Sermon
Discerning The Body of The Lord - Ps. Emmanuel Osei-Akosah
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All the dev Tom is love for me. Sing is love is love for me bro.
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Jesus brought Jesus to earth as my dear is love is love for me.
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Brought Jesus to die on the tree.
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Sing His love, His love for me, His bringing me your heart to
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glory one day. One day, one day,
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one day, one day no. Of the depth of His love for me.
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Praise the Lord. There is another song which says
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His love for me brought Jesus to act as my Savior.
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His love for me brought Jesus to die on the tree.
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His love for me is bringing me nearer to glory.
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One day I will know of the depth of His love.
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Amen. Amen.
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We want to inform the House that by the grace of God, our
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resident minister and their wife are in our Mace in the person of
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Pastor Emmanuel and Mrs. Elizabeth or say Akorsa, Amen.
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On this note, we want to humbly invite our dear Pastor to
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minister the Word of God unto us.
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Shall we welcome him? With a clap of
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May. The grace and peace for our
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Father and our Savior Jesus Christ be with us all and we
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thank God so much for the grace to be here and to also share
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fellowship and to dine at the Lost table together.
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Amen. Before we dine with the Lord, we
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are looking at the topic discerning the Lord's body,
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discerning the Lord's body, discerning the Lord's body.
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We read from First Corinthians 11/29, First Corinthians 11/29,
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and we also read from Matthew 26, seven to 13.
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That one is another story that I want to read.
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There are a couple that will be reading as and when we go on,
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but our main text is the First Corinthians 11/29 11:29, 1129.
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So read from the NIV. Also read from the new King
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James, there is a word that I will show you.
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So from the and I for those who eat and drink without descending
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the body of Christ, eat and drink judgment on themselves.
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Let's pick it from the new King James, please, if you have it.
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For he who eats and drinks in a worthy manner eats and drinks
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judgment to himself. For not discerning the Lord's
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body. The Lord's body, So for you eats
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and drinks in an unworthy manner, eats and drinks judgment
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to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
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Amen. Let's go to Matthew 26, seven to
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13. I read from the NIV.
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A woman came to him with an alabaster jar of an of very
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expensive perfume which she poured on his head as he was
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reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this,
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they were indignant. Why this wastes?
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They asked. This perfume could have been
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sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.
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Aware of this, Jesus said to them, why are you bothering this
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woman? She has done a beautiful thing
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to me. So here to you see why sometimes
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we keep on switching some of the additions, some of them hide
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things. OK so this one says that she has
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done a beautiful thing to me. Look who captured in another.
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So look at the new King James for she has done a good work for
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me. Beautiful thing and good, good
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work. Next verse please.
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Next verse verse 11. The poor you always have with
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you, but you will not always have me.
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Go on, when she poured this perfume on my body, she did it
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to prepare me for burial. Truly, I tell you, wherever this
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gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done
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will also be told in memory of her.
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Amen. So the First Corinthians 11/29,
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there is a textual difference there.
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One of them says that descending the Lord's body, the other one
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is saying the body of Christ. So when you read it, you may be
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wondering, are you referring to the universal body of Christ as
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the church or the literal body of Christ that was hanged on the
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cross? These two, if you don't take
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care, it can sound confusing. So theologians have agreed that
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it could mean both. It could mean both.
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So Paul was actually referring to either the body, the literal
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body of Christ that was nailed on the cross, the body that you
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and I, we have some, or the body as the Church of Christ.
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But we will we will we will add both and then single.
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There was an issue with the church at Corinth.
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The church there at Corinth they were spiritually endowed, but
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they had problems. There are lots of issues from
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left to right. So poor had to write to set
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things in order that these things you shouldn't do.
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So the first thing that Paul was writing to correct about the
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lost table was the one they did not distinguish the lost table
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from the other table. Thank God that today we have a
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lot of tables here. So my example were fit.
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They didn't know the difference between this table and the other
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one. So they were approaching the the
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lost table as they would approach any other table.
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So Paul was not saying that what they were doing was very serious
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because to eat and not discerning the lost body means
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that they come to the lost table and not honoring the Lord.
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So the table set here is different from the table in
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front of us that we will be doing because what will be said
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before us, they are different and the reason for setting them
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up to are different. So Paul was saying that you need
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to discern the lost table. Don't come there and eat anyhow,
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some were coming there to eat to, you know, feel their stomach
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because then their bread was not this kind of small compressed
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with fathered witty who they were doing proper bread.
