125: David Hill – Exhortation: The True Meaning of The Bread & The Wine

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This week’s talk is an
excitation by Brother David

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Hill, which was given at the
Halifax treat Ecclesia and

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Adelaide in November, 2018, I
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one spoke to me loud and clear.
The title of the talk is the

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true meaning of the bread and
the wine and brother, David’s

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focus on the interpretation of
the passages.

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From First Corinthians 11, that
are commonly read before we

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partake of the emblems offers us
a great reminder of what we are.

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Truly meant to symbolize.
When Jesus said do this in

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remembrance of me.
And I find that his thoughts

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about why we fellowship with
each other and break bread.

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With each other, is even more
important to dwell on.

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Now, that many of us around the
world have been separated from

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our Collegiate families for
months on end now, I really

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appreciated the brothers, take
on what it means to eat and

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drink unworthily and how we can
make sure we’re voting.

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That mindset in a practical way.
This message.

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Absolutely may be all the more
eager to see my Ecclesia family

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and I hope it helps you as well.
So without any further Ado,

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Brother, David Hill, the true
meeting of the bread and the

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wine We’re good evening, good
afternoon.

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Maybe that would be a good
start, good Afternoon, brother

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and sisters.
It really is lovely to be here

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with you for Lizzie and I and
our family and to enjoy the bond

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of fellowship with you today.
To start our exaltation.

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This morning, I just like to ask
you how often you’ve actually

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wondered what it really means
when it says in 1, Corinthians

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11 about partaking of the Bread
and Wine.

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Unworthily, just listen to these
two statements, that Paul makes

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whoever shall eat the bread.
And drink the cup of the Lord,

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unworthily is guilty.
Of the blood, the body, and

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blood of the Lord or a second
statement very similar, he that

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eats and drinks unworthily eats
and drinks.

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Damnation to himself, not
Discerning the Lord’s body.

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So brother and sisters, we can
conclude from that that to do

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what we’ve come together to do
today.

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Unworthily is indeed very
serious.

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The consequences for doing it.
Unworthily are quite severe.

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So I’m sure we would agree that
it would do us well to

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understand exactly what we’re
here for, and to do it worthily.

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And we’ll do that by going to
the context.

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So let’s start with verse 17.
Paul says, now in this that I

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declare unto you.
I praise you, not You come

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together.
Not for the better but for the

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worse.
Now, this other expression here,

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come together means to assemble.
It’s actually the Greek word,

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Ecclesia.
Now, Daniel in his opening

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remarks talked about the fact
that we come together as one.

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Well so did the Corinthians they
came together as one into one

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place?
In form, but not in substance at

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all.
And indeed Paul goes as far as

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to say you come together for the
worse, not the better, some

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translations render that not for
an excellent purpose, but a

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vastly inferior one vastly
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So what was that vastly
inferior?

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Cause let’s have a look at
verses 18 to 19.

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For first of all, when You come
together in the Ecclesia.

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I hear there are divisions among
you.

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And I partly believe it.
Well, there must be heresies

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among you that they, which are
approved may be made manifest

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among you.
Now that were divisions there,

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we would recognize that in the
Greek.

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It’s the word skismo or schisms,
okay?

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And heresies is actually the
word sex.

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So, rather than actually coming
together as one in form And

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substance.
They actually came together as

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this loose collection of
factions and sex not at all

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United.
Really in truth.

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Verse 22. 22.
When you come together,

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therefore into one place, it is
not to eat the Lord’s Supper for

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an eating, everyone takes before
another.

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His own supper, one is hungry,
and another is drunk.

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What have ye not houses to eat
in and to drink in?

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Or do you despise the Ecclesia
of God and shame them that have

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not?
What shall I say to you?

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Shall I Praise You In This, I
praise.

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You.
Not now, brother and sisters.

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Let’s make this real.
Just imagine the context of this

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Ecclesia.
You know, this word tasty.

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This expression takes before
literally means to eagerly Rush.

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Shin to anticipate and surged
forward.

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So you can imagine the brother
and sisters at the Lord’s table,

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every man and woman for himself.
What can I get for myself as

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quickly as possible?
The word despised literally

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means to think nothing of And
then the word shine means to

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confound.
So this selfish behavior all

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about me and what I can get for
myself and take myself showed

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that the Brethren sis is in that
Ecclesia didn’t really have a

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regard for their brother or
sister.

