History Of The Communion - Duane Permenter 6/9/11

Once more, we welcome you to our sin League.

We Echo the feelings of appreciation that have already

been stated. We're thankful for everyone who

is here. Now, we're not going to study

anything new tonight as has been the case in every part of our

services this week. But we want to study further and

maybe remind you of some things and maybe even teach you some

things, maybe that you have not thought about when we talk about

the history of the communion, the idea.

Of the communion is very interesting notice.

Now, First Corinthians chapter 10, now Paul is not necessarily

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teaching on the communion in 1st Corinthians, chapter 10, he's

teaching a lesson about eating meat at the idols Temple, or

eating the meat that has been offered to Idols, but he uses

the communion The Establishment, and the practice of the

communion in the church at Corinth to illustrate and teach

the people a lesson about the theme of the subject that he

wants them to, Staying. And so we can take these verses

and we can infer some things that Paul suggests notice now,

1st Corinthians 10:16 the cup of blessing which we bless.

Is it not the communion of the blood of Christ, the bread,

which we break? Is it?

Not the communion of the body of Christ?

For we though many are one bread and one body.

For we all partake of that one bread.

So we have this word communion And now the word communion has

at its root, the word common. And so the idea that's being

suggested here is that there's something that is shared in

common. In fact, the lexicographer

defines the word communion as a having in common, a partnership

Fellowship, it denotes the share, which one has an

anything? It participation Fellowship

recognized, and enjoyed. Now notice what Brian continues

to say in the same context. He says this word.

In 1st Corinthians, 10:16 of the sharing in the realization of

the effects of the blood. That is the death of Christ and

the body of Christ has set forth by the emblems in the Lord's

supper. Now, what we must realize is

that communion is not only vertical that is when I commune.

I'm communing with God, when you're commuting your communing

with God, but communion is horizontal.

Now, think about this people. Talk about individual, Onion,

that's a paradox. It's not possible to have

individual communion. And when we share in the body

and blood of the Lord, we're sharing it with each other,

we're having communion. Now, in order for a communion to

occur, the law of must be blessed.

And from the time that the loaf is blessed, every person in the

assembly has to eat from that one low.

That's what Paul say in First Corinthians chapter 10 and verse

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16. The unit of observance, for the

communion is a Congregation in fact, this is interesting

because this is what's Illustrated in First Corinthians

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chapter 11. Lot of people do not understand

this first Corinthians chapter 11 verse 18.

1 Corinthians 11:18

Paul says, for first of all, when you come together as a

church, that is when you come together in the assembly, I hear

that there are divisions among you.

And in part, I believe it, notice further what he says in

the 20th verse, therefore, he's talking about the same thing,

he's He's looking to the same subject he says, therefore when

you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's

Supper. So the unit of observance is a

congregation, that's why you don't choose to travel around

the world and commune in your home.

Because when you commune it has to occur in a local church in

order, for the communion to be observed, it has to be together

in a local congregation. That's the dictates of the Holy

Spirit. Now, notice I already mentioned

this, but I want to emphasize it again.

When the bread is prayed for, that's the beginning of the

communion of the body of Christ, and when the last person eats

from the bread, it's finished. Now suppose mom, suppose my wife

suppose that it was 25 years ago or actually maybe need to be 27

years ago, and our little boy had to go to the bathroom and

she took him out while we were observing.

The bread. Now what do you do?

She didn't eat the bread. I'll tell you what they do in

some places. when the service is over, they server the brand.

Now, is that right? You see it's wrong.

It's bigger than a local church. And when she ate the bread,

after the service, it's no longer the body of Christ.

It's just bread. I remember when I was a boy.

Somebody missed the service like that, miss the communion, the,

the bread like that, and he didn't drink the cup.

So he did the wrong thing when he didn't drink the cup.

Now, he might have been excused for missing the bread.

If it was a child that was sick or something that he had to take

care of, but when he was sitting in this assembly, and the cup

come by, he didn't drink from a cup.