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So people were now rushing, not thinking about what was said
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before them or giving reverence to the Lord who's suffering
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purchased the table for them. So they were just rushing,
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rushing to get a bigger size of the bread.
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So everybody was now rushing Chalimanian in Tema, their bread
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could finish. So they were all rushing,
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pushing that I, I want to get the bigger parts.
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And by so doing they were dishonouring the Lord, and they
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miss the good thing that had there and then the other side of
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the body of Christ. They did not also descend 1.
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School. Combines these two thoughts and
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says that the other one, the body of Christ, they did not
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descend the interrelationship between the believers in the
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body of Christ. So there was some kind of the
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poor should wait when the rich finished eating, then the poor
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will come. So there was that segregation.
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You are poor, Jinaha, you are rich.
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Oh come, come, come, come. So Paul was in their thought.
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They are saying that Paul was addressing the issues in two
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folds. But thanks be to God that
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nowadays is the same cup, is the same quantity, is the same small
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compressed circular wafer. What I take is the same as
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yours. No, it's the same thing.
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So the Corinthian church, there was that behavior going on and
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Paul wrote this to correct that the body of Jesus we should
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descend. So whilst I was thinking about
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someone who would give us a very good example of discerning the
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Lord's body, then the woman who poured the perfume on the Lord's
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body came to my mind. So the action by that woman by
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breaking an expensive alabaster box could be seen as one person
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who would truly descend the body of Christ of Jesus for barrier.
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So As for the lost body, it is there many people encountered
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him in several ways. But this woman's action,
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thoughts, behavior, outcome could also give us a model that
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we can follow even as we approach the table of the Lord.
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To descend means that to separate, to distinguish, to
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descend one thing from another. Another great theologian says
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that the lost body for him, the lost body, he was referring to
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the literal body, and we need to appreciate the body by receiving
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or coming to the table with thankfulness and thanking him
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and appreciating the selling. The lost body is also our
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reverence response to the sacrifice of our Savior.
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So to descend the lost body means that you don't come to the
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lost table anyhow, but you come as a response.
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Your expression is what reverence to what He has done
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for us. So approaching the table, not as
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any other table, but with reverence, much gratitude.
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So when we come to this table, we are come with gratitude.
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Lord, I thank you that once I was a Sinner saved by grace.
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That should be our hearts that we express to the Lord.
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We should also express our affection in response to the
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death of the Savior. We should come and know that the
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Lord has done something great for me.
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Why I was Once Upon a time a Sinner condemned, nobody would
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like you, but because of the death and the table he has
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presented. Now we are called the beloved of
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the law. This is how we should approach
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and descend the law's table when we also approaching and
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discerning, we acknowledge that the table has been set through
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the death and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
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This table has been set through the pains, excruciating pains,
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through the sufferings, through the death that he established
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this table for us. So it is not by ourselves, but
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someone, our Savior did it for us and we need to be thankful to
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him. Praise the Lord, Hallelujah.
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Oh, I said Hallelujah one time, David, David, you let me also
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link it to how you can draw that correlation between a table and
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the toils of someone who has set it even at home when you come
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home and your wife has toiled, someone has toiled us today we
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are going to we have another table set before us to come and
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sheer fellowship love feast the the team behind it.
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They have worked, they have worked and after they have
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worked, you come and you sit behind and you do your face
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somehow and you dip a finger in the food and at a taste no salt.
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And the one who told is standing there right beside you.
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The way the person go look your hair, you don't take care.
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The person will slap you. Why the person has toiled.
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Sometimes mines will cut our fingers.
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The the saddest part is that you will cry without receiving any
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lashes. Onions can make you cry.
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Onions or you're very good the the moment you come through, no,
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you cry or beyond mobile, you are crying in the kitchen and
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look at this describing we have gas.
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If you go to the to the villages and have the, the half the three
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stones and they put in some wood and other things, the smoke
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alone. The moment your wife is done
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with the food, she will come with a perfumed body from the
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hair to the clothes to the skin nuisance.
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And after they have told and run around to present your food,
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just come and eat it with a heart full of gratitude.
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Then at home my sons will come and see that mommy will not eat.
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The movement could feel open pussy.
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They will not eat. Come and see us of mommy.
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I said I can't be a beshen when he brought me pray and said to
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me, yeah, anyway, do you have any idea?