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They thought very little of each
other and it left some of their

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Brethren and sisters, feeling
thoroughly confounded.

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At the Lord’s table.
What an extraordinary situation.

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That Brethren sisters is the
context for those opening two

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passages, we referred to it’s
for this reason that context

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that Paul takes them right back
to the upper room and says, this

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is what we should be thinking
about.

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That’s what he does to remind
them of the attitude, they

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should have at the Lord’s table.
So, therefore look at verse 23

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in that light, he says, for So
it links to that context for I

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have received of the Lord that
which also I delivered unto you.

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That the Lord Jesus the same
night in which he was betrayed

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took bread.
And when he had given, thanks he

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brake it and said, take eat.
This is my body, which is broken

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for you.
This do in remembrance of me

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now, brothers sisters, before we
dive too far into that verse

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Just think of us.
And think of Jesus.

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The very night, the self same
night in which he was going to

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be betrayed to an excruciating
death.

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What can Jesus be found doing?
What, how would we spend the

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last moments of our life before?
Such a cruel and excruciating

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death?
Wolfie Jesus.

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It was all about others.
He gave of himself right to the

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very, very end.
You have a look for example, at

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the play on words, that Paul
uses here verse 21.

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He says, every one of you takes
before another his own supper,

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so they were all about taking
Look at the words that pull

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users from verse 23 on.
What’s he says, I have taken of

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the Lord, that, which I have
given unto you that the Lord

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Jesus the same night in which he
was given is the word there

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rather than betrayed us some
translations render it.

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He took bread.
And when he had given thanks, he

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broke it.
And said here, you take eat,

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this is my body, which is given
for you.

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So the point Paul’s making is
your behavior is the very

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opposite of the man’s behavior
that you come to remember.

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You are all about.
Take, take take whereas Jesus to

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the very end, the very end was
all about give give give.

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Now you might have noticed here
from 1 Corinthians 11, verse 17

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onwards in this Pace.
Paul always refers to Jesus as

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Lord or Jesus Lord, Jesus or
Lord.

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Okay?
So there’s this focus on the

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word Lord.
And I think the reason for that

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is that Paul wants to take them
right back into what Jesus said

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in the upper room because he
said to them.

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If I your Lord and Master do
this, then you should do the

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same.
And Did he do?

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Will staring a horrendous death.
In the face.

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He rose, he took off His
Garment.

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And he washed his disciples
feet.

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He loved them to the uttermost
right to the very end.

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And he says, if I your lord have
done this, then do likewise,

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What did he also think about at
that time?

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What were the thoughts going
through?

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Jesus mind.
Well, let me just read to you a

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few extracts.
From John 17, his mind.

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His thoughts were on others.
He said, I pray for them that

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you have given me.
Holy Father, keep through your

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name, those who you have given
me, I pray that you keep them

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from Evil and not just them.
But also those who will believe

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on me through your name, his
mind.

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His thoughts, his actions were
all on others.

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That was Jesus just before he
died.

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Now, Paul says that when Jesus
Took the bread and break it, he

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said this is my body which is
broken for you this do in

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remembrance of me.
So what was the body?

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Well, we know that Paul quotes
that there that this is my body

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broken for you.
In the Luke record.

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We know that it says there that
this is my body, which is given

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for you.
So when we take it, A bread.

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It’s all about the sacrifice of
Jesus.

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The one who gave himself for
others.

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But brothers and sisters, what
does it mean?

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When it says this do in
remembrance of me?

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You know, many brethren in this
audience, you’ve been a chairman

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and we’ve heard many
chairmanships at the memorial

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meeting.
We read those verses so often in

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a certain way that we become
used to them and think that

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that’s what it actually means.
For example, will hear a

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chairman just say, we do this in
remembrance of Jesus.

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What are they referring to?
Well, it’s generally accepted an

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implied and in fact intended by
many of our Brethren that we’re

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referring to taking of the bread
we do this in remembrance of

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him.
It’s got nothing to do with

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that.
That’s not what it means.

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When it says do this.
Just eating bread doesn’t

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remember Jesus at all.
We’ll see in the wind.

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This becomes very clear with the
reference to the wine.

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What Jesus is imploring us to
do.

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As Daniel said in his opening
remarks, we are here to remember

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Jesus.
The bread is an emblem, a

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reminder of a symbol of his
sacrifice.

