The Lord's Supper

Let me just pray for us as we get into this passage.

Father, I just feel so inadequate of bringing this passage to us this morning.

I feel my words are just not enough.

I feel like there is so much here of your glory and your beauty.

Words are not enough.

And yet I pray this morning, open our eyes to see you.

Open our eyes to see how glorious and honorable and beautiful you are and what you've done for us is.

Let us not go away just going through the motions this morning.

We want to see you in your name.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Donald Trump.

I don't know why suddenly everyone started laughing.

We don't normally start a sermon like that.

Donald Trump is in many ways a polarizing president.

Some people love him.

Some people hate him.

Social media has got all kinds of things, positive and negative.

And what we have seen, regardless of the person, is over the last few months in his presidency, the fractures in American society exposed.

And, you know, one organization decided that the way that they wanted to bring healing into the fractured society was they would put on for 100 days, 100 meals,

people from every background, 50, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100.

100 meals on.

Because meals are powerful.

Meals speak of inclusion, welcome, belonging, reconciliation.

Now, I don't know how many people actually showed up to the meals.

Because in our day, just as in Jesus' day, sometimes we don't eat together.

Jews would not eat with non-Jews.

The rich would not eat with the poor.

The CEO would not eat with the cleaner.

Business class doesn't eat with economy class.

But food can unite and food can divide.

Because meals speak.

And today we're looking at one of the most significant meals in the Bible.

And we're following along this series, which is about who is this king that we claim to worship?

This King Jesus.

And we've seen that Jesus is the one who turns upside down our ways of operating.

His glory is the cross.

His majesty is in serving.

And today we're going to look at the Last Supper.

And we're going to look at communion.

To see how this reveals Jesus and what it means to be part of his community.

And how he changes everything.

So we're going to look at this meal which looks back.

And this meal which looks forward.

And in Jesus' days, we come to look at this passage.

Have the bulletin with you.

Jesus says, Jesus is basically, it says, he comes and he reclines at the table with his disciples.

And in Jesus' day, the host of the meal would invite people with special honor to come and eat with him.

It's great networking time.

You know, who you want to eat with determines who you want to associate with.

And so Jesus actually is hosting this meal.

It's not just any meal.

It's a Passover meal.

And it's the night before Jesus is going to die.

It's an emotional time.

And Jesus' last wish is, I want to eat with my disciples.

And this Passover, he says, I've eagerly desired to eat this with you before I suffer.

That means, the last wish that I have, I want you desperately to eat this Passover so that you begin to see what this meal.

That Jews for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years, every single year, would get together with their families.

And they would look back on a deliverance that God had brought for them.

And what would happen?

The father of the meal, he would bless the meal.

And then a youngest child would say, why is this night any different from any other night?

And the father of the house would begin to tell the story of the exodus.

He would say, we were slaves.

We were suffering in Egypt.

And then, as we were trapped, God, by his mighty hand, he brought us out.

He brought us out of suffering.

When we thought we had no future, he came down, he rescued us, and he brought us into freedom.

He brought us into the promised land.

And as he kind of told this story, during the meal, there would be different blessings, different thanks to God.

And then they'd read some psalms, and there'd be some flat bread there.

And he would take the bread, and he would break it.

And he would say, this is the bread of suffering that our fathers in the land of Egypt ate.

Whoever's hungry, let him come and eat.

Whoever's in need, let him come and conduct this Passover meal.

This year we're here.

Next year, in the land of Israel.

This year we're slaves.

Next year we'll be free people.

Every year, that's what they would say.

Every year.

And notice they didn't say, our ancestors were slaves.

They said, we were slaves.

In fact, this meal was not just about their ancestors' story.

This was about their story right today.

Because they were still waiting for freedom to come.

They still felt that gap.

But they were looking back at this identity-forming, shaping moment in the past.

Where God had brought them deliverance.

And they were looking forward to when God would bring them a Messiah.

who would come and bring the kingdom of freedom that they were looking for.

And you know, there'd be four cups of wine, which they would drink.

Which would symbolize this freedom.

And they'd remember that the prophet Isaiah had said,

On this mountain, the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples.

A banquet of aged wine.

The best of meats.

The finest of wines.

Don't we all love a meal?

A good meal?

They're looking forward to a meal.

Because banquets, if you've been to a banquet, it's about abundance.

You don't go and just have a little cracker.

It's about satisfying your deepest desires.