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I don't like this food. I said, Crano Panason, you don't
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like this food. Do you know how this table came?
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And also of Miami would talk and talk and in the end we have to
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come and convince them, hey, this food it has this, it has
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that. This is the real food.
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We Adrian via Candide and Papa eat this food.
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So now your anger will turn into a lecture.
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Then you have to lecture them as to why they then then after that
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long back and forth, they will not attempt the endocrown you.
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They will now going to attempt to see.
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Then you look at the face and the face bites.
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Oh the way they do their face. So it's the same thing Jesus had
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to suffer not just a cutting of knives or with things.
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Sometimes the vapor from the soup and the Stew, it can harm
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your skin and any time I come home and I see salt on the body
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of us of Mami, then it means that BBH Cheryl truly members
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are all the vapor, all the the stove, all that and she has to
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quickly get some salt and apply it so that it cannot spread
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through the entire skin. Look at the extent.
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So when I come and I eat, all that I have to tell my wife is
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thank you. Why?
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Because wow, me cooking is a well together, is a whole mood,
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is a whole trip. I can be thinking about it for a
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week cooking. So I find it very hard.
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So if you cook for me, I have to thank you because you have
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worked in the same way. The Lord has set a table before
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us. This one he had to squeeze his
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blood. This one, his body had to be
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lacerated. The body got torn the back it
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could have been that it was exposed to the point that you
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could see sometimes the ribs Jesus had to wear crown of
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thongs. Jesus had to suffer and and
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nothing is that that day Jesus did not eat.
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Why? Because of the table.
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Look at the the beautiful thing Jesus told them that I will not
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drink this wine with you. We'll be looking at the
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eschatological implication of this table.
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We'll get there and you see, so Jesus, that was the last food he
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ate. The God is why some people say
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the Last Supper and some to say the Lord's Supper.
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So we are referring to this table when Jesus was presenting,
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it was his last and it became a table.
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So Jesus, he suffered, truly he suffered to present us this
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food. At first when we got married,
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anytime a most of mother would give me food, I would say thank
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you, always thank you, always thank you.
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Then one day she reminded me when we married, at first he was
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saying thank you, even to the to some, yes.
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But now you don't say thank you. I'm saying yeah, Ebu, I'm sorry.
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Thank you for all the difficulties that she has been
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through. So, men, when you come and your
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wife gives you food, please thank her because she has
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suffered. Amen.
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Hallelujah. So that is the rationale behind
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discerning the laws body. Now you will not see the
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physical body now, but how you approach the attitude, the
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gratitude, your perception, everything.
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How you come to this table. Is this another way of
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discerning the laws body and afterwards what you will do
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after the laws table within the body of Christ?
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It's also another way of discerning the law's body.
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Let me give you example. David's mighty men.
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One day David said that he wants the, he wants water from the
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well at the gate of Bethlehem. You can find that text from
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Second Samuel 2317. Second Samuel 2370 So it says
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that, oh, how am I so long for the water at the well of the
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gate of Bethlehem. By that time the Philistines had
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occupied that gate. David, and so that ensued, 1 of
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it. So Davis.
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Three mighty men, they risked their lives, and they went
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through and broke through. So when they came with the
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water. Verse 17 David did not drink it,
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and he said, OK, let's go to the vest before 16.
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So the three mighty men broke through the camp of the
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Philistines, drew the water from the well of Bethlehem that was
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by the gates, and took it and brought it to David and brought
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it to David. Nevertheless, he will not drink,
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but pour it out to the Lord next verse.
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For he said that far it be from me, O Lord, that I should do
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this. Is this not the blood of the men
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who went in jeopardy of their lives?
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Therefore he will not drink it. These were done by the three
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mighty men. So David is saying that by
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extension, if I drink the water, it's like drinking their blood.
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So whatever somebody risk his life to produce can be
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equivalent to the life of that individual.
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So by extension, the lost table is as precious as the body and
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the blood from the cross. So the table here was purchased
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through the blood and the body and the sacrifice on the
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crossroad. If you come to the table anyhow,
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you are not discerning the body of Christ.
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That was the analogy or understanding that Paul brings
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to us from first Corinthians 11 verse 29.
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So this table is very important. And when we come to the table,
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the VIP at the table is Jesus Christ Himself.
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No other person. We don't matter.