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And the statement do this is
live as he lived.

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Take the bread and be inspired
by the power of His example and

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live as I lived.
Walk in my footsteps.

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Sacrifice yourself for others.
Do it in remembrance of me.

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It’s not referring to taking
bread.

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I really love bread.
Just eating bread isn’t the

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point?
It’s remember what that symbol

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memorializes, the example, the
life and be inspired to do the

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same.
And in fact, that’s very

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consistent, by the way, where
John 13, isn’t it?

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Let me remind you, of some of
the things Jesus said, in the

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upper room, recorded John 13, He
says, know what I have done to

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you.
I have given you an example that

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you should do, as I have done,
if you know these things, happy

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are you if you do them.
So, brother and sisters every

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time.
Hopefully when we hear from now

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on, we do this in remembrance of
him, it’s not taking bread or

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taking wine.
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symbol, the actual life, they
represent and doing that.

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Have a look at verse 25.
Five, it becomes very clear

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here.
After the same manner, also, he

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took the cup when he had supped
saying this cup is the New

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Testament in my blood.
This do as often as you drink

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it.
Drink it in remembrance of me.

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Now, we know for context again,
that the cup symbolizes, the

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blood of Christ, the New
Covenant, in his blood poured,

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out poured out for others
willingly given and offered for

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others.
Again, what does this do?

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Mean this do as often as you
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Well, I can tell you one thing
that this do their cannot mean

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taking and drinking wine because
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nonsensical, it would make no
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tautology, you read it.
For example, verse 25 would read

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this way.
Drink the wine as often as you

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drink the wine in remembrance of
me.

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Okay, because it says this do.
Now, if this do means just

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drinking wine verse 25 would
read drink the wine as often as

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you drink the wine in
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It’s clearly not saying that
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your life for your brethren or
sisters and for your

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communities.
And for those who you interact

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with this do as often as you
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brother and sisters, we come
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It’s simply a means to an end.
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I love bread.
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cannot If I bread and water
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If he had said wine and bread, I
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almost been up for it.
It’s not about that.

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It’s not the wine.
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We take the wine, it reminds us
of Jesus, life of sacrifice and

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we are encouraged to do it this
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So, Brethren Brethren when
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the reminder this do in
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Now is that consistent, is that
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Is this concept that Jesus never
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drinking wine to be some sort of
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practical application in our
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Is that true?
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Repetition in some ways is a
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The more and more we just do
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It can become a ceremonial
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What impact does it have on our
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Well, that’s the point of verse
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For note that note the
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verse 25.
For as often, as you eat this

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bread and drink this wine, you
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come Now again, brother and
sisters. often we have

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championships where we say by
doing this, we show forth the

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Lord’s death till he come
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How?
How you know, the word show

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their means to teach or declare
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To teach to declare or to
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How in this closed community in,
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Do we teach show or preach
anyone about the Lord Sacrifice

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by drinking, wine and eating
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We don’t.
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drink the wine, remember that?
What the life, those symbols

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remind us of.
And we go out of this place

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inspired to do the same That’s
how we show forth, the Lord’s

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death till he come.
A ceremonial ritual in here,

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taking bread, and drinking wine
that doesn’t show or teach or

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preach to anyone.
The Lord’s death.

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It does if we are inspired by it
to live the same life of

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sacrifice that he lived to
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That’s how we show forth, the
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It’s a little bit like you.
Think about it, baptism?

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On one hand, it could simply be
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But it’s what it states in terms
of a new life putting to get

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death, the old and a new life.
It’s the same with the bread and

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the wine on the surface just
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But when it inspires us to go
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forth.
We teach we preach something

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much more profound.
We remind each other and those

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outside of the sacrifice of our
Lord, Jesus.

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First 27, that’s then what it
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When it says, in verse 27, to
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of the Lord unworthily in a
nutshell, what does it mean to

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eat the bread and drink the cup
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It means to eat it and drink it,
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Jesus left us to have any
practical bearing on what we

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actually do.
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I’ve eaten the bread and drunk
the wine on that measure

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unworthily many times.
I suspect, you have to Have you

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sometimes just taken the bread
and drunk?