He said, when he did that, Now, after the service is over, the

preacher said, well then, what you need to do is you need to

eat the bread and then you need to drink the cup that don't

work. Because the unit of observance

is a congregation, and when the bread is finished, when the

assembly has / taken to the bread, that is a communion of

the body of Christ, and when that is finished, it's over,

it's no longer a special portion.

It's no longer a representation of the body of Jesus, but the

unit of observance is the local church now, then let's continue

on in 1st Corinthians chapter 11, no less than five times of

Idea of the concept of coming together is suggesting.

Now when Jesus instituted the supper, we know that it was

during the Passover. So in order to really understand

what happened or what occurred in the in the, in the supper, we

need to talk a little bit about the Passover now.

Jesus had probably observe the Passover with the disciples,

three different times. When he finally came to the to

this observance, where he's going to introduce his body,

he's going to introduce his blood now.

Luke of course, The cup before he mentions the bread.

Why does he do that? Well, Luke often gets things out

of order, but I think David Lipscomb was right.

When he wrote In The Gospel, Advocate back in the 19th

century. He said what was happening was

is here. Jesus was doing something in the

supper that had never been done before.

You see, there was no drink element in the Passover.

Now, you may be sitting there and say, hold it.

Wait a minute, preacher. There was a drink element of the

Passover no sir, with, not in the Bible, there wasn't now the

Jews traditionally had four cups, and some people take the

position that Luke 22, and Jesus mentions the cut the first time

that was the fourth cup of the Passover.

But I don't believe that for one minute.

In fact, that would be an innovation, Jesus would have

changed the law that God had given under that old system in

the Passover. There was no drink element but

now he's going to introduce His supper and so he explains to

them what the compass for. And then he observes the supper,

He blesses the love, he breaks to protect his, we're going to

see the moment he prays for the cup and its contents and he

drinks from the cup and He commands the disciples to all

drink from it. Now, there's not two cups, and

Luke 6:38 would tell you but absent, but of course, there was

Luke 6:38

a reason why Luke mentions the cup twice.

So now, we need to think about the Passover now.

Interesting. Jesus was represented by the

Passover, Lamb. In fact, John the Baptist says,

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the

lamb had to be male, he had to be less than a year old and he

had to be spotless and without blemish.

And of course all of those things pointing to Jesus that

was to die on the cross notice. Now, the Passover pointed to the

cross, it did not necessarily point to the communion.

Sometimes people say that it doesn't necessarily A point to

the communion, it pointed to the cross.

The Bible says that Jesus is the Passover, it says Jesus is the

lamb in First Corinthians 5 or 7.

For indeed Christ. Our Passover was sacrificed for

us and what that means is, he's our Passover Lamb.

Now, what did Jesus do when he instituted the supper?

Now, there were many lows on the table, there are many breads on

the table because during the Passover supper, they were to

observe The eating of unleavened bread.

Now we know that it was unleavened because during the

Passover, they had to go 14 days without any leavening in the

house without any East. Now, this is an interesting

because the word Levin always referred to a solid and the word

ferment always referred to a liquid, but it was the same

Hebrew word, or the same Greek word. another words, if it's

talking about grape juice and it uses the term leaven or

unleavened, Then, it has reference.

To bread. It wouldn't be talking about the

grape juice, but if it says, fermented or unfermented be

talking about the Jews because that's a that's that's a liquid.

Now, what's the point? The point is this there could be

no yeast in the house of any kind.

In fact, they had to do what we might call spring cleaning, they

had to open the cupboards, take everything out and make sure

there was not one Speck of Levin was a reason for that.

It pointed to the fact that in the church should be signals

You'd be cleansed by the blood of Jesus and you wouldn't be

guilty of soon. You see, yeast represented sin

so they were to get it out of their house.

Literally representing the spiritual sin or the sin that

was going to be spiritually, washed away from our lives and

our souls. We're going to be pure.

Now, the bread was unleavened, we don't know for sure what the

recipe is. Now, some people say has to be

wheat bread. But there is no recipe for

wheat, bread concerning the Passover.