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It is only Him who is the most important person, and to him we
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owe everything. That is what the woman did for
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Jesus at the table. She distinguished the Law's body
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from any other body when Jesus visited them at the table.
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We need to always give Jesus Christ our best and unknowingly
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to her, what she was doing was a prebarrier, anointing and
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preparing Jesus Christ for the tomb or for the cross.
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So what the woman did was acknowledged by Christ.
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So people do not simply give their valuable things unless
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there is a cause or there is a motivation.
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The woman in the story identified the conditions and
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everything, and motivated by Jesus, his love for Him, she
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offered it. So what does the lost table mean
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to you? What does the lost table mean to
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you? Let's examine the response of
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the woman when she descend that the Messiah in Jesus.
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At the table she offered her best to the body of Christ.
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When she descended as her response, she offered her best.
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When you're coming to the table, offer your best.
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Even when you're invited by His Excellency Dramani Muhammad to
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come for a lunch at the Jubilee House.
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Everybody who here true of us, they're planning that will go
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into the selection of the dress. For US men, it will take us a
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day. For the women, take them one
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month to plan an attack. You don't even sleep.
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You wake up early in the morning or even be rehearsing.
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If you are going to dine with Prince Charles or King Charles,
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you have to be taught. You will be schooled on the
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etiquettes how to dine with Royals.
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You have to be taught and be groomed even how to greet the
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king, how to bow, how to welcome him, how to turn your neck, how
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to look at him. They will screw you.
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Keno, how much more coming to the table of the king?
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At the table the king is always there, because no king will
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throw you a banquet and will be absent.
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So when you come to the lost table, His name is there, so He
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is present. The elements, you see that they
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represent Him, but He comes, He shows up.
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So when you are coming to the King, that is why we say the
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Lord Supper, prayers, preparatory prayers.
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Why do we do that? Because we prepare to dine with
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the Lord everywhere in the Scripture, when the Lord was
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descending to come into their midst, you say that they should
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prepare to meet Him. Prepare to meet your God.
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So in the same way, don't just come without consciously
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preparing your mindset that I am going to the presence of a king,
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I'm going to a table that was purchased by him and therefore I
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need to go prepared. If going to meet His Excellency
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Draman Mahama, you have to prepare and prepare and prepare.
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Then coming to the lost table will require even much more.
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Hallelujah. So offer your best, offer your
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best. When you come, you need to
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prepare. Come with a clean heart,
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prepare, offer your best. Offering your best does not end
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here or that does not come here. It goes to you everywhere you
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are. And you need to offer your best
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of character, your best of everything to the whole world.
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The woman's expression of devotion when she descend Jesus
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at the table. Let's look at how she expressed
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her devotion. She brought out a beautiful
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alabaster jar and the content was an expensive perfume.
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The ESV described as pure nut or a perfume oil.
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Those were used for solemn acts of devotion and it was used to
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anoint guests. Some were used for many other
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things. So when she descend the Law's
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body, the Law's body, she came with a very pure thing.
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May we come to the lost table with a pure heart.
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That was from the ESV Steady Bible, please not, not from the
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ESV text. Sorry about that.
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So there were some hindrances in Ipano, Assam.
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The disciples. This woman was a bold woman
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because she has to breakthrough the the to go to a table
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dominated by men and to identify Jesus at the table required so
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much. Required so much.
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Then the disciples, our fellow believers, especially Judas.
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What a waste. He could have been sold.
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What a waste. So she expressed her love after
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discerning the Lord's body. Something will do you, you
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express it. As for her, she expressed by
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giving something special to Jesus after discerning the
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Lord's body. You cannot live for yourself.
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You must live for Jesus. You must do what?
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Live for Jesus. That was what she did.
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And when you want to do something for the Lord, or after
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descending the Lord's body, don't confer with flesh and
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blood. Paul says that when he had the
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call, he did not immediately confer with flesh and blood.
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Why? Because they would discourage
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you. That was from one of the
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apostles of Jesus, Judas, the finance minister.
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This the in fact discouraging the the woman from expressing
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her love after discerning So after descending the lost body
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here expresses. Some will come at you and say
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the other with Tinuana. Don't mind them, you have seen
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something they have not seen. When you encounter Jesus, your
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output expressions will be different.
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Hallelujah. Some have identified this woman
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as Mary, the brother of Lazarus. It was that same man who sat at
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the feet of Jesus whilst Martha was busy preparing another
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table. Mary was sitting with Jesus.
