had with something like this week.

Sunday is Halloween.

Is it what what day is it on?

The 31st of October?

So he's on the 31st of October.

The most surprising was when in in in fairness, it was with a younger person.

That's what the date of Christmas was in December.

25th was a little bit shocking to them.

It's always December 25th.

I know, don't ask me one Memorial Day or Labor Day.

Is it Monday?

I don't understand to be on that.

There were Monday Juneteenth is easier for me to remember.

But that's good.

Like Keith is in the name.

So, you know, I guess that's a cool benefit.

Having a new holiday with the name right in it.

Did you guys have a good Halloween?

Good Halloween is a little not great for me growing up because there's this close Association, probably like embedded into me by Halloween, with the powers of Darkness, that are, raging against God and much of the celebrations.

Especially the non-Christian celebrations that take place, run Halloween are very ungodly.

I did see a funny meme that a friend of mine, most of you disagree with on most things.

He said, Christians, don't celebrate Halloween, right?

And you're just pictures like these, these for mega church is celebrating Halloween.

And you know, how do you know?

We don't celebrate Halloween Trunk-or-Treat, E90 way.

I thought I thought those things were funny but kind of seems like a whole bunch of hocus-pocus, right?

Sometimes to us.

Another little study on the background of that phrase, Hocus, Pocus, and, and Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1700's Jon-Don.

Claimed that in all probability.

This word Hocus Pocus was a way that magicians away would say, these words, Hocus Pocus and other things to distract as they had their sleight-of-hand, that made it look like magic.

So ugly words of Hocus Pocus are nothing else, but a Corruption of hock Fest Corpus.

Hocus Pocus Fest Corpus by way of ridiculous, imitation of the priests of the Church of Rome in their trick of transubstantiation.

That is to say in English.

This is my body.

Hawk pest Corpus in the Latin.

This is my body V ceremony.

That would be spoken or you might say the incantation that would be spoken by a Roman Catholic priest over the elements of the bread and the wine and the Catholic church is definitely the wine.

I can say that and in so saying Hawk Corpus.

They're transformed into the body and blood of Christ.

And therefore in taking they are literally physically eating the body of Christ and US good people of the Reformation.

We have reformed that identity.

We would say it's all hocus-pocus and with it, we reject much of that was believed by the Roman Catholic Church.

In the Middle Ages.

They have their sacraments things that were made or made them.

Holy baptism being the first of which you're baptized as an infant to be baptized into the Covenant Community.

That Was Then confirmed upon you.

Through teaching, the recitation of some sort of a test of sorts when you got a little older, that was one of the sacraments yet to be baptized.

And then confirmed, then there was communion where you regularly leave received the grace of God by eating and consuming the blood of Christ.

And then when you came to confess your sins, that the priest who you would confess this to would prescribe Penance things that you would do.

Two kind of makeup for Holy practice is to make up for the sin that you had committed either marriage or holy orders.

You either marry and produce children as is God's design or you enter the priesthood or a nunnery or something of that nature.

Holy orders.

And then of course the anointing of the sick also called the last rites these.

These were the sacraments the things that made you holding if you were a good Christian in good standing before God in the Middle Ages, it was expected that you participate in all of these.

And of course, these rights had to be administered by the Holy Roman Catholic clergy to be valid.

So what do Martin Luther and John Calvin and and all of the other reformers?

What do they buy a large?

Say they say, we're going to look at the Bible and we're going to reject much of this the way that you are made, right?

With Christ.

The way that you were made right with God, is through the person and work of Christ by faith alone, right?

Solivita by grace alone.

By Christ Alone through the scripture deliver.

You can't come to Christ through all of these sacraments, you have to do it as prescribed by God himself.

And so what do we end up with?

When we look at Communion?

I'm afraid sometimes we end up with just a cracker that tastes like Styrofoam and a little of who knows what?

And I'm not trying to be critical just observational.

And so just like when you throw the baby out with the bathwater you your goal.

Is it clean baby, right?

Sometimes we miss that, because we have these phrases.

We all understand.

And then you try to explain it to somebody who doesn't understand you said.

The goal is to clean baby brezza, baby.

And then you throw the dirty water out.

Because if the clean baby is sitting in dirty water, the baby is not actually clean yet.

So you throw out the water, there goes the baby as well.

And so I'm afraid that in our approach to communion sometimes our approach to Jesus Christ.

Doesn't include Jesus Christ at all, because we've thrown him out and discarded him because he was sitting in some field.

Logically dirty water.

If I could describe it like that.

So today we're going to continue or begin to get to a good, maybe better understanding of the table of the king.

We're going to work through a few ways to understand communion not feel out and we're not going to talk about transubstantiation, consubstantiation.

We're going to look through the texts of scripture is Pastor.

John Marshall lovingly encourage me today.

To preach is to teach truth.

It doesn't have to be the final word on truth.

So when you disagree with something, I've said, don't hear me saying.

That says the Lord, this is the final word, but hopefully allow your heart in your mind to be opened.

To what he has to teach you today.

Let's pray together.

Heavenly Father.

We do come to your word.

Who is Christ, God incarnate.

And we also come to?

That word written down.