WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:03.319 Gonna bless you guys this morning. How are you? 2 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:08.279 Are we good? You excited? Come on? I was excited 3 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:11.240 to see or today. How many love Terrell? 4 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:15.480 He comes in, you know, Terrell's the Amen corner and 5 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:20.920 uh and so he's uh, Amen, you can I'm preaching 6 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:21.839 on communion today. 7 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:31.679 You could say that's juicy. I like that. I just 8 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:33.439 thought of that. It's pretty funny. 9 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:38.560 But uh, I'm I'm extremely privileged to come to deliver 10 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.200 the word today. Thank you, pastor, and uh we love 11 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:45.359 our pastors. Amen, you know, Sandy and I we love 12 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:50.000 this house. We love what God is doing here at 13 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:55.280 New Horizon. And and I tell you there's a there's 14 00:00:55.960 --> 00:01:01.359 there's a presence, there's an anointing on this place that 15 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:05.799 many of you walk in that I hope you're tapping into. 16 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:07.480 You know. 17 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:10.000 We were recently on Maui for a couple of weeks 18 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:14.040 and we went into a store and the Holy Spirit 19 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:18.640 walked in with us, and pretty soon I'm ministering to 20 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:22.280 the to the lady working in the store. And then 21 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:25.280 a few days later we're at a different store, same chain, 22 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:27.920 different store, and the woman that we had seen that 23 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:32.439 night was there. And as I walked in. I thought 24 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:34.879 she was going to pass out. And what I found 25 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:37.400 out was that at that moment she had been sharing 26 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:41.400 with the owner of the stores what had happened at 27 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:43.239 the store the other night with us. 28 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:45.439 And little Dos. 29 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:47.879 She realized, you know, twenty miles away, we're gonna walk 30 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.879 in with our kids and all, you know. And and 31 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:54.040 she introduced us to this lady and we began to 32 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:56.079 minister to her, and come to find out she was 33 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.519 a in twenty years earlier, she had been a Bethel 34 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:04.079 student SSM down and reading. She she had I mean 35 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.040 just and I'm telling you, power of Holy Spirit walks 36 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:10.439 with us into places. And we began just to declare 37 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:13.680 things over her life. And I'm telling you it it 38 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.520 rocked her world. And so be prepared that as a 39 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:20.479 part of this body, there is an anointing on you 40 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:22.360 to touch the lives of people as. 41 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:23.280 You walk out. Amen. 42 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.479 And one of the things that we've been talking about, 43 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:29.560 so a few weeks ago we started a series on 44 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:33.560 ancient pathways. Elder Craig preached a couple of a few 45 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:35.639 weeks ago, about three weeks ago, and then we had 46 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:39.680 Pastor Zach preach, and then really last week, Pastor talked about. 47 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:42.199 Vision, and truthfully, it's one of the wells as well. 48 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:47.159 And we're on this series and today I'm going to 49 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:51.000 talk about the Well of Communion and you're gonna play 50 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.400 with me a little bit. This is our well right here, 51 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.319 This little bucket is my well. And and because it's 52 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.479 the best I could do. I didn't have the ability 53 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:05.960 to build that well, even though Ai built that well 54 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:08.719 and it was pretty quick. I sent that to Bethany 55 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.280 the other day and said, here's AI's idea for a 56 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:16.960 logo for Sunday morning. So anyway, but I want to 57 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.360 just I want us to begin to catch it. And 58 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.199 I know many of you we're catching this well of 59 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.919 Communion and realizing what the Lord has for us in there, 60 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.199 and and so I want to just pray and just 61 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:35.439 begin to deliver this. But I really trust that this 62 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:38.960 morning your hearts are open to receive. So, Father, this morning, 63 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.199 we thank you for your word, God, to thank you 64 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:45.639 for the opportunity to speak with your people to share. 65 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.120 And Father, I asked that every word that comes out, 66 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:49.120 Lord is your word. 67 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:53.000 Father. We just speak. We say that we ask you, 68 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:54.080 Lord to speak. 