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No wonder she was moved. You can see that probably the
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way Jesus loved them and brought their brother back, back to life
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and what she saw in Jesus listening to her motivated her
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to do what she did for Jesus. So she was motivated by her love
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for Christ. And as a result, Jesus says that
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wherever the gospel is preached, what this man has done will also
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be said that she did it. The purpose for expressing her
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sacrifice of her sacrifice was to prepare the body of Jesus for
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barrier. That was where she descended the
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body. She descend the body.
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You need to look beyond this small table and it's not about
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the size of the table. Our table can be small, but the
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weights on the table is what really speaks.
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So the purpose is to prepare Jesus for his barrier, to
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prepare Jesus for his barrier. Look, not this.
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Jesus is the anointed 1 Messiah. Anointed, in fact he was.
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He was filled with the Holy Spirit in the womb and Jesus
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took the form of body from a woman.
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And no wonder that to let the body go through suffering, she
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was anointed by a woman. So there was somebody who needed
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to anoint him to prepare his body, but who would catch that
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revelation to do it? It was someone who descend the
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lost body. Who did that?
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May we descend the lost body. Oh, if you're here, give me a
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bigger Amen. Amen.
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So Jesus himself said that she has poured this perfume on my
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body to prepare for barrier. So his body needed to prepare
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for barrier because his body will not decay.
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The other woman went there on the Sabbath day on the first day
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of the week to go and then perfume his body again.
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But when they got there, they were late.
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Anything you have to do for the Lord, do it fast, because the
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opportunity may not be there forever.
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Mary caught that opportunity and she did it and anointed the body
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of Christ before her for for His barrier.
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Jesus said that the woman has done a good thing for him, a
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good thing for him Today you may not see his physical body, but
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whatever you are doing for someone in the body of Christ,
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you are also doing a good thing for the body of Christ.
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Do something good and Jesus will thank you to today.
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You may not see him and anoint him with with the expensive one,
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but as you are doing it for the the least amongst us, you are
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doing a good thing for Him and Jesus will thank you for that
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good thing. Hallelujah.
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Let the good thing that you are doing for Jesus be the good name
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you portray out there. Do a good thing for the Lord, Do
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a good work for the Lord. The occasion was just once was
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rare. It will not be OK when Jesus
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said that. As for the poor, you always
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have, but As for me, you will not have.
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So the woman identify and seize the moment.
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And she did it. She broke her expensive
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alabaster jar and she did it for the Lord today.
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Don't hoard it, break it. Oh, you didn't hear me today.
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Don't hoard the good things you have, break them in the name of
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the Lord, and the Lord will bless you to you.
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Jesus, he did not. He did not keep his life to
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himself, He broke it. So anyone who follows his
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example of sacrifice and given you, move him to your behalf.
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Sacrifice, then give him. May we continually sacrifice
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even the tables before us. If you go to our page, some
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people sacrifice for this table to be here.
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True or false. You see the name there?
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Elder and the dickness Unni. Elder and Unni and I must be
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human and I'm in Kahun and I'm minister of Mami Kahun.
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The way to rejoin. So when we are sacrificing every
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day. So even this table, somebody
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took money from the pocket for it to be here.
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Jesus, He didn't just take money, He took his life to make
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the table a reality for you. So may we thank Him and descend
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as Mary did for her. Hallelujah.
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Oh, I said Hallelujah. So now when we descend the
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Lord's body, let us offer a sweet smelling aromatic memorial
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sacrifice to the Lord. Amen.
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Oh, I said Amen. Because of our time, I will run
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to is quite a longer 1, so I will run to the final part.
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The eschalogical eschatological implication of the laws table.
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Implications of the laws table. Let us read from Luke chapter
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2215 following Luke 2215 following.
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Let's take this one from there, NLT.
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There's a particular way there I want to have ambly bring to
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attention. Then you end, Jesus said.
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Listen to this as I try to end, Jesus said.
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I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you
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before my suffering begins. Let's go on, for I tell you now
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that I won't eat this meal. Look at the this referring to
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that day, this meal again until its full meaning is fulfilled in
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the Kingdom of God. Then he took a cup of wine and
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gave thanks to God for it. Then he said, take this and
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share it among yourselves, for I will not drink wine again until
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the Kingdom of God has come. Next verse please.
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He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it.
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Then he broke it in peace and gave it to the disciples,
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saying, This is my body, which is what given to you.
