Warren Taylor - United with Christ - Communion, Sunday, May 24, 2026

I have the privilege to lead you in communion.

Some amazing truths happen when we accept the gift of Jesus dying on the cross.

One, we're adopted into God's family.

Thank you so much.

We are declared royal children of the King of Kings.

And secondly, we are, since we are a family, we're united with Jesus in his death.

Since we are united with Jesus, it's another powerful truth that comes from 2 Corinthians 5.14.

Since that we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe we have also died to our old life.

Even my little puny brain can sort of make some sort of sense out of this.

Because I'm united to him.

Once Jesus died, then I'm somehow connected to dying for myself, to myself.

Also being united to Jesus, we are made right with him.

It's in 1 Corinthians 1.30.

Being united to Jesus, we receive a new life.

It says in 2 Corinthians 5 15.

Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.

In belonging to God, we become a new person.

I've never seen this before, but there's a powerful statement in 2 Corinthians 6 7 that says, We use the weapon of righteousness in the right hand for attack and in the left hand for defense.

This is our combat pose with the evil one.

Attack is where we declare the truths about God and our truths about our relationship with God.

And defense is where we reject the lies of the evil one.

I'll give you one example.

I'm not doing a sermon, so I'll slow down.

In attack, I am no longer a slave to cry slave to he to sin.

I am a slave to righteousness.

It's my attack pose.

And in defense, one example would be the lie that the evil one likes to throw at us so many times.

I'm not good enough for God.

My defense, I am right with God.

I am precious to God.

God died for me.

As we take the bread and the wine, let us realize that we are in combat mode.

There is truths over our lives that we should affirm regularly.

And we should reject every time he plants thoughts or lies against our destiny.

So let's take the bread and wine.

Let's rejoice in Jesus' name.