WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.718 Lift our Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:03.718 --> 00:00:07.424 Let's say this together say heavenly Father, it's communion Sunday. 00:00:07.424 --> 00:00:10.506 I'm so thankful for glorious white church. 00:00:10.506 --> 00:00:14.550 I'm thankful for the Holy Ghost living on the inside of me. 00:00:14.550 --> 00:00:18.469 Holy Spirit, shine your light on the Word of God. 00:00:18.469 --> 00:00:30.943 I am teachable, I'm able to be instructed and I'm able to be a doer of the Word, not just a hearer. 00:00:30.943 --> 00:00:34.631 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:41.340 Let's turn in our Bibles to John, chapter six, and, as I said, in just a little bit we're gonna receive communion together. 00:00:41.340 --> 00:00:44.670 I trust that you picked up your little packets we had. 00:00:44.670 --> 00:00:47.759 They're all nice and sanitary and so forth. 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:49.968 I'm gonna try not to spill mine all over me. 00:00:49.968 --> 00:00:51.826 The last time I peeled the thing off. 00:00:51.826 --> 00:00:53.859 I won't speak that over you. 00:00:53.939 --> 00:01:03.299 John, chapter six, and we're gonna read verse 53. 00:01:03.299 --> 00:01:15.430 Then Jesus said unto them and this was in Capernaum and he was preaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. 00:01:15.430 --> 00:01:25.046 Then Jesus said unto them verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 00:01:25.046 --> 00:01:38.486 Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day, for my flesh is meat, indeed, and my blood is drink, indeed. 00:01:38.486 --> 00:01:49.266 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him, as the living Father has sent me and I live by the Father. 00:01:49.266 --> 00:01:54.733 So he that eateth me, even he, shall live by me. 00:01:54.733 --> 00:02:01.709 This is that bread which came down from heaven, not, as your fathers did, eat manna and are dead. 00:02:01.709 --> 00:02:05.969 He that eateth this bread shall live forever. 00:02:05.969 --> 00:02:18.826 And then he goes on and says, in verse 63, it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak unto you. 00:02:18.826 --> 00:02:21.788 They are spirit and they are life. 00:02:21.788 --> 00:02:27.060 So here, these verses, jesus set a plumb line. 00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:34.086 You can almost see that because the audience was doubting him if you read back all the way to the beginning of the chapter. 00:02:34.086 --> 00:02:39.401 That was the chapter where he multiplied the loaves and fishes. 00:02:39.483 --> 00:02:43.306 And then he had a group of people that were gonna try to make him king. 00:02:43.306 --> 00:02:49.608 They were gonna try to take him by force Because a lot of his followers were not following because of the word. 00:02:49.608 --> 00:02:53.960 They were not following because they believed he was really the Messiah. 00:02:53.960 --> 00:03:00.865 They followed him because they saw a potential king and a potential leader where they could lead a rebellion against Rome. 00:03:00.865 --> 00:03:03.987 That's how out of touch they were with reality. 00:03:03.987 --> 00:03:14.848 And so he sent his disciples and said I'll see you later. 00:03:14.848 --> 00:03:26.766 And he went up on a part, he separated himself from those people trying to take him and he went to pray and then he walked on the water, went out there and they were afraid of him. 00:03:26.766 --> 00:03:30.128 And then they realized it was Jesus, I'd be not afraid. 00:03:30.128 --> 00:03:34.967 So they brought him onto the ship and immediately they were on the land on the other side. 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:51.426 So when that big group of people realized that he was gone and the disciples were gone, they took shipping and went on to the other side and they caught up with Jesus and Jesus started kinda, you know, quit following me around, cause you think you're gonna get your next meal. 00:03:51.426 --> 00:03:52.825 See, they'd gotten fed. 00:03:52.825 --> 00:04:00.128 They had gotten so full of the loaves and fish that they were completely full and they were leftovers. 00:04:00.128 --> 00:04:05.919 And so, man, they hadn't been that full in a long time and they were hoping for another meal. 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:09.447 And he said quit, looking at me for your next meal, you know. 00:04:09.447 --> 00:04:11.685 And he started talking about he was the bread of life. 00:04:12.121 --> 00:04:21.427 And so when he starts preaching many verses later, you can see he's getting revved up and he is saying some things that he knew would blow their little religious minds. 