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Do this to Remember Me. After supper, he took another
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cup of wine and said This cup is the new covenant between God and
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his people, an agreement confirmed with my blood, which
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is poured out as a sacrifice for you.
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There is a story here. So you will be wondering how
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many cups did Jesus speak or you didn't see it?
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I intentionally read this Boko so that you will see it.
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He took a cup. The first was a cup, then he
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took another cup. OK, this same text.
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Let's read it from the new King James and see.
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Look at how the King James qualified the cup.
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King James says the cup, so it means there was a particular cup
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there. If you read the historical
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things behind the table, they were expecting the Messiah to
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come. So whenever they eat the
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Passover meal, there is always a particular cup that is tanned
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Yebutuno. So there are other cups, there
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are several cups, but there's a particular cup that is always
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turned upside down. And when Jesus had given them
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the initial drink with any cup, then he, he broke the bread for
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them, referring to himself. Then finally he took that cup,
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the cup that is always, I don't know if it's always set in the
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middle or in the left or right, but there's always a cup there
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referring to the Messiah's cup. So when Jesus took the cup, he
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was referring to himself that I am the Messiah who has come.
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So the table that Jesus was setting 1.
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He says that I've been very eager.
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This, this was not the first time he was eating the Passover.
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He had been eating probably for that.
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This would have been the third one or who knows.
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And he would say that he was eager to eat this last one with
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the why? Because he was fading away the
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Passover and he was instituting a new covenant in his blood.
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Also, he was eager because that will be the last one he's going
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to eat with them. That will be the last meal.
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I will not eat this meal again. Meaning that he had been eaten
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until his meaning has been fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.
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So eschatologically, it means that if this is the last one
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Jesus is eating, then there will be a first one in the Kingdom
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who will eat with Him. So if you don't participate in
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this table, this one is a dress rehearsal.
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We are rehearsing on earth how to dine with him in the Kingdom,
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and there's a table there he has set for us.
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So you will not eat this meal again until in the new Kingdom.
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And then he also said that he took the cup and gift us and say
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that take this share among yourself.
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I will not drink wine again. I will not.
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So there's another wine we will drink with the Lord.
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So we will not drink earthly wine at this table forever.
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Need to be any of this wine. A day's coming, we'll be going
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to taste the eternal, the heavenly wine.
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I don't know how it will feel when it's going down your
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throat. I don't know the feeling it will
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create in your mouth. I don't know how it if it will
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create a it will be sweet. A bed upon a bed upon the reason
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why these little guys love Christmas and those nice things
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that the food and the atmosphere, everything, it
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creates a memory in their mind and they want to really leave it
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again. So Jesus was saying by this last
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time there's going to be another one.
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That one, when you taste it, you enjoy.
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So as we come here eschatologically, we are
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thinking that we are doing this in anticipation of a better wine
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that is yet to come. We are tasting this bread, but
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there is a bread in eternity in heaven, where Jesus is going to
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give to us. So when you are coming to the
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table, prepare your mind eschatologically that a day is
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coming. It will be your Last Supper.
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Help improve. A day will come, everybody.
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This table might be your Last Supper before you die.
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So that is why sometimes when people are sick at home they see
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that, bring me some, let me eat some.
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Probably that will be the last one before the transition to
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meet the original 1. The original 1 is there, and
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Jesus would give to us to have a bite and a taste.
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So this table is not saying that I will not drink it again.
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He was facing out, the old was going away and was instituting
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the Lost Supper for us. May we come with this heart that
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we are thanking Him eschatologically.
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It's also important that as we die at the Lost Table, we are
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thinking of the glorious feast in heaven.
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That table is set. The chairs are there.
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Our names have been put on a chair.
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The chairs have been labeled. What is waiting is that there's
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somebody at the gates waiting to hear the trumpet call so that
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they will assemble all the Saints together to enter that.
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Hall. And to go and dine with the Lord
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Jesus, that when Jesus was sit at the table, at the head of
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that table. So what we are doing here is in
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anticipation. So if you don't come to this
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table, do you think you can go to that one up there?
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I had the Akran Ujani Nasro. So don't run away.
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Descend it well and come and do it.
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A word of caution to those at the table.
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Judas too came to the table. Judas Iscariot, he was also
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present at the table on Earth. So another word is that the fact
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that you come to this table does not guarantee your position at
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the table in heaven called Judas.