69 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:57.240 And we say your servants are listening this morning Lord, 70 00:03:57.360 --> 00:03:59.360 we want to hear what you have to say to 71 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:02.319 us who we declared in Jesus' name. 72 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:07.199 And then yeah, I wanted to just start with this 73 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:08.199 a little. 74 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:10.560 Bit that you know, I had some thoughts on communion 75 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:15.000 the other day, just thinking about our own journey and 76 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.439 and kind of what we've experienced in our our years 77 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:21.720 of marriage, and and uh, really, what what God has 78 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:23.680 done When I look back on it, I realized, man, 79 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:27.439 we we never started out with this, but it sure 80 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.199 has become a part of us. And how many of 81 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:32.000 you would say you've had some things happen to you 82 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:34.519 in life that that you didn't realize early on, but 83 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:39.360 they defined you. And and so you know, I was 84 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:42.199 thinking about it because you know, we've all taken communion 85 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:44.519 a lot in our lifetime. If you if you've grown 86 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.160 up in the church period, whether it doesn't matter what 87 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.240 church you grew up in, you've taken communion a lot. 88 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:56.560 And and many times we've we've we've you know, we've 89 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:59.959 held the bread, we've lifted up the cup, and we've 90 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.040 about our heads in reverence. But there's this shocking truth 91 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.480 that a lot of us had never heard until you 92 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:13.000 came here, and that is that buried under the tradition 93 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:18.199 and softened by routine and overlooked by generations. There's this 94 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.800 power of communion that Jesus wants us to walk in. 95 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:26.480 And you know, the early Church they lived in this. 96 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:30.720 It's interesting because if you read the passages of scripture 97 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.680 about communion after Jesus had died, you see the early 98 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:38.439 Church had it all the time, so daily in their 99 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:40.399 houses they were receiving communion. 100 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:43.519 And and you know. 101 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:46.959 The Church lived in it the truth. The apostles they 102 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:56.480 proclaimed it. And honestly, Hell absolutely fears this with intensity 103 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:03.199 because communion is is more than some little symbolic thing. 104 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.319 It's not some real ritualistic thing. 105 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:10.319 It's not a quiet religious moment added to the end. 106 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:11.040 Of the service. 107 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:19.000 Communion is the covenant in action. It is the believer 108 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:25.720 in enforcing what Jesus has already accomplished. And One Corinthians 109 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:29.959 eleven twenty nine is often quoted during communion services, and 110 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.360 Paul wrote it, and he says, he who eats and 111 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:41.240 drinks unworthily eats and drinks judgment to himself. Why because 112 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:46.279 he's not discerning the Lord's body. Now, this is what's interesting, 113 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.000 and you might not hear this anywhere else, Maybe you will, 114 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.360 but rarely will you hear this. But you know that 115 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:59.879 whole thing about discerning the Lord's body, it's not necessarily 116 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:07.079 a moral failure. It is speaking of a failure to 117 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:13.920 realize the revelation. It's the lack of recognizing what Jesus 118 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:18.879 did for us. It means that we're not understanding it, 119 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:22.560 we're not grasping it. The covenant reality of what you 120 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:24.879 hold in your hands is so much more than what 121 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:31.759 you've been taught in tradition religion, traditional religion, the early Church, 122 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:37.120 they treated communion with reverence because they saw it as 123 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:38.560 a release point. 124 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:40.639 Of divine strength. 125 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:45.839 They saw the bread as a point of contact with 126 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:46.920 the body of Christ. 127 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:50.920 They have to remember, most of them had seen him 128 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:56.600 physically in form, they had seen him, they had experienced 129 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:59.600 his life, and so it meant something different. 