00:04:21.427 --> 00:04:26.427 How many of you have to admit, it's kinda hard to read these verses. 00:04:26.427 --> 00:04:28.887 It kinda go ow, that sounds ow. 00:04:28.887 --> 00:04:33.487 So I'm gonna remedy that today and give you the reason why he said it. 00:04:33.487 --> 00:04:35.947 He said it to drop a plumb line. 00:04:35.947 --> 00:04:51.447 He said it to separate people that really wanna follow him from people that just want all the goodies, people that just want what comes with being a Christian, what comes with, maybe, church membership I mean lonely people like membership. 00:04:51.447 --> 00:04:51.961 Yeah, they. 00:04:51.961 --> 00:04:53.266 You know we've got somebody to talk to. 00:04:53.266 --> 00:05:02.783 Listen, if you're just gonna hit the high spots and do the things that are beneficial to you and make you feel a certain way, listen. 00:05:02.783 --> 00:05:08.404 Jesus said you need to partake of me, need to partake of me. 00:05:08.404 --> 00:05:11.725 If you really wanna have eternal life, you need to partake of me. 00:05:11.725 --> 00:05:16.591 And so you know all through. 00:05:17.271 --> 00:05:25.406 If you keep reading one of some of the disciples, you know he had 70 full time ministers that he was their support. 00:05:25.406 --> 00:05:27.848 I mean people talk about how he was poor. 00:05:27.848 --> 00:05:31.129 No, he was a rich preacher and he had plenty of money. 00:05:31.129 --> 00:05:33.245 He had a lot of supporters. 00:05:33.245 --> 00:05:37.665 Rich women in Jerusalem supported his ministry and besides others. 00:05:37.665 --> 00:05:41.850 And so these disciples? 00:05:41.850 --> 00:05:47.786 They said man, this is a hard saying, who can understand it? 00:05:47.786 --> 00:05:50.507 And they left and they didn't follow him any longer. 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:52.704 And then he came to the 12. 00:05:52.704 --> 00:05:54.386 He said well, are you gonna leave too? 00:05:54.386 --> 00:05:59.466 Peter said in so many words well, we would, but we don't know where to go. 00:05:59.466 --> 00:06:03.944 I mean, he didn't say it like that, but I mean I think that's what he was thinking. 00:06:03.944 --> 00:06:07.007 No, you've got the words of eternal life. 00:06:07.007 --> 00:06:07.966 We're gonna stick with you. 00:06:07.966 --> 00:06:10.084 We're gonna stick with the word. 00:06:10.084 --> 00:06:11.024 We're gonna stick with you. 00:06:11.024 --> 00:06:13.504 We don't understand that either, but we're gonna stick with you. 00:06:13.504 --> 00:06:18.062 Oh, thank you. 00:06:18.062 --> 00:06:19.165 Come on, let's lift our hands. 00:06:19.165 --> 00:06:22.415 Lord, we thank you that you are the bread of life, hallelujah. 00:06:22.415 --> 00:06:30.435 And so there's a similarity of natural and spiritual nourishment that runs all through the Bible. 00:06:30.435 --> 00:06:32.261 You know manna. 00:06:32.261 --> 00:06:36.435 You know and they were bragging that our fathers had manna. 00:06:36.435 --> 00:06:44.980 Well, moses and Jesus said Moses didn't give you that manna, my father gave you that manna and your fathers are dead. 00:06:44.980 --> 00:06:48.185 What I give you is going to is eternal. 00:06:48.185 --> 00:06:50.370 I see they couldn't make the connection. 00:06:51.357 --> 00:06:55.505 The Pharisee, he would say things to provoke religious people. 00:06:55.505 --> 00:06:59.435 You know, a lot of what we do around here is going to provoke some religious people. 00:06:59.435 --> 00:07:02.139 You might as well get ready for some persecution. 00:07:02.139 --> 00:07:09.355 You might as well get ready to be unfriended on Facebook, uninvited to some of the family reunions. 00:07:09.355 --> 00:07:12.480 You know, you're just going to have to understand that. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:13.884 This is where we're at right now. 00:07:13.884 --> 00:07:26.435 There's a dividing line, there's a plumb line, and you can either decide to get on the right side of it or you can just get on the wrong side of it and have a temporary reprieve with some of your biggest critics. 00:07:26.435 --> 00:07:29.019 But I'm telling you right now, jesus is not. 00:07:29.019 --> 00:07:32.204 He said I've come to bring a sword. 00:07:32.204 --> 00:07:34.790 You read what he said. 00:07:34.790 --> 00:07:41.100 Read what he said We've got this religiousized. 00:07:41.100 --> 00:07:45.824 Namby Pamby, a tagging, looking he was a Jewish rabbi. 