330: Jim Styles - Exhortation: Biblical Guidance on our Memorial Service

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   Welcome to good Chris Selfian talks. I’m Levi. I’m Chris. I’m Jason. And I’m Brian, thank you for joining us this week. On this podcast, we select one talk a week to help us get the Bible in our Daily News feed. Each week we post a talk that we previewed from suggestions sent in by listeners from around the world.

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   This week’s talk is an excitation by brother Jim Styles that he gave on December 15th at the Simi Hills Ecclesia, which is where I go. So this is my first time suggesting a talk that I heard at my own hall, which is something I’ve been trying to avoid for no really good reason.

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   But this was absolutely excellent and I was really excited to share it. I had kind of a funny experience because if you listen to the talk by Brother Tom Peel, Cohesion and Convergence, which is a couple episodes ago, the last episode I did, I posted that the morning before going to memorial service. And then Brother Jim really talked about the same topic again.

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   His title was Biblical guidance for the memorial service. His readings were Exodus chapter 12 about the Passover in First Corinthians 11 about the, you know, Paul kind of helping the Corinthians clean up their process for the breaking of bread. And it was very, very good talk. Really. It was really a re examination of first Corinthians 11 kind of arguing that from the context in the key verse where it says examine yourself during that breaking your bread. We often take that as it’s often understood, as you know, the breaking bread is a time to examine yourself, consider your sins, you know, quietly meditate on how you can improve as a believer.

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   But Jim makes the point that the problem that Corinthians ecclesia was having was that some were feasting while others were starving for the memorial meal, which was obviously not good. And that’s what the greater context of the chapter is about. And so he argues that the purpose of gathering together in memorial service is to rejoice about what God has done for us and to encourage each other.

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   It is not to kind of have your quiet time, quiet meditation. He says the example we have from Jesus is to remove yourself to the mountain and do that by yourself. So he makes a lot of really good points here and very clearly at knowing brother Jim and having listened to him and talk to them quite often. He had, he has an extra level of passion, I would say, in this, in this exhortation that was also fun to hear. He’s really talking about something he’s very much thinking about and caring about at the time. And he also, like Tom Peel did in my previous episode, kind of lines up on the limitations of meeting together over Zoom near the end, which and he talks, He’s he’s very sensitive to those who are physically unable to meet together, but but he talks pretty critically about the necessity of getting together when we can.

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   So yeah, I really, really enjoy. This is obviously something I’ve been thinking about as well, and I was really excited to share this. So here’s the next station by brother Jim Styles. Biblical Principles of the memorial service. Well, good morning everyone,

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   goodies hooked up here. Well, I’m like Levi. When I come here, I don’t bother putting on the tie and all that set the I’m glad you do, Levi, but not me.

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    Anyways, if they’re raising six children, some of them had some real behavioral problems. And well, at least while they were sitting in memorial service, I had a lot of time to think about why I even came to meeting. There were days where Still and I showed up to our ecclesia and we looked at each other and we just said we made it.

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    And then we endured through the meeting, kept everybody quiet. And it was like, wow, that was a lot of work. Did you hear anything? No, I didn’t hear anything. And that was the way it was. And with six kids that went on for over 10 years, 10 years, not very often did soon I ever get a chance to just sit here and peace and quiet, meditate and do all those things that people do when they come to meeting.

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    But it gave me a lot of chance to sit and think about what do we come to meeting for? We we didn’t have Vimeo back then. You couldn’t go home and like listen to it again like we do now. You know, I do that every week. I go home and listen to Brad’s announcements or gyms or whatever doesn’t because I usually don’t hear them. And it’s a great thing that we had today to be able to listen to things a second time around.

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    But what we used to do is we found that work for us is we got tapes in from cassette tapes, right? We got tapes in from other cities and other areas, sometimes from Australia, different places. And we listened to exitations at home before we ever came to meeting. So that meeting to us was something totally different than it is for many of you.