130 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:05.480 You can imagine, if you knew him personally, communion probably 131 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:12.560 might have meant something different than it does today. And 132 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:17.600 so they they saw this, they remembered him, they knew 133 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:20.800 of it, and they saw the body and the blood 134 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:25.040 as points of contact with the covenant that had been 135 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:30.360 sealed in him. Remember, he said, this covenant is sealed 136 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:36.799 with my blood. And so they understood what most of 137 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:40.559 us have either not you know, not been taught, or 138 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:44.320 that we've forgotten, and that it's not you know, communion 139 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:48.080 is not like a memorial of his death. It is 140 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:52.399 a celebration of his victory. 141 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.519 This bread's not merely bread. 142 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.559 We just talked about this the other day, that this 143 00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:04.639 is un common bread. Come on, there's something about the 144 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:12.240 bread that is not common. I don't have time to 145 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:15.519 talk about the story of David going in and asking 146 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.879 for bread from the priest, but. 147 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:19.039 Can I tell you something. 148 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.360 The priest said to him, all that we have is 149 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:28.159 uncommon bread. And then when he asked for a sword, 150 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:30.480 he said, the only sword that's here is the one 151 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:36.679 that's back there, behind that one place. It's in his presence, 152 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:42.279 and it was the sword that you cut off goliaths 153 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:42.600 head with. 154 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:44.600 Come on, come on, come on. 155 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:46.879 The weapon of our warfare is the one that's in 156 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:47.960 the presence of God. 157 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:51.320 Come on, come on. 158 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:54.639 That's I have time for that subject today, But I 159 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:56.519 encourage you go read this stuff. 160 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:58.200 It'll rock your world. 161 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.720 The Bible says that he was wounded for our transgressions, 162 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:07.279 and that by his stripes we are healed. These aren't 163 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.600 just poetic statements. These are legal declarations that you get 164 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:14.559 to speak. Come on, well, these are legal you. 165 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.639 Come on, you can walk out that by his stripes, 166 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:21.240 I am healed. That's a legal declaration. 167 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:23.480 That should send the demons of Hell running every time 168 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:26.799 you say it. Come on, by his wounds, I've been 169 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:29.240 My transgressions have been wiped out. 170 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:33.120 Come on, thank you Jesus. Come on. 171 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.000 That whipping post was where your sickness was carried, and 172 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:44.120 that cross was where our sins were born. Come on, 173 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:49.360 he bore those sins on his back, and here at 174 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:52.919 new horizon. We're growing in all of this. But today 175 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:56.279 I want to talk about redigging the wells, redigging the 176 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:02.600 well of Communion, specifically who jump to Genesis, chapter twenty 177 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:08.480 six and verse eighteen. Bible says Isaac reopened the wells 178 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:13.039 that had been dug during the days of his father Abraham, 179 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.639 for the Philistines had filled them in, filled them up 180 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:21.000 after Abraham died, and Isaac restored their names. 181 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:24.799 There are some things of God. 182 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:29.399 That he is given to us, that he never intended 183 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.399 for them to be closed off, that they are for 184 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:40.879 generation to generation. You know, wells are not lost by accident. 185 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:44.879 They get filled in a little bit at a time, 186 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:46.559 and they can be filled in by the enemy. 187 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:48.960 They can filled in and get filled in by people 188 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:54.399 who might not realize their value. But nonetheless they get 189 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:59.120 filled in. And eventually, when you go to that well, 190 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:04.440 you can't get the hat all out. It's buried, it's 191 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:05.440 under some things. 192 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:11.440 But guess what. 193 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:14.799 The well doesn't stop being a well because somebody threw 194 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:21.679 some stuff in there. The Bible says Isaac, he uncovered 195 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:23.879 those wells. I'm telling you today, we're gonna be a 196 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.360 people of God who uncover some wells. 197 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:30.159 We're gonna say, Lord, we we uncover the ancient wells, the. 198 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.120 Pathways that you have for us. We're uncovering those in prayer. 199 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:37.279 We're gonna uncover the well in baptism. We're gonna uncover 200 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:40.519 the well of healing. We're gonna uncover the well of deliverance. 