00:07:45.824 --> 00:07:48.369 Okay, he didn't look like a guy from Rome. 00:07:48.369 --> 00:08:03.483 And so, anyway, in the Bible there's similarly a natural and a spiritual nourishment Told Timothy Paul did, he said, be nourished up in the words of faith. 00:08:04.704 --> 00:08:15.603 And it says in the book of Hebrews you need to quit just looking after the milk of the Word when, for the time, you ought to be teaching others. 00:08:15.603 --> 00:08:19.394 You have need to be fed the milk of the Word. 00:08:19.394 --> 00:08:24.408 Peter said desire the sincere milk of the Word that you may grow there by. 00:08:24.408 --> 00:08:30.521 What's milk for Milk is for babies and it's easy to digest, it's easy to eat. 00:08:30.521 --> 00:08:36.389 You don't even have to use your mouth, you need to suck it down, no chewing necessary. 00:08:36.389 --> 00:08:39.000 And so that's the way a lot of Christians are. 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:40.302 They like the milk of the Word. 00:08:40.302 --> 00:08:40.864 What's the milk? 00:08:40.864 --> 00:08:47.442 It's all the blessing scriptures, it's all the goodies, and they're glad to hear it. 00:08:47.782 --> 00:08:54.192 And we do preach that we want, you know, a good, cold glass of milk along with some other food is pretty good food. 00:08:54.192 --> 00:08:56.397 But you need meat. 00:08:56.397 --> 00:08:58.198 What is meat? 00:08:58.198 --> 00:09:04.145 Well, the Bible describes meat as teaching about your righteousness. 00:09:04.145 --> 00:09:07.389 Meat is really your responsibilities. 00:09:07.389 --> 00:09:16.307 You know, an example of meat would be there where Paul says you know, endure hardness as good soldiers. 00:09:16.307 --> 00:09:19.519 You know, he doesn't. 00:09:19.580 --> 00:09:23.327 Really Paul doesn't talk too much about the sheep, he talks about soldiers. 00:09:23.327 --> 00:09:26.414 He talks about athletes that are training for the games. 00:09:26.414 --> 00:09:32.470 He's talking about a higher level of Christianity than what you have in most churches. 00:09:32.470 --> 00:09:44.969 Much of what you have in most churches is this milk, if that might not even be that, it might be just chalk and water Really no nourishment at all. 00:09:44.969 --> 00:09:56.149 And so, in order to, jesus said you know, I want you to eat my flesh and drink my blood. 00:09:56.149 --> 00:09:58.317 Obviously he wasn't talking about cannibalism. 00:09:58.317 --> 00:10:01.563 He's talking about who, his person. 00:10:01.563 --> 00:10:02.063 Who is it? 00:10:02.063 --> 00:10:03.626 He is the Word of God. 00:10:05.674 --> 00:10:09.140 So, eating the Word, what do you need to? 00:10:09.140 --> 00:10:09.381 Eat? 00:10:09.381 --> 00:10:10.923 Anything, drink anything. 00:10:10.923 --> 00:10:13.548 You need to hunger and thirst, don't you? 00:10:13.548 --> 00:10:16.219 Number one on the list would be appetite. 00:10:16.219 --> 00:10:19.326 You know, you've got to kind of hone your appetite for the Word of God. 00:10:19.326 --> 00:10:23.339 It's easily supplanted by the things of this world. 00:10:23.339 --> 00:10:41.182 It's easy for things of this world to move in and begin to dull your appetite for Jesus, or dull your appetite for the Word of God and ease your thirst for what his blood has purchased. 00:10:41.182 --> 00:10:46.331 The blood means your redemption, who you are in Christ, what belongs to you. 00:10:46.331 --> 00:10:49.434 And God is expecting you to possess what he paid for. 00:10:49.434 --> 00:11:02.086 He's not pleased when you don't possess what he paid for, but when you do possess what he paid for, he's so fulfilled. 00:11:02.086 --> 00:11:03.912 You give him something to smile about. 00:11:03.912 --> 00:11:05.394 You give him something to shout about. 00:11:05.394 --> 00:11:08.221 God rejoices over you with singing. 00:11:08.221 --> 00:11:12.610 Are you with me now? 00:11:13.753 --> 00:11:14.434 Everybody say appetite. 00:11:14.434 --> 00:11:18.100 So you got to hunger and thirst after God. 00:11:18.100 --> 00:11:24.687 Jesus said, he that hungers and thirsts after righteousness shall be filled or shall be gorged. 00:11:24.687 --> 00:11:27.230 Word of field means gorged. 00:11:27.230 --> 00:11:29.998 Have you ever gorged on fajitas? 00:11:29.998 --> 00:11:37.267 I tell you, I've eaten so many of those until the guacamole is coming out in my ears. 00:11:37.267 --> 00:11:47.904 I'm talking about gorged. 00:11:47.904 --> 00:11:49.868 It's not a finger food, it's a hand food. 00:11:49.868 --> 00:11:51.669 Get your hands in it. 00:11:51.669 --> 00:11:56.982 Fajitas with a knife and fork it's just something wrong with the picture. 