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It's good to have Michaela back.
Are you back here? Where's Yeah?

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I saw her a few minutes ago, fresh back from from Bethel. I

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think we're excited to have her.
Amen. Man, Well, God bless

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you this morning. It's good to
see you. And um, I'm Joe

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Simms. Oh look they put my
name up there. Um. Our pastors

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are actually in the air right now, flying off for their fortieth anniversary vacation.

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Amen. And uh so this morning
I get to privilege of sharing with

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you, and I'm excited about it. I'm excited about what God's doing in

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this house but in the church in
general as well. And you know,

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last week Pastor preached and we'd had
missions months, so he hadn't preached all

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month. And then he preached on
Sunday and he said to you guys,

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at least in first service. So
if he didn't say it in the second

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service, I'll just tell you what
he said in first service. It wasn't

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it wasn't about you. Um,
but he said, he said, I

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don't have time to start a series, so today I'm going to teach on

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receiving. And I sat in my
chair and thought, well, he doesn't

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realize he's starting a series because my
message today is receiving at all. And

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and you know, during that opening
he asked a question, he said,

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what if you flooded your daily devotions
with receiving? What if you did that?

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You know, Bible says that God
has already given us all that is

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necessary for life and godliness, and
a lot of times I think we spend

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our time asking for things that we've
already been given, and he's saying,

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just receive, just receive it,
just take it. And today I'm going

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to talk to you about communion because
I think that it's one tool that has

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often overlooked, underrated, underutilized,
and ignored because we misunderstand it. And

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so we're going to talk about that
a little bit today. And I hope

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that when you leave here today,
you never look at communion the same again.

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My hope that is in twenty and
thirty years from now, you're literally

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remembering what we talk about today.
You know, most of you know we

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wrote a book about I don't I
don't remember was this out a year ago

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or something like that something, And
you know, communion activating the power of

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God and everyday living. Some of
you probably got it hopefully if you didn't,

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we have them available shameless plug.
But in this I think are some

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keys to activating God's power in your
life every day. And another thing that

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we're doing right now because we feel
like there is just a fresh wind blowing

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on the message of communion throughout the
Body of Christ. And so one of

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the things that we've done is we
have a website now called my Daily Communion

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dot com and if you if you
want, you can either go to the

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website. You can get this little
fancy card as sure as you have these

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cards to pass out where you're at. They're supposed to pass cards out to

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you guys. I'm not sure where
they went, but they'll be back to

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a break. Apparently they had to
go serve at the other church down the

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road. Maybe I'm kidding. Anyway, if you click the QR code,

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it'll take you to the website and
you have an opportunity to sign up for

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a thirty day Communion challenge. And
we would love to have you join us

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and take communion every day for thirty
days. I'm telling you change your life.

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I told Sandy O the night it
should be called thirty days of Freedom

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to freedom because it's coming up to
July fourth, all right, and I

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encourage you to do it. And
if you click there and you sign up

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and you like our Facebook page,
it'll take you there. We're gonna have

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daily devotions there and opportunity there for
you to put in a testimonial of what

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God's doing in your life. So
amen, all right, So a little

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bit of announcement before we get to
the message, but I just want to

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encourage you to jump into some of
the stuff. It'll change your life.

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And we have a great communion group
going as part of the small groups,

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you know, And each week we
have a faithful bunch of people to get

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on our call on Monday nights and
we have devotions and we take community together.

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And I don't think that anybody on
that call would tell you that we

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are the same people, any of
us on the call that we were three

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years ago, three and a half
years ago now right that we've been doing

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this and it will change your life. So tomorrow today, what I want

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to talk about, though, is
making communion a part of your everyday life.

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We oftentimes, you know, think
of it as the ceremonial thing that

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we do in church. Only I
know I grew up in very traditional Pentecostal

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churches. My dad was a pastor, a pastor of churches all over California.