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    And that hasn’t changed a lot with having grandchildren around this. I spend most of my time outside with Theo and all his little friends that are out there with him probably right now. And that’s what we do. You know, there’s speakers set up out there, but I know some of you don’t like it because it echoes over here because we never really got the speaker that’s real time with with this meeting. So it’s always a delay of 15 or 20 seconds. But it gave Sue and IA lot of opportunities to think about what the purpose of memorial service really is. Why do we come to memorial service? You start looking back in, in, you know, our memorial service and you wonder like, well, what are we here for today? And I bet if we ask all of you, if we did one of Luke’s surveys, we’d find out that everybody had a lot of different reasons as to why they’re here from memorial service. And I know for Rebecca, it would be the snacks. That’s why she would be here.

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    And you know, for some people, you know, you ought to understand, some people come here just to talk to an adult for once. It’s, there’s so many different reasons that people are here and it’s, it’s important to sometimes look in the Bible and find out what are the hints in the Bible about why we should be here.

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    And of course, 1st Corinthians 11 that Andrew just read, that’s one of the big ones we go to. So our Christian Elphin community, as we grew up, our culture that we have inherited, does a lot of stuff about examining yourself. That’s what we were trained to do. You come to meeting and you sit there and you think about all the mistakes I made during the week, all the failures that I’ve had this week, and you examine yourself.

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    And so let him eat of the bread and take of the wine. And that was the culture I grew up with. I ended up deciding in the end, though, that didn’t work for me. That wasn’t really what I was here for. And in the end I decided that’s not actually what Paul’s talking about in First Corinthians 11. It’s actually something quite different than that, which turned things all around.

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    So that’s what I want to look at this morning. What I did is started going back and looking at what if you were just starting from scratch with a Bible in your hand, how would you develop memorial service? Where would you go in the Bible to try to figure out what did they do?

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    You know, you’d start reading through the Acts maybe and start looking for New Testament things. You might actually go back to the old or at least the Gospels and go back to Jesus. And that’s what I did. I started going back to these things to figure out like, what did people do in Bible times? What was the Bibles?

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    What did God really want us to do when we all come together? This actually answered for me the problem about why so many Christadelphians had trouble coming back to meeting after COVID. Like Levi said, you know, he, he couldn’t wait to get back here, but there were many people who thought, you know what, I can do a better job at home because they were coming for a different reason.

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    That was very interesting to me to watch that play out in our community because what it did is it revealed to us why people were coming to meeting. And it was the, the history that I had. It was like they were coming for the reason I was, I grew up with. And in the end, you know what, if you’re here to just meditate and, and, and consider your week and all those different things and you want quiet time to do that, go home.

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    You can do a much better job of that at home. And that’s what we found out during COVID. But that isn’t why we’re here today, at least biblically. That’s not why we’re here. That’s not why God says that we should all gather together. So what I want to do is look back at the memorial service and look at the at least the history that we can get in the Bible from that.

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    So let’s have a look. The background for this is in in Luke 22 or one of the Gospels. We know these verses now, Jesus as Andrew just read, because Paul quoted that with fervent desire. He said I have desire to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. Jesus knew that the Judas was going to betray him and that the others were going to run away, but he didn’t.

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    Focus on himself and see what we want to do this morning is think about aren’t we here for ourself or are we here for others? And I really believe if you’re here for yourself, you’re better off staying home. You, you could do a much better job for yourself. I can’t at least sitting in my bedroom with my computer on and I can, or listening to tapes walking around the neighborhood, I can listen to Vimeo again.

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    That’s not really why we’re here from God’s perspective. That’s not why Jesus had the Last Supper, the Last Supper, which he said was this Passover. So it was based off of the Passover, the Last Supper. That was the connection to the Passover. It wasn’t about yourself. Jesus sat with his disciples and what did he do during that Passover? He’s told him, He said, I desired fervently to eat this with you before I supper.

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    And then what did he proceed to do? The Gospels record his effort to help his disciples get through that night. He’s facing the toughest night of his life. And what does he do? He tries to help them get through that night. And he takes the bread and says, this is my body. And he takes the cup, and this is the new covenant in my blood and says, do this in remembrance of me.

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    What does that mean? Do this in remembrance of me. What are you remembering about what Jesus did that night? What are we remembering? What he did? Is he? He got the hound while there, you know, arguing about who’s going to be greatest in the Kingdom. He gets down on the ground and washes their feet. That’s what he did.