00:11:56.982 --> 00:11:57.764 I'm just sorry. 00:11:57.764 --> 00:11:59.687 Just eat it however you want to. 00:12:00.975 --> 00:12:07.606 But appetite, say hunger and thirst, and then application, application means you actually eat it. 00:12:07.606 --> 00:12:12.434 See, you're hungry for it and now you eat it and it becomes what you are, what you eat. 00:12:12.434 --> 00:12:18.673 There's an old saying that says that and I was wearing a whole lot of what I was eating, you know, around the middle of it. 00:12:18.673 --> 00:12:22.077 But that's changing. 00:12:22.077 --> 00:12:35.192 Praise the Lord, and so, but application actually eating and digesting, as opposed to just, you know, admiring and looking at it. 00:12:35.192 --> 00:12:36.476 Oh, isn't that a beautiful. 00:12:36.476 --> 00:12:38.480 Look at those fajitas. 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:39.981 Oh, smell those. 00:12:39.981 --> 00:12:42.865 No, eat the things that they're designed to eat. 00:12:42.865 --> 00:12:45.956 You can admire it for a little bit At some point. 00:12:45.956 --> 00:12:49.323 If you're going to get any benefit from it, you've got to eat it, right? 00:12:49.323 --> 00:12:54.581 Rice cakes are not the same Rice cakes. 00:12:54.581 --> 00:12:58.349 Don't do it for me. 00:12:58.349 --> 00:12:59.350 I'm sorry, I know that. 00:12:59.350 --> 00:13:09.174 And then when you're eating I just picked on fajitas there's all kind of food that I like. 00:13:09.174 --> 00:13:12.264 I like lots of food, but part of it is the delight. 00:13:12.264 --> 00:13:13.399 Everybody say delight. 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.764 See the satisfaction that you know. 00:13:16.764 --> 00:13:21.542 I like what brother Mark says when you're thrilled with the word of God, it'll work for you. 00:13:21.542 --> 00:13:25.918 When you get thrilled with the word of God, it'll work for you. 00:13:25.918 --> 00:13:37.751 And sometimes we just don't let ourselves get thrilled with the word, we get distracted. 00:13:37.751 --> 00:13:39.034 I think is the word distracted? 00:13:39.034 --> 00:13:43.138 God spoke to me. 00:13:43.177 --> 00:13:44.001 15 years ago. 00:13:44.001 --> 00:13:44.878 I went to Galveston. 00:13:44.878 --> 00:13:49.184 I usually go about every quarter four times a year. 00:13:49.184 --> 00:13:59.337 Some years I don't quite make it four times, sometimes it might be just three times, but I try to go and I'm a little behind now because of all that we've gone through. 00:13:59.337 --> 00:14:01.234 I've been missing. 00:14:01.234 --> 00:14:02.760 This is my time of the year, right in March. 00:14:02.760 --> 00:14:11.283 April is when I always go, and here we are almost May now, but I like to go and it just. 00:14:11.283 --> 00:14:15.899 I like water, I like to look at the water and I don't know, I just get a lot of. 00:14:15.899 --> 00:14:24.558 I hear from God and sometimes I have specific things I'm asking to hear about and other times I just said, lord, if there's anything I need to know, you let me know. 00:14:24.558 --> 00:14:25.856 And I've had some. 00:14:25.856 --> 00:14:33.760 You know I've had some times I woke up with an urgency to go and other times I just schedule it to go, whichever way it is. 00:14:33.760 --> 00:14:37.585 But I was there one time, about, I'd say, 15 years ago. 00:14:37.585 --> 00:14:39.542 I could have looked it up and I didn't bother. 00:14:39.542 --> 00:14:42.342 And this is what he said to me when I was there. 00:14:43.735 --> 00:14:53.825 Many are satiated with the cares of this world and the pleasures of this world, and much of the care comes from the pursuit of the pleasure. 00:14:53.825 --> 00:14:56.900 Many are satiated. 00:14:56.900 --> 00:15:02.307 Now, satiated is not a word that's in my normal vocabulary. 00:15:02.307 --> 00:15:08.465 I mean I know kind of what it means, but I felt, you know, impressed to look it up and see. 00:15:08.465 --> 00:15:13.226 And of course, satiated is in the Old Testament, psalm 31, I think it is. 00:15:13.226 --> 00:15:18.585 The souls of the priests shall be satiated with fatness. 00:15:18.585 --> 00:15:23.162 Satiated means gorged, it means filled, overflowing. 00:15:23.162 --> 00:15:33.139 It's kind of like when the people ate the five loaves and the two fish of the multiplication, and they were filled, they were gorged and there was leftovers. 00:15:33.139 --> 00:15:40.820 And the same thing happened when Jesus fed the 4,000 men they were filled, they were gorged. 00:15:40.820 --> 00:15:46.086 Many people are gorged on the cares of this world. 