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We moved more than I can count. As an adult, I look

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back than cown did I ever get
through school. But in all of those

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churches we took communion. And in
all of those churches we had the oak

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bench in the front of the stage, and on it it said do this

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in remembrance of Me. Right,
remember that? And that's good, and

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we should do things in remembrance.
And we're when we're taking communion, it's

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to do it in remembrance of Jesus. And it isn't remembering something because you

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forgot it. It's remember what he
did for you. It's taking a memorial

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stone and saying, I remember that
Jesus died for my sins. I remember

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that Jesus suffered for my healing.
I remember that Jesus did all of these

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things for me. The one thing
about it when I was growing up,

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though, was that it was tradition. It was ceremony, and it was

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often even though we had really good
people, these were solid people that you

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grew up around that were in the
church, that were leaders, that were

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teachers that did all of the different
things. They were great people, wonderful

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people, but most of the time
the religious ceremony part was just that it

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was something that had no power.
You just kind of did it. We

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got through it. It was five
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is not what communion should be.
The goal for today is that we recognize

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the power in the body and in
the blood of Jesus. It shouldn't be

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a simple five minute moment. It
should be an encounter. You know,

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Communion should look more like a family
meal than a snack. Amen. Remember

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that when you are receiving communion,
you're receiving the anointing. You're eating the

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anointing. You're drinking the annoying,
and the anointing breaks every yoke of bondage.

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If you're bound up, take communion. You're sick, take communion.

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If you're tired, take community.
Whatever it is, take communion. I'm

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telling you, take communion. We
said it earlier in that song. We

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said you are the medicine, and
I drink you in telling you it's power

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in communion. What I want to
look at this morning is some of the

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Old Testament, you know, and
how that there were prophetic words throughout the

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Old Testament about what Jesus would do, what the Messiah would do for us,

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and it recounted things. It was
foretelling of the things, but it

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was recounting them. And we can
look back at that and go, wow,

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that was That was a It was
very right on. And secondly,

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it's powerful when we take and break
it down. So I want to read

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to you today out of Isaiah fifty
three. And I don't know if they

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have the Passion translation up or not, but if they don't, it's okay.

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I'm gonna read it. You can
trust me. It's gonna say what

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I say. It says amen.
Isaiah fifty three three says he was despised

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and rejected by men, a man
of deep sorrows who was no stranger to

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suffering and grief. We hid our
faces from him in disgust and considered him

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and nobody not worthy of respect.
Yet he was the one who carried our

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sickness and endured the torment of our
sufferings, who we viewed him as being

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punished for something he himself had done, as one who was struck down by

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God and brought low. But it
was because of our rebellious deeds that he

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was pierced, and because of our
sins he was crushed. He endured the

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punishment that made us completely whole,
and in his wounding we found our healing.

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Like wayward sheep, we have all
wandered astray. Each of us has

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turned from God's paths and chosen our
own way. Even so, yahweh laid

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the guilt of every sin on him. He carried our sickness, he carried

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our sufferings. He took on the
weight of our punishment and provided our healing,

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and took on our guilt. I
want to break this down for you

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because when we really look at this
and we start to understand what Jesus did

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for us, it'll change our perspective. But in this verse, in this

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passage, we see how the Jewish
people of the day would see him and

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how they would view him, especially
the leaders, and it says that they

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couldn't even look upon his face because
it was so badly beaten. Have you

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ever seen something so terrible that you
couldn't you couldn't stand to look at it?

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That's what they saw. But worst
yet, it was the fact that

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what they were looking upon was their
sin. Was their sickness, was the

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things that they themselves should be bearing. In fact, they should have been

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looking in a mirror, and they
couldn't stand look upon him. And then

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at the same time, the enemy
was watching this, and he was saying

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to his little minions, look what
we've done. Look at him now.

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He spent all these years healing people, making things right, but we've won.

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Look at him now. And what
the enemy couldn't hear because of his

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celebration was that every step Jesus took
sin I'm coming for you. Death,

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I'm coming for you, sickness,
I'm coming for you, bondage, I'm

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coming for you, addiction, I'm
coming for you. With every step that

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he took, he was one step
closer to our freedom and the enemy's defeat.

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Every step says he was pierced for
our rebellious deeds. One rebellion is

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as the sin of witchcraft. You
see, witchcraft includes manipulation, it includes

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rebellion, It includes things that we
do every day. But I'm telling you

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you've been freed from those things.
And not only have you been freed from

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manipulation, you've been freed from manipulating. Rebellious deeds bring chaos. They bring

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poverty, They bring destruction into our
lives. They bring things to us that

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we never thought we would have.
But it's in our rebellion. He endured

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the torment for our sufferings. You
are free from demonic oppression and from trauma.