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    He tells Peter that. Peter, you know Satan’s desire to have you. But I have prayed for you, Peter, that your faith will not fail. His focus was all on helping the others, not on himself, not when they were all gathered together. See, that’s where we are today. We’re in that situation like Jesus, when he’s there with all his disciples. And when he was in that situation, he wasn’t focused on himself.

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    He was thinking about how can I help this person? How can I help this person? How can I pray for this person? That’s what he was doing. And when he wanted time to meditate, quiet meditation time, what did he do? Think about it, What did he do when he wanted that quiet meditation time? He walked up to the garden and went off by himself. You can do that at home.

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    Really, you can do that at home. But what Jesus focused on at that time was he wanted them to make it. He wanted, he thought, what do they need? What do other people here need today? That’s why we’re here. We talk to each other and we do all these things. That’s what Jesus did.

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    So he prayed for them as you watch as he’s walking up to the to the garden, he’s praying Father, make them one as we are one. And he told him he’d send them the comforter to help them as soon as he got to the Father. That’s what he did. And when you think about it, that’s what he meant when he said, do this in remembrance of me. Think about other people, talk to people, find out what you can do for them, help them, pray for them, get involved in their lives.

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    That’s why we’re here. And you can’t do that from home very well. You actually have to be here. I know there’s people at home right now watching on video. You don’t have much choice. You, you have to be at home. That’s that’s a different situation. But when we when we have the health to be here, we have the resources to be here, what God wants us to do is come together and talk to each other and and encourage each other and build each other up. That’s what he wants us to do.

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    It’s not really all about us. So we read in in the the reading this morning when Rodney went through that good and Rodney came up at the right time. We got through Exodus 12 and you look at that celebration of the Passover. That’s where all this came from, the Passover. What was it designed to do? Well, God said you will keep it as a feast, a feast, a celebration.

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    That’s what it was all about. You ever noticed how you you don’t find anything about this phrase that we use. Examine yourself and reading the Passover. Nothing about looking at all your sins and all your trouble. Instead, the Passover focused on look at what God has done for you excitement. Look at you got picked you you’re he’s you’re one of the people he’s working with.

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    Look at His great salvation. He’s worked out for you. That’s the focus of the Passover. That’s that’s what we’re supposed to remember. That’s why God required 3 * a year that all the males would show up in Jerusalem. Why don’t you want them to all come together? It wasn’t. There’s nothing recorded about so that you can sit there and focus on all your sins and all your mistakes and how bad a person I am. It was all about celebration, excitement, rejoicing, all the fun things that God had done for them and that’s what they were supposed to do.

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    That’s what we should be doing. When you, when you look at that Passover meal, see what happened like in in some of the areas of our world, people were so focused on ourselves and our quiet meditation time. They said, well, let’s put the children off in another location because children don’t belong here. That’s not what God said.

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    He wanted them there at the Passover. He wanted them to witness it. He even said that he, he actually orchestrated that the kids were supposed to ask questions during that memorial service during that Passover so that they could understand his great salvation. That’s what God records see. We’ve gotten so far away from that as a community. We, we don’t want, you know, noise. We don’t want all these things, but that’s what real life is all about.

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    There’s noise all the time. And God wanted that to be communicate to those kids. He wanted them there. You don’t want them somewhere else. He wanted them to be part of it. And that’s really when you start looking for at least as to what God wanted. He wants them to be here right now.

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    And sure, if people are going to make noise, kids do make noise, but then they can ask those questions. You can talk to them at home about why were we here today? And you said, Leah, why do you think we came? And, and you, you, you talk to them about what we’re doing here. And, and it’s not just about quiet meditation times. We’re here to celebrate the great salvation God’s accomplished for us in Jesus Christ. What a privilege that we have that, that, that God has been willing to do that.

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    You know, you start looking at in the Old Testament, we could go through it, which I did, you know, I went through Leviticus 23 and I looked at the Feast of Booths, the Feast of Tabernacles, as you call it. And you start looking at, well, what do you compile about the Feast of Tabernacles?