00:15:46.086 --> 00:15:48.423 That's what's going on right now. 00:15:49.975 --> 00:16:00.139 You can't turn your television on to normal television without it all being about the coronavirus or they're having a concert. 00:16:00.139 --> 00:16:02.046 They're having a virtual concert. 00:16:02.046 --> 00:16:03.541 How boring could that be? 00:16:03.541 --> 00:16:09.321 Somebody playing in their living room as if they're in the concert hall? 00:16:09.321 --> 00:16:10.104 It's not the same. 00:16:10.104 --> 00:16:12.042 Hello, it's not the same. 00:16:12.042 --> 00:16:18.322 It's all about the corona, corona, corona. 00:16:18.322 --> 00:16:23.746 They are gorged with a care of death. 00:16:23.746 --> 00:16:26.826 They think they're gonna die. 00:16:26.826 --> 00:16:27.735 They think if they have it it's somehow. 00:16:27.735 --> 00:16:30.364 Well, I survived the corona. 00:16:30.364 --> 00:16:31.440 They've got a testimony. 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:33.321 Now, yeah, they wanna hear all about it. 00:16:33.735 --> 00:16:35.884 Well, I was sick for about 10 days. 00:16:35.884 --> 00:16:38.924 I had fever on and off, and I'm listening to that. 00:16:38.924 --> 00:16:40.640 I thought what in the world? 00:16:40.640 --> 00:16:42.760 Have we become a bunch of weenies? 00:16:42.760 --> 00:16:46.585 Have we turned into a bunch of nincompoops? 00:16:46.585 --> 00:16:51.801 For God's sake, this is the nation that landed a man on the moon. 00:16:51.801 --> 00:17:00.980 This is the nation that delivered the world out of the Soviet Union's hand and defeated the Soviet Union. 00:17:00.980 --> 00:17:01.503 The Wall. 00:17:01.503 --> 00:17:03.039 This is the nation. 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:07.423 I mean this is the greatest nation and we act like a bunch of fools. 00:17:07.423 --> 00:17:16.881 We're rotten and, unfortunately, I mean our children are rotting. 00:17:16.881 --> 00:17:17.101 Why? 00:17:17.101 --> 00:17:19.698 Because they're being indoctrinated instead of taught. 00:17:23.298 --> 00:17:32.895 Well, I'm getting off the track here, but anyway, satiated with the cares of this world and, let's face it, I mean a lot of the care comes from the pursuit of the pleasure. 00:17:32.895 --> 00:17:34.536 I mean we're in massive. 00:17:34.536 --> 00:17:36.916 I mean I was just reading this in January. 00:17:36.916 --> 00:17:40.936 I mean we have massive credit card debt, student loan debt, every kind of debt. 00:17:40.936 --> 00:17:47.939 All of our houses have been borrowed up to the hill, max borrowing on refinancing, which is good and bad. 00:17:47.939 --> 00:17:56.416 It's good because you know we pull money out, but if you just go to spend it, so there's a lot of debt in the country. 00:17:56.529 --> 00:18:07.500 And then we hit this economic disaster right here where, for a part of the time last week, oil they had to pay people that had oil to sell. 00:18:07.500 --> 00:18:08.875 They had to pay people to buy it. 00:18:08.875 --> 00:18:10.553 That's what it was. 00:18:10.553 --> 00:18:12.576 You don't understand the futures market. 00:18:12.576 --> 00:18:20.555 What oil traders had to do last week for two days is they couldn't find anybody to buy the oil because there's no place to put it. 00:18:20.555 --> 00:18:23.558 So they said please take it, I'll pay you to take it. 00:18:23.558 --> 00:18:27.396 And they paid people to take it. 00:18:27.396 --> 00:18:31.376 How long is that gonna last? 00:18:31.376 --> 00:18:37.174 Well, thank God, it stopped after two days and started coming back up. 00:18:37.174 --> 00:18:39.297 I think it's I don't know what it is $11. 00:18:39.297 --> 00:18:42.939 A barrel, are you kidding? 00:18:42.939 --> 00:18:44.815 That's catastrophic. 00:18:46.210 --> 00:18:47.695 Well, pastor, I thought it was gonna be a great. 00:18:47.695 --> 00:18:52.478 It's gonna be a great year, because I know God is gonna turn this thing around. 00:18:52.478 --> 00:18:55.579 I told Gladys I wanna go buy some oil right today. 00:18:55.579 --> 00:18:57.497 In fact, I want somebody to pay me to take it. 00:18:57.497 --> 00:19:01.851 I want some oil down, but I don't have a place to put it Started. 00:19:01.851 --> 00:19:03.636 Looking in the backyard, it's not big enough. 00:19:03.636 --> 00:19:08.862 See, that's how I think. 00:19:08.862 --> 00:19:10.896 Did you think that way? 00:19:10.896 --> 00:19:18.150 Let's start thinking contrary to the world, because there's an opportunity right now. 00:19:18.150 --> 00:19:28.179 I don't know what your financial situation is, but don't let the care of this world and pursuing riches. 