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Well, you're past is your past. I'm telling you. You might

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say to me, you know what, Joe, Addiction runs in my family,

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goes back to my great great great
grandfather and my grandfather and my dad

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and my mom and all the different
people in your lineage. Or maybe you

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say, poverty runs in our family. Sickness run in our family. I

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had an aunt that would would say
out loud to her family, you know,

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I looked to the day when I'm
in a wheelchair. Ultimately she ended

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up in a wheelchair and died at
a very young age. I'm telling you

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here's the deal. It might run
in your family until it runs into you.

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Come on, when it runs into
you, it runs into the Holy

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Spirit that's in you, and it's
defeated. Whatever it is. Poverty broken

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off, sickness broken off. Matthew
eighth sixteen says this. It says that

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evening the people brought to him many
who were demonized, and by Jesus only

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speaking a word of healing over them, they were totally set free. His

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word ken White about hundreds of years
of family history. His word can wipe

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out decades of abuse. His word
can wipe out everything that you've ever gone

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through and make it a distant memory, telling you one word from Jesus is

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better than anything anyone else could ever
come up with. It goes on and

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it says, and he was crushed
for our sins. When something is crushed,

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it's literally destroyed. You never watch
a crusher work on old cars,

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you know, they just destroy those
things. You can't even tell what they

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are. I want us to look
at Psalm twenty two for a moment.

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So Psalm twenty two was written by
David about a thousand years before Jesus,

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and it is a perfect a word
about what the Messiah would go through on

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the cross. And this is what
it says that Jesus would say. Says,

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but look at me now, I
am like a woeful worm, crushed

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and I'm bleeding crimson. I don't
even look like a man anymore. I've

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been abused, despised, and scorned
by everyone. That word that's used there

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worm. The original writing text is
the word tolath. The talath is a

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worm. It's also known as the
crimson worm, and that word. The

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female gets pregnant one time and then
she attaches herself to a tree and she

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lays the larvae under her, and
then her body becomes a crust, but

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under it is an excretion of crimson
red blood that the larvae take on and

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are nourished by, and their color
has changed over that three days, and

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then she dies. What Jesus was
saying is I feel like a toloth,

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and I'm going to attach myself to
a tree. In between me and the

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tree will be crimson red blood that
is flowing. And then that blood would

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be your nourishment, your healing.
It would be the very thing that would

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change your life. That's what Jesus
was saying. And when something is dyed,

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it's changed. Its appearance changes.
Black becomes purple, or red can

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become white, whatever it is.
What the Bible says in Isaiah, it

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says that though your sins are as
scarlet, they will be as white as

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snow. Come on, I'm telling
you that when the blood of Jesus interacts

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with you, you may be a
darkened soul. But God's saying, when

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the blood of Jesus comes to you, you will be light. You are

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the light of the world. You've
been changed from darkness to light when you

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receive Jesus. His punishment was so
that we could be made cold. Oh

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thank you Jesus. His punishment goes
on and says that in his wounds we

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find our healing. Song of Solomon
two fourteen says this is for you,

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or my dove, hidden in my
split open rock. The Song of Solomon

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is a picture of the bridegroom and
the church. And what are you saying

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is that you, my bride,
All of you are hidden in my split

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open side when my side was split. It's for you to be hidden in.

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It's for you to be healed in. It was for you to be

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protected in. Inside of him is
everything that we need for life and godliness.

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Inside of him is our healing.
Inside of him is our freedom.

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Inside of him is our safety.
Inside of him as our prosperity. Inside

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of him is everything that we need. You need something get inside of Jesus.

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I want to look at something with
you, and I want to tell

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you this before I start on this
portion of this message. We caught this

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about twenty years ago, Sandy and
I. It changed our lives. And

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I'm telling you, if you can
catch this concept this morning, this will

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change your life. And I don't
say that braggadociously. I'm telling you this

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will change your life. But I
want to look at Matthew twenty six for

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a moment. Matthew twenty six verses
twenty sixty twenty eight says, and as

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they were eating. First of all, let me set this up. I

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always get ahead of myself. But
imagine being a disciple, and you've spent

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your entire life having passover meals.
You're in, you're out, You've had

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the Passover meal. And you know, after a while it might have been

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cool forst or whatever, but then
after a while it becomes routine. Think

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about it. You know, we
have Thanksgiving dinner and it can become very

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routine. You know, if you
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it can be routine. You know, whatever you do can become routine and

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you lose the power of it.
Right, But these guys are getting ready.