201 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:45.279 We're gonna uncover these wells because God, we want everything 202 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:49.720 that you have for us. I want us to have everywhere. 203 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:53.480 There should be wells across this property, across your homes, 204 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:56.960 across this church, that are the wells of salvation, the 205 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:00.279 wells of deliverance, the wells of healing, the well of 206 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:02.879 change is breaking up. People walk in the door. All 207 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:07.320 of a sudden, deliverance comes. Come on, well, we don't 208 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:09.799 even have to preach. We just have people breaking free 209 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:10.600 all of a sudden. 210 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:11.559 How would you like it? 211 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:13.799 During worship, All of a sudden, somebody jumps out of 212 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:15.960 a wheelchair and just begins to run this building. 213 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:17.960 Come on, there's a well of healing. Come on. 214 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:22.159 We don't need necessarily a flowery prayer. We just see 215 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:33.919 the power of Holy Spirit. Recently, our daughter and our 216 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:35.120 son in law making a shiloh. 217 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:36.440 Some of you probably know them. 218 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:41.799 They live over in Idaho, and recently they're well. Quit 219 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:45.279 working the pump died. Now, when you live a little 220 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:48.559 bit off grid, mostly off grid, and you've got four 221 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:52.240 children and a mini farm, water is a problem if 222 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.039 you don't have it. And I encourage you if you 223 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:57.120 want to test the theory, just today, when you get home, 224 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:01.519 shut off the water at the street, away the key, 225 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:04.440 and just live for a few days and see how 226 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:07.840 much you depend on water. But you know, all of 227 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:10.840 a sudden, bathing becomes a challenge, Cooking becomes a challenge, 228 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:14.360 Cleaning become everything becomes a challenge. You need it, and 229 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:17.240 the thing is what's frustrating is you know you have it, 230 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:18.480 but you can't access it. 231 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:24.799 And so they had to go for a week or 232 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:25.720 so without. 233 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:28.799 Water, and and and they had to run and get 234 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:33.480 water all the time. Water became very laborious, you know. 235 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:37.000 But then they can fix that. But in the same way, 236 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:40.360 you see, the access and the flow are essential for 237 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:44.120 our lives. The well of communion, it's essential for our lives. 238 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:46.799 The other wells that we're talking about, they're essential for 239 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:54.080 your life. It's interesting because you know, as soon as 240 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:57.879 Jesus ascended to Heaven, the enemy began to fill in 241 00:14:57.960 --> 00:14:58.919 the well of communion. 242 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:04.120 We we talked about it well. The communion in the early. 243 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.200 Days of the church was often daily in their homes, 244 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.120 the Bible says. And then the enemy he begins to 245 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:14.320 fill it in over time, and so he drops in, 246 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:19.960 you know, a little rock of passivity or disappointment, discouragement, 247 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:21.519 the rock of religion. 248 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:25.919 I'll tell you about the rock of religion. 249 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:28.639 When when I was a young man, when I was nineteen, 250 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:33.879 so that's a couple of weeks ago, Sandy and I 251 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:38.240 were we were serving on this on staff at a 252 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:43.519 church in Tacoma, and we were youth leaders. We weren't 253 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:46.559 youth pastors. We were youth leaders because I wasn't credentialed, 254 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:49.480 so we were youth leaders. Pastor knows what we're talking about. 255 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:53.399 Titles are important in some of these places. And so 256 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:57.279 one day the pastor calls in sick. Early on a 257 00:15:57.320 --> 00:15:59.080 Sunday morning. They called me and said, hey, we're going 258 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:02.159 to need you to preach, and we're talking through the 259 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:04.320 service in the and they're like, well, you know, today's 260 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:05.200 the first Sunday of the. 261 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:08.799 Month, which meant thank you communion. 262 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.879 You guys that grew up in church, you knew and 263 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.039 so on the you know, we had community in that day. 264 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:16.360 I said, well, I can handle that. I was trying 265 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:18.600 to the pastor's wife. I said, I can handle that. 266 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:27.600 I can certainly receive communion. She goes her voice deepens. Oh, Joe, 267 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:32.120 you know you're not able to administer communion because only 268 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:39.159 licensed ministers can do that. I want you to catch 269 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:39.759 something here. 270 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.159 Now. At nineteen, I didn't know any better. 