00:19:28.179 --> 00:19:40.179 I mean, just look, eat him, eat his flesh and drink his blood and you be excited about that, and God will provide all the rest of it. 00:19:40.179 --> 00:19:46.220 He's gonna give you the wisdom it's gonna take to get you to the next level that he has for you. 00:19:46.220 --> 00:19:53.875 So many in the church are spiritually malnourished and that's why you're seeing so many. 00:19:54.269 --> 00:19:56.357 I saw a letter written by a whole bunch of churches. 00:19:56.357 --> 00:19:57.011 They signed it. 00:19:57.011 --> 00:19:58.637 I signed a letter opposite of that. 00:19:58.637 --> 00:20:04.699 As soon as we found out about it, we answered the letter and this letter was from some high-muckety mucks. 00:20:04.699 --> 00:20:08.557 They were the Pharisees of the city and they said oh, we caught it, can't open up yet. 00:20:08.557 --> 00:20:09.835 Oh, it's too dangerous. 00:20:09.835 --> 00:20:12.009 See, what Bible do they read? 00:20:12.009 --> 00:20:13.253 I don't think they read the Bible. 00:20:13.253 --> 00:20:15.490 What gospel do they pray? 00:20:15.490 --> 00:20:16.569 I don't think they have the good news. 00:20:16.569 --> 00:20:18.815 They have the bad news Right. 00:20:18.815 --> 00:20:23.099 I can't imagine a pastor wanting to stay closed. 00:20:23.099 --> 00:20:24.835 You're so afraid. 00:20:24.835 --> 00:20:27.576 What in the world do you preach? 00:20:27.576 --> 00:20:30.329 And so there's a whole bunch of churches. 00:20:30.329 --> 00:20:31.730 Some of them I knew, some of them I didn't. 00:20:31.730 --> 00:20:34.680 I won't mention their names, but you know Dave Welch. 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:37.819 He said he may only says you know, here's my letter. 00:20:37.970 --> 00:20:39.694 We're gonna answer this as foolish. 00:20:39.694 --> 00:20:43.678 It's arrogant and it doesn't speak for a whole lot of churches. 00:20:43.678 --> 00:20:45.998 We speak for a whole lot more churches than they do. 00:20:45.998 --> 00:20:46.932 Let's answer that. 00:20:46.932 --> 00:20:49.477 I signed my name Gloria's Way Church. 00:20:49.477 --> 00:21:00.317 I mean, I don't care, I'm probably not gonna be real popular among some folks, but you know what we're gonna stand for, what this word says we're gonna eat his flesh and drink his blood. 00:21:00.317 --> 00:21:03.561 Amen, amen. 00:21:03.561 --> 00:21:06.017 We're gonna be spiritually nourished, not malnourished. 00:21:06.017 --> 00:21:09.376 It doesn't help them by agreeing with them. 00:21:10.369 --> 00:21:11.915 I'm gonna use this illustration again. 00:21:11.915 --> 00:21:16.718 It's been a long time since I've flown, because I kind of gave up when they had the comfort animals. 00:21:16.718 --> 00:21:27.615 I didn't want to sit next to a horse or a peacock, you know, or a yak or any, I don't know what's on there, I just read about. 00:21:27.615 --> 00:21:28.479 It's kind of a horror story. 00:21:28.479 --> 00:21:34.458 But anyway, back the last time I flew, the flight attendant I used to call stewardess they're not steward flight attendant. 00:21:34.549 --> 00:21:45.198 Flight attendant gets up and says okay, if the cabin has a sudden depressurization, the oxygen mask will fall from the ceiling. 00:21:45.198 --> 00:21:53.098 You grab it and stretch it over your mouth and nose not just your mouth, mouth and nose and pull the cord and the oxygen will start flowing. 00:21:53.098 --> 00:22:03.739 Once the oxygen starts flowing and you're breathing normally through the mask, then turn and help little Johnny or Aunt Sally or whoever's next to you that has not got their mask on. 00:22:03.739 --> 00:22:09.854 Don't put their mask on in yours because you might not make it, because people don't realize. 00:22:09.854 --> 00:22:13.597 At 30,000 feet the air is sucked out of the cabin. 00:22:13.597 --> 00:22:22.896 When there's no pressurization, I mean your lungs will evacuate air and you will not be able to breathe and you will black out in seconds. 00:22:22.896 --> 00:22:25.917 It's not like holding your breath for 60,. 00:22:25.917 --> 00:22:27.134 Most of us can hold our breath. 00:22:27.134 --> 00:22:28.298 No, it's not like that. 00:22:28.298 --> 00:22:31.258 You'll black out, bam, and then you're gone. 00:22:31.258 --> 00:22:39.214 So it's life and death for you to do what she's telling you or he is telling you to do, and this is the same way. 00:22:39.315 --> 00:22:50.871 In other words, it doesn't help us at all to like our Facebook friends and be so sweet to them and put up with all of their invective and all of their trash talk back to us and name calling back to us. 00:22:50.871 --> 00:22:52.576 It doesn't do them any good for us. 00:22:52.576 --> 00:22:55.236 We have to be who we are. 00:22:55.236 --> 00:22:56.173 Let's just shine. 