Most Scholars. Think that the bread Jesus used

was made from barley flour. Now, there is a, there is a

recipe in the Old Testament. When it's talking about a

certain sacrifice with the priests, where they used whole

wheat flour. But not when it comes to the

bread of the Passover. Now, there is a recipe but it's

not specifically the Passover, but it's a recipe for making

unleavened bread in the book of Exodus and it just says refined

flour. Mingled with oil.

So in the Philippines you might eat a bread or loathe.

It's made out of rice flour in Africa when you get in the bush

they don't have access to wheat flour and so you may eat a loaf

that's made out of corn flour. You see the Lord didn't specify,

it just has to be unleavened. Now, whether you put a little

salt in it, or you don't that don't change the fact of whether

or not it's 11. Now if you don't want to put

salt the bread don't do it. My wife doesn't do that.

She didn't put any salt in the Levant, most of the time, she

doesn't even use any oil. But the Bible says that it was

me, that it was refined flour. Mingled with oil.

Now, the kind of love that they used, according to fair, was

either a square or round in shape and it was about the

thickness of one, son. I listen, it's not a cracker.

Listen to me sisters. If you magdalo, don't make a

cracker and don't put dough on the table.

Think about it a little bit and make it like the Lord wanted it

to be, like he wanted us to make it.

I look at what he says here. Matthew 26:26.

Matthew 26:26

And as they were eating, Jesus Took bread blessed and broke it

and gave it to the disciples and said, take eat.

This is my body. So he takes a loaf of unleavened

bread and he calls it. His body take eat.

This is my body. Look, 22, verse 19 and he took

bread gave thanks and And broke it and gave it to them saying,

this is my body which is given for you.

Do this in remembrance of me, the point is he's commanding

them to do. Whatever he did, whatever it is

that he did, he commands Peter, if he was sitting to his right,

he commands him, this do or do just as I have done, this bread

is my body. This do do this.

Keep on doing this, that's why you read.

Acts the second chapter verse 42 that they broke bread on the

first day of the church in Acts. 20 verse 7.

Acts 20:7

They're still breaking bread. In fact, this was a common

practice. Every time the church came

together on the first day of the week to break bread.

And of course it became a figure representing the Lord's.

Supper, when they said break bread, they meant they observe

the Lord's supper and even represented all of the parts of

service that they were to observe.

Now, what did Jesus do think about this?

He commanded them To do as he did.

So what did he do? Some think that he broke it in

two. Now if I break that bread into

it, I hand it to tear. It can carry do that again

though. He can't do it.

It's impossible. Some believe.

That he took the loaf and of course we're pretending now.

So don't go away and said to him permit or said that piece of

bread, a piece of paper was the bread because it's not some

believe that he took the love and he broke it into as many

people in his many pieces as there were present.

Now if he did that and passed it to Terry, could Terry do that?

No, he couldn't do that. This is another position.

In fact, this is the position we hold.

Some believe that Jesus Took the love.

He took one love. He called one loaf his body.

He blessed one loaf. He brought from one love.

He ate from one low and he passed.

One love to the disciples and they all broke each to partake.

Now let's go back to 1st Corinthians chapter 10 and 16.

Look at this, the cup of blessing which we bless.

Is it not the communion communion of the blood of

Christ? The Bread that, which we break

is it? Not the communion of the body of

Christ? Notice now the bread, which we

break, who are the, we that break?

Well Paul's at Ephesus, and the unit of observance is a

congregation. So this we would include Paul at

Ephesus and the church at Ephesus, it would include the

church at Corinth where he was writing.

So it was a local church of symbol that broke the bread.

He says, we Break. Who was the one that broke?

For we though, many are one bread and one body.

Look at this for we the same way that breaks in verse 16 for we

all partake of that one bread, you see?

He took one bread, One Love And he broke it.

Why did he break it to partake? And he passed it to the

disciples and he commanded them to do, as he had done to do,

just as he had done. Now, this is interesting.

We've been, we're talking about the Passover with this was

during the Passover that this was observed.