271 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:47.080 I hadn't read all the scriptures I've read today about communion. 272 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:52.000 So I it ceded me into believing that there was 273 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.480 some rule in place. You see, it's the same rule 274 00:16:55.480 --> 00:17:02.679 that says your children can't receive communion. Come on, I'm 275 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:05.240 messing with some of us. But the reality is those 276 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:07.079 things are not in the Bible. They are in the 277 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.400 bucket of covering communion up. 278 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:12.359 They are in. 279 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:16.039 The well of coverage so that you can't access it. 280 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:23.920 Come on, but I'm telling you, the enemy has tricked 281 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:27.920 us out of our blessings. He's tricked us out of 282 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:31.599 our access. He's tricked us out of the very things 283 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:32.880 that got intended for you. 284 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:33.519 To walk in. 285 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:45.000 And he's disqualified us. He's made us unqualified. He's made 286 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:47.839 us think we don't deserve something. And I'm telling you 287 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:51.200 right now, there's power in the well of communion that 288 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:54.039 you need to access because it will walk you in 289 00:17:54.160 --> 00:18:04.319 freedom like you've never seen before. The enemy he's wanted 290 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:09.160 to stop this pump from pumping. But what he doesn't 291 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:13.960 understand is this pump can't be stopped because it is 292 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:15.680 not powered by human hands. 293 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.799 It's powered by the very heart of Jesus Christ. 294 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:24.000 It's powered by the very heart of God. It's time 295 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:28.160 for the Church to uncover it. It's time for the 296 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:32.279 enemy to be returned back to where he came from. 297 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:35.640 And for us to return to this well that sustains us. 298 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:41.640 About two thousand and three, a wonderful friend of ours 299 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:44.599 gave Sandy and I a CD set, and this is 300 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:48.039 we had no idea that this would ever become a 301 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:50.200 big part of our lives, but she gave us a 302 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:55.599 four part CD set by Pastor Gregory Dickow out of Chicago. 303 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:57.240 How many of you know I'm talking about. 304 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:59.960 And he put this CD set out and was called 305 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.160 The Cup of Blessing and we began to listen to 306 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:05.599 it and it just completely. 307 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:05.920 Rocked our world. 308 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:08.799 I remember listening to it the first time and all 309 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:11.359 of a sudden, like we sensed the power of the 310 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.240 Holy Spirit entering our home, and it changed us. I 311 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:17.920 mean it shocked us, It rocked us, It changed us. 312 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:20.960 I mean, you know Pastor knows this. I walked into 313 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:23.240 his office on a Sunday morning, began to share with 314 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:25.839 him some of the things we'd been learning, and we 315 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:30.599 felt the Holy Spirit come into the office there. But 316 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:33.960 up to that point, communion was just something we did. 317 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:39.880 And then all of a sudden, we realized something. Communion 318 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:49.839 is someone we made all of a sudden it became like, 319 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:56.799 when we have communion, we received communion. We're dining with 320 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:01.880 the King of Kings, with the Lord of Lord, with 321 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:06.200 God Almighty, with Jesus Christ. We're dining with them. 322 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:09.680 And it began to change the way our perception was. 323 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:16.200 All of a sudden, the table was no longer a checkpoint, 324 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:17.640 but it was a meeting place. 325 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:21.480 It was a meeting place. 326 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:26.680 One Corinthians ten sixteen says, the cup of blessing that 327 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.160 we bless, does it not mean we participate in the 328 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:34.559 blood of Christ and the bread that we break? Does 329 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:38.759 it not mean that we participate in the body of Christ. 330 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:48.880 That word participate, it's not symbolic language. It means that 331 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:51.960 you're going to share something, You're going to commune with him, 332 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:56.680 You're going to have fellowship with him, You're participating in something. 