Celebrating Christ: Love, Service, and Forgiveness This Christmas

"Thank you, Father, if any person is in lack in this season, I thank you, Lord, that you are our provider. Lord, your word says that if we bring our tithe into the storehouse, Father, Lord, you'd open up the windows of heaven and pour out blessing upon us. We have room not enough to receive. Lord, you said that you are our source, not everything else but you, Father. Lord, that you would supply all of our needs according to your riches and glory. We put our hope and we put our trust in you, and we bring an offering to you this morning. In Jesus' name, and everybody said, amen." [00:03:43] (28 seconds)


"I always think it's important to take communion around this time of year because with everything that goes on in these seasons and we get so busy and we're here and there and we're just trying to make each thing as it comes along. You know, we need to take time to do that. We need to take time to do what Paul said that the Lord told him to do is to take communion and do it in remembrance of him. First Corinthians 11, 23 through 26 says this, for I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which he was betrayed took bread." [00:48:44] (32 seconds)


"Do this to call me affectionately to remembrance. Similarly, when supper was ended, he took the cup also saying, the cup is a new covenant ratified and established in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it to call me affectionately to remembrance. For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you're representing and signifying and proclaiming the fact of the Lord's death until he comes." [00:50:45] (31 seconds)


"I like that you're proclaiming the fact because if we ever lose sight that it's fact, that it's truth and that a doubt will create a new covenant, we're going to lose sight of the truth. Whether Jesus was real, whether Jesus really died for us, whether Jesus did what he did and says, when you do this, you put yourself in remembrance of the fact of Jesus's death for us and what that meant." [00:51:56] (23 seconds)


"We're remembering when we take communion, his death and his sacrifice for us in his place. Spiritually, it means that he paid for our eternal security and salvation from what's going to happen to this world and the systems of this world. And it's master, which is Satan." [00:53:18] (21 seconds)


"It also means that he paid for some things that we can benefit from while here on the earth in our flesh and in our mind and our emotions and our will. Because Isaiah prophesied that Jesus and everything that he would come and do in his death in Isaiah 53, it was about six to 800 years prior to the events of the cross." [00:53:59] (21 seconds)


"In Isaiah 53, these are the things that it talks about, that through the death of Jesus, this is what he paid for for us. He paid for our rejection because he was rejected. He paid for our sorrows and griefs. He paid for our afflictions. He paid for our transgressions and iniquities, which are sins. He paid a great price for our peace. The Bible says that by his stripes, he was paying, the stripes that he took on his back, he was paying for our healing." [00:54:56] (30 seconds)


"Let's take that time to say, you know, if Jesus paid for all of my sins and forgave me of everything, then he did that for the person that maybe I'm harboring things towards. No matter how horrible the thing may be, if Jesus forgave me and my sins, he can forgive them and I should forgive them. Because the word of God says that if you can't forgive others, he can't forgive you." [00:54:32] (29 seconds)


"Lord, let your love and your joy and your peace and your mercy rule and reign in their homes throughout this season, Father. Lord, bring comfort where comfort is needed. Lord, bring peace where peace is needed. Bring joy where joy is needed. Let this be just a wonderful time of peace, love, joy, comfort in our homes." [01:00:11] (26 seconds)