00:22:56.173 --> 00:22:58.714 Let's lead by example. 00:22:58.714 --> 00:23:01.455 We don't have to be ugly toward them. 00:23:01.455 --> 00:23:03.056 You're just not going to change their mind. 00:23:03.056 --> 00:23:05.916 They're panic-stricken and they're malnourished. 00:23:05.916 --> 00:23:09.856 You can't fix that in a Facebook post. 00:23:09.856 --> 00:23:14.157 You can't fix that in a five-minute conversation. 00:23:14.157 --> 00:23:16.193 You've got to decide. 00:23:16.193 --> 00:23:19.275 I'm not going to allow any of this to affect my heart. 00:23:19.275 --> 00:23:21.916 I'm going to stay nutritious. 00:23:21.916 --> 00:23:24.258 I'm going to feed on the Word of God. 00:23:24.258 --> 00:23:25.555 I'm going to drink His blood. 00:23:25.555 --> 00:23:31.357 I'm going to have a complete understanding of what Jesus blood bought and paid for my redemption. 00:23:31.357 --> 00:23:39.057 He redeemed me from COVID-19 and from every other kind of demonic attack. 00:23:39.057 --> 00:23:41.132 Amen, are you with me now? 00:23:43.789 --> 00:23:50.878 So Jesus initiated the tradition of communion and he's the one that put it into effect on them. 00:23:50.878 --> 00:24:02.636 And of course, when you read John chapter six, it really kind of set the apostles up for when they did break bread on Passover night. 00:24:02.636 --> 00:24:06.155 And Jesus in the book of John. 00:24:06.155 --> 00:24:13.079 He doesn't really talk about the communion part in John chapter 12. 00:24:13.079 --> 00:24:17.298 That's in Mark and in Luke and Matthew. 00:24:17.298 --> 00:24:26.556 But in John chapter 12, he goes through and he says you know, somebody around this table is going to betray me and he starts talking. 00:24:26.556 --> 00:24:30.319 He refers back to this eating the flesh and drinking the blood. 00:24:31.170 --> 00:24:32.955 Everything he did was a teachable moment. 00:24:32.955 --> 00:24:34.673 It was important. 00:24:34.673 --> 00:24:38.750 What he said to the disciples on the night before he was crucified it's going to be the last, he said. 00:24:38.750 --> 00:24:42.134 I'm never going to have this until I come in my glory, until I come in my kingdom. 00:24:42.134 --> 00:24:45.077 I'm never going to have Passover until it's all fulfilled. 00:24:46.049 --> 00:24:47.938 Boy, I'm looking forward to that next Passover. 00:24:47.938 --> 00:24:52.078 When he comes back, I'm going to be there at that Passover meal. 00:24:52.078 --> 00:24:53.094 I can tell you that right now. 00:24:53.094 --> 00:24:54.674 I'm planning on it. 00:24:54.674 --> 00:24:55.773 Are you planning on it? 00:24:55.773 --> 00:24:57.492 Praise God. 00:24:57.492 --> 00:24:59.012 Thank you Lord. 00:24:59.012 --> 00:25:03.791 Thank you Lord, hallelujah. 00:25:03.791 --> 00:25:07.176 Well, look here, I've got my little packet. 00:25:07.176 --> 00:25:14.721 Let's get our little packet out, and very carefully. 00:25:14.721 --> 00:25:30.893 Ok, here's something I just discovered now, never done it before. 00:25:30.893 --> 00:25:34.555 Ok, you've got two little things. 00:25:34.555 --> 00:25:37.779 You've got one for the bread, one for the juice. 00:25:37.779 --> 00:25:43.778 As one of our children's church kids said one time, their mother asked what did y'all do in children's church? 00:25:43.778 --> 00:25:51.044 Oh, we had chips and juice, hallelujah. 00:25:54.769 --> 00:26:11.993 But on the night before he was crucified prophetic acts see, it was a prophetic act and hopefully you heard the John chapter 6 message this morning and now you can have a little more understanding of what we're doing, why we do it. 00:26:11.993 --> 00:26:16.559 We're doing it today to celebrate what Jesus has done. 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:28.337 We don't take any credit for anything, because he's the one that had the plan, he's the one that unfolded it to us and we just simply obeyed Him, step by step. 00:26:28.337 --> 00:26:31.239 That's how we're going to open the church back up to full steam. 00:26:31.239 --> 00:26:38.253 We're going to do it step by step, according to His Spirit, according to His plan, and that's why I'm confident. 00:26:38.535 --> 00:26:41.998 Somebody say well, aren't you afraid to put your people at risk? 00:26:41.998 --> 00:26:46.479 No, it's more of a risk to not get back to normal. 