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We're gonna sit down and have Passover
with Jesus and all of a sudden,

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something's gonna change and shift. And
it says, as they were eating,

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Jesus took the bread and he blessed
it, and he broke it,

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and he gave it to them,
and he said, take it and eat

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it. This is my body.
Now, if you're a disciple and you've

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grown up and pass over, right, what are you talking about? This

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is your body. It'scott that's a
little weird. And then it gets a

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little weirder because then he says,
it says, and he took the cup

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and he gave thanks, and he
gave it to them, and he said,

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drink ye all of it. Well, this is my blood of the

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New Testament, which is shed for
many for the remission of sins. When

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Jesus spoke those words, he wasn't
speaking literally, drink all the cup,

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eat all the bread. What he
was saying was drink all that I'm about

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to do for you. Drink all
the healing, Drink all the freedom,

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drink all of the salvation. Don't
leave one drop in the cup. And

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while you're at it, eat all
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But this is my body broken for
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Completely. And sometimes it's very difficult
to go through things in our lives.

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And I know that for me.
When I was chronically ill a few

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years ago, there came a point
where I was like, God, I

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need you, I need one word
from you, because the word from the

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doctor they don't know what to do. So I need Jesus. And I

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remember driving in my car literally weeping
and praying. And God met me there

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that day and things began to change. But I'm telling you, don't leave

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anything in the cup, don't leave
anything on the table. Take it all,

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receive it all. And oh,
by the way, while we're drinking

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and eating it, take the responsibility
to not only the blessings, but the

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responsibilities. So we always want the
good stuff. But then there's that little

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thing called responsibility, you know.
And we had to take all the discipline

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too, and all the holiness,
all the prayer, life, all the

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fasting, all the giving, but
all the praising everything, give it all.

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Get ready, God, not only
am I receiving everything from you,

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but I'm laying it all for you
as well. Come on, that's what

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he's asking of us, you guys. Remember the movie Bamby. Anybody saw

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the movie Bamby, raise your hand, don't be it shy. Okay,

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sorry, anybody's seen it when it
was brand new, that would have been

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nineteen forty two. So if you
raise your hand, you can put it

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back down. Okay. But here's
the deal. In that movie, there's

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a moment where Bambi is eating eating
a salad, right, but all he's

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eating is the flowers, and Mom
walks in and she's like, baby,

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what are you doing? I'm eating
my flowers. It's like, what does

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your dad say? He says,
Wow, you got to eat the greens

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too, and in the movie says, well, Dad says, eating greens

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is a special treat. It makes
long ears and great big feet. That's

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what's God's saying to us too.
When we eat it all and drink it

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all. You want to be established
in your life, you want things to

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go, well, take it all, receive it all, all the blessing,

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all the healing, everything, but
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it. That's what He's saying to
us when we take communion today, I

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hope you take it with a new
perspective. When you accept the invitation to

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the table, remember it's his table, not our table. We didn't set

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the table and bring it to him. He sat at the table and said,

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come and dine with me. And
when we do that, we're his

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guest. But I'm telling you,
communion needs to look a lot more like

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a family meal than a religious ceremony. It ought to be a time when

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we sit down at the feet of
Jesus and receive from him. It'll tell

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him about our day, tell him
about our situations, but also listen to

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what he has to say. Come
on, Communion shouldn't be something where we're

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running and gunning. We are meeting
with the King of kings, the Lord

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of lords. This is our opportunity
to hear from heaven. And that's why

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of such a big permanent proponent of
daily communion. Classians two fourteen says this

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says, he canceled out every legal
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No no, no, no,
Jesus started canceled culture. He canceled

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out every legal violation we had on
our record, and the old arrest warrant

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that stood to indict us. Come
on, come on, if you had

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anything in your past, it's been
wiped out by the blood of Jesus.

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He erased it, all, our
sins, our stained soul. He deleted

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it all, and they cannot be
retrieved. Everything we once were in Adam

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has been placed onto his cross and
nailed permanently. There as a public display

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of cancelation. And that's the Jesus
that we serve. Come on, Come

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on, Sin canceled. Come on, Sickness canceled, poverty canceled, bondage

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is canceled. Come on, Depression
is canceled. Fear is canceled, doubt

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is canceled, unbelief it's canceled.
He conquered the enemy on your behalf.