And so there's some things that we learn about the communion

because it was the Passover, one of the things that we mentioned,

it's we know that the Jews and the bread were A unleavened and

unfermented because no leavening was allowed in the house.

The grape juice had to be grape juice and we know that the

Ancients had at least six methods, that they used to

preserve fresh juice. The time that Jesus observed.

The supper was not the time of bearing grapes and so they would

preserve juice. One of the ways they preserved,

it was to mash the juice into some kind of container and then

boil it down to where it was. A thick syrup.

In fact it's known today that if you have a liquid that's more

than 60 percent sugar it's almost impossible to ferment.

In fact, it'll if it does spoil it all it'll spoil and become

vinegar, not liquor not wine. When I look at this, it's during

the Passover, every house had one lamb representing Christ on

the cross during the communion, every house, has one bread

representing Jesus, on the cross, the lamb.

And the Passover look forward to the cross The bread on the

table, looks back to the Cross. There was one lamb.

And so every house today has one loaf, one bread, and one body.

For we are all for, we all partake of that one bread.

Well, again in Matthew 26 verse 27.

Matthew 26:27

Then he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them

saying drink from it. All of you.

Now Jesus did Jesus. Use one cup?

It's clear that he did in Matthew 26 verse 27.

Matthew 26:27

Did Jesus command us to drink from one cup?

Yes, he said drink from it. All of you.

That's a command listen to me. That's a command.

And we're commanded to drink from the cup.

Matthew 26. 27 is not an example.

It's a command. The example is in Mark 14.

When the disciples, the Bible says, they all drank from it.

So what did Jesus do? Jesus took one cup.

Matthew 26, 27. Jesus prayed for one cup and I

Think 26:37 Jesus drink from one cup.

Matthew 26, 29, Jesus commanded the disciples to drink from one

cup. Matthew 26 27, what did the

disciples? Do I already mentioned that?

Then he took the cup. And when he had given, thanks,

he gave it to them and they all drank from it, Jesus took one

cup. Now, listen to me, the cup of

the Lord is not an empty cup. Sometimes in our Earnest desire,

to teach the truth, we almost leave the wrong impression

because the cup is nothing in and of itself.

The cup and its contents, make up the cup of the Lord.

In fact, Paul says the cup of blessing which we bless is it

not the communion of the blood of Christ.

Now in the Old Testament, there's a passage in the book of

Isaiah, that tells us that when you take the cluster and you

squash the cluster that you destroy the blessing or the

blessing will come out. Now Paul says, the cup of

blessing, you see the Jews understood that he was told

about a cup of grape juice. It's the cup of the Lord that we

bless. Now, it's true that he said,

this fruit of the vine is my blood.

It's true for Corinthians 11:25. He says this cup is the New

Covenant there, no doubt about that.

But the Covenant and the blood are inseparable, you can't have

one without the other. You can't have the But a lone

exclusively any more than you can have the Covenant without

the blood, without the blood of Jesus, we could never be

forgiven. So, the cup of the Lord is both

the container and it's context. Jesus Took a cup.

It was not an empty cup, but a cup containing grape juice and

all of the disciples Drake from that cup.

Now, there is no departure from this pattern in all the New

Testament. Christ, used, 1 cup, Matthew

used 1 cup, Mark, used 1 cup, Luke did Paul did the Church of

Jerusalem. Absalom did the church at

Corinth. Did there was no departure from

this pattern. Now, this is kind of an

interesting tidbit. Some of you might not have known

this in 1908, when the gospel was first carried to Zambia.

They used one cup to distribute through the line.

It wasn't our Brotherhood per se. although it was because the

division on communion hadn't, come yet, In 1908, when the

Church of Christ first went to Zambia one loaf and one cup to

distribute the fruit of the vine was introduced to be used in the

communion all churches of Christ before the before 1914.

The 1920s just about all churches of Christ, used 1 cup,

a few used more than one or two, when the crowd was large.

Now, what changed? All this.