If I suddenly say to you, let's go to a buffet now at the Four Seasons.

Are you starting to salivate?

Okay, steak.

Succulent steak.

Whatever.

You know, you suddenly begin.

Your desires are raised.

Because banquets are about belonging.

They're about security.

They're about satisfying your desires.

It's like the ultimate family dinner with the family you actually want to be with.

That's the kingdom of God.

And he says it's not just for the smart people.

It's not just for the wealthy people.

It's not just people who are very religious.

It's for all peoples.

There will be no business class and economy class then.

North Korea and America will sit down together and eat.

Arab and Jew, CEO and cleaner, Man United fan and Liverpool fan will sit down together at the table.

Well, I'm not sure about the last one.

But anyway.

But you can all come.

In a society where we fracture everything, this kingdom is a kingdom where you belong.

With a host of the meal who is God himself.

That's what they're looking forward to.

And I think that's actually deep down what each one of us every single day are craving.

It's what every politician promises us when we vote for them.

Right?

Security.

A future.

Prosperity.

To make us great again.

A place to belong.

To be proud for ourselves and our families.

And every single politician, whether it's from Nelson Mandela to Chairman Mao to Barack Obama to Donald Trump,

has appeared as a great hope.

And then left disappointment in their wake.

It's why we worry so much about our careers and financial security and about our kids' education,

about finding a spouse, about avoiding loneliness.

Because we desperately desire the belonging and abundance of the kingdom of God.

Do you realize every day you're longing for the kingdom of God?

And yet it always seems to be out of reach.

And Jesus says, verse 16,

I'm not going to eat this meal again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

And fulfilled means this meal today is a little foretaste.

It's a little picture of that meal in the future.

It's going to point forward to that reality.

And I'm going to take you there.

So the meal of the Passover looks back and it looks forward.

But I want to look at the king who reshapes the meal.

Because what Jesus does next,

we kind of don't get this because, you know,

we kind of, if you've been in church a while,

we know communion and we know these kind of things.

But for them back then, what Jesus does next is totally shocking.

He picks up the bread and he breaks it.

And all the disciples are expecting him to say,

okay, this is the bread of suffering.

And he says, he changes it.

He says, this bread,

this is my body,

which is given for you.

Do this in remembrance of me.

Take it.

This bread is not to remember the exodus in the past in Egypt into the promised land.

There is a new story which I'm writing right today.

This is a new bread.

There's a new deliverance that you're going to look back on and look forward to.

And the only way you're going to get to that kingdom is through me.

I'm not going to eat this bread again.

I'm not going to drink this wine again

because I'm going to forge ahead a way that you can come and sit at this table.

And so when he says,

this is my body given for you,

he says, I'm giving you something.

The way to that kingdom that our hearts are craving

isn't through getting a better political system

or through distributing wealth better with communism or capitalism.

He doesn't say your main problem is education,

that you need some more morals,

so I'll give you some morals,

some ethical teaching.

He says,

I'm the king of my kingdom

and you are slaves.

You are slaves

and the only way you can eat at my table

is if I give myself for you.

I'm the only way to satisfy the deepest desires of your heart.

You see,

do you see that little word?

It says,

I give myself for you.

Do you see that word for?

That word for means on behalf of you,

in your place.

I am given instead of you.

Because if you think you can make this meal,

this banquet,

the desires of your heart by yourself,

you're really wrong.

Because you know what the Bible story is?

The Bible story and your story and my story

says the reason we don't enjoy that kingdom

is because throughout our lives,

we've been making poor food choices.

Do you know that?

It's because you've been choosing to sit

with somebody else's host of the meal

and not God himself.

Because you know Adam and Eve?

What happens?

Adam and Eve,

God tells Adam and Eve,

he says,

here,

I'm offering you a meal,

tree of life.

And they say,

oh,

I prefer the other one,

tree of knowledge and good and evil.

I want to be independent.

I want to have things by myself.

I don't want you.

I don't want to sit at your table,

God.

And so we dishonor God

and turn away from him.

Mount Sinai,

God gives 10 commandments.

And he calls Moses and 70 elders

to go up and see him.

And do you know what happens

after he gives the 10 commandments?

Most of us miss this.

It says they went up

and they saw God

and they ate and drank.

Do you know God hosted a meal?

And he said,

I want to host you.

And do you know the very next thing

they go and do?

They go down the mountain

and they say,

oh,

Moses is being a little wild.