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It goes on to say this,
I love the scripture, and second Colossians

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says this. In verse fifteen says, then Jesus made a public display.

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Come on, He made a public
spectacle of all the powers and the principalities

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of darkness, stripping away from every
weapon and all of their spiritual authority and

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the power to accuse us. And
by the power of the cross, Jesus

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led them around us prisoners in a
procession of triumph. He was not their

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prisoner. They were his. Wow. Come on, come on, come

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on, come on. He's no
longer carrying across he's got a rope and

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he's got them tied up and he's
walking them around Calvary and he's saying,

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you are canceled off of my people. Effectively, he was saying, let

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my people go. Thank you Jesus. When you received communion over the next

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thirty days, I'm telling you,
it'll change your life because every day you're

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encountering that Jesus. Every day,
that's who you're encountering. And I'm telling

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you the cup and the bread,
if you received that with your wife,

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you receive it with your husband,
you received that with your family. It

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will change your life because it will
cause you to make different decisions every day.

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Yea, so I'm thirty four eight, says taste and see that the

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Lord is good. I love it
and the passion that says the Angel of

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the Lord stooped down to listen as
I prayed. What do you have to

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say? Well, sometimes all you
can manage to get out as a whisper

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he's listening. Sometimes you can get
out a groan he's listening. Well,

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sometimes you can get out of shout. He's listening, says he stooped down

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to listen as I prayed, and
encircled me and empowered me and showed me

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how to escape. He will do
this for everyone who fears God. And

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here's the part that I want you
to catch about communion, says, Drink

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deeply of the pleasures of God.
Experience for yourself, the joyous mercies he

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gives to all who turn to hide
themselves in him. Goes back to the

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split rock. Get in there,
receive communion. Drink deeply, because see

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when you, if you've ever been
one that worked really hard out in the

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hot weather, you came in for
that ice cold drink. As you drink

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it, you begin to feel it
go down your esophagus into your torso,

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and it almost feels like it's flooding
your entire body when you receive communion.

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That's exactly what God's encouraging us to
do. Drink deeply, eat well,

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receive it well, understand all that
He's done for us, and receive it

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all. Would you stand with me
this morning? You get your community nails

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ready, We're to receive communion together. I think that we have these communion

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wafers as representation, but I'm telling
you it's a meal, not a snack.

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There's more to it than a little
five eight cent wafer and a quarter

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ounced cup of juice. What you
hold in your hand is the power that

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will change your life. Will you
hold your hand is enough medicine if you

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will, to cure anything that's wrong
with you. So when you receive it

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today, and you receive it tomorrow, and I hope you receive it not

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only the next thirty days, but
I hope you literally start taking this every

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day of your life because it'll change
your world. This morning, would you

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just hold the bread up. We
want to hold this as a symbol of

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the body of Jesus. But we
hold these elements above us because he is

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above all things, and we're acknowledging
that. Jesus, you are above my

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problems. You're above my sins,
You're above my sickness, You're above my

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disease. You're above everything that I'm
facing. And I thank you for it,

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and Jesus, I thank you for
your body, thank you for the

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suffering. I thank you Jesus for
what you did in the beating, what

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you did on the cross, and
what you did through the resurrection, and

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give you praise for today. Let's
receive the body. Let's do the same

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thing with the cup. Just hold
it up, recognizing that this cup is

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the cup that can cleanse all of
our sin. It washes us to make

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us completely white. It is the
veil that God sees us through, and

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when he looks upon you through that
veil, he sees perfection. He sees

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your beauty, he sees how lovely
you are. And that's why we don't

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listen to what others say. We
listen to what God says about us.

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Come on, somebody may have told
you that you're a failure. God says

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you're a success. Someone may have
told you that you would never amount to

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anything. God's saying you're going to
be successful. Somebody may have told you

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that you were ugly. God says
you're beautiful. Come on. Somebody may

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have told you that you won't live
long. God says, I promise you

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life, a long life, and
a life of abundance. Come on,

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Thank you Jesus for the blood.
Thank you Jesus for all that you did,

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for all that you suffered. We
give you praise for it as we

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received it today in Jesus name,
I want to invite you to linger for

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a moment. Let this communion sink
in. Let it soak in as the

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band plays in the singer sing let, it really infiltrate your life today,

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recognizing what He has done for us, and receive it all. Thank you

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Jesus, and may God bless your
church