Well, there's an interesting man, he was a micro biologist

and he lived from 1820 to 1895 he's the first fella.

That was able to devise a microscope that he could look

down into that microscope. And see those little squiggly

bugs. Crawling through the water.

He found germs. And when he found those germs.

He literally created a germ Mysterio at America.

Now none of us remember that because as a long time ago, that

is in the 19th century. He created a germ hysteria but,

you know, we still have a problem with that attitude.

People that still I'm convinced that still one of the main

reasons that people don't want to use one container and eat

from one bread. It's because of the germs that

they might get. I'm going to tell you something.

If I die during one cup, so be it.

You think Paul could have denied Jesus Christ.

So they wouldn't chop his head off.

Absolutely not. He allowed him to chop his head

off. He would never deny his Lord.

And if it's, if I'm going to die from drinking one cup then, so

be it. In the first place.

God is the one that made the germs.

We act like that because we discovered something, God didn't

know it already. And as far as I know, there's

nobody. That's ever died from drinking

one cup. My great grandpa.

I'll drink for 80 years out of one cup and I guess he maybe he

did die from some disease. He got from drinking one cup

because he died at the young age of 96, And you know what?

It was three weeks after his wife died, tell his wife died,

he wasn't even sick. Well.

The scientists introduced germs. Will call this fellow the

inventor JG Thomas. Now he was a presbyterian and he

was a he was a preacher as well as a as a doctor and it stated

by his children, individual Community cups were first

invented and patented by John G Thomas who's both a preacher to

doctor. He states the purpose of his

invention. The object of this invention is

to provide an agile or separate cup for the use of each person

at the celebration of the Lord's.

Supper brother, Miller in 1950, received this letter from his

family, who stated this very same truth that their

grandfather. John G Thomas, who was both a

physician and a minister invented.

The first individual communion outfit, the first patents were

issued to him in 1894. The Market Street Presbyterian

Church of Lima. Ohio is believed to be the first

church to use individual communion.

UPS in a communion service. Now this occurred in about 1890

for until this time even in all the religious World they used

one container to distribute the fruit of the Vine.

A few exceptions were they would use two cups to speed or hasten.

The communion up, sitting it down one side and down the

other. But even the denomination's used

1 cup until this change occurred.

Now, we'll call this fellow the innovator, he was a great

preacher, he did a lot of good for the church but he also led

the church into digression. His name is Jessie Brewer and he

is the one of the ancestors of the movement that we call the

digress of movement. He said I think I was the first

preacher to Advocate, the use of individual communion cup and the

first church in the state of Tennessee that adopted.

It was the church for which I was preaching the Central Church

of Christ. At Chattanooga, Tennessee,

didn't meeting in the Masonic Temple.

Now, it's hard to know for sure who started.

He takes credit for it, but it won't in his book, 40 years in

the firing line, the introduction.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that he did start it, but

he's one of the first. Now, it's interesting because

David Lipscomb, who lived at that time, who is editor and

publisher of the Gospel, Advocate adamantly opposed

individual. UPS.

He fought GC Brewer, tooth and toenail.

But, of course, later he changed his mind, he thought GC Brewer

and, and even took him to task publicly in the religious

Journal JW, garbled, garbage, stood for the truth, stood, for

one bread, and one cup on the table.

Now, this is an interesting fellow.

JT can't, you know I live in Cleburne Texas and he's Graves,

is it Cleburne Texas. In fact, he used he grew up as a

boy in the church where I'm at. And a lot of history that

little, that old building effect Ronnie Wade as a boy, was taken

to church at that particular place, dr.

Trott, a man that we're going to mention just a moment held

meetings there and even debated the communion issue in that

building. Well, the point is, this man

believed you had to use one bread, and he's old CERN book

called The Gospel x-ray. I used to have it in my library

till I shipped it to America or to his from America is in India.

Got lost in process and seen it since about eight years ago.

