SPEAKER_00: I just want to lead you into a time of communion now.
SPEAKER_00: Can you remember going back to year six or seven?
SPEAKER_00: That's been a long time ago.
SPEAKER_00: Remember those science experiments where you had you put a magnet near a collection of iron filings, and that magnet will keep picking them up on and on and on.
SPEAKER_00: The magnet never loses its power over the iron filings.
SPEAKER_00: The magnet never loses its authority over the iron filings.
SPEAKER_00: The other thing that I thought, if I take out new insurance, they send me a legal document saying what they will do for me.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm just looking at Mark 14, 24 to 8.
SPEAKER_00: It says, Jesus says, This is my blood, which confirms a new covenant between God and His people.
SPEAKER_00: This is God's legal commitment to his people through his blood.
SPEAKER_00: And looked at eight things that God gives us through the blood of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: There's probably so many more, but eight.
SPEAKER_00: There's forgiveness of sins.
SPEAKER_00: There's peace with God.
SPEAKER_00: We're transferred from enemies into friends with God.
SPEAKER_00: We have moved from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light.
SPEAKER_00: We are united with Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Once we were far away, but now we have been brought close.
SPEAKER_00: As we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God.
SPEAKER_00: And lastly, thank you so much.
unknown: Goody.
SPEAKER_00: There is no condemnation.
SPEAKER_00: That legal document gives us those things, and there's so many more that we could find.
SPEAKER_00: As we take the blood and the bread.
SPEAKER_00: Well, let us rejoice that we are legally committed in a covenant relationship with God and He gives us so much.
SPEAKER_00: Let's be grateful, let's rejoice in all that He gives us.
SPEAKER_00: And as you are taking the bread and the wine, I'll invite the worship team to come up there when it's appropriate for them.