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    He says, like in Leviticus 23 and verse 40, that you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. You shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

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    You see how the focus is all on God. It’s not on me. It’s not on what I need. It’s about what God has done for us and what Jesus showed is what we want to be doing is looking for. How can we help others to to get excited about that, to encourage them to build each other up. That’s what we’re supposed to do when we all come together. Do you understand?

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    Like why, you know, I sat there in my home during, during COVID, having a meeting at home thinking, boy, if if I just wanted to think about me, this was a great way to do it in front of my computer, still on the other side of the room. She had hers and it was nice, quiet time, but that’s not really what our our, our life and the truth is really all about. It’s about being here.

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    You can go through all of the feast and show the exact same thing that what God wanted people to do is to come together, celebrate, talk to each other and build each other up. That’s really what it was all about. When you look at those feasts, you find out what they all had in common, all those 3 * a year, the Passover and the the Feast of Booths and the the Pentecost when they would come together. He said you will have a feast.

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    You’re going to eat a meal together. You’re going to share your lamb, your peace offerings, and your food with others. You’re going to rejoice in God’s great salvation He’s accomplished for you. And remember that you know, where we would be without that intervention. That’s true. We do look back and think about without God intervening in our life, I would never be what I am today.

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    And he changes us into different people. And then I got thinking about in our memorial service today as we spend time here together with Sunday school and, and, and our memorial service, what part of our service matches up the best with those feast days that got established? And to some of you, it may shock you, but to find out it’s actually our snack time. Snack time, the very time that some of you wish we didn’t even have you know, it’s it’s like that’s what God was after. Come together, have a meal together and talk to each other and celebrate what God has done for us. I all the kids are there.

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    Everybody’s there is a family. We can all go out there and enjoy snack. Maybe when it’s a little warmer we would, but some of you probably ate inside. But what a great thing that we have that we can do that as a community. Not all Eclis have that, but you can see how it’s, it’s such a great time for people to come together and celebrate what God has done.

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    It’s, it’s all about emphasizing the feasting, the rejoicing, the thankfulness and the sharing. That’s what all those feast days were all about. So then you look at First Corinthians 11, you find out, well, what, what does Paul actually say about the memorial service and what is the context? Now you know from reading through Corinthians, the context of Corinthians as you’re going through the letter, the context is all about problems from selfishness.

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    Me, I’m, I, I want to take care of myself and I don’t really care what happens to all of you. He he starts out chapter 1 warning them about the brothers causing divisions in the community. In chapter 3, don’t have divisions. Every member is important. He says, remember it’s God’s family, not yours.

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    Chapter 6, you get to don’t sue your brother. That’s what they were doing, taking advantage of each other. Chapter 8, the food offered, the idols, Paul would say, look at we all have the knowledge, but knowledge puffs up and love builds up. You get to Chapter 9 and Paul says, look at all these rights I could have as an apostle.

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    I could do this. I could demand to view this. I could ask you to take care of me. I could ask you to house me and feed me and all these things. And he said, I never, I never took advantage of all those rights. That’s what not that’s not what I did. But you see, you’ll get that verse up there of a key verse for today.

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    His focus was always on helping others. That’s what Paul was after. That’s what he wanted to do. He wanted to help the others get through this so that they could make it as well. I sort of compiled 2 verses to there when it says that let no one seek his own good but the good of his neighbor. This is out of chapter 10.

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    This is the the chapter before he gets the memorial service. He lay in the background for it and he says later on in verse 35 or 33 there just as I try to please everyone and everything I do not seeking my own advantage, but that of many that they may be saved. And then Chapter 11 starts out the imitators of me as I am of Christ.

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    See, that’s the context of first Corinthians 11. Don’t be selfish, don’t take advantage of your rights. Don’t demand that I want this and I need this to to come to meeting, but instead look out for the interests of others. So you get to chapter 10 there that the warning is all about the the idolatry that they are going through, which is all about self-service as well. And then he starts out in chapter 10 and starts into the idea, the bread and the wine in verse 16. Aren’t we fellowshipping the body and the blood of Jesus? And down at verse 36 there he’s not 33. He’s not going to seek his own advantage. So what Paul did is he tried to get people to focus on the needs of others.