But in his sermon book, The Gospel advocate, he preached a

sermon on the Tabernacle and he showed how that because there

were 12 families. There were twelve Loaves on the

table. But today, we only have one

family. So we only use one loaf on the

table. But what's interesting about and

what's intriguing about his position, even though he

believed you had to use one loaf, he thought it was.

All right. Right to use individual cups.

Sort of a contradiction course, all of his family.

Now have have taken in with the digressive movement HC, Harper,

Florida, stood for the truth, and, and fought the Innovation

dr. Trott of money.

Texas also Fought The Innovation Homer King and her more

gay-friendly 7. Missouri stood tall and helped

to mold our Brotherhood and up to develop our Brotherhood in

the way that it is been developed.

All of these men stood for the truth, at least in the

beginning. But some of Of course, changed

that the vision came in spite of all the efforts.

In spite of everything that was done, five division came, the

Brotherhood was split again. All because of a German stereo

men divided the church because of fear of doing God's will

God's way? This is one of the modern ways

that they buy their bread, it comes in waivers.

This is another way, this is something that started doing not

too long before I went to Zambia.

You notice that little Look up there.

You pick the there, there, little little places, at the,

take your seat, where you have your cup set before the service

starts. And when it's time to wait on

the table, the man stands up at the table and says, it's time to

eat the Lord's body he prays and he says, everybody take your

little plastic container and after he prays, he says to peel

off the top and you can eat your body, you need the body of the

Lord, you think it's the body of the Lord?

And then after they eat the body, the Lord, he prays again

for the juice and he says, peel the second layer off and eat and

drink, you cut JuJu's. That's where people have come

from the gone to. That's what happens when he

opened the door of digression. Now, in the Passover, every

house had a lamb representing Christ on the cross.

Now, in the communion, of course, every house has a bread

representing Jesus on the cross. Now, look at this, passage in

Exodus 12 where the, where the Passover with it was instituted,

then Moses called for the Elders of Israel and said to them, pick

out and take Linens For yourselves according to your

families and kill the Passover Lamb.

Now again, remember the Passover Lamb represented.

Jesus verse 22 and you shall take a bunch of hyssop different

in the blood that is in the Basin and strike the lintel and

the two doorposts with the blood that is in the Basin and none of

you shall go out of the house or out of the door of his house

until morning. The Lord will pass through to

strike the Egyptians. When he sees the blood on the

lintel, and on the doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door

and not allow the Destroyer to come in.

Your house has to strike you. Now clearly, the Bible says that

every house had a lamb but guess what?

Every house had a container and in that container was the blood

of that one. Lamp in that incredible.

Amazing. Here, we're talking about an

event that occurred 1400 years before Jesus ever came.

Do you think that Moses and the children of Israel had any idea

what they were doing? They had one.

Container. With the blood of that one land

that they slated each Heist, an incredible yet, gets an

accident. In the Passover one house, one

lamb one basin. In the communion one house, one

bread, one cup. Scholars, who are supposed to

do? Tell us that the word in the

Hebrew. That's translated.

Basin is the cold equivalent to the word?

That's translated cup in the Greek.

Interesting. You think it's an accident?

But we have breath and who ruled that picture?

You see, we have the shadow of Jesus, on the cross.

We have what God ordered organized, one of the Old

Testament that points to the cross.

And today we have the legislation of Jesus that points

back to the cross. It did incredible.

How closely these compare? How closely those work.

Well, who calls the division tonight?

Is it the person who opposed the Innovation?

Alexander Campbell said, it was the man who made the golden calf

that rock confusion and Israel, you know, they'll say, they'll

tell us why you've people believe you can only observe it

one way you believe that only one cup can be used and when we

use more than one cup, you believe that we're wrong, we

sin, you've caused a division. We believe you can worship

either way. But the truth of the matter is,

the person who brings in the new innovation, is the one that

causes the division. Is the one who sins.

The one who is right, is the person who stays with the tried

and true. That's why Jude says, earnestly

contend for the faith. That was once delivered to the

Saints. As I've stated previously, this

idea of the faith has to do with the gospel.

When you see the article before faith in the Bible, it always

can be interchanged with the term God.