We've got to build a golden calf.

We've got to make an idol.

And then do you know what it says?

It says,

and they sat down

and they ate and drank

and they played together.

And basically what it means is

they decided,

oh,

God made a good meal

but actually

we want to have a different meal

by ourselves

doing our thing

so we indulge.

We get instant gratification

for myself.

Indulge myself

with what I want.

Let's comfort eat.

Let's do sexual immorality,

drinking,

all the kind of things

because I want to sit

at a different table

because I want to exalt myself.

I don't want to exalt the king.

I don't want to honor him.

I'm going to have a different meal.

And you know,

when God says,

sees these

throughout scripture,

do you know what he says?

He says,

if you honor me,

you will receive honor.

But if you dishonor me

and turn to another table,

do you know what you experience?

You experience shame.

You experience shame.

Adam and Eve,

shame.

The people of God,

shame comes on you

because we were made

for the glory that comes from God

and to honor him.

And when we turn away

and find honor

in any other things,

what we try and do,

we get shamed

and then we try and cover

over our shame.

We try to boost

our own egos up.

Trying to make ourselves

feel better about ourselves.

And when we do that,

we end up shaming other people.

Because do you know

what humanity's meal table

looks like?

In Jesus' day,

it looked like this.

Religious people

keeping in their own little circle

and then a sinful,

shamed woman

who'd made some poor choice

in her life

comes along

and they're like,

you're not going to sit

at my meal table.

Crowds come along.

They're filled with hatred

because they see

this corrupt tax official

called Zacchaeus.

And they're like,

Jesus, ignore him.

Don't worry about him.

Worry about me.

They wouldn't forgive

or reach out to him.

But do you know

what Jesus does

to both that woman

and Zacchaeus?

He says,

Zach,

come down.

I want to grab dinner

with you.

Because the way

Jesus does meals

is different

from the way we do.

Because we shame

other people

to make ourselves

feel greater than us.

You know,

isn't that the way

families and offices

in Hong Kong work?

You know,

a teenage girl

becomes pregnant

through a poor choice

and what happens

as a result,

the family feels shame.

They can't tell

their relatives

so they end up

excluding the girl

and pushing her out.

They punish her

for bringing shame

on the family.

You know,

I think we all do this.

This is humanity's meal table.

I remember

when I was

at secondary school,

I was not,

there was a kid there.

He was socially awkward.

And everyone made fun of him.

No one wanted

to befriend him.

And I knew

that I should go out

and befriend him.

But what I did,

I discovered

that all my friends

were laughing at him.

And so I joined in

with laughing at him.

Because what I saw

was I wanted to belong

to this community.

And if it meant

that I would shame

the other guy,

then I would do that.

Do you ever

laugh at people's jokes

when they're laughing

at someone?

Do you ever gossip

to make yourself

feel better?

So there's this division

in society

in your offices.

That's what we do

in our little community

in our meal table.

And when Jesus says,

this is my body

given for you,

he's saying,

I hate the way

that your meal table works.

I don't accept that

at my table.

In fact,

I'll remove

from my presence

anyone of us

who is self-glory seeking

because we want

to boost ourselves up

to cover our shame.

You can't sit

at my table.

And God made a way

for the people,

a temporary way

in the Old Testament

for the people

to approach God.

Once a year,

the Day of Atonement,

two goats

would be brought

to stand

in the place

of the people.

And the priest

would kill one goat

and the blood

would cover

over the shame

of the people.

And then he'd take,

he would take God's anger

at them

and then he'd take

another goat.

And what he'd do

with the other goat,

he would lay his hands

on them

and he'd confess

all the shameful things

the people had done.

And then they'd release

the goat

and the goat

would be excluded

out of the camp,

out on the side,

taking all the shame away.

He was substituted

for the people.

And Jesus says,

I am your substitute.

I am that goat

who your sin,

your shame,

the way that we have

tried to honor ourselves

and rejected other people,

it was put onto him.

It was put onto him.

He pushed out

and excluded

on the cross.

God's anger

at our sin

was placed on him

on your behalf.

He was excluded.

He was shamed

on the cross,

humiliated,

so that we could be

accepted back

to his table.

Amen.

You know,

generals,

people in great places

of honor,

when you're a soldier,

when an army goes out,

a general normally

stays at the back

and just sends out

his troops.