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The wine.
And barely given a thought to

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what it really is telling us to
actually do, you know those

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expressions?
Look at the next piece, verse

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29, he that eats and drinks
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Damnation to himself, not
Discerning the Lord’s body and

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Paul’s using some specific words
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has the word creamer.
It like crime and Discerning is

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the word.
I okra know, they’re both from

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the same Greek word, which
simply means to judge or to

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discern the point.
Paul is making is we judge

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ourselves.
If we fail to judge what these

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symbols are intended to remind
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whole point as he said is to
discern that this is all about

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the Lord’s body and we’ll see
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That’s why we come together as a
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I’ll make that point a little
stronger later but that’s the

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context of you ever wondered.
For example it seems somewhat

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usual at times, that 1
Corinthians 11, seems to sort of

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plunk into this record, the
broader flow of the letter, the

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the of 1 Corinthians Well, it’s
perfectly in context, you think

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about just one chapter back, 1
Corinthians 10, verse 16 to 17,

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you might want to have a look at
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It says, Midway through 16 the
bread which we break is it not

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the communion of the body of
Christ?

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For we being many are one bread
and one body for we are all

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partakers of that one bread.
Now brother Barling says he

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renders that he says we who are
many are made one by sharing the

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one loaf, it’s all about the
body.

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So by failing to live, the
example embodied in the bread

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and wine to Ward’s, the Lord’s
body, loving his body, his

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Brethren and sisters.
We failed to discern that the

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bread and the wine are a
reminder of his body and we

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should love it.
As he did love his Ecclesia as

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he did.
What’s 1 Corinthians 12 will

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about?
Well it’s all about the body.

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I’ll just scan for you.
For as the body is one, has many

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members all the members of that
one body being many are one

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body.
So also is Christ were baptized

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into one body.
God has set the members, every

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one of them in the one. body
many members of one body, there

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should be no Schism in the body
but and here’s the key, the

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members should have the same
care, one for another so he

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says, if you come together as an
Ecclesia, And you behave like

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you were behaving rushing in
taking for yourself, ignoring

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your brother and sister, not
showing any form of sacrifice or

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love for them.
You don’t discern that this is

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all about my body, you don’t get
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I didn’t want you to live like
that toward each other and yet

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you are.
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And this is what we’re here to
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What does this mean and what
have we used it to mean in the

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past?
What does it really mean?

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Verse 29, let a man examine
himself and so let him eat of

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that bread and drink of that
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Let a man examine himself and so
let him eat of that bread and

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drink of that cup.
Now, many, many championships

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brother.
Daniel could easily come on up

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here and say this, something
along these lines, brother and

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sisters.
We are here this morning on this

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solemn, occasion, to examine
ourselves to consider our sin

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and our shortcoming of the week
that’s been and to plead for

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forgiveness from on high.
Okay.

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Sounds sort of Vaguely Familiar,
probably a bit.

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Too many cliches thrown in
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Daniel probably.
Wouldn’t.

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Lob so many cliches.
But essentially that’s it.

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We we come here, we examine
ourselves our sin, and

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shortcomings of the week.
That’s been, and we seek for

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forgiveness.
Is that what Paul meant?

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You know nowhere at all.
In 1 Corinthians 11, can we find

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anything like that all too
familiar pattern?

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Did you know that in 1
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The words sin or forgiveness
can’t even be found in the

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chapter.
You know, brothers sisters.

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If we made the memorial feast,
all about our sin, our

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shortcomings, our weakness, and
our need for forgiveness.

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How different is that to the
selfishness of the Corinthians?

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Is that what Paul meant when he
said let a man examine himself?

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Not at all.
You think about it brother and

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sisters.
It’s actually a very very

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Catholic principal to say I’m
glad Daniel didn’t say it that

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we are here to have our sins
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We are not Do we meet here to
have our sins forgiven?

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Absolutely.
Not.

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We meet here to remember Jesus
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You know, if it was about
forgiveness of sins.

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Why wait to a Sunday, we can do
that anytime.

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And also, if it was all just
about the Forgiveness of our

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sins, do it at home, just you
don’t need to meet together.

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We meet together to remember
Jesus to take of symbols that

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remind us of his life of
sacrifice and to look at each

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other as his body.
And say, I love you and I’m

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going to sacrifice like heated
to my brothers and sisters. your

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closure is too big, but, you
know, it would be sort of so

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much easier if we almost sat in
a big circle and could look at

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each other And say I’m here for
my lords brother, a body.

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You are my brethren and sisters,
your the body.

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I do, discern the body, I get
it.