People he says that we're to earnestly contend for the gospel

that has once been delivered to all the saints. and it's in the

gospel that Jesus instituted his communion and he says, To eat

from one bread and to drink from one cup.

Now here, he tells us that we're to Mark now the word Mark and

that passage means that we observe them.

Now, how long do we observe someone who teaches fits, how

long do we observe someone that causes a division?

Well in Titus Chapter 3 Paul says a man that is in heretic

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after the first and second admonition, reject him.

In other words, if a man does not believe the true Doctrine

and he's teaching anybody privately or talking about it to

anybody individually or even from the pulpit, he can be he

can be admonished twice and then it's to be rejected.

The Bible says, so the idea of observing are marking listen to

what he says. Now I urge you Brethren note in

the new King James version is the replacement for Mark.

Not those who Division and offenses.

You do that once and twice and then you rejected the see Titus

Titus 3:10

Chapter 3 Verse 10 contrary to the doctrine, which you have

learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do, not

serve our Lord, Jesus Christ. But their own belly, and by

smooth words, and flattering speeches deceive.

The hearts of the simple, Haven't we been to see through

the years so many times? Just because a person worships

scripturally does not mean that we are in fellowship with them.

He clearly says here that a man who teaches something, contrary

to the doctrine of Christ. Where to Mark him would observe

him and then we're to avoid him if he will not repent.

Clearly that passage teaches us here.

We had the observance of the Passover pointing to the Cross.

We have the observance of the communion pointing back to the

Cross. Very similar analogy.

This loaf is my body, Matthew 26:26.

Matthew 26:26

This fruit of the vine is my blood Mark, 14 verse 24, this

Mark 14:24

cup is the New Covenant First Corinthians 11:25.

1 Corinthians 11:25

Now in conclusion, I want you to listen, I don't get you

handbook. You'll notice the Man's

painting, the door posts in the header.

Same thing in this picture. You see?

They did that. We know why they did that so

they could escape death. Because the Destroyer was coming

through the land. and every house where there was a child or

a firstborn animal found, There was going to be a death both in

Israel and in Egypt. But God told Moses he extended

his grace to the people of God and he says, you slay the lamb.

You take the blood of that lamb in the basin.

And you brush the blood on the upper door post and the side

posts. And when the Destroyer passes

through the land and he sees the house marked with blood, He'll

Passover. Now, I'm asking you tonight, are

you in the house that is marked with blood?

Are you in the house? That can save you from the

Destroyer. I'm telling you tonight examine

yourselves, whether you be in the faith, every one of us has

to stop and think about where we are and who we are and what we

have been and we need to make sure we're in the house.

That is marked with blood. Therefore, take heed to

yourselves. And to all the flock among which

the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to Shepherd the Church

of God, which he that is. Jesus Christ, purchased With his

own blood. Paul says.

That we are baptized into Christ.

And when were baptized into Christ, that puts us in contact,

with his death, in Colossians 2 verse 12.

Colossians 2:12

The Bible says that were buried with him in his death. and see

these death, he shed his blood and when you obey that gospel,

when you obey from the heart that form of Doctrine, your made

free from sin. When you made free from sin,

you're added to the church, you're baptized into Christ.

Your added to the house. That is marked in blood.

And tonight if that's not the case in your life, we urge you.

We beseech you to stop and consider it because we don't

have Assurance of Tomorrow. We only have Assurance of right

now and James asked the question.

He proposes the question, what is your life?

It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and

then vanisheth away. Man where have the years could

gone come and gone? I remember when I was 15 years

old, I came down here and gave it a talk at a Labor Day beating

the Brundage Lane was holding. We're Where Have All These Years

Gone? 40 years ago.

I don't know how much time I got left. but, The one with whom we

have to do nose. And I'm going to do everything I

can within my power. Just stay within the goodness of

his. Love. and tonight, if you're not

on the Lord's Side, If you're not on the in the house, it's

marked with blood, we beseech you, we urge you to do, whatever

you have to do to get in that house.

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