And if they die

and they suffer

and they're in the midst

of the battlefield,

the general then

just sends more troops

until finally

all the ammunition

of the enemy

is used up

and then the general

comes in

and says,

wow,

what a great victory

I have won.

but Jesus

comes himself.

He comes himself.

He leads

the battle lines

where no one else

would

for you,

for you,

for you.

Sometimes

we have the impression

that God the Father

is kind of angry

at us

and Jesus

is kind of

just protecting us,

you know,

from Jesus.

Okay,

try not to hurt them

too much.

But the next verse

says this,

verse 22.

The Son of Man

goes as it's been determined.

The Son of Man

goes as it's been determined.

You know,

sometimes bad stuff

happens in our lives

and we wonder,

is God trying to punish me?

Ever felt like that?

Verse 22

is a powerful verse

because it says,

this is a grammar form.

Okay,

I'm going to give you grammar.

Grammar,

which says,

it's called a divine passive,

which means,

it's Bible speak

for saying,

the whole Trinity,

God the Father,

God the Son,

God the Holy Spirit,

were all sitting around

a meal table

plotting

and planning

how they could take you

and me

out of this place

of exclusion,

not being at his meal table,

and he said,

how can I bring you

to myself

so you can enjoy

the fellowship

that we have?

And the only way

they could do that

was if that goat,

if Christ came for you

and took

that exclusion,

he was excluded

so you never have to be.

So God will never punish you

if you turn to him

because he's already

taken the punishment

on himself.

That's how much God

desires you

to eat at his table.

that's the king

that we remember

at communion

for you.

How are we doing?

Okay,

third thing.

So we've seen the meal,

it looks back

and it looks forward.

When Christ comes,

he said,

actually this meal

is all about me.

It's all about

what I've done.

There's a new time

to look back on

and a new thing

to look forward to.

third thing.

The disciples

right in the midst

of this emotional

kind of tear-jerking moment

where Jesus is talking

about the suffering

on the cross.

It's like the closing speech

of the movie

where he's describing

his sacrifice for them.

You can hear the violins

in the background.

And the disciples

are moved

and touched

by what Jesus

is going to do for them.

Are they?

Look in verse 24.

What do they do next?

They're arguing.

A dispute arose

among them

as to which of them

was to be guarded

as the greatest.

And they're going,

okay,

if Jesus is the king

of God's kingdom,

I want to make sure

I'm on the top table.

And Peter's going,

well,

I should be there

because I've walked on water.

And, you know,

Philip's going,

yeah,

but you fell in.

And they're kind of,

they're fighting

against each other

and totally wrapped up

in themselves.

They've missed everything

Jesus has said.

And what are they

trying to do?

They're trying to elevate

themselves

like everybody else

in society.

And I love this.

What does Jesus do?

Jesus doesn't go,

you stupid,

insensitive idiots.

I'm having a moment here

and I just need

a bit of support.

He doesn't say that.

He says,

he draws this distinction

between the way

everyone else works

and the way he works.

He says,

the kings of the Gentiles

exercise lordship over them.

That means,

in the world,

if you're the leader,

you show your power

and your boss

by telling people

what to do,

by making sure

you're in control

of everything.

That's what it means.

Use force if necessary.

Okay?

Sometimes that may be

your boss.

But those in authority

are called benefactors.

And he says,

okay,

there's another way

people try and control

and boost their ego.

They either try and control

things or

they try and show

how generous they are

to everyone

so that you think,

oh,

aren't they amazing?

You know,

in ancient Rome,

every building

that was built

was built by a benefactor,

a rich person

who donated money

and then made sure

that they had

their name on a plaque

just to show

how generous we were.

We do that in Hong Kong

as well.

I mean,

we even have one

on the wall here.

Now,

now,

I'm not questioning

the motivation of her,

but actually,

what Jesus is saying

is often in our society,

the way that we do that

is we try and,

you know,

TVB,

have you seen on TVB,

they have,

there's charity donations

and they bring the big check

and they show,

okay,

look how great I am

and then you put your name

on there

and we try and get honor

in our society.

And Jesus says,

that's the way

other people do it

but not so with you.

But not so with you.

You see,

society's all about

boosting ourselves up,

trying to boost

our own image

because we feel shamed

and we try and make

ourselves high.

But Jesus says,

I'm reshaping you

in my image,

not the image

of our society around.

I'm going to change

the honor

so that you live

for my honor

and you live for honor

in my eyes,

not in honor

of the eyes

of the people

around you.