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Jesus.
And when I take of that bread,

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I’m reminded of your life of
sacrifice.

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And I’m inspired to go and do
likewise as Jesus said, so

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often.
And what’s the examining bit?

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Let a man examine himself before
he takes think about the week of

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I live selfishly.
Have I love my brother and

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sisters as Jesus?
Love them as I have, I love them

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as I love myself.
What did Jesus think about in

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John 17 himself or others?
He thought of others?

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You know, we do some funny
things, right?

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Daniel will give a prayer for
the bread and there’s nothing

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wrong with this at all.
There’s no problem with it

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whatsoever.
But Daniel will just pray for

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the bread shortly and sometimes
we get the bread and we give

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another prayer to well.
Again there’s nothing that says

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we have to do that.
That’s fine.

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If you do fine if you don’t find
but maybe just maybe we sit

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there with the bread. and we
think of Jesus, the man who was

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never selfish, Who writes to the
end love to the uttermost who

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poured out his life for others.
And either literally or

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figuratively, we look around the
room at his body.

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And we say to ourselves, we
examine ourselves.

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Do I love as Jesus loved?
In this week that has been, if I

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give him my life for his body as
he would have and does today.

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And then we put that bread in
our Mouse.

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And then we drink that wine.
That’s what it means to examine

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ourselves.
And then, after we’ve done it,

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we go and Live Like Jesus and we
preach and teach others about

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the beautiful, man.
Jesus was, let’s not make this a

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ceremonial ritual.
That has no bearing on our life.

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Let’s not make it all about us.
Our weaknesses, our

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shortcomings, our forgiveness.
Maybe our minds, when we have

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that bread in that cup in our
hands, can be a bit like Jesus

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in John 17.
I pray for them.

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Jesus, our God.
We could pray to Jesus and say,

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I pray for them too.
Keep them from Evil.

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Keep my brother and sisters from
Evil.

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Help me to be an instrument for
you.

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That’s what it’s talking about.
And then we come to that most

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beautiful tiny little expression
right at the end that just sums

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this all up.
In 1 Corinthians 11, verse 33,

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it says wherefore my brethren.
When you come together to eat

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tarry one for another.
Now again for years and my

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translation doesn’t do it.
Any justice and nor marked as

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yours.
I think you’re said wait I used

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to always think that this meant
stick around, you know, and

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christadelphians we’re really
good at that.

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We almost Mark the mark of an
Ecclesia is, how long we all

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stick around and chat, right?
We’re really good at that stick

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around, Terry talk, share
Fellowship, all of which is a

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Teufel and wonderful thing.
But is that what the word means?

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Just just hang around.
Wait, stay for a while.

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No, in the Greek.
It’s actually two Greek words

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and it’s really fascinating.
The first one is this little

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suffix called, a sorry, prefix
called Eck, right ech, which

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means the point from which
something emanates from The

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point from, which something
emanates from, and then the

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second Greek word after that
prefix, is this little little

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word called dick.
Oh, my And that literally means

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to take into one’s arms.
To embrace or to hold.

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So when you read Terry one for
another, it doesn’t just mean

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stand around and have a chinwag
just nice thing to do.

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Anyway, It means go up and give
your brother or sister a hug.

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Because that’s what Jesus would
have done.

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That’s Discerning the Lord’s
body go out and embrace one.

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Another make them feel your
love, make the fellowship, real

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and Powerful.
It’s a practical expression of

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reaching out and drawing ones
and another to one’s heart and

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expression of love.
And that fits so beautifully

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with 1 Corinthians 11, doesn’t
it?

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immediately after we’ve taken
the bread being reminded of a

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life of sacrifice the cup, a
life poured out, Our first

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reaction is not to be selfish
like the Corinthians

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unfortunately were and I’m sure
they reformed after Paul’s

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letter.
But rather to be inspired to

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discern the Lord’s body to have
the same care, one for another

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and having examined ourselves
and our way of life in light of

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our beloved Brethren sisters, we
deliberately get up and we seek

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our brother or sister out and we
give them a big hug and we say

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that we love them.
Because that’s what Jesus would

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have done.
So I hope that’s been helpful

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brother and sisters.
I hope that going forward when

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we reflect on what it means to
eat and drink.

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Unworthily were inspired to
never do that again to try the

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best we can to live.
Like the man.

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We’ve come to remember and
celebrate today.

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