333 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:01.400 It's a living encounter with the presence of our Savior, 334 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:06.920 and it's not only a reminder of what Jesus did, 335 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:10.880 but it is an invitation to experience who he is now. 336 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:21.240 When we started realizing this stuff, it changed the way 337 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:27.279 we receive things because we stopped rushing through it and 338 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:31.400 we stopped kind of reducing it down to something that 339 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:34.519 it was never intended to be, and we stopped treating 340 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:35.640 it kind of casually. 341 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:39.720 All of us have been through communion services, and we you. 342 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:41.519 Know, if you grew up in a a in a 343 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:45.039 liturgical environment, you might have just you know, kind of 344 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:49.400 you went through the motions, so to speak. God never 345 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:53.519 intended us to go through the motions. This is not powerless, 346 00:21:53.559 --> 00:22:00.200 this is powerful. Jesus didn't say take this occasion only 347 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.799 when you feel worthy. He said, as often as you 348 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:11.759 do this, do this in remembrance of me. Luke twenty 349 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:13.960 two nineteen says, then he lifted up a loaf, and 350 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:17.319 after praying a prayer of thanksgiving, he gave each of 351 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:19.960 his apostles a piece of bread, saying, this loaf is 352 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:23.079 my body which is now being offered to you. Always 353 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:27.160 eat it to remember me. That means communion is going 354 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:28.200 to carry some emotion. 355 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:29.759 Think about it. 356 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:32.160 If you go to a funeral and you're in a 357 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:39.279 memorial service, there's emotion there. There's a carrying of the emotions. 358 00:22:39.319 --> 00:22:46.799 There's this carrying of affection, of closeness, and it's a 359 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:48.960 relational moment every time that we receive it. 360 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:49.920 It's supposed to be. 361 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:55.319 That in two thousand and nine, the same friend of ours. 362 00:22:55.759 --> 00:23:03.079 She was diagnosed with stage four cancer. And we begin 363 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:06.279 to pray with them, and we believed with them. 364 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:08.200 We stood in faith with these people. 365 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:11.480 These were some of the most incredible people on the planet, 366 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:18.160 and we received communion together. We did everything we knew 367 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:27.759 to do, and yet she passed away. And see this 368 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:29.880 is where a lot of us we stopped drawing from 369 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:30.279 the well. 370 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:33.440 You see this. 371 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:41.039 The enemy loves this rock of loss because he can 372 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:45.200 throw it in your bucket and it's one more thing 373 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:52.799 to hold back that ladle. He loves the rock of disappointment. 374 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:58.559 He loves to confuse you and pour some dirt back in. 375 00:23:58.680 --> 00:24:06.160 And this is where we allow those things to quietly 376 00:24:06.759 --> 00:24:09.920 convince us that maybe this stuff doesn't work the way 377 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:10.640 we thought it did. 378 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:14.960 But I want to say. 379 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:18.039 Something to you that I think is really important. That 380 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:22.319 is that faith isn't proven by outcomes. Your faith is 381 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:29.000 proven by trust. You cannot stop trusting God regardless of 382 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:35.839 the outcome. Hebrews eleven thirty nine says these were the 383 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:40.319 true heroes commended for their faith, yet they lived in 384 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:45.640 hope without receiving the fullness of what was promised to them. 385 00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:49.359 Another way to say it is these heroes all died 386 00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:52.359 still clinging to their faith. 387 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:56.720 Come on, I might die, but I'm gonna die clinging 388 00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:58.000 to what I believe. 389 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:01.920 God has said over my life. 390 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:09.319 They died trusting. They didn't allow faith to collapse when 391 00:25:09.359 --> 00:25:15.039 the healing didn't come. See. Faith collapses when our trust. 392 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:18.920 Is replaced with control, when we begin to decide, well, 393 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:20.559 I can't trust God to do it, so I'm just 394 00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:23.440 gonna go do it on my own. All of a sudden, 395 00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:28.519 you've moved out of faith into control. Some of us 396 00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:30.119 we sit back and we said, well, it didn't work 397 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:31.880 out the way I thought it would, so I'll just 398 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:33.519 step over here and do it the way I think 399 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:37.319 it should be done. We're walking into a situation where 400 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:40.559 we're no longer walking in the faith that we should 401 00:25:40.599 --> 00:25:42.640