You see,

we say,

I'm not respected

by my boss enough.

He's not seeing

my full potential.

I should be more elevated

than I am.

And you've been working

for six months

in the company.

And Jesus says,

yeah,

that's how other people

around you will think.

But not so with you,

Watermark.

The greatest among you

will become

as the youngest.

We lash out angrily

at our kids

when they disrespect us

and don't do

what we want them to.

Because we desperately

want to gain control.

We want to be respected

even by our kids.

But Jesus says,

anger is not so

with you

because you belong

to me.

And we go,

yeah,

but how can I do that?

Like,

because that's natural

for me to want

to boost myself.

It's natural for me

to want these things

because we're natural

self-glory junkies.

And Jesus doesn't say,

okay,

here's the three rules

that you need

to stop being,

thinking of yourself

so much.

He says,

here's how you get

reshaped.

Look at me.

Remember me.

The one who reclines

at the table

in the place of honor

who has every right

to be served

is me.

But I am among you

as one who serves.

when we take communion,

we're looking again

at who Jesus is.

We're saying,

because we're all

like those disciples,

we constantly struggle.

We're trying to get honor

from everyone else's eyes.

And then we come to church

and we just take communion

and we don't realize

that one of the major reasons

we don't share the gospel,

people,

one of the major reasons

why we struggle to share

our faith

is because we don't want

to be shamed

by other people

because we crave

their honor in their eyes.

And we need to take communion

regularly to remind ourselves

of a king

who was willing

to be shamed for us

so that he might honor us

because the king

has served us.

I don't know if you imagine,

you imagine Xi Jinping

hears about a waiter

who has been

trying to discredit

his regime.

Xi Jinping decides

to come down

to the restaurant

with his troops

to pay a visit

to this guy.

Probably wouldn't happen

but he'd just send

the people in front.

And he comes down

and he sees

this waiter in front of him

who's been trying

to oppose him.

Imagine what the waiter

feels at that moment

when he sees

Xi Jinping,

a man of huge honor,

authority,

and power

in front of him.

How would you feel?

Probably terror

if you know

that you've actually

been trying to fight

against him.

And what would happen

if she comes in

and says,

okay,

Walter,

let's call him

Walter the waiter,

Walter,

Walter,

sit down.

I'm going to serve you.

In fact,

I prepared

an amazing banquet

for you.

In fact,

I did it myself.

I've spent

the last 10 days

trying to prepare

this for you.

What's the waiter

going to be thinking?

You're probably

going to poison me

or something.

And if at the end

of the meal,

and it's an incredible meal,

you know,

and he's there,

he's serving him,

and then he says,

and I want you

to come for me

to dinner every week.

What's going on

in that waiter's mind?

His perception

of the king,

the emperor,

the president,

whatever,

has got to change.

But I think

what we'd be thinking

is that's not

the way things work.

That's just unrealistic.

It doesn't work

in the world like that

because people

who've got power,

they don't come down

and think and serve you.

What they do

is they serve themselves

and they use you

to get what they want.

Isn't that how

many bosses work?

But Jesus is saying,

yeah,

that's how honor works

in the world,

but that's not how

honor works in my kingdom.

Because I'm a different

kind of king,

I come and serve.

Xi Jinping may have

the authority

to govern a nation.

He may have the authority

to imprison you

or execute you,

but I have more authority

than he has.

I hold galaxies

in my hands,

I have the power

of life and death

over every single person,

including the greatest presidents.

I'm in control

of history

from the first

to the last.

If you go from

the end of the universe

to the other end,

billions of years,

millions of light years,

that's just a step

for me.

And yet I know

every hair on your head.

And yet I know you.

And yet I've come

to serve you

personally.

There is no world leader

who will go

and do that for you.

There is only one

who will.

That is Jesus Christ,

the king

of an alternative kingdom.

And he honors you.

Did you get that?

He honors you

because if you read,

you read down

and he says

to his disciples,

I'm assigning you.

His disciples

who have just been

all about themselves,

who are just so like us,

he says,

I'm assigning you,

I'm giving you

a kingdom

what my father gave me

so that you may eat

and drink at my table

in my kingdom

and sit on thrones

judging the 12 tribes

of Israel.

What he's saying is

we sometimes think

Jesus died

just to forgive us

our sins.

He did,

but he did more than that.