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    Don’t take advantage of your rights. Don’t sit here and think about what I need at this meeting, but look around and find out what can I do to try to help other people? And in doing that, a lot of times that’s actually what becomes helpful to us. I found Pauls exhortation in in Philippians 2.

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    That’s something that I’ve always found it very useful that that whole idea that he brings out in Chapter 2 where the NASB says do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind, regard one another as more important than yourselves, not better than yourselves. The other versions that because people will look at that.

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    Remember Colin Badger when he talked to me one time about it and we were doing a Philippian study and he said, how can you look around and say somebody’s better than me? Like look at, you know, Deb playing the piano today. There’s no way I’m going to say that, that I’m better than her at that. Or there’s other times where she could look at that and say, well, you know, she’s going to look at me and say, well, you’re better than I am.

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    Because if I did that, there’s no way I could play those hymns. So it’s not about better, but it’s what Jesus did. He considered the others that he came to save more important than himself that that’s an attitude of mine. So that’s what Paul actually calls that in the in Philippians 2. He said do not merely look after your own personal interests, but also the interests of others.

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    Have this attitude in yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus. That’s the attitude we want to have. So when we come together then in First Corinthians 11, there you start looking at the chapter. He said, all right, here’s what happens at memorial service. I’m going to give you these instructions and in doing this I’m going to praise you because when you come together in verse 17, he says it’s not for the better, but it’s for the worse.

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    And first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there’s divisions among you and I part believe it. So they haven’t solved this problem of their divisions, but they must be factions, you know. But what happens in verse 20, therefore, when you come together in one place, it’s not to eat the Lord’s Supper the way you’re doing it isn’t what Christ did. No, you’re doing it out of selfishness and what you want and and taking care of yourself for an eating. Each one goes and takes his own supper ahead of others and one is hungry and another’s drunk.

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    What do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the Church of God and shame those who have nothing? You know, this is what Paul’s going after. He said, look, I don’t praise you in this. So some of the members came to meetings so focused on themselves, they didn’t even consider what everybody else in the ecclesia actually needed.

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    They were just worried about what they needed at the memorial service. And instead of thinking about when Jesus said do this in remembrance of me, see, we can change the focus of that and we can say, you know, if we want to at least we can make it into some other idea. But when you think about where that came from, that came from the very night that he was going to be betrayed and he takes the bread and he’s trying to help his disciples get through this time where he’s going to be in the ground for three days.

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    That’s what that was his focus. And that’s what we want to do in remembrance of Jesus Christ. That’s really the background to 1st Corinthians 11. So if Paul says, therefore, I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you in verse 23, that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which he was betrayed took bread. See, Paul emphasizes that he he was going to face a terrible night.

64. 25:08

    Sometimes we come here thinking about all the rough life that I have and the frustrations of this week. And you know, we’re we’re so focused on ourselves. Jesus, on the very night in which he was betrayed, took bread and when he had given thanks, broke it and said, take heed. This is my body which is broken for you. Now do this in remembrance of me. See, that brings a whole new meaning to context to what that meant.

65. 25:35

    Do this in remembrance of me. Think about the Lord Jesus Christ on the very night he was betrayed. He’s thinking about how he can help the other people and he took the bread and broke it and said I’m doing this for you, for you. I’m going to go through this. And in the same manner he took the cup.

66. 25:52

    But the New Covenant, that was the very night in which he was betrayed. So when Christ wanted quiet meditation time, which he did, and we all need that, everybody here needs some time to quietly meditate. What he did is he walked out of the room, He falls the pathway going up to the the Garden of Gethsemane.

67. 26:12

    And as he’s walking up to the Mount of Olives, actually he’s walking up to the Mount of Olives and he goes into the garden and he prays. And really, I think for us, we, we have to get focused on the idea that more about it’s OK if people are talking right up to the last minute and they come into a meeting and people are socializing out there enjoying the snack and all that. That’s actually biblical.