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He was at the table, but he betrayed Jesus Christ.
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So a word of question. If you don't take care, you will
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taste the earthly table, but you miss the heavenly table.
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May we not miss it? Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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At the table, opportunities abound.
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It was at the same table that Judas was looking for
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opportunity to betray Jesus. Whilst people were looking for
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opportunity to anoint His body, Judas was looking for the
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opportunity to betray the Lord. It was at the same table that
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Jesus taught the disciples. He washed his their feet.
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He washed the feet of all of them.
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Peter said the Lord don't do not just my feet, the whole body and
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Jesus said that anyone who has taken a bath does not need to
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bath again, but to wash the feet.
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So the preaching and everything they had heard from Jesus meant
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that they were clean and was teaching them that do same.
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You called me master, master, master, you called me teacher
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and I'm doing this. Make sure you do that.
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So at the last table, if you descend him very well, we serve.
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We serve at the table of the Lord.
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We don't go there to Lord it over.
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He said that the people of this world, they Lord it over their
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followers, but not here. Jesus said I'm not here and
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Yamaha may hide the over some. So he told them that go and do
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likewise. Go and do what?
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Likewise. So at the table when you dine
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with him, you have to go and serve.
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After dining, you must be unleashed.
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Oh, you didn't hear me. After dining.
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He taught them a valuable lesson to serve one another.
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So after dining, the effects from the table is that you have
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nothing but to go and save. Husbands will save our wives.
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Wives will save our husbands. Children will serve parents.
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Parents will serve children. Church members will serve God
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well. We will serve God at our
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workplaces. We will serve God when we are
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looking at the figures before us.
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We will serve God when we are fixing prices on our product.
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We will serve God by doing everything right.
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We will serve God by not selling bad things to people in the name
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of class. Adya Otaman and your parents.
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Not one more final. Are you serving God?
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Let us serve God who end with Paul.
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He say that anyone who eats and drink this cup in an unworthy
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manner eats and drinks judgments upon themselves.
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So Paul was emphatic that that is how many people are weak and
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I'll for not descend. So if you don't descend the lost
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table, well, you will be judged, you will be judged, you will be
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judged. So eventually Judas who spoke
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against the woman who descend the lost table, was the one who
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could not descend the lost table, that the Lord's body and
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betrayed him with pieces of silver.
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So if you feel to descend the Lord at his table, you will
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betray him. Look at the example of Judas.
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And even now Paul is saying that that is where many are weak and
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people have even died. So people have even died.
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So if you come to the lost table and you don't take it serious,
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the Lord is serious. The Lost Supper is not to be
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taken lightly because it's a new covenant that cost Jesus his
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life. Enacting the new covenant, It
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cost him his life. Don't let us come as a
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meaningless ritual every month. Be a cause.
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So now people have used it as their first.
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Oh, this is the first Sunday. Also today we'll go to the
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luster. Also today we'll do this.
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So now it's becoming a ritual. So the moment you go, just make
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yourself pious, sanctimonious. Don't let your feet even touch
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the ground. He wants a good heart from you.
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So it's not how you walk. So pious.
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Oh, Jesus. Oh, Sokoto.
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Mama. No, no.
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He wants your heart to be that. He wants your heart to be
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humble. He wants your heart to come to
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him with reference. And the fear that this table.
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Jesus, Oba, I've told you that no king throws a banquet and
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he's absent. He comes, he shows up.
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Shall we be on our feet? Shall we be on our feet?
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May the Lord help us so that this table here, the essence is
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to strengthen our faith. The key thing is what?
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Strengthen our faith. So if you are coming and you are
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not coming in a wealthy manner because you're not descending
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the lost table and his body, well, we are praying to the Lord
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that Lord forgive us if we have not descend your body and we
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have behaved anyhow, have mercy upon us.
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Lift up your voice and you know, pray to the Lord, begin to pray
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to the we are asking God to forgive us that many a times we
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don't even prepare ourselves. We don't plan, we don't come
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with a prepared heart, a heart of gratitude and thankfulness.
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Let us ask God, forgive us Lord, have mercy over us.
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Have mercy over us. The number of times we have not
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come to your table well prepared.
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We don't descend you at the table that it is through your,
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the purchase of your blood that you have purchased this for us.
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Forgive us Lord, forgive us Lord.
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We want to thank the Lord that He has done this for us.