He died to take

your shame

and to give you honor

at his table

so that you would see

that he is the one

that you are to honor

as the host

in all of your life.

No matter what other people

think about you.

You see,

when he steps down,

if Xi Jinping did that

and stepped down

and served someone

who was a rebel,

what do you think

the troops around

would think about him?

Would he go up or down

in their estimation?

He'd go down, right?

Because they're thinking

you should be executing

this guy.

But Jesus comes down

and he takes the shame

of everyone else

around him.

He takes the shame

and he removes it

so you don't have

to live in shame

but he brings you

to honor at his table.

That's where he's taking you.

That's what he's done

for you.

At communion,

we look back

to what he's done

and we look forward

to where he's going.

Jesus' command.

Someone once said this.

Jesus' command to repent

could be paraphrased.

Stop trying to accrue honor

through that group

and join my group

to obtain the glory

of God's kingdom.

freedom.

Because if that waiter

was criticized

for not doing something

well by his boss

or he felt like

he didn't get the respect

that he deserved

at his work,

he could turn around

and that would sting

but he could turn around

and say,

yeah,

but I'm having dinner

with the president.

So,

that's just small.

When his kids disobeyed

and refused to listen

to his command

and he was tempted

to get angry,

and lash out at them,

he could say,

yeah,

but I'm having dinner

with the president.

I don't need to crave

my kids' approval

or approval

from other people.

I don't need that

because I've got

a meal with the president.

And Jesus is not just

like an ordinary president.

He's the king

of the universe

and he invites you

to eat with him.

That's where he's taking you.

So,

do you see,

when we come

to this meal,

we have a different

honor system

with a different king

which means this.

When we look back

at the cross,

we realize

all the different ways

I'm trying to,

my shame in life,

the things I've done wrong,

I come to communion

and I realize

he did it for me.

He's taken it.

Like that goat,

it's gone.

I don't have to live

in shame.

But I realize

that where I'm living

for my own honor

and my own glory,

I need to repent

and say,

man,

I don't want to eat

at the table

of shame.

I want to eat

at the table

of your honor

where actually

I receive honor

because you are

getting honor.

I live for your eyes only.

When we take communion

then as a community,

we are to then

be a little picture

where those divisions

in society

are broken down

where you can come

regardless of whether

society says you are great

or society says

you are small.

Whether you feel

like you've done enough

or you feel like

you've never done enough.

Whether you feel

like you're a good enough

Christian

or you're not

a good enough Christian.

You can come

because he invites you

because he did it

for you.

And so we are meant

to be as a community

a little glimpse

of the kingdom of God

that he's creating.

It's the last thing.

We look back,

Passover,

look back

to slavery

and freedom.

Christ says,

I am now

the one

who gives you

from the slavery

to your shame,

the slavery

and brings you

to freedom

just like Yiddish ed.

we see the king

who brings us together

in this new family.

Last thing

I want to share.

There is a challenge

when we come

to communion.

A challenge

and encouragement.

Here's the challenge.

Communion

is really serious

because

in 1 Corinthians 11

Paul says,

some of you

have become

judgmental.

Some of you

have been creating

divisions,

little cliques,

gossiping,

backbiting against

other people

in the church.

You've been forming

the rich over here,

the poor over here.

And what he says is,

you're making

a mockery

of what Jesus

has done for you.

You're not

taking communion

when you hold on

to trying

to self-righteously

look down

on other people.

You come

with judgmentalism,

with unforgiveness,

with bitterness

in your heart.

Some of us,

we feel like

we've been disrespected,

we've been hurt.

There are things

which have gone on

where we have felt

the anger

inside of us

and we have not

forgiven other people.

And we don't even

want to.

God says to us,

don't take communion

until you come

to me.

Because

what I want

to do in your heart

is I want you

to get onto

that journey.

And it's a journey

of forgiveness.

Maybe it's your spouse,

maybe it's a boss,

maybe it's your parents.

But first of all,

come and remember him.

Remember what he's

done for you.

Remember how he

honored,

oh, he's got the

greatest glory

and honor.

He came and died

for you

to honor you.

Remember him.

Let that melt

your heart

to bring forgiveness.

And as you do

and you come up

and take communion,

you can receive

forgiveness.

And if you're

wrestling with some

stuff in your life,

we have people

who can pray

for you.

Don't deal

and leave

without God

working in your life.

And you beginning

to come free

from shame

and guilt.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.