00:26:46.479 --> 00:26:53.413 That's a much bigger risk to keep believing in something and acting a different way. 00:26:53.413 --> 00:27:01.759 See, when you believe in healing and act like you're panic-stricken, you can call your faith into question. 00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:04.133 Are you with me now? 00:27:05.950 --> 00:27:22.314 So he was having that last supper and he took the bread and he looked up to heaven and he held it up and he gave thanks for it and he broke the bread and he gave it to His disciples, said take and eat. 00:27:22.314 --> 00:27:24.450 This is my body, see. 00:27:24.450 --> 00:27:26.759 It went back to John, chapter 6. 00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:28.796 He knew they would remember that day. 00:27:28.796 --> 00:27:30.180 That was a day. 00:27:30.180 --> 00:27:33.166 That was the dividing line, that was the plumb line. 00:27:33.186 --> 00:27:35.932 When a bunch of preachers left him. 00:27:35.932 --> 00:27:40.451 A bunch of people went the other way because they couldn't go along with it. 00:27:40.451 --> 00:27:41.970 Oh, this is a hard saying. 00:27:41.970 --> 00:27:45.173 Who can understand that? 00:27:45.173 --> 00:27:47.269 They were offended at him. 00:27:47.269 --> 00:27:48.429 Oh, you offended too. 00:27:48.429 --> 00:27:50.509 Are you gonna leave too? 00:27:50.509 --> 00:27:51.709 Uh-uh, no way. 00:27:51.709 --> 00:27:53.628 We don't know where else to go. 00:27:53.628 --> 00:27:57.452 I don't know where else to go except in his presence. 00:27:58.505 --> 00:27:59.689 And he made a way for us. 00:27:59.689 --> 00:28:02.570 His body was broken for us. 00:28:02.570 --> 00:28:04.830 He took COVID-19. 00:28:04.830 --> 00:28:05.989 We don't have to have it. 00:28:05.989 --> 00:28:07.609 He took cancer. 00:28:07.609 --> 00:28:09.792 He took every kind of disease. 00:28:09.792 --> 00:28:12.109 He took poverty. 00:28:12.109 --> 00:28:17.131 He was made poor that we might be rich, have a full supply. 00:28:17.131 --> 00:28:18.289 That's what rich means. 00:28:19.825 --> 00:28:24.009 So let's look at the bread and think about the need that we have. 00:28:24.009 --> 00:28:26.133 Maybe you've got relatives that are COVID-19. 00:28:26.133 --> 00:28:30.913 Maybe you've got people in your family that are at risk for it. 00:28:30.913 --> 00:28:35.971 They're high risk because of certain issues they have in other areas of their health. 00:28:35.971 --> 00:28:40.971 Let's just believe God to touch them and move them over to your way of thinking. 00:28:40.971 --> 00:28:48.029 Let's break the bread now and let's receive and eat of his flesh. 00:28:48.029 --> 00:28:53.291 Hallelujah, we're one with you, jesus. 00:28:53.291 --> 00:28:57.250 It's through you we have eternal life. 00:28:57.250 --> 00:29:04.380 Hallelujah, glory to God. 00:29:04.380 --> 00:29:25.213 Likewise, he took the cup and he said this is a cup of my blood, of the new and everlasting covenant, which shall be shed for you and for many, unto the remission of sins. 00:29:26.924 --> 00:29:32.347 Remission was strictly a New Testament word and the Old Testament. 00:29:32.347 --> 00:29:35.195 All they had was the covering of sin. 00:29:35.195 --> 00:29:42.792 The blood of bulls and goats was just shed and it basically disguised the sin. 00:29:42.792 --> 00:29:52.395 And then they had to burn the animal and so the smell of burning flesh and the smoke and the smell would rise up. 00:29:52.395 --> 00:29:57.352 The blood of the bull and goat, it simply hid the sin. 00:29:57.352 --> 00:30:01.191 That's why they had to do it every day and it had to happen continually. 00:30:01.191 --> 00:30:07.131 But Jesus said I'm going to do it, I'm gonna handle it one time. 00:30:07.131 --> 00:30:14.029 One time I'm gonna shed my blood, I'm gonna take it in behind the veil and it's gonna be there forever. 00:30:14.029 --> 00:30:19.128 And your sins are not just forgiven, they're remitted. 00:30:19.128 --> 00:30:21.291 In other words, they've been paid for in full. 00:30:21.291 --> 00:30:23.571 There's no record of you ever having sinned. 00:30:23.571 --> 00:30:29.076 Your record has been expunged, blotted out. 00:30:29.076 --> 00:30:31.289 No record there. 00:30:31.289 --> 00:30:35.271 See, that's the meat of the word. 00:30:35.345 --> 00:30:44.290 When you get bold enough to know that you're right with God, you're not so worried about what people think of you because you know you're right with God. 00:30:44.290 --> 00:30:46.209 His blood has been shed for you. 00:30:46.209 --> 00:30:54.573 And even when you miss it, you don't have to go through a month-long process. 00:30:54.573 --> 00:30:57.007