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We are discerning the Lord's body by thanking Him, by
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acknowledging that He paid it. He paid the price for us to have
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this table. The Lord set this table before
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us by offering His only Son as a sacrifice.
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Let us thank Him. Open your mouth and begin to
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thank the Lord. Open your mouth and will thank
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the Lord to us. Let the Lord hear that you are
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so. Lord for thank you, Lord.
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For what I have done for. You Lord for.
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We are forever thankful. Father sending holy thank.
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You Lord to. Come and die for us.
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Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
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Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
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Thank you, Lord. Father, we appreciate.
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Lord, if I. Thank you.
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We thank you, Father. We thank you, Lord.
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We thank you, Lord, we thank. You, Father.
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Lord, we thank you. Lord, we thank you, Father.
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In the name of. Jesus.
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We are praying to thank the Lord for what He has done for us by
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sending His holy begotten Son. For God so loved the world that
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He gave us His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him
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will not perish, but have everlasting life.
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So they won't be intentional in thanking God for his only Son,
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that through Him we have access to the table, through Him we
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have access to Him. Let us lift up our voice.
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I'm going to thank the Lord. Let us appreciate with the heart
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of gratitude. Thank Him.
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Thank you, Lord, we thank you. Lord, We thank you.
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Lord, we thank you, Lord, we thank you.
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In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, shall we
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be seated? Please, shall we be seated?
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Mayweja Party War crystal. Moon.
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When Mary descend the body of Christ, she expressed it.
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We too know that we have descend His body.
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What is the form of your expression?
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After descending the Lord's body, anyone who descends his
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body, descend his body. There was an expression.
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Mary brought forth her expensive perfume and anointed Jesus the
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body of Christ. Today, what is your expression
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towards the body of Christ? You may say medium, me,
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Bonidina, my day, Madonna. Today I want you to form a new
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expression that we have descend the body.
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Even if you have not descended the body by this word, you have
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descended up to some point. What are you going to do after
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discerning the body of Christ? Judas Iscariot criticized and he
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was ostracized from the Kingdom. He was expelled.
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He lost his place and was given to somebody else.
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May we not be critics at the table, but may we appreciate the
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Lord and focus on Him. Form your expression.
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Form your expression. Form an expression that, O God,
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after I descend your body, I will also serve.
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That is what we have to do. From leaving His table, He
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commissioned to go and save today.
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What are you doing in response? After thanking Him?
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What other thing do you want to do?
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That is what we are going to possess the nation with the
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gospel and with the power of the Holy Spirit.
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We are going to transform society and it starts with you
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and I, our form of expressing our faith.
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After the descend, the body of Christ would touch a life
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somewhere, would touch a family somewhere, will bring
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transformation to somebody, will bring somebody to the Kingdom.
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Lord, Lord, allow the Holy Spirit to minister to you.
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Mary give her beautiful Alabastaja.
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With content so expensive as her form of expression after she
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descend the body today, after you have descend the Lord's
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body, how are you going to express it?
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Paul says that proclaim the lost death until he comes.
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There's another form of expression, evangelizing.
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Witnessing is a form of expression.
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After you have descend the body, you will not sit down, but you
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go forth. Oh God, Father, in the name of
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Jesus, we thank you that today you have reminded us that we
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need to discern your body. Mary, discern your body and
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prepare your body for barrier. And it was a good thing, you
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remark. That was a good thing.
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Lord, may our expression after descending your body through
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your table that you are the VIP in our life, help us so that we
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also do good thing to the body, to the body of believers.
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We also do good things to each other.
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We will love one another and we will love you dearly.
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Thank you for your work today as we come to dine with you.
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Lord, we pray the Lord let grace abound unto us.
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We wash ourselves in the blood of Jesus and let the blood speak
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for us and cover all weaknesses. We thank You that in the
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Kingdom, when all is fulfilled, we are going to taste a heavily
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bread and a heavily wine with you, and there you are going to
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comfort us. Thank you Lord, as we live in
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readiness in anticipation of that day.
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May that understanding and thoughts dominate our lives so
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that we'll not leave for ourselves, but we'll leave for
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you in Jesus name, Amen. Let us read from First
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Corinthians where we we just finished off as a way of
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reminding ourselves before we dine with the Lord.
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First Corinthians 11. We'll take it from the 23rd
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verse following 23rd verse First Corinthians 1111 from verse 23
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following Can we get the new King James and then the new For
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I received from the Lord.