From Passover to Communion: Remembering Christ's Sacrifice

But you know what? That's not coming here to remember him with the right attitude, is it? We all make mistakes, don't we? We all do things wrong. But you know what? Our attitude should be one of where we come and confess our sins and remembering that he is faithful and just and will forgive us from our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We read that verse in one John chapter one. We've got a God who loves us. If we're going away from here and committing sin, that's wrong, but if we bring our sins to the Lord and ask for his forgiveness, he will forgive us for them. [00:34:06] (34 seconds)  #ConfessAndBeForgiven

Or do we go away from him? Do we deceive ourselves and say, surely not I? Judah said that. Is it me? Is it me, Rabbi? Is it me? He's like, I'm surprised. He knew what he was doing, didn't he? Do we do that? They'll go, surely not I. It's not This isn't looking at me. I'm fine in my life. I don't do anything wrong. But just like that yeast in the bread, if we've got sin in our lives that we're allowing to grow, it will take over. It will very quickly take over our entire lives and just remove our focus from the Lord. So it's so important that we just get rid of this sin and that we commit it to the Lord and we just ask for his forgiveness so that he can forgive us. [00:34:40] (41 seconds)  #RemoveSinBeforeItSpreads

And how important was that when Jesus picked this cup and said, this cup, do this in remembrance of me. He is the one who's come to redeem us. So this whole thing that looked back at the the lamb in Egypt was now whole picture is now turned onto our Lord Jesus Christ, as he says, take this cup. I'm the one who's redeemed you. He's he's declared he's the one who's rescued us from our sin. Take this bread. This bread no longer represents Egyptians Israelites running out of Egypt. It represents that sinless lamb of God. This is my body. This is my body without sin, without leaven. It's perfect without sin. [00:30:18] (45 seconds)  #JesusIsTheRedeemer

despite a tiny little bit of yeast in a huge batch of dough, it permeates all through it, doesn't it? You only put a little sprinkling in. If you're making bread, you don't put buckets of it like you do flour. It's a little bit, and it spreads through. And that's the same in our lives, isn't it? Sin. That's why yeast is like that. A little bit of sin in our lives, it permeates through our entire life, doesn't it? And affects every single part of it. So therefore, it was the unleavened bread that they used here [00:28:13] (30 seconds)  #SmallSinSpreads

When we If we've got people around about us, maybe we've people who we don't We've got problems with and not saying we should go and You know, we're not always best friends with everyone. We're different, aren't we? But we should have love for people around and about us, whatever that situation is, even if they're not someone we would normally associate with. Look at the Lord himself. He was associating with all the ones that maybe people wouldn't want to associate with, but his attitude was one of love, wasn't he, for those people? And if you've got people around about you that you know you struggle with, then again, commit it to the Lord because otherwise, it can very quickly take over our lives and end up turning into resentment. [00:35:21] (39 seconds)  #LoveEvenThoseWeStruggleWith

Judas didn't do this, did he? He didn't repent of his sin. It's so sad, isn't it? Judas was getting, I don't know, quite well paid for it, wasn't he? That's probably what his mind was on, wasn't it? He was getting his money, his pieces of silver, and he didn't commit of his sin didn't confess his sin. Sorry. He came here. He sat at the Lord's table, took that with the Lord himself, you know, and yet went away and carried on committing his sin and it didn't bring him any blessing whatsoever. We see in the verses to come how we end that Judas ended up killing himself [00:36:00] (36 seconds)  #JudasNoRepentance

One day, we will go and be with him in his kingdom, and we will be able to take You know, we'll be able to remember him face to face. We won't need to do communion as we know it because we will be with the Lord Jesus in heaven, and it's a tremendous act of hope as we take communion, as we look forward and remember that we will be with him one day because of all that he's done for us. [00:41:14] (22 seconds)  #HopeOfHeavenlyCommunion

So I think communion, as we take it, as we take it tonight, as I've said already, as a Christian, it's one of the most important things you could do. It's one of the times where we come to focus on the fact the Lord Jesus has saved us. And therefore, coming with a right heart and a right attitude is of utmost importance. This isn't something we just tag on the end of a service. This is something that is in complete reverence to our Lord Jesus. And one Corinthians 11, where you read through that passage and we read it, don't we, it talks about coming in an unworthy manner. There were people in the Corinthian church who were not coming with the right mindset. [00:31:39] (41 seconds)  #CommunionRequiresRightHeart