68. 26:34

    And, and this idea of wanting all this quiet time, I’ve, I’ve watched ecclesias argue this in my lifetime for years about those who want the quiet time, those who don’t think about what Jesus did, he did everything he could to help them. And when he wanted the quiet time, he did it in the garden.

69. 26:52

    He went somewhere else to get that, to get that meditation time. And we can all do that at home. Everybody can, we can do it at home and you can come prepared for meeting, but we want to be thinking about doing this in remembrance of Christ being like him. Our our memorial service really isn’t supposed to be a selfish opportunity to just come here, have our batteries recharge and come here to strengthen ourselves.

70. 27:18

    Although that should be an offshoot of what actually happens. The the emphasis in the emphasis in the Bible about when we all come together, it’s an opportunity to talk to each other, to encourage one another to socialize with one another, to get involved in people’s lives. What can we do to help you this week? That’s what memorial service in all these feast days were really all about.

71. 27:41

    And so when you come to 1st Corinthians 11 then, and we read so often verse 27. Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, What? What is that in an unworthy manner within the context? An unworthy manner is that I’m doing it just for me, what I need, what I want here this morning. Well, that’s what it really is about. It’s selfishness versus thinking of others will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

72. 28:15

    But let a man examine himself. So what does the exam himself? In First Corinthians 11, the problem they were having was that people were so focused on themselves. They weren’t there to help other people and they weren’t really doing it in remembrance of Jesus. And so when he says let a man examine himself, it’s not about looking back at all your past sins this week, all your failures, all the things that that just didn’t work out, the mistakes that you made. God knows those things.

73. 28:46

    You don’t need to be here at meeting to get forgiveness of those things. You can do that at home. You can do that all the time. God is forgiving us of our sins. What what when we examine ourselves is examine ourselves about why are you here? Are you really here for just yourself or are you going to do this in remembrance of Jesus who was always giving his life to the others, thinking about other people, what can they do? What can I do to help?

74. 29:16

    That’s what he was there for. It’s not about looking bad at all our sins, all our bad things that we did during the week. But what God wants us to do is he wants us to focus on the positives, the positives of look at the great salvation that we have, look at what he’s willing to forgive us about.

75. 29:34

    And we’ve made all these mistakes. But what can I do in response to that? I, I can try to help somebody else. I can try to help other people. See, I think what happened is that when you look at the feast days and you look at all these different situations in the scriptures that come up about this, when everybody’s gathered together, but you have to make a decision. Do you, do you want to focus on all the mistakes that you’ve made and all the failures that I made or do I want to focus on, look at what God’s doing in our life. Look at the changes he’s making me. Look how he’s making progress and sure, I failed, but look at what he’s done over time.

76. 30:08

    Look at his great salvation. See what God knows, brethren and sisters and young people, is that you will be more motivated to walk out of here today if you walk out of here excited, focused on what God is doing and, and all the things that he’s doing in your life instead of just going out with despair with your head down. Just like, oh, I failed again.

77. 30:32

    I made a lot of mistakes this week. That doesn’t change people. All the emphasis in the scriptures is to focus on the rejoicing on God’s what he’s doing in our life, not on all the negatives of, on more failures. We can come here. I could have come here for like what, 50-60 years of my life now and done that and just focused on the negatives.

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    I didn’t find that that changed me a whole lot. But rejoicing as we sang in that first hope, in that first hymn, rejoicing in God’s salvation. Oh, that’s a whole different story when you look at what how God has turned us into different people and the emphasis is on God and what he’s done and what can we do to help other people. So let’s think about then this whole idea of when we take the bread and wine this morning in remembrance of him, what are you remembering?

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    So that matters are you just remembering, you know, the fact that that that Jesus died and I should have died and I should have done better this week or is remembrance of him thinking about look at how he gave his life for others. Look at what he did on the very night in which he was betrayed.

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    Let’s be more like him. Get down and on the ground and wash them. Not unless they wash the feet of people, but serve in our ecclesia. Get involved in helping other people and getting involved in their lives. And let’s remember the words that Paul gives and his exhortation. Philippians 2. I. I really found those very helpful for myself.

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    Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind. Regard one another as more important than yourselves. Do not merely look out for your own interests, but also for the interests of others, and have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus.

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